This report presents the findings from the Community Based Volunteers Skills Audit Survey that was carried out in 30 Districts Zambia for the Ministry of Community Development, Mother and Child Health.
The disparities in incentives amongst CBVs cause problems in terms of the sustainability of the programmes. CBVs are likely to drop-out when incentive levels change. It is difficult to set a right level of incentive that motivates all CBVs, while maintaining a spirit of voluntarism and not making the CBVs incentive-dependent. Incentive levels are not linked to the workload and performance of the CBVs but to the funder of the programmes.This calls for guidelines to harmonise the incentive levels so that both CSOs and government reward the CBVs for their work fairly and equally, which will help to prevent competition between programs. Drop-out rates should decrease as a result of a more homogeneous approach to incentivising the CBVs.
Resource Topic: Community Health Workers/Volunteers, Human Resources Management/Workforce Development, Motivation/incentives
Resource Type: Evaluation, Research
Year: 2014
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
Country: Zambia
Publisher May Restrict Access: No