Sumit Kane, Maryse Kok, Hermen Ormel, Lilian Otiso et al.
BACKGROUND: In LMICs, Community Health Workers (CHW) increasingly play health promotion related roles involving 'Empowerment of communities'. To be able to empower the communities they serve, we argue, it is essential that CHWs themselves be, and feel, empowered. We present here a critique of how di...
Hermen Ormel, Maryse Kok, Sumit Kane, Rukhsana Ahmed et al.
BACKGROUND: The recent publication of the WHO guideline on support to optimise community health worker (CHW) programmes illustrates the renewed attention for the need to strengthen the performance of CHWs. Performance partly depends on motivation, which in turn is influenced by incentives. This pape...
Rosalind Steege, Miriam Taegtmeyer, Rosalind McCollum, Kate Hawkins et al.
Close-to-community (CTC) providers have been identified as a key cadre to progress universal health coverage and address inequities in health service provision due to their embedded position within communities. CTC providers both work within, and are subject to, the gender norms at community level b...
Lot Nyirenda, Meghan Bruce Kumar, Sally Theobald, Malabika Sarker et al.
BACKGROUND: Qualitative research networks (QRNs) bring together researchers from diverse contexts working on multi-country studies. The networks may themselves form a consortium or may contribute to a wider research agenda within a consortium with colleagues from other disciplines. The purpose of a ...
Frédérique Vallières, Philip Hyland, Éilish McAuliffe, Ilias Mahmud et al.
BACKGROUND: The global scale-up of community health workers (CHWs) depends on supportive management and supervision of this expanding cadre. Existing tools fail to incorporate the perspective of the CHW (i.e. perceived supervision) in terms of supportive experiences with their supervisor. Aligned to...
Sally Theobald, Kate Hawkins, Maryse Kok, Sabina Faiz Rashid et al.
This article was published in Human Resources for Health [© 2016 BioMed Central Ltd.] and the definite version is available at: https://human-resources-health.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12960-016-0132-9
Frédérique Vallières, Maryse Kok, Ilias Mahmud, Malabika Sarker et al.
BACKGROUND: Close-to-community (CTC) health service providers are a cost-effective and important resource in the promotion of and increasing access to health services. However, many CTC provider programmes suffer from high rates of de-motivation and attrition due to inadequate support systems. Recen...