Community Health Programs (CHP) Dashboard
What is it?
An integrated decision-support platform for community health programs across Africa and the Caribbean.
What does it track?
CHP maturity, CHP features, contribution to essential service coverage, and UHC.
Who is it for?
Policymakers, program managers, and partners working to strengthen community health systems.
About the CHP Dashboard
The Community Health Program (CHP) Dashboard is developed by HeDPAC to serve as an integrated decision-support platform that strengthens analytics and generates actionable insights for policy, investment, and accountability in community health programs across Africa and the Caribbean. It brings together diverse data sources to provide a comprehensive picture of how community health programs are structured, resourced, and performing, and how they contribute to the achievement of Universal Health Coverage (UHC).
The dashboard tracks the maturity and performance of national community health programs, highlights their contribution to essential health service coverage, and supports evidence-informed decision-making. It was developed by consolidating and harmonizing key information from established global and national sources, including the WHO Global Health Observatory, the Global Community Health Dashboard, the ProCHW Policy Dashboard, the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), World Bank Open Data, and country-level Community Health Program Maturity Assessments.
At the country level, the dashboard presents core demographic and health indicators alongside key features of the community health program, including the type and number of Community Health Workers (CHWs), the existence and updated status of national policies, pre-service training arrangements, service packages delivered by CHWs, and remuneration mechanisms. This allows users to understand how CHW programs are organized and supported within each health system.
The dashboard also visualizes how CHWs contribute to coverage of selected essential health services, drawing on the latest DHS data, National Malaria Indicator Surveys, and other relevant national data on health service coverage. These analyses demonstrate the role of CHWs in expanding access to care, reducing inequities, and advancing progress toward UHC. While the dashboard captures service utilization, it does not yet fully reflect CHWs' broader functions in health promotion, community engagement, and referral to health facilities, which remain important areas for future enhancement.
In addition, the platform displays the maturity level of community health programs using the Community Health Program Maturity Framework, with scores disaggregated by category and component. The CHP Maturity Framework is a tool developed by HeDPAC to provide a standardized, evidence-based framework for countries, policymakers, and program managers to evaluate, strengthen, and sustain CHPs. It combines a maturity matrix, scoring system, and composite index to generate clear, actionable insights. This enables countries and partners to assess governance, financing, workforce, supply chain, outcomes, and system integration in a structured, comparable way.
Why this matters
Overall, the CHP Dashboard empowers policymakers, program managers, and partners to monitor progress, stimulate dialogue, prioritize investments, benchmark across countries, and share best practices to strengthen community health systems and accelerate progress toward UHC.
This section brings together core country context indicators (population, UHC index, maternal and under-five mortality) and key CHW program features, including policy status, pre-service training, numbers of CHWs, service delivery package, and types of financial remuneration. It is intended to support learning, dialogue, and investment decisions – not as a scorecard.
Number of CHWs currently deployed in the country
CHWs who received pre-service training (%)
CHW Policy Status
CHW Service Delivery Package
Types of Financial Remuneration for CHWs
This section shows how CHWs contribute to coverage of selected essential health services using the latest DHS data. It highlights CHWs’ role in expanding access and promoting equity, contributing to UHC. However, the section primarily captures service use and does not fully capture CHWs’ broader roles in health promotion and facility referrals.
Community Health Program (CHP) Maturity
About the CHP Maturity Framework
What: The Community Health Program (CHP) Maturity Framework is a standardized, evidence-based assessment tool used to evaluate the institutionalization and performance of national community health programs. It combines a maturity matrix, scoring methodology, and a composite index to assess different dimensions of community health systems. The framework generates structured insights that help countries understand the current maturity level of their programs and identify areas requiring strengthening.
Why: The framework helps countries identify policy and implementation gaps, benchmark progress against global best practices, and prioritize strategic actions to strengthen community health systems. By providing a structured and comparable approach, it supports evidence-based decision making, more efficient resource allocation, and measurable improvements in the quality, sustainability, and performance of community health service delivery. It also promotes cross-country learning and multisectoral collaboration, recognizing that community health outcomes are influenced by sectors such as education, civil service, agriculture, water and sanitation, economy, and social protection.
Who: The CHP Maturity Framework is used by countries, policymakers, ministries of health, civil service institutions, and community health program managers, in collaboration with HeDPAC and other technical and development partners. The MOH-led assessment process involves inclusive consultations and stakeholder validation, including health workers, government institutions, and other relevant sectors.
When: CHP Maturity Assessments are conducted periodically as part of national community health program reviews or reform processes, particularly when countries are planning system strengthening initiatives, workforce reforms, or monitoring progress toward universal health coverage (UHC) and stronger primary health care systems.
How: Countries conduct the assessment using the CHP Maturity Framework tools, which include structured maturity levels, indicators, and scoring criteria. The process involves evidence review, multi-stakeholder consultations, and validation workshops to ensure accuracy and country ownership. Results are analyzed through the scoring system and composite index, producing a clear maturity profile that guides strategic planning, policy reforms, and program improvement efforts.
Coming soon – maturity assessments under way
This section will be activated once countries complete Community Health Program (CHP) maturity assessments and grant approval for visualising and sharing results.
This section will display results from Community Health Program (CHP) Maturity Assessments conducted by countries in collaboration with HeDPAC and partners. The maturity framework provides a structured way to assess governance, financing, workforce, supplies, service delivery and outcomes for community health programs.