Nepal Family Health Program (NFHP) II Evaluation
In June of 2011, USAID/Nepal commissioned an external evaluation of the Nepal Family Health Program II (NFHP II) to assess progress, identify challenges and make recommendations for any changes needed during the final year of program implementation. The rationale for the evaluation was also to le...
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| Format: | Technical Report |
| Language: | en_US |
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2012
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| Online Access: | http://103.69.126.140:8080/handle/123456789/815 |
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| Summary: | In June of 2011, USAID/Nepal commissioned an external evaluation of the Nepal Family
Health Program II (NFHP II) to assess progress, identify challenges and make
recommendations for any changes needed during the final year of program
implementation. The rationale for the evaluation was also to learn lessons from NFHP II
in order to inform the development of a new program to begin as NFHP II is phasing out
in 2012. The evaluation team, consisting of seven experts from Nepal and the U.S.,
reviewed documents, interviewed a wide range of stakeholders at the national, regional,
district and facility levels, traveled to view programs in six of the 22 NFHP II core
program districts and reviewed data from national surveys and the project’s monitoring
and evaluation reports. Because NFHP II builds on the work of a previous program
(NFHP I), which spanned the period from 2002-2007, the evaluation team did its best to
distinguish and assess the progress since the current NFHP II began in late 2007.
NFHP II was designed as a health systems strengthening program but with the greatest
emphasis on strengthening the health service delivery aspects of the Ministry of Health
and Population (MoHP) system. The program is based on the goals and objectives of
the MoHP’s Nepal Health Sector Programme (NHSP II) strategic plan for the period
2010-2015 and works entirely by supporting the staff and various government programs
at the national, district, facility and community levels. The services targeted are family
planning and maternal, neonatal, and child health, with most of the emphasis on
community level programs to achieve the greatest impact. NFHP II was also built on the
success of NFHP I by continuing to generate evidence at the field level to support the
scale up of new approaches to reducing maternal, neonatal and child mortality and
expanding the use of family planning and reproductive health services, and by placing a
strong emphasis on ensuring the availability of essential drugs and commodities at the
community and health facility levels. This evaluation looked at the progress made during
the past four years, examined the challenges and issues facing the program and
recommended actions that will help maximize the program’s contribution, keeping in
mind that it has only another year of implementation. It also provides some general
guidance to USAID on approaches to consider for a follow on program in similar areas of work. |
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