Nigeria has among the lowest vaccination coverage levels in the world (UNICEF 2017), contributing to high child mortality – 40% of under-five deaths in Nigeria are from diseases that are preventable through vaccination (NRISP 2013). North West Nigeria has the lowest vaccination coverage of any region in Nigeria.
New Incentives, an international non-governmental organization, aims to boost immunization by offering cash incentives to caregivers who have their child vaccinated at a program clinic. This effort is called the New Incentives – All Babies Are Equal Initiative’s (NI-ABAE) Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) for Routine Immunizations (RI) Program.
This study is an impact evaluation of the NI-ABAE CCTs for RI Program in Katsina, Zamfara, and Jigawa States in North West Nigeria funded by Open Philanthropy at the recommendation of GiveWell. GiveWell will use the evaluation results to inform their decision of whether to designate New Incentives a 2020 Top Charity and recommend funding for NI-ABAE to scale up their program.
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