NCWS, NPHCDA Partner
NCWS, NPHCDA Partner on Routine Immunisation in
Nigeria
The National Council for Women Societies, NCWS, has partnered
with the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, NPHDA,
with a view to improving on the ongoing Routine Immunization in the
country.
PRNigeria[1] reports that NCWS is
working with PAS under PACFaH@Scale, a social accountability
project which aims to strengthen the capacity of Nigerian Civil
Society Organisations, CSOs, at national and state level to hold
decision-makers in the country.
The PACFaH@Scale project is funded by the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation and anchored by the development, Research and
Project Centre, dRPC.
Speaking during a courtesy visit at NPHCDA headquarters, Abuja
on Monday, the National President of the NCWS, Dr. Gloria
Laraba-Shoda, stressed the need for the partnership, considering
some challenges hindering the successes of the Routine Immunization
in the country.
She said: ”We are imploring on the NPHCDA to embrace and
accommodate us, as an important accountability network. We are in
the process of developing a scorecard for Routine Immunization
performance and will appreciate it if you also assist us in setting
a list of indicators for the scorecard and other technical
support.
“We also need inclusion into the central Routine Immunization
system in the National Emergency Routine Immunization Coordination
Centre (NERICC),” Mrs Laraba-Shoda added.
Responding, the NPHCDA’s Executive-Director, Dr. Shuaib Faisal,
commended the women society for the visit, pledging to do
everything possible to assist the association in its quest to stamp
out polio in the country.
He said: “As far as I am concerned, we are partners in progress.
We have had a long history of collaboration with the NCWS, from
Polio Eradication to Family Planning and so on.”