SURE-P MCH Gallery

The Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P) was set up to efficiently manage financial resources accruable from fuel subsidy removal effective from January 2012. As a result, a combination of programme interventions was designed to cushion the effect of subsidy removal mostly on the vulnerable population in Nigeria. The programmes i... nclude Maternal and Child Health, public works, employment schemes, mass transit programmes, vocational training, and skill acquisition schemes. The SURE-P Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Project is necessitated by the fact that Nigeria represents 1% of the world population but accounts for 10% of the world's maternal deaths and under-5 mortality rates. Nigeria Maternal mortality ratio is 545/100,000 live births (NDHS 2008) with variations in maternal mortality ratio across the country with the highest maternal mortality ratios (1549) in the North East and the lowest (165) found in the South West. Hence, the SURE-P MCH aims at reducing maternal and newborn mortality rates in order to accelerate Nigeria's on track towards achieving MDGs 4&5. The SURE-P MCH project is designed to focus on rural areas and underserved communities across the country. It is currently active in 500 Primary Health Care Centers (PHCs) spanning more than 600 LGAs spread across the six geo - political zones in Nigeria. The project works through demand and supply side innovations geared towards reducing maternal and child mortality in Nigeria. The supply component involves increasing both infrastructure and human resources to improve health service delivery while the demand component serves to increase the utilization of health services in the health facilities through the use of incentives like Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs). The supply side intervention has and will continue to scale up the number of health workers at the primary health care facility level thereby mitigating the challenges of PHC-based service delivery. The conditional cash transfer component will stimulate demand for ...Read More