The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has partnered with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to train 4,500 health workers on straightening access to reproductive and adolescent health (SARAH) in Adamawa, Kwara, and Sokoto states.
Oluseyi Olosunde, UNICEF health officer at the Bauchi field office, spoke in Yola, Adamawa’s capital, on Tuesday, during a sensitisation workshop for stakeholders on the implementation of the programme.
Olosunde said the four-year programme would be implemented with “a strong focus on sustainability”.
He added that the programme’s goal is to “enhance the capacity of national and sub-national institutions to deliver integrated services, evidence-based policies, and effective planning”.
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Olosunde noted that partners would provide technical support to empower the instructors to deliver the training effectively.
He commended the Adamawa government for its health sector policies and programmes.
Felix Tangwami, the commissioner for health in Adamawa, expressed gratitude to the partners for selecting the state for the programme.
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Tangwami urged stakeholders to “take the sensitisation seriously to ensure successful implementation in the state”.
“Please discuss professionally for the programme to succeed. Ensure that our people get the best out of it,” he said.
“We have done well in the past because we laid a good foundation for others to continue from where we stopped.”
Tangwami praised Ahmadu Fintiri, the governor of Adamawa, “for paying the counterpart funding required by the partners to advance the health sector”.
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