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Methods: The paper utilized data from on ground demand creation activities through the
community strategy focusing on defaulter tracking and DHIS data from link facilities for one
year June 2017 to June 2018 in Suba and Kabondo Sub counties, Homabay County. Door to
door, targeted outreaches in hard to reach areas, dialogue days, Joint supportive supervision and
monthly programmatic reiew forums were the avenues used to strengthen the intervention
Results: Training of 627 community health Volunteers was conducted in June and
implementation started in July, there was a steady increase in FIC with on ground SBCC
activities, HH mapping of Children under 2 years done in July 2017 had positive colleration to
vaccines uptake. FIC Improved from 55% to 84% and from 55% to 63 % in Suba and Kabondo
respectively. Through the implementation period we had drops of FIC in moths attributed to
service providers’ industrial strike and poor weather in rainy seasons.
Conclusion: There is improvement on FIC, with variation during health service providers
srike.Household mapping, joint review forum supportive supervision and defaulter tracing were
the most significant drivers of utilization of immunization Services.The County should
incorporate demand creation indicators in routine data collection and ensure sustained targeted
demand creation