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Right to Care

last updated Jun 11, 2012

Overview

Implementing organization: 
Family Care International (FCI) Kenya
Legal Status: 
Private (not-for-profit)
Stage: 
Existing/expansion stage
Income Level of Target Population: 
Bottom 20%

Funding

Primary Source of Funding: 
Donor
Funders: 
International Initiative on Maternal Mortality and Human Rights
Summary: 

The Right to Care project utilizes a human rights approach to increase accountability amongst duty bearers, particularly those within the health sector, and to inform and engage rights holders in ensuring maternal survival.

Program goals/rationale: 

Maternal health in Kenya has steadily been worsening during the past two decades, and the use of skilled maternity care during childbirth is declining. This is contributed to by a range of social, economic, and geographic factors, including women's low social status and education levels, their lack of information about health and rights, autonomy, decision-making power, access to resources, and cultural norms that encourage home birth or discourage the use of facility-based care.

Key program components: 

Through the project, FCI Kenya is conducting a series of sensitization activities and workshops to engage health facility staff in understanding human rights dimensions of maternal health service delivery and identifying protective measures that they can put in place at their worksite. Similar sessions are held with various community leaders to increase their involvement in promoting and ensuring women's access to the essential maternal health services to which they are entitled, with a special focus on low-income and rural women.

This project developed a "rights matrix" that creates a link between the Kenya Ministry of Health Service Charter and the international and regional human rights instruments. The matrix helped in promoting acceptance of the human rights project within the health system. It also made the health workers obliged to uphold human rights related to maternal health.

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