Africa Community Health Programme | Continental Landscape Survey Report 2024/5
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Community health systems, grounded in trust, local participation and culturally responsive service delivery, are central to achieving universal health coverage (UHC), enhancing Primary Health Care (PHC) and ensuring public health security across the African continent. Community Health Workers (CHWs), as the anchors of these systems, extend lifesaving services to remote and underserved populations, […]
African Health Workforce Compact, March 2025
Introduction The African Health Workforce Compact (hereinafter “the Compact”) is a comprehensive, multi-stakeholder, evidence-informed initiative dedicated to supporting African Union Member States in their efforts to strengthen their human resources for health capacity. The Compact builds upon the work of the Africa CDC Framework for Health Workforce Development 2020–2025 and supports the African Union (AU) […]
African Health Workforce Compact | Investment Case Analysis Report
Introduction Background This Investment Case document was developed in the context of the African Health Workforce Compact, developed to implement the Decision of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government during its Thirty-Fifth Ordinary Session held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 5–6th February 2022 (Assembly/AU/Dec.4(XXXV) of 2022 that called on AU Member States to […]
Baseline Report on the Health Workforce Status of 55 African Union Member States, March 2025
Executive Summary This Baseline Report, developed pursuant to an Inception Meeting for the Health Workforce Compact in Addis Ababa in June 2024, describes key findings from analysis of health workforce strategic documents, desk research, and economic scenario analysis. Our research makes several salient observations, including: Out of the 55 African Union (AU) Member States, 56% […]
Community Health Workforce: Programmes and System Strengthening, Strategic Priorities | 2023 – 2027
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The literature is replete with examples of how community health (CH) initiatives have been pivotal in extending primary health care (PHC) services to marginalized populations such as those in rural communities and the urban poor; as well as to vulnerable populations including children, women, internally displaced persons, persons living with HIV and refugees […]