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 […]
Global Fund R8 Malaria Project
Global Fund R8 Malaria Project: ARFH was a Sub-Recipient to the National Malaria Elimination program from the Phase 1 of the Global Round 8 Malaria grant where she implemented in 6 Nigerian states (Bauchi, Rivers,Niger,Bayelsa and Kaduna and Enugu States) ARFH was the only Sub recipient to pilot a result driven Community Case Management component […]
Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) under the UN Support to the National COVID-19 Multi-Sectoral Pandemic Response Project
The outbreak of Coronavirus has the potential to worsen the high unmet need for family planning which currently stands at 19% due to limited access to FP commodities, sociocultural objections, intimate partner preference, and male partner refusal for method use. In recent months since the first quarter of the year 2020, there has been a […]
USAID Integrated Health Program- Facility based Clinical Skills training using Low Dose High Frequency Capacity Building Approach Kebbi State
In recognition of ARFH technical competency in Capacity building of Healthcare workers on the Facility-based Clinical Skills training using Low Dose High Frequency (LDHF) for health care providers in 122 Primary Health Care Centres(PHCs) (1 per ward) covering Postpartum Family Planning (PPFP), Long Acting Reversible Contraceptives (LARC) & Depot Medroxylprogesterone Acetate-Subcutaneous (DMPA-SC) Injectable in Kebbi […]
Accelerated & Resilient Scale up of Vitamin A Supplement (VAS) Project in three States (Cross River, Rivers and Sokoto) in Nigeria
COVID 19 has triggered unprecedented social and economic crisis which poses grave risks to the nutritional status and survival of young children in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). Of particular concern is an expected increase in child malnutrition, including wasting, due to steep declines in household incomes, changes in the availability and affordability of nutritious […]