Cabinet Secretary for Health, Hon. Aden Duale, today officiated the signing of the Ministry of Health’s Performance Contracts for the 2025/2026 financial year, a move aimed at reinforcing accountability, improving service delivery, and ensuring measurable benefits for all Kenyans.
The signing follows the vetting of ministerial performance contracts in July 2025 and aligns with national Performance Contracting Guidelines. The exercise formally links the Ministry’s annual targets to the country’s broader development priorities, while cascading responsibilities across Directorates, Departments, Divisions, and Units. This ensures that every team and officer within the Ministry has clear, performance-driven obligations.
Addressing senior Ministry officials, CS Duale stressed the importance of responsible governance, prudent management of public funds, and results-oriented leadership. “Our mandate is to convert policy commitments into real, verifiable outcomes that directly improve the health and wellbeing of Kenyans,” he said. He reaffirmed the Ministry’s constitutional duty to uphold transparency, accountability, and integrity in all operations.
CS Duale highlighted that a strong health system is central to the 5th Administration’s Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda (BETA), noting that resilient healthcare underpins economic growth, social stability, and human dignity. He cited recent achievements, including reforms in health financing, integration of digital health systems, expanded benefits coverage, improved community health services, and enhanced access to specialised care.
The CS commended Principal Secretaries and senior management for driving reforms with focus and integrity. He urged all staff to maintain fiscal discipline, accelerate reform implementation, enhance transparency, improve service standards, and strengthen collaboration with County Governments in the new performance cycle.
Looking ahead, CS Duale expressed confidence that the Ministry will continue delivering a more equitable, sustainable, and accountable health system anchored on Universal Health Coverage (UHC). “The year ahead must reflect disciplined execution, ethical stewardship, innovation, and zero tolerance for complacency,” he said.
The signing ceremony brought together Principal Secretaries Hon. Ahmed Abdisalan Ibrahim (National Government Coordination), Dr. Ouma Oluga (Medical Services), Ms. Mary Muthoni (Public Health and Professional Standards), Director-General Dr. Patrick Amoth, alongside Ministry Directors and Technical Heads.
