Parental Preparedness Before Childbirth in Nigeria
Nigeria accounts for nearly 29% of all global maternal deaths, yet the parenting knowledge that shapes every hour after survival remains almost entirely absent from national policy.
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Research Overview
Research & Policy Work
Toivo translates research into policy analysis. Our knowledge library is organised into three publication types currently available, evidence-based explainers, event-driven commentaries, and in-depth policy briefs, each serving readers encountering Nigerian family policy at a different level of depth.
Policy Briefs
Toivo’s full research publications: concise, in-depth analyses of a policy problem with evidence-based options for government, donors and implementing organisations.
View Policy Briefs →Commentaries
Analysis of current events, government data releases and legislative decisions, each following a single line of evidence to a specific conclusion about what it demands of policymakers.
View Commentaries →Explainers
Foundational, evidence-based guides that set out the concepts, definitions and frameworks underneath Toivo’s research, written for readers encountering family policy for the first time.
View Explainers →Recently Published
When a Declaration Becomes a Diagnosis
Nigeria’s Year of Social Development and Families arrives against a policy architecture that has, in measurable and documented ways, moved in the opposite direction from the priorities the declaration names.
Read →What Is Family Policy?
Family policy explained from first principles: what it covers, how explicit and implicit family policy differ, and what it means in the Nigerian context specifically.
Read →More explainers, commentaries and policy briefs are forthcoming, including Policy Brief No. 2 on paternity leave and family policy in Nigeria.