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