Thread by @Chikwe_I

Exciting week ahead for us, as we carry out our mid-term Joint External Evaluation of International Health Regulations capacities.

Two years after #NGJEE17, time to re-evaluate, see how far we have come and identify priorities for the next three years

#NCDCSundayReflections

During the JEE in 2017, we were only just starting our journey and it seemed like an impossible process.

However, with support from @WHO and partners, we carried on.

The most important part of the process was identifying key priorities to strengthen our #IHR capacities

#NGJEE

Since then, we have worked with other Ministries, Departments and Agencies in Nigeria to improve our capacity across the technical areas.

We now have a fully operational reference lab, EOCs in States, carried out a review of the various IHR laws etc.

This week, we are using the JEE 2.0 tool with more stringent indicators and the benchmarks tool to identify our priorities.

We recognise that we are not where we want to be, but we have moved from where we were few years ago

We #keeppushing

Very grateful to all our partners supporting this process, especially @WHONigeria, @CDCgov, @PHE_uk & @ResolveTSL

We are #StrongerTogether