Koinonia Advisory Research & Development Service

The current inventory, expanded and totally updated, will with God’s help prove useful throughout the church in Kenya: to appreciate the efforts done already, to stimulate new creativity and even greater generosity, to facilitate networking –especially with the FBOs in the HIV /AIDS field and to attract new resources. The result will be completed and corrected in the years a head. Still this second edition is just a step, and we hope that the data will be completed and corrected in the years a head.

Methodology 

The work on the inventory 2006 began at the end 2005 by consulting with the members of the Kenya Catholic HIV/AIDS Taskforce (K-CHAT) at the Kenya Episcopal Conference – Catholic Secretariat on the objectives, strategies and the expected output of this project. The members expected that, building upon the earlier INVENTORY 2003, the survey should:

These and other consideration ware incorporated in a survey instrumented (a questionnaire) that would make it possible to sketch the different dimensions of the Catholic Church’s struggle against the pandemic. The data to be gathered in each Catholic Diocese including qualitative indicators (e.g. the number of participants / beneficiaries of the programme, type of activities, number of personnel involved, the annual average expenses, and the origin of the financial and human resources, and also a more description of the programmes /institutions, highlighting the purpose, main objective past successes, the major challenges and the hopes for the future.

Thirty three researches received their orientation from 30th January to 3rd February 2006. In this training session the technical aspect of the questionnaire were discussed. Additionally, background

Information on the pandemic, the medical and pastoral role of the Catholic Church was provided by professional speakers. The orientation included the pre-testing and fine-tuning of the survey instrument in the Archdiocese of Nairobi. Soon after, the field researchers were dispatched to twenty-five Catholic dioceses in Kenya.