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NAME: NJUGUNA IRENE NJERI
ADMISSION NUMBER: NKU/01173
COMPANY ATTACHED: KENYA AIDS NGOs CONSORTIUM
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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...