Government of Nepal

Ministry of Finance

AID MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR NEPAL

1. Assist CRS to generate greater revenue from existing products and launch new products that enable the cross-subsidization of socially-focused products
2. Provide technical assistance to assess CRS's distribution system and refine its overarching strategy to create a cost-efficient system for reaching remote areas.
3. Support CRS in business planning and administration to emerge as Nepal’s leading company for health products and services.
4. Design and implement, in collaboration with CRS, innovative, evidence-based BCC programs to raise public awareness and promote positive behaviors and norms around pregnancy, child care, and HIV prevention, among other important public health issues.

1. CRS’s independence and sustainability increased
2. CRS's distribution system extended into rural, hard-to-reach areas and urban hot zones to expand access for most-at-risk populations and underserved populations.
3. CRS’s leadership capacity enhanced
4. Cutting-edge social and behavior change communication (BCC) implemented by CRS and FHI 360

1. CRS established as a profitable private sector company operating independent of USAID funding.
2. Increased awareness, demand, and use of selected family planning, maternal and child health, and HIV prevention  commodities and services
3. Increased access and use of HIV prevention commodities in designated “hot zones” where high-risk sexual behaviors occur in urban areas and along major highways
4. Increased capacity of CRS to market a core set of key public health products (condoms, oral contraceptive pills, injectable contraceptives, and maternal and child health commodities)
5. Enhanced capacity for CRS to design and implement strategic behavioral change communication activities.

Expand the depth, reach, and impact of the private sector in social marketing, and provide low-cost maternal and child health, family planning, and HIV prevention products and services.