Press & media
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.
Boilerplate
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.
Cite as: AAHRED Annual Impact Report 2025. Always include the reference period when quoting.
Brand guidelines
Primary lockup on light and dark institutional surfaces. Do not place the mark on busy photography.
Leadership
Approved role descriptions for briefing notes, event programmes and grant annexes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Institutional operations
Audit, grant compliance and donor assurance
Accountable for IFRS-aligned reporting, uniform-guidance readiness, procurement integrity and the annual statutory audit cycle.
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
1. Submit the request
Send outlet, topic, format, questions and deadline through the secretariat contact form, marking the subject as a media enquiry.
2. Acknowledgement
Requests are acknowledged with a reference number. Deadline-driven enquiries are triaged first.
3. Spokesperson assignment
Communications assigns the appropriate technical or executive spokesperson and confirms scope.
4. Factual review
Statistics quoted in coverage are checked against the published dataset, including reference period and definition.
5. Publication support
Approved imagery, captions, citations and embargo terms are supplied ahead of publication.
Primary logo lockup
PNG · transparent
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Evidence generation, policy analytics and horizon scanning
Technical assistance, direct execution and capacity building
Accountability, systems strengthening and oversight
Programmatic lifecycle
Burden, equity and fiscal-space diagnostics using national datasets, geospatial layers and community consultation.
Costed intervention design with theory of change, indicator framework and explicit assumptions on attribution.
Controlled implementation with embedded measurement to test feasibility, unit economics and delivery risk.
Government-owned scale-up with SOPs, workforce training, procurement pathways and digital reporting rails.
Independent evaluation, public financial audit and open publication of results — including null findings.
Engagement matrix
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.
| Governance level | Core institutional clients | Key service offerings | Engagement instruments | Reporting cadence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Continental & Multilateral | African Union, Africa CDC, UNECA, WHO AFRO, World Bank, Global Fund | Strategic framework development, regional public goods governance, cross-border treaty alignment and macro-level grant evaluation. | Framework agreements, technical secretariats, joint working groups | Multi-year (3–5 yrs) |
| Regional Economic Communities | EAC, IGAD, ECOWAS, SADC | Surveillance harmonisation, cross-border migration protocols and trade-related biosecurity standards. | Protocol harmonisation compacts, corridor surveillance MOUs | Annual review cycles |
| National Governments | Ministries of Health, Finance, Gender/Social Protection and Agriculture | Policy formulation, UHC benefit package design, fiscal space analysis and embedded ministerial technical assistance. | Embedded advisory placements, costed national plans, MoUs | Budget-cycle aligned |
| Sub-National & Local Governance | County and district health directorates, municipalities, local councils | Decentralised planning, budget execution tracking, frontline worker training and community engagement architecture. | County work plans, community compacts, frontline training grants | Quarterly |
Unlike academic think tanks producing non-operational papers, or NGOs executing without rigorous evaluation, AAHRED unifies theoretical rigour with frontline delivery.
Empirical research → policy drafting → pilot implementation → nationwide scale-up → independent impact evaluation.
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