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Research NTAG’s research activities center on locally-driven problems and respond to local gaps. In addition, NTAG also forms partnerships with international universities to collaborate on large-scale, randomized studies that enrich the international dialogue around health. NTAG’s capacity for data collection, management and analysis encompasses programmatic, clinical, quantitative and qualitative work, and laboratory analysis. Through extensive work at the community level, NTAG has over the years established a relationship of trust with the Nepali communities and therefore is well received locally when collecting data. This positive rapport with the local populations enables NTAG to collect high-quality information that is otherwise difficult to elicit. The soundness of the data collected is further ensured by means of NTAG’s extensive quality control safeguards. NTAG has extensive experience with research around nutritional status and deficiencies of women and children. In the past, NTAG has collaborated with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), University of California-Davis (UC-Davis), University of Arizona (UAZ), MI and others, to examine issues around iron and anemia, infant feeding, and treatment and diagnosis of night- blindness, among other activities. At present, NTAG is carrying out pilot interventions of the Urban Poor Postpartum Family Planning Project in five sites in the Kathmandu Valley with the objective of improving the access to family planning information and services and increasing the use of family planning methods by urban poor postpartum women, with the financial support from USAID and technical support from Pathfinder/ESD. Since 2006, NTAG has been conducting qualitative research and video observations on infant and young child feeding practices, specifically food quality and quantity, and sanitation and hygiene.
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