Client: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Duration: 2019-2022
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Country: Nigeria
Solutions: Global Health
In November 2019, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation invested in the establishment of a Technical Assistance Hub to serve as a platform for delivering cohesive technical assistance in primary healthcare to state governments in Nigeria. DAI was contracted to establish and transition the formative entity to a steady-state organization, with the capacity to function as an independent platform providing technical assistance for primary health care system strengthening to state governments. The Hub is now registered as TAConnect and since June 2021 has started to operate as a fully-fledged entity.
TAConnect’s activities addressed fragmentation in the design and delivery of technical assistance to states in Nigeria, enabling increased collaboration, coordination, learning, and impact. We provided support to TAConnect to mature specific strategic and operational functions of the organization such as: business plan and business development support, financial management and fiduciary responsibility strengthening, subaward management strengthening, and statutory compliance support.
We applied core principles such as continuous curation of technical assistance resources, promotion of peer learning, robust monitoring, and reliance on feedback loops, thereby ensuring that TAConnect remains relevant and responsive to its operating environment and to state government needs—with the ultimate goal of assisting state and local governments to own and sustain the systems-level improvements in service delivery.
• Supported Kaduna State to build its primary healthcare managers’ capacity to manage facilities with improved service delivery. • Supported Kano and Nasarawa States to determine the status of their primary healthcare management systems and develop capacity-strengthening plans.
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