The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says all is set to train 4,500 health workers on Straightening Access to Reproductive and Adolescent Health (SARAH) in Adamawa, Kwara and Sokoto States.
The Health Officer, UNICEF Nigeria, Bauchi Field Office Mr Oluseyi Olosunde made this known at a sensitisation workshop for stakeholders for the successful implementation of the programme in Yola on Tuesday.
Olosunde said that the four-year programme, which was in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), would be implemented and its sustainability taken seriously.
He said that the objective was to strengthen national and sub-national institution’s capacity to deliver integrated services, evidence-based policy, and planning among others.
Olosunde said that the partners would provide technical support to strengthen the capacity of the instructors to deliver.
He appreciated the efforts of the Adamawa government on its policies and programmes in the health sector.
In his remarks, Mr Felix Tangwami, the Commissioner of Health in the state thanked the partners for considering the state for such a programme.
He charged the stakeholders to take the sensitisation seriously for a successful implementation in the state.
“Please discuss professionally for the programme to succeed. Ensure that our people get the best out of it.
“We have done well in the past because we laid a good foundation for others to continue from where we stopped,” he said.
Tangwami appreciated Gov. Ahmadu Fintiri for the payment of the counterpart funding demanded by partners to move the health sector forward.
The Chairman of the Adamawa Planning Commission, Mary Paninga said, the state always planned to succeed.
Paninga, who said UNICEF had impacted the health sector in the state, assured the people that the state would not fail in the implementation of the programme.
