Pillar 02 · Workforce

The people behind care.

Nigeria is scaling and skilling a multi-sector workforce — community health workers, nurses, and ECCE educators — to bring integrated services to every household.

Frontline workforce expansion
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community health workers
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a 5.5× expansion by 2030
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Primary healthNutrition counsellingECCE

A more than five-fold increase, deliberately distributed across primary health, nutrition counselling and early-childhood education to ensure no service stream is left under-resourced.

ANRiN Frontline Workforce
Community-based health workers

ANRiN Frontline Workforce

Community workers trained to deliver the converged ANRiN nutrition package — household by household.

Neonatal Nursing Programme
Specialised nurses for small & sick newborns

Neonatal Nursing Programme

A new cadre of specialised neonatal nurses staffing the Centres for Small and Sick Newborns.

IDEAS ECCE Workforce
Early childhood educators trained at scale

IDEAS ECCE Workforce

Pre-primary teachers trained in play-based pedagogy and supported through ongoing coaching.

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