Key Result Area One: HPV vaccination
Operational objective 1: Strengthen and expand equitable, timely, and integrated HPV vaccine delivery with the goal of achieving at least 90% coverage of girls by age 15 years, by the year 2030
Actions
- Institutionalize school-based HPV vaccination delivery through outreaches in all public and private primary schools
- Expand facility-based vaccination services to provide routine, accessible HPV vaccination services, including demand generation.
- Expand and institutionalize HPV vaccination outreaches to marginalized and underserved communities.
- Establish integrated mechanisms to track, follow- up, and improve school-based HPV vaccination outcomes.
- Increase vaccination coverage for 10-year-old girls to at least 90%, and conduct periodic catch-ups for girls 11-14 years to reach those missed at 10 years.
- Utilize innovative delivery approaches targeting missed opportunities plus zero dose girls.
Operational objective 2: Strengthen the capacity, motivation and availability of the health workforce to deliver HPV vaccines safely and effectively.
Actions
- Strengthen the skills, motivation, and performance of healthcare workers and CHPs through structured, ongoing capacity-augmentation interventions.
- Establish an annual recognition and learning exchange platform to reward high-performing counties and promote best practice sharing.
Operational objective 3: Strengthen the health information system to ensure complete, timely, and integrated data capture, reporting, and decision making on HPV vaccination across public and private sectors by 2030.
Actions
- Enhance adoption of vaccination modules into facility electronic health records systems (EHR) being rolled out countrywide, and their use at all vaccination points.
- Upgrade and integrate the Logistics Management Information System (LMIS) and make it end to end for utilization facility level.
- Enhance data quality to ensure consistency and accuracy between the source document /files and reporting including KHIS.
- Improve projection and forecasting of the number of in-school and out-of-school girls by county.
- Include HPV in coverage surveys to enable triangulation of administrative data on HPV.
Operational objective 4: Strengthen the HPV vaccine supply chain for timely forecasting, equitable distribution and innovative delivery
Actions
- Improve vaccine and related commodities forecasting and quantification
- Cold chain capacity mapping, distribution frequency, stockout thresholds/alarms, and reverse logistics.
- Strengthen last-mile delivery solutions (for example solar refrigerators, outreach carriers), and routine Wastage monitoring.
Operational objective 5: Secure long-term domestic and external financing for HPV vaccine procurement and delivery.
Actions
- Advocate for implementation of HPV vaccination in the Health Benefits Package under Primary Health Care (PHC).
- Strengthen advocacy for HPV vaccination financing at national and county levels using evidence- based tools.
- Develop a strong resource mobilization mechanism for HPV vaccines and its routine activities.
Operational objective 6: Promote strong political leadership, policy integration, and multi-sectoral coordination to support HPV vaccination.
Actions
- Ensure policy integration across ministries , departments and health programs.
- Strengthen coordination across counties, ministries, and partners, including the National Immunization TWG, School Health Coordination Mechanisms and Regular Partner Mapping.
Operational objective 7: Promote uptake of HPV vaccination through effective behavior change messages and interventions directed at caregivers, health care providers, religious leaders, and other community influencers.
Actions
- Facilitate participatory workshops where community members co-develop communication messages and tools that are locally relevant and culturally resonant.
- Optimize awareness among eligible girls, caregivers, and other trusted messengers in the community.
- Support caregiver decision-making to vaccinate eligible girls.
- Enhance capacity of HCWs to communicate better on HPV vaccination as trusted messengers by the community