Health Literacy Academy-Kenya (HLA) is a Nairobi-based social enterprise working in health systems — a limited company that operates on social-enterprise principles and reinvests its profits into the communities it serves. We help people find, understand and use health information — and we equip the providers, build the platforms, and design the learning that make it happen.
Most partners do one part well. HLA is built to do all three — Learn, Build and Reach — so health information doesn't stall between the system that produces it and the people who need it. We build with communities, providers and ministries — not for them.
Our work supports Kenya's digital health agenda — the Digital Health Act 2023, the Social Health Authority (SHA), KHIS and eCHIS — and the global health-literacy standards set by Healthy People 2030 and the CDC's health-literate organization framework.
We make it easier for communities to find, understand, and use health information and services — and we equip the providers, build the platforms, and design the learning that make it happen.
A Kenya where no one is left behind by health information they cannot find, cannot understand, or cannot act on.
Our work generates revenue — and that revenue doesn't leave the system. It flows back into the communities we serve, so every engagement makes the next one possible. See how the cycle works →
If a community can't find it, understand it, or act on it, the work isn't finished.
Plain language, accessible design. If a community can't understand it, it isn't finished.
Kenya-grounded. Solutions fit local realities, languages, infrastructure and policy.
We design with communities, providers and counties at the table.
Every programme is measured. Data decides what we scale.
We hand over systems and skills so impact outlives the engagement.
We design for the hardest-to-reach first.
Our work runs on three pillars — Learn, Build and Reach — kept honest by a cross-cutting commitment to Evidence. On the ground, we deliver them through five interlocking practice areas. Engagements typically draw on two or three at once.
Strengthening the workforce and designing the learning that gets them there.
The software that runs health systems and learning — HMIS, LMS, Connect.
Making health information something every community can find, understand and use.
Research, monitoring and evaluation that keeps every pillar honest.
Competency-based training programmes for health workers, institutions, and programme teams across community health, public health, and clinical support systems.
Structured, competency-anchored curricula built from policy or programme objectives — competency mapping, session design, learner workbooks, facilitator guides, and assessment frameworks.
Production-ready manuals (print and digital), facilitator condensed guides, and Training-of-Trainer rollout packs designed to protect content fidelity through cascade.
Structured progression for practising health workers and programme staff — designed for institutional ownership rather than one-off delivery.
End-to-end design and support for institutional cascades: pre-rollout readiness, master trainer development, sub-national delivery, and post-training quality assurance.
Digital learning platforms and the training-related health information systems that surround them.
Conversion of paper-based curricula and facilitator-led training into structured digital courses with assessment logic, branching where useful, and progress data conformant to SCORM or xAPI.
End-to-end Moodle and equivalent deployments — configuration, theming, gamification, certificate workflows, analytics, authentication, and email integration.
Design of the full learner pathway: enrolment, sequencing, assessment, badging, supervision touchpoints, refresher cycles, and reporting.
Connecting training to delivery — including eCHIS-aligned workflows so competency data informs supervision, and supervision data informs the next training cycle.
Support for the community health workforce and the systems that connect households to facilities — and the health literacy that makes information usable at every point of contact.
Community Health Promoter capacity-building frameworks and community engagement strategies aligned to national community health policy.
Strengthening the pathways between community, primary care, and referral facilities so people reach the services they need.
Health-literate organization assessment, teach-back and plain-language redesign so providers and patients understand one another at every point of contact.
Implementation support across primary health care and universal health coverage priorities — RMNCAH, WASH, surveillance, and prevention.
Evidence to inform programme design, and the monitoring, evaluation and learning that keeps every pillar honest.
Needs assessments, stakeholder consultations, and theory-of-change work that turns an ambition into a designed, measurable programme.
Monitoring, evaluation, and learning frameworks with indicators, data flows, and the dashboards to read them.
Quantitative and qualitative inquiry — focus group discussions, surveys, and quasi-experimental designs in real-world settings.
Implementation research and scale-up strategy support that translates what worked into what spreads.
Scientific conferences and technical convenings designed as instruments of evidence-to-practice translation.
Conference concept and scientific programme architecture — including HLA's own CHPCON annual scientific conference on community health practice.
Scientific committee coordination, abstract management, peer review, and the running of the scientific programme.
Tiered sponsorship frameworks and prospectus development that make a convening financially sustainable.
Registration, abstracts and delegate management delivered on HLA Connect — recurring convening built to last.
A multidisciplinary team bringing together health systems, digital learning, and clinical practice.
Health Risk Communication and Community Engagement Consultant; Instructional Designer.
eLearning Developer; instructional design and digital health systems.
Mental health and psychosocial expertise across programmes and curricula.
Clinical advisory across child health and specialist care.
Tell us what you're trying to achieve. We'll come back with how HLA can help — and how we'd measure it.
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