Integrating Sexual Reproductive Health and Family Planning into Humanitarian Support
ARFH was supported by United Nation Population Fund to integrate sexual reproductive health and family planning services into the minimum service package for internally displaced people in 3 conflict affected states in Nigeria: Borno, Yobe, and Adamawa states. the project built the capacity of community extension workers (CHEWs), MISP counsellors and community resource persons (CORPs) […]
Expanding Social Marketing of FP in Nigeria (ESMPIN)
The ESMPIN project sought to improve the health of women and children in Nigeria by increasing the use of child spacing method and the use of child health products thus reducing maternal, child morbidity and mortality using a social marketing approach and community-based distribution strategies. The community–based distribution component ensured that messages, commodities and services […]
Access to quality Long Acting Reversible Contraceptives Family Planning services including DMPA-SC & Self Injection
With funding from UNFPA, ARFH pilot tested the DMPA-SC and employed the following strategies and activities: Capacity Building: Health Care Providers’ Cascade CHEWs Training in Kebbi and Ebonyi states as a follow up to the training of trainers (ToT) conducted for Nurse/Midwives and CHOs in eight selected LGAs in August 2015 and had continued in […]
Expanding access to RH/FP services in Northern Nigeria
This project was implemented in Kebbi and Sokoto States with the support of UNFPA using a community-based distribution approach in collaboration with 2 CBOs with the aim of increasing access to RH/FP services. While the capacity of the 2 CBOs was built in project management, a total of 100 community members were trained as CBD […]
Maternal New born & Child Health (MNCH2)
ARFH is one of the implementing partners on the DFID supported MNCH2 project and provides her services through the provision of sustainable sexual & reproductive health and public health information and services especially in the areas of Maternal, Child and Neonatal Health through capacity building for health and non-health professionals, mentoring of organisations, youth programming […]
Mobile Family planning initiative – Ibadan
As part of the contributions towards increasing contraceptive uptake, ARFH introduced and implemented a mobile family planning service delivery initiative using “KEKE ARFH” (Tricycle) in selected communities and markets in 2 LGAs in Ibadan, namely Ibadan North and Ibadan North East). The partners involved were Association of Community Birth Attendants (ACOMBA), National Union of Road […]
Access to Quality Family Planning Services: Increasing access to contraceptives through training of CHEWs to implement Task-shifting Policy in FP service delivery in Nigeria- Jan 2014 to Dec 2017
ARFH was instrumental in constituting a formal Task shifting policy for family planning in Nigeria for the federal government with the goal to increase uptake of contraceptives, bridge barrier to reduce the unmet needs for family planning in Nigeria. This is through task-shifting to CHEWS and assuring enabling policy/community environment for sustainable service delivery and […]
Improved Human Resource Capacity for Health Using Competency Based Training Approach
ARFH has been at the forefront of health workforce development in Nigeria, with our strongest niche in Family Planning and RMNCH. We are a lead indigenous NGO supporting the GoN to implement its task-shifting & task sharing policy through capacity building for all cadres of health care providers including Physicians, Nurse Midwives, and CHEWs. For […]
Fixed Obligation Grant Funded by USAID
In 2014, ARFH implemented the Fixed Obligation grant funded by USAID for Malaria Community Intervention Package in Oyo state. This was implemented in 9 LGAs across 32 wards. Activities implemented included compound meetings, community dialogues, town hall meetings, interpersonal communication during house visits on LLIN hang up and care and also continuous advocacy to community […]
Global Fund Malaria- 2017
The goal of GF NFM Malaria Grant is to contribute to sustained scale-up of Malaria Elimination Interventions for Impact in Nigeria. ARFH was a sub-recipient (SR) to the National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP) in Kebbi, Niger, Osun and Oyo States. Scope Vector control – continuous distribution of long lasting insecticide treated nets (LLIN) through antenatal […]