MomsFirst

MATERNAL HEALTH CHALLENGE; Nepal

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Misoprostol.

Learn more about the Maternal Health Challenge and how the distribution of Misoprostol, a $3 drug that can prevent maternal deaths from postpartum hemorrhage, could save thousands of lives.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

MomsFirst prevents maternal death in Nepal by providing misoprostol through trained FCHVs going door to door.

MomsFirst trains FCHVs to distribute misoprostol to pregnant women in remote areas, starting with the pilot in the province. FCHVs will identify pregnant women in the 3rd trimester, provide prenatal advice and misoprostol for use after childbirth. MomsFirst will work through the already existing network of trusted community health volunteers, ensuring both outreach and acceptance, which is what sets them apart.

MomsFirst is founded by Dr. Samriddhi Parajuli, leading the organisation’s vision and strategy with a core team, including Dr. Asim Pandey as a cofounder. Both are medical professionals with firsthand experience working in Nepal’s rural healthcare system, with a deep understanding of the urgent need for effective interventions for preventing maternal deaths.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Train at least 20 FCHVs and reach 300 women with Misoprostol.

• Distribute 300 Misoprostol via FCHVs going through door to door in the community.

• Fundraise an additional 20000 USD from new donors or collaborations.

FOUNDING TEAM

Dr. Samriddhi Parajuli - Founder

Dr. Asim Pandey - Cofounder

Maatri

MATERNAL HEALTH CHALLENGE; Nepal

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Misoprostol.

Learn more about the Maternal Health Challenge and how the distribution of Misoprostol, a $3 drug that can prevent maternal deaths from postpartum hemorrhage, could save thousands of lives.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Maatri aims to prevent the postpartum hemorrhage and curb the maternal deaths by the community-based door to door distribution of misoprostol (a WHO approved low cost uterotonic drug) via Female Community Health Volunteers (FCHVs).

Nepal has a very high maternal mortality rate of 186 deaths per 100,000 live births about 25% of which has been attributed to postpartum hemorrhage (PPH). Due to long distances to health facilities, most women die from postpartum hemorrhage in the communities as they try to deliver under the care of unskilled traditional birth attendants. The number of institutional deliveries is woefully low in most parts of Nepal and an estimated two-thirds of women still give birth at home with no skilled birth attendant present.

Maatri’s model seeks to train the FCHVs on PPH and the role of misoprostol in its management. They will then go door-to-door in the communities to provide antenatal counseling and instructions to pregnant women and household decision makers on how to dispense misoprostol. The pilot project will operate in province 6, one of the most rural regions of Nepal.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Directly reach 300 women during the pilot phase

• Use 15 trained Female Community Health Volunteer’s (FCHVs) to distribute 300 doses of misoprostol tablets during the pilot phase

• Secure an additional $25,000 USD funding within the first three months

FOUNDING TEAM

Dr. Preeti Shakya - CEO & Founder

Bihani Gurung - Field Trainer

Abhishek Shakya - Accounts, Procurement and Logistics Manager

Prithak Shrestha - Communications and Advocacy Officer

Pardafas!

TRANSPARENCY CHALLENGE; NEPAL

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Online accountability tool that aims to fuel the national fight against corruption. 

Learn more about the Transparency Challenge and how citizen reporting platforms can be used to hold government officials accountable and reduce corruption.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Pardafas will be the counry's biggest effort to-date to map out corruption in order to create and distribute easy-to-use and people friendly, data-driven narrative to wage anti-corruption campaigns.  By going back through the archives of Nepal's top national daily newspapers, we will collect and code the data on federal-level corruption.

In three months, the team will produce a preliminary data on corruption levels in federal institutions and hope to use the data to reach out to at least 70,000 Nepalis. Within a year, they hope to mobilize at least 500,000 Nepalis to further enhance the data. Together with activists and anti-corruption organizations, Pardafas will use the data to unite people in fighting against rampant corruption at the federal level. The team will measure their success by the number of corruption cases filed in court from the campaign and the number of cases won in court. 

 

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Reach 70,000 people during the pilot
• Reach 500,000 people by the end of year 1

 

FOUNDING TEAM

Subhash Ghimire - Founder, Director

Kritikal Lamsal - Head of Research and Public Mobilizer Team

Prem Lamichhane - Head of Technical Team

Angel Sharma - Head of Administrative Team

Alina Ghimire - Memnber of Research Team

Empower Generation

SOLAR LAMP CHALLENGE: NEPAL, MYANMAR

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Solar Lamps. 

Learn more about the Solar Lamp Challenge and how these lamps create enormous benefits for developing world families.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Empower Generation is a social enterprise that creates clean energy distribution networks consisting of women-led businesses that reach last-mile populations. Empower Generation provides women with the training, start-up inventory, mentoring, and long-term support they need to run a successful clean energy business.

Using an innovative, market-based and capacity-building approach, they build a network that sustainably distributes clean energy and brings economic opportunities to isolated and underserved communities. The key innovation is mentoring rural women to become solar CEOs and own their own businesses. Empower Generation’s CEO network improves health and increases education for their children, creates local jobs for rural and peri-urban communities, and contributes to a shifting role of women in society.

 

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Distribute 300 solar systems during the pilot
• Install 15 solar home systems during the pilot 
• Reach 2,560 individuals by the end of 6 months 
• Recruit 20 sales agents by the end of the pilot 
• Recruit 50 sales agents by the end of year 1 
• Distribute 1,500 solar lamps by the end of year 1 

FOUNDING TEAM

Anya Cherneff - Co-Founder and Executive Director

Chloe Chapman - Director of Operations

Sita Adhikari - Country Director