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Blog February 8, 2017
Managing Menstruation: Debriefing Session with Field Researchers
Adolescent girls face significant challenges while menstruating. In Nepal, menstruation management is made more difficult in contexts where girls have limited access to water, sanitation and hygiene facilities, and in places where they are unable to access adequate sanitary napkins because of financial or supply issues in rural ...
Blog November 12, 2015
Recruitment for Reconstruction: Engaging Engineers for Household Disaster Assessment
HERD International is collaborating with National Planning Commission (NPC), Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development (MoFALD), Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD), Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), The World Bank, United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) and Kathmandu Living Labs (KLL) to implement a National ...
Blog November 24, 2020
Health Policy and Implementation Gaps in Nepal
Nepal is in early stage of federalization where the country has been restructured under three tiers of government respectively federal government, seven provincial governments and 753 local governments. Power and responsibilities ...
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 ...