What we do:
Advocate.

Ambitious global health targets depend on increased investments in professional CHWs. But financing remains one of the most significant systematic barriers to scaling and sustaining high-quality and equitable community health delivery.

We face barriers of fragmented and insufficient funding for community health. So international donors have a significant role to play. There’s a cost of complacency. Global financing institutions can revise strategies, policies, and investments to eliminate the risk of exploiting unpaid labor to achieve program objectives. Funders can prioritize proCHWs in revised strategies and loosen current policies prohibiting funds from being used for salary support.

Building more robust health systems and advancing global health security require changing the status quo. Bi/multilateral and private philanthropic investments should no longer hinder proCHWs. Instead, funders should invest in partnership with recipient countries. In particular, donors should deploy these funds rapidly and flexibly against government-set priorities. No more high transaction costs, earmarking, short-termism, and appropriation of sovereignty.

Both the amount of funding for proCHWs and the way it is used matter. To maximize impact, we need both “more and better money”. We get “better money” with enhanced data transparency, standardized reporting and harmonized metrics among global funders.