Since 2016, the Saving Mothers Giving Life (SMGL) initiative, supported by USAID, in collaboration with We Care Solar, an American NGO, have installed 50 solar electric suitcases to ‘light childbirth’ in 97 health facilities in Cross River and improve the quality of care. According to the Quality of Care Network, the lighting solution helped reduced the facility maternal mortality ratio by 55% and the perinatal mortality rate by over 40% in two years.

SAMiN used a strategic advocacy approach including budget advocacy and strengthening accountability mechanisms at the national level and five targeted states in Nigeria. Key milestones of the project included advocacy visits to the Executive Governor of Bauchi State for the timely release of MNCH funds and improved health sector budget performance.

The Care and Treatment for Sustained Support (CaTSS) Project, funded by the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) through USAID and implemented by Management Sciences for Health (MSH), aims to sustain HIV and TB care and treatment services in five states in Nigeria. Some project highlights include; supportive supervisory, mentoring, and coaching visits to health facilities in the five project states to improve the delivery of equitable and client-centered prevention of mother-to-child transmission services to HIV-positive pregnant or breastfeeding women and their infants. According to Management Sciences for Health, over the life of the project, 415,624 pregnant women who attended antenatal care in supported health facilities were provided with HIV testing services and learned their HIV status the same day. Of the newly identified HIV-positive pregnant women, 97.3% were started on ART to prevent mother-to-child transmission.

This project aimed to improve The Centre for Population and Environmental Development's (CPED) research and advocacy work on health systems research related to maternal and child health. CPED and its partners recommended strategies to improve maternal and child health services in the study area's communities. The project team conducted implementation research on innovative maternal and child health care approaches. They also promoted knowledge translation and scaling-up.

In 2016, the Jummai Babangida Maternal and Neonatal Hospital , Minna then under General Hospital Minna was one of eight secondary/tertiary hospitals in four geo-political zones of the country where the Women’s Health and Action Research Centre (WHARC), with support from the World Health Organization conducted formative research to determine the rates of maternal deaths, the circumstances under which women receive emergency obstetrics care in the hospitals and the views and perspectives of patients, caregivers and senior officials with regards to the quality of care offered in the hospitals. It is within this context that WHARC, with support from the World Health Organization and the Macarthur Foundation designed a series of activities and interventions aimed at improving the provision of quality maternal health care and reducing maternal mortality ratios at the Jummai Babangida Aliyu Maternal and Neonatal hospital, Minna.