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NIGERIA: DEMONSTRATION COMMUNITY-BASED SOCIAL AUDIT OF HEALTH SERVICES IN BAUCHI AND CROSS RIVER, 2006 |
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NIGERIA: Demonstration community-based social audit of health services in Bauchi and Cross River, 2006
In its National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy, the Nigerian government gives high priority to the improvement of health services as a way to empower its population, especially the poor and vulnerable. One of the major strategies is to improve the evidence on which health services are planned, and create new mechanisms to generate and to use evidence for developing and implementing health policy and programmes.
In April 2006, with support from the Canadian International Development Research Centre (IDRC), CIET initiated a baseline social audit of health service performance and information needs in two Nigerian states, Bauchi and Cross River.
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Interviewers training in Bauchi |
The aim of this pilot project is to demonstrate a tool for policy makers and donors that can raise the quality of health services and minimise system leakage. It is expected to a) reveal some of the dynamics and the type of data generated by a community based social audit, b) develop communication strategies to illustrate its likely dissemination and education implications, and c) identify the capacity development and other needs of an evidence-based planning environment, focusing on linkages between data sources and planning processes, including population-weighted mapping.
The project seeks to foster the development of locally informed strategies for dealing with underperformance of public services, giving communities a say in the delivery of health services and enabling planners to better understand household decision-making about health and use of health services.
This pilot project falls within the Nigeria Evidence-based Health System Initiative (NEHSI), a collaborative project between IDRC's Governance, Equity and Health Programme Initiative and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), with the Government of Nigeria, aimed at strengthening an evidence-based primary health system in the two states.
For more information, contact cietafrica@ciet.org.
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