NOTE: The following is taken from summaries released by PEPFAR on the PEPFAR Data Dashboard. They are incomplete summary paragraphs only and do not contain the full mechanism details. When the full narratives are released, we will update the mechanism pages accordingly.

The Kenya Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation (KMOPHS) assures national service delivery through the dissemination of funding, technical support, and M&E. KMOPHS has contributed to reduced morbidity, mortality and the improvement in a number of health indicators. Still many Kenyans are exposed to a broad, heavy disease burden including high child mortality from malaria, HIV and TB.

KMOPHS faces challenges in addressing these health burdens including inadequate financial and human resources, poor physical infrastructure, inefficient support systems, and poorly coordinated responses to public health problems. KMOPHS plans to address these challenges by coordinating and integrating a high impact national response to reduce disease burden particularly among women and children. To build sustainability and transition the program to country ownership, the program seeks to: a) strengthen the KMOPHS capacity to plan, implement, manage, and monitor programs that address critical public health needs; b) support the implementation of national public health programs; c) conduct public health surveillance and epidemiological assessments; d) incorporate surveillance, epidemiological, and evaluation data into operational public health programs, policies and guidelines; and e) disseminate the results of surveillance and program planning, execution and evaluation results. All activities will have M&E plans to ensure project oversight and effectiveness. KMOPHS will work across Ministries to coordinate disease-specific and broader national public health programs to increase cost effectiveness. This partner has not used PEPFAR funds for vehicle purchase in the past and is not requesting funds for vehicle purchase now.

Since COP2014, PEPFAR no longer produces narratives for every mechanism it funds. However, PEPFAR has now included performance targets or indicator information for each mechanism based on the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting (MER) system. The MER guidance is available on PEPFAR's website https://www.pepfar.gov/reports/guidance/. Note that COP years 2014-2015 were under a previous version of the MER system and the indicators and definitions may have changed as of the new 2.0 guidance.