Authors: Joanna Raven, Patricia Akweongo, Amuda Baba, Sebastian Olikira Baine, Mohamadou Guelaye Sall, Stephen Buzuzi and Tim Martineau
Like any other health worker, community health workers (CHWs) need to be supported to ensure that they are able to contribute effectively to health programmes. Management challenges, similar to those of managing any other health worker, relate to improving attraction, retention and performance. Exploratory case studies of CHW programmes in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Senegal, Uganda and Zimbabwe were conducted to provide an understanding of the practices for supporting and managing CHWs from a multi-actor perspective.
Link: Using a human resource management approach to support community health workers: experiences from five African countries
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Resource Topic: CHW Role, Community Health Workers/Volunteers, Employee Engagement, Human Resources Management/Workforce Development
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Year: 2015
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Senegal, Uganda, Zimbabwe
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