From: Femi Oyelola, Kaduna
United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). Governance programme partnership to Engage, Reform and Learn (PERL), has pointed out that improving health outcome of citizens requires a multisectoral approach.
The Kaduna State Partnership Facilitator PERL, Mr Adejor Abel asserted this during a one-day health budget performance analysis to sustain advocacy for improved 2022 budget releases.
Abel pointed out that the other sectors like water, sanitation and hygiene, social protection, local governance, environment affect the health outcome of citizens and general wellbeing of the people.
He stressed the need to synergise and leverage on the potential of other accountability mechanisms to ensure the delivery of quality health services in the state.
He identified the mechanisms as Kaduna Social Protection Accountability Coalition, Civil Society-Scaling Up Nutrition in Nigeria, Local Government Accountability Mechanism (LGAM), Network of Civil Society for Environment and Society for Water and Sanitation.
He said that the meeting was expanded to cover other accountability mechanisms to be able to triangulate and synergy strategies to improve the delivery of quality health services in Kaduna State.
