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Enabling HIV&AIDS, TB and Social Sector Environment (ENHANSE)

Access to high-quality health and education programs is a priority for the Nigerian government. However, the legacy of successive corrupt military governments has left Nigeria's institutions weak and struggling to meet the demands of a growing population with high expectation for greater economic opportunities, better services, and a more responsive government. The country has an HIV prevalence rate of more than 5% and in a population exceeding 125 million this has the potential to retard any economic and other progress that the country can make.

The objective of the Enabling HIV&AIDS, TB and Social Sector Environment (ENHANSE) project is to improve the national policy environment for integrated health and education programs in Nigeria. Futures Group International and its partners foster partnerships with Nigerian government and civil groups as well as international public and private sector organizations to implement this five-year program. The Abuja-based ENHANSE technical team works to facilitate an enabling environment to improve policies, planning, and financing for health and education programs by analysis of the evidence base and through increasing the involvement of civil society in the policy and advocacy processes.

ENHANSE relies on six primary strategies applied at the national level in Nigeria:

1. Broadening and strengthening political and popular support for social sector, HIV/AIDS, and TB services;
2. Improving policies, plans and financing for social sector, HIV/AIDS, and TB services;
3. Forming and strengthening public-private and private-private Partnerships;
4. Strengthening capacity and improving performance of key national institutions for policy development, planning, coordination, and evaluation of social sector, HIV/AIDS and TB programs;
5. Ensuring that accurate, up-to-date, and relevant information informs policy, planning and management decisions of social sector, HIV/AIDS, and TB programs;
6. Improving coordination of programs for HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria.

Under the auspices of USAID, Futures leads the five-year project in collaboration with the Academy for Educational Development, Africare, Internews, John Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, Pathfinder International, and Action Aid. Apart from providing overall strategic and technical leadership of the whole project, Futures also leads the monitoring and evaluation component in addition to managing a grants program to civil society organizations for capacity development, and develops strategic partnerships with the private sector to further the objectives of the project.