Collaborating to end cervical cancer in Nigeria

The idea was originally conceptualized as a collaborative efforts of all stakeholders in Nigeria to partake in the WHO launching of the global strategy for elimination of cervical cancer. It was meant to provide traction to individual activities of stakeholders in the collaboration such that the final impact on burden of cervical cancer will be greater than the summative impact of individual activities.

It was quickly realized that there is need for a system to monitor and evaluate contributions of both government and non governmental organisations to the progress made towards achieving the 90:70:90 targets. Hence End Cervical Cancer Naija(ECCN) was birthed with overarching goal of using the global strategy for elimination of cervical cancer as advocacy tool to reduce the burden of cervical cancer in Nigeria.

Vision

a Nigeria where cervical cancer is no more a disease of public health significance.

Mission

using global strategy for elimination of cervical cancer as advocacy tool for reducing burden of cervical cancer in Nigeria.

Objectives

To provide a one-stop resource for cervical cancer prevention and control related activities in Nigeria

To promote collaboration of all relevant stakeholders towards putting Nigeria on the path to eliminating cervical cancer as a disease of public health significance

To provide evidence-based assessment of performance of individual states towards reducing the burden of cancer in Nigeria

Strategy

High level collaboration amongst existing stakeholders is at the core of our implementation strategy. At ECCN, we believe there are enough NGOs and CSOs already implementing cervical cancer prevention and control related projects. But there is minimal collaboration between stakeholders. Hence, we adopted the strategy of collaborating with existing stakeholders rather than duplicating efforts.