Jigawa state health officials presented the successful findings from the Kadawawa pilot study to the State Assembly and advocated employment of more female CHEWs to scale up the service model. Their efforts were successful, and the Gunduma Health System Board subsequently budgeted for recruitment of additional female CHEWs. Communities and associated facilities were identified for the preliminary phase of expansion in 2013 to up to 30 locations, with associated plans for establishing CHEW residential accommodations. This entailed an allocation of an additional 20 million NGN in the Gunduma Health System Board budget, signaling endorsement of the pilot model as an effective and scalable strategy across the state. Fifteen new health posts were refurbished and equipped, and an additional 60 female CHEWs were hired to expand the community-based service delivery model into 30 new sites. In addition, 30 ‘‘gender-sensitive’’ motorcycles were procured for female CHEWs to facilitate their home visits. Some of the budgeted funds were also used to purchase material incentives (baby wipes, soap,birth towels for newborn babies, wrappers, delivery kits) for pregnant women who delivered at the refurbished health facilities. To ensure sustainability, the State Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development, the Gunduma Councils, and the Ministry of Local Government established a pooled fund to support community-based service delivery activities.

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A post completion review noted that the programme was responsible for the growth of Family Planning services by 5,200% in Nigeria (from 25,000 to 1.3 million).

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Results achieved as of March 2013 include: Training 1,611 health workers to provide maternal and child health services and information, including: (1) training 248 nurse-midwives and community resource people to provide skilled pre- and post-natal care to about 100,000 pregnant women and their newborns; (2) training and equipping 280 Community Health Extension Workers to provide community-based newborn care; (3) training 60 health care providers and 30 people living with HIV to provide prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV services to an estimated 3,000 HIV-exposed infants; and (4) training 71 health workers on the Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses - an integrated, preventive and curative approach to child health implemented by families, communities, and health facilities. In addition, the implementing partners (UNICEF, WHO and UNFPA) - in coordination with other development partners - assisted the Government of Nigeria to roll-out Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Weeks, results of which (as of March 2013) include: (1) helping to reach over four million pregnant women with essential maternal health services (such as insecticide-treated bed nets, anti-malaria drugs, and health education), and more than 23 million children under the age of five with essential life-saving interventions (including Vitamin A supplements, de-worming tablets, and nutrition support); (2) reaching over three million caregivers with training on the prevention of leading diseases affecting mothers and children (sleeping inside insecticide treated bed nets, using oral rehydration solutions to treat diarrhea, completing immunizations, hand washing, antenatal care and preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV); (3) providing information on the gender barriers to maternal, newborn and child health services to about 3.5 million women and men; and (4) mobilizing additional funds of US$11 million to procure contraceptive commodities; These have contributed to strengthening primary health care systems to provide quality gender-sensitive health services to women, newborns and children and increasing demand for these health services by communities.