Living Goods is celebrating the passage of the Busia County Community Health Services Act, 2021, which was enacted in August but publicly promoted in October. Once the new law is operationalized, the county’s more than 2,000 CHWs will begin to receive regular stipends, well stocked toolkits, health insurance and certification, among other health system strengthening initiatives.

Busia is the 9^th of Kenya’s 47 counties to enact and launch community health legislation. Since 2018, Living Goods and other partners have walked this journey with government to ensure community health funding is sustainably entrenched in law. We are now supporting full implementation of the law to formalize DESC-enabled support for the county’s community health workforce.