Development projects in Nepal

The Netherlands WASH SDG Programme aims to reach an improved WASH situation for all. This includes the hard to reach households; the poorest of the poor and those living in remote or slum areas, men and women. The Programme will contribute by sustainably improving access to and use of sanitation and improving hygiene behaviours for at least 2 million people, and access to and use of safe drinking water for at least 450,000 people in the coming five years. As sustainability will only be realised when equal access and use for women and men is guaranteed, the programme will mainstream gender equality and social inclusion in the whole programme cycle. Our programme activities will target those households in communities and cities that have insufficient access to WASH facilities and/or practice unhealthy WASH behaviours which results in the entire community living in an unhealthy environment. Consequently women and men of entire communities and neighbourhoods in cities will benefit from programme activities. As a result, the WASH SDG programme is expected the reach over 7.4 million people through project activities.

Organization

PRACTICA Foundation

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Oct 8, 2018 → Jun 30, 2020

Coverage

Nepal

Researchers play an important role in driving sustainable impacts on health and welfare by participating in policy development. In many LMICs, poverty correlates with poor health; we are working with partners in LMICs to convene researchers and stakeholders to generate independent, expert health policy advice, based on evidence from research.

Organization

Department For Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

Budget

USD 5K

Timeline

Jan 1, 2019 → Mar 31, 2023

Coverage

Nepal

Develop, pilot, finalize and disseminate a clinical refresher training in three locations (Egypt, DRC, Nepal) on long-acting reversible contraceptive methods, a complementary training CARE's existing comprehensive family planning training package.

Organization

Women's Refugee Commission

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jun 1, 2018 → Dec 31, 2020

Coverage

Nepal

The Nepal Health Sector Programme 3 (NHSP3) is funded by the UK Government through the Department for International Development (DFID) to provide technical assistance to the Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP) through the Nepal Health Sector Support Programme (NHSSP). NHSP3 is designed to support the goals of the Nepal Health Sector Strategy (NHSS) 2015/16 - 2020/21 and assist the MOHP in building resilient health systems to provide quality health services for all. From April 2017 to December 2020, NHSSP is being implemented by a consortium led by Options Consultancy Limited with Health Research and Social Development Forum International, Oxford Policy Management, and Miyamoto International. The programme has two components: a. General Health Technical Assistance to increase the capacity of the MOHP to improve health policy-making and planning, procurement and financial management, health services delivery and the use of evidence for planning and management b. Retrofitting Health Infrastructure Technical Assistant to enhance the MOHP capacity to retrofit health infrastructure to withstand future earthquakes

Organization

Options Consultancy Services

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Mar 10, 2017 → Dec 31, 2023

Coverage

Nepal

Earthquake transition and recovery

Organization

Options Consultancy Services

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jul 27, 2015 → Mar 31, 2017

Coverage

Nepal

What are the aims of the project? Perinatal depression affects about one in five women in low- and middle-income countries and has huge human and economic costs. The condition can be treated effectively with ‘talking therapies’. However, the vast majority of women in low-income countries remain untreated because of serious lack of mental-health specialists to deliver such therapies. In our previous work, we have adapted talking therapies so these can be delivered by non-specialists in low-income settings. In order to make such interventions even more accessible to the larger population, we aim to develop and evaluate a digital Application (App) to facilitate delivery of a WHO-approved ‘talking therapy’, the Thinking Healthy Programme, through lay-women. The project will be conducted in Pakistan. We also aim to train researchers in Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka to conduct similar research in their settings. How will the project be carried out? Phase 1 - Development of the App: We have extensive knowledge of the content, methods of training, supervision and delivery of the Thinking Healthy Programme which was developed by our team. Building on this knowledge, we will develop the App by employing a Human-Centred Design, which places end-users at the heart of the process in 3 steps: a) identifying the requirements of lay-therapists and mothers; b) testing multiple prototypes on selected users, and; c) testing the final prototype in actual conditions. This phase will take about 18 months. Phase 2 - Evaluation of the App: We will then compare the effectiveness and ‘value-for-money’ of our new App-assisted Thinking Healthy Programme with routinely delivered programme in low socio-economic settings in Pakistan. All pregnant women from randomly picked villages, who score highly on a depression questionnaire, will receive one or the other intervention. We will then assess both groups at 3 and 6 months after childbirth for symptoms of depression and other health outcomes. We will interview some participants in more detail to understand the facilitators and barriers to the new way of intervention delivery. We will determine the costs associated with the programme to evaluate its ‘value-for-money’. This phase will take about 30 months. Phase 3 – Training of researchers in other countries of the region: In addition to Pakistan, junior or mid-career researchers from Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka will be selected to undergo a specially-designed training programme in conducting research in perinatal mental health in their own settings. In total, 8 researchers will be trained. As part of their training, they will undertake research projects in areas which are thought to be critical for implementation of interventions for mental health. How will this project benefit the public? Ultimately, this project will lead to more women with perinatal depression in Pakistan and other low- and middle-income countries to receiving the treatment they need. In addition to developing innovative ways to deliver interventions, we plan to raise public awareness of perinatal depression and what can be done about it through our well-established South Asian Hub for Advocacy, Research, and Education in mental health, operating in all four countries since 2012. We will carry out community meetings where we will share the findings of our project. In Pakistan, we will incorporate our innovations into the ‘President’s Programme to Promote Mental Health of Pakistanis’. At the global level, we will work closely with the World Health Organization to incorporate our findings into the revised version of the Thinking Healthy Programme which will be disseminated to all member countries through the WHO’s flagship mental health gap action programme.

Organization

University Of Liverpool

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jun 1, 2020 → End not reported

Coverage

Nepal

ChildHope UK participates as part of a consortium on this programme, lead by The Institute of Development Studies, UK (IDS). ChildHope UK delivers the activities in Nepal and Bangladesh with local partners Voice of Children and Grambangla Unnayan Committee respectively. IDS - "This programme will co-develop with stakeholders, innovative and context-appropriate ways to increase options for children to avoid engagement in hazardous exploitative labour. The primary beneficiaries will be children in modern slavery and the worst forms of child labour and those who are vulnerable to being drawn into it. The families of these children will benefit from greater resilience to shocks, better options for their children’s safe and healthy future and less intra-family stress and conflict. Businesses will benefit from practical solutions to child-labour free supply chains. Policy makers, NGOs, and researchers will benefit from a knowledge of what works. Our programme responds to six of seven DFID priority areas: responsible business; children’s agency; gender sensitivity; children in conflict and crises; drivers of vulnerability and vulnerable groups; and evidence. We also respond to two of four sectoral priorities: manufacturing and domestic servitude. The work will contribute to meeting Sustainable Development Goal Target 8.7 (eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking),and mark a step change toward the goal of eliminating the worst forms of child labour expressed in ILO convention 182 and article 190. The consortium takes as its starting point a child’s right to protection from exploitative work (Art. 32 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child [UNCRC]) and the right to participate in decisions that affect them according to their evolving capacity (Art. 12 of the UNCRC)."

Organization

ChildHopeUK

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Jul 1, 2019 → Jun 30, 2023

Coverage

Nepal

This research programme aims to improve understanding of the nature, frequency, scale, and impact of attacks on healthcare in conflict through improved data collection and analysis. Multiple international studies confirm a global consensus that attacks on health often threaten the sanctity of health care, disrespect the right to health care, and violate international humanitarian law. Gathering evidence of attacks has to date been crucial in raising awareness of the issue. But existing evidence is largely restricted to the reporting of incidents and their immediate impact, and falls short of providing data on the longer-term and wider impacts of attacks on healthcare access and utilisation as well as broader public health outcomes. This research will transcend previous work on attacks against healthcare through rigorous new and sustained data collection over the lifetime of the project. It aims to produce data that generate stronger evidence of the scale and nature of the problem and document the impacts of the attacks to support global policy and advocacy efforts.

Organization

none

Budget

USD 419K

Timeline

Jan 1, 2019 → Mar 31, 2026

Coverage

Nepal

In acute/unforeseen emergencies and disasters with public health consequences, Emergency Response Framework implemented

Organization

WHO Nepal

Budget

USD 2.7M

Timeline

Jan 1, 2016 → Dec 31, 2017

Coverage

Nepal

All countries assess and address critical gaps in preparedness for health emergencies, including in core capacities under the International Health Regulations (2005)

Organization

WHO Nepal

Budget

USD 191K

Timeline

Jan 1, 2016 → Dec 31, 2017

Coverage

Nepal

The overall objective of the program is to strengthen the resilience of people and communities to crises, and their capacity to recover afterwards, and to reduce the risk that people and communities are affected by crises and disasters. A novelty of the new agreement period is that three country-projects (Afghanistan, DR Congo and Myanmar) are offered multiyear financing as they are protracted crises with a need for preidictable finansing to secure necessary resources and ensure predictability and contextspecific impact.The SRC is part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement made up of 190 Red Cross and Red Crescent national societies, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Federation (IFRC) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Sida provides support to the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement through two channels: the ICRC and the SRC. The SRC channels most of Sida's support to national societies, the IFRC and the ICRC and works in longterm partnership with forteen countries: Cameroon, DR Congo, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, DPRK, Myanmar, Iraq, Palestine, Syria, Yemen and Ukraine. The SRC’s strategic cooperation with partners within the movement - with other National Societies (NS), IFRC and the ICRC – is essential and gives the SRC the possibility to work at both global and local levels. The SRC is in addition considered to have systems, expertise and capacity to strengthen the local capacity of NS to predict and prevent disasters, as well as to contribute to rapid humanitarian assistance in sudden crises. The SRC has faced difficulties in demonstrating the humanitarian relevance of the Sida-funded programs as they are often situated between humanitarian action and long-term development. The SRC’s new humanitarian strategy 2016-2019 does, however, put a greater focus on humanitarian operations and this new approach is reflected in the organisation’s application 2017-2019. Several programmes with a long-term development focus have been removed in the application for funding from Sida, and new initiatives with a sharper humanitarian focus have been included, such as Yemen and Cameroon (programme targeting CAR refugees). It will be important to follow up on this positive direction towards a strengthened humanitarian relevance to the Sida-funded projects to ensure its continuation.Support planned for 2017 includes long-term programs in various fields such as health, disaster prevention, resilience, sanitation, organizational development, volunteer development and planning, monitoring, evaluation and results (PMER). The support also includes regional support to the IFRC’s different cluster- and regional offices in Africa, Asia and MENA. Thematic- and capacity enhancement support will in 2017 focus on disaster reduction, volunteering in conflict and disaster, water and sanitation, health, and gender and diversity. Through support in the form of Sida's Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM), the SRC will also be able to respond to rapid onsets of disasters. Out of Sida's initial support for 2017 totalling 167.5 MSEK, 61.4 % (103.5 MSEK) will be channelled to the IFRC and 2.6 % (4,5 MSEK) to the ICRC. Approximately 5.5 % (9.3 MSEK) consists of projects that the SRC supports in consortia and where funds are allocated through partner NS such as British, Australian and Danish Red Cross. Approximately 8.9 % (15.0 MSEK) will be channelled directly to NS (e.g., DRC and Palestinian RC, further contributions go to a number of NS for the management of SRC delegates in-country costs). Approximately 21.6 % (36.3 MSEK) out of the total budget goes directly to the SRC, of which 14.8 % (25 MSEK) for staff costs (technical delegates and program officers) and 7 % to operational support costs (11.3 MSEK).

Organization

Sida / Sweden

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Mar 28, 2017 → Oct 1, 2022

Coverage

Nepal

The overall objective of the program is to strengthen the resilience of people and communities to crises, and their capacity to recover afterwards, and to reduce the risk that people and communities are affected by crises and disasters. A novelty of the new agreement period is that three country-projects (Afghanistan, DR Congo and Myanmar) are offered multiyear financing as they are protracted crises with a need for preidictable finansing to secure necessary resources and ensure predictability and contextspecific impact.The SRC is part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement made up of 190 Red Cross and Red Crescent national societies, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Federation (IFRC) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Sida provides support to the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement through two channels: the ICRC and the SRC. The SRC channels most of Sida's support to national societies, the IFRC and the ICRC and works in longterm partnership with forteen countries: Cameroon, DR Congo, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, DPRK, Myanmar, Iraq, Palestine, Syria, Yemen and Ukraine. The SRC’s strategic cooperation with partners within the movement - with other National Societies (NS), IFRC and the ICRC – is essential and gives the SRC the possibility to work at both global and local levels. The SRC is in addition considered to have systems, expertise and capacity to strengthen the local capacity of NS to predict and prevent disasters, as well as to contribute to rapid humanitarian assistance in sudden crises. The SRC has faced difficulties in demonstrating the humanitarian relevance of the Sida-funded programs as they are often situated between humanitarian action and long-term development. The SRC’s new humanitarian strategy 2016-2019 does, however, put a greater focus on humanitarian operations and this new approach is reflected in the organisation’s application 2017-2019. Several programmes with a long-term development focus have been removed in the application for funding from Sida, and new initiatives with a sharper humanitarian focus have been included, such as Yemen and Cameroon (programme targeting CAR refugees). It will be important to follow up on this positive direction towards a strengthened humanitarian relevance to the Sida-funded projects to ensure its continuation.Support planned for 2017 includes long-term programs in various fields such as health, disaster prevention, resilience, sanitation, organizational development, volunteer development and planning, monitoring, evaluation and results (PMER). The support also includes regional support to the IFRC’s different cluster- and regional offices in Africa, Asia and MENA. Thematic- and capacity enhancement support will in 2017 focus on disaster reduction, volunteering in conflict and disaster, water and sanitation, health, and gender and diversity. Through support in the form of Sida's Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM), the SRC will also be able to respond to rapid onsets of disasters. Out of Sida's initial support for 2017 totalling 167.5 MSEK, 61.4 % (103.5 MSEK) will be channelled to the IFRC and 2.6 % (4,5 MSEK) to the ICRC. Approximately 5.5 % (9.3 MSEK) consists of projects that the SRC supports in consortia and where funds are allocated through partner NS such as British, Australian and Danish Red Cross. Approximately 8.9 % (15.0 MSEK) will be channelled directly to NS (e.g., DRC and Palestinian RC, further contributions go to a number of NS for the management of SRC delegates in-country costs). Approximately 21.6 % (36.3 MSEK) out of the total budget goes directly to the SRC, of which 14.8 % (25 MSEK) for staff costs (technical delegates and program officers) and 7 % to operational support costs (11.3 MSEK).

Organization

Sida / Sweden

Budget

USD 326K

Timeline

Mar 28, 2017 → Oct 1, 2022

Coverage

Nepal

Support costs incurred for direct support of volunteers in Nepal, including allowances, travel, supplies and equipment. Excludes costs for training or medical support costs.

Organization

Peace Corps

Budget

USD 263K

Timeline

Oct 1, 2024 → Sep 30, 2025

Coverage

Nepal

Overseas program support costs in Nepal. Includes costs related to HQ salaries and benefits for direct overseas support, travel, rent, communications, printing, supplies, equipment, and computer/technical support.

Organization

Peace Corps

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Oct 1, 2021 → Sep 30, 2022

Coverage

Nepal

Support costs incurred for direct support of volunteers in Nepal. Includes overseas staff salaries and benefit costs, leases, staff travel, communications, conferences, supplies, equipment and International Cooperative Administrative Support Services (ICASS). Excludes costs for training, medical and security.

Organization

Peace Corps

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Oct 1, 2021 → Sep 30, 2022

Coverage

Nepal

All costs incurred for in-service training of volunteers in Nepal during their service, including language tutoring, workshops, and conferences.

Organization

Peace Corps

Budget

USD 254K

Timeline

Oct 1, 2018 → Sep 30, 2019

Coverage

Nepal

Overseas program support costs in Nepal. Includes overseas staff salaries and benefit costs, leases, staff travel, communications, conferences, supplies, equipment and International Cooperative Administrative Support Services (ICASS). Excludes costs for training, medical and security.

Organization

Peace Corps

Budget

USD 344K

Timeline

Oct 1, 2020 → Sep 30, 2021

Coverage

Nepal

Support costs incurred for direct support of volunteers in Nepal, including allowances, travel, supplies and equipment. Excludes costs for training or medical support costs.

Organization

Peace Corps

Budget

USD 42K

Timeline

Oct 1, 2020 → Sep 30, 2021

Coverage

Nepal

Pokhara University Capacity Development Program for Nursing Education and Community Health Promotion

Organization

Office for Government Policy Coordination

Budget

USD 262K

Timeline

Jan 1, 2024 → Dec 31, 2028

Coverage

Kaski, Gandaki

Including eye care in the recommended global WHO/UNICEF primary level child health programme, the Integrated Management of Newborn & Childhood Illnesses (IMNCI), so that primary health care workers are trained in how to screen, refer and treat eye diseases in childrenBackgroundIn 1995 WHO and UNICEF jointly launched the Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI) which has become the blueprint for care of young children in over 100 countries. Care of the newborn has since been added (IMNCI). This includes all major conditions of child health but does not include eye health. This means that PHWs lack the basic knowledge and skills in screening and treating childhood eye problems. Our group, the International Centre for Eye Health (ICEH), has been working on implementing and evaluating how eye care can be included in child health programmes in LMICs to address this gap. We have worked with the MoH in Tanzania to include a training module on eye care in the IMNCI curriculum or PHWs. Subsequently more than 3,000 PHWs have been trained by the MoH and eye health has been included in the national IMNCI policy routinely. We aim to build on this success of this work to scale up this model in two further countries and use the findings to advocate for global policy change. Activities: We now plan to: a) Develop and implement our eye care IMNCI programme in Nepal b) Evaluate and further strengthen the programme in TanzaniaWe will take a health systems approach throughout considering all six of the WHO health systems building blocks. We have a collaborative approach which involves co-creating with key national and global stakeholders and will start by building the international and national steering groups in each country with UNICEF, WHO, MoH, NGOs, healthcare experts, professional groups and patient representatives.

Organization

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Feb 1, 2025 → Mar 31, 2026

Coverage

Nepal

No project description reported.

Organization

WaterAid Nepal

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Nov 2, 2012 → Apr 2, 2014

Coverage

Nepal

Project based in Hardeni VDC, Udaypur district, eastern region Nepal - a remote rural hill area. Transforming lives in 6 communities and three schools through improving access to safe water and hygiene, and sustaining progress already made in sanitation in the VDC (which was declared ODF in 2012). The project will enable 2,765 people to access safe water through 6 gravity flow schemes, and hygiene education through community health and hygiene campaigns. To sustain improved sanitation, households will be supported to improve latrines and environmental sanitation. The V-WASH-CC will be supported to maintain the VDC's ODF status. The budget includes funds for sustainability support to continue until March 2018 - these funds will be received in 2015/16 and carried forward to following years.

Organization

WaterAid Nepal

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Apr 3, 2013 → Apr 2, 2016

Coverage

Udayapur, Koshi

Nepal, Malaria, Population Services International (PSI HQ)

Organization

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

Budget

USD 10.2M

Timeline

Jan 16, 2011 → Sep 30, 2014

Coverage

Nepal

NCD Support for the project comprehensive model for Nepal child and adolescent mental health services

Organization

Norad - Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation

Budget

USD 1.2M

Timeline

Jan 1, 2021 → Dec 31, 2022

Coverage

Nepal

Through this project ECEC will sensitize parents in Belbari so they are more aware of the needs of their children. This will be done through group meetings using International Development Programme (ICDP). There will also be a focus on child friendly books that are linked to the school curriculum. They will not only focus on the cognitive aspects of the development of the child, but also on the emotional development of the children

Organization

Norad - Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation

Budget

USD 151K

Timeline

Jan 1, 2021 → Dec 31, 2022

Coverage

Nepal

Mental health and psychosocial well-being of vulnerable populations will improve through increased access to prevention and treatment at local health facilities with support from community-based mechanisms. Target groups will participate meaningfully in family and community social activities. Women experiencing abuse will have their practical needs met and be supported through formal and informal mechanisms in a community with changed social norms and attitudes about violence against women.

Organization

Norad - Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation

Budget

USD 563K

Timeline

Jan 1, 2021 → Dec 31, 2022

Coverage

Nepal

The project advocates for and raises awareness of the human rights of the mentally ill in. It will conduct an in-depth study on existing legal provision in Nepal in line with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. It will sensitize, motivate and influence government authorities to reform and adopt Mental Health Legislation, to amend discriminatory laws and practices, and to implement existing mental health policies. The Project in its second Project phase is called "Promotion

Organization

Norad - Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation

Budget

USD 25K

Timeline

Jan 1, 2021 → Dec 31, 2025

Coverage

Nepal

PWD: Access to Health/ Access to Education/ Community Acceptance/ Political and Financial Empowerment

Organization

Norad - Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation

Budget

USD 782K

Timeline

Jan 1, 2020 → Dec 31, 2022

Coverage

Nepal

After the treatment, Koshish wants to reintegrate the women with their local communities and families. Koshish will then sensitize and support the local government and communitites in this process.

Organization

Norad - Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation

Budget

USD 62K

Timeline

Jan 1, 2020 → Dec 31, 2023

Coverage

Nepal

No project description reported.

Organization

AidData

Budget

— · not reported

Timeline

Timeline not reported

Coverage

Nepal