This document summarizes the development of Nigeria's National Operational Plan for HIV/AIDS (NOP-II) with support from MEASURE Evaluation. Key steps included assessing Nigeria's national HIV/AIDS information system, gaining stakeholder buy-in, establishing steering committees and technical working groups, holding technical meetings and workshops, validating the plan with stakeholders, finalizing and disseminating NOP-II, and identifying next steps. Some outcomes of working with MEASURE Evaluation were improved coordination of stakeholders, development of M&E system plans and documents, improved data availability and quality, capacity building, and work at the state level.

1. Building Country-
Owned and Led M&E Systems:
Development of NOP-II
Kola’ Oyediran
Dr. Kayode Ogungbemi
MEASURE Evaluation
End-of-Phase III Meeting, June 18, 2014

2. Outline of Session
 Guiding principles of viable country
ownership
 Experience Sharing – NACA

3. UNAIDS “Organizing Framework for a
Functional National HIV M&E System”

4. Situating Sustainable Country Ownership
People,
Partnerships and
Planning

5. What does it mean
to have a sustainable,
country-owned M&E system?

9.  National and 6 states
HIV/AIDS M&E systems
assessments conducted
 Facilitated establishment of
intra and inter Ministries,
Departments and agencies
coordination mechanism
working/groups (national and
3 states)
 5 instances of requests for
MEASURE Evaluation to
support M&E activities

10.  6 M&E system related
plans developed
 7 MDAs and states
requested technical
assistance for their M&E
interventions
 Supported the
development of 8
documents for system
strengthening

11.  Participants at MEASURE
Evaluation workshop
demonstrated independent
M&E capacity
 2 Universities running
short-course in M&E
 In Kano state, an M&E unit
was added to DPRS of
Ministry of Health by the
Government

12.  Collaborated with NACA
and stakeholders for
regular joint Data Quality
Audits
 Supported FMWASD in
standardizing OVC data
collection instruments
 In 3 states, information
products developed with
state stakeholders

13. Painting to Brush Strokes
The National Agency for the
Control of AIDS stories…

14. Illustrative Example:
The Road to a Nigeria National Response Information
Management System- II (NOP-II)

15. Working with MEASURE Evaluation

16. HOW WE DEVELOPED NOP-II?
 Assessment of national HIV/AIDS
information system – 12 components
 Buy-in from stakeholders
 Setting –up of steering committee and
technical working groups
 Technical meetings and workshops

17.  Stakeholders’ validation meetings
 Finalizations of NOP-II
 Printing and dissemination
 Next steps or wayforward
HOW WE DEVELOPED NOP-II?

18. Stakeholders
 National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA)
 National HIV Division (NASCP), Federal Ministry
of Health
 Orphans and Vulnerable Division, Federal
Ministry
of Women’s Affairs and Social Development
 Federal Ministry of Education
 Federal Ministry of Defense
 Sub-national levels – represented by six states

19. Stakeholders
 Nigeria Business Coalition Against AIDS
(NIBUCAA)
 Civil Society for HIV/AIDS in Nigeria (CiSHAN)
 Development Partners --- UN-systems, DfID,
World Bank, USG and implementing partners

20. Stakeholders’ Decision
 ThroughTWG
 Provided oversight roles
 Secretariat coordinated
by NACA

21. Stakeholders’ Validation meeting

22. Some Key outcomes of working with
MEASURE Evaluation
Improved linkages and coordination of
stakeholders—TWG
Developed M&E system related plans—NOP-II
Supported in the development of documents
for system strengthening—Supportive
supervision
Improved availability and use of quality data

23. Some Key outcomes of working with
MEASURE Evaluation
Capacity building
Implementation of national HIV/AIDS status
assessment
Institutionalizing M&E courses in two-
universities
Working at the state level—Anambra, Kano
and Lagos

24. THANK YOU!
MEASURE Evaluation is a MEASURE project funded by the U.S.
Agency for International Development and implemented by the
Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill in partnership with Futures Group International, ICF
Macro, John Snow, Inc., Management Sciences for Health, and
Tulane University. Views expressed in this presentation do not
necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the U.S. Government.
MEASURE Evaluation is the USAID Global Health Bureau's primary
vehicle for supporting improvements in monitoring and evaluation in
population, health and nutrition worldwide.
Visit us online at www.measureevaluation.org
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