On the front lines: Improving health and nutrition by investing in community health workers [EN/AR] – World

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Recommendations:

• Build on the work of the Community Health Delivery Partnership. We call on global, regional and country partners to commit to increased investment in community-based primary health care and essential nutrition services.
• Organize high-level political missions. Government leaders and ministers need to be convinced that prioritizing community-based primary health care and nutrition is the best way to strengthen their health systems. Long-term funding is required for the program to reach its full potential.
• Coordinate and streamline partner support based on the One Plan approach and align domestic and partner funding based on the One Budget approach. This supports the long-term sustainable financing of local health systems, highlighting funding gaps and enabling the rapid mobilization of resources from a variety of sources to fill them. Countries need to find alternative and sustainable funding for local health and nutrition programs to supplement funding from donors and domestic sources.
• Integrate community health and nutrition programs into primary health care systems. This is key to realizing the program’s potential and strengthening health systems. The One Plan approach connects communities and primary health care systems.
• Demonstrate and strengthen community leadership. This fosters ownership and is key to the success of community health and nutrition programs. The One Plan approach engages community leaders and health professionals in improving community health and nutrition programs and encourages community feedback.
• Professionalizing the role of community health workers. The One Plan approach is:
  We recognize the gender discrimination faced by frontline workers and the importance of their roles, requiring appropriate training, pay, protection, supervision, equipment and support.
• Strengthen community accountability
  Health and Nutrition Programmes. The Community Health Delivery Partnership will collect and analyse data through a Community Health Dashboard to monitor and evaluate community health and nutrition programmes, develop key indicators on services delivered by frontline health workers, and document investments in community health.
• Using a one plan, one budget approach, we will ensure local health and nutrition workers have the life-saving supplies they need.
  This includes training and quality assurance programs, and the development of innovative products and materials better suited for use in developing countries.
• Facilitate and enhance the sharing of best practices. Insights and lessons learned from implementing community health and nutrition programs in countries need to be shared through the knowledge exchange platform of community health delivery partnerships to ensure that practice continues to evolve and improve. there is.