The USAID funded Health Financing and Governance (HFG) Project, implemented by Abt Global and partners in Nigeria, supports the USAID goal of closing the HIV/AIDS financial resources gap at the state and local levels through domestic financing mechanisms. HFG is implementing this through five key areas of intervention: HIV/AIDS resources planning, HIV/AIDS resources mobilization, HIV/AIDS resources allocation, institutionalization of HIV/AIDS resources tracking, and HIV/AIDS resources utilization.

HFG has been able to demonstrate that with the involvement of country-level and local partners, it is possible to influence state governments to substantially increase allocation of domestic resources for the HIV/AIDS response in Nigeria. In particular, in Cross Rivers State in Nigeria, HFG has catalyzed an increase of over 300% in state government budget allocations for HIV/AIDS - from 58 million Naira (US$ 292,559) in the 2014 budgetary appropriation, to 184 million naira (US$ 928,121) in the 2015 budgetary appropriation.