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During the Institutionalizing Community Health Conference (ICHC) 2021 led by USAID, UNICEF, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, there was consensus on the need for guidance and harmonization of the various global tools in community health, particularly around measurement, so that they can be more readily used in alignment with national priorities.
In response to this need for streamlined and pragmatic measurement and planning tools and in line with the Frontline Health projectobjective to support uptake of harmonized metrics, Population Council is synthesizing lessons learned around measuring community health progress through the perspectives of community health workers (CHWs) and communities in a indicators guide that’s digestible for global/regional/national audiences. In this drafted guidance, we highlight the measures operationalized through implementation research informed by the Council’s CHW Performance Measurement Framework that we feel are transferrable, as well as newly developed measures for areas that have been underappreciated, but increasingly deemed important. This guidance speaks to the relationship of project-harmonized measures with other global guidelines and tools in community health.
To link the complementary global guidelines and measurement and planning tools and receive comprehensive feedback on the applicability/usability of this indicators guide, Population Council is hosting an interactive webinar on 30 June from 9:00 to 11:00 am EDT. The first half of the webinar will be dedicated to presenting select existing measurement and planning tools in community health and interactively reflecting upon how they fit together. The second half of the webinar will be a guided “workshop” to garner comprehensive feedback on the indicators guide document that includes recommending a comprehensive and short list of operationalized/tested items that can be integrated into various types of ongoing data collection to assess community health progress within country M&E strategies.
Featuring presentations from:
Catherine Kane, WHO
Carey Westgate, Community Health Impact Coalition (CHIC)
Lauren Mawe, Last Mile Health
Ana Djapovic Scholl, USAID
Remy Mwamba, UNICEF