What We Do

/What We Do

As a linking organization for IHAA, KANCO supports joint action on HIV ,AIDs and TB at the community level and commits to developing mechanisms to help CSOs work together to achieve the shared goals. In addition to information sharing, policy development, and advocacy, a major emphasis of KANCO’s work has been in the area of training.

Every year from its inception, KANCO has promoted training opportunities to members and has organized numerous workshops to build their technical skills in diverse programmatic areas including, but not limited to, home-based care, counseling, advocacy, resource centre management, and networking.

ACTION TB

KANCO supports TB/HIV integration by working to educate and sensitize both HIV and TB stakeholders to the issues related to TB/HIV co-infection.

ACTION Nutrition

KANCO’s objectives have been to raise the profile of nutrition as a government and development agenda, create awareness among the general population and policy makers on nutrition as a national agenda.

Early Childhood Devt

KANCO Early Childhood Development (ECD) project is a 3 year project started in Jan 2014 to end in December 2016. It focuses on strengthening the capacity of Community Based Organizations (CBOs) to deliver ECD integrated programs.

Community Action on Harm Reduction - CAHR

CAHR is an ambitious project spanning five countries (Kenya, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia).

Global Fund

KANCO runs three programs under the Global Fund. GF Round 9 for TB, GF Round 10 for HIV and GF Round 10 for Malaria.

SHARP Program

Working with the International HIV/AIDS Alliance our Men’s Sexual Health and Rights Programme seeks to improve the sexual health and rights of men who have sex with men (MSM).

APHIA Plus

The project is in line with Kenya National Aids Strategic Plan (KNASP III). This aims to progress combination prevention approach in combating HIV and AIDS.

M-Health

KANCO has an MHealth pilot program in Rongai to track its clients, automating the referral process, internal flow of clients, data capture and data entry and generation of reports.

Vaccines Initiative

More than 1500 CSOs worldwide have come together to form the Gavi CSO Constituency and advocate for increased access to immunisation and health services.

Grassroots Advocacy

Grassroots advocacy can be a very effective tool in a number of different ways. Through mass emails, letter writing campaigns, grassroots advocates can bring issues to the attention of legislators.

IBP Budget Tracking

We engage with civil society, media and government at both national and county level. Our work consists of research, technical assistance and training, and advocacy.

TB ARC Project

The USAID funded Tuberculosis Accelerated Response and Care seeks to expand access to quality-assured TB services in all Counties and for all forms of TB.

TB Photovoice

2015 is the year to bring a TB Photovoice project to Kenya. TB Photovoice are partnering with KANCO, the foremost AIDS Consortium in Kenya. Your contribution can make this a reality!

Research & Innovation

The Access to Care Research is a longitudinal research that aims to describe the lived experiences and social contexts of access to care in relation to harm reduction, HIV prevention and HIV treatment. .

Eastern African Harm Reduction Project

CAHR’s programme goal is that by the end of the project, People who inject drugs (PWIDs), their partners and children are healthier, less marginalized and more engaged in social and community life.