While welcoming the commitment made by the Minister of Health to permanently employ 27,000 CHWs, Community Health Workers (CHWs), union leaders, health experts, and civil society allies met to assess the challenges facing CHWs and strategise for their recognition as essential health professionals. With donor funding cuts threatening thousands of posts and uncertainty around their role in the National Health Insurance (NHI), the workshop focused on building a unified, worker-centred response to integration of CHWs into public health reforms.