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dc.contributor.authorSchneider, Helen
dc.contributor.authorNxumalo, Nonhlanhla
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-29T12:09:55Z
dc.date.available2018-10-29T12:09:55Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.citationSchneider, H. & Nxumalo, N. (2017). Leadership and governance of community health worker programmes at scale: a cross case analysis of provincial implementation in South Africa. International Journal for Equity in Health, 16: 72en_US
dc.identifier.issn1475-9276
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-017-0565-3
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/4164
dc.description.abstractBACKGROUND: National community health worker (CHW) programmes are returning to favour as an integral part of primary health care systems, often on the back of pre-existing community based initiatives. There are significant challenges to the integration and support of such programmes, and they require coordination and stewardship at all levels of the health system. This paper explores the leadership and governance tasks of large-scale CHW programmes at sub-national level, through the case of national reforms to South Africa’s community based sector, referred to as the Ward Based Outreach Team (WBOT) strategy. METHODS: A cross case analysis of leadership and governance roles, drawing on three case studies of adoption and implementation of the WBOTs strategy at provincial level (Western Cape, North West and Gauteng) was conducted. The primary case studies mapped system components and assessed implementation processes and contexts. They involved teams of researchers and over 200 interviews with stakeholders from senior to frontline, document reviews and analyses of routine data. The secondary, cross case analysis specifically focused on the issues and challenges facing, and strategies adopted by provincial and district policy makers and managers, as they engaged with the new national mandate. From this key sub-national leadership and governance roles were formulated. RESULTS: Four key roles are identified and discussed: 1. Negotiating a fit between national mandates and provincial and district histories and strategies of community based services 2. Defining new organisational and accountability relationships between CHWs, local health services, communities and NGOs 3. Revising and developing new aligned and integrated planning, human resource, financing and information systems 4. Leading change by building new collective visions, mobilising political, including budgetary, support and designing implementation strategies. CONCLUSION: This analysis, from real-life systems, adds to understanding of the processes involved in developing CHW programmes at scale, and specifically the negotiated and multilevel nature of leadership and governance in such programmes, spanning analytic, managerial, technical and political roles.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherBMCen_US
dc.rights© The Author(s). 2017 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
dc.subjectCommunity systemsen_US
dc.subjectCommunity health workersen_US
dc.subjectCommunity health system strengtheningen_US
dc.subjectNational CHW programmesen_US
dc.subjectGovernanceen_US
dc.subjectLeadershipen_US
dc.subjectStewardshipen_US
dc.subjectStrategic managementen_US
dc.titleLeadership and governance of community health worker programmes at scale: a cross case analysis of provincial implementation in South Africaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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