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World Health Organization (WHO) had launched Global Initiative Vision 2020 “The Right to Sight” in Geneva in 18 February, 1999 to reduce the global burden of blindness. East Asia Region (SEARO) declared on 30th September 1999 for member countries to come forward with strategies and guidelines for the elimination of avoidable blindness from the region by 2020.

Nepal Eye Programme was launched in July 1992 to support the Prevention of Blindness Programme in Nepal. Similarly, Nepal Health Policy, 2074 has mentioned the Vision 2020 for the effective programme implementation for alleviation of blindness by the government and non-government programs.

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TIO Nepal Final Evaluation Report
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Original Source: iapb.org

Gender Study Report Singida Region

November 7, 2020

Sightsavers is a global organization working to ensure that avoidable blindness are eliminated and people with visual impairments and other disabilities have the same opportunities as everyone else. Sightsavers interventions include protecting sight by preventing sight loss and avoidable blindness in some of the poorest parts of the world including Tanzania by treating conditions such as cataracts and fighting debilitating eye diseases.

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Gender Study Report-Singida Region
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Source: sightsavers.org

Trachoma Elimination in Africa: Lessons from two multi-country initiatives

October 17, 2020

In 2014, The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust and the UK Department of International Development (DFID) initiated two ambitious five-year programmes to tackle trachoma across ten countries in Africa.

As these two programmes come to an end in 2019, an end-of-programme evaluative learning exercise was commissioned.

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Trust – Trachoma Elimination in Africa Lessons from two multi-country initiatives
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Source: sightsavers.org