Saturday, 13 November 2010
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Thank you Diana ChangBlanc for sharing this with TechNet21 readers. Non-Financial Incentives for Voluntary Community Health Workers: A Qualitative Study A new report and accompanying policy brief (attached to this e-mail) present the findings of a qualitative JSI study that explored various approaches to sustaining volunteerism among community health workers in four regions of Ethiopia. Conducted as part of JSI Research & Training Institute's Last 10 Kilometers (L10K) project in Ethiopia, the study explored the potential of various non-financial incentives (NFI) used to engage and motivate volunteers. The results of the study outline the factors motivating volunteer community health workers (vCHWs), indicate other NFI mechanisms for consideration, and suggest programmatic recommendations. The L10K Project is a JSI-implemented effort to find long-term solutions to improve maternal, reproductive, newborn, and child health, and to reduce maternal and newborn mortality at the community level. Approximately 15 million people, or 20% of the total Ethiopian population, including 2.6 million children under five and 3.5 million women of reproductive age stand to benefit from the project's efforts to improve the nation's health system. L10K is working to extend the reach of the Ethiopian government's health extension program (HEP), which trains vCHWs to spread health messages and practices to families around the country. One of the objectives of the L10K project is to ensure the sustained engagement of these volunteers through NFIs. For more than a decade, JSI has been working in Ethiopia to improve people's health, including maternal, newborn and child health outcomes. The L10K project, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is so named because the average family in rural Ethiopia lives approximately 10 kilometers from a health facility. L10K is working to improve demand and quality of services in addition to closing that distance. The report can also be read and/or downloaded at: http://www.jsi.com/JSIInternet/Resource ... ancing.cfm ##text##
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