What is the impact of removing performance-based financial incentives on community health worker motivation? A qualitative study from an infant and young child feeding program in Bangladesh.
Jeffrey GlennCorrina MoucheraudDenise Diaz PayánAllison CrookJames StaggHaribondhu SarmaTahmeed AhmedAdrienne EpsteinSharmin Khan LuiesMahfuzur RahmanMargaret E KrukThomas J BossertPublished in: BMC health services research (2021)
This study provides new evidence regarding how removing performance-based financial incentives from a CHW program can negatively impact CHW motivation. The findings suggest that program decision makers should consider how to construct community health work programs such that CHWs may continue to receive performance-based compensation after the original funding ceases.