Flooding along the Bhotekoshi and Trishuli river systems has caused widespread loss of life, displacement and extensive damage to infrastructure across affected districts of Nepal. Government figures currently put the death toll at 1,204, with approximately 4,216 people still unaccounted for.
An estimated 98,560 women of reproductive age have been affected, including approximately 5,030 pregnant women. Damage to health facilities, impassable roads and disrupted transport have severely constrained routine and emergency maternal health services, increasing risks for pregnant women and newborns.
Displacement, loss of homes and livelihoods, and the breakdown of community support networks are heightening the risks of gender-based violence, sexual exploitation and trafficking, particularly for women and adolescent girls. Many affected families are staying in temporary shelters where overcrowding, limited privacy and inadequate access to safe, gender-segregated facilities are compounding these risks.
In response to the emergency, UNFPA has distributed 2,800 dignity and adolescent kits to women and girls, along with 300 tarpaulins to support privacy and safe spaces. Mobile health teams have provided sexual and reproductive health and gender-based violence services to 146 people and psychosocial support to 419 people.
UNFPA requires US$3.5 million to deliver urgent reproductive health services, prevent and respond to gender-based violence, and provide psychosocial support to flood-affected women, girls and young people in Nepal. Of the total funding required, US$3.2 million is still needed.
