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Blog July 8, 2025
Fieldwork beyond data: Building connections, finding stories
The Participatory Engagement of City Communities Against Non-Communicable Disease Risk in Bangladesh and Nepal (PECAN) Project is an implementation research initiative based on the principles of citizen science. It aims to equip policymakers, practitioners and citizens with evidence-based, equitable and sustainable strategies for ...

Blog June 10, 2025
Strengthening Health Policy and System Research Institutions: A multi-country initiative
Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR) investigates the functioning of health systems, policy formulation processes, and identifies how systems and policies can be optimized for better health outcomes. This investigation is often led by Health Policy and Systems Research Institutions (HPSRIs), who play a pivotal role in the HPSR ...

Blog May 15, 2025
Improving Maternal and Neonatal Health Indicators in Kapilvastu Municipality
Background Kapilvastu Municipality faced a persistent challenge on Maternal and Neonatal health (MNH) indicators, despite having 50-bedded provincial hospital at the territory of the municipality. Municipality struggled with low antenatal care (ANC) check-up rates and a higher number of home deliveries compared to other local ...

Blog April 23, 2025
Field Realities of Research Beyond Data
What does it take to become a good health researcher? For sixteen fresh public health graduates, the answer came not from textbooks, but from their experience of data collection. Tasked by HERD International, these young professionals stepped into the field to gather the data for an ongoing research on health system strengthening ...

Blog April 16, 2025
A Lifeline for the People: Free Ambulance Service in Suddhodhan Rural Municipality
In many parts of Nepal, particularly in the rural areas, getting to a hospital during an emergency can be a daunting task. Long distances, poor roads, and lack of transport are among the most common barriers, especially for people without the means to procure a vehicle in a timely fashion. In Suddhodhan Rural Municipality of ...
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Blog November 23, 2020
Handling ‘Work From Home’ During Pandemic
“WFH?” A colleague dropped me a message in my Chat box few months back. I had not noticed how soon Working from Home had set a new work culture in professional setting and acronym for the same- ‘WFH’ was being so ...
Blog April 1, 2020
Behaviour in Times of Corona [COVID-19]
‘COVID 19 will be the worst pandemic we will ever witness in our lifetime’, says my colleague. It was January 23, 2020 when Nepal confirmed its first positive case. He had come back from Wuhan, China, had minor COVID-19 ...
Blog September 5, 2019
मधुमेहका भ्रम चिर्दै
ज्योति मण्डल / आवृति अर्ज्याल जनकपुरधामको बाह्र बिघा मैदानमा भगवान शिवको चर्चामा ...
Blog December 11, 2018
Mobile phones and health
Recent data shows that 93% of the Nepali population own mobile phone whereas only 84% of them have access to toilet in Nepal (Central Bureau of Statistics, 2016). So if you were in a developing context, which one would you ...
Blog December 4, 2018
Mela and Walk to create awareness on Diabetes
Diabetes currently affects more than ten percentage of total Nepali population and, unfortunately, it is expected to affect in rapid rate in coming years. World Health Organisation defines ‘Diabetes’ as a chronic disease that ...
Blog October 31, 2018
Participatory Approach- One of its kind
I am somebody who always looks forward to explore new things. For the same, when I came across vacancy for Qualitative Research Officer for Community Arts against Antibiotic Resistance in Nepal (CARAN) Project by HERD International, ...