About KeNVIP
The overarching goal of the program is to increase and sustain high coverage and equitable utilisation of vaccines, reduce the number of zero dose children and ensure uninterrupted availability of high quality, safe and effective vaccines, sustainably, in the context of universal health coverage, making Kenya free of vaccine preventable diseases. The program is cognizant of the challenge of closing the last gaps on equity and the need to adequately plan and centre it in the implementation of its activities. It is in this regard that it has undertaken various measures across thematic areas including planning and coordination, service delivery, demand generation and data application, to reaching and managing zero dose and under immunized children. In tandem, raising coverage of the program.
Recognising the areas of most gap being amongst the marginalised populations, such as, urban informal dwellers, refugees, migrants, nomads, cross border populations and remote rural, it seeks to utilise comprehensive microplanning deploying KeNVIP data and dashboards to reach these population. An approach which will be supplemented with targeted outreaches for the hard-to-reach areas.
To achieve last-mile vaccine delivery, NVIP maintains a consistent supply of high-quality vaccines and immunization supplies through various facets. For supply planning and overall decision making, real-time supply chain and stock transaction at all levels is critical. KeNVIP will help address the current situation where the system has not been able to provide real-time facility data to enable county personnel to view, advise, and make decisions for the counties. The program recognises the need to be guided by evidence and driven by data in key program aspects including, closing equity gaps, improving service delivery and anchoring capacity building. As such, it has implemented the KENVIP project as a means of improving data quality, reporting and utilization for decision making in immunization components at all levels.
NVIP seeks to strengthen information systems relevant for the identification and reach of zero-dose and under immunised children through application of GIS in mapping these missed communities and deployment of the Defaulter Tracking Application that has functionality similar to that of an Electronic Immunization Register. KeNVIP services will ease and streamline the program’s systems to improved data quality, data accessibility and utilisation.