Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Years of mechanism: 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Details for Mechanism ID: 14015
Country/Region: Kenya
Year: 2012
Main Partner: IntraHealth International, Inc.
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: NGO
Funding Agency: USAID
Total Funding: $1,400,000

This project was awarded in February 24th 2012 to run for a period of five years.The project will aim at supporting the in-service training of health workers, increasing the production (pre-service), strengthening the relevant government departments dealing with health worker trainings and lastly working with key professional bodies to strengthen their role in regulating, accreditation and professional development of their members. This project will procure 2 vehicles in FY12. This activity will support GHI/LLC and will be funded primarily with pipeline funds in this budget cycle.

Funding for Care: Adult Care and Support (HBHC): $0

The project will provide training of health workers at both pre-service and in-service levels to be more effective and efficient in providing home based care to target clients. Gaps in competencies will be identified in collaboration with the USAID implementing partners (regional and national level mechanisms), relevant government departments and other stakeholders. Curriculum, course contents and effective modalities of course content delivery will be supported.

Funding for Care: TB/HIV (HVTB): $0

These funds will be used to support training activities related to TB services among the health service providers. Curriculum review at the national level and its implementation will be supported; in-service courses and professional development activities at the six levels of service delivery will be supported. Areas of high disease burden will be targeted for high impact. Support to government departments that deal with health education for health workers will be provided to strengthen the health workforce updates and further trainings in TB related courses. E-learning modalities and forums for knowledge exchange will be supported to enhance prevention, diagnostic, treatment and rehabilitation activities related to TB.

Funding for Care: Pediatric Care and Support (PDCS): $800,000

The funds will be used to scale up training of health workers in Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI), inpatient management of severe malnutrition and on use of rapid diagnostic tests for HIV and malaria. Kenya health system is integrated and so is the health worker training, the health workers training on IMCI will by extension include HIV and related cases that affect children in this country. The intervention will target both Pre-service and in-service courses using modes such as classroom, distance learning, e-learning and M-learning. The existing curriculum will be reviewed to be more responsive to current skills gaps. Upon qualification the health workers will attend to children including those suffering from HIV/AIDs and related cases. The level of knowledge retention will be assessed post training based on set bench marks.

Funding for Health Systems Strengthening (OHSS): $0

These funds will be used in support of the health workforce training and professional development activities. The relevant government departments (human resources development, continuing professional development and health education) and Key professional bodies will be supported to be more effective in their operations. The funds will also be used to support scholarships and loans for school fees for qualified students from hardship regions in order to boost the numbers of qualified health personnel from the regions. In the long run the qualified students will be subjected to government bonding mechanism to serve in the hardship regions for a specified duration. This will ensure we meet the PEPFAR commitment of contributing towards the 140,000 new health workers and also retention in the hardship regions. Support will be provided to the training institutions to expand their admission and faculty capacities in order to ensure long term sustainability.

Funding for Testing: HIV Testing and Counseling (HVCT): $0

The project will lay emphasis in the area of supporting the training institutions to be more responsive and develop courses that will improve VCT services at the various levels of service delivery. National curriculum reviews and development for pre-service and in-service courses on VCT will be supported. The course content delivery will be done using the most appropriate modalities to ensure wide coverage and access by health workers especially in rural and hard to reach setups. Faculty will be supported to be more effective in content development, dissemination and evaluation of the trainings.

Funding for Sexual Prevention: Other Sexual Prevention (HVOP): $0

The project will work with the regional USAID partners and relevant government departments that deal with preventive interventions for HIV and related conditions, to identified training needs and gaps at the various levels of preventive services. Curriculum and course content will be developed and delivered to enable health workers to be more effective in preventive services at the various levels of service delivery. Health workers knowledge, skills and attitude gaps will be addressed through trainings and mentorship to make them more efficient and responsive to preventive services needs. Primary levels of service delivery i.e. community, dispensary and health center levels will be the key areas of focus as they handle much of preventive services.

Funding for Biomedical Prevention: Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (MTCT): $600,000

The funds will be used in support of training interventions for health workers in courses related to MTCT. Pre-service curriculum review will be supported in line with the new developments in this field. The health workers training institutions at midlevel and tertiary levels will be engaged in this process. Faculty will be capacity built to provide trainings in the field of MTCT. The quality of trainings will be assessed through follow up of beneficiaries post training and documented for future use.

Funding for Treatment: Adult Treatment (HTXS): $0

The project will support the training of health workers at various levels of service delivery to be more effective in treating adults suffering from HIV and related conditions. Working with the pre-service training institutions, gaps in the training curriculum will be identified to make it responsive to current needs in health workforce training. Modalities to make the trainings accessible to a majority of health workers especially in the rural and hard to reach areas will be supported such as clinical based mentorship, facility based continuing education, e- based learning and mobile (phone) based learning. Training facilities will be supported to increase the production of health workers to minimize the production-need or vacancy gap for effective service delivery and also in support of PEPFAR commitment of producing 140,000 new health workers. The key professional bodies will be supported to be more effective in regulating the trainings and licencing of health workers.

Funding for Treatment: Pediatric Treatment (PDTX): $0

The project will use these funds to identify health workers knowledge and skills gap in pediatric treatment of HIV and related illnesses. Pre-service curriculum will be revised to reflect the current needs and course content developed, disseminated and evaluated in order to track effectiveness and efficiency of the trainings. Emphasis will be laid on developing a long term system of needs identification, curriculum review, course content development and evaluation for responsive trainings in future. Health workers will be supported through class room, e-Learning and m-Learning modes to enhance their knowledge and skills in pediatrics treatment.

Cross Cutting Budget Categories and Known Amounts Total: $1,400,000
Human Resources for Health $1,400,000
Key Issues Identified in Mechanism
Addressing male norms and behaviors
enumerations.Impact/End-of-Program Evaluation
Increasing gender equity in HIV/AIDS activities and services
Increasing women's access to income and productive resources
enumerations.Malaria (PMI)
Safe Motherhood
Tuberculosis
Workplace Programs
Family Planning