Community Health

Championing countries’ efforts to extend the reach and range of their community health services

Use of PMI Funds for Payment of Community Workers

On June 29, 2021, PMI officially announced a change in policy regarding use of PMI funds for payment of Community Health Worker (CHW) salaries and stipends, and PMI funds from any fiscal year may now be used to pay CHWs who provide community-based malaria case management services as part of the package of services they deliver.

Please refer to the frequently asked questions document for general clarifications, recommendations, requirements, evidence, and resources regarding this policy.

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PMI-SUPPORTED COMMUNITY HEALTH RESOURCES

DIGITAL COMMUNITY HEALTH INITIATIVE

PMI recognizes the potential role that the ongoing digital transformation can play in catalyzing efforts to strengthen community health systems. Technologies are getting better, infrastructure is expanding and demand for digital services is growing. This intersection between PMI’s emphasis on community health systems and the ongoing digital transformation led us to launch our Digital Community Health Initiative in 2020. The goal of this initiative is to strengthen quality health delivery at the community level in PMI’s partner countries, by investing in the scale-up of digitally enabled community health platforms.

PMI funded foundational assessments in all 27 partner countries to understand the current environment and identify opportunities to strengthen digital community health. Those country profiles and a cross-country synthesis report can be found on our partner, Digital Square’s website.

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CHILD HEALTH TASK FORCE INSTITUTIONALIZING ICCM SUB-GROUP

The Institutionalizing iCCM subgroup of the Child Health Task Force aims to support effective programs that are ministry-led, adequately resourced and managed, and with long-term commitments of support from partners. The subgroup provides a forum for donors, technical agencies, and implementing partners to coordinate their country level support to Ministries of Health for scaling-up integrated community case management. Many iCCM resources are available through the Task Force.

INTEGRATED COMMUNITY CASE MANAGEMENT HUB (iCCM)

The Child Health Taskforce’s Integrated Community Case Management Hub is available. You can find resources for iCCM like tools, reports, articles and event materials.

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COMMUNITY HEALTH ROADMAP

The Community Health Roadmap’s mission is to mobilize new resources to support national priorities for community health, and to support the more efficient use of existing resources through stronger collaboration, coordination and alignment of donor investments.

Stories From the Field

Data Saves Lives: How Cameroon is Using Data to Make Sure Every Community Receives Essential Health Care

October 27, 2023|

Community health workers are essential to increasing health services for hard to reach populations. In Cameroon, these health workers provide a wide variety of services, including diagnosing and treating malaria. PMI collaborated with the Cameroon Ministry of Health and the National Malaria Control Program to develop an interactive tool to guide the expansion of the community health worker program to make sure more families are reached with life-saving services.