Two themes form the core of this grantmaking:

1. Reducing maternal mortality and morbidity and
2. Advancing the sexual and reproductive health and rights of young people

To help reduce maternal mortality and morbidity in Nigeria, the foundation is supporting efforts that contribute to the federal government's goal of reducing maternal mortality by 50 percent by 2006.

Grants are made in support of nongovernmental organisations that seek to reduce maternal mortality in Nigeria by improving access to, use of, and quality of maternal health care, and for demonstrations or model projects in the states of Borno, Lagos, and Kano.

To promote the reproductive health and rights of young people, the Foundation focuses its grantmaking on initiatives that implement the federal government's national sexuality education curriculum. Grants are also made for the development and bringing to scale of models for out-of-school youth, so that they can be replicated in other states and nationally.

Grants are awarded only to organisations that define clear objectives for their work and measures of progress toward those objectives. Typically, the Foundation provides multi-year support. Proposals must fit clearly within the geographic and thematic priorities of the Population and Reproductive Health area to be considered.

Grants are made for work at the national level and for work in six states: Borno, Cross River, Enugu, Lagos, Kano, and Plateau.

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