By Achadu Gabriel, Kaduna
Kaduna Maternal Accountability Mechanism (KADMAM), said the it will strengthen advocacy for increase in child birth spacing and Maternal Newborn Child Health (MNCH), financing and budgetry accountability in the state.
KADMAM, a health civil society organization charged with responsibility for ensuring accountability in the health sector service delivery in the state, also promised to prioritize advocacy to increase funding and timely release of heath budget to facilities.
The Co-Chair of the KADMAM, Mr. Garba Mohammed made the disclosures Thursday during his presentation at the two-day’s Media -Strengthening Workshop on Family Planning, and Maternal Newborn and Child Health (MNCH),organized by Pathfinder and partners.
He also stated, at the workshop held in Abuja on September 24th-26th, 2025, that KADMAM will prioritize tracking expenditures from State to primary healthcare levels on monthly and quarterly basis for benefits of real end users.
Mr. Garba Mohammed also reiterated the determination of the CSO for clear a time line for commodities, supplies and staffs incentives, adding that the body will stride to achieve these through the accountability Mechanism.
Similarly, Abuja, Lagos and Kano States also presented paper on strengthen advocacy for family planning and MNCH based on their own respectively states because of its importance economically, socially and even politically.
The objectives of the workshop among other things including deepen journalists and social media influencers to understand PF/MNCH, priorities, challenges and opportunities across states.
Others are to strengthen media capacity to frame impactful ethical and accurate PF, MNCH stories that drive public awareness and policy action, and enhanced accountability journalism by equipping them with relevant practical skills to track Budget, monitor policy implementation and highlights services delivery gaps.
Papers where presented on the overviews of PF, MNCH in Nigeria, advocacy priorities for the states and overview of projects activities. End
