[Note: The Plan has 5 parts- (1) Education, (2) Health, (3) Malnutrition, (4) Participation (5) Capacity Building. JMN has been advised to only response to cases of protection]
GOAL 1- EDUCATION: Universal access to free, equitable quality education for children in the age group of 6-18 yrs Issue Programme Target; 2013-14 Process Expected Outcome Issue Analysis -BLD consolidation -School profile -Village profile - Profile of Madrasa of the project areas. - Analysis of Mid Day Meal (MDM) programme in intervention areas. Report will be prepared to understand educational infrastructure and its access to the most marginalized section of the project villages. Taking permission from the concerned offices to collect data from 14 schools of the project villages. Taking permission from the concerned Madarasa Management Committee to collect information about children and their activities. Organizing awareness meetings with community and advocacy campaign with government The village profile will have number of children in the age group of 6-18 years Distance of nearest primary school, middle school, high school & intermediate schools from the village Advocacy for hot cooked food. Details of all the schools in project villages- private and government schools. Details of all the Madrasas in project areas Detail of number of children in school Detail of number children out of school and reason for it. The data and analysis could be used for sensitizing people and making the government accountable. Profile of the areas would help in strategizing their intervention Hot MDM available . Right to Education 1 (6- 14 years) Enrolment of children from Mushar, weavers and Bunkar community. 100% children enrolled in age group of 6-14 year Present status - 6-14 year children= 1659 [M 856 + F 830] - Enrolment= 1454 [ M724 + F 730] Nutt, Mushar and Bunkar Data of children non-enrolled in school will be collected from the targeted community. Dropout of girls and reason will be prepared through case study. Activist will involve children group, CBO in designing enrolment campaign. Identified non-enrolled and dropout children will be enrolled from targeted community in the current session. Awareness generation on importance of education in first quarter All the identified children will get enrolled in primary school. Retention will be ensured by periodic monitoring by SMC, CBO and JMN Activist.
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1 The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act , which was passed by the Indian Parliament on August 4, 2009, describes the modalities of the importance of free and compulsory education for children between 6 and 14 years in India under Article 21A of the Indian Constitution. India became one of 135 countries to make education a fundamental right of every child when the act came into force on April 1, 2010. 2 - Dropout= 205 [M 132 + F 73] with the Musahar, nutt and Bunkar community and enrolment for their children will be done in the new session. Detail cases of dropout and non-enrolment Mushar, weaver and Nutt will be placed infront of Prahdan, ABSA and BSA. The reports and cases of children will be linked with quality of accessibility of education. Retention Tracking of children enrolled from target community in Primary school and middle school. 100% retention of children in the school. Children in primary school= 1734 [M 874 + F 960] Children in upper primary school= 1768 [ M855 + F 913] Total children for retention tracking= 3502 [ M 1729 + F 1773] Orientation of retention tracking tool- the tool will be developed and launched soon. In the meantime the last year retention tracking system will be followed- the tool is available with the JMN. Meetings will be organized with community on the issue of attendance and care by parents in home. Mushar, nutt and Bunkar community members will be interacted on the issue of monitoring of children More focus will be on retention of children from Mushar, nutt and bunker communities. CBO will be capacitated to develop monitoring team to collect track record of the enrolled children with detail data. ABSA and BSA will be interacted on the reason of dropout and poor enrolment. All children will continue study. In case of dropout, its case study will be prepared to address the issue of dropout. Activation of Primary and Middle school Present status as per the RTE norms - Lack of 11 teachers - Lack of 9 class rooms - Lack of clean drinking water - No separate toilets for girls and boys in most of the 100% activation of 7 Primary and 8 Middle school in programme area as per indicator. Outreach programm with Madrasa Analysis of Madrasa Sylabus and recomendaiton for Detail survey will be carried out based on the format of RTE campaign. Mapping & baseline date (profile) will be prepared of Madrasas in the project areas. Indicators of activation will be finalized in consultation with target community members on the basis of survey. Issue of poor infrastructural support will be assessed with the dropout and non-enrolment of children through case studies. CBO members will be oriented to track the status of Mushar, Bunkar and Nutt in terms of accessibility to services of schools. Leaders from CBO will be encouraged to prepare a monitoring sheet based on the broad parameter focussing on regularity of teacher, availability of MDM to all children equally, time spend by teacher in school, school attendance. DM, BSA and ABSA will be interacted on the quality of services in the school.
Increased the enrolment of children and attendance. School will fulfill some aspect of quality education. Madrasa will provide space for interaction with children- the will be the entry point.
3 schools. - Some schools do not have boundary wall. -Demand for more schools -Demand to upgrade all the primary schools to upper primary school
Bazardiah will have government primary school. All the 7 primary schools will be upgraded to the level of middle school Mapping of all the schools will be taken up. Profile of 7 primary schools will be created to prepare a case fit for its upgradation DM, BSA and ABSA will be approached with applications and data in support of upgradation of schools. Community meetings will be organised to build pressure on the govt. Advocacy will be carried out Case for upgradation will be done Process to upgrade schools will be started. Demand for new schools will be made Listing of drop out children List of out of school children Linking drop out with distance of upper primary schools Activation of SMC As on September 2013, 15 SMCs has been formed in the target villages. One of the SMC President is a women from Mushar community. Most of the members of these SMCs are new and they are not aware of their rights and duty. Orientation about school annual plan will be shared. Activist will interact with the CBO members and villagers on the issue of SMC members functioning. Provisions of RTE will be discussed with the CBO for implementation. Preliminary discussion on the group effort for the advocacy of quality education will be discussed with Mushar, Bunkar and nutt community Important aspects of RTE will be discussed with CBO in all the targeted villages. Important role of SDMC will be discussed in community ABSA and BSA will be interacted on the issue of wrong process on the formation of SMC and status of implementation of RTE norms.
Community will able to monitor the important provisions related to quality education and make teacher and Education service delivery institution accountable. Right to Education (14-18 years) 2
Mapping of high schools and intermediat e schools in project Reduction in drop out rate after 8 th
standard Linking children to high & inter Awareness about importance of schooling till 12th standard Advocacy with government institutions to fulfill their constitutional obligations Raising awareness in the masses to demand high schools in their areas Awareness generation meetings in al the three communities. Analysis will be done and report prepared with the aim to understand gaps in the access of education after 8 th
standard Understanding the issue of
2 Though education for children in the age group of 14-18 years is not a fundamental right but it is a constitutional right. We are signatory to UNCRC which guaranties development of children till 18 years of age. The Directive Principles of State Policy (Art. 41) also directs state to make effective provision securing right to education. 4 villages. Mapping of distance of the schools from project villages
school courses
reach to schools are also important expected result. Accessibility to quality education. Advocacy on education and tracking 7 primary and 8 Middle School will target as per noms of RTE Preparation of status of 10 schools will be made. Status of all the target schools will be analyzed on the basis of expenditure and allocation of budget through RTI. Interaction will be made with BSA, ABSA on the issue of quality of education. SMC will be involved in monitoring the status of Quality education of target schools. Media will be interacted on placing the issue of RTE implementation in target schools. All the school will have access to quality education in accordance with RTE Norms Access to targeted schemes (education) Listing of schemes and accessing them. All the eligible children will access to schemes. Mapping of schemes of central government, state government and other institutes for the benefits of children. Awareness generation among parents and children Advocacy with concerned department. Children will get access to quality education through accessing schemes to improve their learning capacity.
GOAL 2- HEALTH: Increased access to free equitable quality primary health care for mothers and children such that children survive, grow and develop healthily Issue Programme Target: 2012-13 Process Expected Achievement Identity [Registration of birth is still an issue for children in the age group of 1-5 years.] Birth registration new born 100% Birth Registration of new born children in 1372 families in Musahar, nat, bunker and other Sc families. Present status - New Born children= 155 [M 69 + F 86] Mushar, nutt and Weavers Awareness generation meeting with Mushar community, SC community and Bunkar community on the importance of birth registration in linkage with identity will be placed. . Door to door interaction with the support of ANM, ASHA and ICDS support in campaign on survival right/ Right to identity. Mushar and Bunkar Orientation meetings with the weavers and Mushars CBO for generating individual thematic leader from Bunkar and Mushar community on birth registration among the existing CBO on health rights. Mushar, nutt and Bunkar Mushar, nutt and Weavers Identity of children from Mushar community, Bunkar and Nutt community could get established for school admission and accessibility to social security schemes. Birth registration will emerge as one of the issue for the rights of children at district level. Bunkar Children from Bunkar community 5 - Birth certificates for new born= 97 [M 45 + F 52] - Children without BC= 58 [M 24 + F 34] Preliminary awareness generation meeting will be facilitated among the Mushar , Bunkar, and Nutt community. Bunkar community An interface with media will be organized on the issue of identity for Bunkar community Interface with Panchayat representative and newly elected MLA for birth registration of SC, Bunkar community and Mushar.
can have access to identity for weaver related schemes under unorganised sector social security act. Children involved in loom can be placed as major problem by identifying their birth certificate. Could be place to show the number of vulnerable Weavers SC community residing in the villages and slum based on family register data. Mushar, Nutt and Bunkar At the end of the year, birth certificate could be used for generating data base on the minority and marginalized community which will be helpful in advocating their issue. Mushar Mushar could end of the year advocate their own right on the birth certificate through their selected leaders.
Birth registration of Old Born ( 1-5 years ) Target will ascertained after the preliminary updation BLD. Present status: - children in 1-5 years group= 823 [M 432 + F 391] - Children without BC= 646 [M334 + F 312] Mushar and Nutt Migrant families of Mushar and nutt community will be mapped. Old children data will be collected on one to one basis. Awareness generation programme will be facilitated on the issue of up keeping of birth certificate. Families of mushar community working in brick klin will be tracked reguraly by activist on accessibility of birth certificate. Mushar, Nutt and Bunkar Data on the accessibility of birth certificate will be collected from all the community, this will provide base for organizing these community and CBO on demanding birth certificate to all the Issue of old birth registration will be placed as core agenda in CBO meetings; this will result in highlighting issue of high number of old birth registration. Mushar, Nutt and Bunkar Birth certificate for children above 1 years is bit difficult task as it required affidavit by parents All the children identified in the updated BLD will be registered and issued birth certificates 6 Awareness generation and identification of non registered children of Mushar, Bunkar and others SC. Non registration of children from Bunkar community, Mushars and SC community will be placed infront of state minority commission and SC/ST commissions. Collaboration with the DM, Secretary and BDO for organizing camp for mass registration of Old one by leaders of CBO. New elected MLA in the current state election will be interacted on the identity issue of Mushar and Bunkar community.
Improving status of preventive care.
Immunization of children (0-5 years) and Pregnant Women All the children in 1017 children will immunize (0- 5 years) All the pregnant women will immunize Mushar, Nutt & Bunkar Activist will organize meeting with the members of CBO on the issue of immunization among the Bunkar, Mushar and Nutt communities. Track record of migrant family mainly Nutt and mushar will be kept. This will help in tracking cases of incomplete immunization. Misconception on immunization will be discussed through community meetings. Community meetings and campaign on immunization will be organized on generating awareness on six killer diseases and visit of ANM in their respective hamlets Agenda for the immunization of children will be place as one of the agenda in women group. It will bring out women leaders who can monitor the immunization process in their community. Issue of non-cooperation of ANM for visiting Mushar, Nutt community hamlets will be raised in Gram Sabha meeting.
Mushar, Nutt & Bunkar All the targeted mother and children will have accessed to immunization. Decrease in IMR, MMR and CMR. Pregnant women after delivery to get the benefit of JSY. Increment in the understanding of the community on immunization of pregnant women in all the targeted communities.
Activation of ANM 8 ANMs will be actived as per indicator
Mushar and Nutt community will be oriented on the issue of service delivery status and importance of ANM. Activist will actively participate in the campaign and protest with objective to develop ownership among CBO, so that they can monitor the ANM performance. Sensitization meeting will be facilitated for SC and OBC community members, which will make the visit of ANM as per schedule. Capacity of Women group( Savitri Bai Phule mahila manch) will be strengthened for monitoring the role of ANM, through thematic meeting on role of ANM Interface with CDPO and DPM NRHM for improving health service delivery of ASHA and ANM jointly in Mushar Community and Nutt community. Increased awareness of communities on roles and responsibilities of ANMs. ANM will made regular visit in the hamlets of Bunkar, Mushar. and Nutt communities.
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Mapping and Reducing the IMR, MMR and CMR 100% institutional and safe delivery in the project areas. Death Audit Verbal Autopsy Regular Health check up children, lactating mothers and pregnant women.
For all three community Mapping of cases of death will be made by activist in line with causal relationship for all the community. In each six month data related to deaths will assessed to know the trend and pattern of cause. CBO members from each community will be involved in death audit exercise. This exercise will be further carried out for media advocacy in consistent and regular way. Regular tracking of cases of mother vulnerable to risk will be made by the CBO leaders. These tracking will based on health history of each mother. For example Frequency in Pregnancy 3 , work load, nutrition. This process will be further link with the accessibility to Govt service delivery institution and providers. Activist will facilitate awareness generation on better cleanliness and hygiene through community meeting for all the SC community (focussing Mushar and Nutt community). CBO members and parents of children from Bunkar community will be interacted on pre-natal and post natal care. Discussion on the safe birth, in linkage with pre-natal and post natal care in Mushar. Bunkar and Nutt community. Accessibility of all the pregnant women in Mushar, Bunkar, Nutt community, for institutional delivery. Cases of death will be documented; causes of death in all the three years of infant, child and mother will be discussed with detail case study in targeted community. Cases of death, among children due to non-accessibility of curative care will be filed for discussion in AHRC, NHRC and SHRC. Panchayat will be interface to provide untied fund in case of emergency to Nutt and Mushar community for reaching PHC.
Mushar, Nutt & Bunkar All the cases will be mapped detail case study will be prepared for advocacy. Decrease the number of unsafe birth. At least 80 % comparative decline in IMR, CMR & MMR. Vulnerability of mothers susceptible to death will be reduced. Improvement in the accessibility to the services of Govt health institutions (PHC, SC, ICDS, CHC) for any avoidance of death risk.
Promotion of 100 % coverage of Mapping of pregnant women and lactating mothers. Understanding of importance of
3 Tracking of frequency of pregnancy is also very important to improve health of mothers. During a field visit in Pindra village (Mushar community), the author noticed that the frequency of pregnancy is very high. This creates a vicious cycle of pregnancy & IMR, CMR & MMR. Because of high IMR & CMR, people prefer to have more children thinking some of the children would survive. 8 Pre Natal and Post Natal Care pregnant women and lactating mothers for post and pre natal care. Registration of all the identified pregnant women for the Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana (IGMSY). 4
Regular health checkups Regular supply of nutritional support from ICDS/ ECCE Creation of Food Dairy and helping them to follow it. Arrange of Iron tablets for pregnant women and guiding them to have timely. pre and post natal care for mother and child care. Understanding and awareness about benefits of IGMSY. 5
Awareness about safe delivery. All PW will access and consume iron tablets. Promotion of safe Institutional delivery 100% institutional and safe delivery in the work area will done For all three community Regular Campaign on the issue of safe delivery, pre-natal and post natal care of children will be carried out in all the hamlets of Mushar, nutt and SC community. Activist will be made door to door visit to pregnant women of Mushar, Nutt and Bunkar community with ANM and ASHA (in villages). Detail data on institutional and non-institutional delivery will be kept by organization with detail reasons. Delivery places will be marked. Awareness generation and accessibility to facility of JSY to all the community. One to one tracking of pregnant mother will be done from Mushar, Nutt, and Bunkar community, for accessibility of JSY and institutional delivery.
MUSHAR and NUTT Cases of discrimination among the Nutt and Mushar community for accessing services in institution will mapped and to be taken for advocacy to AHRC, NHRC. Pradhan will be interacted to make safai karmachari to take All the pregnant women will have access to institutional delivery There will reduction of death of mother and child during delivery. Change in behaviour of Mushar, nutt and weaving community women will be observed in reference to accessibility to Govt health institution.
4 The Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana (IGMSY) is a flagship program of the government of India introduced in 2010 under the Ministry of Women and Child Development. It is a Conditional Cash Transfer scheme which targets pregnant and lactating women 19 years of age and older who have had their first two live births. Its goal is to partly compensate them for wage-loss during childbirth and childcare and to also provide conditions for ensuring safe delivery and promote good nutrition and feeding practices for infants and young children. 5 Benefits and Eligibility of IGMSY: All pregnant women of 19 years of age and above are eligible for the benefits under the Scheme for the first two live births. The cash transfers under the Scheme are subject to the following conditions: [1] The first transfer (at the end of second birth / pregnancy trimester) of Rs.1,500 will be made on the following conditions: (i) Registration of pregnancy at the Anganwadi centre (AWC) within four months of conceiving, (ii) Attending at least one prenatal care session and taking IFA tablets and TT (tetanus injection), and (iii) Attending at least one 3. counselling session at the AWC or healthcare centre. [2] The second transfer (three months after delivery) of Rs.1,500 will be made, provided: (i) The birth of the child is registered, (ii) The child has received OPV and BCG immunization at birth, at six weeks and again when the child is 10 weeks old, and (iii) The mother has attended at least two growth monitoring sessions within three months of delivery. [3] The third transfer (six months after delivery) of Rs. 1,000 will be made subject to: (i) Exclusive breastfeeding for six months and introduction of complementary feeding as certified by the mother, (ii) The child receiving OPV and the third dose of DPT immunization, (iii) The mother attending at least two counselling sessions on growth monitoring and infant and child nutrition and feeding between the third and sixth months after delivery 9 periodic stock and care for cleanliness of new born and pregnant mother in Mushar and Nutt community hamlets and health service delivery institution. Weaving Detail discussion will be carried out with weaving community on the issue of frequency of birth and safe delivery. Special emphasis will be provided in campaign in weaving community on accessibility to heath institution.
Improving status of Curative health care. Demand for SC, PHC One PHC and SC will be demanded. Status of health will be collected from Mushar, Nutt and Bunkar community due to non-accessibility to services. Officials will be interacted for the demand for SC and PHC. Mapping of diseases of children will be done for advocating demand for SC and PHC. Evidence based advocacy will be carried out to ensure access to health services. Target community will have access to better health facility. There will be decrease in the Infant, mother and Child death due to non Availability health services. Activation and advocacy on Sub centre, Primary health centre 3 SC, 4 PHC, 2 APHC, 2 CHC will be made active as per the Govt norms. A survey will be carried out by JMN activist in the format of IPHS for SC, PHC and CHC, in the area of intervention. (Format attached as annexure with this plan). On the basis of survey, indictors of activation will be finalized year wise. Community members will be interacted on the status of services, CBO members will be oriented for the protest based on the evidence collected on the PHC, SC and CHC. Tracking of each indicator will be done periodically. Accessibility of Mushar, nutt community and Bunkar community to SC, PHC and CHC will observed. A document will be prepared on the health service accessibility, covering health behaviours, practices and attitude of service providers to these communities. Cases of treatment of children vulnerable to TB, malnourishment, water borne diseases, skin diseases will be focussed during the observation and tracking the activation indicators of SC, PHC and SC. Orientation of all target community on the facility and need of Sub- Centre, PHC, SC. Department of health, and CMO office will be periodically interfaced for improving the Services of PHC, CHC and SC.
Safe delivery and access to proper medical care will be ensured Accessibility of all the children and mother from SC community to health services. Safe delivery will ensure decrease in IMR, CMR and MMR. Though it will be difficult to assess the quantitatively about its impact on diseases like chest infections, worms, diarrhoea, TB but it will be certainly come down. There are lots of TB patients among bunker community. There are number of Anaemic patients. Only doctor can conduct to gauge test for anaimic persons but the access to health services will affect their health in positive direction also. 10 Identification and accessibility to differently abled children. All identified children will be access to certificate and Govt. provisions. Bunkar High incidences of disability in Bunkar will get documented. Activist will facilitate the identified leaders to organize them to demand smooth process of differently able children. The identified children will be linked with organizations working on disability and its curative aspects. This required specialized intervention. Mushar, Nutt & Bunkar Awareness generation on schemes for differently able among the Mushar, nutt and Bunkar community so that they can file application. Follow up of application filed by SC community, by generating demand among the community on the accessibility to the certificate and Govt provisions for differently able children.
Children will have access to better care and prevention from the schemes of Govt. bodies. All the children with disability will get disability certificates.
Goal 3- MALNUTRITION: Ensure a Reduction in the Rate of Child Malnutrition Issue Programme Target: 2012-13 Process Expected Achievements Understanding Malnutrition 6
Establishing malnutrition as an issue of hunger (not health). Meeting with all the stakeholders and sharing with them authentic documents and proven knowledge about hunger issue in India. Develop conceptual clarity of the issue of malnutrition among staff and the communities in the project areas. Enhance understanding of public work programmes & hunger issue. Awareness meeting with community Providing reading materials on malnutrition and hunger issues in UP Workshop on malnutrition for staff. Public Meeting with all the stakeholders of each project village to ensure percolation of concept to the last person of the village. Ensuring right KAP to JMN staff and the affected communities Conceptual clarity about malnutrition and food security.
Development and enhancement of community level understanding on malnutrition issue. XXX number of reference books and study material consulted XXX number of meetings organized XXX number of people per meeting attended
National Food Security Act 2013 7 . Capacity Building of staff on RTF 8 . Preparation of handbills on the important provisions of the RTF. Handbills prepared Meetings organized
6 Malnutrition is the condition that results from taking an unbalanced diet in which certain nutrients are lacking, in excess (too high an intake), or in the wrong proportions. The WHO cites malnutrition as the greatest single threat to the world's public health. Death attributed to malnutrition is 53 % (Source: Internet, World Health Report) 11 This is also know as Right to Food (RTF) Creating awareness about provision in the RTF Act among the stake holders. Organizing meetings and awareness campaign to ensure communities are empowered with information of their entitlements in the Development of community understanding on RTF Food Dairy Preparation - Community wise - Season wise Mapping of local plants with their nutrient contents. Understanding of Community Based Food Structure 9
Creation of data base of herbal tradition of the project villages Collecting detail information of lost plants of the area and endangered medicinal plants on the verge of extinction Collecting data/ information about nutrient values of existing vegetables of the areas. Enabled community with the knowledge to address malnutrition locally. This programme will be supplementing food habits through locally produced food. Food Dairy of Mushar, Nutt and Bunkar communities will be ready. Understanding of community based food structure. The organization has experience in this filed Documentation (mapping) of traditional food structure available on community lands- past & present. BLD of community food structure done in rural project areas. Analysis done KAP development Mapping and Tracking of malnourished children in Bunkar, Mushra and Nut community. Follow up of SAM cases and ensuring timely consultation Basic data available Basic Skill to measure grade of malnourished child is available in the team
Understanding about different grades of malnutrition will grow up among the community. Number of malnourished children will help organization develop plan for advocacy Moderate case will be monitored quarterly where as SAM case will be monitored every 2 months. 100 % tracking of malnourished children 100 % follow up of SAM cases Reduction in malnourishments Improvement in grades of malnourished children Improvement in SAM cases.
7 National Food Security Bill, 2013 (also Right to Food Bill), was signed into law on September 12, 2013. This law aims to provide subsidized food grains to approximately two thirds of India's 1.2 billion people. Under the provisions of the bill, beneficiaries are to be able to purchase 5 kilograms per eligible person per month of cereals at the following prices: rice at INR3 per kg, wheat at INR 2 per kg, coarse grains (millet) at INR1 per kg. Pregnant women, lactating mothers, and certain categories of children are eligible for daily free meals. 8 The Act can be downloaded from http://india.gov.in/national-food-security-act-2013 9 It is basically a hunger related issue and not a health issue but unfortunately most of the government institutions treat it as health problem hence medical solution. We must revive community based food structure to combat the menace of malnutrition. We had introduced kitchen garden in JMN Plan (2012-13) and they have shown good results. We validated during the AER (September 23-26, 2013). For detail please see the AER Report (2012-13) above. 12 with doctors. Demand for establishment of Nutritional Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) 10
establishment Establish one NRC in Varanasi. Advocacy at district and state capital to establish NRC in the district.
Awareness about nutritional rehabilitation centre (NRC) in the project villages at village panchayat level. Sanctioning and establishing of NRC Malnourished children will get access to nutritional rehabilitation Proper care of Malnourished children All the children will be tracked and given proper care. Extra nutritional support for SAM children. Causal analysis will be done by the JMN on the question of non-accessibility to nutrition, Bunkar community, mushar community and Nutt community. Detail nutrition tracking MIS will be prepared and get updated in two months for SAM cases and in 3 months for moderate. Normal children will also be tracked to prevent from falling in malnourished grade. Activist will facilitate Community meeting with all the stakeholders and community members from Bunkar, Mushar and Nutt community for creating demand of identification of malnourished children and improving their status. Awareness generation meeting with Mushar, Bunkar and nutt community will be organized, stressing the aspects of preventive care and medical care of malnourished children. Interface and demand for the accessibility of untied fund for the care of fourth grade children in Mushar community will Reduce the risk of death and infection in the malnourished child Community will be aware about different way to address issue of malnutrition.
10 NRC has been sanctioned for each district by the UP Government but it is on functioning. 13 be made from panchayat. Intervention for the malnourished children from Bunkar from the department of health. Cases will be filed to NRHC, AHRC and human rights bodies for accessibility of care to malnourished children from Govt institutions.
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ECCE 12 (0-6 years): Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE):2222 Understanding of ECCE 13 and its provision. The ECCE Policy 2013 has identified some non-negotiable services for promoting quality ECCE and shall made mandatory for all service providers. The JNM will read and documents the important services for sharing with the team and the community. Understanding on provisions and implementation guidelines at the level of community. Activation of ICDS Centres. There are 20 ICDS Centres & 2 mini ICDS Centres in the project villages. Bhatauli and Parmandapur villages dont have ICDS centres in their villages. Activation of the ICDS centres as per the government norms Linking the ICDS centres 14 with the provision of ECCE. Awareness about ideal ICDS centres among community Issue of registration of all the children and special care of all the identified, malnourished children will be discussed and place as key demand among the CBO of Mushar, nutt community and weavers group. Registration and health tracking of all the identified Mushar, weavers and nutt children Children and pregnant women from Bunkar, Mushar, and Nutt community will get quality supplementary meals this will reduce the risk of mortality. All the enrolled children will have sustained growth (height to weight). Improve the accessibility of Mushar community and nutt children for the better nourishment. All the identified malnourished children will get enrolled in ICDS
11 Food Security is still a problem with most of the people of Bunkar, Mushar & Nut communities. 12 On September 27, 2013, the Government of India notified in its Gazette a National Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) policy with the vision of holistic and integrated development of a child, with focus on care and early learning at each sub-stage of developmental continuum, in order to support childrens all round and holistic development. This is envisaged to be provided by several care providers such as parents, families, communities and other institutional mechanism like public, private and no governmental service providers. 13 The ECCE Policy refers to the formative stages of first six years of life, with well-marked 3 sub-stages- (i). Conception to birth, (ii) Birth to 3 years, (iii) 3 to 6 years. And then the linkage with primary school system will be streamlined to address the issue of continuum and smooth transition from ECCE to primary school building. For detail please visit WCD website. http://www.wcd.nic.in/ and download the whole document. 14 According to ECCE Policy 2013, the universal access to integrated child development including ECCE for all young children remains the primary responsibility of the government through ICDS. 14 in the ICDS centre will be made through community meeting Periodic sensitization on the facilities and importance of ICDS centre will be facilitated with the Mushar, Nutt and Bunkar community. Support staff of ICDS centres will be interacted to carry out tracking of all the children having poor height to weight due to poor nutrition. Interface with CMO, DPO and CDPO on the issue of malnutrition in linkage with non- availability of services will organize. CBO will be capacitated to monitor the functioning of all the ICDS centre. Enrolment of Mushar, weavers children will be strictly monitored by involving CBO members. centre. Issue occupational diseases among the weavers children or suffering of children by TB will be identified at early stage and refer to the doctor.
Community Resource Management like:- - Kitchen Garden - Plantation of trees on community lands for nutritious fruits - Promotion to develop community water bodies. Every household will be given orientation about kitchen garden. All the available lands / spaces will be utilize to grow vegetables Nutritional values of vegetables will be mapped, documented and shared with the communities. Mapping of vegetable as per the size of spaces for kitchen gardens. Mapping of trees which can provide nutritious fruits like Mahua & Berry etc. Mapping of community water bodies in the project areas. Advocacy with Village Head and panchayat secretary to develop water bodies through MNREGA programme in the villages. Access to organic and nutritious vegetable to children. Understanding about use of waste land for common concerns. Feeling of ownership of land among Mushar & Nutt communities. Check in migration: The Kitchen Garden has potential of checking migration among Mushar communities. Access to Government Schemes and Progammes like BPL Cards, Public Distribution System (PDS), Mid Linking all the eligible person with the respective programmes of the scheme. Enabling them to claim their entitlements. All the eligible persons Community Outreach Porgramme. Mapping of stakeholders Mapping of beneficiaries as per the schemes and policies. Advocacy and Awareness 15 programme Analysis of Income expenditure pattern to gauge spending towards children. This XXX number of people will get access to BPL cards XXX number of people will get access to PDS shops XXX number of people will get access to Old Age Pension and Annapurna Programme
15 For detail please see the Capacity Building, Advocacy & Awareness Plan. 15 Day Meals Program, National Old age Pension program, Annapurna program
will get access to these schemes. can be regularly taken up that benefits should be channelized for children post availing the benefits of these schemes. Development of understanding about these issue among community. Linking people with Livelihood 16
programmes like Bunkar Cards, Bunkar Cridit Cards, Bunkar Health Cards, Mahatma Gandhi Insurance Scheme for Bunkars, Artisan Cards, Artisan Health Cards and MNGREGA Linking of these schemes with livelihood and food. Identification of persons eligible for these programmes. All the identified persons will get access to these schemes. Study about these schemes Sharing of learning among communities. Advocacy with concerned departments. Awareness level will be better The community will start discussing about it and getting access to these schemes
Linking 17 of all the children with schemes available for them All the children are not going to ICDS centres Governments food programmes like Annapurna or MDM is not accessible to all the needy people. Communitys understanding of what is their rights and what they can get with little consistent efforts Empowered community with KAP 100 % children attached with ICDS MDM PDS and Other schemes Activation of PRI to use the untied fund. Access to untied fund Mapping of malnourished children Advocacy with CMO & PRI for release of untied fund for SAM children. Awareness about untied fund among community. Awareness about untied fund among PRI members. Strengthening of Understanding of Mapping of members of Mothers Development of understand
16 Livelihood problem is another major issue on the way to reduction of malnutrition. It is linked with all the three major components of quality live- health, education and proper development of a child 17 Exploitation and manipulation of schemes and services by people with power and authority 16 Mothers Committee & VHSNC for unitied funds members of MC & VHSNC about their roles and responsibilities to address issues of malnutrition. Committee (MC) & VHSNC. CB programme for them. Interface with members of these committees. Regular meeting with them to ensure proper use of untied funds. of MC & VHSNC members Making them more responsible & accountable. Community aware about their roles. Proper implementation of health guarantee scheme through schools, SMCs to follow up on presence of children Children will access to health guarantee scheme. Awareness generation about the health guarantee scheme among teachers & parents. Advocacy with the concern department. Awareness & access of health guarantee scheme.
Goal 4- PROTECTION : Contribute towards creating a protective environment for children that is free from violence, abuse and exploitation
JMN has been advised to focus on issues of education, health, malnutrition, and participation. JMN will only respond to the cases of protection in their intervention areas. Child Marriages can be addressed through child participation processes
Goal 5- PARTICIPATION: Ensure childrens voices are recognised as significant and unique in issues that affect them Issue Programme Target2012- 2013 Process Expected Achievement In significant policy engagements ensure childrens view are represented
Children Collective to address social issue by providing children group as platform based on social harmony and equality One children group in each project village- 21 villages & 1 slum 8 children groups working in structured way Meetings in schools and community with children Meetings with parents and teachers Organizing children activities to engage children and encourage them to discuss about their every day issues 4 of them have started regular meetings Strengthening inter group correspondence 18
Children will be orientated about importance of pen pall Parents, children and community understands importance of childrens participation in community
18 Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man. Says Francis Bacon 17 Formation Children Collective Strengthening of old children groups Orientation of new children groups Capacity building of already formed groups and its concept Children will be trained/ capacitated with the skill of letter writings All the children will be exchanging their ideas and dreams through letters Voice of Children (VOC) 19
VOC is being envisaged quarterly magazine 20 to highlight views of children on the issues concerned them. The VOC will be a quarterly magazine for children of all the partners. In the language of Abraham Lincoln, we may call it voice of the children, for the children and by the children. There will be two sets of editorial board- [1] PH Editorial Board [2] Children Editorial Board] Orientation on fooding habits and locally available plans and resources on food security Children collective of rural areas will be organized in a group of 5 children. They will be guided to collect information about animals and plants of their area and how these animals and plants are useful for human being. Encouraging them to meet village elders and ask about disappeared plants Documenting local medicinal plants programmes Children will be confident & vocal with proper understanding of CR issues in their villages. Childrens vies will be represented through PenPal, theatre and 5 existing groups will be strengthened 3 new groups will be formed
Status Mapping Mapping of children in 6 to 18 years age group Tracking their activities. All children are mapped Data & their profile available
The same group of children will also be collecting information about other children in order to prepare their profiles
Status report on children with special emphasis on bunker, mushar and nut Strategy to deal with children for their empowerment Empowered,
19 CRY Goal says For a credible and serious child rights organisation, it is crucial to have a deep understanding of children in their entirety and to ensure their voices are represented in all matters that affect them. This is something that CRY is 100% committed to doing. 20 Quarterly Magazine, VOC, will be part of state level activities. It will be a pilot testing for the magazine. Though it is inbuilt in JMN but finally it will go to VOP Plan. 18 happy and vocal children All children will be mapped and their profile created by children groups. Theatre Activities This is the follow up ongoing theatre activities in the state. Theatre workshop -PH + Child Facilitator (CF) -Capacity building of Child facilitator groups Theatre Festival
Participated in theatre workshop CF & children trained in theatre technique Theatre Festival or Bal Mela organized , Walter Peter will be contacted for conducting workshops Children group will participate in the workshops Theatre activities will also be organized at the village level Basic understanding of theatre and child participation will be explained Understanding of theatre and its concept to PH, CH and children Theatre techniques reaches to children collectives Participate 4 workshops organised Participate in a State level theatre festival in Lucknow. Participate in state-level Childrens festival as a platform for showcasing Childrens voices on the issues faced Children groups participate in State level Theatre Festival at Lucknow
Children perform in their villages and district headquarters Children perform at State Level Festival Children will be trained Script will be developed by them Development of play Feeling of Yes we can change the world- that is development of confidence in children Development of theatre skill among the team Participate in theatre festival in Lucknow Participate in 19 theatre activities at District & village level. Healthy Home Understanding about concept of healthy home Capacity Building of Children on Healthy Home Survey
Capacity Building 21 to ensure proper implementation of Plan 2013-14. Issue Programme Target2012- 2013 Process Expected Achievement Capacity Building ECCE Reading ECCE Policy. Sharing learning with team members and village community. Linking it with ICDS Capacity Building of ICDS Workers & Mothers Committees. Understanding on ICDS Mission. PH will collect all the information regarding ECCE Policy 2013 and make a brief note for (1) Staff and (2) community and (3) Mothers Committees. Discussion about non-negotiable 22
principals of ECCE and sharing the information with community. Public Hearing Better understanding among staff and the community. Mothers Committee monitors ICDS Services
RTE & Madrasa Education System There is need to understand issue of access & reach. Dropout cases has to be addressed through direct intervention with parents. Workshop for SMC members and empowering them with tools of School Annual Plan.
Reading of community specific materials Reading Sachar Committee Report and sharing important findings with staff & community Reading schemes for minority booklet prepared by MP partners. Workshop for teachers of Madrasa. Public Hearing organized Better understanding of SMC members. Health Verbal autopsy of IMR, CMR & Use of untied funds Better understanding about
21 CB programmes are critical to ensure proper implementation of JMN Plan 2013-14. 22 There are 11 base standards which would be non-negotiable for promotion of quality ECCE. These shall be made mandatory for all service providers. For detail please refer ECCE Policy 2013. 20 Services MMR CB of VHSNC Committes Workshop for ANM & ASHA Activation of PHC Study of prevalence of TB among children of Bunkar community. the health services. Malnutrition Conceptual Clarity of Malnutrition Kitchen Garden RTF and other food security schemes. Workshop for JMN Staff in malnutrition Public Meeting in villages on the concept of Kitchen Garden- its benefits and challenges Reading of MPs report on Sajha Chulha Workshop for ICDS workers & helper to capacitate about Study of Kuposhan Praveshika Better understanding of the issue and reduction in issue of malnutrition. Theatre Theatre workshop & training. Theatre workshop will be organized at district level and at state level for children and child facilitators.
Kitchen Garden (KG) Documentation of training of last years KG programmen. Workshop on kitchen garden concept for JMN workers. Understanding nutritional values of locally available vegetables. Follow up of learning from last years. Reading books on kitchen garden. Meetings with community about kitchen garden. Access to tools and knowledge of kitchen gardens. Access to vegetables