The Suaahara project funded by USAID Nepal has been successfully running for the last 4 years, and is now
moving towards its second phase with HKI being the primary implementer, and working in collaboration with 6 other implementing partners, and taking support from
community based organisations at the district level. HKI and its implementing partners intend to use DHIS2 as their project data monitoring system for tracking
the key indicators to understand the key area of interventions, the impact on health status, and making well-informed decision based on the data collected.
The Suaahara II project is a five-year USAID-funded program, with a multi-sectoral approach based on a result
based framework. The overall goal of the program is to reduce the prevalence of nutrition related anomalies such as being underweight, or suffering from stunting
and wasting amongst the child population of less than 5 years of age. In addition, the prevalence of anaemia is also monitored in mothers as well as children.
The project has implementation scope in 40 districts, 38 of which were part of the Suaahara I program, and 17
of which were implementing the Suaahara program since 2012 in Nepal. The Helen Keller International (HKI) is the lead partner of Suaahara II, other partners include
CARE, Equal Access, Environment, and Public Health Organization (ENPHO), FHI360, Vijaya Development Resource Centre (VDRC), and Nutrition Technical Assistance
Group (NTAG).
The project components aim to facilitate team behaviour changes including improving the household nutrition,
sanitation, and routine health measures, enhancing the use of quality nutrition and health services, increasing access of households to quality nutrition rich food,
and working with the local government to roll out a multi sector nutrition plan.
Key functions of the Suaahara II System includes:
- Acting as data warehouse for all the activities covered under Suaahara II from different data collection sources
such as Commcare, ODK, and data entered in DHIS2.
- Facilitate processing of data in form of indicators for analysis of data collected to measure the impact of
interventions taken by the Suaahara II project initiatives.
- Design and development of dashboards for monitoring and evaluation of data through effective visualisations.
- Dissemination of dashboards and reports to the defined user groups for them to have access to latest data and
take effective decisions.
