Safe Motherhood in Nepal

In order to reduce the existing high maternal and neonatal mortality rates in the country, His Majesty's Government of Nepal (HMG/N) has promulgated a cost sharing scheme to increase the access of women to safe delivery services (in health facilities or at home) and to mobilise skilled birth attendants to provide home based delivery services. The scheme will provide incentives to pregnant women and skilled birth attendants (SBA) and subsidies to health institutions for births assisted by SBAs. These guidelines have been developed to facilitate the process of distributing the incentives to beneficiaries, SBAs and health institutions in an easy and systematic way.