Part of the efforts of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Nigeria has been working on improving agricultural productivity. We have, through the Int
ernational Institute of Tropical Agriculture in Ibadan, quite a broad range of activities in Nigeria on improving yields and productivity of smallholder farmers, which are a very large proportion of Nigeria’s population.
We’ve seen successes of that, even in the north-east and in places that we don’t have as much conflict like Adamawa and Taraba, you see significant gains in productivity from a better seed system and agricultural inputs. Those things can help in Borno as well. The Gates Foundation is investing in the agricultural sector in Nigeria as well as to provide more relief to curb malnutrition through our partnership with the Aliko Dangote Foundation.
PT: Affter the huge amount is spent of developmental programmes and people like you dedicate time away from family and loved ones working to achieve these goals, don’t you get frustrated sometimes that these problems have seemingly refused to go away?Well, if you got a magic wand, I will take it . One of the challenges I think we have is that the people don’t appreciate how much success stories we’ve recorded.
There are some amazing leaders we work with that personally inspire me. When you see the work that Dr Chikwe is doing at NCDC, Nigeria is more prepared now than when Ebola came. Chris talked about how we supported the EOCs in six states, the small amount of money we put into NCDC, Dr Chikwe has been able to put EOC in almost all of the states. They are operating now. When you see the work that Dr Faizal is doing at NPHCDA, you see the change that is happening within that organisation.
No one could imagine that we’d be here for more than three years without a case of one polio bias, even though we still have some derived polioviruses going out there. When you look at the quality of surveillance that the government and partners have put here, to really detect and the fact that we are not detecting any wild polio shows that the severance that we have put in place is strong and many people are learning here.
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