converging on bcc for child health and integrated
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Converging on BCC for Child Health and Integrated Village
Planning Program
A joint initiative of UNICEF, District Administration Guna & Shivpuri and NGO Partners
Objectives
Initiating efforts to identification of 4 key behaviors as a felt need.Ensuring 4 key behaviors are being practiced, sustained and promoted.Working in convergence with community based groups and other stakeholders to ensure a convergence approach to development.Amplify village planning as a mode to promote participatory development.
Key Strategies
Strengthen IPC and community dialogue sessions to promote four key behavioursStrengthening local groups, PRIs and SHgs and ensure their involvement in promotion of key behaviours and linkages with services Strengthening system of service delivery by improve linkages of community with available services.building leadership among excluded groups to ensure their full participation of service delivery system.work closely with key service institutions ( health, ICDS, education, Rural Development, PHED ) and will further linkage with NREGA and BRGFDocumentation of success stories related to behaviors, service delivery or community empowerment that would impacting women and children.
Partners in Change
Community Level
Women
Children
Youth
PRI
Women Groups
Self Help Groups
Men
Administrative Level
Education
Health
Panchayat
TSC
PHEd
And others…
The 4 Key Behaviors
Promoting and practicing girl child education
Addressing HIV/AIDS spread and stigma
Ensuring hand wash at critical times
Exclusive breast feeding to combat IMR.
Key ActivitiesA. Colostrums Feeding & Exclusive Breast
Feeding
1- Thematic meeting with mothers groups, ANC/PNC, Matra Sahyogini samiti, Asha, VHSC. Asha, AWW, ANM
2- Formation and strengthening of Active womens groups.
3- IPC Door to Door by Active women groups to ANC/PNC
4- Folk/ local media performance
5- Local popularization event- Breast feeding week
6-Slogan Writing on Hand washing
7- Meeting with mothers on Village Health and Nutrition Day (Tuesday and Friday)
Key Activities
B. Girl Child Education
1-Meeting of PTA/VEC
2-Strenthening oh Meena Manch/Meena Cabinate
3- IPC Door to Door by CC and VV to parents of out of school girls/ not going school girls.
4- One day village level program by Meena Manch/cabinet for awareness about girls education in presence of panchayat members, school teachers and community. Every six months
5- Folk/ local media performance
6-Slogan Writing on Hand washing
7- Awareness Campaign "School Chalo Abhiyan" Railly 15 days before school admission.
8- Celebration of Bal Diwas (to be celebrated in school having largest no. of children's)
Key Activities
C. Hand Washing
1-IPC Door to Door by CC and VV
2-Oreintation & Demonstration in Schools
5-School Sanitation Kit
6-Local Popularization Event- Hand Washing Day
5- Folk/ local media performance
6-Slogan Writing on Hand washing
Key Activities
D. HIV/AIDS
1- Meeting with Youth & Adolescent Grp's by CC
2- Formation and orientation of youth and adolescent peer groups (Hamjoli Samooh age 15-24 yrs)
3- Film Show on HIV/AIDS
4- AIDs day celebration in Largest village (according to population)
5- Folk/ local media performance
6-Slogan Writing on Hand washing (blue or water color)
Intervention for Strengthening
E. Block Level Activity
1- Staff Meeting
2-Village volunteer meeting and orientation at cluster level ( Each cluster of 5 panchayat)
3- Village volunteer Sammelan
4- Exposure Tour of Volunteers & staff
5- Monthly meeting with Govt. Functionaries. BLTF
Community chart- updating 9 key indicators
7- PLTF meeting
8-DLTF meeeting
9- Strengthening of Village information Centre
10- Quarterly Sensization of Sarpanch and Opinion Leaders
Key OutcomesExclusive Breast/Colostrums Feeding
100 % mother initiate colostrums feeding in an hour 80 % mothers continue exclusive breastfeeding – no water, only milk until 6 months
Hand Washing90 % schools practicing hand wash with soap before MDM80 % families practicing hand wash with soap before eating and after defecation
Girl Child Education100% out of school girls (aged between 5-14 yrs) identifiedIdentifying 100% girls who are admitted in schools but not attending schools.100% families of out of schools girls and the school girls not attending schools counseled and ready to send school from new sessions. 90 % girls completing class VIII
HIV/AIDS90% of youths (15-24 yrs) list at least three ways of HIV prevention80% of youths (15-24 yrs) observe safe sex practices (use of condom, sex with single partners, etc.)
Project Organogram
Chief Functionary
Cluster Coordinator
Consultant-HIV/AIDSBlock Coordinator
UNICEF SR
Consultant - BCC
FinanceM & E TeamBCC Specialist
Village Volunter
Impacts
Voluntary turn-up for ICTC increased
Some villages reaching the goal ofExclusive breast feeding
Sanitation
Increased presence girls in school
Volunteer motivational event signals administration on available pool of extra hands
Add-ons
MSC stories make documentation of project achievements more authenticate
Kyunki Jeena Isi ka naam makes women rights a living phenomenon among a small group of women
Yet to achieve…
Making village planning and community monitoring an auto-pilot process.
Working in close convergence with the administration
Sustaining the interest and contributions of village volunteers??? Can we discuss on this.
Making VICs effective mode of information outreach.
What slows us down…
Model code of conduct in effect
Financial constraints
Reluctance from district administration