Kenya
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Denise StuckenbruckDenise is Team Leader for the Adolescent Sexual & Reproductive Health Programme, based in Kenya. She has 20 years of international development experience, working in the design and delivery of complex and multi-country programmes to implement children’s rights. Before joining Options, Denise was a Principal Consultant at OPM, where she worked to strengthen the public sector’s abilities to deliver quality services to vulnerable children and women. Prior to that, she held various regional and global roles with organisations such as Save the Children and UNICEF across Latin America and East and Southern Africa. Her professional skills include strategic leadership and planning, negotiation, stakeholder engagement, technical assistance, quality assurance, research design and delivery, safeguarding and capacity building.
News
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Wednesday, 30 Jan 2019As part of our MANI programme in Kenya, a new fund supported by DFID will challenge global or local actors in the maternal and newborn health space to bring forward their new or scalable innovations that will help reduce high maternal and neonatal mortality rates. -
Wednesday, 30 Jan 2019MANI is working throughout Bungoma county in western Kenya to educate communities and increase use of health services. -
Wednesday, 30 Jan 2019On the International Day for Maternal Health and Rights, Options’ Team Leader Nicole Sijenyi Fulton reflects on the realities of disrespect and abuse in childbirth in Kenya, and what should be done. -
Wednesday, 30 Jan 2019This month, The Girl Generation launched a new End FGM Grants Programme in Kenya. -
Wednesday, 30 Jan 2019This week, our Maternal and Newborn Improvement (MANI) project hosted an event in Kabuchai, Bungoma County, to launch a new mobile phone application. -
Wednesday, 30 Jan 2019Across Bungoma County, pregnant women have typically enlisted the help of traditional birth attendants (TBAs) to deliver their babies at home instead of going to a health facility. The MANI project aims to change this by reorienting TBAs to become ‘birth companions’. -
Wednesday, 30 Jan 2019Our Maternal and Newborn Improvement (MANI) project in Bungoma, Kenya hosts a visit from DFID Kenya. -
Wednesday, 30 Jan 2019Our Maternal and Newborn Improvement project hosted an event where it donated essential medical supplies and equipment to the Bungoma County Department of Health. -
Wednesday, 30 Jan 2019'Be bold for change' means to continually stand up for change to end FGM. -
Wednesday, 30 Jan 2019"Boldness for me is about perseverance and having the tenacity and determination to persist with something that’s right, something that’s just." -
Wednesday, 30 Jan 2019This World Health Day, Kimani Karuga, Technical Manager for the County Innovation Challenge Fund, talks about the need to address postpartum depression in teen mothers in Kenya. -
Wednesday, 30 Jan 2019On the International Day for Maternal Health and Rights, Options’ Team Leader Nicole Sijenyi Fulton reflects on the observations she made on this day last year about disrespect and abuse in childbirth in Kenya, and what Options is doing. -
Wednesday, 30 Jan 2019MANI in Kenya uses a transport voucher scheme which enables poor pregnant women to access health services for the safe delivery of their babies. -
Wednesday, 30 Jan 2019“He is really liked by the community. They are comfortable with him and feel he’s a very good midwife. Women have so much faith in him. They request Ben, instead of the doctor.” -
Wednesday, 30 Jan 2019The Maternal and Newborn Improvement project in Bungoma, Kenya, supported the county to celebrate midwives and nurses for International Day of the Midwife. -
Wednesday, 30 Jan 2019On World Blood Donor Day, Options’ staff in Kenya talk about the challenges and solutions to maternal mortalities caused by postpartum haemorrhage. By Nicole Sijenyi Fulton & Peter Kaimenyi -
Wednesday, 30 Jan 2019With funding from the CICF, PATH and the African Population and Health Research Centre are exploring the feasibility and acceptability of establishing a human milk bank in Kenya. -
Wednesday, 30 Jan 2019The World Health Organisation says breastfeeding is the best way of providing babies with the nutrients they need for healthy growth and development. But what needs to be done to make this possible for mothers? -
Wednesday, 30 Jan 2019“Prior to community scorecards, the health facilities had no means of communicating with the public except through funerals.” -
Wednesday, 30 Jan 2019The County Innovation Challenge Fund (CICF) held an award ceremony in Nairobi for five new organisations that are joining the fund’s portfolio, marking its entry into a third round of innovations. -
Wednesday, 30 Jan 2019“Now that we have solar power, powering the maternity unit, […], we shall provide quality service to the community." Power outages have made it impossible for Kenyan health facilities to provide vital services but solar panels offer a solution which improves maternal care without harming the planet. -
Wednesday, 30 Jan 2019How a low-cost, simple intervention saves a mother's life. -
Wednesday, 30 Jan 2019150 activists from 17 countries met in Kenya for the first ever pan-African Youth Summit to End FGM. -
Wednesday, 30 Jan 2019In Bungoma county, the supply of blood is difficult to retain due to lack of volunteers donating blood, a high prevalence of bloodborne infections & limited funding for blood transfusion services. The MANI project has been working to tackle shortages by improving quality & access to these services. -
Wednesday, 30 Jan 2019Performance Based Financing is used in Kenya to incentivize health workers to improve maternal and newborn health services. We look at how this led to a three-fold increase in the number of deliveries being conducted at Sikulu Dispensary in Bungoma County. -
Wednesday, 30 Jan 2019In Bungoma county, Kenya, transport vouchers are being used to enable poor women living in remote rural areas, including those with disabilities, to get to a health facility to deliver their babies. -
Wednesday, 30 Jan 2019MANI helped develop a mentorship programme in Bungoma County to address acute staff shortages in two major health facilities, and to develop the skills of nurses and midwives working throughout the county in lower level facilities, to provide Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care. -
Wednesday, 30 Jan 2019Family Planning is central to achieving gender equality. Access to family planning commodities means having the choice to decide if, and when, to have children. When women and girls can access family planning, they can be empowered to meet their full potential. -
Thursday, 11 Apr 2019The second African Union International Conference on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (ICMNCH) was held last week. Over 700 delegates from 25 African countries gathered in Nairobi, Kenya to take stock of progress and re-strategize how to reduce maternal and child deaths on the continent. -
Thursday, 11 Apr 2019World Prematurity Day highlights issues faced by the 15 million preterm babies born annually. These infants are particularly vulnerable, but simple solutions can reduce mortality rates. We’re supporting innovations such as Kangaroo Mother Care and Human Milk Banks to save newborn lives. -
Thursday, 11 Apr 2019There are 200 million young people living in sub-Saharan Africa, yet older generations are still the decision-makers on issues like adolescent healthcare. E4A-MamaYe has been working to change this, giving young people a voice to ensure governments invest in their health and in their future. -
Thursday, 11 Apr 2019The Maternal and Newborn Improvement (MANI) project started in 2015 to expand access to quality care in Bungoma County, Kenya. As the programme ends, we look at some of MANI’s key innovations, to increase the number of women delivering with a skilled birth attendant and accessing life-saving care. -
Thursday, 11 Apr 2019In 2016, one of every two maternal deaths that occurred in Bungoma County, Kenya, were caused by blood loss. E4A-MamaYe has launched a campaign, #DamuniUhai, calling for funding for blood services in the county. -
Tuesday, 23 Jul 2019As we seek to ensure our programmes deliver global impact, partnerships remain an integral part of our work.
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