The National Workshop on Community Health
Worker Training: Linking Pedagogy and Practice was organised during
April 10 – 12, 2006 in Pune, in collaboration with the Foundation
for Research in Community Health (FRCH).
The workshop was aimed to initiate a sectoral dialogue and action on community health worker training, and sustaining it through a network of resource and research. It brought together representatives from the government, civil society, academics and practitioners to share experiences of and perspectives on content and methodology of training community health workers.
Focusing on training content
and methodology innovated by civil society groups in community health
worker programmes and implementing these innovations at the level
of scale in the context of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM),
the workshop achieved the objectives of consolidating innovations
and learnings in community health worker training across programmes
over the last three decades, in both government and civil society
initiatives. It initiated a dialogue between civil society groups
and the NRHM about mainstreaming these innovations and learnings
to extend coverage and enhance quality of community health worker
training. The presentations, discussions and debates focused on
important aspects of CHW training - methodology and human resources;
training in varied contexts within the country; partnerships conceptualising
and operationalising community health worker programmes; and support
structures required for the successful implementation of such programmes
- and their implications for scale and the NRHM.
In the current context of the NRHM, the workshop initiated a process of integration of significant learnings into the training of the Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA), the voluntary hamlet level worker who is the core strategy of the NRHM, as well as defined future directions for scaled programmes and sustain fruitful associations between the government and the civil society.
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