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USAID HWM Project

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USAID HWM Project

The Centre for Comprehensive Promotion of Reproductive Health is a sub-grantee of the USAID-funded Health workforce Management (HWM) Activity in Nigeria under the integrated health systems award. The HWM Activity is a 5-year, $19 million award led by Banyan Global. CCPRH supports this activity in Bauchi, Ebonyi, Kebbi, and Sokoto States and the FCT. The activity responds to Nigeria’s National Strategy Health Development Plan 2018-2022 and aligns with the USAID/Nigeria Country Development Cooperation Strategy 2020-2025.

Activity goal: To establish a cost‐effective, well-trained, and motivated health workforce, particularly in targeted rural and remote areas in order to contribute to greater health systems responsiveness and improved health outcomes, especially among women and children.

Activity objectives:

  1. Strengthen the pre-service training learning environment and in- service training program.

  2. Support the building of a robust human resources information system to keep track of recruitment, deployment, retention, and continuing education.

  3. Strengthen governance and management of the health workforce.

  4. Support the conduct of human resources for health (HRH) research to improve HRH practices and retention mechanisms.

Specifically, CCPRH implements objectives 1, 3, and 4, with a focus on human, infrastructure, and systems improvement. In 2021, CCPRH supported six pre-service health training institutions (PSHTIs) across three States, Bauchi, Ebonyi, and Sokoto States, in the areas of mock accreditation, staff capacity building, and procurement of teaching aids.

In 2022, 19 PSHTIs across Bauchi and Ebonyi States and the FCT were supported through the conduct of mock accreditation, audit of institutional policies, training of 120 tutors on teaching methodologies and simulation for effective learning, development of institutional costed plan, and procurement of teaching aids. In addition, CCPRH conducted stakeholders’ accountability meetings, where the findings from the support to the PSHTIs were outlined to the relevant stakeholders for their commitment in closing the gaps. Landscaping of the in-service training and continuous professional development space was also a key project achievement in 2022, which resulted in the identification of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, including new areas of interest for specialization among nurses and midwives, the need for a review and update of existing modules and development of modules tailored to the needs of healthcare professionals in the PSHTIs.

CCPRH’s assistance to the PSHTIs in 2023 focused on logistics support to HWM the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN) for the successful implementation of capacity building activities across States and geopolitical zones in Nigeria. This included the South-South Zonal Curriculum workshop where 75 tutors, 8 males and 67 females, from 36 PSHTIs across the six States in the zone were updated on the new Nursing and Midwifery curriculum; preceptorship training and certification of 88 preceptors (19 males and 69 females) for 61 PSHTIs, drawn from 54 health facilities in the Northeast and Southeast geopolitical zones of Nigeria; and institutional strengthening plan/organizational capacity assessment tool workshops for 167 PSHTI representatives and stakeholders, 129 males and 38 females, from 37 PSHTIs in Bauchi, Ebonyi, Kebbi, and Sokoto States and the FCT.