The main activities included:

• In-service competency-based training in Emergency Obstetric and New-born Care (EmOC&NC) with a focus on skills acquisition.
• Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Training
• M&E visits to facilities (baseline, quarterly monitoring)
• Knowledge and Skills Retention Study (KSRS) to assess impact
• Implementation research.
• Donation of training equipment.

The key achievements 

In-service competency-based training in Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (EmOC&NC):

• 1000 Health Care Providers (HCPs) were anticipated to be trained, 1017 were trained.

EmONC training 632 trained in FCT and Niger

51 master trainers trained

Skills room: 5 Skills room were set in 5 LGAs

3 M&E Trainings – 177 medical records officers and midwives trained

Course Directors’ training – 21 doctors and midwives trained

Orientation for NYSC Corps Members – 130 doctors and nurses

Quarterly M&E visits to facilities following trainings

KSRS – 4 assessments conducted for midwives and CHEWs

Baseline Surveys – 50 facilities assessed

Training equipment donated to Maitama Hospital and School of Midwifery Gwagwalada and

Monitoring and Evaluation: Routinely collected healthcare facility data and data from programme outputs are aggregated quarterly to inform the log frame indicators where applicable and to monitor progress with programme implementation as well as effectiveness.