The Maternal and Child Mortality Reduction Programme was established to map out strategies for the reduction of the high mortality indices in the State. The overarching goal was to reduce the maternal and child mortality rates in line the MDGs 4, 5 and 6. The objectives of the program include: improving the health seeking behaviors of women of childbearing age in the state, increasing the quality of care provided to pregnant women and children, improving the knowledge and skills of health providers to provide qualitative maternal and child health services, and increasing the utilization of the Public Health Facilities in the State.

WHARC received a 3-year grant from the Ford Foundation in 2012 to implement a project titled: "Using Empirical Evidence to scale up Policies and Programs to reduce Adverse Sexual and Reproductive Health Outcomes in Nigeria." With support from the grant, WHARC aimed to distill evidence-based information about the sexual and reproductive health of Nigerian women and adolescents into easily accessible formats for individuals and key stakeholders, including policymakers.

MamaYe is a public action campaign initiated by Evidence For Action (E4A) MamaYe uses tools like scorecards, dashboards, and maternal death reviews (MDRs) to support evidence building and decision-making by policy makers and to advocate for positive health system changes.

The Maternal Newborn and Child Health (MNCH2) is a UK government funded program focused in 6 of Nigeria's northern states. The program aims to improve maternal and newborn child health through increased skilled birth attendance, antenatal care attendance, immunisation rates, newborns receiving low-cost, live-saving interventions, and pregnant women and children protected from vaccine-preventable diseases. MNCH2 aims to increase skilled birth attendance from 19 to 45 per cent across the six northern states, and it estimates that it will save the lives of 60,000 children, 42,000 newborns and 2,000 pregnant women in the six programme states while providing 6.3 million high quality MNCH services to women and children.

The project aimed at increasing access to maternal health services through the provision of affordable and timely means of transportation to health facilities for women in maternal health emergencies. The Emergency Transport Scheme provided routine transportation to pregnant women and newborns in maternal emergencies to health facilities; it created awareness and demand for interventions in Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps and host communities and actively engaged government and community stakeholders for project ownership and uptake of services.