Upgrading Health Extension Workers (HEWs)
on Health by African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF)
Upgrading Health Extension Workers (HEWs)
on Health by African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF)
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
To improve the capacity of 2,000 HEWs to deliver appropriate, quality, and inclusive health services, to strengthen the capacity of the training institutions, Regional Health Bureaus, master trainers and tutors to deliver sufficient quantity and quality of health workers on an ongoing basis, and to identify and document the impact of HEW training and specifically the innovative Level IV upgrading programme (e.g. looking at impact on retention) in resource-constrained settings.
ACTIVITIES
Scale-up of Level IV HEWs using classroom-based teaching.LOCATIONS
- Dire Dawa, Ethiopia
- Harari People, Ethiopia
- Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples, Ethiopia
- Oromia, Ethiopia
- Amhara, Ethiopia
- Tigray, Ethiopia
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Project timeline
23 months left
05/01/2012
04/30/2015
Project budget
1,000,000
People reached
5000000
Target groups
Rural populations