TY - JOUR AU - Strachan, Daniel Llywelyn AU - Källander, Karin AU - Nakirunda, Maureen AU - Ndima, Sozinho AU - Muiambo, Abel AU - Hill, Zelee AU - the inSCALE study group PY - 2015 DA - 2015/04/30 TI - Using theory and formative research to design interventions to improve community health worker motivation, retention and performance in Mozambique and Uganda JO - Human Resources for Health SP - 25 VL - 13 IS - 1 AB - Community health workers (CHWs) are increasingly being used in low-income countries to address human resources shortages, yet there remain few effective, evidence-based strategies for addressing the enduring programmatic constraints of worker motivation, retention and performance. This paper describes how two interventions were designed by the Innovations at Scale for Community Access and Lasting Effects (inSCALE) project to address these constraints in Uganda and Mozambique drawing on behavioural theory and formative research results. SN - 1478-4491 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12960-015-0020-8 DO - 10.1186/s12960-015-0020-8 ID - Strachan2015 ER -