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United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Sustainable Development

The WellBeing Foundation commits to US $2.5 million per year to support this Nigeria-led, Nigeria-managed, Africa-focused, Africa-impact, private sector-driven effort.

    Description
    Description
    The WellBeing Foundation of Nigeria has assumed a leadership role in catalyzing and securing private sector commitments and creating new partnerships for maternal newborn and child health (MNCH). The WellBeing Foundation's commitment to Every Woman Every Child has been the development of new collaborations for MNCH efforts in Nigeria focusing on strategic grant-making, thus far securing new financial, advocacy and corporate social responsibility commitments from a range of Nigerian business and philanthropic leaders. Programmatically, the WellBeing Foundation commitment focuses on the development and scaling up of programs that will immediately show verifiable impact on the survival of mothers and children. The WellBeing Foundation commits to US $2.5 million per year to support this Nigeria-led, Nigeria-managed, Africa-focused, Africa-impact, private sector-driven effort. As its commitment to Every Woman Every Child, up to US $250,000 of The Tony Elumelu Foundation's (TEF) existing impact investing capital will be allocated to provide equity or debt capital to start-up and early stage companies seeking to commercialise innovative solutions related to improved maternal and child health care delivery. The primary focus will be Nigeria in year one, but with an eye for opportunistic investments elsewhere in Africa where appropriate. TEF will leverage internal business development talent and experience as well as provide access to networks to provide additional technical assistance support to build sustainable companies. Other investors with an interest in the space will be welcome to co-invest or partner with TEF in other ways to make this effort a success.

    Implementation of the Project/Activity

    Among these programs is the adoption of a contextually and regionally attractive Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)-related communication policy for harmonized messaging and coordinated advocacy efforts on MNCH. Furthermore, WellBeing Foundation commits to the development and deployment of integral tools that will enhance, track, monitor and evaluate universal uptake of beneficial and essential public health provision for women and children – through the scaling up and modernization of personal health records for all women and children in Nigeria.

    Partners
    Tony Elumelu Foundation with Chellarams Group, Dangote Group and Dangote Foundation, Diamond Bank, Family Care Association, Friends of the Global Fund Africa, Guaranty Trust Bank, KPMG, MON Global Communication, MTN and MTN Foundation, OANDO, Ojora Group of Companies, Phillips Consulting, Stormberg Power Ltd, Stronghold Support Services, Think Africa Foundation, Zenith Bank

    Goal 5

    Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

    Goal 5

    5.1

    End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere

    5.1.1

    Whether or not legal frameworks are in place to promote, enforce and monitor equality and non‑discrimination on the basis of sex

    5.2

    Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation
    5.2.1

    Proportion of ever-partnered women and girls aged 15 years and older subjected to physical, sexual or psychological violence by a current or former intimate partner in the previous 12 months, by form of violence and by age

    5.2.2

    Proportion of women and girls aged 15 years and older subjected to sexual violence by persons other than an intimate partner in the previous 12 months, by age and place of occurrence

    5.3

    Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation
    5.3.1

    Proportion of women aged 20-24 years who were married or in a union before age 15 and before age 18

    5.3.2

    Proportion of girls and women aged 15-49 years who have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting, by age

    5.4

    Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate

    5.4.1

    Proportion of time spent on unpaid domestic and care work, by sex, age and location

    5.5

    Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life

    5.5.1

    Proportion of seats held by women in (a) national parliaments and (b) local governments

    5.5.2

    Proportion of women in managerial positions

    5.6

    Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences

    5.6.1

    Proportion of women aged 15-49 years who make their own informed decisions regarding sexual relations, contraceptive use and reproductive health care

    5.6.2

    Number of countries with laws and regulations that guarantee full and equal access to women and men aged 15 years and older to sexual and reproductive health care, information and education

    5.a

    Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws

    5.a.1

    (a) Proportion of total agricultural population with ownership or secure rights over agricultural land, by sex; and (b) share of women among owners or rights-bearers of agricultural land, by type of tenure

    5.a.2

    Proportion of countries where the legal framework (including customary law) guarantees women’s equal rights to land ownership and/or control

    5.b

    Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women
    5.b.1

    Proportion of individuals who own a mobile telephone, by sex

    5.c

    Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels

    5.c.1

    Proportion of countries with systems to track and make public allocations for gender equality and women’s empowerment

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    Financing (in USD)
    2500000
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    Action Network
    Every Woman Every Child
    This initiative does not yet fulfil the SMART criteria.
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    Timeline
    01 January 1970 (start date)
    01 January 1970 (date of completion)
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    Geographical coverage
    Nigeria, Africa
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