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Kenya
is another founder member and joined
PPD in 1994.
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CAFS,
a leading regional training and research
centre for family studies, has its
HQ in Kenya and a sub-regional office
in Togo. The centre has conducted
training for all the countries in
the region. CAFS is one of the agencies
commissioned by the Rockefeller Foundation
and UNFPA to evaluate PPD in 1999.
In 2001-2002, CAFS, through a small
grant from the PPD Secretariat, conducted
an Africa-wide study on the governance
and leadership profiles of NGOs in
preparation for South-South partnerships.
It is one of the centres identified
by PPD to coordinate South-South NGO
partnerships. In 2002, it hosted the
second SSA NGO conference to set up
the SSANGO RH network.
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CAFS
provided technical assistance to the
PPD Secretariat in enabling the transfer
of the Indonesian FP/RH experience
to Senegal and Mali through a European
Union-funded project in 1999. In 2004,
CAFS, along with MSH, provided technical
support to the PPD Secretariat in
training its STAS experts and in the
preparation of the 2005-2014 Strategic
Plan. CAFS and NCPD Kenya helped Zimbabwe
conduct a costing exercise and the
packaging of Zimbabwe’s regional
training programme in FP/RH in 1998.
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With
Tanzania and Uganda, Kenya participated
in a South-South Central American
Initiative with Belize, Guatemala
and Mexico to work together to improve
knowledge about sexual and reproductive
health services. Collaborative projects
practice the “cluster concept/regional
group” in pooling their resources.
Moreover, the East Africa Technical
Office was established in Kenya in
1999.
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With
funding from UNFPA to PPD, in collaboration
with the National Council of Churches
of Kenya, 2 longstanding refugee camps
in northern Kenya of almost 180,000
residents benefited from an Ipas pilot
project on new approaches to reproductive
health.
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Kenya,
led the initiative to form the East
African Reproductive Health Network
(EARHN) in 1996 with Uganda and Tanzania
to strengthen RH care policies and
programmes in East Africa.
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Kenya
hosted the first Conference on NGO
Partnership for Reproductive Health
in Africa in 1999, along with the
5th PPD Board meeting, sponsored by
CAFS and the PPD Secretariat. During
the Board meeting, Kenya had organised
field visits to clinics, hospitals,
Girl Child Project, and Marie Stopes
International.
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