According to the EU, the main activities and achievements of the project included: (1) Built capacity of 40 health facilities to provide Basic Emergency Obstetric Care services; (2) Built capacity of 4000 community health workers and 400 community health extension workers; (3) Supported government to conduct mapping of existing health financing schemes; (4) Supported the scale up phase of the community health insurance scheme; (5) Upgraded 20 health facilities as centres of excellence currently providing Emergency Obstetric Care; (6) Supported 451 ward focal facilities with medical equipment, drugs and supplies; (7) Revitalised and supported 21 LGA management committees to hold monthly meetings; (8) Built the Capacity of 1,500 health workers to provide integrated nutrition services at facility level; (9) Strengthened the periodic PHC reviews to improve local planning and monitoring; (10) Supported the development of the State Strategic Health Development Plan (2016-2020).

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Utilizing lessons learned from the m4Change project, with funding from the UN Foundation, Pathfinder launched the m4Change + mCCT project in 2014. Through this project, Pathfinder provided technical assistance to SURE-P to adopt the use of a mobile application to track pregnant mothers enrolled in the Conditional Cash Transfer scheme. Through the m4Change + mCCT project, Pathfinder supported SURE-P to: implement mobile money transfers as an alternative to cash-based disbursements; track the progress of pregnant women enrolled in the CCT scheme using real-time data to inform programming; and ultimately improve the efficiencies of the program.

In addition to selling Mothers Delivery Kits, the Brown Button Foundation host trainings to teach traditional birth attendants how to use the kits. At the time of our interview with them, the foundation had hosted 347 trainings, delivered over 500,000 kits and reached 186 communities all over the country. In the Northern part of Nigeria, where the organization has identified as “the area of greatest need,” the team has worked in 6 states and counting.

For example, the Minimum Standards for Primary Healthcare explains the use of Community Resource Persons (CORPS) when it comes to maternal healthcare. CORPS are encouraged to perform the following services: Partner with skilled providers by encouraging women to enrol for essential pre- and Post-natal care; Act as community educators to lend support for accurate maternal and neonatal health messages; and Identify pregnant women in the community who might need maternity services and distribute commodities/drugs to pregnant women in the community.