New Incentives

10/07/2026

Diphtheria is preventable, and vaccination remains the best protection.

Parents and caregivers are encouraged to ensure their children receive all recommended doses of diphtheria-containing vaccines and complete their routine immunization schedule.

Know the warning signs, including sore throat, fever, swollen glands in the neck, and difficulty swallowing or breathing. If is suspected, seek medical care immediately.

Protect your child and keep their vaccinations up to date.

Sokoto State Primary Healthcare Development Agency Chigari Foundation National Primary Health Care Development Agency

09/17/2026

What does it take to strengthen routine immunization across northern Nigeria?

In this edition of Trust TV's Day Break, Mubarak Bawa, Operations Director of New Incentives – All Babies Are Equal, discusses how partnerships, community engagement, and caregiver support are helping more children receive life-saving vaccines.

He explains:
- How the All Babies program works with government health facilities to reduce barriers that prevent caregivers from completing their children's routine immunization schedule.
- Why collaboration with state governments, primary healthcare agencies, traditional and religious leaders, health workers, and local communities is central to improving vaccination uptake.
- The program's impact since 2017: more than 7.1 million infants enrolled, more than 110 million vaccinations encouraged, more than ₦45 billion disbursed to caregivers, more than 100,000 community awareness meetings conducted to address misinformation and encourage routine immunization.

This conversation highlights the importance of working alongside governments, health workers, traditional institutions, and communities to strengthen routine immunization across northern Nigeria.

▶️ Watch the interview here: https://youtu.be/Np-0SfJZHgI

09/09/2026

A snapshot of 2025: 1.8 million infants enrolled, 9.1 million cash incentives given, and 30 million vaccinations encouraged across 11 states in northern Nigeria. New Incentives' Annual Report explores the backstory, including the challenges and strategy behind these numbers. Read and share: https://bit.ly/NI-AnnualReport25

09/02/2026

New Incentives' 2025 Annual Report is here. Last year brought expansion into new states, a new layered health intervention, and outside validation of just how far each donor dollar goes toward saving lives through routine childhood vaccination support in northern Nigeria. Take a look at what changed and what we learned: https://bit.ly/NI-AnnualReport25

08/27/2026

New Incentives – All Babies Are Equal recently convened government stakeholders and traditional leaders from Sokoto, Kebbi, and Zamfara States for a two-day Joint States Stakeholders Meeting (JSSM) in Sokoto.

The meeting brought together representatives of state ministries of health, primary health care agencies and boards, the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, and the National Traditional Leaders Council.

Participants reviewed routine immunization progress, shared state experiences, examined implementation challenges, and discussed measures to strengthen data quality, vaccine supply management, outreach planning, caregiver awareness, and coordination.

The Sokoto State Commissioner of Health, Dr. Faruk Umar Abubakar, also joined to celebrate the enrollment of more than 7 million infants in the All Babies program across 11 northern states.

Chigari Foundation Sokoto State Primary Health Care Development Agency

08/24/2026

What's it like to participate in a New Incentives coverage survey? For Christiana, it started with her elder being greeted first by the surveyor, Nafaraddeen. Her son Milar falls within the 6- to 12-month range, making the household eligible for a full survey: questions on vaccination history, health facility visits, recent diarrhea episodes, and treatment given. Christiana responded without hesitation. "Nafaraddeen explained everything clearly in Hausa," she said. "That made me comfortable to answer his questions." The whole conversation took about 12 minutes.

Read the full story of a day in the life of a data collector: https://www.newincentives.org/blog-posts/measuring-vaccination-coverage

08/19/2026

When Senior States Partnerships Manager Abdulwahab Yusuf nominated Supply-Side Officer Suleiman Ibrahim for the Staff Shout-Out, he emphasized his "ability to balance multiple priorities without compromising quality," explaining that "Suleiman's thorough case investigations and well-executed field visits to priority facilities have helped identify and address the root causes of stockout issues."

08/13/2026

“In theory, my task may be simple to describe,” says Nafaraddeen, a field officer who is featured in our latest blog. “I arrive at the location, move through the grid, structure by structure, building by building, and collect data that reflects reality, not my convenience.” Learn more about the work of Nafaraddeen and other staff and community members as they help monitor New Incentives' impact at scale: "Measuring Vaccination Coverage: A Day in the Life of a Data Collector."

In 2020, a randomized controlled trial (RCT) found that New Incentives' cash incentives for vaccination program more than doubled the proportion of fully immunized children, increasing coverage from roughly a quarter to just over half of all infants. But proving a program works in a pilot stage is n...

08/07/2026

During our recent monthly radio program on Iconic FM in Sokoto, our Stakeholder Relations Officer Muhammad Abdullahi was joined by caregiver Zara'u Malami, who volunteered to share her experience with routine immunization and responded to questions from listeners.

“My mother gave birth to nine children and vaccinated all of us. Today, we all have children of our own. I am a living witness that the claim that vaccines cause infertility is not true,” Zara'u said.

Throughout the program, callers asked questions about routine immunization and the All Babies services. Based on her own experience as a mother, Zara'u encouraged parents to complete their children's vaccination schedules.

Sokoto State Primary Health Care Development Agency Chigari Foundation

07/24/2026

Field Manager Umar Bashir recommended Assistant Field Manager Isyaku Baraje for the Staff Shout-Out after he conducted an awareness activity that yielded his clinic's highest number of infant enrollments and disbursements in a long time.