Zambia Capacity Building Strategy

Source: Chemonics

This document outlines the capacity building strategy employed by The Communications Support for Health (CSH) program, which aims to enhance the capacity of the Government of the Republic of Zambia (GRZ) to manage and implement effective national health communications interventions.

It is expected that enhanced IEC/BCC management of the GRZ will translate into changes in population health related behaviors.

The document covers the program’s multi-pronged capacity building strategy that involves strengthening individuals’ performance, organizational structures, and national strategies. The steps of the capacity building process include stakeholder engagement, capacity assessment and identification of gaps and needs, formulation of capacity building plans, implementation of the plans, and monitoring/evaluation of the plans. This document also includes the plan’s conceptual framework and expected challenges.

Community Health Worker Recruitment Posters

Source: Zambia Ministry of Health

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2010

The Zambian government launched a Community Health Assistant (CHA) program in 2010. The Ministry’s goal was to train 5,000 new CHAs by 2017—a massive investment in a country with only 6,000 nurses.

Recruited from their communities, trained, and then deployed back to their communities, community health workers are thought to have the necessary relationships, local knowledge, and sense of community responsibility to deliver health services to underserved areas. Informal, small-scale, community health worker programs have existed for years, but recently many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have sought to formalize the cadre and implement national programs at scale. In each community, the district health authority posted these paper advertisements for Community Health Assistant (CHA) jobs in public spaces, such as schools, churches, and the health center.

Topic Area: Organizational Development

Zambia Capacity Building Strategy

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