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NFHP II Supports Transportation of Fortified Flour to 2 Districts

This fiscal year, the Logistics Management Division/Ministry of Health and Population procured and transported a total of 121,074 kilograms of fortified flour to the District Health Offices in Dolpa, Humla, Jumla, Kalikot and Mugu, for children between the ages of 6-24 months. However, the District Health Offices lacked a separate budget to transport the flour to their respective health facilities for distribution to children. The Logistics Management Division requested for support from NFHP II/USAID to transport 79,560 kilograms of flour - more than half of the total flour procured – from the district center to health facilities in Jumla and Kalikot. The flour will be distributed to approximately 9,000 children in the two districts.

Support to National Level Bi-Annual Review of Consensus Forecast and Quantification of Health Commodities

USAID/Nepal is providing financial and technical support through JSI (FPLM/DELIVER, NFHP, NFHP-II and DELIVER-II) to strengthen and improve the supply chain management system and health commodities security in the country since 1994. The exercise of consensus forecasting and quantification started for Family Planning commodities started under the leadership of Logistics Management Division, Department of Health Services/MoHP in 1999/2000. After few years, maternal and child health commodities like ORS, Vitamin A, Cotrim/pediatric, Iron Tablets, Zinc Tablets and Essential Drugs were added in the consensus forecast exercise. Government of Nepal (GoN) started to put funds to procure FP commodities in 2001/02 and the share was less than 5% of total need. The scenario has changed and at present majority of funds to procure FP commodities comes from GoN’s budget.

This exercise is crucial in identifying the long term need and funding requirements of health commodities. It gives an excellent platform to discuss the funding required and shortfall among the MoHP and EDPs and meet the shortfall in time. This gives an opportunity to interact among different stakeholder (Public, EDPs, NGOs, and Social Marketing) to improve the supply chain management and achieve the health commodity security in the country. For Program Divisions of Department of Health Services, it serves a starting point to make budgets for their concerned health commodities in their annual work plan and for Logistics Management Division a basis for making a procurement plan and delivery schedules of the commodities. As the decision is based on consensus, the process has improved the procurement system in the public sector and Government’s commitment of delivery of health commodities to the people of the country to strengthen the essential health care services. The entire process can be an example to the other line Ministries in Nepal.

The 2-day National Level workshop (August 22-23, 2010) on Bi-Annual Review of Consensus Forecast and Quantification of RH/FP, MCH commodities, Essential Drugs and Vaccines for coming 5 years was organized by Logistics Management Division, Department of Health Services with the technical support from NFHP-II/DELIVER-II and financial support from USAID/Nepal. Read detail Workshop Report.

Memorandum of Understanding on Local Health Governance Strengthening Programme signed

The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) is committed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) through strengthening of local health governance, decentralization, public-private partnership and other reform initiatives.

An Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed on March 17, 2010 among key implementing partners of the Local Health Governance Strengthening Program (LHGSP), namely, Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP), Ministry of Local Development (MoLD) and technical assistance agencies, namely, HSSP/GTZ and NFHP II/USAID. Signatories also included district level partners such as , District Development Committees (DDCs) and District Health Offices of Dang, Surkhet, Kailali and Doti districts. The purpose of this MOU is to strengthen their cooperation through joint planning, implementation and monitoring of public health services thereby making health service more effective, efficient, and equitable through decentralization.

Nepal Family Health Program (NFHP) II is a key partner under this program.

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