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Focus on Nigeria

Transform Nutrition West Africa is focusing on Nigeria and is developing a Stories of Change in Nutrition with Ibadan University. We will hold an initial stakeholder consultation in Abuja with Save the Children in 2018.

The challenge

Nigeria is home to more than half of the chronically undernourished Under 5 children in West Africa. An estimated 400,000 children in North-Eastern Nigeria will be suffering from severe acute malnutrition in 2018, putting them at imminent risk of death; a humanitarian crisis caused by drought and a nine-year insurgency by Islamist militant group Boko Haram (UNICEF 2018).

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Country Data Profiles

Nigeria: Availability of data on nutrition intervention coverage

This profile provides an assessment of a country’s potential to report on national-level coverage1 for a set of 16 nutrition interventions and recommends key actions to strengthen coverage measurement. Intervention coverage data is essential for tracking implementation and impact of strategies and investments to reduce malnutrition.

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Stories of Change Nigeria study engages with stakeholders online

A successful meeting was held on 16 December for the Stories of Change Nigeria Study. 24 participants from the Federal and State level took part and the study findings were well received with very engaged and productive discussions and useful contributions from the participants. Several key areas of the study findings were identified by participants…

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TNWA WEBINAR

Analysis of nutrition research networks in West Africa: Application of social network analysis to co-authorship data to understand and enhance collaboration Description: The World Health Assembly (WHA) targets are instrumental for identifying primary knowledge gaps and priority areas for action and decision-making. Across West Africa, prevalence of these six WHA indicators for maternal infant and…

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Transform Nutrition West Africa at the Nutrition Society of Nigeria Annual Conference

By Olutayo Adeyemi, Namukolo Covic, Folake Samuel and Roos Verstraeten Transform Nutrition West Africa organized 2 sessions at the Nutrition Society of Nigeria Annual Conference in Abuja, September 2019. Dr Olutayo Adeyemi, who leads the data collection for Transform Nutrition West Africa’s Stories of Change project in Nigeria, made two plenary presentations. These focused on…

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Country Data Profiles

Country data profile – Nigeria

  This data profile from Transform Nutrition West Africa on Nigeria aims to: Summarize all available primary data sources and secondary data aggregation platforms for key nutrition indicators representative at the national level. Assess the identified data sources for each indicator across four dimensions (i) validity and comparability, (ii) timeliness, (iii) accessibility, and (iv) representativeness….

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Nigerian nutrition stakeholders keen to accelerate positive changes in nutrition

By Namukolo Covic, IFPRI/A4NH Insightful stakeholder consultation and stakeholder network mapping events for the Nigeria Stories of Change in Nutrition Study were held in Abuja on 14 and 15 May 2019, respectively. Both were integral parts of the data collection process for the study that is part of the Transform Nutrition West Africa project supported…

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Evidence Notes

Nutrition Policy in Nigeria – Evidence Note

This brief summarizes nutrition-relevant policies in Nigeria. We examine: i) nutrition context, policy objectives, indicators, budget, and activities, ii) key beneficiaries, actors and coordination, iii) monitoring, evaluation, and accountability, and iv) whether current policies are aligned with the World Health Assembly (WHA) global targets.   HTML LINK

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Other Supporting Material

Nigeria Systematic Map to guide decision making

Nigeria Systematic Map to guide decision-making on the current landscape of research on World Health Assembly indicators in West Africa. The West Africa Region has been one of the slowest in reducing its many burdens of malnutrition. The World Health Assembly’s (WHA) 2025 nutrition targets were developed to track countries’ nutritional situations, and measure progress…

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Evaluation of research on World Health Assembly targets in West Africa – new slide decks

  The West Africa Region has been one of the slowest in reducing its many burdens of malnutrition. The World Health Assembly’s (WHA) 2025 nutrition targets were developed to track countries’ nutritional situations, and measure progress in reducing malnutrition. These indicators are therefore essential to guide decision making. Understanding the regional and in-country dynamics are…

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