Information
- Submitted by: Kenya
- Topic: Health and population
- Keywords: Job creation; Youth and women; Human resources; Public financial expending.
- Location: Kenya
- Date of completion:
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Action network
- This voluntary initiative came from Every Woman Every Child
Kenya will recruit and deploy an additional 20,000 primary care health workers
Description/achievement of initiative
Kenya will recruit and deploy an additional 20,000 primary care health workers; establish and operationalize 210 primary health facility centres of excellence to provide maternal and child health services to an additional 1.5 million women and 1.5 million children; and will expand community health care, and decentralize resources.