Kris, There is a recent review of evidence on just this topic, funded by CIFF, Save the Children and ACF: [url=http://files.ennonline.net/attachments/2317/Linking-Nutrition-ICCM-%28Final-Report%29.pdf]Linking Nutrition and (Integrated) Community Case Management (iCCM/CCM): A Review of Operational Experiences[/url] It references several pertinent studies in this area, some linked below focusing on an iCCM intervention in Bangladesh: [url=http://www.chwcentral.org/sites/default/files/Puett-Quality%20of%20care-Malnutrition-CHW.pdf]Quality of care for severe acute malnutrition delivered by community health workers in southern Bangladesh[/url] [url=http://fic.tufts.edu/assets/Community-Case-Mgt.pdf]Community Case Management of Severe Acute Malnutrition in Southern Bangladesh[/url] [url=http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/nsinf/fnb/2012/00000033/00000004/art00008?crawler=true&mimetype=application/pdf]Does greater workload lead to reduced quality of preventive and curative care among community health workers in Bangladesh?[/url] [url=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mcn.12072/abstract]‘Sometimes they fail to keep their faith in us’: community health worker perceptions of structural barriers to quality of care and community utilisation of services in Bangladesh[/url] [url=http://heapol.oxfordjournals.org/content/28/4/386.full.pdf]Cost-effectiveness of the community-based management of severe acute malnutrition by community health workers in southern Bangladesh[/url] I hope your student finds these useful.

Hi Kris Building on Chloe's comments: the newly created Nutrition Subgroup of the CCM Task Force would be happy to connect with you/your student to discuss opportunities for field research. Feel free to get in touch s.guerrero@actionagainsthunger.org.uk Hope that is helpful S

‘Sometimes they fail to keep their faith in us’: community health worker perceptions of structural barriers to quality of care and community utilisation of services in Bangladesh Dear Chloe, Thank you for the references- would en highly obliged if you could give a PDF copy of the above article for which against the link now one has to pay a fee. Or am I missing something? Many thanks Charulatha

Dear Dr. Banerjee, I'd be happy to share the article. If you request it via Research Gate ([url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/255951009_Sometimes_they_fail_to_keep_their_faith_in_us_community_health_worker_perceptions_of_structural_barriers_to_quality_of_care_and_community_utilisation_of_services_in_Bangladesh]link here[/url]), I will send you a copy there.