Health
BUILDING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES
Health is at the heart of so much of the world’s poverty and suffering. When communities don’t have enough food, when they depend on unsafe water sources, when they don’t have access to reliable health support, every life suffers.
What we do
ADRA Nepal works with communities through our community and health strengthening approaches; with the government bodies through advocacy, demand generation, capacity building; and with our peers to empower effective partnerships.
Our programmes include Maternal and Newborn Health, Family Planning, Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene and COVID-19 Support.
IMPACT
Health
PROJECTS
Health Reform Project
The Health Reform Project, supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan, tackles child malnutrition and public health concerns in Bardiya, Nepal. This 3-year initiative aims to reform the health status of residents through sustainable nutrition and an improved water sanitation environment using multifaceted approaches such as improving administrative governance, infrastructure development and increasing awareness of local people and government employees, leading to a healthier Bardiya.
UNFPA Project 2023
UNFPA Project 2023 is working with government to strengthen national supply planning to improve the governments health system. Supply chains supports health system strengthening from forecasting to overall logistics management by ensuring last mile assurance. The project aims to create a more strategic approach to meet the needs of the hardest-to-reach women and girls for modern contraceptives while ensuring regular commodities supplies along with bolstering logistic management system.
Maternal Health and Child Nutrition Project
The Maternal, Neonatal, Child Health and Nutrition Project, funded by ADRA Netherlands and ADRA International is improving health outcomes for young children and pregnant and lactating mothers in the Mahottari and Sarlahi district of Madhesh Province, where there are high levels of malnutrition. Through this project, we are providing technical assistance at the national and provincial levels and strengthening screening and growth monitoring services at the local level. This project is implemented to uplift the demand as well as the supply side of the MNCHN services through deputing Community Health Facilitators as well as care group volunteers. We are also educating community-level mother groups about nutrition and breastfeeding. This project is collaborating with the local agriculture sector to improve access to diverse, locally available foods for impoverished, food-insecure, and vulnerable households.
WISH II
Women’s Health and Immunization Support for Health (WISH II) Project is funded by ADRA UK and ADRA International. We are reaching women through health camps to provide them with reproductive health services focused on screening, treatment, and follow-up care for pelvic organ prolapse and cervical cancer. The health camp model helps us reach women in extremely poor communities or those who face discrimination. They often cannot attend government services or do not realize they can seek help for their symptoms. The project will also raise awareness of women’s health issues and their prevention in the target communities by developing school health champions as well as counseling about nutrition.