Nepal
GHI Country Strategy
U.S. health assistance in Nepal will augment the Government of Nepal’s efforts to reach its Millennium Development Goals for health as articulated in Nepal Health Sector Plan II, 2010–2015, particularly to reduce maternal and child mortality. U.S. assistance will also contribute to Nepal’s HIV/AIDS response, focusing on the most-at-risk populations. The overall goals of these efforts are consistent with the Government of Nepal’s vision to improve the health of all Nepalese by delivering high-quality services in facility and community settings, identifying new solutions to reach remote areas, and increasing access for historically underserved populations, such as women and disadvantaged ethnic, religious, and caste groups. The Nepal Global Health Initiative (GHI) Strategy outlines specific areas of focus to advance the GHI principles. These focus areas include:
- Increasing the Government of Nepal’s ownership and capacity to govern, manage, and improve decision making in the health sector
- Building public, private, and not-for-profit partnerships that integrate services and facilitate exchange of innovative approaches
- Improving health care and opportunities for women, children, and marginalized populations in the context of extending services to all
GHI works with Nepal’s health sector to contribute to these goals by working to lower child mortality, improve maternal health, and contain the spread of infectious diseases such as HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria, among others.
- Download the Nepal GHI Strategy [PDF, 275KB].
GHI Principles in Action – Strengthen and Leverage Key Multilateral Organizations, Global Health Partnerships, and Private Sector Engagement
Enhanced donor coordination efforts in Nepal have supported the award-winning achievements in the scale-up of national programs for family planning, safe motherhood, and community-based newborn care and integrated management of childhood illnesses. The United States worked closely with the Government of Nepal and seven other bilateral and multilateral donors to establish a Joint Financing Agreement to support the Nepal Health Sector Plan II, 2010–2015. In fiscal year 2011, the first year under the agreement, the United States directly funded Nepal’s implementation of national health programs and provided technical assistance through bilateral projects and activities. In that same fiscal year, the number of cases of child pneumonia treated with antibiotics by a trained facility or community health worker increased to more than 1 million from an expected 875,000.
Funding
For information on planned funding, please visit the Foreignassistance.gov country page.
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