Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Years of mechanism: 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Details for Mechanism ID: 16710
Country/Region: Kenya
Year: 2014
Main Partner: Equity Group Foundation
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: NGO
Funding Agency: USAID
Total Funding: $651,646 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.

USAID/Kenya as part of its sustainability strategy intends to help grow the percentage of Kenyans covered by Health Insurance and also help increase the services covered to include HIV/AIDS. Towards this end, USAID/Kenya through a Global Development Alliance (GDA) intends to partner with Equity Group Foundation to increase the number of Equity Bank’s member covered with health insurance.

Currently Equity has about 7 million members of whom only 30,000 have health insurance. REDACTED USAID/Kenya and Equity therefore have a common interest in expanding health insurance to Equity members. For USAID/Kenya this program will boost their sustainability agenda and Equity will potentially lessen their bad debt portfolio.

Equity Group Foundation proposes to increase uptake of a comprehensive health insurance package to 25% of the Bank’s 7 million members by 2017. This will be achieved through three objective areas:

1) Provider reforms – Equity will take a high volume/low margin approach through developing standardized health care services; and also utilizing franchising to ensure rapid scale up and thus increase access to this affordable high quality out-patient services.

2) Client reforms – to increase health literacy and health insurance literacy amongst clients.

3) Payer reforms – by developing and scaling up affordable comprehensive health insurance products.

Mechanism Allocation by Budget Code for Selected Year
Care: Adult Care and Support (HBHC) $651,646
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.