Community-based Health Planning and Services
The CHPS program of service delivery change is achieved by forging partnerships between health care providers and the communities they serve.
In 1999, the Ghana Health Service officially adopted a model for community-based service delivery known as the Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) Initiative.
CHPS is based on the successful Navrongo Community Health and Family Planning (CHFP) experimental model, which changes the focus of primary health care and family planning services from clinical care to providing high-quality services at community and doorstep locations. This national program of service delivery change is achieved by forging partnerships between health care providers and the communities they serve.
The Population Council provided guidance and technical expertise to the CHFP experiment and CHPS since their inception. A five-year grant from USAID/Ghana enabled the Council to continue its assistance to CHPS through September 2010. Called CHPS-TA, the program was a collaborative effort between the Council, EngenderHealth, the American College of Nurse/Midwives (ACNM), the Centre for Development of People (CEDEP), and the Ghana Health Service.
CHPS-TA addressed the following needs of the CHPS implementation strategy:
- Strengthen national, regional, district and community level advocacy, leadership, and mobilization for CHPS;
- Develop/improve the skills of community-based health providers and their supervisors in basic health service delivery, referral, surveillance, quality assurance, and supportive supervision;
- Expand and strengthen pre-service training institutions for CHPS through technical assistance and minor equipment procurement;
- Strengthen the government’s capacity to expand CHPS, conduct operations research, monitor and evaluate the program, and disseminate lessons learned; and
- Identify and procure equipment to support the Government of Ghana’s efforts in program implementation.
Since the Council's involvement with CHPS ended in 2010, the program has continued to expand throughout Ghana.
Related project: Scaling Up the Community-based Health Planning and Services Initiative in Nkwanta District
Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS): Community Health Officer Registers--Instruction Manual (PDF)
Publication date: 2009
Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS): Community Health Officer Training Manual (Facilitator's Guide), Volume 1 (PDF)
Publication date: 2009
Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS): Community Health Officer Training Manual (Facilitator's Guide), Volume 2 (PDF)
Publication date: 2009
Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS): Community Health Officer Training Manual (Facilitator's Guide), Volume 3 (PDF)
Publication date: 2009
Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS): Community Health Officer's Training Workbook, Volume 1 (PDF)
Publication date: 2009
Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS): Community Health Officer's Training Workbook, Volume 2 (PDF)
Publication date: 2009
Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS): Community Health Officer's Training Workbook, Volume 3 (PDF)
Publication date: 2009
Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS): Community Health Volunteer's Training Manual (PDF)
Publication date: 2009
Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS): Preceptor's Guide for Community Health Nursing Training Schools, Volume 1 (PDF)
Publication date: 2009
Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS): Preceptor's Guide for Community Health Nursing Training Schools, Volume 2 (PDF)
Publication date: 2009
Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS): Preceptor's Guide for Community Health Nursing Training Schools, Volume 3 (PDF)
Publication date: 2009
Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS): Tutor's Guide for Community Health Nursing Training Schools, Volume 1 (PDF)
Publication date: 2009
Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS): Tutor's Guide for Community Health Nursing Training Schools, Volume 2 (PDF)
Publication date: 2009
Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS): Tutor's Guide for Community Health Nursing Training Schools, Volume 3 (PDF)
Publication date: 2009
Home Management of Malaria, Acute Respiratory Infection and Diarrhoea in Ghana: Implementation Guidelines (PDF)
Publication date: 2009
Home Management of Malaria, Acute Respiratory Infection and Diarrhoea in Ghana: Manual for Community Based Agents (PDF)
Publication date: 2009
Rapid achievement of the child survival Millennium Development Goal: Evidence from the Navrongo experiment in Northern Ghana (abstract)
Binka,Fred N.; Bawah,Ayaga A.; Phillips,James F.; Hodgson,Abraham; Adjuik,Martin; MacLeod,Bruce
Tropical Medicine and International Health 12(5): 578-583
Publication date: 2007
Accelerating reproductive and child health programme impact with community-based services: The Navrongo experiment in Ghana
(abstract)
Phillips,James F.; Bawah,Ayaga A.; Binka,Fred N.
Bulletin of the World Health Organization 84(12): 949-953
Publication date: 2006
The impact of immunization on the association between poverty and child survival: Evidence from Kassena-Nankana District of northern Ghana (PDF)
Bawah,Ayaga A.; Phillips,James F.; Adjuik,Martin; Vaughan-Smith,Maya; MacLeod,Bruce; Binka,Fred N.
Policy Research Division Working Paper (no. 218)
Publication date: 2006
Accelerating reproductive and child health program development: The Navrongo initiative in Ghana (PDF)
Phillips,James F.; Bawah,Ayaga A.; Binka,Fred N.
Policy Research Division Working Paper (no. 208)
Publication date: 2005
Schooling trends in Africa: New assessment methods needed (PDF)
Population Briefs 10(1)
Publication date: 2004
The feasibility of computer-assisted survey interviewing in Africa: Experience from two rural districts in Kenya (abstract)
Hewett,Paul C.; Mensch,Barbara S.; Erulkar,Annabel S.
Social Science Computer Review 22(3): 319-334
Publication date: 2004
The feasibility of computer-assisted survey interviewing in Africa: Experience from two rural districts in Kenya. (PDF)
Hewett,Paul C.; Erulkar,Annabel S.; Mensch,Barbara S.
Policy Research Division Working Paper (no. 168)
Publication date: 2003
Best practices in CBD programs in sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons learned from research and evaluation (PDF)
Frontiers in Reproductive Health; Family Health International; Advance Africa
FRONTIERS Report
Publication date: 2002
Project Stats
Location: Ghana
Program(s):
Poverty, Gender, and Youth
Topic(s):
Community-based services
Duration: 1/1991 - 9/2010
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