The Ghana Community-based Health Planning and Services Initiative: Fostering evidence-based organizational change and development in a resource-constrained setting

Authors

Frank K. Nyonator
John Koku Awoonor-Williams
James F. Phillips, Population Council
Tanya C. Jones, Population Council
Robert A. Miller, Population Council

Document Type

Working Paper

Publication Date

2003

Abstract

Research projects demonstrating ways to improve health services often fail to have an impact on what national health programs actually do. An approach to evidence-based policy development has been launched in Ghana that bridges the gap between research and program implementation. The Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) initiative employs strategies tested in the successful Navrongo experiment to guide national health reforms that mobilize volunteers, resources, and cultural institutions to support community-based primary health care. Over the 1999 to 2002 period, 100 out of the 110 districts in Ghana adopted a CHPS initiative. This paper reviews features of the initiative that explain its success and constrain future progress.

DOI

10.31899/pgy6.1086

Language

English

Recommended Citation

Nyonator, Frank K., John Koku Awoonor-Williams, James F. Phillips, Tanya C. Jones, and Robert A. Miller. 2003. "The Ghana Community-based Health Planning and Services Initiative: Fostering evidence-based organizational change and development in a resource-constrained setting," Policy Research Division Working Paper no. 180. New York: Population Council. Version of record: https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czi003