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Anchal
Se Angan Tak (ASAT) is
an integrated early child development (IECD) programme which aims at
improving child survival, growth and development (SGD). The programme
has been designed to reduce IMR and MMR in the state. The rationale is
to improve the nutritional and health status of children below 3 years,
of pregnant and nursing women, and adolescent girls through behavioral
change in care practices at the family and community level. But due to a
lack of coordination and a lack of awareness within the community, the
service delivery system has not been as effective as it was expected to
be. In view of this, SIDART was entrusted by Unicef to facilitate the
project intervention in Ramgarh, a highly underdeveloped block in
district Alwar with 162 AWCs. The project concentrates on 50 centres and
aims at creating synergies and activities in coordination with the
community and the government to strengthen the services and service
delivery mechanisms of AWCs.
Before SIDART started working on the ASAT
project, there existed no data at all on Grade I and II malnourished
children in Ramgarh block. Establishing a profound data collection of
the rising number of registered children over the project implementation
period can be considered as a major achievement of the project. The
enrollment of more and more malnourished children has been an effective
way to generate public awareness on the degree of child malnourishment
in Ramgarh block. We handed over the project to the community at the
stage when the number of children in Grade I & II can be turned into
normal relatively easy. In the malnourishment grades III and IV, the
percentage of these children has decreased considerably from 2004 to
2007 as the data illustrates.
SIDART
was running the project from February 2004 to January 2007.
We believe
that there is still a dire need to continue the ASAT project in Ramgarh
block as the current high level of awareness must be consolidated to
sustain the achieved progress on a long-term basis.
SIDART is still looking for funding to
continue running this project.
Please contact SIDART if you are interested
in helping us to continue working on the ASAT project.
sidartngo@yahoo.co.uk
0141
2650894
09829215633
www.sidartngo.org
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