Health/Nutrition

Aasaman Nepal (ASN) promotes Program on Immunization by mobilizing the community and encouraging mothers to undertake immunization for their personal health and that of their children. ASN realized that child nutrition is one of the important components to be considered to give momentum and attain the vision of happy and healthy children because they directly affect the future of the children. So, ASN with its resources and support from donors has been working actively in the sector of nutrition since the past.

 

USAID Adolescent Reproductive Health Subject (ARH)

  • Implemented Districts: Dhanusha
  • Funding Partner: USAID/ CARE Nepal
  • Duration: June 2022-May 2027
  • Target Beneficiaries: Adolescents, Mother group, Female volunteers, and more. 
  • Project Goal: To support adolescents in Nepal to reach their full potential by choosing and practicing healthy reproductive behaviors.
Advocacy and Strengthening resilience through LANN : Linking agriculture and natural resources management towards nutrition security
  • Implemented Districts: Salyan
  • Funding Partner: Welthungerhilfe (WHH)
  • Duration: Nov 2020-Dec 2023
  • Target Beneficiaries: Sustainable food and nutrition security in the climate-changing context of 7850 HHs in 3 target communities in Salyan district
  • Project Objectives: Sustainable food and nutrition security in climate-changing context of 7850 HHs in 3 target communities in Salyan district
Advocacy and Strengthening resilience through LANN : Linking agriculture and natural resources management towards nutrition security

Active Citizenship Through Inclusive Volunteering and Empowerment (ACTIVE)

  • Implemented Area: Bara & Rautahat
  • Funding Partner: VSO
  • Duration: September 2022 to March 2023
  • Target Beneficiaries: 72450 ( Female-36959 Male-35501 including 725 People with Disability
  • Project Objectives: More inclusive, open, resilient, and gender equitable societies

Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) Activities for COVID19 mitigation and vaccine uptake

  • Implemented Area: Bideha Palika, Dhanusha
  • Funding Partner: Save The Children
  • Duration: August 2022 to December 2022.
  • Project Objectives: Generate adequate evidence and social norms insight to inform the ongoing vaccination uptake interventions. Promote evidence-based and age-appropriate COVID-19 vaccine-related interventions to the communities to overcome the barrier to vaccine uptake
Maternal and Newborn Health Continuum of Care (MNH_CoC) Project
  • Implemented Districts: Madhesh Pradesh
  • Funding Partner: PSI Nepal
  • Duration: Nov 2021 – Dec 2023
  • Target Beneficiaries: Women of Reproductive Age (15-49yrs) (WRA), mothers and newborn children (28 days).
  • Project Objectives: Increase knowledge of and demand for MNH care and service, and strengthen capacity of government health facilities and providers to deliver quality MNH Services, and strengthen linkages, referrals and follow up for mothers and newborns across the different places and times of care throughout the continuum, and supportive environment for implementation of MNH related activities

Mother and Child Health and Nutrition (MCHN)

  • Implemented Districts: Saptari and Siraha
  • Funding Partner: Mother and Child Health and Nutrition (MCHN)
  • Duration: 11 January 2022 to 10 January 2023
  • Beneficiaries: 

    Total number of beneficiaries: 138290
    Direct beneficiaries: 12829
    Indirect beneficiaries: 125461

  • Project Objectives: To improve the Nutritional Status of pregnant and lactating women (PLW) and children 6 to 23 months of age

Blanket Supplementary Feeding Programme (BSFP)

  • Implemented Districts: Bara and Parsa
  • Funding Partner: World Food Programme
  • Duration: Jan 2021-June 2021
  • Target Beneficiaries: 13837 children from 6-23 months and pregnant and lactating women
  • Project Objectives: To contribute for the prevention and reduction of the secondary socio-economic impact of COVID-19 among vulnerable groups through:
      1. Preventing malnutrition among children (6-23 months of age), and pregnant and lactating women (PLW),and
      2. Enhancing knowledge of mothers, care takers and community members on optimal nutrition and feeding practices.

Nutrition Education Programs (NEP)

  • Implemented Districts: Madhesh Pradesh
  • Funding Partner: World Food Programme
  • Duration: Jan 2021-June 2021
  • Target Beneficiaries: 13837 children from 6-23 months and pregnant and lactating women
  • Project Objectives: Preventing malnutrition among children (6-23 months of age), and pregnant and lactating women (PLW),and Enhancing knowledge of mothers, caretakers and community members on optimal nutrition and feeding practices.