What makes advocacy work? Stakeholders' voices and insights from prioritisation of maternal and child health programme in Nigeria.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Nigerian government introduced and implemented a health programme to improve maternal and child health (MCH) called Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment programme for MCH (SURE-P/MCH). It ran from 2012 and ended abruptly in 2015 and was followed by increased advocacy for sustaining the MCH (antenatal, delivery, postnatal and immunization) services as a policy priority. Advocacy is important in allowing social voice, facilitating prioritization, and bringing different forces/actors together. Therefore, the study set out to understand how advocacy works - through understanding what effective advocacy implementation processes comprise and what mechanisms are triggered by which contexts to produce the intended outcomes.

Methods

The study used a Realist Evaluation

SUBMITTER: Uzochukwu B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7501647 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature