Paper short abstract:

Drawing on fieldwork in Nepal, this paper discusses how government, bilateral donors and NGOs coordinate, compete and cooperate to operationalise their policies around MCH interventions.

Paper long abstract:

Maternal Child Health (MCH) interventions in the context of development are frequently focused on programmes, mediated and run by constellations of organisations, all in the name of futures freed from MCH morbidity and mortality. In this paper we focus on MCH interventions in the context of Nepal: A misoprostol trial for the prevention of post-partum haemmorhage; incentives for women to attend health facilities for birth; and the mobilisation of female community health volunteers. We compare and contrast these programmes, to explore how government, bilaterals, and NGOs coordinate, compete, and cooperate to operationalise their policies around these interventions.