Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Years of mechanism: 2007 2008 2009

Details for Mechanism ID: 5270
Country/Region: Nigeria
Year: 2009
Main Partner: Abt Associates
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: Private Contractor
Funding Agency: USAID
Total Funding: $450,000

Funding for Strategic Information (HVSI): $450,000

Health Systems 20/20 shares the vision of USAID/Nigeria to harness political will and resources across

public and private health sectors to build innovative, replicable, high-quality, and sustainable HIV/AIDS and

TB services as well as to build requisite support for national health systems, including information systems

and human capacity development. Under the PEPFAR I initiative, Nigeria has produced impressive results

in prevention, treatment, care, and support of HIV/AIDS services in selected states. As PEPFAR enters

phase II, health system strengthening (HSS) will become a primary focus of expanding and sustaining

activities initiated under PEPFAR 1.

In the last 5 years, Abt Associates under the Partners for Health Reform Plus project and now Health

Systems 20/20 project, has successfully completed multiple national strategic information activities including

an HIV/AIDS costing study, a public sector human resources for health assessment, an HIV/AIDS service

provision assessment, and most recently an HIV/AIDS health system assessment in Nigeria. During those

assessments Abt Associates has collaborated with Federal and State level institutions Dept. of Public

Health, NACA, NASCP, a local NGO, the African Health Project and consultants. It has been challenging to

find a local organization/university in which to institutionalize local skills and capacity for these assessments

and build up a local knowledge repository. It is clear from recent studies that Nigeria has a significant

amount of strategic information already on hand, including the HIV/AIDS Service Provision Assessment, the

Human Resources Assessments, and the Health System Assessment. ART costing data was used for

USAID/Nigeria planning during the early years of PEPFAR. National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA)

and National AIDS/STD Control Program (NASCAP) have used human resources data for HIV/AIDS

program planning.

Health Systems 20/20 will work in collaboration with two of the following organizations: APIN, African Health

Project, Zaria Training Institute, or the Nigeria Institute for Social and Economic Research (NISER) to build

their capacities to use Geographic Information System (GIS) software. Thirty individuals will be trained.

Existing data will be used to generate maps coupled with HIV/AIDS epidemiological data and Human

Resources for Health (HRH) data to show the distribution of human resources available to deliver HIV

services in each area. Recent experience from other countries has shown that using GIS mapping to

display several levels of analysis is extremely useful for policy planning. In COP09 HS 20/20 will work in

close collaboration with the USGSI team to Implement the following activities:

1.Work with a local institution (University) to build local M&E capacity

2.Review existing data sources (including human resources, health system, and service provision

assessments, as well as epidemiological, financing, and other data sources) and consolidate federal & state

level HIV/AIDS and related information as GIS databases.

3.Train 30 program managers and planners to use GIS software to analyze data and create maps for

budgeting, program expansion etc.

4.Apply GIS skills to conduct targeted analysis of national HIV/AIDS service delivery

5.Mentor newly trained GIS software users throughout the analysis process

6.Interpret findings and write technical reports

New/Continuing Activity: Continuing Activity

Continuing Activity: 12984

Continued Associated Activity Information

Activity Activity ID USG Agency Prime Partner Mechanism Mechanism ID Mechanism Planned Funds

System ID System ID

12984 10297.08 U.S. Agency for Abt Associates 6360 5270.08 USAID Track $450,000

International 2.0 FS Health

Development 20/20

10297 10297.07 U.S. Agency for Abt Associates 5270 5270.07 PHRPlus $500,000

International

Development

Emphasis Areas

Human Capacity Development

Estimated amount of funding that is planned for Human Capacity Development $150,000

Public Health Evaluation

Food and Nutrition: Policy, Tools, and Service Delivery

Food and Nutrition: Commodities

Economic Strengthening

Education

Water

Table 3.3.17:

Cross Cutting Budget Categories and Known Amounts Total: $150,000
Human Resources for Health $150,000