Table 2.

Linkages that exist between the formal health system and informal service providers in Anambra and Enugu States, Nigeria

Types of linkages	Identified by formal sector respondents	Identified by informal sector respondents
Registration of informal service providers and standardization of practice by the formal health system (including enlisting of traditional medicine unit into the State Ministry of Health)	6 +	1 +
Training of informal service providers by stakeholders in the formal health system	6 +	1 +
Referral of clients from informal service providers to formal service providers	6 +	1 +
Data reporting on specific programs from informal service providers to the formal health system	6 +	1 +
Provision of free commodities such as insecticide-treated bed nets, to informal service providers	6 +	0

Source: Authors’ compilation, February 2021