AHBN to Continue Coordinating Implementation of Collaborative Advocacy Action Plan in Nigeria
The Africa Health Budget Network (AHBN) has signed a significant agreement with the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH), hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO), to continue coordinating the implementation of the 2025 Collaborative Advocacy Action Plan in Nigeria. This partnership underscores AHBN’s commitment to improving the health outcomes of women, children, and adolescents in Nigeria.
This is contained in a statement signed by Sulaiman Jallo to Pulse Time Nigeria on Thursday.
The objectives of the CAAP initiative are designed to accelerate progress on reducing maternal, newborn, and child mortality and morbidity, while also promoting sexual and reproductive health and rights. To achieve these goals, AHBN will work closely with various constituencies, including:
* Civil society organizations,Media outlets,Parliamentarians,Policymakers Among others
According to Dr. Aminu Magashi Garba, Coordinator of AHBN, the CAAP will serve as a unifying framework that strengthens collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Health and constituencies to accelerate progress on WCAH issues. This collaboration is expected to yield several benefits, including: Improved evidence-based decision-making, Enhanced advocacy efforts,Increased domestic resource mobilization for WCAH issues
Dr. Magashi emphasized that the advocacy goals outlined in the CAAP plan aim to advance key national priorities such as the Health Sector Renewal Investment Initiative (HSRII), the Sector-Wide Approach (SWAp), and Nigeria’s MNCH Acceleration Plan under the Every Woman Every Newborn Everywhere (EWENE) agenda.
Through this partnership, However AHBN will mobilize multi-sectoral stakeholders, including youth, civil society, media, those with lived experiences, parliamentarians, and policymakers, to accelerate action and accountability for WCAH in Nigeria.
The agreement highlights AHBN’s commitment to building resilient advocacy ecosystems and ensuring that Nigeria’s health reforms deliver tangible results to improve the health of women, children, and adolescents. By working together with various stakeholders, AHBN aims to create a robust and sustainable advocacy environment that promotes the health and well-being of vulnerable populations.
PMNCH has adopted a partner-led approach to deepen accountability for commitments made towards women’s, children’s, and adolescents’ health (WCAH), in order to accelerate WCAH outcomes. The approach centers around more collaborative and coordinated engagement among partners around key WCAH advocacy priorities through the Collaborative Advocacy Action Plan (CAAP) initiative.
The CAAP initiative is underway in prioritized countries, including Ethiopia, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, the United Republic of Tanzania, and Zambia. In each of these countries, a Coordinating Partner has brought together diverse partners to develop the CAAP plan based on a scoping and assessment of government commitments and through a multi-constituency approach.
This effort also includes developing a Digital Advocacy Hub ,an online platform to facilitate exchanges among partners, including information about key developments and occurrences in the health sector, contribution of knowledge, resources, and ideas to advance government-led plans, as well as joint-work analysis of barriers and opportunities for coordinated action to advance mutual accountability.
Pulse Time Nigeria reports that This collaboration reinforces AHBN’s commitment to build resilient advocacy ecosystems and ensure that Nigeria’s health reforms deliver tangible results to improve the health of the most vulnerable women, children, and adolescents.