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The Kenya Every Woman Every Newborn Everywhere (EWENE) Acceleration Plan 2025–2027 is a targeted, high- impact roadmap designed to rapidly close the gaps in maternal, newborn, and stillbirth outcomes and deliver on national commitments under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Kenya Health Policy (KHP), and the global EWENE platform.
Despite notable progress infacility deliveries and skilled birth attendance, maternal mortality (355 per100,000), neonatal mortality (21 per1,000), and stillbirth rates (15 per1,000) remain stubbornly above national and global targets. These deaths are largely driven by postpartum haemorrhage (PPH), hypertensive disorders, prematurity, intrapartum asphyxia, and sepsis—conditions that are largely preventable with timely, high-quality care.
This Acceleration Plan focuses on women and newborns who already reach health facilities, where the potential for rapid and measurable impact is greatest. It is grounded in WHO normative guidance, Kenya’s EWENE scorecard priorities, and recent performance reviews, and identifies quick wins and catalytic reforms to close the most urgent gaps in quality, readiness, and equity of care.
It is organised around 10pillars: Policy and Planning; Quality of Care; Gender & Equity; Data,
Monitoring & Evaluation; Financing & Investment;
Maternal Newborn Health Workforce; Response & Resilience; Commodities & Technologies;
Accountability & Community Engagement;
Research, Innovation and Knowledge Exchange.
Each pillar defines county and national roles, ensuring coordinated, multi-level implementation. Enablers for success include strong political leadership, targeted investments in high- burden counties,integration of digital health solutions, gender- responsive programming, and sustained community engagement.
For the Acceleration Plan to succeed, Kenya will implement five game-changing delivery mechanisms designed to ensure speed, consistency, and accountability:
a)National EWENE Delivery Unit within the Ministry of Health,b) ring-fenced last-mile fund for commodity security and infrastructure; c) encourage and embed a readiness and drill culture for high-risk events;d) promote PremPrep5 interventions for premature babies:administrstion of antenatal corticosteroids, administration of Mg SO4, delayed cord clamping, early initiation of breastfeeding and KMC as standard practice; e) promote utilization of information from the live MNH scorecard to sustain political and community accountability.
Kenya has five years to meet its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Kenya Health Policy targets for maternal and newborn health. This Acceleration Plan serves asboth atechnical blueprint and adelivery contract, anchored in WHO guidance,
EWENE scorecard priorities, and Kenya’s healthpolicy framework. With political will,social accountability, and disciplined execution, it can save thousands of mothers and newborns each year, securing a healthier futurefor the next generation.
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