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Kenya
MedPoint Medical Clinic Mwiki, Kenya.
Jessica Scranton

An Alliance to Strengthen Nursing and Midwifery

SOWMY Kenya Country Profile

Midwifery educators in Kenya lack continuous professional development (CPD) opportunities, and the curriculum for training midwives is out of date. The Center has convened a mutual impact platform—the Nursing and Midwifery Alliance—with the LSTM’s Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health and key stakeholders such as the Nursing Council of Kenya, Kenya Medical Training College and the Kenya Ministry of Health to strengthen nursing/midwifery by helping to build capacity of 25 accredited institutions to deliver high quality and standardized curricula.

In addition to revising nursing/midwifery syllabi that are due for updating to meet current standards, the Alliance will also support the development and evaluation of a continuous nursing/midwifery professional development for nursing/midwifery instructors and educators. The project aims to improve the capacity of midwifery educators in Kenya to provide evidence and competency based midwifery education that meet global standards.

The project has succeeded in developing the first ever nursing and midwifery policy and the updating of the scheme of service and scope of practice to lay the ideal policy framework for the strengthening of the cadre. The framework includes advancing quality midwifery education. ensuring appropriate continuous professional development, and strengthening of nursing and midwifery associations.

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