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Community Health Worker/
Volunteer Initiatives
Caroline Bishop
CRS Health and HIV Technical Advisor
CORE Annual Meeting
October 12, 2012 - Washington, DC
Three Initiatives
1. Mobile phones to support ASHAs in India
2. “Talking Books” to support community health promoters in West Darfur
3. CRS Guide to Working with Volunteers
1. Mobile Phones in India
The Challenges:• Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA)
struggle to provide timely, comprehensive counseling to women throughout the pregnancy and postpartum periods.
• Supportive supervision of ASHAs is limited
A Solution
• Information Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D)
• CommCare – an innovative mHealth platform that allows ASHAs to track and support every pregnant woman, mother and newborn
Video
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=QTjs61L5l2Q
Global Outcomes
• Published studies documenting how CommCare can improve access, quality of health services
• Randomized control study: timeliness of community health worker visits can increase by 86% through reminders delivered to CommCare users.
Kaushambi Outcomes
• ASHAs report that CommCare:- Helps them manage their workload- Improves the quality of their counseling- Increases families’ receptiveness to key MNH
messages• Pregnant women report CommCare’s interactive
format makes it easier for them to remember key messages.
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Save the DateCRS ICT4D Conference
• March 2013 in Accra, Ghana• 3-day conference• 1st day open to NGOs, donors; local government
actors from West Africa • Purpose: learn about successful ICT4D solutions
in the field (especially health and agriculture) and discuss measuring impact of ICT4D
Purpose:• To provide effective
health and nutrition education, in the native language, to low-literate remote communities in West Darfur
2. “Talking Books” in Sudan
How it was developed
• Collaborative process with:– Ministry of Health– Local community members– Books of Hope staff
How it works…
• Illustrated pages• Including text• Sound track corresponds
to each page• Narrated by Darfurian
radio celebrity.“Eat Well, Be Well”
Use in the field
• El Geneina IPD camp• Community Health Promoters (CHPs) trained• Provided “Eat Well, Be Well” speaking book • Follow-up assessment
3. Guide to Working with Volunteers
Determining # of volunteers
Incentives & Work Tools
Calculating Volunteer Contributions
Thank you!
