The dRPC is one of Nigeria’s leading health-facing CSO with over 30 years implementing 18 public health projects with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; USAID Implementing Partners such as Management Sciences for Health; and family foundations such as the Packard Foundation as well as many other partners.

The dRPC works to expand the decisional space for health CSO to be included and lead in the design, implementation and assessment of  Universal, Primary and Women’s health policies and interventions. To achieve this objective, the dRPC works to strengthening the organizational and technical capacities of civil society organizations (NGOs; CBOs; FBOs; health professional associations; and in particular women-led FBOs and Women-led health professional associations) to support, guide and lead changes in Universal, Primary and Women’s health.

To advance these goals the dRPC trained, sub-granted to and mentored more than 102 health facing civil society groups to engage in policy dialogues; consultative forums; and Health Technical Working Groups.

The dRPC focuses on expanding and achieving the right to Universal Health, Primary Health Care and Women’s Health. The dRPC works from an assumption that the legal, administrative, policy and budgetary commitments made by governments at national and state levels for service delivery in Universal, Primary and Women’s Health constitute the basis for citizens’ rights. The dRPC holds that rights to health must be protected and that the vigilance of health facing CSOs to mobilize data, track service delivery, and engage government with data, information and feedback of performance supports government to improve service delivery.

Impact stories in women’s health

With regard to women health in particular, the dRPC had 9 years of quality work supporting women’s health facing associations such as Medical Women, the National Council of Women Societies, the Federation of Muslim Women Associations of Nigeria and 25 additional women’s health facing non-profits. We work with courageous women’s health groups to identify emerging women’s health challenges; address service delivery gaps particularly in maternal health; and equipping groups with skills and competences to conduct evidence informed advocacy and track performance of government’s commitments and programs.