Family Health International (FHI)

Family Health International 

A global nonprofit organization called FHI 360 is dedicated to enhancing the health and happiness of people everywhere, including in the United States. In order to provide access to life-saving medical care, high-quality education, and possibilities for meaningful economic engagement, it collaborates with governments, business, and civil society. FHI 360 uses a special combination of multidisciplinary, integrated solutions to tackle the complex problems associated with human development.

Since 1993, FHI 360 has supported health programs, capacity-building, the strengthening of civil society, the media, and governance in Nepal. Its work is based on thorough research, supports the government of Nepal's development aims, and is in line with those priorities.

Area of Practice

• Civil society
• Communication and social marketing
• Economic development
• Education
• Environment
• Health
• Nutrition
• Research
• Gender
• Technology
• Youth

FHI Services

1. Capacity Building

The potential of community, faith-based, and private sector groups, as well as national and local governments, to face challenges, find solutions to issues, and make a lasting difference in people's lives, is developed by its specialists.

All facets of programming—strategic planning, needs assessment, program design and development, work planning, budgeting, implementation, and continuing monitoring and evaluation—are strengthened by this capacity-building process. Among its specialties are:

• Education
• Democracy and governance,
• Family planning, AIDS integrating family planning and HIV, health of mothers and children,
• Tuberculosis,
• Among others, non-communicable diseases like malaria.

      2. Creative Services

It actively engages their audiences by putting deliberate design strategies that are pertinent, interesting, and approachable into practice. It creates thorough toolkits and training materials, such as lesson plans, how-to cards, mentorship guides, and training curricula. It works together on a variety of health, education, and environmental projects with some of the top social marketing authorities in the world.

     3. Data Analysis

Comprehensive services in quantitative analysis, biostatistics, and data management are offered by our staff.

     4. Emerging infectious Pandemic response

The necessity of pandemic preparedness and response has been highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic. It is one of the top priorities for global and American public health and safety at the moment and is putting the world's societies and healthcare systems to the test. FHI 360 targets pandemics and epidemics as they emerge with knowledge that aids in health security initiatives both domestically and internationally. enhancing detection, response, and readiness for epidemics.

It uses advanced behavioral, sociomedical, epidemiological, laboratory, and clinical research sciences and technical advancements to comprehend, stop, and contain these new threats. For a number of pandemic threats, including COVID 19, novel influenza strains such the avian flu and H1N1, dengue fever, Ebola, and Zika, FHI 360 has worked on epidemic preparedness and response.

      5. Monitoring and evaluation

In order to guarantee that research and program activities yield beneficial outcomes, FHI 360 incorporates assessment at the program design stage. It sees developing an evaluation strategy and planning an intervention as complementary tasks. Furthermore, by working together with local stakeholders to define the process, project designers may ensure that assessment activities are relevant, sustainable, and not repeated. Our monitoring and assessment professionals offer services in the following areas:

• Health surveillance 
• Research, monitoring and evaluation
• Civil society monitoring and evaluation

      6. Quality Assurance

The quality assurance work done by FHI 360 falls into two categories:

• Clinical laboratory quality assurance

FHI 360 supports the improvement and assurance of clinical laboratories in under-resourced nations to produce reliable laboratory test results, thereby enhancing the quality of research studies, diagnoses, treatment decisions, and surveillance through public health programs.

• Product quality and compliance

FHI 360 is committed to ensuring that global health products live up to manufacturer claims and meet all applicable international standards for quality, safety, and efficacy. In order to give customers the highest value and the lowest risk to patients and end users, it offers comprehensive, high-quality risk management services.

      7. Research Services

At FHI 360, research is used to address a wide range of challenges relating to human development, such as gender equality, health, and economic growth. It first examines the facts of every situation, including the customs and goals of each community's residents. Then, in response to the difficulties addressed in the human development, it develops unique, integrated solutions. It then conducts additional study to see whether these interventions have the desired impact. It offers information, resources, and technical help that government departments, international aid organizations, nonprofit groups, and service providers need to create evidence-based policies and effective actions. The research abilities of FHI 360 include:

• Civil society monitoring and evaluation
• Clinical trials, design and implementation
• Epidemiological studies
• Health research
• HIV prevention research
• Reproductive health research
• Research and evaluation in the United States
• Research, monitoring and evaluation
• Research utilization

     8. Social and Behavior change

In order to ensure a comprehensive understanding of people's needs, wants, and barriers to change, it chooses interactive, participatory strategies.

     9. Social marketing and Communication

Its experts conduct research to understand consumers' expressed needs and wants, barriers to behavior change, and the competitive and contextual forces that shape attractiveness. These experts use social marketing to promote positive change among individuals and within communities throughout the United States and around the world.

It makes use of such insights to create and carry out interventions that remove obstacles and raise advantages that matter to the target audience and inspire people to take action. In order to promote insecticide-treated bed nets, condoms, and handwashing, 360 programs have used social marketing.

• Applying technology to development
• Behavior change communication
• Chronic and non communicable  diseases
• Civic participation: Communication
• Communicable diseases .
• Community engagement
• Digital and social media
• Family planning
• Gender and social norms
• HIV and AIDS: Communication
• Immunization and vaccines
• Injury prevention
• Maternal, newborn and child health
• Research and evaluation in the United States
• Social and behavior change

   10. Training and technical assistance

The FHI 360 instructional design team and subject-matter experts develop and deliver training programs in a variety of areas, including: FHI 360 instructional design and subject-matter experts develop and deliver training programs in diverse areas, including:

• Clinical laboratory quality assurance
• Ethical standards and training
• Product quality and compliance
• Social and behavior change communication
• Teacher education and professional development
• Technical quality and technical assistance

Major Programme focus in Nepal

1. Nepal USAID and PEPFAR-funded LINKAGES Nepal

• HIV and sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevention education, referral and follow-up through online an offline platforms
• Condom promotion and distribution
• HIV testing and counseling (HTC)services (index testing, online-to offline, HIV self-testing, community-led testing, enhanced peer outreach)
• STI examination and treatment services Referral to and linkages with antiretroviral therapy (ART) services
• Care, support and counseling for adherence and retention
• Gender based violence (GBV) screening and referral for prevention and mitigation services
• Stigma and discrimination reduction

Program mentioned above was carried out in 17 districts and 131 local bodies (5 metropolitan cities, 8 sub-metropolitan cities, 70 municipalities and 48 rural municipalities)

• Demonstration/pilot study on HIV self testing and pre exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) on Lalitpur district
• National Level Technical support to National Center for AIDS and STD Control {NCASC) and National Public Health Laboratory (NPHL)
• Support to national networks of key populations and people living with HIV

2. UK aid funded Fleming Fund Country H Grant for Nepa

• Support to Antimicrobial Resistance Containment Multispectral Steering Committee (AMRCSC). National li Technical Working Committee AMR (NTWC) and Technical Working Groups (TWGs)
• Develop/Update AMR National Action Plan/Protocols/Guidelines/Standard Operating Procedures
• Capacity building: hands on skill-based trainings and onsite coaching/ mentoring for lab professionals from AMR sentinel laboratories
• Linking national reference laboratories with External Quality Assurance in improving the performance
• Procurement and supply of equipment
• and supplies Renovation of selected laboratories
• Establishment and functioning of AMR/AMU surveillance in AMR sentinel laboratories.
• Dissemination of the results for evidence-based policy and planning

Others Featured Projects

• Civil Society: Mutual Accountability Project (CS: MAP)
• Suaahara II
• Saath-Saath Project
• Monitoring of NGO Contracts Provide HIV Services in Nepal
• GharGhar Maa Swasthya
• WASHplus