nfants in northern Nigeria get fully immunized, leaving a large population of infants vulnerable to disease outbreaks. The problem of low vaccination coverage in Nigeria is further exacerbated by extreme poverty. This is especially true in northern Nigeria, where many mothers live on less than US$2 a day and cannot visit the clinic for various reasons. They face challenges such as affording the transportation cost to the clinic, associated loss in earnings from small-scale trading or farming, receiving permission from their partners, fear of vaccination side effects, cultural barriers to vaccination, or often a combination of these factors.28:T5a8,Cash incentives for routine childhood vaccinations

New Incentives increases vaccination rates by raising awareness about the benefits of childhood vaccinations, providing cash incentives at government clinics after children receive vaccinations, and improving the vaccine supply chain to ensure enough vaccines are available at the clinics.

Cash incentives of ₦1,000 (~US$1.30) are disbursed at six different routine immunization visits, totaling ₦6,000 (~US$8) over the first 15 months of an infant’s life.

A randomized controlled trial found that their program led to:

108% Increase in full vaccination coverage (relative to 25% full vaccination coverage rate in the control group)
62% Increase in timely vaccination of measles 12 (relative to 53% of timely Measles 1 vaccination in the control group)
180% Less likely for clinics to report stockouts (relative to 10% of clinics reporting no stockouts in the control group)

Impact Measurement:

US $1.30 covers the cash incentive for one immunization visit
US $8 covers the cash incentives for all six immunization visits over the first 15 months of an infant’s life
US$24 covers the cost to enable the full immunization of one child ove

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Impact Breakdown

your donation funds:

0.8 Cash incentive for 0.8 child-immunization visit(s)