November 2007
Calender of upcoming events November 2007-January 2008 Mapping of the health care providers at district level February 2008 HENNET AGM 18th - A follow up workshop on Community Health Strategy (Month and Date TBD) MOH Health Summit (Month and Date TBD) Monthly/Quarterly Events HENNET Board/Steering committee meetings Workshop on Health and Human Rights (Month and Date TBD) Launching of HENNET (Month and Date TBD)     Contacts HENNET Secretariat, AMREF Kenya Country Office (Host). Wilson Airport, off Langata Road. P.O. Box 30125-00100, Nairobi. Phone: +254 20 699 4901/4900/4000 Fax: +254 20 606340 Email: hennet@amrefke.org Website: www.hennet.or.ke	Mapping of Health Care Providers in Kenya Since its inception, HENNET has wanted to carry out a nationwide mapping of CSOs whose core mandate is health in Kenya. This was approved by the MOH, and GTZ committed financial and technical resources to the project. Full Story   Progress on Key Initiatives  Joint Design Mission: Public Private Partnership (PPP) components In December 2006, HENNET successfully lobbied for participation in the JDM through the PPP component. The JDM was a concerted effort between the MOH, DHPs and CSOs to assess the health sector needs and priorities that will lead to the design of coordinated health programmes the implementation of NHSSP II. Full Story Key MOH Operational Documents Summarized Following a request by HENNET members during a quarterly meeting held in February 2007, HENNET has summarized key MOH operational documents in order to enable HENNET members to become better acquainted with them so that they can participate more meaningfully in the health SWAp. Full Story NGOs/FBOs contribution to the MOH Annual Operation Plan 3 HENNET has carried out an analysis of the 67 District Health Plans (DHPs) for the Annual Operational Plan 3 (AOP 3) in order to establish CSOs’ inclusion in the district level plans. The AOP 3 runs from June 2007 to June 2008. Full Story HENNET Signs the Kenya Health SWAp Code of Conduct HENNET Chair, Mette Kjaer, signed the Code of conduct (CoC) in August 2007, alongside the MoH, Ministry of Treasury and DHPs. The CoC defines the working relations among the stakeholders (Government/MOH, Civil Society and DHPs) in the health sector. Full Story International Health Partnership In September 2007, a new International Health Partnership (IHP) was launched in London. The new partnership is seen as a renewed commitment to the Paris Declaration on Aid Harmonization. Full Story   Be Informed!! Sector Wide Approaches (SWAPs). What is the SWAp? The SWAP is a way of working together between government, development partners and implementing partners with an aim to broaden government ownership over public sector policy and resource allocation decisions within the sector, to increase the coherence between policy, spending and results and to reduce transaction costs. Full Story Defining Support to a Sector In the context of a SWAp, a sector programme is an “updated sector policy and action plan” which includes three components: Full Story Why a Kenya Health SWAp? The health sector in Kenya is faced with many challenges which include fragmentation in health interventions, an aid architecture characterized by an abundance of Donors, Foundations and national stakeholders with different flows of public and private funds to recipients implementing uncoordinated health interventions in the communities. Full Story   HENNET Meetings Quarterly Members Meeting February 2007 and CEOs Breakfast Meeting March 2007 The quarterly members’ meeting focused on HENNET’s strategy and also served as a forum to share recent best practices. Through group work and discussions, HENNET members devised the strategy’s key thematic areas and activities which were consolidated to make the HENNET strategy for 2007-2010. Full Story Second HENNET Annual General Meeting (AGM) April 2007. A full HENENT board was elected during the AGM consisting of; AMREF, CHAK, Marie Stopes International, Liverpool VCT, Mildmay International, Aga Khan Health Services, Family Health Options Kenya, Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), Kenya AIDS NGOS Consortium (KANCO) and Kenya Alliance of NGOs Against Malaria (KeNAAM). Prior to this AGM, HENNET was governed by a steering committee. Full Story HENNET Holds a Successful Workshop on Community Based Health Care (CBHC) July 2007. The workshop aimed at sharing of experiences in CBHC and dialogue on the role of CSOs in rolling out the national Community Strategy. 72 participants from various CSOs, and other stakeholders in health attended the workshop. Full Story
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