Strategic Priorities 2023-2028
Gamble Alert's five-year plan to prevent and treat gambling harms in Nigeria through awareness, collaboration, and innovation.
Our Five-Year Strategic Priorities
Accelerate Engagement
Enhance awareness, mitigate stigma, and foster engagement with information and services.
Transform Capacity
Collaborate with public health agencies to bolster prevention systems.
Inclusive Co-Production
Incorporate lived experience in co-producing support services.
Integrated Treatment
Develop a holistic, place-based approach to treatment.
Key Success Measure: Reduction in gambling harms, timely support, and sustained changes beyond 2028.
Four Key Objectives
Increase Awareness
Implement initiatives to heighten public awareness of gambling harms.
Enhance Access
Improve access to services addressing gambling harm inequalities.
Build Capacity
Equip professionals to respond effectively to gambling harms.
Provide Leadership
Establish a National Gambling Treatment Service.
Implementation Strategy
Our strategy involves core activities across research, education, and treatment to promote safe gambling behavior.
Investment in lived experience networks
Creation of awareness resources
Establishment of partnerships
Targeted prevention campaigns
Collaboration with health agencies
Development of care pathways
Research & Evaluation
Establishing evidence for effective interventions at all levels of prevention.
Our Research, Data, and Evaluation Strategy generates knowledge for education, early intervention, and treatment service design. We are committed to disseminating evidence-based learning across sectors.
Annual implementation plans adapt to funding changes, emphasizing gambling disorder as a recognized health condition with treatment outcomes comparable to other behavioral problems.
Addressing Knowledge Gaps
Gambling harms should be viewed through public health and social inequality lenses. While evidence on gambling harms in Nigeria grows, knowledge gaps remain, particularly for marginalized communities. Significant challenges persist in developing effective interventions to keep people safe from gambling harm.