The Kenya Nutritionists and Dieticians Institute was established by an Act of Parliament No.18 of 2007 (Cap 253B). The Act provides for training, registration and licensing of nutritionists and dieticians. It also provides for the regulation of the standards, and practice of the profession to ensure their effective participation in matters relating to nutrition and dietetics and for related purposes.

KNDI has a governance structure which consists of the Council and Management. The Council is led by a Chairperson nominated in a manner specified under Section 5, paragraph (a) and develops policies to guide the institute’s function assisted by the Technical Committees namely: Accreditation; FA& HR, Risk and Audit and Disciplinary as guided by the Nutritionists and Dieticians Act, 18, 2007. Management operationalizes the various policies and guidelines developed and approved by the Council on day to day basis and is led by the Chief Executive officer appointed in a manner specified under Section 9 of the Act.

“KNDI is committed to attend to all our customers by providing quality services on time, which is achieved by teamwork, involvement and effective utilization of resources and continually improving the effectiveness of the quality management systems in execution of the mandate as prescribed in the Nutritionists and Dieticians, Act, 18, 2007 and KNDI regulations”

The following Council member are currently actively participating in governance matters of the institute. The team excludes one Council Member (Mr. Stephen Mutoro) who resigned to pursue other duties.

1. Evayline Nkirigacha-Chairperson
2. Gordon Nguka-Member
3. Joy Mugambi-Member
4. Edna Warentho-Member
5. Harriet Njiru- Member
6. Purity Njoki Chege- Member
7. Angeline Korir- Member
8. Oscar Kambona Ayoma- Member
9. Veronica Kirogo -Member Rep. DN(MOH)
10. David Soti- Member Rep. DG(MOH)
11. David Omondi Okeyo-CEO & Ex-Officio Member

The following Committees support the function of the Council

1. Accreditation Committee
2. Gordon Nguka: Non-Executive Chairman
3. Purity Njoki Chege: Non-Executive Member
4. Mohammed Nur: Non-Executive Member
5. Emily Wahome: Non-Executive Member
6. David Soti: Non-Executive Member

1. Disciplinary Committee
2. Jakin Nanua: Non-Executive -Chairman
3. Counsel Esther Aduma Jowi: Non-Executive Member
4. Margeret Oyugi: Non-Executive Member
5. Monica Sitienei: Non-Executive Member
6. Gordon Nguka: Non-Executive Member

• Audit and Risk Committee
  1. Joy Mugambi: Non-Executive -Chairperson
  2. Anjeline Korir: Non-Executive Member
  3. Harriet Njiru: Non-Executive Member
  4. David Soti: Non-Executive Member
  5. Veronica Kirogo: Non-Executive Member

1. Finance Administration and HR Committee
2. Oscar Kambona: Non-Executive -Chairman
3. Dr Gordon Nguka: Non-Executive Member
4. Edna Warentho: Non-Executive Member
5. David Okeyo – CEO: Executive Member

Good nutrition is a proxy for a healthy nation that is crucial for socio economic developments which form part of the pillars of vision 2030 as well as the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals. Studies have shown that investing in nutrition and food security interventions can increase a country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by at least 2-3 percent each year.

The strategic plan for July 2015-June 2020 come to an end on June 30^th 2020. There was need to replace this plan with a new strategic plan for July 2020-June 2025. The process of the new plan was initiated by a decision of the KNDI Council as passed in the Annual Work Plan (July 2019-June 2020) [Ref: KNDI COUNCIL MIN 035/2019].  The new Strategic Plan (July 2020-June 2025) outlines the determining path which the Institute has chosen for the next five years, as it works to optimally respond to the call of its legal mandate in regulating the profession of nutrition and dietetics. The Plan is based on the Institute’s initial self-assessment, the needs as defined by its legal mandate, and an external analysis of its prevailing context and environment. Careful and critical consideration of all the emerging issues informed the Council of KNDI (the Council) to shoulder-define the orientation of all its goals; and in a prioritized manner to assign its objectives, strategies and activities during the July 2020 to June 2025 period. That rationale of factors for consideration, definition of choices to be made, priorities assigned and objectives defined for the period are in the content of the KNDI Years 2020 –25 Strategic Plan as presented in this document. The Plan has clear indicators that will benchmark the Institute’s progress, in the implementation of the Plan.

This Kenya Nutritionists and Dieticians Institute (KNDI) Strategic Plan outlines the determining path which the Institute has chosen for the next five years, as it works to optimally respond to the call of its legal mandate in regulating the profession of nutrition and dietetics. The Plan is based on the Institute’s initial self-assessment, the needs as defined by its legal mandate, and an external analysis of its prevailing context and environment. Careful and critical consideration of all the emerging issues informed the Council of KNDI (the Council) to shoulder-define the orientation of all its goals; and in a prioritized manner to assign its objectives, strategies and activities during the July 2020 to June 2025 period. That rationale of factors for consideration, definition of choices to be made, priorities assigned and objectives defined for the period are in the content of the KNDI Years 2020 – 25 Strategic Plan as presented in this document. The Plan has clear indicators that will benchmark the Institute’s progress, in the implementation of the Plan. Reference materials were useful in informing the rationale, processes and content that led to this Strategic Plan and are separately documented in the process report.

The preceding KNDI Strategic Plan for the period 2015 to 2020 successfully guided KNDI’s operations. It enabled the Institute to significantly increase its general visibility and the important attention of key stakeholders in the nutrition and dietetics profession in Kenya, and beyond. The Years 2020 – 2025 Strategic Plan builds on the successes, challenges and lessons learned from the previous Strategic Plan. The strategic planning process leading to this Plan was undertaken by a team comprising of the KNDI Secretariat as led by the CEO, members of the Council as led by the chairperson and co-opted members of Committees technically guided by Hess Consultants.

Under this Year’s 2020 – 2025 Strategic Plan, KNDI chooses to focus on four areas from which key strategic results will be achieved. The first three were maintained as identified in the years July 2015 – June 2020 strategic plan, while one more addition has been included in the current strategic period. The 2020 – 2025 Plan’s actions are therefore designed to respond to the challenges encountered during the 2015 – 2020 Plan; and to systematically harvest from the lessons learnt under that Plan, with the overall aim of making the Institute more efficient, effective and with great impact for the Kenyan, regional and global Population.  The set Key Result Areas for KNDI for the period in 2020 to 2025 are: a) To fully operationalize the Nutritionists and Dieticians Act No.18 of 2007 (the KNDI Act); b) To advance KNDI’s Organizational Development (OD); c) To Generate Resources for the Institute’s operations and d) Strengthen Universal Health Coverage (UHC), Food and Nutrition Security agenda for Kenya.

In pursuit of the above four key result areas expected to remain relevant in the medium term, KNDI will work towards achieving the following six (6) Strategic Objectives during the current July 2020 – June 2025 Strategic Plan period (or in short, the Years 2020 to 2025 Plan).

1. To establish a strong pre-service training, capacity building framework on skills, competencies, and empowerment for nutrition and dietetics professionals in the next five years.
2. To establish a Centre of Excellence in research coordination, quality assurance, documentation and innovations in nutrition and dietetics in the next five years.
3. To establish a resource mobilization and investment framework for the long-term sustainability of KNDI functions, in the next five years.
4. To develop and implement a KNDI communication and advocacy strategy in the next five years.
5. To strengthen the KNDI Secretariat for effective policy implementation, monitoring and evaluation, law enforcement and inspection in the next five years.
6. To build strong partnership with inter-governmental agencies and food/supplement marketing agencies to enhance universal health coverage, food and nutrition security in Kenya in the next five years.For successful long-term impact, the Kenya Nutritionist & Dieticians Institute is committed to oversee all its strategic and operational activities as documented in this Strategic Plan (2020-2025). Every year, as stipulated in the Institute’s Planning Cycle (Table 5.2). An Annual Work Plan will be developed and implemented, based on the Strategic Plan (2020-2025) framework. The accountability framework to be used in ensuring this Plan’s effective and efficient delivery is summarized in Table 1 below. The designated lead persons are expected to ensure that implementation of the planned activities is being consistently pursued, monitored, evaluated and reported while the learning is systematically extracted for forward application.

• Council Charter (Restricted-Access at KNDI HQ)
• Training Standards (Restricted-Access at KNDI HQ)
• Core Curriculum Guidelines-Degree (Restricted-Access at KNDI HQ)
• Core Curriculum Guidelines -Diploma (Restricted-Access at KNDI HQ)
• Core Curriculum Guidelines -Certificate (Restricted-Access at KNDI HQ)
• Checklist-Degree (Restricted-Access at KNDI HQ)
• Checklist-Diploma (Restricted-Access at KNDI HQ)
• Checklist-Certificate (Restricted-Access at KNDI HQ)
• Training Institution Site Inspection Tool (Degree, diploma and certificate) (Restricted-Access at KNDI HQ)
• Food company value chain inspection tool (Open)
• Internship Guidelines (Open)
• Internship Log Book (Open)
• Examination Policy (Open)
• CPD Guidelines. (Open)
• Scope of Practice and guidelines for norms and standards for health facilities. (Open)
• Code of Ethics and Oath of Practice. (Open)

STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES

The Council has approved 19 procedures for operations which are implemented by the Chief Executive Officer.

• PROCEDURE NUMBER 1: PROCEDURES FOR COUNCIL’S OPERATIONS- Ref: KNDI/SOP/2016/C/01 (Restricted-Access at KNDI HQ)
• PROCEDURE NUMBER 2: SOPS FOR DEALING WITH ACCREDITATION COMMITTEE OPERATIONS- Ref: KNDI/SOP/2016/AC/02 (Restricted-Access at KNDI HQ)
• PROCEDURE NUMBER 3: PROCEDURE FOR DEALING WITH REGISTRATION & DEREGISTARTION COMMITTEE FUNCTIONS- Ref: KNDI/SOP/2016/RC/03 (Restricted-Access at KNDI HQ)
• PROCEDURE NUMBER4: DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE RELATED OFFENSES- Ref: KNDI/SOP/2016/DC/04 (Restricted-Access at KNDI HQ)
• PROCEDURE NUMBER 5: OFFENSES RELATED TO MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS- Ref: KNDI/SOP/2016/AC/05 (Restricted-Access at KNDI HQ)
• PROCEDURE NUMBER 6: PROCEDURE FOR DISCIPLINING MEMBERS AND PROFESSIONALS- Ref: KNDI/SOP/2016/RC/06 (Open)
• PROCEDURE NUMBER 7: PROCEDURE FOR RECRUITMENT STAFF- Ref: KNDI/SOP/2016/FHR/07 (Restricted-Access at KNDI HQ)
• PROCEDURE NUMBER 8: EMPLOYEE INDUCTION- Ref: KNDI/SOP/2016/FHR/08 (Restricted-Access at KNDI HQ)
• PROCEDURE NUMBER 9: COORDINATION OF INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME- Ref: KNDI/SOP/2016/FHR/9 (Open)
• PROCEDURE NUMBER10: STAFF TRAINING- Ref: KNDI/SOP/2016/FHR/10/a (Restricted-Access at KNDI HQ)
• PROCEDURE NUMBER10: STAFF MOTIVATION AND RETENTION- Ref: KNDI/SOP/2016/FHR/10/b (Restricted-Access at KNDI HQ)

• PROCEDURE NUMBER11: POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND REVIEW- Ref: KNDI/SOP/2016/C/11 (Restricted-Access at KNDI HQ)
• PROCEDURE NUMBER 12: ACCREDITATION OF TRAINING INSTITUTIONS- Ref: KNDI/SOP/2016/QA/12 (Open)
• PROCEDURE NUMBER 13: REGISTRATION OF PROFESSIONALS- Ref: KNDI/SOP/2016/RC/13 (Open)
• PROCEDURE NUMBER 14: PROCEDURE FOR PROFESSIONAL EXAMINATION- Ref: KNDI/SOP/2016/Exams/14 (Open)
• PROCEDURE NUMBER 15: PROCEDURE FOR INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME- Ref: KNDI/SOP/2016/Intern/15 (Open)
• PROCEDURE NUMBER 16: PROCEDURES FOR RESEARCH AND SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATION SHARING- KNDI/SOP/2016/Research/16 (Open)
• PROCEDURE NUMBER 17: PROCEDURES INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS- Ref: KNDI/SOP/2016/IT/17 (Restricted-Access at KNDI HQ)
• PROCEDURE NUMBER 18: GUIDELINES FOR ETHICAL CLEARANCE BY ETHICS REVIEW COMMTEE AND TERMS OF REFERENCE- Ref: KNDI/SOP/2016/IT/18 (Open)
• PROCEDURE NUMBER 19: FINANCIAL AND ACCOUNTING POLICIES AND PROCEDURES MANUAL- Ref: KNDI/SOP/2019/F/19 (Restricted-Access at KNDI HQ)

1. Nutritionists and Dieticians Act, 18, 2007 (Cap 253b)
2. Health Laws (Amendment) May 2019
3. Legal Notice 216 of 2019
4. Legal Notice 120 of 2020