The Nigerian Urban Reproductive Health Initiative (NURHI) was a five-year project (2009 – 2015) funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) to reduce barriers to family planning (FP) use and to achieve the goal of increasing the contraceptive prevalence rate by at least 20 percentage points in selected urban areas of Nigeria (Ibadan, Ilorin, Kaduna, Abuja FCT, Zaria and Benin City). The programme also had an evaluation component called the Measurement, Learning & Evaluation (MLE) Project.

In 2009, WHARC was awarded a grant by the MacArthur Foundation in support of research to improve policies and programs for promoting maternal health in six Nigerian states. In a multicenter intervention study to investigate the effectiveness of an intervention aimed at improving the case management of eclampsia, WHARC re-trained doctors and midwives in selected hospitals to manage eclampsia using magnesium sulfate according to the Pritchard protocol.

The EVERY ONE Campaign was Save the Children’s first Global Campaign and began in 2009/2010, running until 2015 to coincide with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs1). Nigeria was one of the campaign's priority countries.

In response to the 2008 Nigeria Demographic Health Survey (NDHS), which put Ondo State as having the worst maternal and child health indices in the southwest of Nigeria, the state implemented a program to address the four most prevalent reasons why women in the state die during or after childbirth. Ondo State trained 'health rangers' to monitor pregnant women in their ward. The health rangers helped women register with health facilities, prepared birth plans, and accompanied them to antenatal appointments. The government provided transportation for the health rangers, motorbikes and a fleet of ambulances, to ensure that women easily reached health facilities without delays. Ondo State also upgraded and refurbished primary health facilities, provided medical supplies and personnel trained in safe delivery practices, emergency obstetric care, and newborn care. It also created two hospitals to handle emergencies and referrals.

MNCH Week (MNCHW) is a week-long event organized by the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), State Primary Health Care development agencies, and the State Ministries of Health. The week is organised to deliver an integrated package of highly cost-effective and curative services/interventions like antenatal care in order to strengthen the routine PHC services. The NPHCDA describes the week as ‘a simple one-time delivery mechanism that consolidates services that are likely to immediately demonstrate impact in terms of significantly increasing coverage levels of core preventive and curative interventions that can improve the health of mothers and children'.