Amref Health Africa Tanzania

What Amref Health Africa Tanzania does

Amref Health Africa Tanzania is the Tanzania country office of Amref Health Africa, a non-profit international health organization founded in 1957 as the Flying Doctors of East Africa and headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. The organization operates across 35 African countries through 150+ health-focused projects, reaching approximately 11 million people annually, with a Tanzania presence anchored in Dar es Salaam. Its core technology platform consists of LEAP, an mHealth mobile learning platform used to train community health workers, and M-Jali, a mobile application that captures household-level health data and supports registration with Kenya's NHIF. Together with partners including WHO, Africa CDC, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Royal Philips, and PharmAccess, Amref delivers community health worker training, disease surveillance, non-communicable disease screening, maternal healthcare financing via the i-PUSH partnership, and broader health systems strengthening.

Amref generates revenue primarily through grants from institutional donors (Dutch Postcode Lottery, Gates Foundation, AstraZeneca, GSK, Dalbit Kenya) and individual donations, supplemented by a growing social enterprise arm, Amref Enterprises Limited, which commercializes the LEAP and M-Jali platforms, training, and the Amref Medical Centre on a fee basis to governments and partner organizations. The organization operates as a network of country offices rather than a single corporate entity, with affiliated fundraising offices in Europe and North America. The Tanzania entity is part of this continental network, executing country-specific programs under Amref's global strategy.

The customer and beneficiary base is bifurcated: institutional customers are African governments, ministries of health, and global health bodies (WHO, Africa CDC), while end beneficiaries are community health workers, women and families reached through i-PUSH, and NCD patients. The organization is led by Group CEO Dr. Githinji Gitahi and has trained over 40,000 Community Health Volunteers and 20,000 nurses across its history.

Name

Amref Health Africa Tanzania

Legal name

Amref Health Africa

Website

https://amref.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1957

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Amref Health Africa Tanzania is the Tanzania country office of Amref Health Africa, Africa's largest African-led health organization, operating mHealth platforms (LEAP, M-Jali) and delivering community health worker training, maternal healthcare financing, and disease prevention programs in partnership with African governments and global health institutions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Health Services

NAICS

Health Care and Social Assistance (62), Social Assistance (624)

SIC

Services-Misc Health & Allied Services, Nec (8090), Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Health Systems Strengthening & Global Health Technical Assistance (BPADAEAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Health Workforce Development & Capacity-Building (HLAJAKAM), Digital Health, Health Information Systems & Data Programs (BPADAIAJ), Maternal, Newborn, Child & Adolescent Health (MNCAH) NGOs (HLAJAKAG)

Keywords

• Public health programs
• Community health training
• Mhealth platforms
• Disease prevention services
• Health systems strengthening

Headquarters

HQ city

Dar es Salaam

HQ country

Tanzania

HQ region

Africa

Offices9 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Donations and Grants: Amref Health Africa is a non-profit organization primarily funded through donations from individuals, foundations, and government grants. Major donors include Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Dutch Postcode Lottery, and various government development agencies.
2. Social Enterprise Services (Amref Enterprises): Amref Enterprises Limited operates as a commercial arm offering health training solutions, mHealth platforms (Leap, M-Jali), and medical centre services on a fee basis to other organizations and governments.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Amref Health Africa Tanzania is part of Africa's largest African-led international health organization, delivering health worker training, disease prevention, primary healthcare access, and health systems strengthening through community health workers and government partnerships. The organization operates mHealth platforms (LEAP, M-Jali) for training community health workers and capturing household-level health data, and partners with ministries of health across Africa on Universal Health Coverage initiatives.

Product overview

Amref Health Africa operates a portfolio of mHealth products and healthcare solutions. The core offerings include LEAP (mobile learning platform for community health workers), M-Jali (community health data collection application), and integrated insurance solutions through NHIF partnerships. These products work together: LEAP trains CHWs on health topics, M-Jali captures household health data and facilitates insurance registration, while insurance solutions enable financial access to healthcare. The subsidiary Amref Enterprises Limited commercializes these innovations as a social enterprise.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Leap: mHealth platform for training community health workers using mobile phones, enabling continued training, peer learning, and strengthened supervision
• M-Jali
• i-PUSH
• Amref Flying Doctors
• Amref Health Innovations
• Amref Medical Centre
• AHAIC Conference

Products and services

• LEAP mHealth Platform mHealth mobile learning platform that trains community-based health workers through their mobile devices, enabling continued training, peer learning, strengthened supervision, and access to updates and campaign messages. Developed in partnership with Safaricom, M-Pesa Foundation, and Accenture, and endorsed by the Kenya Ministry of Health.
• M-Jali Mobile Application Mobile application used by community health workers to capture data on household level health indicators and register household members onto NHIF, improving efficiency of health reporting at the community level.
• i-PUSH (Innovative Partnership for Smart Uptake of Healthcare) Partnership initiative combining M-TIBA, Leap, and M-Jali to improve access to quality healthcare for 100,000 women and their families through mobile technology, connecting mothers to healthcare financing, quality and knowledge.
• Amref Medical Centre Healthcare facility operated by Amref Enterprises Limited providing medical services to individuals.
• Amref Central Laboratory Central laboratory providing COVID-19 PCR testing and analysis services, approved by Kenya's Ministry of Health as a Government of Kenya testing facility.
• Health Insurance Solutions Health insurance programs working with NHIF and county-specific insurance schemes like MakueniCare to enable financial protection and access to healthcare services for communities.

Quantifiable outcome

• 11 million people reached annually
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration5 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Royal PhilipscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 July 2018Public-Private Partnership for enhancement of Makueni County's primary care system. Philips provides innovative technology solutions in health informatics, personal health, treatment, and diagnosis. The partnership aims to improve access to high-quality primary care through facility upgrades and mHealth innovations.
• SafaricomcoreTechnology or IntegrationPartnership in development of LEAP mHealth platform for training community health workers. Safaricom provides mobile telecommunications infrastructure enabling mobile-based health training delivery.
• AccenturecoreTechnology or IntegrationTechnology partner in development of LEAP mHealth platform and eLearning program. Provided expertise in mobile technology and platform development.
• Kenya Ministry of HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGovernment partner for endorsement and implementation of LEAP as mLearning product of choice. Collaboration on community health worker training programs.
• PharmAccesscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint partnership called i-PUSH to improve access to healthcare for 100,000 women and families in Kenya through mobile technology. Combines M-TIBA (PharmAccess), Leap, and M-Jali (Amref) innovations.
• M-TIBA (PharmAccess)coreTechnology or IntegrationDigital platform for inclusive healthcare enabling people to save, send, receive and pay money for medical treatment through a mobile health wallet. Part of i-PUSH partnership.
• Kenya National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership to fast-track Universal Health Coverage scale-up using Community Health Workers as agents for NHIF registration at community level.
• Results for Development (R4D)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLaunched Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center (SPARC) in partnership with R4D. SPARC aims to strengthen strategic health purchasing in sub-Saharan Africa to get more value for money from health spending.
• Africa CDCcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on COVID-19 pandemic response, disease surveillance, early detection, and track spread of coronavirus in African countries.
• World Health Organization (WHO)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOngoing partnership for pandemic preparedness, outbreak response, health worker training, and support for Ministries of Health in Africa.
• Makueni County GovernmentcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGovernment partner in Public-Private Partnership for primary care enhancement. County committed 28% of budget to healthcare, including MakueniCare UHC insurance scheme.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI): Global health NGO operating across sub-Saharan Africa that works with governments on health systems strengthening, commodity access and workforce training. Closely comparable to Amref in delivery model, donor base and Africa footprint.
• Partners in Health: Large international health NGO delivering health services and training in low-resource settings, including Africa. Operates a similar model of partnering with governments and training community health workers, making it a directly comparable peer to Amref.
• BRAC: One of the world's largest development NGOs, operating community health worker programs across Africa and South Asia. Highly comparable to Amref in scale, training-driven health model, and reliance on a network of trained community-level workers.
• Jhpiego: Affiliated with Johns Hopkins, Jhpiego focuses on health workforce training, maternal and newborn health, and health systems strengthening across Africa — directly comparable to Amref's capacity-building and MNCH programming.
• IntraHealth International: Global health NGO focused on health workforce development, digital health tools and primary care strengthening. Highly comparable to Amref's health-worker training and policy-shaping role across sub-Saharan Africa.
• PATH: International health NGO with deep Africa presence focused on health systems, digital health innovation and capacity-building. Comparable to Amref in combining program delivery with proprietary health technology platforms (akin to LEAP and M-Jali).
• Management Sciences for Health (MSH): Implements donor-funded health systems strengthening and pharmaceutical management programs in Africa. Closely comparable to Amref in operating model, government partnership approach and donor mix.
• Last Mile Health: Specializes in training and digitally equipping community health workers in sub-Saharan Africa. Directly comparable on the CHW-training and mHealth dimensions where Amref's LEAP platform operates.

Emerging players

• Living Goods: Tech-enabled community health organization operating in Kenya and Uganda with a focus on digitally supported CHWs and franchise health entrepreneurship. Comparable as a more commercially-oriented emerging competitor to Amref's LEAP/M-Jali model.

Broad incumbents

• UNICEF: UN agency with the largest global footprint in child and maternal health, including Africa. Functions as a broader incumbent that often funds and partners with Amref rather than competes head-to-head, but operates in the same programmatic domains.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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• Facebookfacebook.com/AmrefHealthAfrica
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• Instagraminstagram.com/amrefhealthafrica

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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