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Community-based animal health workers (cahws) In pastoralist areas of kenya: A study on selection processes, impact and sustainability

Year of publication 2003

Pages 63 p.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Following the collapse of public services in Kenya in the 1980s, including veterinary services, alternatives have been sought to deliver animal health services in arid and semi-arid areas of Kenya. Several organisations including NGOs started new approaches such as “Communitybased Animal Health” (CAH) systems. These programmes have had different levels of success after the organisation pulls out. One of the reasons proposed to explain this is the selection process of the Community-based Animal H ealth Workers (CAHWs) whose qualities do not always suit communities as they are imposed hierarchically through local authorities. Several studies have been undertaken in the human health field in relation to community workers behavioural patterns and community health programmes’ sustainability. This type of research has, however, never been performed in the animal health field.

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