Ipas Nepal is a non-profit international development organization that works to increase women’s ability to exercise their Sexual and Reproductive Health, especially the Right to Safe Abortion and Contraception. We seek to eliminate Unsafe Abortion and the resulting deaths and injuries and to expand women’s access to Comprehensive Abortion Care, including contraception and related reproductive health information and care.
Family Planning (FP) is one of the priorities programmes of the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) with an aim to foster equitable access and utilisation of quality FP services throughout the country. Over the years, Nepal has achieved a remarkable improvement in the reproductive health including FP services. However, despite this improvement, Contraceptive Prevalent Rate (CPR) in the country has been stagnant for decades. In addition, contraceptive knowledge and use is low while and Age specific Fertility Rate (ASFR) and unmet need for family planning is high among adolescent and youths because of various structural and socio-cultural barriers.
Research suggests that youths are most effectively reached with messaging on sensitive issues like family planning among others when it comes from their peers. To capitalise on that approach, Ipas Nepal intends to orient and mobilise students in grades 11 to 12 who are studying in rural areas and provide them with the knowledge and skills to be “Change Agents” and disseminate FP messages in their community. Accordingly, Ipas Nepal invites applications from interested Nepalese candidates for the below mentioned position for its UK’s Department for International Development (DfID) funded Nepal Family Planning Project (NFPP) on “Addressing Unmet Need for Family Planning among Excluded and Vulnerable Women” implemented in partnership with Marie Stopes International (MSI)/Sunaulo Pariwar Nepal for identifying and orienting youths in two of its the project districts namely Kavre and Dailekh. The youth activity will be conducted in 2 project districts: Dailekh and Kavre. Youth related orientation and mobilisation will take place in Dailekh and Kavre in the 5 clusters (in each district) comprising 20 youths in each cluster.
Ipas Nepal is a non-profit international development organization that works to increase women’s ability to exercise their Sexual and Reproductive Health, especially the Right to Safe Abortion and Contraception. We seek to eliminate Unsafe Abortion and the resulting deaths and injuries and to expand women’s access to Comprehensive Abortion Care, including contraception and related reproductive health information and care.
Family Planning (FP) is one …
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Maternal mortality attributable to unsafe abortion in Nepal remains high despite the legalization of abortion in 2002. The World Health Organization defines unsafe abortion as a procedure for terminating a pregnancy either by persons lacking the necessary skills or in an environment lacking the minimal medical standards, or both. Maternal mortality has declined in Nepal from 360 to 170 deaths per 100,000 live births between 2000 and 2014, yet unsafe abortion remains the third leading cause of maternal mortality. High rates of maternal mortality attributed to unsafe abortion in Nepal indicate that Nepali women still lack access to safe, legal services even after the law change.
Even though safe abortion is increasingly available in Nepal, Nepali women’s ability to access safe abortion services is greatly influenced by multiple social factors. In a 2011 nationwide survey of women of reproductive age, only 40% knew that abortion was legal in Nepal and 60% knew where safe abortion services were available. The high cost of abortion services as well as the distance to the facility, particularly for rural women, create additional barriers. Because of these many social barriers women still seek abortions from clandestine and unsafe providers resulting in complications and death.
Period: October 2017 to June 2018
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