Ethical living donation
Protect donors, strengthen education and follow-up, and build confidence in the care pathways that already exist.
ABUJA, NIGERIA · 20 JULY 2027
National Symposium on Organ Donation & Transplantation
Building trust. Advancing donation. Shaping the future.
Clinical leaders, people with lived experience, policymakers, faith and community representatives, funders and international experts, in one room for one day. The work: strengthen ethical living donation now, and lay responsible foundations for deceased donation.
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Organ failure touches families. Access to transplantation remains uneven. Progress requires trust.
Transplantation is a system, not a procedure. It rests on informed choice, donor safety, capable institutions, fair access and public confidence. Nigeria has the expertise and the beginnings of policy. What is missing is the connection between them, and the voices of patients, donors and communities in the room where it is decided.
We begin with Nigerian experience. We learn from the world. We leave with priorities we can act on.
Why now
Standards and oversight for transplantation have moved forward. Capacity, access, consent, donor follow-up and public trust have not kept pace. This symposium puts those questions in front of the people who can act on them.
Public trust
Engage faith leaders, families and communities on their own terms, including the hard questions about consent and exploitation.
Future readiness
Establish the legal, clinical, institutional and ethical safeguards that must precede any expansion of deceased donation.
Independently convened. Collaboratively informed.
The Ibrahim Impact Foundation convenes the symposium and serves as its secretariat: coordination, fundraising, transparent reporting and follow-through. Clinical, ethical and policy advisers guide the programme as participants are confirmed.
Organizations and guests are named only once permission is given and attendance confirmed.
Measured by what happens after the conversation.
No convening settles a national question in a day. This one commits to a short list of workable priorities, the people willing to carry them, and a published record of what follows.
On 20 July
A shared record of the strongest ideas and up to three emerging action priorities.
Within 30 days
Publish a symposium summary and invite interested stakeholders into an opt-in follow-up network.
Within 90 days
Convene working discussions and develop the scope of a living-donation education and patient-support pilot.
Within 12 months
Report progress, evaluate a potential pilot and continue technical dialogue on long-term deceased-donation readiness.
Key dates
Applications are reviewed in one round. Every applicant hears back on the same day.
December 2026
Delegate applications open
Apply online. Every application is reviewed by the secretariat.January 2027
Speakers, sectors and partners announced
First wave of confirmed faculty, the sectors represented in the room, and founding partners.28 February 2027
Applications close
Last date to submit a delegate application.1 March 2027
All applicants notified
Every applicant is told the outcome on the same day: confirmed, waitlisted or not offered.PARTNERSHIP
Be the institution that helped a national system begin.
Nigeria will build a national organ donation and transplantation programme once. The partners who step in at the founding are named in the record of how it started: in the communiqué, in the roadmap, and in the working group that carries it forward.
Request the prospectus150–250senior decision-makers, by invitation only
8 sectorsgovernment, clinical, faith, patient, funder, diaspora, academic, media
1 communiquépublished nationally and carried by the press corps
12 monthsof public reporting against the roadmap, with partners named
PARTNERSHIP TIERS
Tier 1
Founding Partner
For the institution that wants its name on the founding of the programme. Limited to three.
- Named as Founding Partner across the symposium, the communiqué and the roadmap
- A speaking role in a plenary or the closing session
- A standing seat on the national technical working group
- Ten delegate places and a private convening with government participants
- Named in all 12 months of post-symposium reporting
Tier 2
Programme Partner
Fund a session, a workshop or the delegate programme itself.
- Named partner of a named session or workshop
- Recognition in the programme and delegate pack
- Five delegate places
- Invitation to the working group
Tier 3
Access Partner
Pay for the people who could not otherwise be in the room.
- Funds travel and places for patients, donor families and early-career clinicians
- Named on the access programme
- Three delegate places
- Reporting on who attended because of you
Tier 4
Exhibitor
Meet the clinicians, hospital leaders and policymakers designing the system.
- Stand space in the delegate hall, open all day
- Two exhibitor passes
- Listing in the programme and delegate guide
Sponsorship does not confer influence over clinical, scientific or public policy conclusions.
Be part of the national dialogue
Places are limited and allocated by invitation across sectors. Expressions of interest are welcome from anyone working on ethical donation, patient wellbeing, responsible policy or public trust.
- Submit your interestTell us who you are and what perspective you would bring.
- ReviewThe organizing team reviews each request and may contact you for more information.
- InvitationIf a place is available, you receive an invitation and confirm your registration.
Interest request
An expression of interest, not a confirmed place.
Thank you for your interest in NSODT 2027.
Your request has been prepared. Send it from your email app to complete it. This is not yet an invitation or confirmation of attendance. The organizing team will contact you if additional information is needed.
Send my requestA place at the table, if you will use it.
Abuja, 20 July 2027. Admission free, by invitation, and places are limited.