Quality Healthcare

The private health sector is a major source of healthcare in many countries. In Kenya, the sector is fragmented and quality is inconsistent particularly in small and medium-sized healthcare facilities (Health SMEs) where I is difficult to attract investment capital, despite the substantial demand in providing more than half of health services. The Health SMEs are often not able to meet banks’ requirements for annual statements, collateral and business plans. KMET in collaboration with Medical Credit Fund, Pharm Access foundation both from Netherlands supports a quality financing project to bridge between demand for and supply of capital in order to advance quality of healthcare services through provision of affordable loans. The loans are anticipated to stimulate efficiency and quality in the healthcare system. Healthcare facilities benefit from technical assistance on quality improvement. Through Safe Care standards and financial management. Within the strategic period (2016-2020), quality healthcare department anticipates to disburse Kshs.1 Billion in form of loans.

social franchise is a network of private healthcare facilities initiated by Kisumu Medical and Education Trust (since 2012). The project is implemented through a private public partnership approach with the Ministry of Health; the network aims to integrate health service delivery and ensure private facilities are one-stop shops.
The network seeks to: enhance access to Maternal and Child Health services; improve the capacity of healthcare providers; and increase demand for services. Additionally, the network promotes sustainability through tailored credit opportunities. This initiative aligned with KMET strategic Plan 2021-2025.

KMET is a licensee partner of SafeCare, implementing an innovative quality of health model through a stepwise quality improvement approach. The SafeCare model is a quality of health approach that classifies and grades the facilities according to their quality from levels 1 to 5. Through quality assessments, the facilities are judged against standards and placed on a Quality Improvement Plan (QIP) and mentored to improve. The goal is to improve access to quality health through the standardization of care in various health facility tiers. The program aims at improving access to quality services in primary healthcare level facilities using SafeCare standards, enhancing access to affordable loans through healthcare financing, improving data management, and strengthening the Public-Private Sector Partnership ( Direct them to Safecare Website)

Nurturing Care for Early Childhood Development (NCfECD), a WHO framework dubbed Smart Start Initiative (SSI) being implemented in 11 of the 14 member counties in Lake Region Economic Bloc (LREB) in collaboration with LREB secretariat and like-minded partner under the Barner ‘LREB driven, County led, and Partner facilitated’. The initiative was modeled in Siaya county and scaled to 11 counties (Nyamira, Migori, Homabay, Vihiga, Bomet, Kakamega, Bungoma, Busia, Kisumu, Transzoia and Kericho) using the phased approach.
The initiative aims to strengthen county governance capacity to provide nurturing care by enhancing county-led processes, systems, and capacity-building initiatives, focusing on planning, coordination, financing, and monitoring of NCfECD activities. Using a ‘Pull system’ to initiate a whole-of-government approach towards investment for NCfECD.
The initiative targets adolescent mothers through an integrated model that combines Nurturing Care for Early Childhood Development (NCfECD), Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH), and economic empowerment interventions through a human-centered approach. Further, it leverages socio-economic empowerment strategies through the Savings for Empowerment model. This approach aims to improve livelihood opportunities for adolescent mothers by helping them build productive assets, thereby creating an enabling environment for their children to reach their full developmental potential. SSI birthed SSI plus which is implemented in Homabay County.

The Uplifting Home-Based Child-Care project envisions a world where all children in their first three years receive the care they need to thrive. To achieve this, the project aims to create a nurturing environment for young children by supporting HBCC providers with high-quality, culturally relevant childcare aligned with proven standards. This includes enhancing provider well-being through training, support, and access to government services. By connecting providers with CBOs and exploring sustainable funding models, the project seeks to ensure the long-term sustainability of quality HBCC services. Ultimately, the project aims to make quality, affordable, and equitable HBCC accessible to all families, empowering them to provide the best care for their children while strengthening collaboration between NGOs, government, and providers to build a robust and equitable HBCC sector in Kisumu County.
Significant strides have been made in advancing the quality, visibility, and sustainability of Home-Based Child Care (HBCC) in Kisumu during the implementation. Through coordinated learning interventions and multisectoral collaboration, the project has deepened provider engagement, strengthened institutional frameworks, and improved child health outcomes across six wards.
Collectively, these integrated approaches anchored HBCC within Kenya’s formal early childhood development framework. With strengthened regulatory recognition, institutional alignment, and provider empowerment, the foundations are now firmly laid for more inclusive, quality-driven, and sustainable childcare systems in Kisumu County

KMET in collaboration with the Population Council-Kenya (PC-Kenya), Midwives Association of Kenya (MAK), and Ministry of Health (MOH), implemented a 5-year Malaria in Pregnancy (MIP) Prevention – Revive IPTp – project in Kisumu and Migori Counties.
The Revive IPTp project aimed to contribute to the Government of Kenya’s National Malaria Control Programme objective of uptake of at least 3 or more doses of IPTp-SP by pregnant women during pregnancy in malaria-endemic areas, by 2025. Implemented over a five-year period, Revive IPTp sought to:
a) Increase programme implementers' and healthcare providers' understanding, capacity and willingness to promote the use of Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamine (SP) in IPTp.
b) Increase community engagement on IPTp and promote self-care by pregnant women; and,
c) Strengthening the capacity of county government bodies to deliver and monitor IPTp-SP interventions as part of the country’s decentralized healthcare system.
The project has focused on two poorly performing high prevalence malaria-endemic counties in the country, Migori and Kisumu, and will draw lessons from this to inform interventions aimed at accelerating the uptake of the recommended 3+ doses of IPTp-SP and scale-up of effective/promising community-based approaches in the remaining 12 malaria endemic counties in Kenya, and elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa

MCF is a partnership between KMET ,the medical credit fund of the Netherlands ,PharmAccess , the ministry of health and local banks with the aim of providing accessible and affordable healthcare financing and technical assistance to private primary healthcare facilities .The overall goal of the program is to provide health financing and technical assistance to primary private healthcare facilities which in turns will stimulate efficiency and quality improvement in the healthcare system.

KMET in partnership with PATH through funding by Conrad N. Foundation is implementing a 2-year project dubbed Changamsha Watoto (Stimulate the Children) aimed at integrating responsive care and stimulation approaches for children 0–3 years in the private health sector in Siaya County. The project is implemented in 5/6 sub counties in Siaya namely; Ugenya, Ugunja, Gem, Alego Usonga and Rarieda and in 11 private health facilities under the Huduma poa Health social franchise. The project is designed to improve the quality of caregiver-child interactions in order to ensure responsive stimulation, and enhanced parenting skills that promote the optimal development of young children. The ECD content is integrated into multiple touch points such as; community health

The goal is to Strengthened delivery of targeted FP/RMNCAH Services at Community level in Baringo and Nakuru Counties.