Integrating community health workers into health systems: a step-by-step policy implementation guide

Overview

This guide presents steps that policy-makers, planners, managers and their partners should undertake when considering a national or subnational policy initiative to integrate community health workers (CHWs) into health systems.

The guide integrates and complements WHO’s prior body of work with the aim of provide a sequencing and prioritization of policy actions, including: assessment, stakeholder analysis, determining the governance structure, the objective, the financing mechanisms, the design, including flexibility in emergency contexts, monitoring and evaluation of CHW integration.