United Nation’s Goals for Sustainable Development, the SDGs, form the foundation for NORAD’s strategy toward 2030 and must be explicitly targeted in the projects under the NORHED II program. Here we show how our project, “Strengthening academic capacity in physiotherapy education in Nepal”, through its activities targets NORHED II outcome goals and specific SDGs.  

Our project activities: developing curricula for the first Master in physiotherapy in Nepal and initiating Nepal’s second Bachelor program in physiotherapy, building a pedagogic course for faculty, creating a quality system for education, supervising PhD students, and providing an international advisory board – aligns with  

Our project outcomes for higher educational and institutional capacity: Master and Bachelor programs in physiotherapy, systems collaborative arrangements, infrastructure and digital solutions for teaching and learning, outreach staff training, gender and equity scholarships, and people educational opportunities – aligns with 

NORHED outcomes for more and higher education, higher quality graduates, and more inclusive higher education – for the  

NORHED impact for better qualified workforce, applied sustainable solutions and practices, evidence-based policies, and enhanced gender and equality inclusions – which target 

The SDGs primarily on education (4), health (3), collaboration (17), and secondarily on equality between people (5), decent work and economy (8), equality between nations (10), sustainable community (11), and climate action (13) through green mobility and green physiotherapy.