LGA Visits
Ibrahim, Notify Health and Wada, RECEF conducted LGA visits to five LGAs to conduct a survey and understand the structure of Primary Health Care (PHC) outreaches and their challenges in the state in general and in the LGA in particular. The visits aimed to strengthen partnerships with the LGA stakeholders and to identify potential areas of outreach support.
Facility Selection
Facility selection involved phone interviews with facility OICs across the 3 senatorial district to identify and select the Facilities to be visited for the Immunisation outreach support Needs Assessment exercise. This exercise was a precursor to the facility visits. This activity provided key insights into the microplans of the facilities and the settlements that they service.
Facility Visits
Facility Visits were conducted to 8 facilities. 4 from Adavi LGA, 2 from Ijumu LGA, and 1 each from Dekina and Lokoja LGAs respectively. During the visit, a Key Informant Interview was conducted with the OIC to aid the program to understand the facility's peculiar challenges to conducting outreaches and a training on how to use the survey tool to report outreach activities also held.
Community Visits
Community Visits were planned and conducted to 6 selected settlements of facilities who were visited. 4 of the settlements were from Adavi LGA, 1 settlement from Ijumu and 1 settlement from Dekina LGA. During these visits, Key Informant Interviews were conducted with the community head and caregivers of children less than 2 years.