May
01
Evidence from the past nine years of FP commodity financing showed that donors account for more than 70% of all funds used for FP commodity procurement in the country. The funding gap widens as demand for FP services increases. In the quest for improving funding for FP commodity procurement, DGI...
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Apr
28
UHC-related policy thrusts like any other social policy often suffer implementation setbacks at the grassroots due to lack of capacity and ownership at that level. The LGAs have important roles to play in the implementation of public policies being the closest tier of government to the citizenry but they hardly feature...
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Apr
26
Signing the National Health Bill into an Act at the twilight of President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration in 2014 was greeted with euphoria largely because it paved the way for implementation of the Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF). The euphoria was understandable because the BHCPF was envisaged to play a pivotal...
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Apr
06
Nigeria's Huge TB burden is largely attributable to the wide gap in financing TB activities articulated in the National TB Strategic Plan; in 2018, only a quarter of funds needed for TB implementation was mobilized. Domestic financing accounted for less than 10% of the annual budget for TB in Nigeria,...
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Mar
25
Towards achieving sustainable financing for TB in supported states, DGI Consult with funding from USAID TB LON3 project supported each of Oyo, Ogun, and Lagos States’ Health Insurance Agencies to develop a roadmap for integration of TB services into their respective benefits package. The integration roadmaps were developed alongside coverage...
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Mar
25
As part of efforts geared towards sustainable financing for TB in supported states, DGI Consult with funding from USAID TB LON3 project has commenced series of activities aimed at strengthening institutional capacity for TB budget advocacy and integrating TB into State Health Insurance Schemes benefit package. In January 2021, DGI...
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Feb
06
Government spending on health in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) falls short of recommended benchmarks needed to make significant progress towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC). As a case in point, Lesotho was the only SSA country that spent up to 5% of its GDP on health in 2018, while there was no...
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Dec
21
The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 is one of the 17 SDGs established by the United Nations in 2015 which aims to achieve zero hunger by 2030. Click here to view this newsletter
Dec
21
The House of Representatives Committee on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has debunked reports that the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals (OSSAP-SDGs spent N26.9 billion in COVID-19 funds. Click here to view this newsletter
Dec
21
As part of efforts geared towards bridging the resource gap for family planning commodity procurement and distribution, DGI Consult was engaged by the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) to conduct fiscal space analysis for family planning commodity financing at the national level and in Lagos and Kaduna States. The project...
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