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Strengthen Health Outcomes for Women and Children (SHOW)
Plan International / Global Affairs Canada
- Status & duration
- Completed · Completed
- Location
- Tureta, Shagari, Bodinga, Yabo, Dange Shuni, Kware and Rabah LGAs, Sokoto State
- States
- Sokoto
Community-based health volunteer counselling a mother with a counselling card under the SHOW project, Sokoto
Case study overview
Improved utilisation of essential health services by women of childbearing age, adolescent girls, newborns and children under 5 living in poverty, with strong institutional strengthening of health workers and systems.
Key interventions & deliverables
- Essential health services for women, adolescent girls, newborns and children under 5.
- Health worker and health system strengthening.
- 770 women Community-Based Health Volunteers counselling families on MNCH and SRH, referring and following up cases.
- Community MNCH and family planning data sent to the State Ministry of Health through LGA health directorates.
Headline impact
770 women CBHVs active in seven Sokoto LGAs; improved use of essential maternal and child health services.