SERVICE DELIVERY SURVEY: HEALTH AND AGRICULTURE SERVICES (Sixth Cycle)

Nepal Multipie Indicator Surveillance (NMIS) is being conducted to collect community based information for the monitoring the National Programme of Action for the Children and Development for the 1990s set in line with the World Summit for Children, 1990.

This is the Sixth Cycle report on Service Delivery Survey: Health and Agriculture Services surved 18,770 household and contacted with 108,899 people. It focuses particularly on the delivery of government health and agriculture services. This report provides basic data and analysis of indicators for effective national and local level planning especially in health and agruculture sectors of service delivery system. The field survey was carried out by Central Bureau of Statistics between October and November 1997.

National Planning Commission Secretariat expresses its sincere appreciation to the members of NMIS Steering Committee, members of the Technical Committee for their valuable contributions and to Central Bureau of Statistics for conductiing field work and analysis of findings. We also extend our appreciation to UNICEF/Nepal for its professional facilitation as well as financial support and to CIET International for its technical inputs.

Dr. Bhola Nath Chalise, Secretary
National Planning Commission Secretariat and
Chairperson, NMIS Steering Committee

Dr. Bhola Nath Chalise
Secretary, National Planning Commission Secretariat	-	Chair Person
Mr. Shree Bhagwan Singh	-	Member
Joint Secretary, National Planning Commission Secretariat
Representative	-	Member
Ministry of Education
Representative	-	Member
Ministry of Local Development
Dr. Chhatra Amatya	-	Member
Joint Secretary, Planning Division Ministry of Health
Representative
Ministry of Agriculture	-	Member
Mr. Keshav Raj Sharma	-	Member
Director General Central Bureau of Statistics
Representative	-	Member
Ministry of Women and Social welfare
Representative	-	Member
Ministry of Housing and Physical Planning
Mrs. Padma Mathema	-	Member
Under Secretary, Women and Social Welfare Section
National Planning Commission Secretariat
Mr. Gyanendra K. Shrestha	-	Member Secretary
Section Officer
National Planning Commission Secretariat
CIET International: (instrument Design)
Dr. Ann Cockroft, Consultant
Central Bureau of Statistics:
Mrs Savitri Singh, Project Director
Mr. Krishna Prasad Shrestha, Project Co-ordinator
UNICEF (Financial Support and Facilitation):
Mr. Stewart McNab, Representative
Mr. Fikre Y. Menkir, Planning Officer

Annex 1	Sites in the NMIS sample
Annex 2	Instruments
Annex 3	Information from focus groups, institutional reviews and key informants
Annex 4	Weighted and unweighted values of key indicators
Annex 5	Disaggregated results by geographic area and ethnicity