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Methodology:

• Enhance people's knowledge, responsiveness and preparedness through a variety of health education activities (street drama, technical training's, awareness campaigns...).
• Improve general health and sanitation facilities and conditions through basic infrastructure: Clean Drinking Water, Family Pit Latrines and Improved Cook Stoves.
• Improve health of women and children under 5 years old through a curative program (Nutrition Educational Rehabilitation Program (NERP) and Safe Motherhood).
  

Services Provided:

• Carried out monetization of 1,874.43 MT of Canadian canola oil in the local market.
• Securing reimbursement of tax and duties levied by Government of Nepal on import of Canadian canola oil.
• Signing and management of a Letter of Agreement with three National Nepali NGOs, each responsible for programs implementation in the three remote Districts.
• Setting strategies for each project component: Health Education, Basic Health and Sanitation Infrastructure, and Curative program.
• Capacity building (design and delivery of training sessions) and technical support to implementing partners at central and district levels.
• Conducted annual and semi-annual review and planning workshops at District level.
  Monitoring field implementation and performances.
  

Results:

• CAN $1.9 million generated for project from sale of canola oil from two Nepali wholesalers.
• Over 10,200 people directly exposed to health education activities (including Health Literacy classes to over 4,463 women).
• More than 60% of the people in the project area received health education on safe motherhood, nutrition and personnel hygiene and environmental sanitation.
• 157 Drinking Water Projects, Naulo and rehabilitation of old DWS were completed, providing clean drinking water facilities to over 48,200 persons.
• Installation of Improved Smokeless Stoves placed in over 7,660 households, benefiting 42,901 persons.
• Constructed Improved Pit Latrines in over 12,380 households, benefiting 69,367 persons.
• Growth monitoring of over 18,800 children conducted in 356 different villages every month.
• Rehabilitation of over 3,560 severely malnourished children (II and III Degree)
• Over 13,530 children were de-wormed by medicine and over 5,120 children got food support as medicines.
• Enhance the knowledge of more than 14,410 women and 1,990 men on Safe Motherhood.
• Training on Traditional Birth Attendance was extended to 74 women who were responsible for carrying out normal delivery, providing iron folic tablet and Clean Health Delivery Kit.
• 1,838 women got access to Safe Delivery Kit.
• Reduced morbidity rate of the targeted population due to diarrhea diseases by 23%.
• Reduced morbidity rate of the targeted population due to respiratory infections by 12%.
• Reduced mortality of the children under five, due to protein-energy malnutrition by 9%.