THIS IS AN ONGOING ACTIVITY. THE NARRATIVE IS UNCHANGED EXCEPT FOR UPDATED

REFERENCES TO TARGETS AND BUDGETS.

The updates to the project since approval in the 2007 COP include:

• Geographical coverage expanding to include North Eastern province, offices in Eastern and Western

provinces with completed establishment of the nursing workforce informatics system of nurses in all

provinces by the end of FY 08

• Support the MOH and regulatory bodies in assuming fiscal and technical responsibility of maintaining the

informatics systems.

• Expanded to include other healthcare cadres--physicians, laboratory technicians and clinical officers.

1. LIST OF RELATED ACTIVITIES

This activity relates directly to activities of the Capacity Project and Ministry of Health/NASCOP but supports

PEPFAR partners providing Prevention of Mother To Child Transmission, Counseling and Testing,

HIV/AIDS treatment/ARV services, Palliative Care TB/HIV, Strategic Information and Laboratory Services.

2. ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION

The overarching objective of this activity is to assist the Kenya Ministry of Health in developing technical

capacity for human resource strategic planning and management in response to the increased need for HIV

care and treatment. The activity focuses on building a data-driven HRH knowledge base that can provide

reliable workforce analysis to facilitate human resource capacity building in response to the need. The

expectation is that this system will provide a "best practice" model which can be shared and replicated in

countries also struggling to implement HIV/AIDS interventions, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. This

project, which began as a cooperative agreement between CDC's Office of Global Health and Emory

University, has now entered the second phase of activities supported by PEPFAR funding. During phase 1

(FY 2002-2005), the project created a national electronic database of Kenya's professional nurses. By the

conclusion of the project's original 3-year funding period, the database comprised of electronic records of

over 44,000 nurses that can link relevant data between the Nursing Council of Kenya, and the Chief Nursing

Officer, Ministry of Health. There will be development of regular reporting systems for Nursing Council of

Kenya (NCK) and MOH administrators, including indicators, timing, and dissemination of reports. The

expansion will begin computerization of data from laboratory technicians, working with the Kenya Medical

Laboratory Technicians and Technologists Board (KMLTTB) which has the responsibility of registering

laboratory technicians and technologists. In addition, there will be computerization of data from physicians

through the Medical and Dental Practitioners Board. The project will track training of health care workers on

HIV/AIDS programs to better target training activities and assess coverage and utilization of training.

3. CONTRIBUTION TO OVERALL PROGRAM AREA

The first and second component of this activity will strengthen human resource information systems. The

project has provided hardware and software materials. Capacity building will be continuous to cover most of

the health workers directly involved will data management and policy makers.

4. LINKS TO OTHER ACTIVITIES

This activity is complementary to the Capacity Project's efforts to hire temporary staff for critical areas to

expand HIV care and treatment programs. It will enhance the capacity of MoH/NASCOP to coordinate

training and distribution of health care providers who provide PMTCT (NASCOP), counseling and testing

(NASCOP), HIV/AIDS treatment/ARV (NASCOP) and Palliative care TB/HIV (NASCOP) services. This will

be achieved through the provision of data on health workers who have received in-service and training in

prevention, care and treatment.

5. POPULATIONS BEING TARGETED

This activity primarily targets public health care providers in all cadres.

6. EMPHASIS AREAS

Focuses on strengthening systems for human resource information system.