Community health workers

07 Sep

Posted at 17:41h in Case Studies, Community health workers, Global, Global Resources, Leadership and governance, Resources

In Liberia, community health assistants (CHAs) provide primary care to 70 percent of the country’s rural populations who live further than five kilometers from health facilities. The country’s National Community Health Assistant Program (NCHAP) leaders seek strategies to address last-mile supply chain gaps, irregular...

30 Mar

Posted at 15:01h in Community health workers, Ethiopia, Ethiopia Resources, Methodology for Driving HRH Investments (4.3), Reports, Resources, Technical briefs

Community health workers play a pivotal role in many health systems by providing an essential link between people and health services. Ethiopia has formalized the role of community health workers and created an innovative community-based health extension program (HEP) to improve access to health...

25 Sep

Posted at 18:46h in Community health workers, Global Resources, Leadership and governance, Other, Strengthening Community Health Worker Programs

As USAID’s global health workforce flagship program, HRH2030 is providing strategic thought leadership, communication, and implementation support to strengthen community health worker (CHW) programs. Several USAID partners make significant contributions to sustaining and scaling high-quality CHW programs supported by health and community systems at...

23 May

Posted at 13:16h in Community health workers, Global Resources, HRIS and health workforce data, Leadership and governance, Other, Performance and productivity, Skill mix and competency, Strengthening Community Health Worker Programs

Community health workers play a big role many countries’ overall health status, which is one of the reasons why the WHO guideline on health policy and system support to optimize community health worker programmes was heralded when it was released on October 2018. The...