WHO Guideline on Community Health Worker Programs.
Community Health Impact Coalition’s (CHIC) contribution to the landmark CHW guideline by WHO.
Goals of the Collaborative
- Enable new opportunities for cross-site learning.
- Use positive and negative outlier analysis to identify potential quality improvement practices for testing and, if helpful, propagation.
- Create a multi-country “brain trust,” a space to exchange knowledge and experiences, to reinforce data and health information systems across various sites, and, ultimately, to contribute to an aggregate view of what can be achieved through high-impact community health delivery worldwide.
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Future Directions for the Data Harmonization Collaborative
Initial efforts were driven by staff from research, monitoring and evaluation, learning, and/or data teams. However, we quickly realized that engaging CHWs, CHW supervisors, and other programmatic colleagues is necessary to achieve the goals of the Collaborative.
CHWs, their supervisors, and program managers are now able to participate in all aspects of the Collaborative’s quality improvement sessions. We have also extended the initiative to include qualitative data sources, such as success stories from the frontlines of service delivery, interviews, and other forms of narrative accompaniment.
To push inclusivity, where the Collaborative intends to publish, we’ll also invite authorship contributions during the paper writing process in many languages and non-writing forms.
Finally, the Collaborative recommits to ensuring scientific outputs are shared deliberately with national government partners in the countries from which these data are derived, via dissemination workshops or meetings, and with communities themselves.
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