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Project Scope

The Strengthening Community Engagement and Accountability for PHC (SCEAP) Project seeks to improve primary health care delivery in Nigeria through community-led advocacy and monitoring of service delivery, financing, and technology infrastructure deployment to improve access and utilization of healthcare services through community advocacy and strengthening government’s commitment to fund and deliver quality healthcare. The SCEAP project will empower community actors to promote transparency and improvements in healthcare facilities and services through equal participation and inclusive involvement, especially for vulnerable persons and members of the target communities. This is meant to be achieved by working with the communities and other stakeholders as key drivers of change and catalyst for the project objectives.

Proposed outcomes:

• Strengthen the use of data and evidence to drive institutional engagement on fiscal issues and accountability for primary healthcare.
• Strengthen citizen and community voice and participation in PHC advocacy and accountability processes (service delivery, financing, infrastructure) in 75 communities with presence of PHC facilities.
• Improve community tracking and feedback mechanisms using the PHC Accountability Tracka (PAT) with government stakeholders and systems within LGAs, State Assemblies, SPHCDAs, and broader health financing ecosystem (for example, PHCUOR, BHCPF gateway organizationss, etc.).
• Support 20 community-based organizations (CBOs) (50% women-led/owned) to mainstream community reporting, feedback systems, awards, into existing community structures.
• Influence social behaviors and institutional accountability through an incentivized program for healthcare workers and PHC service delivery via PHC Facility and Workers Awards event.

This project is deeply rooted in the community. It adopts a bottom-top approach to the improvement of primary health care service delivery in the focus States. The project will work in 75 communities (15 communities per State) across five States (Kano, Kaduna, Gombe, Niger, and Yobe). The project narrows down to the primary healthcare (PHC facilities) situated in these communities to track quality of services being provided and the effectiveness of resource allocation to the facilities. This includes providing a platform for community members to share their PHC experiences while strengthening the local structures like the Ward Development Committees (WDCs) and the Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) to serve as support systems to community members, especially women and others that advocate and demand accountability from the respective authorities.