AFRICA
Kenya

The Population Council has been working in Kenya since 1965, when it was invited to send a team of experts to assist the Government of Kenya in formulating its first national population policy. Because the scale of activities in the country grew over the next two decades, the Council established an office in Nairobi in 1988. This served as the regional office for East and Southern Africa until the creation in 2002 of a regional office for Sub-Saharan Africa in Accra, Ghana.

Population Council activities in Kenya include efforts to improve the quality of reproductive health care, develop socially appropriate and cost-effective responses to the HIV pandemic, and understand and enhance the broad socioeconomic context in which adolescents make their transitions to adulthood.

Council activities in Kenya are implemented through collaborative partnerships with the Kenyan government as well as national and international nongovernmental organizations. These partnerships include extensive technical assistance to build research capacity within partner organizations and to enhance the likelihood that study results will be utilized. Dissemination of findings takes place through many channels, and Council staff members and partners provide support to service delivery programs to scale up the most effective and sustainable programs.

Projects

• Assessing and Improving the Measurement of Sexual Behaviors

• Changing the Face of Maternal and Newborn Health in Kenya

• FRONTIERS projects

  • Acceptability and Sustainability of the World Health Organization (WHO) Antenatal Care (ANC) Package in Kenya
  • Cost Analysis of Reproductive Health Services: The Case of a Maternity Ward and Maternal and Child Health/Family Planning Clinic
  • Dissemination of Research on FGM/C

  • Feasibility, Effectiveness, and Cost of Models of Integrating Counseling and Testing for HIV Within Family Planning Services in Kenya

  • The Female Genital Cutting Alternative Rite Intervention: A Case Study of the PATH/MYWO Project in Kenya

  • Financial Sustainability Initiative for Reproductive Health Organizations in Africa

  • Global Agenda: Improving the Reproductive Health of Youth in Kenya

  • Institutionalizing a Successful Adolescent Reproductive Health and HIV Intervention Program: Expanding the Kenya Adolescent Reproductive Health Program Experience in Kenya

  • Integrating Tuberculosis Case Finding into Focused Antenatal Care

  • Managing and Preventing Female Genital Cutting (FGC) Among the Somali Community in Kenya

  • The Potential for Sustainability of Malaria in Pregnancy Initiatives (MIP): Lessons Learned from Two USAID-funded Malaria in Pregnancy Initiatives in East and Southern Africa 

  • Strengthening Postnatal Care Services Including Early Postpartum Family Planning in Kenya

  • Taking Critical Services to the Home: Scaling Up Home-based Maternal and Postnatal Care, Including Family Planning, Through Community Midwives

  • Technical Assistance to CARE International for Testing Interventions to Eliminate Female Genital Cutting (FGC)

  • Technical Cooperation with the Ministry of Health (MOH)/German Agency for Technical Co-operation (GTZ) Anti-Female Genital Cutting (FGC) Project in Kenya

  • Understanding the Meaning of Female Genital Cutting and Medicalization of the Practice in the Abagusii Community

  • Understanding the Practice of Female Genital Cutting (FGC) Among the Somali and Management of Its Complications

  • Additional FRONTIERS projects in Kenya

• Gender, Family, and Development projects

  • Friends of Youth

  • Highlighting Marital Risk and Promoting Premarital Voluntary Counseling and Testing in Nyanza

  • Sexual and Gender-based Violence in East and Southern Africa

  • Tap and Reposition Youth (TRY) Livelihoods Project for Girls and Young Women

• Horizons projects

  • Barriers to Uptake of Pediatric HIV Treatment and Care in Kenya: A Diagnostic Study

  • Beacon of Light: The Girl Guides Program—Mitigating the HIV Impact in Kenya by Involving Young Girl Guides and Their Parents

  • Community-based Approaches to Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV

  • Comprehensive Behavior Change Communication to Promote the "ABCs": Abstinence, Being Faithful, and Using Condoms

  • Evaluating the Effect of Stigma-reduction Interventions on PMTCT Providers and Clients

  • HIV Prevention with Positive People in Mombasa, Kenya: How Do We Support Them in the Community?

  • Operations Research Around the Introduction of  Antiretrovirals in the Management of HIV-infected Individuals in Mombasa, Kenya

  • Preparedness of Health Workers to Implement Diagnostic HIV Testing and Counseling and Provide Comprehensive AIDS Management

  • Putting Food on the Table: An Exploration of Livelihood Strategies and Their Role in Maintaining Nutritional Status Among Patients on Antiretroviral Therapy

  • Reducing HIV/STI Risk and Improving Treatment for Male Sex Workers in Mombasa, Kenya

  • School as a Workplace: Addressing the HIV Prevention and Care Needs of Teachers in Kenya

  • Understanding the HIV Prevention Needs of Men Who Have Sex with Men in Nairobi

  • Understanding the Relationship Between Alcohol Consumption and VCT Utilization

  • Additional Horizons projects in Kenya

Publications/Resources on Kenya

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See Also

• "Most comprehensive study of Kenyan fertility to date published by African Population Policy Research Center," 1998 press release (full text)

• Safe Motherhood

• Transitions to Adulthood

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This page updated 14 March 2008

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