Nigeria WHO Country Office

The mission of the WHO Nigeria Country Office is to promote the attainment of the highest sustainable level of health by all people living in Nigeria through collaboration with the government and other partners in health development and the provision of technical and logistic support to country programmes.

Nigeria became a member of the World Health Organization in 1960 and signed the Basic Agreement in 1962. Over the last four decades therefore, WHO has worked in close collaboration with the Nigerian government, mainly with the Federal Ministry of Health, to establish a wide array of collaborative programmes.

The main WHO Country Office is located in the United Nations House, Abuja the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). In addition, a network of offices has been established in each of the 36 states of the country and the FCT, to provide appropriate and accessible technical support to States and Local Government Areas (LGAs). This has improved collaboration with stakeholders and partners as well as the visibility of WHO at those levels.

FMOH-WHO-CIDA PMTCT Implementation Research Funding Opportunity

Download the Call for Letters of Intent (311.28 kB)

Country Cooperation Strategy

Count Down... to Polio eradication in Nigeria - February 2011 (1.21 MB)

Nigeria Country Cooperation Strategy 2008-2013 (783.21 kB)

Country Cooperation Strategy at a glance: Nigeria (261.77 kB)

Statistics

Health Profile of Nigeria - 2006 (394.28 kB)

The Acting WHO Representative to Nigeria is Dr Okello