Health
Our health work focuses on scaling up of evidence tested high-impact interventions across the continuum of care for Reproductive Maternal and Newborn Health, Child Health, and Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health.
SC is uniquely placed to deliver high-quality impactful health programming, using its strong advocacy platform and networks, as well as extensive health service delivery expertise to ensure children have a healthy start in life. We have strong relationships with national government ministries, regional and county-level governments, communities, local civil society groups, international and national non-governmental organizations. We implement a robust health program portfolio with the Ministry of Health as our main partner. We seek to improve the institutional and staff capacity of health facilities and outreach services; increase and sustain the demand for quality maternal, newborn, child health and nutrition services; and advocate for more local ownership of and financing for health services.
Save the Children has established effective partnerships with National and County Department of Health and other key stakeholders by being a strategic member in key committees and technical working groups such as Child Health Technical Working Group (TWG), Sexual Reproductive Health TWG, and Health Promotion Stakeholder Coordination Meetings, to build synergies for a concerted effort. We also work in partnership with professional bodies such as Kenya Paediatric Association (KPA) who have substantial technical expertise in child health making it one of our core strengths around clinical research and development.
OUR APPROACH
- Working with communities to create a sustainable demand for and improve access to quality services and to hold their duty bearers to account.
- Working with the Ministry of Health through a system-strengthening approach to build human and institutional capacity to provide quality health services.
- Advocating for an enabling policy and resource environment
