Sustainability of Mobile Community Health Units: Community health services bill

Save the Children, with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, partnered with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Centre for Behaviour Change Communication on the four-year (December 2018-April 2022) Nomadic Health Project (NHP) to increase use of quality FP services among nomadic and semi-nomadic pastoralist populations in Kenya. The Government of Kenya developed a Community Health Services Strategy that establishes Community Health Units (CHUs) which is a health service delivery structure within a defined geographic area covering a population of 2,500 people or approximately 500 households. This brief outlines how Save the Children’s implementation model for the Nomadic Health Project leveraged the Community Health Strategy and demonstrated the feasibility of implementing a mobile CHU, which includes members that are nomadic and semi-nomadic pastoralists, enabling the CHU to move when the nomadic and semi-nomadic populations move.