According to a case study by the The State Accountability and Voice Initiative (SAVI), MNCH members analysed the Jigawa State 2013 Ministry of Health budget and found that free maternal, newborn and child health services, nutrition and the Drug Revolving Fund were all lumped together in the same budget line. They organised a round table discussion with Ministry of Health and other relevant stakeholders to discuss their analysis and make recommendations for the 2014 budget. One of these was for a separate budget line for free maternal, newborn and child health services. When the budget was released in 2015, this recommendation had been followed.

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According to UNICEF, some of the project's results include: a) 87% of PHCs in four priority LGAs supported to have at least 2 midwives, from a baseline of 20% (b) Health facility coverage (health facilities reporting deliveries) in Kebbi increased on the Child Survival scorecard from 23% to 35% over 2018 and Institutional Deliveries improved to 37% from 12%, Deliveries by SBA improved to 42% by third quarter of implementation, from a baseline of 17% (c) The proportion of women attending ANC for the 1st visit improved to 96% from 46% (d) Data completeness and quality have also substantially improved over the year. (e) Increased stakeholder participation and buy-in at the highest level bringing to fore the child health issues and priorities (f) The data driven approach of AAI has been integrated into national plans as a strategy to fast track progress working closely with the Federal Ministry of Health and National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) (g) Adoption and implementation of the data analytics approach in a contextualized manner in additional four States. (h) Development partners are rallying around the AAI approach and collaboration among partners is promoting synergies in support of State led plans and priorities.

In a November 2019 report by The Nation, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health Sokoto, Mr. Abubakar Muhammad, said that with the support from the Carter Center, the state embarked on training of local birth attendants. According to him, over 3,000 were trained and are now being absorbed into the Sokoto State Civil Service. In May 2019, Kenneth Korve, who leads the initiative from the Carter Center’s office in Jos, Plateau state noted that the state had procured furniture, computers, laboratory equipment, consumables such as reagents, plus accessories that are used in the classroom skill labs in the first phase of the initiative. Korve continued by saying that in mid-2019, the state would procure and deliver a second round of such materials.

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