The Community Health Workers are equipped with educational materials, which they use as a guide on a range of family planning products, how they work, and their side effects.

In community health contexts, meanwhile, RBF can be impactful and cost-effective but needs to be simplified to fit the environment in which it is applied to avoid discounting payment based on external, uncontrollable factors.

BRAC is transitioning the remaining 1,500 of their CHWs (who do not have DESC support) to government as eCHIS rolls out.

CHWs were more active and effective, driven by tech improvements, a stable supply of medicines, improved supervision and intentional data use through regular reviews that resulted in priority follow-ups to low-performing areas or CHWs.

In April, the Burkinabè government recruited 15,000 new community-based health workers to expand community health services in urban areas due to the migration of people from regions with major security challenges.

The Kenyan Government is stepping up its efforts to fortify community health systems, a goal closely tied to Living Goods' comprehensive DESC framework.
Our collaboration with Kenya's Ministry of Health and other partners has resulted in eCHIS - a unified digital health platform that spans all community health levels.

Living Goods supported critical elements that paved the way for the digitization of the community health workforce plans, including analysis of the digital landscape, strategy development and costing and implementation planning.

What I enjoy most about my job is working together with communities to raise a healthy generation,” she says. She believes most maternal and child health complications can be prevented at the community level, and that inspires her.

In Q2, 94% of the children 9-23 months assessed by CHWs were fully immunized, versus 88% in the same period last year.

Performance was buoyed by strong DESC elements, including greater supervision with our effective approach of mentoring underperforming CHWs, as well as high stock levels.