The Technical Support Program(TSP) was established to enable the Agency to systematically harness financial and technical capacities available within and outside the Agency to meet the Technical Assistance needs of all 36 + 1 State Primary Health Care Boards.

About TSP

Dr Faisal Shuaib
Dr. Faisal Shuaib, NPHCDA Executive Director

NPHCDA under the leadership of its Executive Director, Dr Faisal Shuaib, and the management team established Technical Support Program(TSP) to enable the Agency systematically harness financial and technical capacities available within and outside the Agency to meet the Technical Assistance needs of all 36 + 1 State Primary Health Care Boards. The program was launched on July 17, 2018, by the then honorable minister, Federal Ministry of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole.

The NPHCDA’s leadership conceptualized and set up the technical support program (TSP) with financial support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), and technical assistance from Solina Centre for International Development and Research (SCIDaR).

The TSP was designed and setup to strengthen the NPHCDA to deliver, coordinate, and track technical support to all the states of the federation across all PHC focus areas.

Its specific objectives were to establish:

  1. A sustainable platform to facilitate identification and documentation of States’ TA requests and their fulfilment through adaptation and scale-up of effective PHC systems strengthening approaches
  2. A mechanism to effectively standardize and provide quality control for PHC systems strengthening TA at the national (NPHCDA) level to ensure synergies that maximize impact on population health outcomes
  3. A leadership development program to systematically develop a cohort of highly skilled staff that will lead and coordinate effective TA delivery to the SPHCBs

The NPHCDA identified four guiding principles which formed the bedrock on which the TSP was built. The TSP was to be

  1. owned and driven by NPHCDA
  2. built on existing resources and structures
  3. adapted to meet each state’s needs, and
  4. inclusive of all stakeholders
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Our Anniversary

The TSP marked its one-year anniversary on November 4, 2019, to showcase its key successes recorded including the coordination of 51 TA interventions to 24 SPHCBs.

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Leadership Development Academy (LDA)

Through the program, the NPHCDA also set up the Leadership Development Academy (LDA) in recognition of the need to build a pool of in-house staff equipped with the requisite leadership and management competencies to sustainably lead and coordinate effective TA delivery to the State Primary Health Care Boards.

The LDA was designed to deliver a blend of leadership, management, and basic functional skills using tailored adult learning approaches including interactive in-class sessions, external rotations, mentorship, learning tours and a culminating capstone project. The academy runs on a 6-monthly cycle, graduating a cohort of 30 fellows per cycle.

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The agency has worked with over 30 partners to deliver the TSP and looks forward to expanding its pool of organization to facilitate the successful execution of its TA delivery to States and the Leadership Development Academy. The agency seeks continuous collaboration with existing and new partners in the implementation of the TSP.

Are you a partner organization, operating within the Nigerian PHC landscape? Find out how you can collaborate with the NPHCDA on the TSP.

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For more details, contact the Technical Support Unit (TSU) via phone on 08030885202 or via email on tsu.nphcda@gmail.com.

TSP Supporting partners

TSP Activity Report/Gallery