Knowledge Management (KM) is a system that helps an organisation share, access, and update knowledge and information. KM can facilitate information dissemination and sharing, capacity building, education and distance learning, research support and documentation. In the health sector, KM can contribute to promoting and supporting communities of practice; supporting diseases and endemic surveillance and response; strengthening health systems; improving health outcomes; and ensuring useful information that exists in silos within organisations is well linked to the main KM repository. The main objective of this brief is to map and describe primary functionalities of the various health KM platforms in Kenya.
