Health & Wellbeing Environment & Climate 2025
CHASE Africa (Community Health and Sustainable Environment)

Impact Report 2025

CHASE Africa is a UK charity supporting local partners to deliver healthcare and family planning to remote rural communities across Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Their 2025 Impact Report — marking 25 years — covers 1.7 million attendances at health sessions, 397,000 basic healthcare services and 233,000 family planning services, all exceeding targets. Key innovations include the Backpack Nurse model, integrated health-conservation programmes and a first-ever BBC Radio 4 Appeal. The year was shaped by severe international aid cuts affecting health systems across East Africa.

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📋About

Backpack Nurse mobile outreach, community health worker training, adolescent and youth SRH services, HIV prevention, family planning, cancer screening, antenatal care, menstrual health, quality improvement for health facilities, integrated health and conservation programmes, partner forum and network learning

📊Key Metrics

1,718,820 attendances at information and awareness-raising sessions (target: 1,500,000) — including 722,567 adolescents Key Metric 1
397,227 basic healthcare services for women and children delivered (target: 300,000) Key Metric 2
233,277 family planning services delivered; 37% first-time users; 15 local partners across Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania Key Metric 3

✅Key Outcomes

  • 25th anniversary year; BBC Radio 4 Appeal and Big Give campaigns launched; first women's dialogue in Olderkesi on the Kenya-Tanzania border
  • 60 health facility staff trained on Quality Improvement in Kajiado County; 35 Community Health Assistants trained in Baringo; 120 healthcare providers trained in Meru County on adolescent SRH
  • New integrated health and conservation projects launched in Tanzania with MWEDO, Honeyguide Foundation and Makame Wildlife Management Area reaching 26,000 people; HIV project expanded in Uganda

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