- To ensure wide availability of high-quality and affordable reproductive health products by building supply chains to register, import and distribute these products to a wide range of sales outlets.
- To create demand for contraceptives through the development of integrated evidence-based behaviour change campaigns that promote the benefits of family planning and safe sex.
Product Distribution
A key component of social marketing is increasing availability and access to a wide range of high quality modern contraceptive methods through a robust supply chain and distribution network. DKT has national distribution reach in Kenya and Uganda through its distribution partners and DKT’s salesforce. DKT’s distribution makes contraceptive products available in tens of thousands of outlets, including pharmacies, drug shops, kiosks, petrol stations, healthcare facilities, clinics, and hospitals.
Training
DKT builds the capacity of healthcare workers through training partnerships that reach clinics, hospitals, pharmacies, and healthcare worker associations. DKT trains a wide range of healthcare providers to ensure they are equipped with the skills, knowledge, and ability to provide a wide range of contraceptive methods. DKT improves provider knowledge and skills through practical training activities, continuous medical education, medical detailing, and distribution of job aid materials. The purpose of such trainings is to improve provider knowledge in advancing better choice to the end-user for reproductive health products and ensuring that consumers understand the benefits and potential side-effects of all family planning products
Social Marketing