The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the launch of National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) to reduce rates of infant mortality, maternal mortality and for universal access to reproductive health care.
MLE: Tell us a little bit about NURHI’s performance improvement plan.
Fatima Bunza (FB): The Nigerian Reproductive Health Initiative (NURHI) performance improvement plan (PIP) is a strategy that aims at improving performance and quality of service through a systematic approach that involves all stakeholders. It helps NURHI and partners generate shared understanding of performance gaps, develop interventions for addressing them and share responsibility for implementation as well as mechanisms for tracking progress and celebrating success.
This conference will serve as a platform for sharing generated evidence from research and programmatic experiences to inform at-scale implementation of effective strategies to reposition family planning in Tanzania.
The Measurement, Learning & Evaluation (MLE) Project is the evaluation component of the Urban Reproductive Health Initiative (Urban RH Initiative), a multi-country program in India, Kenya, Nigeria and Senegal that aims to improve the health of the urban poor.