Department for International Development (DFID)

Department for International Development

The UK government's DFID agency is in charge of encouraging sustainable development and tackling poverty. DFID collaborates with civil society, private governments, the scientific community, and governments committed to the Millennium Development Goals. Additionally, it collaborates with multilateral organizations including the World Bank, United Nations agencies, and European nations. In Nepal, 36 projects in various industries are now in progress.

They aim to:

• Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
• Achieve universal primary education
• Promote gender equality empower women
• Reduce child mortality rate
• Improve maternal health
• Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other disease
•  Ensure environmental sustainability
• Develop a global partnership for development.

Program Areas of DFID

• Nepal health Sector Program III
• Family planning Project
• Nepal Local Governance Support Program
• Post-Earthquake Reconstruction in Nepal-Building back better
• Strengthening disaster resilience in Nepal 6. Rural water Sanitation Phase V

Major program focus

• Health system strengthening, including health policy, planning and budgeting, health governance and devolution (federalism), improving evidence science and accountability on health including monitoring, evaluation, surveillance and research, and social accountability in the health sector.
• Procurement and public financial management.
• Improving access to medicines including safe motherhood and family planning, gender, equity and social inclusion.
• Health infrastructure and hospital retrofitting.