This programme was developed by DFID to support the work of PATHS (Partnership for Transforming Health Systems), DFID's longer-term systems strengthening programme which will be jointly responsible for needs assessment, by providing material inputs to improve access and service delivery in the DFID-supported states. The project also included the strengthening of sustainable procurement and logistics systems. Specifically, the project was set up to deliver essential medicines procured for use in government and private health facilities, as well as vaccines, syringes and cold chain equipment provided for routine immunization services. Other objectives were to procure essential equipment for the management of priority health conditions

The lack of functioning national data sources on maternal deaths and disabilities necessitated this project, to provide a reference point for programme managers, health advocates and policy makers. Public health researchers from referral institutions in Nigeria organized an effort to contribute their quota in the quest towards MDG-5 by providing good quality and reliable information on maternal deaths and disabilities on a continuous basis. Data on maternal near‐miss and death was collected by each of the participating hospitals for 1 year starting from 1 June 2012 through to 14 August 2013. Information on all women admitted for childbirth or within 42 days after giving birth or termination of pregnancy and who experienced life‐threatening complications was recorded. The surveillance was conducted across 42 (87.5%) of the 48 target tertiary health facilities (university hospitals and Federal Medical Centres) in Nigeria during this period.

The VTR suite of tools are scripted video-based health worker training applications. These videos loaded on tablets help healthcare workers in rural primary healthcare centres in Nigeria, understand how to evaluate and care for a baby with high temperature. Other videos teach how to care for a newborn and other issues healthcare workers frequently face in Nigeria. Developed by Instrat Global Health Solutions, the suite includes: VTR Mobile, a ‘Closed Version’ offered to institutions for training their staff, and VTR Direct, which is available to individuals through our public facing web portal. Users browse content, place orders, pay and view the purchased content and upon passing required tests, receive certification from organizations that have accredited the content.

In January 2019, a consortium consisting of Africare, Nigeria Health Watch, and EpiAFRIC was established to implement an 18-month community-informed maternal death review programme. The Giving Birth in Nigeria programme was conceptualized to provide an inquiry into the reasons pregnant women were dying in communities and to pilot a community accountability mechanism for maternal deaths.  The consortium surveyed six states, Kebbi, Bauchi, Bayelsa, Ebonyi, Lagos, Niger, and the FCT to ensure that all six geopolitical zones are covered. Insights listed in the report include the impact of local culture on the health-seeking behaviours of younger women, increased reliance on faith-based maternal health care over facility-based maternal health care, and the social and cultural factors that lead to an increasing affinity for traditional birth attendants in some communities.

Islamic Opinion Leaders was an information intervention aimed as empowering Islamic scholars to enlighten health providers at service delivery points, with the aim to improve health seeking behaviors for men and women. The training for the opinion leaders focused on teaching the correct Islamic precepts on: 1\. family planning/child spacing; 2\. being attended by male health workers; 3\. facility based antenatal care and delivery; 4\. allowing neonates and children to accept polio and routine immunization; and 5\. on age of marriage. The project design was informed by the basic assumption that the health seeking behaviour of women and men accessing services and the health providing practices of health workers in local communities in Northern Nigeria are affected by misperceptions and incorrect information about what is permitted or not permitted within Islam.