Nigeria National Centre Policy Dialogue

Central to the achievement of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is to improve service coverage, financial access, and financial protection for health service users. Concerned about Nigeria’s slow pace toward UHC, the Nigerian National Centre (NC) of the African Health Observatory Platform (AHOP) organized a Policy Dialogue that brought together key members of the National Healthcare Financing and equity Technical Working Group (HCF-TWG) and the Federal Ministry of Health in Nigeria to discuss the current policy issues on health financing (interest on health financing governance and domestic resource mobilization), with a focus on UHC. The dialogue brainstormed on the future directions in terms of strategic activities or actions that will be taken to make a change in the context of strengthening the Nigerian health system and achieving UHC. The dialogue explored how to specifically enhance efforts towards achieving UHC in Nigeria through domestic funding lenses and improved health financing governance. Download the Policy Dialogue report here.