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National Family Planning Day (18- Sep 2016)

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Nepal Celebrates September 18 as the National Family Planning Day, September 18 was the Foundation Day of Family Planning Association Nepal. 

The Slogan of the Third National Family Planning Day is;

  “व्यवस्थित परिवार : स्वास्थ्य र विकासको आधार”

Family planning service in Nepal was initiated in 1950s. Family planning is one of priority program of Government of Nepal, Ministry of Health and Population. The main aim of the National Family Planning Program is to ensure that individuals and couples are able to fulfill their reproductive needs by using appropriate family planning methods based on informed choice. Family planning can reduce unmet need for contraceptives and unintended pregnancy which ultimately helps to improve maternal and child health, empowers women by allowing them to invest more in their children and earn wages outside the home……. [READ MORE]


National Costed Implementation Plan for Family Planning outlines national strategies and interventions that Nepal must adopt to ensure that high quality family planning serves are available and accessible to all Nepali people as well as the resources required to realize this vision…………. [READ MORE]


SGD & Family Planning
At the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit on 25 September 2015, world leaders adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which includes a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, fight inequality and injustice, and tackle climate change by 2030.  [READ MORE]

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National Family Planning Program, Nepal

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National Family Planning Program, Nepal
The Government of Nepal commits to equitable access to voluntary Family Planning (FP) services based on informed choice for all individuals and couples, in particular the poor’ vulnerable and marginalized groups. 

The main aim of the National Family Planning Program is to ensure that individuals and couples are able to fulfill their reproductive needs by using appropriate family planning methods based on informed choice. Family planning can reduce unmet need for contraceptives and unintended pregnancy which ultimately helps to improve maternal and child health, empowers women by allowing them to invest more in their children and earn wages outside the home. In addition, it also helps communities and country to boost economic growth by expanding healthy and skillful labor force and allowing them to invest more money in school, health care and infrastructure development. Overall, National Family Planning Program helps to improve the quality of life of people and develop a nation. Family planning is one of the priority programs of Government of Nepal, Ministry of Health. It is also considered as a component of reproductive health package and essential health care services of Nepal Health Sector Program II (2010‐2015), National Family Planning Costed Implementation Plan 2015‐ 2021, Nepal Health Sector Strategy 2015‐2020 (NHSS) and the Government of Nepal’s commitments to FP2020.  

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In Nepal, family planning information and services are being provided through government, social marketing, non‐governmental organizations and private sectors. In government health system, currently, temporary family planning methods (male condoms, oral pills and injectable) are provided on a regular basis through health posts, sub health posts, PHC Outreach clinics. Female Community Health Volunteers are providing information to community people, and distribute condom and resupply of pills. Long acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) services such as IUCD and Implants are available only at limited number of Primary Health Care Centers and health posts where trained health care providers are available. Sterilization services are provided at static sites or through scheduled “seasonal” or mobile outreach services. Almost all district FP MCH clinics are providing all types of temporary FP methods regularly.

Objective:

  • GoN strives to improve the health status of all people, regardless of their sex, caste and ethnicity, or socioeconomic status. Overall objective of the FP program is to improved health status of all people through accountable and equitable health service delivery system through informed choice to access and use voluntary FP (through increased and equitable access to quality FP information and services)


Specific  Objectives:
  • To   increase   access   to   and   utilization   of   quality   FP   services   which   are   safe,   effective   and   acceptable  to  individuals  and  couples.  Special  focus  is  given  to  increasing  access  to  services   in  places  where  the  rural,  poor,  Dalit,  other  marginalized  people  and  those  with  high  unmet   need  live.
  • To  create  an  enabling  environment  for  increasing  access  to  quality  family  planning  services   to  men  and  women.
  • To  increase   demand   of   family   planning   services   by  implementing   various   behavior   change   communication  activities
Policies and  Strategies:
  1. Enabling    Environment:     – Strengthen    enabling  environment  for  family  planning     – Establish  family  planning  as  reproductive  rights  of  females  and  males.
  2. Demand   Generation:     Increase   health   care seeking   behavior   among   population   with   high unmet  need  for  modern  contraception.
  3. Service  Delivery:     – Enhance   FP   service   delivery   including   commodities   to   respond   to   the   needs   of   marginalized,  rural  residents,  migrants,  adolescents  and  other  special  groups. – Increase  availability  of  broader  range  of  modern  contraceptives  and  improved  method   mi
    x.     – Effective  integration  of  family  planning  services  with  other  health  services.   – Strengthen  effective  procurement  and  logistics  management  system  to  ensure  regular   availability  of  family  planning  commodities.   – Promote   family   planning   services   delivery   through   government,   private,   non-­‐ governmental  organization  and  social  marketing  approaches.
  4. Capacity   Building:     Strengthen   capacity   of   service   providers   to   expand   FP   service   delivery   network.
  5. Research  and  Innovation:    Strengthen  evidence  base  for  effective  programme  implementation   through  research  and  innovations.
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Family Planning 2020 (FP2020) Commitment, Nepal

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Family Planning 2020 (FP2020) is a global partnership that supports the rights of women and girls to decide, freely, and for themselves, whether, when, and how many children they want to have.

Family Planning 2020 aims to expand access to family planning information, services, and supplies to an additional 120 million women and girls in 69 of the world’s poorest countries by 2020.

Family Planning 2020 (FP2020) Commitment, Nepal
Date: March 16, 2015


Program & Service Delivery

  • The government of Nepal pledges to broaden the range of modern contraceptives available and improve method mix at different levels of the health care system. Nepal commits to engage in a range of communications and media activities to raise awareness of family planning among populations with a high unmet need for modern contraception, focusing particularly on adolescents and young people. Nepal will expand service delivery points to increase access to quality family planning information and services and facilitate family planning by strengthening delivery networks. The government pledges to support mobilizing resources from other, non-health sectors. Nepal commits to strengthening the evidence base for effective program implementation through research and innovation. 


Financial

  • The government of Nepal commits to raise and invest the financial resources required to meet its policy and programmatic commitments. In particular, it pledges to increase funding for family planning programs by at least 7 percent annually from 2015 to 2020 and engage with external development partners to raise additional resources. In addition, Nepal pledges to strengthen the enabling environment for family planning by engaging in advocacy to mobilize resources from non-health sectors.

Program & Service Delivery

  • The government of Nepal pledges to broaden the range of modern contraceptives available and improve method mix at different levels of the health care system. Nepal commits to engage in a range of communications and media activities to raise awareness of family planning among populations with a high unmet need for modern contraception, focusing particularly on adolescents and young people. Nepal will expand service delivery points to increase access to quality family planning information and services and facilitate family planning by strengthening delivery networks. The government pledges to support mobilizing resources from other, non-health sectors. Nepal commits to strengthening the evidence base for effective program implementation through research and innovation.


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World First Aid Day

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The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) introduced World First Aid Day in 2000.

Second Saturday in September every year: Raising awareness of how first aid can save lives.

Each year, more than 100 Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies around the world organise events and ceremonies on the Second Saturday of September to raise public awareness of how first aid can save lives in everyday and crisis situations. The IFRC believes that first aid should be accessible to all – including the most vulnerable, and should also be an integral part of a wider developmental approach.



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World Suicide Prevention Day – 10 September, 2016

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Connect, communicate and care on World Suicide Prevention Day
World Suicide Prevention Day is observed on September 10 each year to promote worldwide action to prevent suicides. September 10th, is an opportunity for all sectors of the community – the public, charitable organizations, communities, researchers, clinicians, practitioners, politicians and policy makers, volunteers, those bereaved by suicide, other interested groups and individuals – to join with the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) to focus public attention on the unacceptable burden and costs of suicidal behaviours with diverse activities to promote understanding about suicide and highlight effective prevention activities. 
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Those activities may call attention to the global burden of suicidal behaviour, and discuss local, regional and national strategies for suicide prevention, highlighting cultural initiatives and emphasizing how specific prevention initiatives are shaped to address local cultural conditions.
Initiatives which actively educate and involve people are likely to be most effective in helping people learn new information about suicide and suicide prevention.

The first World Suicide Prevention Day was held in 2003 and was an initiative of the International Association for Suicide Prevention and the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, World Suicide Prevention Day has taken place on 10th September each year.

Key facts

  • Over 800 000 people die due to suicide every year.

  • For every suicide there are many more people who attempt suicide every year. A prior suicide attempt is the single most important risk factor for suicide in the general population.
  • Suicide is the second leading cause of death among 15–29-year-olds.
  • 75% of global suicides occur in low- and middle-income countries.
  • Ingestion of pesticide, hanging and firearms are among the most common methods of suicide globally.

Methods of suicide
It is estimated that around 30% of global suicides are due to pesticide self-poisoning, most of which occur in rural agricultural areas in low- and middle-income countries. Other common methods of suicide are hanging and firearms.

Knowledge of the most commonly used suicide methods is important to devise prevention strategies which have shown to be effective, such as restriction of access to means of suicide.
Prevention and control
Suicides are preventable. There are a number of measures that can be taken at population, sub-population and individual levels to prevent suicide and suicide attempts. These include:
  • reducing access to the means of suicide (e.g. pesticides, firearms, certain medications);

  • reporting by media in a responsible way;
  • introducing alcohol policies to reduce the harmful use of alcohol;
  • early identification, treatment and care of people with mental and substance use disorders, chronic pain and acute emotional distress;
  • training of non-specialized health workers in the assessment and management of suicidal behaviour;
  • follow-up care for people who attempted suicide and provision of community support.

Suicide is a complex issue and therefore suicide prevention efforts require coordination and collaboration among multiple sectors of society, including the health sector and other sectors such as education, labour, agriculture, business, justice, law, defense, politics, and the media. These efforts must be comprehensive and integrated as no single approach alone can make an impact on an i
ssue as complex as suicide.
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Call for Application 2017-18 (Master of Public Health) – James P Grant School of Public Health (Sep 30, 2016)

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Call for Application 2017-18 (Master of Public Health) – James P Grant School of Public Health (Application Deadline: Sep 30, 2016)
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‪#‎YouthDay : The Road to 2030: Eradicating Poverty and Achieving Sustainable Consumption and Production

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12 August 2016: International Youth Day
On 17 December 1999, in its resolution 54/120, the United Nations General Assembly endorsed the recommendation made by the World Conference of Ministers Responsible for Youth (Lisbon, 8-12 August 1998) that 12 August be declared International Youth Day.
The theme of the 2016 International Youth Day is “The Road to 2030: Eradicating Poverty and Achieving Sustainable Consumption and Production”. This year’s Day is about achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It focuses on the leading role of young people in ensuring poverty eradication and achieving sustainable development through sustainable consumption and production.

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Sustainable consumption entails the use of products and services that meet the basic needs of communities while safeguarding the needs of future generations. The development and promotion of individual choices and actions that increase the eco-efficiency of consumption of all and minimize waste and pollution is critical to achieving equitable socioeconomic development.

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2016 Theme: The Road to 2030: Eradicating Poverty and Achieving Sustainable Consumption and Production

Why Youth Day focuses on sustainable consumption & production?

Sustainable consumption entails the use of products and services that meet the basic needs of communities while safeguarding the needs of future generations. The development and promotion of individual choices and actions that increase the eco-efficiency of consumption of all and minimize waste and pollution is critical to achieving equitable socioeconomic development. Yet, many young men and women face barriers to certain green consumption choices. Those barriers to sustainable consumption choices include the high prices of goods and services and a lack of information about the available choices.
Increasing resource efficiency and moving toward sustainable production can contribute significantly to meeting the basic needs of all people, including youth, by making food, water and energy more accessible and affordable to those living in poverty. Investing in sustainable production also creates new markets and employment opportunities and helps ensure the social inclusion of all persons in their societies everywhere.
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Changes in consumption patterns also have the potential to contribute to the eradication of poverty. Sustainable development and the creation of conditions that allow for a transition into a green economy, often provide new impetus for economic growth and a higher proportion of spending allocated to social development, including health care and education.
The combined positive impact of sustainable consumption and production on energy use and environmental conservation will greatly benefit those people and places that are more vulnerable to harmful environmental— and industrial— outcomes and climate change. By focusing on the social development dimensions of sustainable consumption and production, this year’s theme places an emphasis on a cross-sectoral approach to sustainability and the vast social, political, economic and environmental interlinkages needed to achieve it.
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World Population Day: 'Investing in teenage girls (Pokhara Activities)

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World Population Day: ‘Investing in teenage girls (Pokhara Activities)

World Population day is an annual event, observed on July 11 every year, which seeks to raise awareness of global population issues. The event was established by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme in 1989. It was inspired by the public interest in Five Billion Day on July 11, 1987-approximately the date on which the world’s population reached five billion people.It encourages the activities, events and information to help make this right a reality throughout the world. World Population Day aims at increase people’s awareness on various population issues such as the importance of family planning, gender equality, poverty, maternal health and human rights.

In 1989, the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme recommended that 11 July be observed by the international community as World Population Day, a day to focus attention on the urgency and importance of population issues. This year’s theme is ‘Investing in teenage girls.’

Teenage girls around the world face enormous challenges. Many are considered by their communities or parents to be ready for marriage and motherhood. Many are forced from school, damaging their future prospects. Even among girls who stay in school, access to basic information about their health, human rights and reproductive rights can be hard to come by, leaving them vulnerable to illness, injury and exploitation. These challenges are exacerbated among marginalized girls, such as members of ethnic minorities or those living in poverty or remote areas.

Further Reading:
In this occasion, Orientation & interaction program was organized in Pokhara. Some photos are posted here;
 
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Public Health Officer, Kaski:  Bodhraj Subedi

 

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Chief Women Development Officer (Child Welfare Officer), Women and Children Office (Laxmi GC)

 

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Regional Health Director : Dr. Tara Nath Paudel

 

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Local Development Officer, District Development Office, Pokhara, Kaski Damodar Bhandari (Closing Session)
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Annual Report of the Department of Health Services (DoHS) – 2071/72 (2014/2015)

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The Annual Report of the Department of Health Services (DoHS) for fiscal year 2071/72 (2014/2015) is the 21st consecutive report of its kind. The report focuses on the objectives, targets, strategies adopted by the programs and analyses the achievements of the major activities and attempts to highlight trends in the service coverage over the preceding three fiscal years.

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 This report also identifies issues, problems, constraints and suggests actions to be taken by the related health institutions for further improvements. The executive summary highlights the key issues and observations emerging from the analysis of each program. Detail program information is available in specific reports following this summary. 
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