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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

AAHRED primary logo lockup
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
Institutional press briefing with journalists and cameras

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

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.