1988 population policy of nigeria Population Research and Policy Review. To illustrate this process I use the case of population policy in Nigeria.most stringent.

Abstract The first Nigerian Population Policy was written in 1988 to reduce population growth as a collaboration between the Federal Ministry of Health and the World Bank. Whether this policy was successful is in contention. Some schools of thought argue that it was unsuccessful due to cultural, religious and financial factors in play. However, a positive demographic change was noticed statistically after the policy was implemented. Achievement of policy goals was limited due to flaws in the implementation strategy adopted for the National Population Program as well as due to a cultural aversion to family planning in Northern Nigeria, among other factors. The success of the policy was greatest in Southern Nigeria where social advancement also played an integral role. This paper shows that the attitudes towards population growth differ between these two very important regions of one country.

This paper also addresses, in great detail, the obstacles to the implementation of the 1988 policy, and analyzes why the policy was successful in a part of the country, but not in another. With a new Population Policy having been implemented in 2006, identifying the problems of the 1988 program implementation has limited value unless the learned lessons result in a greater determination by the upper echelons of government, the bureaucracy and the political class in the nation to reprogram efforts for the future. While the Federal Government has recently instituted reform agenda that cover economic, social and administrative reforms, the population sector, together with the political governance that will address the role of population size in allocation of resources and power, needs to be included in the reform agenda.

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Nigeria’s high rates of maternal, child, and infant mortality present a massive challenge to policymakers and stakeholders at all levels of Nigerian society. These problems are related to the challenges of high fertility and a low modern contraceptive prevalence rate, which can lead to unintended pregnancies, births spaced too close together, and high-risk births. In response, Nigerian policymakers at the federal and state levels have become increasingly motivated to renew the commitment to lower maternal and child mortality. Support for family planning (FP) and maternal and child health is being discussed openly at the federal level, and the Health Policy Project (HPP) is helping to strengthen the capacity of Nigerian institutions to deal with these issues.

What We Do HPP’s overall program objective in Nigeria is to strengthen the country’s national and subnational policy, advocacy, and governance for strategic, equitable, and sustainable health programming. To achieve this goal, HPP engages Nigerian stakeholders to increase their capacity to advocate for greater financial and political support for FP, reproductive health (RH), and maternal and child health programs, and to effectively manage existing financial resources for health programs. To achieve the overall objective, there are two program components: Strengthen the Capacity of Stakeholders to Advocate for Greater Resources The HPP program aims to strengthen Nigerian stakeholders’ capacity to advocate for greater resources for FP/RH programs. HPP is collaborating with government, civil society, and development partner stakeholders to develop a comprehensive family planning and communications strategy. By organizing, mapping, and prioritizing advocacy initiatives, Nigerians will be able to streamline the collective effort to secure new federal and state funding to expand access to FP commodities and services. Stakeholders also receive training on how to employ various evidence-based advocacy tools, including, the FP and MDG analysis, and the.

By promoting greater resources and expanded access to services, HPP will help stakeholders improve the health of women, children, and infants in Nigeria. Strengthen the National Health Insurance Scheme Recently, the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) has begun to incorporate family planning services into its various benefits packages. Presentations by the USAID Health Policy Initiative—predecessor to the Health Policy Project—and a broad advocacy push culminated in the first-ever National Family Planning Conference. Texture Patch 2.0 By Albert Marin Garau. As a result, the Office of the Presidency for Millennium Development Goals and the NHIS determined that including cost-effective health interventions such as family planning would better help them to reach their goals. The HPP program in Nigeria will leverage this momentum achieved in FP advocacy by providing technical assistance to increase the capacity of the NHIS to gather and analyze data for more effective planning, advocacy, and program monitoring and evaluation.