Strengthening Nepal Family Planning Programme
Reaching the unreached with family planning services …
The UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in partnership with the Ministry of Health have been supporting initiatives to increase access to quality family planning services to the population of Nepal. HERD International and Mott MacDonald were commissioned by DFID to undertake the independent monitoring and evaluation of this work.
The following four studies were conducted to better understand factors affecting access to, and use of family planning services among selected population groups in Nepal:
The following research studies were conducted to evaluate three innovative pilot interventions aimed at increasing access to family planning in geographical areas of Nepal were regular delivery of family planning represents a challenge. The three evaluation reports are:
- Mobilising Visiting Providers to expand access to Long Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) in Ramechhap district
- Expanding wide range of family planning services through comprehensive FP events (VSC+) in Baitadi and Darchula districts
- Mobilising FCHVs to disseminate FP messages through interpersonal communications (IPC) skills in Myagdi district
Important Statistics
- Sample Size 300
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Shophika Regmi
Senior Manager: Health System Research, Evaluation and LearningMs. Shophika Regmi has been working in health and social research for more than a decade. Throughout this period, she has led research projects of various natures and scales, particularly in the health sector. She possesses extensive experiences in implementation research using participatory action approaches, designing and executing evaluation studies, national level surveillance study, and large-scale survey across diverse areas such as health system strengthening, urban health, health workforce, non-communicable disease, nutrition, maternal health, etc. With a profound interest in [...]
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Abriti Arjyal
Research Manager - Qualitative and Multidisciplinary ScienceKey Expertise Ms. Abriti Arjyal works as Research Manager – Multidisciplinary Qualitative Research – at HERD International and has experience in the area of public health, health system and service delivery research, social science and gender, and equity. She is an emerging young researcher with more than seven years of experience leading formative and operational field studies, evaluation studies, and literature reviews, with expertise in design and implementation of qualitative research, and various community and participatory based approaches. She has sound knowledge [...]
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