TY - JOUR AU - Uzochukwu, Benjamin AU - Onyedinma, Chioma AU - Okeke, Chinyere AU - Onwujekwe, Obinna AU - Manzano, Ana AU - Ebenso, Bassey AU - Etiaba, Enyi AU - Ezuma, Nkoli AU - Mirzoev, Tolib PY - 2020 DA - 2020/09/18 TI - What makes advocacy work? Stakeholders’ voices and insights from prioritisation of maternal and child health programme in Nigeria JO - BMC Health Services Research SP - 884 VL - 20 IS - 1 AB - The Nigerian government introduced and implemented a health programme to improve maternal and child health (MCH) called Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment programme for MCH (SURE-P/MCH). It ran from 2012 and ended abruptly in 2015 and was followed by increased advocacy for sustaining the MCH (antenatal, delivery, postnatal and immunization) services as a policy priority. Advocacy is important in allowing social voice, facilitating prioritization, and bringing different forces/actors together. Therefore, the study set out to understand how advocacy works - through understanding what effective advocacy implementation processes comprise and what mechanisms are triggered by which contexts to produce the intended outcomes. SN - 1472-6963 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-020-05734-0 DO - 10.1186/s12913-020-05734-0 ID - Uzochukwu2020 ER -