AFRIHEALTH OPTONET ASSOCIATION
PROFILE
1. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND
Afrihealth
Optonet Association (AHOA) is a community-focused civil society organizations
(CSOs) international network coalition and think tank promoting policies,
practices, programmes and interventions that enhance productivity,
accountability and transparency in Society Welfare/Social Safety nets,
Development Work, Sustainable Development and Health. AHOA has a global
membership/partnership of over 1000 organizations mainly from the global South
and promotes the ‘One Health’ paradigm where Health is a state of complete
physical, mental and social well-being. AHOA uses partnership/collaboration,
advocacy, research/evidence generation, capacity development, outreaches,
monitoring and evaluation (M&E) as strategies. AHOA’s
activities/interventions are for the benefit of rural and poor urban dwellers,
marginalized, vulnerable and disadvantaged populations of women, children,
adolescents, persons with disability, persons in conflict-affected areas, the
poor, elderly, rural, disadvantaged and vulnerable persons, orphans and the
elderly. The AHOA Network Coalition and Think-tank works to explore the nexus
between Health – UHC, PHC, Reproductive Health, PHC, HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria,
NCDs, NTDs, Vaccines/Immunization and COVID-19; Energy and Environment -
biodiversity, environment, ecosystems, renewable energy, energy efficiency,
conservation and climate change (BEEREEECCC); Nutrition/micronutrients and Food
Security; Gender, Democracy, Good Governance and Human Rights. AHOA partners
with the Society for Conservation and Sustainability of Energy and Environment
in Nigeria (SOCSEEN). AHOA has members/local Chapters in Nigeria’s 36 States
and Federal Capital Abuja, National Chapters in some countries, sub-regional
Chapters in North Africa, West and Central Africa, East and Southern Africa;
and in America, Asia, Caribbean, Europe and Oceania regions. AHOA has a
Consultative Status at the United Nations ECOSOC; and an Accredited Observer
status at the UNEP/United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA).
Following the World Health
Organisation (WHO) poor ranking of the Nigerian health system as 187th out of
191 member States by in 2000, in its report on the performance of health
systems, Afrihealth received its certificate of incorporation/registration in
2003. It currently has members, State Focal Persons (SFPs), Lead Coalition
Partners (LCPs) and liaison offices in Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones; with
national headquarter office in Abuja. It was a sub-sub recipient
(SSR)/Implementing Agency of the Global Fund Grants Round Nine [GFR9] for
Home-Based Care in Imo State, and Prevention (out of school youth) in FCT under
the Civil Society for HIV/AIDS in Nigeria [CiSHAN] and Nigeria Youth Network
for HIV/AIDS [NYNETHA] respectively. Our target populations are women, infants
and children/adolescents, youths, the vulnerable and poorest-of-the-poor and
elderly in our rural and poor urban communities. It is currently promoting the
Coalition for Vaccines, Vitamins and Immunizations for All [CoVIA]. Locally, it
is a member of Civil Society Partnership for Development in Nigeria [CSPDN],
CiSHAN, AONN, ACOMIN, NYNETHA, TB Network and Society for Conservation and
Sustainability of Energy and Environment in Nigeria [SOCSEEN]. It is an active
member of several International Organizations including the GAVI Civil Society
Constituency, Decade of Vaccines (DoV) Collaboration for the Global Vaccines
Action Plan (GVAP) and Child Rights Information Network [CRIN].
Countries where Members/Partners of Afrihealth
Optonet Association (AHOA) Coalition/Network and Think-tank are presently in
the following countries, and expanding:
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Nigeria |
Switzerland |
Bangladesh |
Malawi |
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Belgium |
Burkina Faso |
Cote D’Ivoire |
Sierra Leone |
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Indonesia |
Somalia |
Morocco |
Niger |
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Mexico |
DRC |
Liberia |
Kenya |
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Thailand |
Tanzania |
Zimbabwe |
Swaziland |
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India |
Chad |
Eswatini |
Mali |
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United Kingdom |
Ghana |
Burundi |
Cameroon |
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United States of
America |
Afghanistan |
Senegal |
Egypt |
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Brazil |
Uganda |
Mauritania |
Ethiopia |
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The Netherlands |
Trinidad and
Tobago |
Nepal |
Pakistan |
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Switzerland |
South Africa |
Yemen |
Malaysia |
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The Gambia |
Botswana |
Austria |
Ireland |
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Antigua and
Barbuda |
The Netherland |
Sudan |
Jamaica |
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Sri Lanka |
Canada |
Benin |
Jordan |
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Italy |
Gabon |
Kyrgyzstan |
Bolivia |
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Russia
Federation |
Iraq |
Lebanon |
Lesotho |
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Japan |
Fiji |
South Sudan |
Bhutan |
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United Kingdom |
Djibouti |
Cambodia |
Guatemala |
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Argentina |
Bolivia |
Colombia |
Dominica
Republic |
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Germany |
Guinea |
Angola |
South Korea |
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France |
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VISION, MISSION, MOTTO,
OBJECTIVES AND SKILLS
2.1 Vision
A foremost community-focused
non-governmental organization contributing to better health status and living
standards, empowerment and social development of marginalised,
at-risk/vulnerable, rural and poor urban populations, and achievement of
Global, Regional, Subregional, National, Subnational and Local development
targets.
2.2 Mission Statement
To engender sustainable
improvements in the health and standard of living of women, children (infants,
adolescents and youth), poorest of the poor, the elderly, rural and
marginalized urban communities and vulnerable groups in Africa; by promoting
evidence-based credible actions and support for health, environment, nutrition
and development
2.3 Motto
Better life for All
2.4 Nature of the Association
The Association shall be a
non-governmental, non-political and non-profit making civil society
organization and network/coalition.
2.5 Organisational
Objectives
1. To contribute significantly
towards the national response to HIV & AIDS in Nigeria by
preventing the transmission of
HIV, providing care and support for those infected and affected by the disease,
reducing the vulnerability of individuals, orphans, children and communities to
HIV/AIDS as well as alleviating the human impact of the epidemic;
2. To promote and improve the
health, environment, energy, educational, adequate nutrition and better
standards of living of the community especially for Orphans and Vulnerable
Children (OVCs), women, the elderly and other vulnerable groups in the society;
and mitigate the impacts of HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria and Poverty on them, and
provide them with psychosocial support;
3. To prevent blindness,
improve sight/vision, and provide holistic information on the health and
development situation necessary for the attainment of a healthy and developed
society; and encourage and promote educational experimentation and innovative
activities that lead to the enhancement and improvement of the health system in
Nigeria and elsewhere;
4. To advocate and work for the
attainment of peace, harmony, conflict resolution and disarmament, for the
attainment of local, national and global health and development objectives that
engender a health community and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs);
5. To conduct research for the
improvement of the health and development of the society and its communities;
and co-operate with any other organizational whenever appropriate, in order to
attain and/or sustain the health and development of the society and its
inhabitants; and
6. To encourage, organise,
provide, publish, promote and support knowledge management, monitoring and
evaluation (M&E), capacity building and evidence-generation, through
conferences, workshops, trainings, seminars; and publication of relevant
journals, magazines, newsletters and provision of other information, education
and communication (IEC) materials.
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Established in 1997, incorporated in 2003 and has been in
Consultative Status with the United Nations ECOSOC since 2018
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A National/Regional CSOs Network/Coalition and Think-tank with
Chapters in Nigeria’s 36 States and FCT, and in Kenya, Uganda, Malawi, Haiti,
Ghana
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Implements Health and Development Systems Strengthening
programs, projects and services as its major interventions
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Members of Afrihealth network/coalition focus actively on
HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria, RMNCH, UHC and Health Financing; Energy/Environment;
Biodiversity, Ecosystems, Energy, Climate Change and the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs); Nutrition/Food Security; Gender and Good Governance
(including Democracy and Human Rights)
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Intervention areas include Partnerships/Collaborations, Advocacy
(ACSM), Research/Evidence-generation, Capacity Development, Outreaches,
Monitoring & Evaluation
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Target beneficiaries of AFRIHEALTH’s interventions include
governments, poorest of the poor, children/infants and orphans, women,
youth/adolescents, vulnerable population/groups and the elderly in rural,
suburban and poor urban dwellers/communities
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Has over 1,000 members/partners across the world and over 26,000
(Twnety-six Thousand) persons in its Google Group
The benefits of becoming a member/partner of AFRIHEALTH Optonet
Association are by no means exhaustive, and include:
- Members/partners
are able to broaden their base of support to submit proposals for funding
and support, access opportunities and receive mutual benefits in the
magnitude they could not gain individually or on their own;
- Individual
members/partners from various countries and diverse cultures are provided
with the platform and opportunity to engage and collaborate with each
other for the greater good of all, while retaining their independence;
- Members/partners
gain leverage and improve their negotiation results through the banding
together of older, bigger and/or stronger organizations with other
relatively newer, smaller and/or weaker ones in AFRIHEALTH; who are
thereby able to harness/access the resources needed to successfully face
tough situations;
- Members/partners
can focus on their strengths while relying on the supports/strengths of
other Network partners in other areas and still share in the
accomplishments with other members/partners;
- Members/partners
who might otherwise lose opportunities in competition with one another,
shall now join forces to negotiate in a mutual, collective and organized
manner with funders, development partners, international bodies,
governments, embassies/foreign missions, businesses, political parties,
etc. in a win-win situation for everyone;
- By
combining efforts and sharing experiences and resources, AFRIHEALTH
members/partners learn from each other, receive capacity building support,
acquire new skills, and broaden their knowledge, income and abilities;
- By
sharing resources, members/partners of AFRIHEALTH mutually benefit from
the maxim of “the sum is often greater than the parts”, as shared
resources often mean that the Network partners/members can overcome
deficiencies together;
- Development
requires money, people and time; and the increased number of
organizations/people in the Network usually means that it will take
shorter/less time and cost less to accomplish an objective with the
combined effort;
- Different
organizations/partners coming together in AFRIHEALTH shall provide
diversity for each member-organization to broaden its reach and accomplishments
by working with other organizations that are associated with the same or
similar health and development issues or causes.
AFRIHEALTH
Technical Advisory Groups (TAGs) are:
1.
AIDS/HIV, TB, Malaria, NTDs, NCDs, COVID-19 and
Related Diseases;
2.
Biodiversity, Environment, Ecosystems, Renewable
Energy, Energy Efficiency, Conservation and Climate Change (BEEREEECCC);
3.
Empowerment and Support to Civil Society and
Communities;
4.
Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and Violence
Against Women and Girls (VAWG);
5.
Governance, Democracy, Peace, Human Rights and
Sustainable Development;
6.
Health (including Family Welfare, MNBCH,
Family Planning), Human Security and Food Security for All;
7.
Vaccines, Vitamins and Immunizations; and
8.
Disability, Elderly, Women, Vulnerable and
Youth (DEWVY)
AFRIHEALTH
Projects Advisory Panels (PAPs) are:
i.
Partnerships/Collaborations;
ii.
Advocacy, Communications and Social/Resource
Mobilization;
iii.
Research/Evidence Generation;
iv.
Capacity Development and Education;
v.
Outreaches;
vi.
Monitoring, Evaluation (M&E) and
Knowledge Management.
vii.
Editorial Team
viii.
Moderators, Translators, Data (ICT) and
Reporter/Rapporteurs Team
Development Work means “the process(es) of formulating/conceptualizing,
planning, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, auditing, improving,
and expanding valued or service-oriented social, economic, political and
faith-related works/issues/services, programmes, projects, policies, practices,
documentations, results, changes and items; in participatory/mainstreaming
manners/approaches among humanity, indigenous people, citizens, those
marginalized, in the communities and all the fields of human endeavour;
including without limitation, all deliverables, materials, inventions, designs,
notes, records, memoranda, documents, models, prototypes, scale-ups, and other
materials, as well as all enhancements, derivatives, and modifications thereof,
and all target, input, output, outcome, impact, and intellectual property
thereto.”[1]
'Sustainable
Citizen Participation (SCP)'
is a development model espoused by Afrihealth Optonet Association in 2017-18 in
Nigeria's Niger Delta region; with funding support from the United Nations
Democracy Fund (UNDEF).
• Sustainable
Citizen Participation (SCP) means that governments involve citizens in policies
formulation, planning and execution of the society’s activities, such that
citizens will be able to engage with their government and leaders on a regular
and sustained basis; as currently, majority of the citizens are only able to
interact with their governments/leaders at the latter’s leisure[2].
• Sustainable Citizen Participation (SCP) will entail the redistribution of
power that enables the have-not citizens, presently excluded from the political
and economic processes, to be deliberately included. It is the strategy
by which the have-nots join in determining how information is shared, goals and
policies are set, tax resources are allocated, programs are operated, projects
are designed, implemented, monitored and benefits like contracts and patronage
are parcelled out. In short, it is the means by which they can induce
significant social reform which enables them to share in the benefits of the
affluent society.
Click on any of the respective link(s)
below to post your message for the attention of the NGOs in our
Network:
For country a specific/named platform,
please click on only one country or your own country if applicable:
AFRIHEALTH Naija <https://chat.whatsapp.com/K8vJzM5fGzDLUkUpMJmra4>
AFRIHEALTH Africa <https://chat.whatsapp.com/Ji87M2e96Zn5SooS7osonN>
AFRIHEALTH Global <https://chat.whatsapp.com/BJgAyb3tyO27eC1mHM1DRl>
AFRIHEALTH North Africa Region <https://chat.whatsapp.com/GNnHYnpzrua5xgeECedEal>
AFRIHEALTH West and Central Africa
Regions <https://chat.whatsapp.com/Ltd1h7ZbvzXHVBMxdlL7xm>
AFRIHEALTH Southern and Eastern Africa
Regions <https://chat.whatsapp.com/IRlt8zk6sWD1ONmLjY2Cu5>
AFRIHEALTH Kenya <https://chat.whatsapp.com/2GUiJRokGge9WbdPSBJU7z>
Health, Food and Human Security
(HEFOSS link on Telegram): https://t.me/joinchat/HQnG4hL5xbTZaMHgCdhIBA
Telegram link for HEFOSS <https://t.me/+EvnFtLEEyBAJ2EgE>
Coalition on Vaccines, Vitamins,
Minerals, and Immunizations for All (CoVIA) project <https://chat.whatsapp.com/IE5cwLxQpPt9XcciGav1gW>
Civil Society for Elimination of
Gender-Based Violence (CS4EGBV) project <https://chat.whatsapp.com/FdvVf1ZlRePBVj8GOcQjMt>
Civil Society Actions on Climate, Energy and Biodiversity (CiSACEB)
Programme <https://chat.whatsapp.com/F63WPn7NKurHAGSQ3Hcqle>
Telegram link for CS4EGBV <https://t.me/+TePBHn8xFSqXXA_h>
AFRIHEALTH’s
Vision is to be “A foremost community-focused
non-governmental organizations think tank/network contributing to better health
status and living standards, empowerment and social development of
marginalised, at-risk/vulnerable, rural and poor urban populations, and achievement
of the Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) targets.”
Our Mission Statement is “To improve the health and standard of
living of women, children (infants, adolescents and youth), poorest of the
poor, the elderly, rural and marginalized urban communities and vulnerable
groups in Africa; by promoting evidence-based credible actions and support for
health, environment, nutrition and human security/development”;
Projects
Implemented by AHOA, 2020 – June 2022:
1. 2020-05-23 Training on
Introduction to Project Life Cycle
2. 2020-05-23 Training on The
Evaluation Cycle and Steps in Evaluation
3. 2020-05-25 Challenges,
Strategies and Prospects for Consultancy Services in Nigeria During and After
Covid-19 Pandemic
4. 2020-12-09 Strengthening
Nigeria’s Health Systems to Protect Everyone and Achieve UHC and Health for All
during the COVID-19 Pandemic
5. 2020-12-11 Taming the
Monster_ Ending Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Against Women and Girls During
and After the COVID-19 Pandemic
6. 2021-02-02 Prevention,
Treatment and Mitigation of Cervical Cancer in Resource constrained Settings
during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond
7. 2021-02-12 Workshop on the
Effects of Covid-19 Pandemic on HIV/AIDS Response
8. 2021-02-17 COVID-19
VACCINATION AND COMMUNITY ENAGEMENT
9. 2021-03-04 HARNESSING AND
PROMOTING WOMEN LEADERSHIP TO OVERCOME THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND ACHIEVE THE
'SDGs'
10. 2021-03-22 ELIMINATING
TUBERCULOSIS IN RESOURCES CONSTRAINED SETTINGS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC -
what works, what doesn't
11. 2021-04-02 WORLD HEALTH
DAY 2021_ IMPERATIVES FOR FAIRER HEALTHCARE POLICIES AND PROGRAMMES DURING
COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND BEYOND
12. 2021-04-02 VACCINE
HESITANCY FOR COVID-19 AND OTHER VACCINE-PREVENTABLE DISEASES - MYTHS AND
REALITIES
13. 2021-05-15 Climate Change:
Think Global, Act Local
14. 2021-05-24 Civil Society
Dialogue on the Conservation of Biodiversity - we are part of the solution
15. 2021-08-05 TRAINING ON
'PROJECT LIFE CYCLE', BY HSP CONSULTANTS
16. 2021-09-07 The Evaluation
Cycle 88479342112
17. 2021-09-30 The SDGs at 6:
International Symposium on Country Prospects for the Achievement of the 2030
Agenda
18. 2021-10-14 Making COVID-19
Vaccination Compulsory, Enforceable and Criminalizing/Punishing Non-receivers
19. 2021-10-22 The Role of
Evaluation in Achieving the SDGs
20. 2021-01-14 Understanding
and Ending Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in our Societies
21. 2021-03-04 HARNESSING AND
PROMOTING WOMEN LEADERSHIP TO OVERCOME THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND ACHIEVE THE
'SDGs'
22. 2021.10.29 CSO COP26
conference
23. 2021.11.08 Health, Human
Security and Food Security for All TAG
24. 2021.11.25 Workshop on
Involving men & boys as critical change agents against GBV and VAWG
25. 2021.12.27 Training on
Proposals Presentation Outline
26. 2021-01-14 Understanding
and Ending Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in our Societies
27. 2021.12.27 Report Writing
and Proposal Development
28. 2022.01.31 Stakeholders'
consultation on International Conference on Development Work
29. 2022.02.03 World Cancer
Day symposium
30. 2022.03.04 Journal writing
training
31. 2022.03.09 IWD conference
32. 2022.03.25 World TB Day
conference
33. 2022.04.08 WHD Conference
34. 2022.04.28 2022
World Malaria Day conference with the theme: Advance Equity. Build
Resilience. End Malaria - Your Effort Counts
35. 2022.06.02 gLOCAL
Evaluation
36. 2022.06.07 WED symposium
Living in harmony with nature
37. 2022.06.09 THM on
Implementation of Nigeria's NHAct 2014
38. 2022.06.10 Training on
Project Management Life Cycle
Treaties,
Letters, Advocacy Messages and Campaigns undertaken by Afrihealth Optonet
Association (AHOA) alone and or in partnership with other stakeholders in
Development:
1.
Scientific Declaration on Polio Eradication
2.
Signatories to ‘making the eHealth Connection’
3.
Signatories_Budapest Open Access Initiative
4.
signatories_final letter to GCF board re.
adaptation-development 2017
5.
Signatories_The Vienna Declaration
6.
Signatory to the following
protocols.campaign.treaties
7.
Signatory_ACallForPoliticalLeadershiponHIVAIDS
8.
Signatory_Civil Society Call to Action at the GAVI
Partners Forum 2012
9.
Signatory_CIVIL SOCIETY PRINCIPLES ON THE IHP+
10. Signatory_Commitment
to Child Survival_APR_CSO_29.06.12
11. signatory_Diverse
Array of NGOs and CSOs Call on Governments and Partners
12. Signatory_Emergency
PEPFAR 2 Sign On Letter, 2008
13. signatory_global
AIDS advocates letter to UNAIDS ED Sidibe, 12.13
14. signatory_HBV
BD Letter_FINAL 6.13.14 ENG
15. Signatory_Int'l
protest at Canadian legal case, Human Rights, 2006
16. Signatory_Letter
from 117 African CSOs to African Union Summit
17. Signatory_Letter
to USA House Foreign Affairs Committee
18. Signatory_NGO
Code of Conduct4Health Systems Strengthening (HSS), 28.12.12
19. Statement
of Support+signatories for GAPPD, 10.04.13
20. Letter_75
UNanniv_civil-society-inclusion
21. GFATM
& HSS_An Organizational and Policy Analysis 2011
22. globalplantoendtb_theparadigmshift_2016-2020_stoptbpartnership
23. global-statement_endorsements_Human
Rights Defenders
24. Guiding
Principles for Urban-Rural Linkages
25. Letter
from the President of UNEA 5, 2019
26. MCIA CSO
Declaration on Immunization in Africa
27. peace_corps_HIV_dismissals_signons
28. CS
statement on ending TB 2018
29. Statement
on private sector in implementation of post2015 SD Agenda
30. The Hague
Declaration on Planetary Security
31. Communiqué
Issued at the End of a One Day Stakeholders’ Forum on the Right to Food
Legislation
32. Everywoman
Everywhere Coalition
33. Global TB
partners profile, 19.7.13
34. Melbourne
Declaration Endorsers
35. MenEngage-e-Dialogue-Report_FINAL
36. Global
Violence against children coalition 2013
37. PRB
Discuss Online: The Well-Being of Older Populations
GLOBAL AND REGIONAL ACTIVITIES
Active Member and
Signatory to the following international Advocacy, Campaigns and Partnerships:
i.
Global Civil Society Organizations [CSOs] on the
High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), 2016
ii. Signatory,
Communiqué Issued at the End of a One Day Stakeholders’ Forum on the
Right to Food Legislation in Nigeria Held at Bolton White Hotel on the 26th February,
2013
iii. Co-sponsor/Member,
The Global Campaign for Microbicides, 2014
iv. Member, Everywoman Everywhere Coalition - a
global group of more than 800 organizations, women's rights activists, scholars,
and concerned citizens, from more than 110 countries, rallied around a singular
belief in the right to a life free from all forms of violence for every woman,
everywhere. We have come together to advance a singular goal: an international
treaty on violence against women and girls worldwide, 2016
v. Member, Global Stop TB Partnership,
2013
vi. Endorser, AIDS2014 Melbourne
Declaration of “Nobody Left Behind”
vii. Member,
Critical Dialogue on Engaging Men and Boys in Gender Justice, 2016
viii.
Member, WWSF
ix. Signatory,
Scientific Declaration on Polio Eradication
x. Signatory,
Women_Major_Group
{WMG} Statement on private sector participation in the implementation of
Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda, 2015
xi. Signatory, Civil Society Principles on the IHP+
xii. Signatory, Urgent Call for U.S. Initiative on Health
Workforce in AIDS-Impacted Countries, 2006
xiii.
Signatory,
Letter from 117 African Civil Society Organisations to African Union
Summit on Upholding African Health and Social Development Commitments,
July 2010
xiv.
Signatory,
Civil Society Letter on HIV-related
Travel Restrictions addressed to the UN Missions and Heads of State in
Countries with Restrictions, 2007
xv. Signatory, African TB Partners Call on
African Heads of State, Health & Finance Ministers to Fund the Africa Gap
in the Global Plan to Stop TB.
xvi.
Signatory, Budhapest
Initiative in support of ‘open education’, 2012
xvii.
Signatory, Civil
Society Call to Action at the GAVI Partner’s Forum 2012
xviii.
Signatory, Committing
to Child Survival – a promise renewed, 2012
xix.
Member/Signatory, Global HIV/AIDS Advocates letter to UNAIDS to
call on the United Nations General Assembly to convene a High Level Meeting
before September 2015 to assess progress toward the achievement of the goals in
the 2011 Political Declaration and to renew the commitments to achieve
Universal Access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support in the
post-2015 Development Framework, 2013
xx.
Signatory, MSF ‘Access
Campaign’ in support of hepatitis B virus (HBV) birth dose vaccination, 2014
xxi.
Signatory/member,
International campaign calling on Canada to stop crimilalizing people living
with HIV, 2012
xxii.
Signatory,
The NGO Code of Conduct for Health
Systems Strengthening, 2009
xxiii.
Signatory, Statement
of Support for the Integrated Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control
of Pneumonia and Diarrhoea, 2014
xxiv.
Signatory to the call
for Global Health Systems Impact
Assessments (GHSIA), 2009
xxv.
Signatory, Urgent Call for U.S.
Initiative on Health Workforce in AIDS-Impacted Countries, 2006
NATIONAL ACTIVITIES (Nigeria)
i.
Chair, Technical Working Group (TWG) of NGOs in Health in Nigeria,
FMOH; 2016-present
ii.
Member, Health Care Financing and Investment TWG, FMOH;
2015-present
iii.
Cochair, National World Malaria Day Committee, FMOH; 2016-present
iv.
Member, Malaria TWG (Nigeria); 2017-present
v.
Member, United Nations CSOs Partnership, Nigeria; 2016-present
vi.
Participated in preparing Nigeria’s National Voluntary Reports
(NVR) 2017
vii.
In consultative status with Nigeria National
Assembly Joint Committee on Rural Development and Health care Services in
Nigeria
1.2 Operating
Programmes/Agencies
AFRIHEALTH
INFORMATION PROJECTS – covers Health, HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria,
Environment and Energy
GAHADA
PARTNERS – covers Capacity Building, Training, Empowerment, Peace,
Good Governance, Disarmament
and Human Rights
OPTONET
INTERNATIONAL – covers Blindness prevention, Nutrition, Agriculture
and Food Security
Coalition
for Vaccines, Vitamins and Immunisations for All [CoVIAN]
Civil Society for Elimination
of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG);
Civil Society Actions for
Biodiversity, Environment, Ecosystems, Energy, Conservation and Climate Change;
Health, Human and Food Security
Summits (HEFOSS)
3. ORGANISATIONAL EXPERIENCE
Afrihealth Optonet Association
is a member of the GAVI Civil Society Constituency and the
Decade of Vaccines (DoV)
Collaboration for the Global Vaccines Action Plan (GVAP). It is
involved in the generation,
storage, dissemination and application of knowledge/information in Health,
HIV/AIDS, TB, Nutrition/Food security, Blindness prevention, Environment,
Peace-building and Good governance, the MDGs, Primary Health Care, Vaccines and
Immunisation,Renewable Energy/Energy Efficiency and Conservation,
conferences/meetings/workshops, Health Sector Reforms; Public-Private Partnerships
(PPP), Health Promotion and Healthcare Financing/Insurance. Afrihealth
implements its activities using its ‘PARCO’ Strategy of Partnerships, Advocacy,
Research/Evidence-generation, Capacity-Building and Outreach interventions
(including workshops, conferences, meetings, documentation, policy analysis,
community/groups mobilization and public education); and bottom-up,
people-specific, gender-sensitive and broad-based participatory approaches in
its work. It works to promote policies, laws and practices that contribute to
the control of Diseases and improvement of human life. Its objectives include:
to advocate and mobilise for better health and improved well-being of the
community and society; to provide health information, education and
communication; to conduct research on healthcare issues; and to undertake and
promote health interventions for the whole family and society. It is a member
of several local and international health/HIV/AIDS and development networks and
employs bottom-up, people-specific, gender-sensitive and participatory
approaches in its work/activities. Our monitoring activities are guided by the
project objective’s defined measurable input, output, outcome and impact
indicators. We use onsite visits, direct observation of conditions (emotional,
mental and physical), involving the stakeholders in monitoring,
reports/records, community participatory monitoring, forms to be filled by
stakeholders and information entered into the project’s Management Information
system (MIS), use/checks of financial and activity records/reports, and
meetings of implementing partners. Full impacts are measured through projects
evaluations as and whenever due. Afrihealth’s has acquired cognate experience
in its areas of commitment and focus (interest)
through publications,
partnerships, advocacy, research/evidence-generation, capacity-building,
outreaches and community interventions; as summarized below:
3.1. Publications
a) HIV/AIDS: beyond ARVs and
Advocacy, 2003
b) Female Circumcision (Female
Genital Mutilation): 40 Dangerous Effects Parents and
Relations Must Know, 1999 (publication
now catalogued at the Media/Materials Clearinghouse of the Johns Hopkins
University, USA, for worldwide distribution, as M/MC ID#: PL NGA 318)
c). Nutrition for All Ages - A
Pocket Guide.1999 (catalogued at the Media/Materials
Clearinghouse of the Johns
Hopkins University, USA, for worldwide distribution, as M/MC ID#: PL NGA 398)
d) Controlling HIV/AIDS Among
Mobile Populations in Lagos’ – an oral presentation made at the 14th
International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa, Abuja, 4-9 December 2005
e) Handbills on Vitamin A
Deficiency Diseases
f) Posters on anemia and
maternal health
Some of its activities have
been reported in the local media while its publications are available at
http://phishare.org/partners/afrihealthoptonet, and on the Internet.
3.2. Partnership
Maintains
a coalition partnership with more than 500 civil society orgnaisations/groups
spread all over Nigeria’s 6
geopolitical zones and 36 States and Federal Capital Territory
Currently
collaborating with CDC and USAID to receive trainings and enhance local
capacity for applying for USG
health funding opportunities
Participating
in the Global Decade of Vaccines Collaboration for Global Vaccines Action
Plan, 2011-present
Participating
in the GAVI Civil Society Constituency, 2010-present
Adopts
Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) approach wherever possible
Technical
Assistance to Arewa Joint Action Committee Lagos on HIV/AIDS, 2003-4
Organised
and maintains the ICASA 2005 forum: An email forum for the exchange of
HIV/AIDS views and
news/information between stakeholders, for the purpose of ensuring that the
objectives of the International Conference on Aids and STIs (sexually
transmitted infections) in Africa [ICASA 2005], Abuja, Nigeria are completely
realised.
3.3. Advocacy
Advocacy visit to the permanent Secretary Imo State Ministry of
Health for improvement of immunization services in the State, 2014
Advocacy
visit to the Honourable Minister of Health for the institution of Universal
Health Care (UHC) and its funding using the National Health Insurance Scheme
(NHIS), 2012
Advocacy
visit to the Honourable Commissioner for Health in Enugu State of Nigeria for
increased involvement of the civil society in the health sector, 201
Promoting
immunisation uptake in Isale-Eko communities of Lagos
Using
vitamin A deficiency control capaigns to advance immunisation education and
uptake in resource-poor
settings in Lagos state
Controlling
HIV/AIDS within the community’ – an advocacy engagement with the
Sarkin Hausawa and Chief Imam
of Isolo Lagos;
Controlling
Maternal anemia and utilisation of antenatal services available within
local health facilities in
Isle-Eko and Kirikiri town in Lagos State
Controll
of vitamin A deficiency diseases in children in Badagry, Egbe, Alausa and
Orile-Iganmu Lagos;
3.4. Research
Civil
Society Capacity Training Needs Assessment in Nigeria’s thirty-six States and
the
Federal Capital territory,
2011-12
Study
of the Prevalence, Management Practices and Preventive Strategies of Diabetic
Retinopathy in Lagos State,
Nigeria, 2000-2002
Developing
a food based dietary guideline for the control of vitamin A deficiency
diseases (VADD) in Lagos using
available and affordable local food materials [study
carried out in 5 Rural
Communities and 8 Children’s Schools in Badagry, Alausa,
Kirikiri, Egbe & Isheri
Olofin], 2002-2003
Developing
a food based dietary guideline for the control of maternal anaemia in
pregnancy in Lagos State using
available and affordable local food materials [study
carried out in 5 Rural
Communities and 8 Children’s Schools in Badagry, Alausa,
Kirikiri, Egbe & Isheri
Olofin], 2000-2002
3.5 Capacity-Development and
Citizen Participation
‘Sustainable Citizen Participation in Nigeria’s
Niger Delta’ - a
Project of Afrihealth Optonet Association with support from the United Nations
Democracy Fund (UNDEF); to empower the civil society to engage with
governments on a regular and sustained basis for the achievement of the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Nigeria; 2017-2018
SURE-P Staff training
Training of AOA members on Proposal writing
Nigerian
Civil Society Capacity Building and Training programme for 2012-14 to
provide civil society and
community-focused organizations/service providers with
necessary skills for programmes
management, advocacy and resource mobilization.
These programmes shall provide
trainings in various capacity areas to 1039 persons
[372 females and 667 males]
nominated by 540 civil society organizations from the
36 states and FCT
Facilitated/organized
1 Vitamin A Deficiency Control/Training workshop for 38
community leaders, patent
medicine dealers, local government personnel and
community health workers in
Badagry, Lagos , 2001
3.6 Outreaches/Community
Interventions
World AIDS Day
Outreach/Rally in Gbaupe Community, Kuje Area Council, FCT Abuja, Nigeria; 2016
World Malaria
Day Outreach/Rally in Gbaupe Community, Kuje Area Council, FCT Abuja, Nigeria; 2016
Environmental Cleaning in Gombe 2015
WASH in Lagos 2015
Visit to IDP Camp in Gombe 2015
World AIDS Day
Outreach/Rally in Gbaupe Community, Kuje Area Council, FCT Abuja, Nigeria; 2016
World Malaria
Day Outreach/Rally in Gbaupe Community, Kuje Area Council, FCT Abuja, Nigeria; 2016
Organisation
of 1 HIV Counselling and Testing (HCT), condom distribution, Community
rally, sensitisation and
dialogue in Goza community of Abuja, to commemorate World
AIDS Day 2011
Provision
of Out-of-School Youth (OSY) HIV/AIDS prevention services in Lugbe
Abuja, as a Global Fund sub
sub-recipient under Round 9 grants, 2011-present
Provision
of Home Base Care (HBC) services for persons living with HIV/AIDS in Imo
State as a Global Fund sub
sub-recipient under Round 9 grants, 2011-present
Organisation
of Immunisation, Child Health, Infant nutrition and Vitamin A Deficiency
mobilization programme in
Kapwa, Abuja; and reached 258 families/persons
Conducted
eye health awareness and vision screening exercises in liaison with the World
Health Organization [WHO] on ‘Vision
Care for Road Safety’ - a World Health Day
Project; at Aguda Central Motor
Park, Surulere Lagos, for commercial bus and taxi
drivers and market persons,
2004
HIV/AIDS
control and impact mitigation enlightenment/advocacy campaigns in the
predominantly Muslim Arewa
Community, Isolo Central Mosque, Lagos; 2004
Community-based
HCT and PMTCT advocacy and mobilization project in in Isherin
Olofin, Lagos, 2004
Using
Advocacy and Immunisation Opportunity to control Vitamin A deficiency
Diseases (VADD): projects
featuring VAD talks, IECs, advocacy for using immunisation
as opportunity for vitamin A
fortification and vitamin A capsule supplementation, in 7
Rural Communities and 8
Children’s Schools in Lagos State; and provision of awareness
for the vitamin A rich foods
that abound in and around the community (Badagry, Alausa,
Kirikiri, Egbe, Isheri Olofin,
Ijeshatedo & Aguda), 1995-2004
Organised
4 Vitamin A Deficiency Control/Prevention outreach Projects in Badagry,
Lagos; including the
distribution/administration of Vitamin a capsule and provision of
awareness for the vitamin A
rich foods that abound in and around the community, 1997-
2002; and reached more than
15,000 children, infants and breastfeeding mothers
Organised
2 Population Education, family planning Awareness and Eye Care Campaigns,
in Egbe, Lagos, 1998
Organised
3 Family Health, Environmental Awareness and Blindness Prevention Projects
in Alausa, Lagos, 1998
Organised
3 Child Health/Nutritional Blindness Prevention Programme for the Pupils and
Staff of Sanya Primary School
Ijesha-tedo, Lagos State, 1998
Organised
Public Health Intervention/Education Programme at the Yaba Old People’s
Home, Lagos State, 1997
4. COLLABORATIVE PARTNERSHIPS
AND NETWORK MEMBERSHIPS
Afrihealth is working with 1029
local community-based Civil Society Organisations, five
national CSO networks, Federal
and State Ministries, Departments and Agencies in charge of
health and environment, women,
youth, children and the elderly, international Organisations
including Child Health
Foundation, GAVI Alliance CSO constituency, Decades of Vaccine
Collaboration, American
Diabetes Association, WHO, USAID, Unicef, UNAIDS, Task Force
Sight and Life, Thrasher
Research Fund, and thousands of individual health stakeholders in 37 States of
Nigeria, as partners. Other partners include Association for Orphans and
Vulnerable Children in Nigeria (AONN), TB Network, National Youth Network on
HIV/AIDS in Nigeria (NYNETHA), Civil Society for HIV/AIDS in Nigeria [CiSHAN],
National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), Stop TB Partnership (WHO),
Child Rights Information Network (CRIN), Global Development Network (GDN),
AIDS-Care-Watch Campaign (ACW), United Nations Non- Governmental Liaison
Service (NGLS), Population and Health Infoshare and Impact Alliance. Afrihealth
has also been featured in the Directory of HIV/AIDS Stakeholders in Nigeria,
HIV Atlas Worldwide, Directory of Associations of PLWAs (a USG/USAID/GNP+/ICW
publication) and Directory of HIV and AIDS Organisations Worldwide (Aidsmap)
5. COMPETENCES AND ACTIVITIES
OF AFRIHEALTH
• Advocacy,
Community/Stakeholder Mobilization and Partnership/Coalition building
• Outreach interventions, ART
and Malaria treatment access, Capacity Building,
Economic empowerment
• Services delivery including
HIV Prevention, HCT, PMTCT, HBC, TB, Malaria,
Nutrition/Malnutrition and
Blindness Prevention
Research
Provision of
comprehensive care and support to OVCs and PLWHAs
Reintegration of
OVC into families and communities
• IEC material development
• Programme design and
management
• Preparation of Strategic
Plans, Reports, Work plans, Concept papers, Terms of
Reference (TOR)
• Monitoring & Evaluation
• Organisation and facilitation
of conferences, workshops and other meetings
• Participatory Learning and
Action (Research and Training)
• Prudent management skills and
building rapport with other NGOs and CBOs
• Transparent, efficient and
prudent financial management skills and infrastructure
• Mentoring of CBOs, FBOs and
NGOs
• Trainings/Capacity Building
• Communication/Interpersonal
Skills/Counselling, including Behaviour Change
Communication or BCC
• Problem solving and conflict
Resolution/Negotiation.
6. FOCUS, STRATEGIES, TARGETS
AND APPROACHES
6.1 Focus of
Projects/Activities
Afrihealth’s projects and
activities span across the spectra of Health, HIV/AIDS, TB and
Malaria; Nutrition and Food
Security; Blindness Prevention and vision enhancement; Public-
Private Partnerships (PPP),
people empowerment; and Peace and Disarmament. Afrihealth is
committed to initiating,
promoting and implementing, in partnership with other organisations,
research and programmes to
promote health and development, alleviate poverty, improve
community involvement and
participation in health development, and promote social economic status of
women, children and youths in Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa. It will – alone
or in partnership with other stakeholder(s) - plan, design, implement, monitor
and evaluate innovative health and development programmes that will empower the
target group, improve their standard of living, and achieve national
Health-related MDG targets. It will enhance the generation synthesis and
utilization of research and evaluation for evidence-based health policies and
best practices within the local, national and international health systems.
6.2 The ‘PARCOM’ Strategy
The Organisation has devised
the PARCOM Strategy for the realisation of its objectives. PARCOM stands for
Partnerships, Advocacy, Research, Capacity-development and
Outreaches/interventions and
Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E). Awareness raising, institutional
support, participatory rural appraisal (PRA), bottom-up approach, integrated
rural development, self-help development, capacity building and lobbying
people-specific approach, gender approach, networking, gender training and
participatory approach are also strategically employed as and when necessary.
6.3 Target Groups
a) Women, Orphans, Widows, Children,
Youth/Young Adults, Elderly, Rural, Urban Poor, Hard-to-reach communities,
Migrant populations, Widows and orphans.
b) Individuals e.g. parents,
teachers, traditional and religious leaders, community members and philantropists
c) Groups, e.g. faith-based,
community-based, professional, labour and trade, women and youth, social and
benevolent
d) Organisations, e.g.
government ministries, departments and agencies or MDAs; businesses, private
sector, NGOs, CBOs, FBOs
e) National and International
donor or support organizations, multilateral and bilateral agencies
6.4 Approaches/Methods
(a) Undertake/conduct
researches, monitoring and evaluation; and hold seminars, training's,
conferences, workshops and lectures on health and development issues.
(b) Produce/publish Books, Journals, Pamphlets, Leaflets, Stickers, Badges,
Newsletters and any other material for the dissemination of information on its
activities and matters of health and development.
(c) Award prizes, and/or scholarship to deserving persons and institutions for
the study of various aspect of the health and development system; and give
honorary awards to deserving persons and institutions, in recognition of their
contributions to health and development.
(d) Solicit for and accept legacies, grants, donations or gifts for the
furtherance of its objects.
(e) Investment of monies or funds of the Association which is not immediately
required for the use of such investment and property as may be recommended by
the general meeting of the Association.
(f) Make appropriate arrangement for carrying on the work of the Association
and for this purpose, engage and provide either in whole or part for the
salaries or maintenance of officers, servants and employee within the budget of
the Association.
(g) Establishment of four
Technical Action Groups (TAGs) and five Programme Working Groups (PWGs).
7. LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
In order to effectively carry
out its responsibilities, the organisation has a Board of Trustees
(BoT) that provides oversight on
all the activities of the Association and a Management Team
that is responsible for the
day-to-day running of the Association’s activities, and spearheads its advocacy
activities. The General Assembly is the law making and highest authority in the
organisation. There is an
Advisory Board made up of seasoned professionals, community/civil society
leaders and other stakeholders, and it meets infrequently to review the
spectrum of the society that relate to the Association’s mandate, and advises
the BOT and Management on how best to serve the Association’s interest within
the various circumstances.
Contacts:
Plot 520, FHA
Estate, Lugbe, Airport Rd; P.O. Box 8880, Wuse, Abuja, Nigeria
Email: afrihealthoptonet2@gmail.com / Phone, Telegram, Whatsapp: +2348034725905
Website:
www.afrihealthcsos.org
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