LHW Management Review - Oxford Policy Management

List of tables and figures
Table 4.1 Strategic Plan activities for supporting delegation of decision-making .......... 18
Table 5.1 Response by the Programme to issues requiring innovation or quality
improvement identified in the Strategic Plan and PC-1 ................................. 22
Table 5.2 Plan for managing the development of the scope and mix of services
provided by the LHW ..................................................................................... 24
Table 5.3 Development of refresher trainings, 2004–08 ............................................... 26
Table 5.4 Type of refresher training received by LHW in the previous year, by
province/region .............................................................................................. 27
Table 7.1 Examples of key development partners contributing to primary health
care outcomes ............................................................................................... 38
Table 8.1 Number of health facilities with LHWs, by province/region, by year .............. 47
Table 9.1 End of financial year status of LHWs working for the Programme ................ 51
Table 9.2 Comparison of the percentage of LHSs covering this number of health
facilities between 2000 and 2008 .................................................................. 53
Table 10.1 Levels of service provision by performance score quartile for services
included in the performance score ................................................................ 58
Table B.1 Functions of the implementation units ........................................................... 71
Table C.1 Decision-making within the Programme ........................................................ 73
Table D.1 Examples of planned linkages between the MNCH programme and
other programmes ......................................................................................... 75
Table E.1 Training conducted for pilot initiatives, 2003–08 ........................................... 77
Table F.1 Allocations of LHWs by province/area, 2002–08 ........................................... 79
Table F.2 Comparison of the allocation of LHW posts by province/area, 2003–04,
with rural population predictions .................................................................... 79
Table G.1 Management change at the FPIU of the LHWP, 2001–09 ............................ 81
Table G.2 Management changes at the FPIU, LHWP, 2001–09 (cont’d) ...................... 83
Table G.3 Changes in Health Management at MoH, 2002–09 ...................................... 84
Figure 2.1 The LHW through her outreach services ......................................................... 3
Figure 6.1 Organizational structure of LHWP and linkages with health system at
different levels of government (federal, provincial, and district) .................... 29
Figure 6.2 Organisation chart of the DPIU...................................................................... 30
Figure 7.1 List of health programmes located in the federal MoH .................................. 35
Figure 7.2 Contribution by LHW to other primary health care/public health
programmes and family planning .................................................................. 36
Figure 8.1 The number of working LHWs at the end of the financial year
compared with the allocated posts ................................................................ 44
Figure 8.2 Allocation of LHW positions in PC-1 (2003–08), by province/ region,
compared with the distribution of the rural population ................................... 45
Figure 8.3 Difference between the recorded allocation of LHW posts, by district, in
the PSP database (June 2008) and the districts’ report of their
allocation of LHW posts ................................................................................. 46
Figure 8.4 Number of urban LHWs, predicted and actual, 2008, by
province/region .............................................................................................. 49
Figure 9.1 Percentage of districts where the Programme expanded between
2003–08 ........................................................................................................ 52
Figure 9.2 Number of LHWs working in June each year, and the ratio of LHSs to
LHWs ............................................................................................................. 53
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