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Assignment

Track Records

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Economic Evaluation: Cost Benefit Analysis of the National Health Bill

Client:Save the Children, Nigeria (2014)

Evidence showed reduction in out of pocket over a period of time,long term savings by Federal government and number of pregnant women and children under 5 livessaved.The findings had substantial ifluence in persuading the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to sign the National Health Bill into Law with provision ofnotless than 1% of Federal Government Consolidated Revenue Fund asBasic Healthcare Provision Fund(BHCPF).

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Production of National Health Accounts (NHA) and analysis of expenditures by levels of service delivery including health facility survey across the six geo political zones (NHA 2010 – Date).

Development of State Health Accounts in Anambra (2010-2021), Sokoto(2015-2021) and Imo(2010-2017) states includinghealth facility survey

Client:World Health Organization (WHO)/FMoH (2014 till date)

Federal and State Ministries of Health intensified efforts on Social Health Insurance and Primary HealthCare(PHC) Revitalization in response to the high levels of household Out-of-Pocket (OOP) expenditures and extremely low share of PHC services expenditures at PHC Facilities. The findings revealed that most spending on PHC services occurred at secondary health care level thereby increasing inefficiencies in thehealth system. Ongoing efforts at federal level to condition point of entry into health system through PHC facilities. Examples includeBHCPFProgram, 1functional PHCper

ward project attracting increased allocation of FMoH to PHC level of care, SOML,etc.

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Lead Consultant for the Feasibility studies on Community Based Insurance Scheme in Nigeria including Health Facility Assessment– covering one LGA per state for the 36 states plus Federal Capital Territory.

Client:National Health Insurance Scheme(NHIS) (2012–2013)

The findings of the study which demonstrated the sustainability challenges associated with CBHIS led to initiation of State Supported Health Insurance Scheme.

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Economic and Financial Modelling of the Proposed State Supported Health Insurance Schemes in Nigeria

Client:IFC– World Bank Group(2013)

The findings of the study influenced the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to decentralize the federally managed schemes across Nigerian States resulting in States Health Insurance Schemes with budget to provide technical support to the state

schemes.

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Fiscal Space Analysis for Health/State Health Insurance Scheme

Client:USAID Health Finance and Governance(HFG) Project(2016–2018)

Fiscal Space Analysis for Primary HealthCare/Routine Immunization/Roll Back Malaria

Client:GAVI/Solina Limited and Health Systems Consult Limited(HSCL) 2019

Fiscal Space Analysis for

Client:DFID/SUNMAPII Project(2019)

Government of Lagos, Oyo, Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Cross River, Bauchi, Plateau, Zamfara, Kebbi and Sokoto states earmarked 1% or2% of their State Consolidated Revenue Fund to support vcoverage of vulnerable population group in the State Health Insurance/Contributory Schemes with a rekindled drive to explore additional resourcesto the weak fiscal space through the five fiscal room pillars. The study also influence ministry of economic planning and budget to increase budgetary allocation tohealth.

The evidence was also used for development of domestic resource mobilization strategies of theprograms.

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Development of Investment Case for Health for the Federal Ministry of Health, Anambra and Sokoto State Ministries of Health funded by WHO

Development of Investment Case and Financial Sustainability Plan for Kano, Kaduna, and Jigawa States Health Contributory Scheme funded by FCDO Lafiya Project

Estimation of Returns on Investments (ROI) and Investment Case Analysis for Immunization in Rwanda, funded by WHO Rwanda/Rwanda Ministry of Health

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Technical Assistance to the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in the review, costing, and financial sustainability analysis of its 10-Year Strategic Plan 2021-2030 to facilitate fulfilment of the Presidential mandate to expand coverage of basic healthcare services and financial protection to all Nigerians by 2030.

NHIS is using the profile of implementing strategies, activities and costs in the strategic plansforthedevelopmentoftheirannualoperationalplansandother

planningandbudgetingactivitiesforthehealthinsurance coverageincludingtheprioritizationof vulnerable pregnant women and children.

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Support toFCDO Lafiya programme States in the capacity building of Planning and Budgeting cell members on and development of Annual Operational Plans 

Capacity to strengthen the links between policy priorities and the budget and ensure that health budgets reflect strategic health development priorities built and resulted into AOP-informed Budget .

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Economic and Financial Modelling for Sustainability of the Kano Contributory Health Scheme

Client:DFID/MNCH2 Project led by Palladium Internnational (2017)

The Management of Kano State Health System allocated 37% of Kano State Health Trust Fund to the Contributory Health Scheme for the coverage of vulnerable population group including children under 5,pregnant women, etc.

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One-Health Tool for costing of 2018 – 2022 Strategic Health Plans in all Northern States in Nigeria

Client:Federal Ministry of Health (2017-2018)

States are using the profile of interventions and costs in the state strategic health development plans (SSHDPII) developed by CHECOD personnel for all the Northern states of Nigeria for the development of their annual operational plans and other

planning and budgeting activities for the health system including the prioritization of PHC Revitalization/RMNCH interventions.

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Household Health Care Utilization Expenditure and Willingness-To-Pay Analysis

Client: Health Strategy and Delivery Foundation (HSDF), USAID Health Finance and Governance Projectand World Health Organization (WHO)

State Ministries of Health in Sokoto, Kaduna, Imo and Anambra, Bauchi, Rivers andCross River used the estimates to inform baseline and target setting in their health financing policyand strategy,and in the development of the benefits packages offered under their State Health Insurance/Contributory Schemes.

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Development of advocacy brief for the domestication of the Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, Child, Adolescent, Elderly Health, and Nutrition Multistakeholder Partnership Coordination Platform (RMNCAEH+N MSPCP) Framework for Kano, Kaduna, Jigawa, Yobe and Borno States by the Department of Family Health, Federal Ministry of Health.

Buy-in of the States and implementation efforts ongoing.