In Ethiopia, U5MR stands at 68/1000 live births and it is estimated that 205,000 children under the age of five die each year. iCCM implementation started in February 2011 as part of Ethiopia's Health Extension Program (HEP), and over 38,000 female CHWs - locally referred to as Health Extension Workers (HEWs) - have been trained and deployed to communities throughout the country to provide preventive and curative health services. There are typically two HEWs assigned to a sub-district with a population of approximately 5,000. The HEWs are supervised by health centers that oversee 5 health posts each (with 2 HEWs in each). As of 2014, 29,900 of the HEWs had been trained in iCCM using the WHO guidelines.