Chapter 16: Case Studies of Large-Scale Community Health Worker Programs

This is the fifteenth chapter of the CHW Reference Guide produced under the Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program, the United States Agency for International Development Bureau for Global Health’s flagship maternal, neonatal and child health project. In this chapter, the authors introduce the concept of program measurement as having three main … [Read more...] about Chapter 15: Measurement and Data Use for Services Provided by Community Health Workers

It’s all too common a problem in global health for a successful community pilot program with intensive support and investment to face a number of challenges in later phases when efforts are made to expand, replicate or scale-up the program.  While community health worker (CHW) programs may be relatively inexpensive for a small geographic area or over a short timeframe, … [Read more...] about Chapter 14: Expanding, Strengthening, and Maintaining CHW Programs

This is the thirteenth chapter of the CHW Reference Guide produced under the Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program, the United States Agency for International Development Bureau for Global Health’s flagship maternal, neonatal and child health project. Community health workers (CHWs) have an intermediary position between communities and the health sector, thereby … [Read more...] about Chapter 13: Community Participation in Large-Scale Community Health Worker Programs

As part of the ‘Symposium on CHWs and Their Contribution Towards the Sustainable Development Goals’ Makerere University (Uganda), CHW Central, Nottingham Trent University (UK), and World Vision are supporting a series of interviews with academic leaders and experts in international health development and delivery fields to provide their vision of the future of … [Read more...] about Tomorrow’s CHWs: Ending hunger and malnutrition