Uganda has made significant progress reducing maternal mortality and under-five mortality. However, challenges remain tied to the availability, accessibility, and affordability of essential health services. This contributes to 75% of Uganda’s preventable disease burden. With a population of approximately 43 million people, Uganda faces a significant health worker shortage to address these challenges. Given the disease burden of Uganda’s population and sub-optimal performance of the Village Health Teams (VHTs), the Ministry of Health in Uganda developed the Community Health Extension Workers (CHEW) Strategy in 2017, though financing was a major challenge to the roll-out of the CHEW strategy.
FAH worked with the Ugandan Ministry of Health to further refine the resource needs and gaps, build capacity on costing, gap analyses and investment plans, and crowd in funding for the CHEW program. By:
- Supporting resource mobilization through budget domestic resource mobilization
- Domestic resource mapping and mobilization for the CHEW programme
- Developing a CHEW investment plan and advocacy pack
- Exploration of an innovative financing instrument