NATIONAL HEALTH FACILITY SURVEY 2016

Abstract

The National Health Facility Survey (NHFS) 2016 builds on the service delivery indicator (SDI) surveys developed by the World Bank and on the Service Availability and Readiness (SARA1) developed by the World Health Organization (WHO). The World Bank, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria (GFATM) financed this first NHFS in Nigeria while subsequent surveys shall be financed by government. The objectives of the 2016 NHFS and subsequent NHFS‟s are to: 1) provide insights for managers so they can take specific actions to strengthen the health care system; 2) provide robust, independent, objective, and frequent data by which to track progress in improving the quality of health care in Nigeria; 3) make available information by which to benchmark the performance of States; and 4) provide the quality of care scores needed under Disbursement Linked Indicator (DLI) 2 of the Saving One Million Lives (SOML) Program for Results (PforR) which rewards States for improving the quality of care and health services provided at primary health care level. The 2016 NHFS provides the baseline against which to measure progress on DLI 2 in subsequent years.