WEMIHS Programs - Our Approach

WEMIHS has adopted a programming approach that focuses on empowering communities, community structures and institutions for effective and efficient service delivery. WEMIHS’s programs are guided by its Strategic Plan 2005 – 2010 that comprise of five integrated components that are also well linked to national strategic response and policies:  Our purpose is to empower communities and institutions to respond more effectively to health and development concerns.

Through five key components which are based on community driven demands:

  1. Community Mobilization For Awareness and Action:
    A participatory and structured empowering process is adopted to facilitate community groups identify their own needs and concerns, strengths and resources and to develop community own action plans.

  2. HIV Prevention Interventions
    This includes:

    3. 1. Youth Behavior Change Project  implemented with a consortium of 5 stakeholders

    2. PMTCT (Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission) program – in partnership with Ministry of Health decentralized structures and community.


  3. Comprehensive Care and Support:
    WEMIHS has adopted a model of comprehensive care and support integrated with sustainable systems of services delivery that facilitate greater access to essential services by orphans, vulnerable children and most affected guardians. Care and support interventions:
    4. 1. Comprehensive Psychosocial Care and Support for HIV+ OVC.

    2. Comprehensive Early Childhood Development  Initiatives (CECDI)

    3. Psychosocial care and support for OVC integrated to learning in free primary schools

    4. Strengthening Grandmothers’ Resilience and Nurturing Initiative (GRANI) Psychosocial care and support for PLWHAs
  4. The Supporting Community Responses to HIV/AIDS through Livelihoods (SCRALI).
    SCRALI is designed to fill the gap of responding to AIDS impact by providing most affected households with new sources of income, improved food production linkage to markers and to saving and loans. View the aims OF SCRALI.

  5. Capacity Building.
    WEMIHS capacity building unit and its interventions aim at improving skills and practice of staff, program beneficiaries and stakeholders. WEMIHS has adopted empowering skill transfer approaches and practical technical support and mentoring aimed at producing evidence based results. View WEMIHS capacity building initiatives.
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