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Building Social Accountability to Improve Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health in Nigeria

Date: April 2022
Author(s): Rachel Sullivan Robinson and Tariah Adams
Publication type: Scholarly journal article
Published by: International Journal for Equity in Health

Like many places in Nigeria, Niger, a predominantly rural and poor state in the north of the country, has high fertility, low contraceptive prevalence, and high maternal mortality. This paper presents a descriptive, contextualized case study of a social accountability campaign run by the nongovernmental organization White Ribbon Alliance Nigeria to strategically mobilize collective action to demand quality maternal health care and improve government responsiveness to those demands.

Rachel Sullivan Robinson is Professor at the School of International Service, American University, Washington DC.

Tariah Adams works for the White Ribbon Alliance Nigeria.