States | Proposed activities | Progress with proposed activities | Purpose of activity (influence on the capacity for HPSR and GRIPP) |
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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 |