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Table 3 Progress with the implementation of proposed cross-cutting activities

From: Impact of capacity building interventions on individual and organizational competency for HPSR in endemic disease control in Nigeria: a qualitative study

States

Proposed activities

Progress with proposed activities

Purpose of activity (influence on the capacity for HPSR and GRIPP)

Anambra

Advocacy to Commissioner and Permanent Secretary of Health for evidence-informed decision making

Visited both policy makers and informed them of potential strategies to strengthen evidence-based decision making for endemic disease control

To improve organizational capacity for GRIPP

Reactivation of the Department of Planning, Research and Statistics for promoting research evidence generation and use

Drafted and disseminated (to the relevant authority in the Ministry of Health) proposals with strategies for reactivating the unit

To improve organizational capacity to undertake HPSR and GRIPP

Advocacy to the relevant authority for research funding in the Ministry of Health

Have advocated to relevant sectors and are discussing research funding partnerships with implementing partners and private sector

To improve organizational capacity to undertake HPSR

Enugu

Reactivation of research unit within the Department for Planning, Research and Statistics for promoting research evidence generation and use

Scheduled agenda-setting meetings

Undertook stakeholder analysis

Identified action points and assigned tasks to members

To improve organizational capacity to undertake HPSR and GRIPP