Achievements

Within the past few years, BALSDA’s efforts and impressive track record have earned it credibility, and significantly contributed to the following success stories in no particular order: 

  • Development of National Guidelines for Emergency Contraceptive (EC) in Nigeria with support from International Consortium for Emergency Contraceptive (ICEC).
  • Development of Family Planning Costed Implementation Plan for Gombe State, Nigeria with support from Champions for Change (C4C).
  • Development of Family Planning Costed Implementation plan for Ekiti State, Nigeria with support from Population Action International (PAI).
  • Facilitation of National Partners project dissemination on Emergency Contraception in Nigeria with support from ICEC.
  • Facilitation/Review of states Task Sharing/ Task Shifting policy for essential health services in Nigeria.
  • Facilitation/review of states Standard Operating Procedures for implementation of Task shifting policies across states in Nigeria.
  • Development of policies on integration of postpartum family planning into other MNCH services in 6 states (Kaduna, Nasarawa, Gombe, Oyo, Cross River and Enugu) to accelerate access to Postpartum Family Planning- supported by FP2020. Through United Nations Foundation Rapid Response Mechanism.

BALSDA’s successes within its young life has been made possible by strong, viable and credible leaderships enviably anchored by a Board of Trustees (BOT), benevolence of the Federal Government of Nigeria, Population Action International, Pathfinder International, FP2020, UNFPA and other funders/partners; and loyalty/commitment of staff.