Project

NAME: NJUGUNA IRENE NJERI

ADMISSION NUMBER: NKU/01173

COMPANY ATTACHED: KENYA AIDS NGOs CONSORTIUM

SECTION ATTACHED:

DURATION OF ATTACHMENT: 8 WEEKS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

DECLARATION ii

DEDICATION iii

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT iv

ABSTRACT v

TABLE OF CONTENTS vi

OPERATIONAL DEFINITION OF TERMS vii

LIST OF ABBREVIATION viii

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

CBO’s- Community Based Organisations

FBO’s- Functional based Organizations

NGO’s- Non Governmental Organisations

KANCO- Kenya AIDS NGO’s Consortium

TB- Tuberculosis

HIV-

AIDS-

CSS- Community Support System

INGO’s- International Non Governmental Organisations

CHAPTER ONE

1.0 INTRODUCTION

The Kenya AIDS NGOs Consortium (KANCO) is a national membership network of NGOs, CBOs, and FBOs, Private Sector actors, Research and Learning Institutions involved in or that have interest in HIV & AIDS , TB  and other public health care concerns in Kenya such as Malaria, Nutrition,  Community Harm Reduction (among injecting drug users) among others.

KANCO was established in 1990 by a group of seven member NGOs.  Its membership is open to all registered NGOs, CBOs, and FBOs, support organizations, learning institutions, public and private sector organizations in Kenya.  KANCO also provides for associate membership that includes individuals and INGOs.

KANCO has a membership of over 1200 organizations and numerous individuals that are networking, collaborating and are bound together by a common vision of a  healthy Kenyan  people  with secure and sustainable access to HIV,TB and other public health care services.

Formed with a principle to support members to respond to the HIV & AIDS epidemic in line with the existing government co-ordination mechanism for HIV & AIDS and TB activities, KANCO has evolved to become a premier agency for sensitizing, mobilizing and...