Nutrition, Health and Education

Overview: SEBAC-Nepal has been working to contribute in socio-economic empowerment, gender equity, with strong emphasis on improving health and nutrition outcomes. This includes key interventions in providing emergency health and nutrition support and organizing mobile health camps to reach the vulnerable populations. SEBAC-Nepal efforts have also been made in ensuring inclusive education through support for both formal and non-formal education. 

The nutrition and health initiatives, including the establishment of Nutrition Corners, family planning kit distribution, home visits for nutrition counseling, and screening for malnutrition contribute to SDG 2 (Zero Hunger) Target 2.2, which aims to end malnutrition, and SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-being) Targets 3.1 and 3.2, which focus on reducing maternal and child mortality. In education, interventions such as school enrollment campaigns, child club formations, and construction of school buildings align with SDG 4 (Quality Education) Targets 4.1 and 4.5, ensuring inclusive and equitable education. The financial literacy training, informal literacy classes for women and adolescent girls, and literacy campaigns contribute to SDG 5 (Gender Equality) Target 5.5 by promoting women’s empowerment and economic participation. Lastly, public awareness campaigns through local FM stations to encourage school enrollment align with SDG 10 (Reduced Inequalities) Target 10.2, ensuring equal opportunities for education.

To date, SEBAC-Nepal has successfully completed 15 projects focused on improving nutrition, health, & education status of vulnerable communities.

Areas of Expertise
✅Socio-economic empowerment, gender equity, and sexual and reproductive health and rights;
✅Implementation of a multi-sector nutrition plan;
✅Advocacy/Lobbying in governmental nutrition plan of Nepal to expand health and nutrition services
✅Facilitation and delivery of nutrition and health education
✅Advocacy and mass awareness campaigns for mother’s groups/adolescent girls
✅Providing emergency health and nutrition support;
✅Organizing mobile health camps;
✅Provision of psychosocial counselling to women survivors of violence and others.
✅Support for formal, non-formal, and informal education;
✅Strengthening School Management Committees (SMCs) and Parents-Teachers Associations (PTA) for quality education.

Key Interventions and Achievements of SEBAC-Nepal 

A. Nutrition & Health
✅People Benefitted: 120,000 population
✅ Establishment of Nutrition Corner & Distribution of Family Planning kit in 75 health post
✅ Self-Applied Technique for Quality Health (SATH) tool: 25 health mother’s groups mass awareness campaigns and activities for use of vitamin supplements, and oral re-hydration solution in cases of diarrhea, among others.
✅Nutrition education provided to 25,077 beneficiaries and care takers to enhance knowledge on optimal nutrition and feeding practice.
✅ Contributed to achieving the goals set by the Multi-Sector Nutrition Plan of Nepal, and supporting the government to expand health and nutrition services for adolescents
✅ Home visit for nutrition counselling: 6,942 households of pregnant women
✅ Identification and Management of MAM & SAM cases among children and mother
✅ Nutrition measurement screening of 599 children
✅ Seed distribution for Nutrition sensitive farming: 18,860 Households of 1000 days mother
✅ School led nutrition Programmes: Reached 20,674 school students
✅ HIV/AIDS awareness campaigns: Reached 108 households

B. Education
✅Supported for enrolment of 75% of deprived out-of-school children
✅Door to door campaign for awareness of communities to enroll their children to schools, resulting 2,300 children enrolled in schools.
✅Educated 540 women and girls through REFLECT approach
✅Formed and mobilized 541 child clubs, 25 sanitation and hygiene clubs and oriented 250 child club members on nutrition, health and education
✅Constructed 24 school buildings in the remote areas for education facilities targeting to the poor children.
✅Provided safe and clean drinking water to 34,200 students of 152 remote schools, along with WASH behaviour change campaigns
✅Conducted Financial Literacy Trainings to MSMEs, farmers, salaried workers, youths and groups as per Financial Literacy Guideline of NRB
✅ Made literate to 1,200 adolescent girls through informal literacy classes
✅Conducted informal literacy classes to 775 illiterate women of remote villages
✅3 months’ literacy campaign for writing own’s names for 2,400 illiterate men and women
✅Public awareness disseminated for three months to 360,000 people through local FMs to enrol girls and boys in the schools.
✅Reached 108 households with HIV/AIDS awareness campaigns 

Key Projects in Nutrition, Health & Education (Total 15 Projects)