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.