Duration: January 2016 – June 2017
Implementing partners: National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA)
Project location(s): Bauchi, Niger and Rivers States (11 LGAs)
Project description:
STEP-IN aimed to use innovative solutions to institutionalize and strengthen capacity building for managers and frontline officers in immunization and primary health care (PHC). To improve the quality of the PHC workforce, we created and trained a cadre of core trainers, i.e., lecturers drawn from academic institutions, who provided high quality, participatory and adaptive training for frontline health workers and managers in Bauchi, Niger and Rivers States.
Specifically, this project was to develop, implement, and evaluate a novel training approach that built and maintained a cohort of core trainers whose primary engagements were teaching in universities, and schools of health technology and of nursing. In this way, STEP-IN aimed to shift the paradigm on capacity building from an ad hoc, convenience-driven approach towards a sustainable, institutionalized and quality-driven model, thereby ensuring governments and partners’ investments in health worker training was optimized. The project was piloted in 11 LGAs in 3 states: Bauchi, Niger and Rivers.
Resources:
- Lessons from a training needs assessment to strengthen the capacity of routine immunization service providers in Nigeria (https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-019-4514-2)
Project themes/keywords: Training, Routine Immunization, Health Workforce