This week, I am pleased that the Wellbeing Foundation Africa has been formally observing a sustainability, monitoring and digital integration visit at the School of Nursing, University College Hospital, Ibadan, as part of the Global Health Workforce Programme (GHWP) being implemented by the NANA Girls and Women Empowerment Initiative, in partnership with Medical Aid Films, under the leadership of Mrs Fatima Adamu, Founder and Executive Director of NANA Girls and Women Empowerment Initiative.

Funded by the UK Department of Health and Social Care and managed by Global Health Partnerships (formerly THET), NANA Girls and Women Empowerment Initiative and Medical Aid Films are delivering pivotal capacity-building for nurse and midwife educators, including the development of interactive, multilingual video content, digital learning systems, and resource studios. With Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (MNCH) training films produced in Hausa and Yoruba, and the rollout of structured learning management tools across institutions, this work directly supports post-pandemic recovery, resilience, responsiveness, and health workforce strengthening.

The five-day visit advanced institutional readiness for digital learning through structured governance, technical integration, and faculty development, with four implementation committees established to oversee management, capacity building, quality assurance, and educator recognition. Lecturers received applied training in content development, educational storytelling, and multimedia production techniques, and on the technical front, the team operationalised a data-enabled Learning Management System, equipped a fully functioning content studio, and introduced the Moodle mobile application to support flexible, student-centred learning and improve communication across the academic environment.

The Wellbeing Foundation Africa’s Formal Observer Status affirms the critical importance of equitable knowledge-sharing and the integration of open-access educational resources and scalable learning infrastructure, as models grounded in cross-institutional collaboration, local leadership, and inclusive technology hold the key to post-pandemic health system recovery in Nigeria and across the African continent.