Kenya is another founder member and joined PPD in 1994.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.