Authors: Michaela Cisney. Contributors: Polly Walker, Dan Irvine, Sarah Crass, Sue England
Community health worker (CHW) programming is one of the largest portfolios in World Vision’s health; nutrition; and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector, with 48 countries operating a wide diversity of CHW initiatives. We continue to work and build partnerships towards strengthening community health systems and the community health workforce, a commitment we made to the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Health Workforce Alliance in Recife in 2013. World Vision has also made global commitments to support CHWs, including the Every Newborn Action Plan (ENAP) signed in 2014, in which we have committed to strengthen maternal and newborn care within our CHW programmes to reach 100,000 CHWs in 40 countries by 2020. World Vision has increasingly sought opportunities to work with governments and partners to support harmonisation and scale up CHW programming.
In 2015 the Global Health and Nutrition team undertook a global census of CHW programming activities of 66 national offices (NOs). The purpose of the census was to provide an estimate of the current scale of our work in CHW programming globally, to assist internal monitoring and our reporting on our global commitments. The census results are also used to develop CHW technical capacity statements, grant proposals, and fundraising and marketing resources.
Link: World Vision CHW Programmes
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Resource Topic: CHW Role, Data Collection, Human Resources Management/Workforce Development, Program Evaluation, Scale-up, WASH
Resource Type: Evaluation, Research
Year: 2016
Region: Asia, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
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