{
  "id": 16628837,
  "title": "DGI Consult, UNICEF Strengthen Primary Healthcare Management in Adamawa, Kwara, Sokoto",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/26/dgi-consult-unicef-strengthen-primary-healthcare-management-in",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-26T16:09:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "This Day",
    "slug": "this-day",
    "url": "https://www.thisdaylive.com/2026/10/26/dgi-consult-unicef-strengthen-primary-healthcare-management-in-adamawa-kwara-sokoto/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "DGI Consult, in partnership with UNICEF's ELGMC project, has provided training to local government health managers and frontline workers in Adamawa, Kwara, and Sokoto states. The initiative aims to bolster primary healthcare delivery and enhance maternal and child health outcomes through practical leadership, management, and problem-solving skills. The workshops, conducted in selected local government areas across the three states, addressed gaps identified in earlier facility assessments, focusing on service organization, resource management, accountability, and decision-making.\n\nDr Sulaiman Saidu Bashir, the Executive Chairman of ADSPHCDA, emphasized the collective responsibility of health-sector stakeholders in ensuring effective program implementation and preventing avoidable deaths among women, newborns, children, and adolescents. Dr Gafar Alawode, CEO of DGI Consult, explained that the intervention was designed to strengthen the capacity of health facility and LGA teams to identify and resolve challenges encountered during service delivery. The training involved examining challenges, identifying actions within participants' areas of responsibility, and developing action plans with defined responsibilities, results, and timelines.\n\nA key component of the training was the whole-part-rest approach to problem-solving, which encourages teams to comprehensively examine challenges, identify actions within their control, determine necessary support from other stakeholders, and mobilize partners to implement solutions. For instance, at Primary Health Centre Yallabe in Wamakko LGA of Sokoto State, collaboration with local health stakeholders resulted in the facility becoming a distribution point for ready-to-use therapeutic food, increasing patient turnout. In Gwadabawa LGA of Sokoto State, a health training official from the Sokoto State Primary Health Care Development Agency agreed to support the facility during busy immunization and antenatal care sessions.\n\nDr Oguntoye, Director of Primary Health Care Services in Kwara State, expressed confidence that the intervention would enhance health workers' capacity to deliver quality services and improve health outcomes across the state. He highlighted the importance of translating improved leadership and management into effective program implementation, emphasizing the need for facility teams to be better equipped to plan, coordinate, and improve healthcare services.",
  "summary": "Funmi Ogundare Development Governance International (DGI) Consult, through the UNICEF-supported Enhancing Leadership, Governance and Management Capacities (ELGMC) project, has trained local government health managers and frontline health workers in Adamawa,",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}