This 15-month project aims to strengthen the capacity of the Government of Kenya to promote the health of migrants through supporting stakeholder meetings for action planning and information sharing, completing situational assessments, and supporting urgent structural repairs to the Coordinating Centre on Migration Health, located within the Department of Health Promotion of the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation. The project will facilitate a study visit to a successful IOM – government collaborative programme on migrant health in Thailand and aims to raise awareness in Kenya and the rest of East Africa of the issues, challenges, and successful models that address government-led migrant health programming, through supporting a global symposium in Nairobi and the dissemination of strategic information.
By demonstrating lessons learned in supporting IOM’s global programme on health promotion and assistance for migrants, as outlined in the IOM Africa MHD Strategy, this project may also facilitate future resource mobilization.