Community health workers (CHWs) are critical for providing healthcare services for children and women and contributing to health systems in fragile and conflict-affected settings. CHW programs play an important role in relating relief, rehabilitation, and development approaches, which aim to link short-term measures to longer-term development programs for a more sustainable response to health systems under stress.
In 2022, MIHR introduced and adapted the 2018 CHW Assessment and Improvement Matrix (AIM) toolkit in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger. The toolkit aimed to measure CHW program functionality gaps and adopt actionable interventions in alignment with the national community health strategy and the 2018 WHO guideline recommendations on health policy and system support to optimize CHWs programs.
Join us for a webinar on October 26 that will provide an overview of the toolkit and discuss the process and initial outcomes from Mali and Niger. This webinar will particularly focus on CHW programs and their importance and relevance to child health. The session will feature country representatives, including from the Ministry of Health.
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