Community Health Workers
Supporting Community Health Workers
World Vision engages in a wide range of community health activities globally, many of which draw on the efforts of community health workers or CHWs. CHWs are community-based members who have been trained to deliver basic health services but who do not hold a professional health qualification. While the roles and cadres of CHWs vary widely between programmes and countries, some central principles can be applied to ensure that projects will be established with quality, sustainability and effectiveness, regardless of the programme model that the CHWs are delivering.
World Vision's CHW programmes aim to work with existing health structures through strong, long-term partnerships in order to deliver consistently high standards of quality implementation, training and support, to enable community health workforces that are sustainable, functional and effective. World Vision is committed to ensuring community systems and health systems strengthening approaches.
Programme Approach
World Vision’s CHW model gives field offices the agility to partner with their Ministries of Health (MoH) in locally appropriate ways and enables a wide array of possible CHW service delivery to individuals and households, provided they can be shown to achieve sustainable impact at scale. The services that CHWs provide and that WV supports will vary by context based on the epidemiology of the country and other identified determinants of child health, nutrition and well-being.
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Networks and Working Groups
Contact
For more information, please contact World Vision experts on Community Health Worker programming:
Michele Gaudrault and Esther Indriani at health@wvi.org
