Our work in Nepal
WHO Nepal/A.Maharjan
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Credits
WHO Nepal has been supporting the Government of Nepal for over 60 years towards achieving better health for all people in Nepal. WHO will continue this support, with a stronger focus on technically assisting the government in achieving existing goals and targets. Within the SDGs, addressing current health issues requires an ever more comprehensive approach, and WHO intends to also work closely with other ministries and partners. WHO will furthermore extend its support to subnational levels, to accommodate changes being introduced under a federalized system. WHO will focus on its competitive advantages, and define the scope of its support in alignment with government priorities and harmonized with development partners. The Organization will be more accountable regarding its commitment to achieving agreed-upon targets and deliverables.
Nepal–WHO Country Cooperation Strategy (CCS) 2018–2022
The new Constitution institutionalizes that every citizen shall have the right to free basic health services from the State, no one shall be deprived of emergency health services, and that every citizen shall have equal access to health services. The Nepal Health Sector Strategy (NHSS) 2015–2020 is built on the idea that health is an integral and indivisible part of the nation’s socioeconomic development and investment in health is fundamental to further national development. The strategic priorities accentuate WHO’s contribution to the goals set out in the Constitution and NHSS.
The CCS identifies key areas of what WHO will do to achieve the strategic priorities and a set of priority deliverables in support to the government. The deliverables do not cover all what the Organization will do, but provide an accountability framework for a large part of WHO’s work in Nepal.