30 million waiting.
Time to close the gap.
Fewer than 3,000 transplants have happened in Nigeria since 2000, in a country where over 30 million people live with chronic kidney disease. That gap will not close on its own. So we are bringing government, clinicians, faith leaders, funders and patients to one table to build the system that closes it.
A national need. A shared answer.
Nigeria already has surgeons and hospitals ready to do this work. What is missing is everything between them: a donor registry, a referral pathway, regulation, a trained workforce and public trust. Nobody can build that alone. So we have partnered with the key stakeholders to bring everyone to the table.
Find your seat at the table.
Shape the regulatory and ethical architecture a national programme will need, backed by a costed roadmap.
Connect isolated transplant efforts into one coordinated national donor pathway, with the workforce to sustain it.
Back a national flagship at its founding, alongside government and the country's leading institutions.
How donation is understood at community scale will be decided by the voices in this room. Yours belongs here.
Direct world-class skills and investment into a system being designed now, so care can stay in Nigeria.
Lived experience sits at the centre of this convening. Your testimony grounds the data and keeps every decision honest.
We do not adjourn with good intentions. We adjourn with a plan.
A practical, financed pathway from convening to programme.
A named coalition that carries the work beyond the two days.
MoUs and pledges from government, partners and institutions.
A shared statement that frames the issue for the country.
Every stakeholder, one table.
Two days,
one direction.
Full programme →
The data, the gaps and the lived reality of waiting. Government frames the picture. Clinicians and patients ground it. The room speaks openly about donation, culture and trust.
Faith, ethics and regulation take the floor. Patients lead. Breakouts turn conversation into commitments, and the room closes with a costed roadmap in hand.
Lend your name to the moment a national system begins.
Partners take visible leadership on a defining national health issue, in the company of government and the country's leading institutions. We will build a partnership that fits your mandate.
See the partnership prospectus →Be named on the first national convening of its kind, across stage, press and the communiqué.
Stand alongside government, leading hospitals and medical bodies.
Your support produces a costed roadmap and a coalition. Outcomes you can report against.
A neutral host. A shared table.
The Ibrahim Impact Foundation works across health, education and economic empowerment in Nigeria, from maternal health programmes in Lagos to microloans that turn one sewing machine into a small business in Kaduna.
We convene this symposium as a neutral host, in partnership with the key stakeholders in Nigerian healthcare. Our job is to set the table. What happens at it belongs to everyone in the room.
Be in the room where
it starts.
Come to lead, to fund, to report or to be heard. The gap closes faster with you in the room.
The need is national. So is the moment.
More than 30 million Nigerians live with chronic kidney disease. Fewer than 3,000 transplants have happened in the country since 2000. Sit with those two numbers for a moment.
For most families the options are stark: dialysis that is scarce, travel abroad that few can afford, or going without. Behind each number is a household holding its breath, waiting on a system that does not yet exist.
The barriers are not only clinical. They sit across the donor pathway, financing, regulation, ethics, the workforce, and public trust. No single hospital or ministry can resolve them alone. That is why this conversation has to happen together, and in the open.
Turn fragmented conversations into one national dialogue, and leave with a shared sense of what Nigeria does next.
Put the real data and the patient experience on the table, without minimising and without blame.
Bring hospitals, government, faith, partners and patients into direct, equal conversation. For many, a first.
Agree the practical next steps, owned by the room rather than handed down by the host.
Every stakeholder, one conversation.
Two days, built around listening.
The people at the table.
The programme is being assembled across every stakeholder group. Several voices are confirmed and others are marked to be confirmed.
Convening & clinical leadership
Government & policy
International faculty, faith & patient voices
Back the founding of a national system.
For the first time, Nigeria is convening its whole transplant ecosystem in one room. Partnering puts your institution at the centre of that moment, with visible leadership and a real platform.
Be named on the first national convening of its kind, across stage, assets, press and the communiqué.
Stand alongside government, leading hospitals and medical bodies on a defining national health issue.
Your support produces a costed roadmap and a standing coalition. Outcomes you can report against.
Built around your mandate, not a price list.
Four ways in, each tailored in conversation. In-kind, programme and lead partnerships are all welcome.
- Headline alignment and naming across the symposium
- Plenary platform and a speaking role
- Full delegation and reserved seats
- Brand on all assets, stage, press and the communiqué
- Sponsorship of a session, track or breakout
- A speaking or chairing slot
- Delegation of senior representatives
- Logo on programme assets and on site
- Supporter recognition across the event
- Delegate passes for your team
- Inclusion on the partner wall and website
- Acknowledgement in the communiqué
- Venue, hospitality, media or production in kind
- NGO, association and civil society support welcome
- Recognition appropriate to contribution
- A route in for mission-aligned partners
Tell us your goals and we will send a tailored prospectus with delegate, branding and platform options.
Choose your way into the room.
Garki, Abuja
Frequently asked
The symposium is an invited national convening across every stakeholder group: government, hospitals, funders and partners, faith and community, diaspora, patients and advocates, and media. Register your interest and the programme committee will confirm your place.
Delegate terms are shared on confirmation. Supported places are reserved for patients, advocates and community voices so cost is never a barrier to being heard.
Yes. Use the speaker path above or note it on the interest form. The committee welcomes nominations across all groups.
Plenary sessions will be streamed so clinicians and communities nationwide can follow the proceedings. In-room participation remains by invitation and interest.
Four tiers: lead, programme, supporting and in-kind. Each is tailored in conversation around your mandate. Start from the Partner page for a bespoke prospectus.
Select the media path above or note "Media" on the interest form. The communications team will send accreditation details and the media kit ahead of the event.