Authors: Khurshid Alam and Elizabeth Oliveras
Volunteer community health workers (CHWs) are a key approach to improving community-based maternal and child health services in developing countries. BRAC, a large Bangladeshi non-governmental organization (NGO), has employed female volunteer CHWs in its community-based health programs since 1977, recently including its Manoshi project, a community-based maternal and child health intervention in the urban slums of Bangladesh.
A case–control study conducted in response to high dropout rates in the first year of the project showed that financial incentives, social prestige, community approval and household responsibilities were related to early retention in the project. In the present study, the authors build on the results of that investigation with the use of a prospective cohort study design to gather evidence about any long-term effects of previously identified retention factors and to determine whether there are any new factors associated with retention.
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Resource Topic: Community Health Workers/Volunteers, Gender, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, Motivation/incentives, Recruitment and Retention
Resource Type: Research
Year: 2014
Region: Asia
Country: Bangladesh
Publisher May Restrict Access: No