Better health for Kenya's urban informal settlements.
Kenya faces a triple burden of disease: persistent poverty alongside rising communicable and non-communicable diseases. Rapid urbanization has concentrated this burden in congested informal settlements, where residents face high rates of non-communicable disease, malnutrition and anemia.
Implemented by Amref in close collaboration with the Ministry of Health, the Urban Health Project works across the informal settlements of Nairobi and Nakuru Counties to directly improve the health of 650,000 residents by 2027, with particular attention to women and girls, persons with disabilities and older people.
Strengthening urban health with the Ministry of Health.
Reaching women and girls, persons with disabilities and older people across Nairobi and Nakuru's informal settlements.
Three goals, healthier communities.
Stronger primary healthcare
Strengthening the primary healthcare system to prevent and manage the diseases most common in informal settlements.
WASH in health facilities
Sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene in health facilities and the communities around them.
A capable workforce
Deploying and strengthening a competent, fit-for-purpose and well-supported healthcare workforce.
Tracking our impact.
Practical interventions, lasting systems.
Interventions include procuring basic diagnostic equipment and renovating health facilities, expanding human resources for health, and running integrated community outreaches, environmental clean-up campaigns and public awareness and advocacy.
They also include developing water systems and constructing gender-segregated toilets, strengthening infection prevention control and pooled healthcare waste management, and providing hybrid capacity building for frontline health workers and pharmacists.
Aligned to universal health coverage.
The project's SDG-aligned results framework increases the number of people accessing quality, affordable healthcare and clean water and hygiene in their health facilities, immunizes more children, and improves the patient to healthcare-provider ratio.
By delivering primary healthcare, the Urban Health Project directly supports the government's Primary Health Care strategic framework, the roadmap to achieving universal health coverage in Kenya.
