Partnership for Reviving Routine Immunization in Northern Nigeria (PRRINN), Nigeria
PRRINN aims to revive routine immunization in selected states of Northern Nigeria so that 60 per cent of children will have been fully immunized before their first birthday and 70 per cent of women aged 15-49 will have had appropriate tetanus toxoid (TT) doses by the end of the programme. Routine immunization is used as an entry point for broader health systems strengthening.
The programme works in four states: Zamfara, Katsina, Jigawa and Yobe. It is managed through a Joint Venture Partnership between Health Partners International (The parent company of Health Partners Southern Africa), Save the Children UK and GRID Consulting Ltd.
Health Partners Southern Africa focuses on the following:
- Reviewing the distribution and utilisation of human resources involved in health, within the context of the minimum health package
- The assessment of human resource distribution against the number and types of Primary Health Care (PHC) facilities and hospitals in each state
- The identification of human resource gaps and strategies to resolve them
- Identifying critical human resource issues that need to be addressed to improve the availability, utilisation and management of personnel.
The Programme is designed for unified implementation with MNCH (Maternal, Newborn and Child Health programme), operational since 2008.
Health Partners Southern Africa developed HRSoftware, a human resource management toolkit, to assist managers in managing staffing more effectively. This included a person-to-post matching exercise, whereby the existing staff were allocated by number, name and rank into recommended staff establishments. This process identified ghost workers and also highlighted any inappropriate deployment of staff.
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The PRRINN-MNCH Programme is documented in this video produced by DFID: Making Childbirth Safe in Nigeria.
For more information about the programme visit the PRRINN-MNCH programme website.