I am a lobby and advocacy specialist with over 8 years professional experience in implementing SRHR programs in Africa, child protection and safe guarding, project planning and management, stakeholder’s engagement at the community and national level, gender mainstreaming, lobby and advocacy, governance and accountability, monitoring and evaluation, budgets, mainstreaming Learning in Programmes, CEFM, FGM/C, CSEC, CT, donor relations among others.
I hold a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology and peace and armed conflict studies from the University of Nairobi. I hope to see that laws and policies in development accord women and girls their rightful place in the mainstream agenda and that their rights are secured and respected as they pursue their potential as equal citizens.
Dr. Kisimbii Johnbosco
Influence of community health strategy on the performance of malaria management projects in Mombasa county, Kenya
The main objective of CHS is to ensure the accessibility of healthcare to all in order to enhance productivity and thus lower hunger, poverty, maternal deaths, and child mortality. From the analysed data, it was evident that the four variables, influence of epidemic training, motivation of CHW’s, the influence of drugs and test kits and influence of skills had influence on project performance in Mombasa County with a Pearson Correlation coefficient of 0.756,0.491,0.272 and 0.808 respectively. The researcher gave recommendations that; a call for a multi-sectoral approach that ensures Availability of drugs and testing kits to support malaria programs in the malaria-endemic zones; Its essential for the government and its associates to establish maintainable financial spurs as a way of motivating the CHWs. A call for community cooperation and moral support to the CHWs is equally vital: a standardised syllabus for epidemic training the community Health workers across all counties on Malaria Management. Key stakeholders to be involved in the syllabus preparation; Frequent workshops as well as seminars to be organised by the so as to ensure the CHWs skills on Management of Malaria are updated.
