[{"bbox": [96, 152, 1164, 233], "category": "Text", "text": "In response to these structural and exogenous challenges, the Government of Nigeria set out to build a more resilient nation through Nigeria's National Development Plan 2021-2025, supported by the revised National Population Policy (2022-2030), with a particular focus on human capital development and girls' education"}, {"bbox": [96, 243, 1164, 431], "category": "Text", "text": "However, implementing this vision and unlocking Nigeria’s demographic potential requires an enabling environment with good strategies, policies, plans, budgets/sustained financial provisions, fiscal governance, discipline, citizens engagement and appropriate technology that work for Nigerians, especially women, young people and the people living in poverty. Indeed, Nigeria’s demographic dividend has unguaranteed potential, with a high dependency ratio, a fast-growing population, and slow reduction in child mortality. Effective, quality reproductive, maternal, and child health services including family planning, and female education and empowerment are the foundations likely to accelerate demographic transition and yield a demographic dividend."}, {"bbox": [96, 441, 1164, 709], "category": "Text", "text": "The country is a signatory of several international conventions and treaties that establish its commitments to the human rights of men and women and to gender equality. These include the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in 1985, the Optional Protocol in 2004, the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol)⁶; the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights. In recent years, progress has been recorded in the adoption of domestic legislation that has an impact on gender equality such as the Violence Against Persons Prohibition Act, 2015 (VAPP Act) and the Child Rights Act, 2003 (CRA) across the States of the country. These pieces of legislation prohibit gender-based violence, including FGM⁷ (VAPP Act) and child marriage (Child Rights Act) which disproportionately affect girls⁸."}, {"bbox": [96, 718, 1164, 986], "category": "Text", "text": "This Action will contribute to the health pillar of the Global Gateway. The intervention will address adolescent health, stimulate growth and jobs, facilitate trade, engage with the private sector, and help reinforce scientific ties with Nigeria. Its specific objectives are complementary to the regional Team Europe initiative programming of an integrated and comprehensive support package that will tackle barriers to SRHR commodities including manufacturing and access to health products and technologies in West Africa and is also aligned with the government of Nigeria Primary Health Care transformation agenda and its approach to the Minimum Service Package. It will help implement the Nigeria Family Planning Blueprint 2020-2024, National Population Policy 2022, National Health Policy 2014, National Policy on Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights for Persons with Disabilities (2018 Act) and National Strategic Health Development Plan 2 or its successor and the National Policy on Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation in Nigeria (2021-2025)."}, {"bbox": [96, 996, 1164, 1211], "category": "Text", "text": "The Action addresses SDGs 3 (Health and wellbeing), 4 (quality education/relevant skills for decent work), 5 (Gender equality), 8 (decent work and economic growth), 9 (industry and innovation), 10 (reduced inequalities), 16 (good governance) and SDG 17 (Partnership for the Goals), in order to leave no one behind. It thus functions as an enabler for sector specific flagship programmes such as *Achieving the Demographic Dividend, Digital and Green Transition* and cross-cutting programmes such as Digitalisation⁹ and Gender. It contributes to creating a conducive environment for unlocking access to finance under the *Mobilisation of private finance for sustainable and inclusive growth* actions.\n\nThe Action also helps to ensure that public expenditures are well managed to promote effective service delivery and contribute to effective implementation of sectoral development programmes (health, digitalisation, gender)."}, {"bbox": [85, 1237, 340, 1268], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 2.2 Problem Analysis"}, {"bbox": [96, 1282, 724, 1310], "category": "Text", "text": "The Action will seek to address the three problems identified below:"}, {"bbox": [96, 1321, 1164, 1429], "category": "Text", "text": "**I. Policy issues:** Efforts to improve sexual and reproductive health are constrained by lack of coherence between policies and programme implementation, resulting in poor programme performance and lack of accountability mechanisms or allocation of funds for implementation. This has often been linked to poor co-creation process in the policy process. Policies have also been designed with assumptions policy implementers have the necessary critical"}, {"bbox": [85, 1468, 757, 1493], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁶ EU Gender country profile Nigeria available at GCP Nigeria | Capacity4dev (europa.eu)"}, {"bbox": [85, 1492, 354, 1513], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁷ Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)"}, {"bbox": [85, 1513, 130, 1532], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁸ Ibid"}, {"bbox": [85, 1534, 1143, 1627], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁹ An opportunity here is to leverage existing partnerships and social media research of impact evaluation organisations such as DIME, which include working with the entertainment industry, marketing firms, and the World Bank's behavioural science unit in designing and testing campaigns to promote the demand for health services, promote social cohesion, and reshape gender attitudes in Nigeria and other countries in the region."}, {"bbox": [1037, 1680, 1144, 1705], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 5 of 26"}]