Community Health Worker Models: A Focus on Sustainability

1. Community Health Worker Models:
A Focus on Sustainability
CORE Group Global Health
Practitioner Conference 2016

2. CHW MODELS
• We as a community recognize how critical CHWs
are in the work we do
• Governments and Funders recognize the value of
CHWs in delivering essential interventions to
improve and save lives
• Level of government support for and mandate of
community-based services varies greatly
• NGOs implement effective programming through
CHWs but these efforts are often not sustained
beyond project support

3. SESSION FOCUS
• Some of the important history around CHW
sustainability and challenges to driving
sustainable models
• Their experience with promising models their
organizations have designed and are
implementing
• Key principles that drives the success of
sustainable and scalable models