PHASE Worldwide

This project will contribute to reducing maternal and child deaths within a total population of 18,000 living in poverty in the Karnali Region, West Nepal. Poor health is linked to malnutrition and lack of access to health services; we will improve access to nutritious foods and basic health services, specifically for mothers and children (but also everyone else in the community). Support to government health services, health education and work with women’s groups will ensure people have access to and use health services appropriately and attend early with treatable illness; preventative services will help reduce illness. Food security will be improved through seed and stock distribution, access to better stud goats and training for male and female farmers in animal fodder production, soil management, irrigation methods and vegetable / vegetable seed production. ;

PHASE Worldwide funds our partners organisation PHASE Nepal to run 16 primary health care centres, teacher training, alternative education programmes and training and skill development for farmer in 3 regions of remote Nepal ;

PHASE Worldwide funds our partners PHASE Nepal to provide emergency relief; emergency healthcare; water and sanitation; emergency food provisions; reconstruction relief.

Mugu District, Nepal has an extremely high number of children U5 with global acute malnutrition. This project will sustainably address the immediate and underlying causes of malnutrition among 1,600 ‘left behind’ children U5. It will be the vital nutrition aspect of an integrated Health and Nutrition project. After 3yrs 800 ‘hard to reach’ female and male farmers will be producing green vegetables all year round, many families will receive additional cash income from crop sales. 3,000 women and 800 men will have increased knowledge of nutrition. The awareness of community opinion leaders around the importance of nutrition will be greatly increased. This will reduce rates of child malnutrition.

Province 7 is one of the most remote and poorest areas of Nepal (HDI: 0.31) with 62.5% of population living in poverty (CBN) and ranked most vulnerable in Nepal (DFID 2017). The project will aim to reduce maternal mortality rates and improved local structures of maternal healthcare provision for 1,000 women in two communities in Province 7 - Rugin and Bichhaya - and improve agricultural productivity and production and income for vulnerable women, by empowering 625 women through productive resources, inputs, confidence, and knowledge. The project will support poor and vulnerable families (including infants) to have better access to safe, nutritious food all year round and improved resilient agricultural practices which will strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, and other disasters.