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Media kit and press centre

Everything a newsroom, grant committee or partner communications team needs to describe AAHRED accurately: verified statistics, brand rules, approved biographies and a single route to a spokesperson.

Annual impact report (PDF)

Boilerplate

Organisational overview

Use this description verbatim in press materials, grant annexes and partner publications.

The Africa Alliance for Health, Research and Economic Development (AAHRED) is an African-led institution founded in 2016 and headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. AAHRED links health systems strengthening, quantitative research and economic development practice under a single results architecture, working through national institutions rather than parallel structures. Its programmes span surveillance and health information exchange, water health infrastructure, nutrition and child health, regulatory audit and legislative support, and enterprise-led economic empowerment for young people and women. Under the Strategic Framework 2025–2030, the alliance operates in 14 countries across five regions and has reached 4.2 million people directly since inception, applying 92.4% of expenditure to programme delivery on an unqualified audit opinion.

Short form: AAHRED is an African-led alliance linking health systems, research and economic development across 14 countries, reaching 4.2 million people since 2016.

Verified statistics

4.2M
People reached
14
Countries of operation
5,240+
Youth enterprises incubated
92.4%
Programme expenditure ratio

Cite as: AAHRED Annual Impact Report 2025. Always include the reference period when quoting.

Brand guidelines

Logo, colour and typography

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AAHRED logo on navy background

Primary lockup on light and dark institutional surfaces. Do not place the mark on busy photography.

Colour system

  • AAHRED Red #C8102EPrimary accent, calls to action, emphasis rules
  • Institutional Navy #0B2C4DHeaders, footers, authority surfaces
  • Signal Blue #1B6EC2Data visualisation, secondary emphasis
  • Paper #F7F8FAPage background and content surfaces
  • Graphite #1E2329Body text and long-form reading

Usage rules

  • Use the full lockup — icon plus wordmark — wherever space allows; the icon alone is reserved for avatars and favicons.
  • Maintain clear space equal to the height of the letter A in the wordmark on all four sides.
  • Minimum reproduction width is 96 px on screen and 24 mm in print.
  • Do not recolour, rotate, outline, add effects to, or place the mark on low-contrast photography.
  • Headings are set in Archivo; body copy is set in IBM Plex Sans. Substitute system sans-serif only where these are unavailable.
  • Always write the full legal name on first mention: Africa Alliance for Health, Research and Economic Development (AAHRED).

Leadership

Executive biographies

Approved role descriptions for briefing notes, event programmes and grant annexes.

Executive Director

Office of the Executive Director

Institutional strategy, sovereign partnerships and accountability to the Board

Leads the Strategic Framework 2025–2030, the secretariat's country-systems delivery model and the alliance's relationships with ministries, multilateral institutions and philanthropic partners.

Director, Health Systems & Surveillance

Programme leadership

Surveillance architecture, service delivery and workforce certification

Oversees the surveillance platform across 318 facilities, national IHR core-capacity support and the health workforce certification pipeline.

Director, Research & Evidence

Scientific leadership

Study design, econometric modelling and research integrity

Chairs protocol registration and pre-analysis planning, and leads the health-economics portfolio behind the alliance's cost-effectiveness and benefit–cost estimates.

Director, Economic Empowerment

Programme leadership

Enterprise incubation, financial access and climate livelihoods

Directs youth incubation, women's financial access and climate-resilient livelihood portfolios and their linkage to health outcomes.

Director, Finance & Compliance

Institutional operations

Audit, grant compliance and donor assurance

Accountable for IFRS-aligned reporting, uniform-guidance readiness, procurement integrity and the annual statutory audit cycle.

Head of Communications & Public Affairs

Press and public engagement

Media relations, publication standards and spokesperson coordination

Single point of coordination for interviews, embargoed releases, data enquiries and joint statements with partner institutions.

Press workflow

How to reach a spokesperson

  1. 1. Submit the request

    Send outlet, topic, format, questions and deadline through the secretariat contact form, marking the subject as a media enquiry.

  2. 2. Acknowledgement

    Requests are acknowledged with a reference number. Deadline-driven enquiries are triaged first.

  3. 3. Spokesperson assignment

    Communications assigns the appropriate technical or executive spokesperson and confirms scope.

  4. 4. Factual review

    Statistics quoted in coverage are checked against the published dataset, including reference period and definition.

  5. 5. Publication support

    Approved imagery, captions, citations and embargo terms are supplied ahead of publication.

Submit a media enquiry
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Primary logo lockup

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Full-colour horizontal mark for digital and print use.

Organisational overview

One-page brief

Mandate, footprint, headline results and contact routes.

Institutional fact sheet

Data sheet

Verified statistics with definitions and reference periods.

Annual impact report

PDF

Generated live from the current results dataset on this site.

Executive biographies

Text

Approved role descriptions for programme and briefing materials.

Photography guidance

Guidance note

Dignified representation, consent and captioning standards.

Photography and dignity standards

Imagery must be captured with informed consent, must not identify children in clinical contexts, and must be captioned with location, year and programme. Do not crop images in ways that misrepresent context.

Quoting statistics

Always pair a figure with its reference period and definition. Where an effect size is quoted, include the confidence interval published in the source evaluation.

Embargoes and joint statements

Embargo terms are agreed in writing before material is shared. Joint statements with ministries or partner institutions require sign-off from every named party.

Tripartite operating model

Think tank, implementation partner and governance/MEL advisory in one institution

Evidence generation translates into execution and delivery, which is in turn evaluated and governed — closing the loop between research, policy design, operations and accountability. Each arm is independently staffed and independently reported, so evaluation is never marked by the team that delivered the work.

  • Pillar 1

    Think Tank & Applied Research Arm

    Evidence generation, policy analytics and horizon scanning

    • Translational policy research turning epidemiological, macroeconomic and spatial data into legislative roadmaps and ministerial briefs.
    • Econometric and micro-simulation modelling: cost-benefit analysis, UHC fiscal space assessment and predictive shock modelling.
    • Policy harmonisation with AU Agenda 2063, the Abuja Declaration, the Maputo Plan of Action and Africa CDC frameworks.
    • Ethics, bioethics and data sovereignty protocols safeguarding indigenous health data, genomic assets and vulnerable population registries.
    Core outputs
    Ministerial briefs, costed policy options, national investment cases, peer-reviewed papers and open data dictionaries.
    Methods & instruments
    Micro-simulation, spatial econometrics, cost-benefit and fiscal-space modelling, horizon scanning and political-economy analysis.
    Delivery capacity
    42 researchers, economists and modellers across epidemiology, health financing, GIS and bioethics.
  • Pillar 2

    Implementation & Programme Delivery Arm

    Technical assistance, direct execution and capacity building

    • Direct programme rollout and pilot scalability across maternal-child health, cross-border surveillance, nutrition hubs and safety nets.
    • Embedded technical assistance seconding senior advisors, health economists and data architects into line ministries and RECs.
    • SOP development codifying clinical pathways, MISP emergency response and multi-agency coordination manuals.
    • Institutional capacity building for decentralised civil servants, local councils and community health networks.
    Core outputs
    Programme designs, SOP libraries, service-delivery pilots, supply and referral pathways, trained frontline cadres.
    Methods & instruments
    Embedded technical assistance, results-based grant execution, MISP emergency response, sub-award management and procurement support.
    Delivery capacity
    Field teams across 14 countries with surge deployment inside 72 hours for outbreak and displacement events.
  • Pillar 3

    MEL & Governance Advisory

    Accountability, systems strengthening and oversight

    • Third-party monitoring and independent verification of multilateral programmes in high-risk and cross-border corridors.
    • Impact evaluation using RCTs, difference-in-differences and mixed-method process evaluation to measure attribution and ROI.
    • Digital MEL infrastructure: mobile-first pipelines, geospatial dashboards and automated anomaly detection against data falsification.
    • Public financial management and governance audits covering procurement integrity and expenditure tracking.
    Core outputs
    Independent verification reports, impact evaluations, governance and PFM audits, live MEL dashboards.
    Methods & instruments
    RCTs, difference-in-differences, mixed-method process evaluation, third-party monitoring and anomaly detection analytics.
    Delivery capacity
    Evaluation unit operating to OECD-DAC criteria with a firewalled reporting line to the Board Audit Committee.

  1. 01

    Diagnose

    Burden, equity and fiscal-space diagnostics using national datasets, geospatial layers and community consultation.

  2. 02

    Design

    Costed intervention design with theory of change, indicator framework and explicit assumptions on attribution.

  3. 03

    Pilot

    Controlled implementation with embedded measurement to test feasibility, unit economics and delivery risk.

  4. 04

    Scale

    Government-owned scale-up with SOPs, workforce training, procurement pathways and digital reporting rails.

  5. 05

    Evaluate

    Independent evaluation, public financial audit and open publication of results — including null findings.

Engagement matrix

Multi-level institutional engagement

Who AAHRED works with at each level of governance, what it delivers there, the legal instruments used and the cadence of reporting back to partners.

Institutional clients, service offerings, engagement instruments and reporting cadence at each level of governance.
Governance levelCore institutional clientsKey service offeringsEngagement instrumentsReporting cadence
Continental & MultilateralAfrican Union, Africa CDC, UNECA, WHO AFRO, World Bank, Global FundStrategic framework development, regional public goods governance, cross-border treaty alignment and macro-level grant evaluation.Framework agreements, technical secretariats, joint working groupsMulti-year (3–5 yrs)
Regional Economic CommunitiesEAC, IGAD, ECOWAS, SADCSurveillance harmonisation, cross-border migration protocols and trade-related biosecurity standards.Protocol harmonisation compacts, corridor surveillance MOUsAnnual review cycles
National GovernmentsMinistries of Health, Finance, Gender/Social Protection and AgriculturePolicy formulation, UHC benefit package design, fiscal space analysis and embedded ministerial technical assistance.Embedded advisory placements, costed national plans, MoUsBudget-cycle aligned
Sub-National & Local GovernanceCounty and district health directorates, municipalities, local councilsDecentralised planning, budget execution tracking, frontline worker training and community engagement architecture.County work plans, community compacts, frontline training grantsQuarterly

  • Closing the policy-to-execution gap

    Unlike academic think tanks producing non-operational papers, or NGOs executing without rigorous evaluation, AAHRED unifies theoretical rigour with frontline delivery.

  • End-to-end programmatic lifecycle

    Empirical research → policy drafting → pilot implementation → nationwide scale-up → independent impact evaluation.

  • South-led contextualisation

    Endogenous African data models accounting for informal economies, pastoralist mobility and customary governance systems overlooked by external consultancies.

Evaluation standards
OECD-DAC criteria
Financial reporting
IFRS + 2 CFR 200
Data protection
GDPR / national DPAs
Safeguarding
PSEAH policy, independent channel

How does AAHRED avoid marking its own homework?
The MEL and Governance Advisory arm is staffed separately from delivery teams and reports directly to the Board Audit Committee. Where a programme exceeds USD 2 million in value, evaluation is contracted to an external firm under OECD-DAC criteria and published in full, including null and negative findings.
Who owns the data and intellectual property generated?
Primary data collected in-country is co-owned with the relevant national authority and stored under that country's data-protection regime. Anonymised, aggregated indicators are released as open data under CC-BY 4.0 with a published data dictionary; genomic and vulnerable-population registries are governed by a separate sovereignty protocol requiring ministerial consent for any secondary use.
How quickly can AAHRED mobilise for an emergency?
Surge teams deploy inside 72 hours for outbreak, flood and displacement events in the 14 countries of operation, using the Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP) and pre-positioned framework contracts for procurement and logistics.
What financial and procurement standards apply?
Accounts are prepared under IFRS and audited annually by an international firm. Grant administration follows 2 CFR 200 for US-sourced funds and EU PRAG-equivalent procedures for European funds. Sub-awards are subject to pre-award capacity assessment, quarterly financial verification and spot audits.
How are safeguarding and misconduct concerns handled?
A PSEAH policy applies to every staff member, consultant and sub-grantee. Reports can be made through an independent channel that bypasses line management, are triaged within 48 hours and investigated by an external panel where a conflict of interest exists.
Can governments contract AAHRED directly?
Yes. Engagements are structured as framework agreements, embedded advisory placements or results-based delivery contracts, aligned to the national budget cycle so that costed plans arrive before the medium-term expenditure framework is fixed.
How is value for money demonstrated?
Every investment case carries a benefit-cost ratio, cost per DALY averted and a fiscal-space assessment. Delivery is tracked against unit-cost benchmarks, and variance above 15 percent triggers a formal review by the Programme Committee.