Topics: Community health workers, Human Resources/Workforce Development, Monitoring and evaluation, Motivation/incentives, Performance management, Policy, Retention of health workers/reducing attrition, Supervision, Training

From the World Health Organization: A global consultation of programme managers, policy makers and experts was convened by the Alliance in April 2010 in Montreux, Switzerland, to review the recommendations of a systematic review on Community Health Workers (CHWs), share experiences, and develop broad agreement on key messages for countries to use to integrate CHWs into their national health workforce. Key messages were identified around the following three areas: the planning, production and deployment; attraction and retention; and performance management of CHW.