We are building a locally governed digital health initiative that helps frontline health workers, municipalities, and health facilities identify pregnant women at risk of care disruption before climate hazards become medical emergencies.
Climate Maternal Health Resilience Nepal is a Nepal-based initiative focused on protecting pregnancy care continuity during floods, landslides, heatwaves, drought, and other climate-related disruptions.
We work at the intersection of maternal health, climate resilience, anticipatory action, responsible AI, and community health systems. The practical aim is simple: help frontline health workers, municipalities, and health facilities act earlier, especially for pregnant women who are most likely to be cut off from care when roads, weather, or resources fail.
To reduce maternal and newborn vulnerability during climate disruption by strengthening early warning, community follow-up, referral readiness, transport planning, and locally owned response systems.
We believe digital tools and AI should support health workers and communities, not replace judgement, trust, or local accountability.
A climate-resilient maternal health system in Nepal where every pregnant woman, including those in remote, low-income, migrant, adolescent, or disaster-prone communities, can access timely, dignified, and safe care before, during, and after climate shocks.
Climate hazards are not abstract environmental events. In maternal health, they become missed ANC visits, delayed referrals, unsafe travel, poor communication, stress, and preventable risk. A resilient system should not wait for a woman to become an emergency case before deciding she mattered.
This initiative is designed to complement Nepal’s existing health system, disaster management structures, and community health networks by adding an anticipatory layer focused specifically on pregnancy care continuity.
We welcome municipalities, health facilities, researchers, technologists, community organisations, and funders interested in climate-resilient maternal and community health systems.
Climate shocks do not only damage roads, homes, and infrastructure. They interrupt the everyday pathways that pregnant women rely on for safe antenatal care, referral, delivery planning, and emergency response.
Floods, landslides, heat events, and road blockages can delay ANC visits, emergency referrals, and facility-based care.
Low-income women, migrants, adolescents, and remote communities often face the greatest barriers during crises.
Health systems often respond after disruption occurs. Anticipatory systems help trigger earlier, targeted action.
Our work combines climate risk information, pregnancy care needs, frontline health worker knowledge, municipal planning, and responsible digital tools. The goal is not to build another shiny dashboard that dies after the pilot. The goal is to support decisions that actually change what happens for pregnant women in climate-vulnerable communities.
Inspired by the structure of humanitarian health and community care programmes, this section explains the service areas, departments, and action pathways behind the initiative.
Four linked areas guide the work, because maternal resilience is not a single app, training, ambulance, or policy paragraph pretending to be a system.
We map how floods, landslides, heatwaves, drought, blocked roads, migration, and livelihood stress interrupt ANC visits, delivery planning, referral, and postnatal follow-up.
We strengthen FCHV and frontline worker roles in early identification, household follow-up, counselling, referral reminders, and care continuity for high-risk pregnancies.
We help translate risk signals into pre-agreed actions so municipalities and facilities know what to do before a climate hazard becomes a maternal health emergency.
We use AI-supported prioritisation carefully: transparent, explainable, locally governed, and designed to support workers rather than replace their judgement.
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The model links early warning information to pre-agreed maternal health actions.
Flood, landslide, heat, or extreme rainfall forecast is detected.
Pregnant women are prioritised by gestational age, risk status, location, and service needs.
FCHVs, health workers, and municipal focal persons receive targeted alerts.
Early ANC scheduling, transport planning, referral readiness, or temporary relocation support is triggered.
Actions, delays, outcomes, and community feedback improve the system.
Simple entry points for partners, volunteers, municipalities, health facilities, and funders.
The roadmap focuses on community co-design, risk mapping, prototype testing, health-worker usability, and municipal response protocols.
What makes this distinct: the system bridges climate forecasting with individual pregnancy risk data and pre-agreed local action protocols, enabling targeted response at community level.
View evidence themesBrowse short field-facing blogs and selected publications relevant to climate resilience, maternal health, sexual and reproductive health, community systems, and Nepal. Because apparently evidence still needs a proper shelf before anyone will read it.
Two starting blog slots modelled after an NGO news-and-events layout.
Floods, landslides, heat stress, and disrupted transport affect antenatal care, referral, delivery planning, nutrition, and psychosocial wellbeing. This blog explains why maternal health systems need anticipatory action, not just post-disaster response.
Draft this blog
Climate information becomes useful only when it triggers a real workflow: identifying high-risk pregnancies, contacting families, arranging transport, coordinating PHCs, and documenting what happened.
See workflowSelected Nepal-focused climate-health and SRHR evidence. Replace or expand these as your own bibliography grows, because apparently websites need feeding too.
Authors: Ghimire et al. · Year: 2025
Explores links between climate change, gender, and SRHR in Nepal, including differentiated impacts on women and girls.
Read publication →Authors: Poudel et al. · Year: 2024
Reports community perceptions from Nepal, including rainy-season barriers to healthcare access, FCHV movement, childbirth complications, and gender-based violence after climate events.
Read publication →Authors: Bhatta, KC, Regmi, Pandey, Adhikari, Gautam, Baral et al. · Year: 2024
Calls for stronger climate-health prioritisation in Nepal, including adaptation planning, climate-resilient systems, and attention to climate-sensitive health risks.
Read publication →Authors: Tome et al. · Year: 2022
Identifies food insecurity, floods, droughts, and reduced water levels as key climate-related pathways affecting population health in Nepal.
Read abstract →Authors: Joshi, B. Dhimal, M. Dhimal, Bhusal · Year: 2011
Early Nepal-focused review on pathways linking temperature, precipitation, disasters, infectious disease, waterborne disease, and public health risks.
Read publication →Publisher: UNFPA Nepal / Government-linked partners · Year: 2026
Situational and policy analysis focused on strengthening maternal and neonatal healthcare through climate-resilient health-sector planning in Nepal.
Read report →Selected national and partner-led policy documents relevant to climate adaptation, health-system resilience, maternal and newborn health, and anticipatory action in Nepal.
Type: Situational and Policy Analysis · Focus: SRMNCH, climate adaptation, health-sector resilience.
This report reviews Nepal's climate-health policy landscape and highlights the need to translate national commitments into provincial and local implementation for women, newborns, and vulnerable groups.
Type: Vulnerability Assessment · Focus: climate hazards, health risks, adaptive capacity.
A technical assessment of Nepal's climate-related health risks, including nutrition, vector-borne disease, waterborne disease, air quality, mental health, and health-system preparedness.
Period: 2023–2030 · Focus: climate-resilient health systems and adaptation planning.
Nepal's national plan for minimizing climate-change impacts on health through surveillance, preparedness, resilient infrastructure, capacity building, and multi-sector coordination.
Designed to work within Nepal's existing health and climate resilience ecosystem, not duplicate it with yet another shiny dashboard that nobody asked to maintain.
UNFPA Nepal
ICIMOD
Ipas Nepal
Center for Molecular Dynamics Nepal
HERD InternationalListed organisations indicate ecosystem relevance, not formal partnership unless explicitly stated.
Climate Maternal Health Resilience Nepal is open to collaboration with municipalities, health facilities, researchers, community organisations, technical partners and funders working on climate-resilient maternal and community health systems.
Use the contact details below for partnership discussions, field collaboration, technical input, evidence sharing, or pilot-site conversations.
Kathmandu and Kavrepalanchok, Nepal
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