Community-Led Monitoring Interventions by Pema Kenya in Mombasa County – Kenya.
Key populations and community-led monitoring are increasingly important in HIV-related policy and program guidance. Community organizations in East and Southern Africa have supported constituencies of people living with HIV, adolescent girls and young women, sexual and gender minorities, and sex workers to participate in monitoring healthcare services and facilities. Pema Kenya has been implementing Community Led Monitoring (CLM) through the Integrated Monitoring, Accountability for Quality Improvement (IMAQI) system in Mombasa since October last year, with the support of our South African partners, Positive Vibes Trust. This model has also been implemented in ten other countries, including Botswana, Eswatini, Ghana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The IMAQI model follows a structured process beginning with a 5 days Setting The Level (STL) process to interrogate communities and healthcare facilities perspectives and perceptions around good services in a facility, and then a few months experience collection from monitored facility or facilities through the Ma’box online secure platform created by communities. Pema Kenya has also recently conducted its Data Analysis process and both of the comprehensive reports are available on our website.