| 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) |