The HRH Kenya Mechanism runs from 2016 to 2021 with $32 million in funding to strengthen Kenya's health workforce. It aims to increase the number of skilled graduates, improve leadership and management of health workers, and optimize workforce data use. It supports needy medical students through the AEF, which has provided over 12,000 loans since inception. Infrastructure development is also supported at training institutions. Partnerships with the private sector are encouraged to further finance training and employment opportunities.

1. PRIVATE SECTOR
PARTNERSHIP TO
INCREASE NUMBER
OF SKILLED
WORKFORCE FOR
KENYA THROUGH HRH
FINANCING

2. About HRH Kenya Mechanism
Overview
 Period: Sept. 27, 2016 – Sept. 26, 2021
 Mandate:
– Strengthen health workforce management to
achieve improved health outcomes
– builds on the successes and lessons learnt
from HRH Capacity Bridge & FUNZOKenya
Projects
 Partners: IntraHealth International, Strathmore
Business School, Amref Health Africa
 Value: $ 32m (from $ 37m)

3. HRH Kenya Results Framework
SP 1: Improve quality of training and increase the number of
graduating health workforce
Benefit: Health worker training colleges have increased numbers
of well-trained graduates who are responsive to Kenya’s disease
burden.
SP 2: Improve leadership, management and governance of health
workforce at the county level.
Benefit: National and county leadership have efficient HRH
management systems to address workforce challenges including
reduction of staff shortages.
SP 3: Optimize data use for effective HRH decision making at national
and county level.
Benefit: National and county can make HRH decisions based on
market-driven data and disease epidemiology to achieve improved
health outcomes.

4. County HRH Clusters
and Lead & Satellite Training Institutions

5. Support to needy medical students

7. HOW DOES AEF WORK?
– AEF aims at providing
affordable loans to
trainees in mid-level
medical training
institutions to increase
access to fees to
students with challenges
in raising tuition fees
– AEF loans are provided
at low interest rates (4%)
to cover tuition fees.
– Need-based loan
– Exceptional need, as
defined by the loans
oversight board
– 1-year grace period
– 10-year repayment

8. AEF cadres
Diploma and Certificate Levels
1. Nursing
2. Clinical Medicine
3. Laboratory technologist &
technician
4. Pharmacists and
pharmaceutical
technologists
5. Nutritionists
6. Health records
management and
Information Technology
7. Public Health Officers
8. Dental –including Oral
Health Practitioners
9. Depending with changing
priorities & funder

11. ACHIEVEMENTS:
• 12,607 needy AEF beneficiaries
supported
• KES 871 million [58% of target]
mobilized to date
• 4,105 AEF graduates to date.
• 776 AEF graduates [19%]
employed.
• 686 AEF loanees [88%]of
employed] are repaying their loans
• KES 37 Million repaid as loans
recovery

12. AEF growth

13. Infrastructure support to
medical training institutions

14. HRH Kenya technical interventions
• Establishment of resource mobilization(RM) committees -
prioritize teaching infrastructure expansions
• Training on RM including Public Private Partnership (PPP)
• Support development of ;
• costed strategic plans
• funding instruments-business plans, PPP concept notes & proposals
• Link with financiers;
• commercial banks
• strategic investors

15. Strategic Plans
• Supported - Kenya Methodist
University(KeMU) & Outspan
Medical Training College
(MTC) to develop 2018-2027
costed strategic plans
• Priority Infrastructure
include:-
• School of medicine &
health science complex
• Teaching hospital
• Anatomical laboratory
• Tuition blocks
• Student hostels &
recreation facilities
Launch of Outspan MTC
Strategic plan

16. FUNDING INSTRUMENTS
• Tenwek College of Health
Sciences - proposal to
expand Classrooms
expansion & library - KES
35 Million
• Pwani University - PPP
concept to establish
Teaching & Referral
Hospital(PUTRH)- KES 24
Billion
• Convened financiers forum
with commercial banks and
potential investors

17. Call to Action: Opportunities for partnership
• Potential contributor to AEF or investor linked
to;
• post basic training for MES project
• Aligned to CSR or shared Value
• Employment of AEF graduates in Public, private
and FBO health facilities
• Establishment of funding guarantee and
financiers/strategic investors with 26 Medical
training colleges

18. Contact:
Dr. Wasunna Owino
wowino@intrahealth.org