Empowering Providers with Life Saving Skills
Our Emergency Obstetric & Newborn Care (EmONC) Mentorship program takes the classroom to public hospitals to ensure providers have the sustained skills to deliver life-saving care. This program empowers government midwives with a toolkit to provide standardized peer coaching and mentorship.
Hear From Our Mentors & Mentees
Our experienced team of Lead Mentors work alongside government nurses in public hospitals to build a culture of quality and sustained improvements in obstetric skills. These nurses in turn become EmONC Mentors in their hospitals, building the skills of thousands of providers.
- Stephen Opiyo | Akala Health Centre | DElta mentor
‘Because of DELTA [Jacaranda’s Digital Learning Assistant], I’m able to offer nurses in my facility really detailed feedback using the aspects I’ve been trained on. I thank God I was blessed with the knowledge and skills from Jacaranda to answer all their questions.’
- Catherine Gachanja | Murang’a County | Principal Nursing Officer
‘I really want to appreciate Jacaranda Health for the introduction of the EMONC training drills. They have changed how knowledge is delivered and retained by health care providers, and helped them improve how they take care of the mothers during antenatal and postnatal care.’
- Florence Muraya | Nairobi county | EMONC Mentor
The EmONC Mentorship program has been an amazing journey for me. It’s help me realize my capabilities as a nurse, and also to grow career wise. With my new skills, I’m now finding my work more satisfying, and the constant feedback my mentors offer me is really motivating.
The Impact of Our EmONC Mentorship Program
We have mentored thousands frontline health providers, but the program’s impact spreads far beyond this. EmONC mentees are empowered to share their new skills and know-how with other nurses in their facilities, and hundreds of thousands of patients now receive better care at the hands of capable, confident nurses and midwives.
50%
increase in neonatal resuscitation skills
80%
increase in clinical delivery steps performed
3.3K
nurses and frontline health providers mentored
210
facilities across Kenya using our mentorship model
“EmONC has been a life changer. I’ve been able to grow my professional skills in my facility active, and have learnt the value in constant skills development.”
EmONC in Action | Strengthening Kenya’s Health Workforce
This mentorship program draws on evidence-based approaches from experts in the field of obstetric and neonatal health, including Helping Babies Breathe for neonatal resuscitation, PRONTO International for low-resource, high-fidelity simulation drills, the WHO and the Kenya Ministry of Health for medical education lectures and guidelines. We utilize these approaches and experts in our training programs and package them for the public facility setting so they can be sustainably delivered through county health systems via nurse mentors. Here’s some of our recent impact…
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