Home » Government strengthens coordination towards efficient comprehensive school health programmes
With the operationalization of the comprehensive school health (CSH) policy gathering pace in Kenya, the Ministries of Public Health and Sanitation and of Education are instituting measures to ensure a coordinated approach in implementation. A common Costed National Implementation Strategy (CNIS) and a National Monitoring and Evaluation Framework will guide these efforts.
On May 28, 2012, the ministries of Public Health & Sanitation and of Education held a one week workshop in Nakuru to come up with the two documents that will be utilized to scale up comprehensive school health implementation in the country. With participants drawn from several departments of the two ministries, AMREF and GIZ, the workshop concluded the first draft of the costed NIS and monitoring and evaluation framework, marking the first major milestone towards the development of the these important documents.
‘‘Actively participating in the development of these document, has given us the basis and insights we need to defend our proposals to the government and other development partners to support comprehensive school health implementation in the country’’ said Dr. Stewart Kabaka, the government officer in charge of CSH implementation in the country.
The German Development Cooperation through the GIZ Health Sector Programme is currently supporting the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation to improve coordination of comprehensive school health at the national level and implementation in four districts in Western and Nyanza provinces targeting up to 160 schools.
This is done with support from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) funded Pandemic Preparedness Initiative over a period of 18 months. This is the first large scale implementation of the programme in the country presenting a great opportunity to document important lessons and further enhance health interventions specifically tailored for and targeted at young adolescents in the country.
The following link provides further reading on this topic.
http://www.gtzkenyahealth.com/blog3/?p=9594
Leave a Comment