From:: Femi Oyelola, Kaduna
No fewer than 2.5 million people will be provided with Basic Package of Nutrition Services (BPNS) and Adolescent Health Services (AHS) at community levels in Kaduna State.
The services will be provided under the World Bank-supported Accelerating Nutrition Results in Nigeria (ANRiN) project, the Project Coordinator, Dr Zainab Muhammad-Idris, told the media in Kaduna yesterday.
Muhammad-Idris said at the end of the quarterly stakeholders meeting on ANRiN project the services would be provided by two Non-State Actors (NSA) – eHealth Africa and Society for Family Health (SFH).
She explained that ANRiN, a five-year World Bank-supported project, designed to increase utilisation of quality, cost-effective nutrition services for pregnant and lactating women, adolescent girls and children less than five years.
According to her, the objective is to reduce chronic malnutrition, maternal and child mortality rates and in the long run, increase school completion, performance and improve labour force productivity.
She said that the two NSAs were contracted in 2021 to deliver the BPNS and AHS to the target groups at community level, adding that so far, the project has reached 895,724 in 2021.
“Considering the outstanding performance of the two NSAs in 2021, I am confident that they will meet their targets which are expected to commence in June.
“We are happy with their performance so far. What we desire to see is for them to sustain the efforts and do better,” she said.
Dr Aminu Abubakar, Project Director, eHealth Africa ANRiN Project, said that eHealth would reach 556,749 beneficiaries in 12 local government areas between June 2022 and June 2023.
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