This brief identifies systems considerations for CHW career progression, including health workforce education and training, regulation and policy, management, and financing.

This methodological and pedagogical manual offers guidelines for the development of the Health Education (EpS) process within the framework of the Comprehensive Health Care Routes (RIAS). These routes represent a significant shift in Colombia's public health policy by prioritizing health education. 

This Year 4 Quarter 3 Report (Apr-Jun 2023) was prepared for USAID and provides a progress update for all annual work plan activities. 

LHSS along with speakers from USAID and WHO reflected on strategies to ensure reliable funding for costing the planning, design, implementation, and evaluation of a National Quality Policy and Strategy (NQPS).

La boîte à outils vise à combler une lacune dans les conseils pratiques pour l’EPS dans les programmes de lutte contre le paludisme. Il contient des orientations, des ressources et des exemples étape par étape pour développer des activités d’ESP, dans le but global d’équiper les acteurs au niveau des pays pour stimuler une plus grande participation du secteur privé à la lutte et à l’élimination du paludisme et contribuer à des résultats durables au niveau local. La boîte à outils est disponible en anglais et en frech.

The toolkit aims to address a gap in practical guidance for PSE in malaria programming. It contains step-by-step guidance, resources, and examples for developing PSE activities, with the overall goal of equipping country-level actors to stimulate greater private sector participation in malaria control and elimination and contribute to locally sustained results. The toolkit is available in English and French.

In this video, discover how local organizations in Cali work to strengthen capacity, promote sustainability, and improve access to health information related to the country’s health system.

This brief includes a global evidence review of DFS for health conducted by LHSS and an analysis of two programmatic case studies of DFS for health by Management Sciences for Health (MSH) through the Digital Square initiative.

To strengthen capacities and promote equitable access to the Colombian health care system, LHSS and the Healthy Communities program forged several high-impact partnerships in Bogotá. These partnerships focused on supporting the integration process of the migrant population, host communities, and returning Colombians into the country’s health system. This video highlights beneficiaries and partners impacted by this effort.

This video features the efforts of LHSS Colombia grantees to promote inclusion of the migrant population in the health system through a community leadership initiative to improve the provision of maternal health care in the Riohacha District and strengthen the overall capacity of the Colombian health system.

This Spanish report describes the actions carried out for the development of micro-planning of vaccination strategies and tactics at the territorial level in Colombia, highlighting the successful experiences that were managed in the territories to advance vaccination against COVID-19.

This report describes the activities implemented for microplanning vaccination strategies and tactics at the territorial level in Colombia, highlighting the territorial entities’ successful experiences managing COVID-19 vaccination.

This Spanish report summarizes the actions carried out for the development of micro-planning of vaccination strategies and tactics at the territorial level, highlighting the successful experiences that were managed in the territories to advance vaccination against COVID-19.

This report provides an overview of the community-level communication activities aimed at preventing COVID-19 transmission and promoting vaccination.

This English report describes the communication activities developed at the community level aimed at preventing transmission of the virus and promoting COVID-19 vaccination.