Zamfara: Sultan Foundation Trains 200 Mobilisers to Detect Zero-Dose Children in Seven LGAs


The Sultan Foundation for Peace and Development, in collaboration with the Zamfara State Primary Health Care Development Agency and other partners, have trained 200 community-based organisation-linked mobilisers on immunisation tracking and accountability in Zamfara State.

The one-day capacity-building workshop was organised under the Zamfara Tracking and Accountability for Equitable Immunisation (Z-TRACE) Project.

The training focused on zero-dose detection, defaulters tracing, IPC, GISI-sensitive engagement, digital reporting, and Local Government Area budget tracking.

Speaking during the programme, the Programme Officer of the Sultan Foundation for Peace and Development in Zamfara State, Jamilu Sarkin Gulbi, said the mobilisers would work with communities to identify children who had not received any routine vaccination.

He explained that the mobilisers would conduct house-to-house visits to identify, validate and refer zero-dose children and those who had received the first dose of the pentavalent vaccine but failed to complete the required doses.

Sarkin Gulbi said the intervention would cover seven Local Government Areas and 74 wards across the state, with mobilisers assigned to communities according to the burden of zero-dose and under-immunised children.

He said the project would also ensure that identified children were linked with appropriate vaccination centres for necessary immunisation.

The Programme Officer stressed the importance of accurate digital reporting, noting that, information gathered by the mobilisers must be properly captured through the District Health Information System, DHIS, to support government planning and decision-making.

Jamilu Sarkin Gulbi said the initiative was particularly important at a time when Zamfara State was responding to an outbreak of diphtheria, adding that, vaccination remained a critical to protecting children against vaccine-preventable diseases.

The Local governments are Tsafe, Gusau, Talata Mafara, Anka, Shinkafi, Anka, Bakura and Zurmi.

He emphasized that,the project goal was to contribute to the vaccination of over eighty thousand Zero dose-children across seven local governments  by the end of 2027.

Also speaking, Zamfara State Health Educator Officer, Aminu Yahaya, urged the participants to pay close attention to the training and apply the knowledge acquired in their respective communities.

Yahaya said effective community mobilisation and accurate reporting were essential to improving routine immunisation coverage and ensuring that eligible children were reached.

The participants, drawn from seven Local Government Areas of Zamfara State, were expected to commence community-level activities aimed at identifying zero-dose and under-immunised children and linking them with vaccination services.



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