The Nepal Safer Motherhood Project (NSMP) is the largest and longest running project in the National Safe Motherhood Programme of His Majesty’s Government of Nepal (HMGN). It is based in HMGN’s Family Health Division and employs a team of over 20 professionals, with support from Options Consultancy Services, the managing agent.
The project aims to bring about a sustained increase in the use of quality midwifery and essential obstetric care (EOC) (link to definitions page). To do this, NSMP (Nepal Safer Motherhood Project) is active in three inter-related areas:
- policy and programme development
- service provision
- increasing acess