Women’s Economic Empowerment – BMGF



From the 2017 and 2021 national budget, N6.8 billion has been allocated to family planning, out of which N3.6 billion was released. What was observed was that not all funds allocated were released especially in 2017 and 2018 where 93% and 33% of the fund allocated were released respectively. Also, the N809 million allocated in 2021 fiscal year has not been released. Recall that the N900 million funding gap for 2019 was proposed to be released from the Service Wide Vote (SWV)

The Global Initiative for Women and Children (GIWAC), a subgrantee of the PAS project, says CSOs in Kaduna state will engage the Consultant hired by the state government to survey the new 255 health facilities to be rehabilitated or reconstructed…

A physical Space Analysis (FSA) Dissemination meeting attended by donors, government agencies, and BMGF grantees working in the FP space in Kaduna state discussed policy issues and challenges facing FP in the state. CHAI supported the one-day meeting, which sought…

The strategic objective of the one-hour phone in program conducted at Kaduna state media cooperation (KSMC) by the Interfaith Mediation Center (IMC-PAS) was to create awareness about the processes, benefit and challenges involved in Routine Immunization integrated (RI) budgeting processes…

Organized the Development Forum in conjunction with the state government; the roundtable forum was organized to discuss how the state can accelerate economic growth and development. However, most of the presentations centered on how investment in the health sector can increase economic development possibilities for the state.

PAS coalition then raised concern over poor reproductive health funding which they said has led to failure of the nation to record any meaningful change in family and child health due not only to poor funding but poor releases of the meagre funding allocated.

PAS coalition revealed that an implementation memo was sent to KDHSMA to follow up the process with the identification of UNFPA, who agreed to do the procurement internationally when the process is completed.