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Table 4 The overview below is derived from the book “Health for the People: National Community Health Worker Programs from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe” (2020). It contains basic information on availability of information systems and national performance assessments of the respective CHW programs. Where cells are left blank, this means No or Unknown

From: Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 10. Programme performance and its assessment

Country

(Selected) household and service delivery data collected by CHWs feed into national level information systems

Large scale national CHW program performance assessment(s) conducted

Afghanistan

Yes

Yes [49]

Bangladesh

  

Brazil

Yes

Yes [79]

Ethiopia

Yes

Yes [48]

Ghana

Yes

 

India

 

Yes [80]

Indonesia

  

Iran

Yes

 

Kenya

Yes

Yes [81]

Liberia

Yes

 

Madagascar

Yes

 

Malawi

Yes

 

Mozambique

  

Myanmar

  

Nepal

Yes

Yes [82]

Niger

  

Nigeria

Yes

 

Pakistan

Yes

Yes [83, 84]

Rwanda

Yes

Yes [85]

Sierra Leone

Yes

 

South Africa

  

Tanzania

Yes

 

Thailand

Yes

 

Uganda

  

Zambia

Yes

 

Zimbabwe