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Sector Activity Description Implementing Partner
 HIV/AIDS & TB Global HIV/AIDS Initiative (GHAIN)

GHAIN provides HIV/AIDS interventions including prevention, confidential HIV testing and counseling, prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, clinical care, antiretroviral therapy, prevention and treatment of tuberculosis, treatment of sexually transmitted infections, palliative and home-based care, support to orphans and vulnerable children, and prevention of transmission from people living with HIV/AIDS to uninfected partners. GHAIN provides voluntary counseling and testing services, provides anti-retroviral treatment to HIV-positive clients; and delivers TB treatment to patients co-infected with HIV.

Family Health International (FHI)
 HIV/AIDS & TB Comprehensive Integrated Approach to HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care in Nigeria (CHIPAC)

CHIPAC supports the adoption of healthy reproductive behavior among most at risk populations by working at the community level and integrating national level social marketing with community level interventions. The project is changing behavior through the use of peer facilitation, dramas, and target-specific materials. The project also reaches community-based organizations and in-school youth with educational programs and materials.

Society for Family Health (SFH)
Health Population and Nutrtion Community Participation for Action in the Social Sector (COMPASS)

COMPASS supports an integrated program of health activities in Kano State. The program includes child spacing, safe motherhood, routine immunization, malaria prevention and treatment, nutrition counseling, and polio eradication. COMPASS works with community coalitions that will expand existing community structures and bring together multiple health and education stakeholders, including other community-based and faith-based organizations. Community coalitions will instill a culture of accountability and serve as the foundation for integrated, sustainable interventions at the local level.

Pathfinder International
Conflict Mitigation Conflict Abatement through Local Mitigation (CALM)

CALM reduces conflict in targeted states by increasing the capacity of government institutions, civil society, political parties, and other stakeholders to prevent, manage, and mitigate the impacts of conflict. The program will develop cross-cultural and inter-religious awareness and sensitivity

International Foundation for Education and Self-Help (IFESH)
Family Planning and Reproductive Health Improved Reproductive Health in Nigeria (IRHIN)

The Improved Reproductive Health in Nigeria (IRHIN) project improves the understanding of, access to, and correct use of contraceptives to reduce unintended or mistimed pregnancies through the social marketing of contraceptive commodities.
Key activities in core states include training of patent medicine vendors, peer education and outreach, support to private clinics for family planning provision and promotion, and promotion, distribution and sale of contraceptives.

Society for Family Health (SFH)
Malaria NETMARK

NetMark seeks to increase the availability and use of insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) and long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) to prevent malaria, targeting pregnant women and children under five

Academy for Educational Development (AED)
Malaria Prepackaged anti-malarial treatment (PPT)

The Pre-Packaged Treatment activity provides medical access to Nigeria’s most vulnerable populations through the social marketing of prepackaged malaria treatment and the revision of the national malaria treatment policy, including the introduction of a subsidized artemisinin combination-based therapy that is more effective against chloroquine-resistant malaria. The activity builds the capacity of patent medicine vendors, the most important source of malaria drugs in Nigeria, to identify early signs of malaria, provide efficacious treatment, and refer patients to appropriate facilities in cases of complication

Population Services International (PSI)
Agriculture Maximizing Agricultural Revenue and Key Enterprises in Targeted Sites (MARKETS)

MARKETS works along the commodity development chain to transform traditional Nigerian agriculture from low input/low output, subsistence farming to commercially competitive agriculture, focusing initially on rice, sorghum and cereals, cowpeas and other legumes, aquaculture, and dairy. In Kano MARKETS had helped develop a cowpea value chain by promoting and facilitating private sector investment in processing and marketing of commercial products containing cowpea flour. This has created a value-added market for cowpeas and linked these businesses to on-going efforts to improve the productivity and farm-gate price of cowpea for targeted farmer groups

Chemonics International
Economic Policy Restructured Economic Framework for Openness, Reform, and Macroeconomic Stability (REFORMS)

REFORMS aims to improve the policy environment and address major impediments to economic growth in Nigeria. Program components include budgetary process and procurement oversight; capacity building for government institutions and civil society organizations involved in the policy process; and implementation of policy reforms in key sectors. Work is ongoing at Federal level and selected states, including Kano. REFORMS has signed an MOU with the state government laying out specific areas of work and state government contributions. Specific capacity building activities in 2007 at state level have included training in monitoring and evaluation, revenue forecasting, procurement due process, and medium term expenditure frameworks.

Development alternatives Inc. (DAI)
Last Updated on: March 05, 2009