United States Agency For International Development ( USAIDS)

It is an independent federal agency that supports global economic development and humanitarian relief to advance American political and economic objectives. President John F. Kennedy established the USAID in 1961 to support global development.

Largest bilateral organization engaged in international health projects. It is active in more than 100 countries. In addition to Africa, Asia, and the Near East, Latin America and the Caribbean, central and Eastern Europe, and independent republics of the former Soviet Union, help has been provided under the USAID program to these regions.

Principles of USAID

• Promoting economic growth
• Increasing democracy
• Distributing humanitarian aid to those suffering from hunger and other serious situations
• Promoting contraception while protecting public health
• Protecting the environment

USAID in Nepal

USAID has been providing assistance to Nepal since 1951. It is situated in the Maharajgunj neighborhood of Kathmandu. It focuses efforts on both international development and humanitarian assistance. It encourages the growth of a democratic, powerful, and prosperous Nepal. It promotes fair and inclusive government, wholesome eating, early childhood development, post-earthquake recovery, and climate change and natural disaster resistance. Additionally, it promotes steady economic expansion.

• Bolster world health
• Promote world stability
• Deliver humanitarian aid
• Encourage collaboration and innovation
• Empower girls and women

Objectives

Grant agreements covering the period 2006-2010:

Activities The agreements implemented under them support the goals of the Second Long-Term Health Plan from 1997 to 2017 and the Implementation Plan for the National Health Sector Program from 2004 to 2009, as well as the Interim Plan from 2006 to 2009. aims to improve key organizations' capacity to deliver essential medical services that reduce fertility and protect the health of Nepalese families.

The focus are on four major areas:

• Farming Family planning
• Neonatal, maternal, and pediatric health
• AIDS and HIV
• Further dangers to public health (infectious diseases, climate change)
• Education
• Citizenship and Human Rights
• WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene)

Agriculture Food Security

• Project Feed the Future Seed and Fertilizer:

  • Increase the nation's output, economic well-being, and food security at the household level.
    • KISAN 2
• 2–5 year project primarily to improve the market system.

• Education:

  • Nepali Early Grade Reading Program
    • Beginning in 2017, elementary school pupils in grades 1-3 will receive a free education for a period of five years.
  • Emergency Education Response
    • To impart knowledge of skills needed in times of crisis
  • GBV (Gender based violence) free schools in Nepal
    • With UNICEF, the zero tolerance project has been a three-year goal since 2016 to transform gender society. social discrimination.

• Democracy, human Rights and Governance:

  • Against human trafficking, Hamro Samman
  • Stop Girl Trafficking Project:
    • Fostering awareness through participation in the community, instruction, and counseling.
  • Sajhedari Bikas- Partnership:
    • Regional expansion From 2012 to 2017, in conjunction with the Ministry of Federal Affairs, regional development agencies, and donor programs, in the Far-Western and Mid-Western regions.
• Environment and global climate change:
  • Hariyo Ban Program:
    • Fostering relationships between people and forests while empowering local communities and incorporating social and gender equality into all work.
  • Digo Jal Bikas:
    • A project in western Nepal is making an effort to manage water resources.
• Earthquake reconstruction Disaster Resilience
• Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and Nutrition:
  • SUAAHARA-11:
    • There are roughly 20 districts and a 1000-day span between conception and the child's 24th month of life.
  • SSBH (Strengthening systems for better health in Nepal):
    • A five-year initiative that will give health care to the underprivileged in 20 regions both locally and nationally.
  • SABAL (Sustainable action for resilience and food security):
    • In order to enhance health and nutritional status, about 11 districts in the eastern and central region seek to strengthen and diversify livelihoods, make it easier for people to access markets, and give local organizations more influence.
• HIV/AIDS and STI Family planning and Reproductive Health:
  • SIFP02 (Support for international family planning organization):
    • Increases the availability of FP services, training, and knowledge.
  • FP- FACT (Family planning Fertility awarenessfor  community transformation):
    • Raises fertility awareness locally and protects reproductive health by expanding access to treatments based on that awareness.
  • HC3 (Health communication, capacity and collaborative project):
    • Youth, adolescents, migrants, and underprivileged groups are the target of a four-year project that focuses on behavior change communication and FP.
  • Redbook:
    • Improves maternal mortality and MDGs 4 and 5 by increasing the availability, accessibility, and caliber of voluntary FP services.
• 8. Water, sanitation and hand hygiene Program:
  • SUAAHARA-II:
    • To encourage proper hand washing
  • Safe WASH (Water, sanitation and hygiene) II:
    • To prevent outbreaks, increase access to sanitation, and ensure that it reaches the most vulnerable communities
  • WASH recovery Activity ( Safaa Pani project):
    • To promote sustainable access to clean drinking water, improve sanitation by promoting good hygiene and the building of public facilities, and increase menstrual hygiene awareness through educational initiatives.

Six national level MOPH programs receive technical assistance from USAID in training, behavior change communications, and logistics management.

• The national family planning initiative
• National integrated community-based management of pediatric illness
• Program for national vitamin A
• The national program for safe motherhood
• National program for female volunteers in community health (FCHV)
• National HIV and AIDS policy

USAID's Main Programs

• Family health program in Nepal NFHP-II: Advancing HIV/AIDS surveillance, policies, prevention, care, and support (ASHA)
• The franchise and social marketing project in Nepal: HIV/AIDS, sexual health, and kid survival (N-MARC)
• In order to improve logistics systems, the provide logistics management project works in tandem and coordination with the MOPH.
• USAID funding for planning and caring for Nepal's children Nepal is putting in place a community-based infant care program (CB-NCP).
• ADRA To increase the number of new acceptors of contemporary FP methods, including IUD, implants, and condoms, Nepal is implementing a FP project in the Terai region.

Hellen Keller International is carrying out a nutrition project to stop the effects of blindness, ill health, and malnutrition.