Lafiya Nigeria is a nonprofit organization that delivers family planning services to women in underserved, rural communities across Nigeria. The organization deploys trained community health workers, called Lafiya Sisters, who use a mobile app to provide proactive counseling and contraceptive access directly to women in their homes. Lafiya works with government partners to scale its last-mile reproductive health infrastructure and real-time data systems.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
More than 220 million women and girls in sub-Saharan Africa lack access to safe and voluntary family planning, and nearly 90,000 women die each year from complications related to unplanned pregnancies. In Nigeria, where women have an average of five children, the health system struggles to consistently deliver contraceptive services at the last mile, particularly in rural and economically disadvantaged communities.
Solution
Lafiya Nigeria addresses this gap by meeting women where they are, deploying trusted community health workers called Lafiya Sisters to provide proactive, app-enabled family planning counseling and services directly in women's homes. The organization identifies left-behind communities with high unmet need for family planning and delivers high-quality counseling alongside available contraceptive stock. Lafiya scales its model by working with governments to execute, pay for, and take ownership of the program, ensuring long-term sustainability and integration into the public health system. The organization also maintains real-time data systems to track service delivery and impact, enabling evidence-based decision-making and continuous improvement.
Target Audience
Primary beneficiaries are women and girls in rural and economically disadvantaged communities in Nigeria who lack access to family planning services. The organization also works with government health agencies and family planning organizations to scale and sustain the model.
Features
- App-enabled counseling and service delivery platform used by Lafiya Sisters during home visits
- Community-based distribution model that brings contraceptives directly to women in underserved, rural areas
- Data collection and real-time reporting systems to monitor service delivery, stock levels, and patient outcomes
- Government integration pathways designed to transfer program ownership to public health authorities
- Targeted identification of high-unmet-need communities using demographic and health data