Public health campaigns are important instruments for delivering time bound health interventions at scale especially to disadvantaged communities who may lack access to routine health care services. In Kenya, different Ministry of Health (MOH) divisions run different campaigns; for example the Malaria Division supports treated net distribution, seasonal malaria chemoprevention for children and indoor residual spraying campaigns. A good number of public health campaigns are routinely being done in the community and these are usually supported by Community Health Promoters (CHPs) and Community Health Assistants (CHAs). Over the past few years; the Kenya’s MOH, Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), World Health organization and eCHIS technical implementers (Living Goods, Medic, Lwala, IntelliSOFT and POSHIT) have been working collaboratively to support end-to-end digitization of public health campaigns.
Through this collaboration, the teams have designed and developed a digital health campaign module that has been incorporated into the eCHIS Kenya app. This module currently supports the following campaign components:
- The service delivery component guides CHPs to provide health services such as medication during mass drug administration, document medication decline and report adverse effects.
- The commodity management workflows allow CHPs and CHAs to track drug utilization and dispensation.
- Supervision and performance management use case.
In 2024, the eCHIS campaign system was piloted in two wards in Kakamega county. 110 CHPs and 7 CHAs were involved in neglected tropical disease preventive chemotherapy campaigns. During the pilot, 92% of surveyed users exhibited confidence in using eCHIS campaign workflows because of its ease of use and better overall experience compared to paper tools. The eCHIS automated data validation capabilities helped to reduce campaign data entry errors by 70%. In 2025, the eCHIS campaign workflows have been reused to support various seasonal malaria chemotherapy campaigns. The teams are currently working on enhancing the campaign system to allow it to support digital payment, macro planning and micro planning.
A big thank you to the CHAI team (Timothy Ngugi and Dennis Njogu) and Dickson Kioko (MOH Kenya) for sharing this amazing work with the community, the insights you presented has deepened our understanding on how public health campaigns can be digitized. The presentation and demo has been uploaded here.