Authors: Sigrun Mogedal, Shona Wynd, and Muhammad Mahmood Afzal
Fragmentation is one of the main challenges to successful and sustainable CHW scale-up – in terms of programming, the service delivery chain, and the multiplicity of public and private organizations, training, deploying and supporting CHWs. This paper proposes a set of generally agreed guiding principles to support countries and their partners in their efforts to:
- Harmonize donor support, based on commitments by all partners to collaborate at global and national level
- Build greater synergies across CHW programs with communities, districts and countries, guided by national leadership, national strategies and nationally agreed systems for monitoring and evaluation
- Improve efforts to integrate CHWs into the broader health system, with a particular focus on effective linkages between community based and facility based health workers at the front line of service delivery, so that individuals receive the health services they need.
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Resource Topic: CHW Role, Community Health Workers/Volunteers, Country Ownership, Human Resources Management/Workforce Development, Program Management, Scale-up
Resource Type: Issue papers, Research
Year: 2013
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Country: Global
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