Hand in Hand Eastern Africa Consultancy - Community Health Worker Programme Jobs in Tanzania

Hand in Hand Eastern Africa Consultancy - Community Health Worker Programme Jobs in Tanzania

In 2016, THET was awarded a grant from Comic Relief to support the Tanzanian Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children (MoHCDGEC) to train and roll out the first formal cadre of paid Community Health Workers (CHWs) under the current Building National Training Capacity to Implement the Community Based Health Programme Strategic Plan (2015 – 2020).

For the last three years, we have implemented a multi-level approach: supporting the capacity development of ten health training institutes and system strengthening at the district and regional level. We have advocated for and supported policy development at the national level and its implementation at regional and district level.

Through our presence in MoHCDGEC taskforces and technical working groups we have supported curriculum development, recruitment and retention, development of supervision tools and planning and budgeting of CHWs.

This has resulted in the training of over 1300 formal community health workers, the capacity development of 174 district and health managers on community-based health programmes, and development of policy guidelines including the scheme of service and the review of the CHW curriculum to harmonise it to the needs of communities.

The purpose of this assignment is to increase the evidence base on the role and value of CHWs in addressing the health needs of communities and contributing to universal health coverage.


Responsibilities