Background
The London summit on FP produced a global commitment to open access to 120m women for FP services. Nigeria's response is represented by the development of a national FP blueprint, projecting a 3% annual increase in the mCPR and aiming at achieving 27% by 2024. This translated into a massive injection of funds into FP commodity procurement starting with a Federal Government $3m annual commitment, followed by an increment to $4m annual commitment and also the over $8m supplementary funding, thus matching commitment with action. Following this momentum, almost all the States of the federation developed a costed implementation plan towards translating the London summit commitment into actionable plans(FP2020 website). But only a negligible number of states could back up this commitment with corresponding funding, as most states do not have a definitive budget line for procurement of family planning commodities (FMOH, 2021). Kaduna, like other States receives bimonthly contraceptive supplies from the national. The analyzed economic and health benefits and calculated value for money of the investments were used as potent advocacy tools to unleash the needed political commitment from the Government of Kaduna State
Methodology
A 10-year data of Federal Government contraceptive supplies to Kaduna State were retrieved from the LMCU of the State Ministry of Health and UNFPA and analyzed. The benefits derived were deployed as evidenced-based advocacy tools
Results
Over 1.6m quantity and N3b of contraceptive commodities were supplied. This investment yielded N30b cost savings and averted 569,000, 414,000, 3000, 59,000 unintended pregnancies, unintended births, maternal deaths and unsafe abortions respectively. Applying this data in advocacy engagement with the State resulted in the commitment of N250m
Conclusion
Strategic advocacy with State using the economic and health benefits of previous Federal investment is key to getting States buy-in and sustainable financing of FP in Nigeria
