Authors: Zachary Wagner, John Bosco Asiimwe, and David I. Levine
CHWs sometimes charge for health products like those used to treat child diarrhea, but limited research has examined whether or not a fee-for-service model improves CHW performance. Zachary Wagner and his team compared the performance of Uganda-based CHWs who charged for their services against those who did not. Those who charged for their services conducted fewer household visits, a phenomenon the researchers attributed to differences in motivation between selling and providing free services.
Link: When financial incentives backfire: A community health worker experiment in Uganda
Resource Topic: CHW Funding, Community Health Workers/Volunteers
Resource Type: Best practices, Journal articles, Research
Year: 2020
Region: Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
Country: Uganda
Publisher May Restrict Access: No