Project type: Advocacy
Duration: October 2015 – December 2017
Project description:
This project sought to catalyze the roll out of a comprehensive, cascading advocacy strategy by several advocacy partners coordinated through a national platform including Gates foundation-funded health advocacy partnerships. It aimed to stimulate strategic advocacy to enable timely, evidence-based policies and decisions to bridge the funding gap for immunization in Nigeria. This was achieved by equipping national advocates with evidence, analyses, key messages and capacity. Also, a critical mass of women advocates was built to push for an expanded vaccine budget and for innovative financing to achieve greater equity and immunization coverage.
Approach:
- Build an evidence base to guide the development and refreshment of advocacy strategies, messages and tactics.
- Strengthen the national coordination of advocacy on vaccine financing through a national platform.
- Cultivate champions and empower a network of existing women’s groups to raise new voices for vaccines via the platform of the Women Advocates for Vaccine Access (WAVA).
- Support a broader set of advocacy partners already engaged in health advocacy, with information and skills needed to be effective in fiscal advocacy for routine immunization.
- Coordinate a small grants program for CSOs.
Project themes/keywords: Advocacy, Immunization Financing