OUR APPROACH
Since its founding in 1973, Ipas has been working to improve reproductive health around the world. In all these years, Ipas has been expanding access to safe abortion and contraception and protecting individuals’ right to bodily autonomy and reproductive health decisions. In the context of Nepal, Ipas Nepal, a non-governmental organization, has given technical support to the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) to initiate and expand Safe Abortion Services (SAS) in the country since the legalization of abortion in 2002.
OUR IMPACT
This Decade
Safe abortion services supported
Adolescents reached with Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Information
Health facilities supported
Unsafe abortions averted
Health service providers trained
Maternal deaths averted
*FY 2010-23
We Have Reached
7,920
Gender-based violence survivors received services from safe houses and One-stop Crisis Management Centers
119,359
Women reached with climate justice initiative
8,227
Unsafe abortion averted
133
Active Natural Leaders reached
*FY 2022-23
Perspectives from our participants
“Youth and Adolescents Program for Sex and Reproductive Health Education organized by Ipas Nepal helped me to understand more about safe abortion, proper menstrual health and hygiene, gender-based violence and safe motherhood. Furthermore, I was able to teach and share my learnings among my family, sisters, neighborhood, mother groups, children clubs, adolescent girls’ groups and men group.” – Shrijana Mizar, youth
SAFE ABORTION IN NEPAL
Milestones: 2002 to 2022
