** SUMMARY**
Nigeria’s nutrition data system faced persistent gaps, unreliable Vitamin A coverage estimates, poor data quality, and campaign data mixed with routine health records. HISP Nigeria, working with UNICEF and the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (FMoHSW), deployed a dedicated DHIS2 MNCH Week Campaign Module to fix this. The result: cleaner data, better analysis, and a stronger foundation for child nutrition decisions nationwide.
Country: Nigeria | Programme: Maternal Newborn and Child Health Week (MNCHW) | Period: 2022–2026
In 2022, UNICEF Nigeria commissioned a landscape assessment of routine nutrition data collection. The findings were stark:
▸ Vitamin A supplementation campaign data was not available separately from routine data
▸ Data quality and use were critically low across states
▸ National nutrition service coverage estimates were inaccurate due to mixed campaign and routine reporting
▸ No standardized sub-national population estimates existed for benchmarking
The assessment called for immediate, short and medium-term reforms and HISP Nigeria was brought in to implement them, leveraging its long-standing partnership with FMoHSW on DHIS2.
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