Enhancing the coordination of Community Based Volunteers to promote integrated community development, health and social welfare services in Zambia

Authors: Zambian Ministry of Community Development, Mother and Child Health

This report is the result of a study conducted within the Ministry of Community Development, Mother and Child Health (MCDMCH), and carried out in conjunction with VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas). The research focuses on the community structures that aim to provide service delivery in the communities. These include the Departments of Community Development (CD), and Mother and Child Health (MCH), and Social Welfare (SW) at district level and the Community Based Volunteers (CBVs) working for these departments. The aim of the study was to scrutinise how the three departments could work together and how the CBVs could be better utilised and strengthened, so as to provide better services in the communities.