Would you like to help us celebrate a milestone year of achievements? 📢Please read our new 2024 Annual Report, then SHARE IT widely to get the word out about the work we do to incentivize routine childhood vaccinations and provide complementary interventions that reduce child mortality and illness in northern Nigeria. bit.ly/NI-AnnualReport24

In Katsina State, the All Babies team met with Alhaji Sada Muhammad Sada, the Ƴan Dakan Katsina and Katsina State representative of the Northern Traditional Leaders Committee, to discuss how trusted community leadership can help address vaccine misinformation, strengthen caregiver awareness, and support timely vaccination for children. Read story: newincentives.org/stakeholde…

Until now, if a child received vaccines on a day when an NI-ABAE Field Officer wasn't present, the caregiver would miss out on our program's transportation support incentive for that day. That gap is now closed. Caregivers can now claim the missed support the next time they return for immunization.

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 #diphtheria is suspected, seek medical care immediately. Protect your child and keep their vaccinations up to date. @foundationSFPD @chigari_ngo @Fmohnigeria @NphcdaNG

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

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: bit.ly/NI-AnnualReport25

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: bit.ly/NI-AnnualReport25

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. #AllBabies #RoutineImmunization #PrimaryHealthCare #Sokoto #Kebbi #Zamfara @chigari_ngo

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: newincentives.org/blog-posts…

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."

“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": newincentives.org/blog-posts…

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. #AllBabies @chigari_ngo #Sokoto

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.

#ThrowbackThursday! Our founder and CEO, Svetha Janumpalli, created New Incentives in 2011. In 2016, Pratyush Agarwal and Patrick Stadler joined the organization as cofounders, and the idea for cash incentives to encourage childhood vaccinations was incubated. Since then, with the support of partners, funders, and individual donors (and the crucial participation of caregivers, community leaders, and staff), we've piloted and then scaled our program to reach more than 7 million of the most vulnerable babies throughout northern Nigeria! Learn our story here: newincentives.org/our-story

Our June Newsletter is out! Learn about our newest blogs, our recent participation in Skoll Week, and some of the most up-to-date research on tracking zero-dose children and the effectiveness of conditional and unconditional transfers. Read to get our latest news: mailchi.mp/newincentives/new…

When Field Officer Rabiu Usman Ibrahim nominated Assistant Field Manager 2 Adamu Ibrahim Muazu for the Staff Shout-Out, he praised him as "a source of inspiration to the team because he always guides and supports us on how to handle issues like vaccination noncompliance."