On August 26, the Burkina Faso Ministry of Health (MOH) and Living Goods officially signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to provide approximately six months of technical assistance to make Burkina Faso’s National Community Health Strategy implementation-ready.

As part of our support, Living Goods will provide recommendations on how to operationalize, finance, and ultimately scale a digital health solution; a supportive supervision structure; and a performance-based incentive model for Burkina Faso’s 17,000+ CHWs. We are currently in the process of recruiting two consultants focused on performance management and digital health who will be based at the MOH to support this initial phase of work, which we expect to begin in January 2020. At the end of this initial phase of support, Living Goods and the MOH will reassess the opportunity for a longer-term partnership, through which Living Goods could provide support for the roll-out of these recommendations. We are excited by this opportunity’s potential for impact and the Burkina Faso government’s commitment to professionalizing its community health program and achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC).