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 ENHANSE – Enabling HIV & AIDS, TB and Social Sector Environment is a Nigeria-USG bilateral project that creates an enabling policy and legislative environment for high quality, highly accessible health and education programs in Nigeria. It is a five-year (2004-2009) project funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). ENHANSE facilitates the development and implementation of national policies, plans, legislations, and guidelines that promote: Reproductive Health; Child Survival; Basic Education and HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment care and support.
ENHANSE also fosters partnerships between the Government of Nigeria, the commercial private sector, and civil society to broaden and strengthen political, financial and popular support for sustained health and education programs. Although ENHANSE activities have a national focus, their impacts reach down to the grassroots through the agency of other bilateral projects. Their impact in the states and communities will be felt through ENHANSE’s complementary role vis-à-vis USAID service delivery projects COMPASS (Community Participation for Action in the Social Sectors) and GHAIN (Global HIV/AIDS Initiative in Nigeria).
ENHANSE envisions a responsive society in which every Nigerian can actively access and use high quality health and education services. Therefore the projects efforts are focused on engendering bold political leadership, providing technical assistance and expanding institutional capacity to demand and use accurate and relevant information to develop and improve health and education policies, plans, legislation and programs. It also pays attention to positioning civil society networks to advocate for and implement health and education programs.
The project’s strategic interventions are programmed to increase political support, legislations, policies, guidelines, regulations and increased funding for effective delivery of health and education services. Private – public partnerships and civil society networks will be created and strengthened and participating actively in the policy process and management of effective advocacy programs. Other targeted achievements include sustained media interest in social sector and HIV & AIDS, entrenched respect for the fundamental rights of all PLWHAs, increased use of up-to-date information in policy, planning and legislation and community-level ownership of national policies, legislations and programs.
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