Our Work

COMPASS is committed to improving the health status and quality of education of over 20 million Nigerians through a wide variety of interventions. 

The basic education component involves physical repairs to the school environment, teacher trainings, curriculum development, scholarships for young women, the provision of school supplies, de-worming activities in the schools, and meeting with school authorities and community members to encourage girl child enrollment. 

The Reproductive Health/Family Planning (RH/FP) activities are comprised of refurbishing and stocking neglected primary health facilities, distributing family planning commodities, training service providers and facility supervisors, establishing youth-friendly clinics, monitoring quality of care in existing health facilities, improving access to RH/FP services, building linkages with HIV referral sites, and promoting male involvement in RH/FP. 

The Child Survival Team trains service providers on how to treat childhood illnesses, distributes bednets to protect against malaria, promotes childhood nutrition, delivers routine childhood immunizations, provides first aid kits in selected schools, supports national health campaigns, and works with parents at the community level to educate them on how to treat childhood illnesses at home.

In addition to routine immunization activities implemented under the child survival component, the COMPASS Polio Project is also involved in polio eradication efforts.  Working in the five main COMPASS states, as well as six additional northern states, COMPASS is participating in the Nigerian National Polio Eradication Initiative, providing logistical support and educating communities on the importance of getting their children vaccinated against polio.

Related to the three main COMPASS components are the cross-cutting areas of community mobilization, policy and advocacy, institutional capacity building, and public/private partnerships.  COMPASS has also provided sub-grants to 21 non-governmental organizations to implement basic education, reproductive health/family planning, child survival, community mobilization, and advocacy activities.