World Vision’s Global Commitment to CHWs Systems Strengthening

Harmonization and community system strengthening

World Vision has been advocating for partners to support governments to harmonise CHW programmes. Following the iCCM workshops in Rwanda and Uganda, WV & Core group developed the CHW Principles of Practice, which went on to inform the WHO/ GHWA framework and policy recommendation for CHW programming globally. This was consolidated in the 3rd Global forum for HRH joint commitment for harmonized partner action for CHW/FLHW signed by World Vision and others. WV’s commitment was to promote harmonization in countries and bring CHW programmes to scale, reaching at least 100,000 CHWs.

CHWs Principles of Practice

Commitment to 3rd global forum for human resources for health

WV works in partnership with health authorities and endeavour to ensure community systems and health systems strengthening approaches. We are currently working to improve our CHW systems through research and innovations, harnessing mobile technology for training and monitoring, and promoting CHW scale up through advocacy and multi-partner networks at local, national, and international levels.

1. To expand our support to community health workers and their supervisors in at least 40 countries where we are currently working, especially those countries in which human resources for health are in most need, with the aim to extend our support to 100,000 CHWs by 2015.

2. To promote country-led national scale up of CHW programming in countries where World Vision is working, including through the establishment of coordination frameworks that enable integration of civil society and government contributions to CHW programming for improved health outcomes.

3. To continue our efforts to harmonise CHW working practices amongst civil society actors through promoting the adoption of the CHW Principles of Practice and other platforms and initiatives.