Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Years of mechanism: 2012 2013 2014 2015

Details for Mechanism ID: 13805
Country/Region: Kenya
Year: 2014
Main Partner: University of Washington
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: University
Funding Agency: HHS/HRSA
Total Funding: $2,100,000 Additional Pipeline Funding: N/A

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.

International AIDS Education and Training Center (ITECH) will strengthen national health information systems (HIS), data quality and use in health by maintaining KenyaEMR (Kenyan version of OpenMRS) and CPAD, (EMR identified by the EMR TWG) to comply with national standards and guidelines developed by the MOH. The EMRs will be enhanced to be interoperable with other EMRs, Laboratory Information Management Systems and the District Health Information Systems (DHIS II) for aggregate health data. This IM will also support the development of the national standards and guidelines for EHRs, cohort analysis, case based surveillance, national unique persons identifier (NUPI) while building the capacities of facility and implementing partner staffs and the MOH departments (HIS and NASCOP) to develop policies around data privacy and confidentiality towards sustainability in HIS.

The NUPI enables accurate identification of patients across varied service provision points thereby allowing linkage of patient records from disparate systems.

ITECH will work with the MoH to support Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) together with Futures Group, USAID funded AfyaInfo, and other partners to implement standards-based systems to eliminate duplication through interoperable systems and to employ cost efficiencies through innovations in technology and capacity building strategies.

The IM will comply with international and national standards by building local partner and MoH capacities to ensure sustainability of efficient system and data use by the end of the project period.

Mechanism Allocation by Budget Code for Selected Year
Strategic Information (HVSI) $2,100,000
Mechanism Target Information

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.

This mechanism has no published performance targets or indicators.