HOW WE ACTIVATE
Train local CHW advocates.
Community health workers with leadership training are 2–4x more likely to engage in political, civic, and workplace advocacy.
Created together with CHWs as experts, we offer CHW Advocates—free digital training that equips CHWs with advocacy and storytelling skills. These skills enable CHWs to demand solutions to issues impacting the profession and patients.
CHWs can access the course in three languages through a dedicated web platform and a facilitator guide for in-person training. CHWs who complete the course earn a personalized certificate celebrating the training as a CHW Advocate.
HOW WE ACTIVATE
Connect CHW speakers.
For too long, discussions about community health workers have happened without CHWs. It’s time for a change.
The first-ever CHW Speaker Bureau fosters more equitable global dialogue. It gives CHWs opportunities to speak about issues of concern on a local, national, and international stage.
Speakers include full- and part-time CHWs working on various health issues—from HIV/AIDS to maternal and child health to COVID.
HOW WE ACTIVATE
Track & Affect National Policy Change
Our goal is to see 95 low- and middle-income countries adopt proCHW policies. We prioritize countries with active review windows, expired policies or policies set to expire in the next 18 months. We focus on countries where Coalition members and CHW Advocates are already advocating. And where NGO Coalitions and National CHW Associations can own and drive forward this work.
To track this progress and accelerate policy change, we’re excited to steward the largest-ever public-facing dashboard on proCHW policies. The dashboard helps us track potential openings for policy change and provides a picture of how the entire field is moving.
ACTIVATE WINS
A spark for national policy change.
65
CHW Advocates on the first ever CHW Speaker Bureau
4918
CHWs from 20 countries completed the CHW Advocates course (so far)
40
Countries with a confirmed proCHW policy
“If we can make [CHWs] feel they are very important in society and on the ground, they will come up. They will stand up. They will pull up their socks and start fighting for their rights.”
