Supporting National Community Health Worker Programs_Dey

1. Global Health
Practitioner
Conference
Alexandria
Rina Dey
BCC Advisor
CORE Group Polio Project
India

2. CORE Group - India
Working towards
strengthening
National
Community
Health Worker
programs

3. Two level of health worker
Volunteer/
Mobilizers
Paid by NGOs
Conducts social
mobilization
activities
Govt.
Health Workers
Paid by Govt.
Conducts social
mobilization
activities +
provides services

4. CORE volunteer/mobilizers are frontline workers who are
from same community skilled, knowledgeable and have
close understanding of the community they serve.
Work closely with government frontline workers such as
ASHA (Accredited Social Health Activist), AWW (Anganwadi
Worker) and ANM (Auxiliary Nurse Midwife).

5. Shared Goal
• Increases accountability
• Clarity on roles and responsibilities
• Supports in measuring progress
• Motivates to work better
• Connects with people
Shared Goal

6. Support in strengthening systems
CORE volunteers mobilizers
at various levels build
individual and community
capacity by increasing and
transferring knowledge and
skills through a range of
activities.

7. Supporting through…
• Reaching the UNREACHED
• Capacity building of caregivers and caretakers
• Knowledge & skill transfer

8. Reaching the UNREACHED
1. Mapping of uncovered/unreached areas
2. Providing support in listing of target audience
3. Timely support in up-dation of micro-plans at village level

9. Focus on skill
building of
communicators
Shift from instructive to
negotiation approach

10. Capacity building of
caregivers & caretakers
1. Capacity building of
volunteers/mobilizers
on communication
skills and materials
usage.
2. Data sharing

11. Knowledge &
skill transfer
• Tapping opportunities: building capacities of
Govt. front line workers through their regular
capacity building program
• Coordination meetings: understanding and
complementing roles & responsibilities

12. • Working together: Data sharing at various levels to
accelerate services & decision making
• Conducting community and mother meetings together
• Encouraging mothers to lead session in mother
meetings
• Feedback: Monitoring and timely feedback to program
managers

13. Working with more than 4500
govt. frontline workers
(NGO volunteers + Govt. health workers)

14. Working together works!
To sum up…
• Identifying gaps
• Recognizing and
complementing each
others capacity
• Taking timely action
To sum up…
• Identifying gaps
• Recognizing and
complementing each
others capacity
• Taking timely action