But can the Nepal Government that has rolled out meals for students in 71 districts meet expectations?
Despite periods of political and economic instability, Nepal achieved dramatic progress in maternal and child health in the early 2000s becoming…
Misleading commercials in Nepal make families replace nutritious local diets with processed food
As the Covid crisis pushes millions of Nepalis back below the poverty line affecting their nutritional status, the UK government is funding…
The Covid-19 pandemic has affected the livelihoods of the most neglected communities in Nepal, with a direct impact on the food intake of family…
Nepal has had one emergency heaped on top of another for more than a year now. The Covid-19 emergency, wildfires, and now floods.Political flux…
The Government of Japan is to provide assistance worth $3.47 million to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Nepal, to support families…
Results from a recent nationwide survey show that more than half of Nepali households are at risk of falling back into poverty because of loss…
The UK government has contributed $5.75 million to help Nepal’s most vulnerable 160,000 families to cope with the impact of the pandemic in the…
Children in Nepal are under the risk of severe malnutrition due to loss of household income and resulting food insecurity brought on by the…
The European Union and UNICEF are collaborating to prevent malnutrition in Nepali children due to the socio-economic impact of the COVID-19…
Nepal is recognised as the only low-income country to have made rapid progress cutting poverty and boosting public health and education in…
There used to be a time when the main public health threat in Nepal was from infectious diseases like malaria, encephalitis, TB and typhoid.…
Nepal has made progress in most areas related to children, like health, education, street children welfare, but challenges remain in nutrition,…
Mother's group in Accham feed home-cooked meal to their children. Photo: MARTY LOGANFor the first two decades after 1990, Nepal took great…
Amaranth cultivation in Jumla district in NepalPhotos: LI-BIRDThe nutritious grain that mountain peoples of the Americas and high Asia…
More than 200 women have gathered outside the district hospital in Manma, the main town in one of Nepal’s most underserved districts. It was an…
Walk down the aisle of any supermarket in Kathmandu, and there they are arrayed along the shelves: tetrapacks of juice claiming to have the…
The 15-year-old boy weighs 54kg, much more than an average Nepali his age. He is malnourished.His breakfast and lunch consist of biscuits,…
