Interventions & Achievements
- Conducted a co-creation process and collation of insights that have been widely used to shape program strategic and implementation strategies and approaches.
- Designed Social Behaviour Change Strategies for adoption by the program’s 19 counties.
- Utilized mass media engagement through TV and radio stations to increase FP awareness and dispel myths and misconceptions.
- Mapped, trained and worked with various demand creation agents:
- Greater than 1849 CHVs
- 272 Religious Leaders
- 200 Youth Champions
- 143 Community-based Distributors
- 390 Male Champions
- 14 Peer Educators and
- Greater than 40 Duty bearers.
- Supported over 1,000 community dialogue sessions within DESIP supported counties.
- Engaged men as champions for family planning; mapped and trained over 400 male champions and duty bearers among them social,cultural and faith leaders who have been engaging men and boys in supporting and facilitating WRAs on contraception through men action days and community dialogue days.
- Designed, printed and distributed Family Planning Information, Education and Communication _IEC_ materials.
- Engaged with People with Disability _PWD_ networks at the county level and on-boarded over 120 PWD mobilizers to reach-out to PWDs with information and link to services.
Interventions & Achievements
- Trained over 573 health care workers to provide family planning services and a further 133 healthcare workers to provide postpartum family planning services.
- Supporting the counties in FP commodity management thus reducing stockouts from over 30% in 2020 to below 18% in 2024 through:
- Family Planning Commodities Forecasting and Supply Planning _FASP_
- FP commodity distribution and Commodity Security Technical Working Groups.
- Reducing impact of family planning commodity stockouts through socially marketed FP commodities which saw more than 25,556,693 Condoms, 4,109,437 Pills and 73,131 Injections sold in the first 5 years.
- Trained and supported 143 CBDs to meet the needs of women of reproductive ages in remote areas especially poor women and PWDs. Currently our CBDs have been able to reach out to women exceeding 132,942 with contraceptive services and referred over 98,316 for family planning within the first 5 years.
- Supported over 3000 outreaches and in-reaches linking poor, marginalized women and adolescents, with family planning services. DESIP also leveraged on beyond zero mobile clinics to integrate services in rural areas with limited access to health facilities.
- Procured FP equipment to enhance access to family planning services:
- Examination coaches – 100
- Foldable coaches – 194
- Hospital screens – 36
- Autoclaves – 416
- Vasectomy forceps – 202
- Sponge holding forceps – 349
- Kelly’s forceps – 245
- Sims speculum – 472
- Angle Poise Lamp- LED- 177
- Automatic BP Machines – 100
- Manual BP Machines and Stethoscopes – 100
- Arm models with skins – 250
- Mama U – 12
- Sister U Uterine Simulation – 6
- PPIUD Insertion Kit – 100
- Implant Kits – 277
- Starter IUD Kits – 425
- Pedal Bins – 744
- Overall, DESIP has contributed to over 2,711,214 family planning services in the first four years.
Interventions and Achievements
- Supported formation of Quality Improvement Teams and Work Improvement Teams in the focus counties to monitor quality improvement at health facility level.
- Trained healthcare workers and managers on Kenya Quality Model for Health KQMH.
- Trained County and Sub-county Health Management Teams, health care workers on National Integrated FP Standards for Healthcare Workers.
- Utilized Health Network Quality Improvement System HNQIS‑ to assess and monitor quality of family planning services in private health facilities.
- Conducted routine audits on quality through data review and support supervisions to public and private health facilities and community activities.
- Printed and distributed RMNCAH data collection and reporting tools to counties to guarantee quality of documentation. These include
- Family planning register-MOH 512
- FCDRR MOH 447
- Integrated Programme Summary Report Form: Reproductive and Child Health, Medical and Rehabilitation Services MOH 711‑.
Interventions & Achievements
- Supported Review, Development, Launch and Dissemination of RH related policy documents.
- Supported and Participated in the National & County Technical Working Groups meetings and other relevant stakeholder forums.
- Support annual work planning.
- Support for FP commodity security through review FP Dashboards and physical verification and providing technical inputs into the
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Development of the National FP commodities Quantification and supply planning
- Supported commemoration of the World Health days.