Academy for Educational Development

This newly awarded PSP Task Order for the Nepal Social Marketing and Franchise Project for AIDS, Reproductive Health (RH) and Child Survival (CS) or N-MARC has the overall purpose of using social marketing and franchising in Nepal to expand products and services with high public health impact to low socio-economic populations.











N-MARC's mission is to team with the private health sector in the social marketing of products and social franchising of services that will achieve public health impact among low socio-economic class populations. With funding of US $11.2 million over 3.5 years, N-MARC will form public-partnerships that will develop and expand the reach of health products and services that will include condoms, long and short-term family planning methods, diarrhea treatment products, and pre-packaged therapy for sexually transmitted infections (STIs).