Learning to Sustain Change: Mitanin Community Health Workers Promote Public Accountability in India

Abstract

The Accountability Note- illustrates how Community Health Worker program (Mitanin) in Chattisgarh as service providers and community leaders has developed an evolving learning strategy by involving the State and civil society actors to sustain action on public accountability of health system and connect communities with government health care services. The document also shows that CHWs can simultaneously work as health care providers and build and sustain accountability. Besidses, it shows how the program has taken a form of movement-building approach to public health rather than just being a narrow targeted intervention.