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This Expert's name is Mr. Stephen Kaboro, N/A

This Expert's occupation is Health Economist
This Expert's location is Nairobi, Kenya
This Expert's nationality is Kenyan

Snapshot

Experience

Languages

Countries of Work

Areas of Expertise

  • General
  • Priority-setting
  • Coaching
  • Process facilitation
  • Training
  • Civil society engagement
  • Social accountability and community advocacy for health
  • Strengthening linkages between community health and PHC
  • Contracting health providers
  • Direct facility financing
  • Domestic resource mobilization
  • Earmarked taxes
  • Financing for PHC and community health (preventive, promotive, and curative care
  • Health coverage schemes
  • Innovative financing
  • Pay for performance
  • Pooling of funds
  • Provider payment
  • Resource allocation
  • Strategic health purchasing
  • Change management
  • Decentralization
  • Health management, policy and planning
  • Institutional strengthening
  • Monitoring and evaluation
  • Private sector engagement
  • Regulation and enforcement
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Strategic planning
  • Strategy development
  • Data reporting and analysis
  • Health-related surveys
  • Behavior and health literacy
  • Health promotion
  • Health protection
  • Human resources planning, management, training and development
  • Data collection methodology
  • Indicator development
  • Performance management plans
  • Quantitative and qualitative analysis
  • Research
  • Results and logical frameworks
  • Family planning
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Malaria
  • Maternal, newborn and child health
  • Non-communicable diseases
  • NTDs
  • Nutrition
  • Tuberculosis
  • Costing
  • Dissemination and knowledge brokering
  • Health provider capacity mapping
  • Policy analysis
  • Political economy analysis
  • Problems and priorities assessment
  • Root cause analysis
  • Stakeholder analysis
Overall Health System Strengthening, Health Financing Policy and Strategy Development at National Level.

Professional Experience

  • Various: Special Assignments and Consultancies

    Jan 2011 - Present
    • February to December 2020 – Development Team Member of the 2016-8 National Health Accounts (MOH, USAID/HP+, WHO)
    • March 2015 – December 2020 (Various dates) – Short term trainer at Kenya School of Government (KSG) and Counties on Performance Based Budgeting (PBB) (Options Consultancies, USAID/HP+, JICA, GIZ, KSG)
    • December 2019 – March 2020 – Coordination team member for the Public Expenditure Tracking (PET) Survey 2019 (WHO)
    • March to December 2019 – Joint Secretariat to the Experts Taskforce on Reform of the NHIF in Kenya (HEFREP) (MOH, Various Partners)
  • Ministry of Health – Division of Economic Policy and Planning :: Senior Economist/ Statistician

    Sep 2010 - Present
    >>. Capacity Building
    o Trainer on System of Health Accounts (SHA) in National and County Governments
    o Member of support team for Mid-Term Expenditure Framework in counties
    o Trainer of Devolved units on budget making and planning
    >> Health Policy development and review
    o Member of the Universal Health Coverage Technical Working Group
    o Team member for the development of the 2nd Medium Term Plan for Vision 2030
    >> Costing and Cost Estimation
    o Costing of the Essential Package for Health using the Dynamic costing Model
    >>Development and implementation of Health Sector Surveys - National Health Account Survey, Household Health Expenditures etc
  • Ministry of Health – Output Based Approach (OBA) Programme :: Programme Manager

    Jan 2011 - Dec 2017
    OBA was a pilot programme being undertaken by the Government of Kenya and Federal Republic of Germany to provide vouchers to the indigents in 4 Counties and 2 urban slums which they use to access reproductive health services for free at accredited health facilities.

    Specific tasks include;

    • Managing the Programme Management Unit (PMU) of 7 staff members and over 200 contracted staff
    • Contracting and Contract Management of engaged private companies
    • Development and evaluation of work-plans for the project
    • Supervision of Programme implementation
    • Supervision of the contracted agents
    • Contributing towards related policy development
    • Maintaining linkages with stakeholders

Education

  • University of Nairobi

    Graduated 2019
    Masters of Science –Health Economics and Policy
  • Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology

    Graduated 2009
    Bachelor of Science –Mathematics and Computer Science (Statistics Major)

Areas of Expertise

  • General
  • Priority-setting
  • Coaching
  • Process facilitation
  • Training
  • Civil society engagement
  • Social accountability and community advocacy for health
  • Strengthening linkages between community health and PHC
  • Contracting health providers
  • Direct facility financing
  • Domestic resource mobilization
  • Earmarked taxes
  • Financing for PHC and community health (preventive, promotive, and curative care
  • Health coverage schemes
  • Innovative financing
  • Pay for performance
  • Pooling of funds
  • Provider payment
  • Resource allocation
  • Strategic health purchasing
  • Change management
  • Decentralization
  • Health management, policy and planning
  • Institutional strengthening
  • Monitoring and evaluation
  • Private sector engagement
  • Regulation and enforcement
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Strategic planning
  • Strategy development
  • Data reporting and analysis
  • Health-related surveys
  • Behavior and health literacy
  • Health promotion
  • Health protection
  • Human resources planning, management, training and development
  • Data collection methodology
  • Indicator development
  • Performance management plans
  • Quantitative and qualitative analysis
  • Research
  • Results and logical frameworks
  • Family planning
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Malaria
  • Maternal, newborn and child health
  • Non-communicable diseases
  • NTDs
  • Nutrition
  • Tuberculosis
  • Costing
  • Dissemination and knowledge brokering
  • Health provider capacity mapping
  • Policy analysis
  • Political economy analysis
  • Problems and priorities assessment
  • Root cause analysis
  • Stakeholder analysis
Overall Health System Strengthening, Health Financing Policy and Strategy Development at National Level.