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Preventive Promotive Curative Referral Outreach

Services Services Services Services Services
 Services for Tetanus Focused care during Treatment for Voluntary Periodic health
Immunization. the ante-natal common RTIs/STIs. Counselling and check-ups and
Services for period. Treatment and testing centre. community camps.
Prophylaxis against Counselling counselling for Prevention of Periodic health
Nutritional Anaemia. and provision menstrual disorders. Parent to Child education activities.
Nutrition for emergency Treatment and Transmission.
Co-curricular
Counselling. contraceptive pills. counselling for activities.
Services for early Counselling sexual concerns.
and safe termination and provision Management of
of pregnancy and of reversible sexual abuse among
management of contraceptives. girls.
post abortion Information/advice
complications. on SRH issues.
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Step 1: Sanitary napkins are supplied to the block warehouse. Storage will need to be organised by states at
the block level. Such storage needs to be clean, dry, rodent-free and secure.
Step 2: The ANM will collect the sanitary napkins from the block during her monthly meeting visit and transport
it to the sub-centre. Even when Packaged for delivery at the level of the PHC, the commodity is
lightweight but bulky, needing adequate space which is free of moisture and pests/rodents. It will
be stored at the sub-centre or at a place rented for this particular purpose, if the space in the Sub-Centre
is insufficient. Such storage will need to be organised by states.
Step 3: The ANM will provide the ASHA with a one-time fund of ` 300/- (or more if decided by the
Steering Committee) which she will take from the untied funds pool of the Sub-Centre.
Step 4: The ASHA will use the imprest funds to purchase sanitary napkins from the ANM. ASHA will also get a
pack of sanitary napkins free every month for her own use to be able to become an effective change
agent.
Step 5: The ASHA will sell sanitary napkins to the adolescent girls at a price decided by the government.
Step 6: In case ASHA is selling the sanitary napkin packs, she will retain an incentive for every pack sold, the
incentive amount being decided by the State Steering Committee.
Step 7: The ASHA will retain the amount recovered from the sale to replenish the imprest amount which the
ASHA will use for subsequent purchase.
Step 8: The ANM will deposit the funds obtained from the sale of napkins to the ASHA in the united funds of
the sub-centre.
Step 9: These funds will be used for meeting the costs of transportation from block to sub-centre and then to
the village and rental to store the sanitary napkins at the sub-centre level if required.
Step 10: The balance fund, if any after, meeting the above costs will be returned to the District Health Society
through the block. The District Health Society should use these funds for programmes for adolescents.
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Supply and procurement Supply and procurement

R Annual supply to be
E estimated by modal R Adolescent girls
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teachers S E registrered with
U ICDS S
U Annual supply Q U
I submitted to block P U
and district education P P
R officer I District ICDS P
E L R Officer
Y L
M E Y
District Health
E Department M
N E District and State
T N Health
Procurement by State T Department
Health Department
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SESSION 4 NEED AND IMPORTANCE OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION & COMMUNITY MOBILIZATION

OBJECTIVE • To guide the trainees to understand the role of the community in implementing a
programme and techniques to elicit community participation/mobilization.
• To define roles and responsibilities of various sectors in order to create a safe
environment and converge with other field functionaries.
• Help improve child sex ratio.
CONTENT • Define the process of community participation & community mobilization
 Methods and techniques of knowing the community - their customs, traditions and
practices etc.
 Role of community in improving child sex ratio
 Strengthening community participation using PLA techniques
• Roles and responsibilities of line ministries
 Role of PRI’s in improving CSR
 Role of Gram Sabha in improving CSR
 Role of Mahila Sabha in improving CSR
 Role of child friendly anganwadi centres
 Role of schools
• Role of AWW/ASHA/ANM
DURATION 1 hour 30 minutes
TRAINING METHOD Power point presentation, lecture, demonstration (PLA techniques) and focused group
discussions
LEARNING OUTCOME • The trainees will be able to mobilize the community and elicit their participation.
• Trainees will be able to take corrective measures to promote value of girl child and
improve child sex ratio (CSR) in their communities.
• The trainees will be well versed with the roles of various ministries in improving CSR
and help in effective convergence.
RESOURCES REQUIRED • LCD projector
• Power point presentation highlighting key components
ANNEXURES • Community mobilization
• Tips for effective PLA exercises
REFERENCES • Participatory Training: A manual (PRIA)
• Participatory Training: A book of readings by Rajesh Tandon (PRIA)
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Community Member
Gram Panchayat
Adolescent Girls
Mahila Mandal Pradhan
Primary School Teacher
Religious and Local Leaders
NGOs
Major Role
• Planning and promotion of delivery of services and advocacy
• Monitoring and implementation
Assist government functionaries in delivery of services, and other advocacy and
BCC/IEC material preparation
Encourage women to participate in the activities of the programme and utilise
services
Encourage community, children and their parents to participate and avail services of
the programme
Mobilize and organise community to participate in programme
Support services to run the programme effectively
Mother’s meeting and community meeting
Advocacy campaign
Street play, skit or drama
Use of folk media and folk songs
Balmela/exhibition/sports meet
Use of PLA techniques
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901 - 925
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N
NUTRITION
UTRITION RESOURCE
PLATFORM
Be er Nutrion for All!

www.akshayaposhan.gov.in
www.poshan.nic.in

Domain-I Domain-II
Content Consolidaon Content Repository
l Digizaon Centre l E-Forum
l E-Document Management l Knowledge disseminaon
l Digital Library l Learning Management

Domain-III
Content Disseminaon
l SMS / Voice Message Blast
l MPR through IVRS
l Helpline etc.

MINISTRY OF WOMEN & CHILD DEVELOPMENT

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
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ABOUT NUTRITION RESOURCE PLATFORM

NRP INITIATIVE
The Nutrion Resource Plaorm (NRP) is an iniave of the Child Development and Nutrion Bureau of
the Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD), Government of India, developed with the aim
to collect, collate and make available resources and materialson nutrion and child development to
diverse stakeholders.
It will have reference materials on nutrion issues relang to policy, programmes, academic and
research inputs, materials for capacity building etc. The plaorm will be web-enabled to maximize
outreach at a relavely low cost. It is planned as a knowledge repository of informaon collected from
sectors idenfied in Naonal Plan of Acon on Nutrion such as nutrion, food, health, agriculture,
educaon, water and sanitaon to aid knowledge generaon, policy formulaon and improve adopon
of good pracces to influence behaviour change around nutrion and child care.
It is an interacve knowledge resource base which facilitates real quick me interacon, exchange of
ideas, discussions between Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) and other stakeholders to
promote a be er understanding of the exisng and the newer researches in the field of nutrion and
child care. Besides policy makers and academia, NRP will act as a plaorm for improved communicaon
among and with stakeholders including front line workers on the issue of nutrion and child care. NRP
will impart user friendly services to front line workers through interacve and mobile service networks.
NRP will offer services such as data collecon for Management Informaon System (MIS) besides
rendering services such as Voice Blast, SMS Blast, In-Dialling on Interacve Voice Response System
(IVRS).
The NRP will funcon as part of Food and Nutrion Board (FNB) and Naonal Instute of Public
Cooperaon and Child Development (NIPCCD) with Naonal Informacs Centre (NIC) providing
technical, design, developmental, IT logiscs and hosng support for its effecve and smooth
funconing. It would also have linkages with important instuons of repute such Naonal Instute of
Nutrion (NIN), Nutrion Foundaon of India (NFI) and Breaseeding Promoon Network of India
(BPNI) and others.

NRP is a complete ecosystem developed using Internet, Data Servers, Call Centre, Fixed Line,
Mobile Telephony Network, Virtual Classroom and e- Conferencing Technologies.
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NRP MANDATE
Nutrion Resource Pla orm will
l Act as a knowledge/resource plaorm for nutrion and child care DIGITAL LIBRARY
l Collate and provide evidence based policy advocacy DOMAIN
l Facilitate interacve discussions, knowledge and experience sharing on E- Library will funcon to serve as
nutrion and related sectors an electronic library and document
management system. It will
l Provide linkages to various naonal and internaonal instuons and
provide an online repository of
organizaons
nutrion and child care related
l Assist in evolving a perspecve plan on nutrion at State, District and Sub resource reference materials
District Level by MWCD and State Governments including video and audio
l Be a repository of resource material, researches, Informaon Educaon and resources accessible to all.
Communicaon (IEC) and Inter Personal Communicaon (IPC) tools, data on
nutrion and informaon from various sources focusing on maternal and
child nutrion

TARGET AUDIENCE
l General populaon especially mothers, parents and families
E- FORUM DOMAIN
l Programme managers and technical personnel's including Panchaya Raj E- Forum will primarily aim to
Instuons (PRI) connect various nutrion and child
development sectors through the
l Policy Makers and Influencers
exchange of ideas and knowledge
l Concerned Line Ministries relang to nutrion sharing. The domain offers various
l Civil Society Organizaons (CSO) and Community Body Organizaons (CBO) d i ffe r e n t f e a t u r e s t o s t a y
l Academicians and Researchers connected.

l Developmental Partners

KEY TECHNICAL GROUPS

Four key technical groups have been Technical
Technical
formed as part of NRP. These will cover Resource
Resource TELEPHONY SERVICES
Group on
Informaon Communicaon Technology Group on
Capacity
DOMAIN
ICT
(ICT), Capacity Development, Data Development
Mobile Telephony is the end-user
Research and IEC/BCC(Behavior Change Technical services for ICDS funconaries. It
Technical
and Communicaon) to frame Resource offers the possibility of services like
Resource
operaonal guidelines for effecve Group on Interacve Voice Response System
Group on
Data (IVRS), Voice Blast, SMS blast
implementaon of nutrion and child IEC/BCC
Research
related promoonal materials. including potenal for using it as a
virtual classroom, informaon
disseminaon center and nutrion
NRP in essence is a people's knowledge facilitaon centre related surveillance to connect with the
to nutrion focussed on maternal and child care. grass root level workers.
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NRP FUTURE POTENTIAL AND PROSPECTS

l Support agencies, ministries and departments in disseminaon of

materials including audio visual spots on nutrion and health
educaon
l Facilitate experience sharing and convergence within various
nutrion related sectors
l Help propagate best pracces on nutrion and child care
l Promote disintegraon of exisng nutrion stascs
l Progressively collect and compile informaon on available training
programmes, material and curricula
l Facilitate development of tailor made training courses on maternal
nutrion and child care
l Resource directory of instuons and experts working in the field of
nutrion
l Provide links for accessing research and studies
l Assist development of interacve games

Technical and Infrastructural Support Provided by CARE, Food & Nutrion Board (FNB), Naonal
Instute of Public Cooperaon and Child Development (NIPCCD), USAID funded Improving Healthy
Behaviors Program (IHBP)and Naonal Informacs Centre (NIC).

We take this opportunity to thank all our development partners, academic

instuons who have contributed to the development of NRP. We solicit
connued support from“ALL for NUTRITION”!

This Portal is hosted and maintained by Naonal Informacs Centre

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