Authors: Fazila K. Shakir
This paper reviews recently published literature on community health worker programs, primarily focusing on maternal and newborn child health. Eighteen CHW programs and eleven relevant articles were included. It identifies key components of successful CHWs programs, reviews past successes and failures of CHW program implementation and summarizes important lessons learned.
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Resource Topic: Community Health Workers/Volunteers, Monitoring and Evaluation, Motivation/incentives, Program Design, Supervision, Training
Resource Type: Issue papers, Research
Year: 2010
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Country: Bangladesh, Brazil, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Iran, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Nepal, Nicaragua, Peru, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda
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