Community Participation for Action in the Social Sector (COMPASS) was a four-year project funded by USAID in partnership with the Federal Government of Nigeria. Led by Pathfinder International, COMPASS aimed to improve the quality of health care and education in Nigeria’s communities. The project included five American organizations and four Nigerian partners and laid the foundation for sustainable improvements in reproductive health/family planning, child survival and basic education. CCP led the implementation of community mobilization, demand creation, communications and communication-support activities.
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ENHANSE, a five-year project funded by USAID, supported increased use of child survival and reproductive health services and increased demand for quality education and training, and strengthened community environments to reduce the impact of HIV/AIDS. CCP’s role was to create channels and opportunities for improved communication among USAID partners and strengthen the civil society response in Nigeria.
In Africa's most populous country, the Ku Saurara! project, funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, educated and empowered a generation of young people to improve their reproductive health through innovative mass media, community mobilization, and network strengthening. Reaching over 1 million, the Ku Saurara! radio variety show, feature fils and community activities fueled demand for youth health services. The project expanded its outreach to include trainings for service providers in interpersonal communication and counseling to ensure friendly and professional health services for young people.
The Measurement, Learning & Evaluation (MLE) Project, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation, is the evaluation component of the Urban Reproductive Health Initiative (Urban RH Initiative).The Knowledge Management (KM) team of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (JHU∙CCP) facilitates knowledge sharing; documents and disseminates best practices about successful urban family planning interventions; and ensures that data and information are available to inform reproductive health and family planning (RH/FP) programming at the local, country, regional and global levels for the MLE Project.
MLE is implemented in partnership with the University of North Carolina’s Carolina Population Center [5], the African Population and Health Research Center [5] and the International Center for Research on Women [5].
NetWorks [6]
The NetWorks team is composed of JHU∙CCP, Malaria Consortium, Catholic Relief Services, Mennonites Economic Development Association (MEDA), consultants from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and International Procurement Agency (IPA), and a wide range of FBO in-country collaborating organizations. NetWorks is a five-year USAID/Washington global project that partners with country missions to improve and establish sustainable net access and use.
Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Nigerian Urban Reproductive Health Initiative (NURHI) brings together the expertise of international and Nigerian partners the Nigerian Association for Reproductive and Family Health and the Center for Communication Programs Nigeria to reduce supply and demand barriers to the use of family planning services in urban Nigeria. Tasked with increasing the contraceptive prevalance rate by 20 percentage points, NUHRI aims to harness the potential of Nigeria’s dynamic environment to improve services and healthful lifestyles now, before pressures on the urban health infrastructure lead to systems overload. The program is bringing together private and public sector resources to strengthen the delivery of family health services while gradually increasing demand for such services across project sites. Focused in six urban centers (Abuja FCT, Benin City, Ibadan, Ilorin, Kaduna and Zaria), NURHI is developing workable approaches that will provide rapid scale-up models for other urban areas in Nigeria and the African continent.
Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa, and more than two-thirds of its population lives on less than $2/day. Inadequate health care and basic education often go hand-in-hand with high levels of poverty. Access to quality education and health services is declining. Nigerian authorities recognize the need to address low education, health, gender equity, and economic indicators and drop-out and repetition rates among students that exceed the national average in Bauchi and Sokoto states. The number of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC), including boys leaving home, remains high in the north, and systems for identifying and supporting them are only beginning to develop.
In partnership with the Federal Government of Nigeria, USAID launched the Northern Education Initiative in 2009 to help local and state agencies to reinforce their role in delivering quality basic education services and to meet the needs of OVC. The Initiative aims to strengthen state and local government capacity to deliver basic education services by addressing key issues in the management, sustainability and oversight of basic education in two northern states of Bauchi and Sokoto. The Initiative also seeks to increase the access of OVC to basic education and services such as health information and counseling.
Led by Creative Associates, the Initiative comprises three American organizations and two Nigerian partners. JHUCCP leads the implementation of community mobilization activities as well as the implementation of OVC wrap-around component of the project.
Partnership for Reviving Routine Immunization in Northern Nigeria (PRRINN), a five-year project funded by DFID, is focused on improving routine immunization coverage in four northern Nigerian states: Jigawa, Katsina, Yobe and Zamfara. Led by a consortium of three prime partners -- HPI, Save the Children UK and GRID -- PRRINN’s goal is to improve immunization coverage in a sustainable manner and strengthen both routine immunization systems and by extension, the primary health care system. CCP provides technical expertise in communication, operational research and community mobilization. CCP designs appropriate communication strategies, provides training and support, and implements methodologies to increase demand for, and improve the supply of, routine immunization services.
The Support to National Malaria Programme (SuNMaP) is the largest malaria control project ever funded by DFID. Led by the Malaria Consortium, the five-year project aims to increase access to, and coverage of, preventive and curative malaria control interventions in at least 6 Nigerian states, starting in Anambra, Kano, Lagos, Katsina, Niger and Ogun. SuNMaP harmonizes donor efforts and funding agencies around agreed-upon national policies and plans for malaria control, and will strengthen the National Malaria Control Program to provide crucial coordination. The program’s approach is focused on reaching the poor and vulnerable with interventions such as long lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs, capacity development of the public sector, and strengthening public-private partnerships. CCP’s role is to increase community awareness and demand for effective malaria treatment and prevention.
