Maternal and Child Survival Program Nigeria - Routine Immunization Quarterly Report Program Year 2 Second Quarter January 1st to March 31th , 2016

cooperative agreement to support high-impact health interventions in 24 priority countries, including Nigeria. The program aims to end preventable maternal and child deaths within a generation by engaging various stakeholders in adopting proven approaches to address major causes of mortality. These causes include postpartum hemorrhage, birth asphyxia, and diarrhea, and the program focuses on health systems strengthening, household, and community mobilization, gender integration, and eHealth. MSCP has launched multiple activities in Nigeria, including a routine immunization (RI) technical assistance program in Bauchi and Sokoto states, a program to reduce neonatal and maternal deaths in K and Ebonyi states, a public-private partnership through the Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action (MAMA), and a child health program currently under development. The program is implemented in collaboration with the State Primary Health Care Development Agency (SPHCDA) and other public and private partners. The MCSP/Nigeria RI program's objectives in Bauchi and Sokoto states are to support state-led and state-owned efforts to achieve high routine immunization coverage and quality of services. In Bauchi, the objectives include achieving 50% routine immunization coverage in every ward by December 2016 and 80% coverage by December 2017. The program also aims to promote the transition of responsibility for sustaining and building on these gains to Bauchi State by January 2018. In Sokoto, the objectives include achieving 80% routine immunization coverage in every ward by December 2018 and promoting the transition of responsibility for sustaining and building on these gains to the State by January 2019. The program provides technical assistance in areas such as capacity building, supportive supervision, monitoring, and use of data, supply, and community engagement. The program has been supporting the implementation of the Bauchi State Primary Health Care Development Agency's (SHPHCDA's) quadripartite routine immunization strengthening memorandum of understanding (MOU) since January 2015, and the Sokoto SHPHCDA's quadripartite RI strengthening MOU since October 2015. The program has been tasked by each state's SPHCDA and by the remaining MOU signatories, including USAID, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), and the Dangote Foundation, to provide technical assistance in four areas: capacity building, supportive supervision, monitoring, and use of data, supply, and community partnership. The program has been supporting the implementation of the Bauchi State Primary Health Care Development Agency's (SHPHCDA's) quadripartite routine immunization strengthening memorandum of understanding (MOU) since January 2015, and the Sokoto SHPHCDA's quadripartite RI strengthening MOU since October 2015. The program has been tasked by each state's SPHCDA and by the remaining MOU signatories, including USAID, the Bill and Mel