WHO Guideline on Health Policy and System Support to Optimize Community Health Worker Programmes

The overall goal of this guideline is to assist national governments and national and international partners to improve the design, implementation, performance and evaluation of CHW programmes, contributing to the progressive realization of universal health coverage.

This guideline is primarily focused on CHWs (as defined by the International Labour Organization through its International Standard Classification of Occupations), but its relevance and applicability include also other types of community-based health workers. The recommendations of this guideline are of relevance to health systems of countries at all levels of socioeconomic development.