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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 ...

Blog March 26, 2025
From Fieldwork to Future: a field researcher’s story
Introduction Namaste! My name is Rojina Adhikari. I am from Pokhara-10, Rambazar. Currently, I am working for the CHORUS project at HERD International. This project is being implemented in Pokhara, specifically in the former Lekhnath Municipality. Our work is currently focused in Wards 27 to 32. In this project, we aim to ...

Blog March 12, 2025
Empowering Communities to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance
When disease-causing microbes develop resistance to antimicrobial medicines, this phenomenon leads to infections that are harder to treat, causing prolonged hospital stays, an upsurge in hospital costs, and an increase in mortality rates. Widespread and unmonitored use of antimicrobials over time leads to Antimicrobial Resistance ...
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Blog September 14, 2018
Developing scripts for participatory film
During the pretesting of ‘Community Arts Against Antibiotic Resistance in Nepal (CARAN)’ project at Chandragiri Municipality, Kathmandu, we conducted several activities and learning sessions. We held a series of workshops on ...
Blog August 31, 2018
Trusting more on private pharmacy
Where do you go when you fall sick? I asked a Chatapat seller (street vendor). “That Talukhuile Doctor” was what she replied with a smile, referring to the Auxiliary Health Worker (AHW) in a nearby pharmacy.Dipendra Malla As ...
Blog August 29, 2018
TB Tobacco: The Way Forward
“It is very difficult to counsel teenage TB patients,” said Ms. Anita Khadayat, Nursing In charge at DOTS Clinic of Friends of Shanta Bhawan, Lalitpur. “When we talk about their smoking habits during the ...
Blog August 17, 2018
My test in the pretest
A gloomy monsoon morning in Kathmandu, the first day of methodologies’ pretesting of CARAN project at Chandragiri Municipality. We were to start early, as agreed with the participants from the community so as not to disturb their ...
Blog July 19, 2018
Fogo Process in Locally-led Developments
What is Fogo process? How does it contribute to local level developments? I have been talking about participatory video since my first blog. In this blog, lets talk about its inception and how it has changed development ...
Blog July 5, 2018
So why is CARAN important?
HERD International is currently implementing CARAN (Community Arts against Antibiotic Resistance in Nepal) project. It is an important project because antibiotic resistance is a growing issue in both Nepal and Worldwide. The ...