Project profile — COVID-19 Response Basket Fund in Nigeria

• Nigeria (100.00%)

• Health, General: Health policy and administrative management (12110) (15.00%)
• Basic health care:
Basic health care (12220) (20.00%)
Basic health infrastructure (12230) (15.00%)
• Health: COVID-19 control (12264) (50.00%)

• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (not targeted)
• Participatory development and good governance (not targeted)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (not targeted)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Children's issues (not targeted)
• Youth Issues (not targeted)
• Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR) (not targeted)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• Nutrition (not targeted)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)

The project aims to support Nigeria’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic by ensuring optimum care of the confirmed cases, containing further spread of the outbreak, and establishing a pathway for rapid recovery and resilience. The project aligns with and supports the rapid implementation of the Government of Nigeria’s national COVID-19 multi-sectoral pandemic response plan, and enables a coordinated approach for the international community and United Nations’ (UN) agencies to provide targeted and coordinated support. Project activities include: (1) increasing access for health facilities to critical medical supplies such as personal protective equipment (PPE), testing kits, and treatment facility materials; (2) supporting vulnerable households with cash transfers and livelihoods opportunities; (3) raising awareness on sexual and gender-based violence prevention; (4) providing support to health facilities, including for the continuation of reproductive and maternal health care; and (5) strengthening the coordinated COVID-19 response plan of the states and federal government.

The expected outcome for this project is that the rapid implementation of Nigeria’s National COVID-19 multi-sectoral pandemic response plan is strengthened. This is to be achieved by: (1) improving rapid procurement of disease commodity packages for surveillance, prevention and control, and clinical management; (2) supporting complementary ongoing risk communication strategies for sustained community engagement and cooperation; (3) supporting the development of tailored and decentralized response strategies at the state-level and aligned to the coordinated framework at the Federal level; (4) maintaining access to essential health services; (5) enhancing pro-active, gender-responsive early recovery, social protection and cohesion and gender-based-violence response, including with vulnerable groups; (6) improving coordination of partnerships and mobilization of resources for collective response.

Results achieved as of the end of the project (March 2023) include: (1) 5,784 individuals (51% women) benefited from financial inclusion that focused on empowering women and improving gender equality; (2) implemented the Nigeria Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) study. The MPI findings offer insights into the level of poverty experienced by vulnerable populations in Nigeria, and this report will ultimately inform social reforms and policies for immediate to long-term actions; (3) educated 18,522 women and girls on COVID-19 prevention messages that incorporated information on gender-based violence and sexual reproductive health services; and (4) distributed 13,250 dignity kits and 3,000 menstrual hygiene kits.

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