ACHAP Afya
ACHAP Afya is a three-year, USAID-funded regional program implemented in Kenya’s Kilifi County and Uganda’s West Nile region. It is led by the Africa Christian Health Associations Platform (ACHAP), with the Christian Health Association of Kenya as the local implementing partner in Kilifi County. The program aims to reduce maternal and child morbidity and mortality in Kenya and Uganda by implementing high-quality, high-impact community health interventions for reproductive health/family planning; maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health; nutrition; and water, sanitation and hygiene.
The project leverages the large faith-based platform provided by ACHAP’s local partner organizations, which can be used to reach most targeted local communities with health care services. As part of the Journey to Self-Reliance, the program has directly involved the Kilifi county and sub-county health management teams and local leadership in its planning and start-up activities. ACHAP Afya will continue to build the capacity of local community health teams, community leaders (including faith leaders), and the health management teams to ensure sustainability.
Healthy Heart Africa
ACHAP Afya is a three-year, USAID-funded regional program implemented in Kenya’s Kilifi County and Uganda’s West Nile region. It is led by the Africa Christian Health Associations Platform (ACHAP), with the Christian Health Association of Kenya as the local implementing partner in Kilifi County. The program aims to reduce maternal and child morbidity and mortality in Kenya and Uganda by implementing high-quality, high-impact community health interventions for reproductive health/family planning; maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health; nutrition; and water, sanitation and hygiene.
The project leverages the large faith-based platform provided by ACHAP’s local partner organizations, which can be used to reach most targeted local communities with health care services. As part of the Journey to Self-Reliance, the program has directly involved the Kilifi county and sub-county health management teams and local leadership in its planning and start-up activities. ACHAP Afya will continue to build the capacity of local community health teams, community leaders (including faith leaders), and the health management teams to ensure sustainability.
USAID Momentum
MOMENTUM Integrated Health Resilience (MIHR) is A USAID funded global project whose overall goal is to reduce maternal and child mortality and increase self-reliance of families, communities, and nation-states in fragile settings.
Country-level project implementation began in 2021 in South Sudan, DRC, Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali. The role of ACHAP in this integrated project is capacity reinforcement of CHAs and local training facilities to strengthen service delivery in Family Planning and RMNCAH.
Partnership with UNAIDS
In 2021, ACHAP created a committee in Kilifi county to oversee the adoption of the UNAIDS Framework for Dialogue, a tool for developing joint action and ongoing discussions between religious leaders, faith-based organizations and networks of people living with HIV at national level. The goal of the committee is to build and strengthen partnerships to further collaboration and dialogue within communities in an effort to address HIV stigma in service delivery.
COVID-19 Rapid Response Projects
In the last quarter of 2020, in partnership with IMA, ACHAP launched Covid-19 Response projects in five countries across Africa in a bid to strengthen the capacity of our member CHAs to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Project implementation was focused on equipping medical facilities with clinical supplies for management of Covid-19, training healthcare workers to manage isolation and treatment areas, sensitization campaigns at community level across the implementation areas, reinforcement of WASH as a preventive measure, providing PPEs across healthcare facilities, printing and distributing IEC materials on COVID-19 preventive measures, and raising awareness through radio spot adverts, social media, and newspaper articles.
Implementation was led by the respective in-country partners; CHAN in Nigeria, CHAM in Malawi, UCMP/ASAD in Burkina Faso, ZACH in Zimbabwe, and AEST in Chad.