Projects

COMPLETED PROJECTS

• Improving Health Standard through Community Participation in Five VDCs (what does that mean?)

Period:	(1 year long project)
Overview:	Health related issues in Nepal are mostly found in the rural areas of the country. Basic health indicators such as life expectancy, child and maternal mortality often face critical averages. Moreover, poor nutrition and limited food supply highly increases the potential of health risks. Although public and private efforts have been made to improve the status of health in Nepal, much remains to be done. Thus, the program emerged as a small initiative towards health standard improvements and an acknowledgement that health is one of the key components of human rights. The program, managed by SAHARA Group, aimed at completing the already existing health care efforts and facilities while emphasizing on a greater community participation and community capacity building. The targeted groups were rural people, with an emphasis on women and children.
Objectives:	To bring about improvements in the health status of the community members and to reduce poverty by enhancing labor productivity through interventions in health and nutrition
Activities:	Training of female community health volunteers and traditional birth attendants Implementation of family planning and gender sensitization activities Provision of piped drinking water Construction of sanitary toilets Immunization against neonatal tetanus, hepatitis B, measles and polio tuberculosis Provision of medical kits, vitamin A and iodized salt Provision of a revolving fund and seed fund for medical care Implementation of education health campaigns including campaigns against smoking, excessive consumption of alcohol and unprotected sex
Achievements:	Over 20,000 rural people directly benefited from that project Giving the focus on capacity building at the community level, the continuation of the project was ensured
Funded by:	Australian Agency for International Development
Location:	Five Village Development Committees of Syangja district: Phaperthum, Setidovan, Chilaunbas, Bicharichautara and Bansing.