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Page 1: vanguard

Nourish to Flourish:

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INDIA SPENDS 4.5%OF GDP ON HEALTH STILL 42.5% CHILDREN IN INDIA SUFFERS FROM MALNUTRITION

Prevalence of underweight children in India is among the highest in the world double than Sub-Saharan Africa

Madhya Pradesh has highest population suffering from malnutrition

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SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM

The multi-

stakeholder

platform

Works to align and

coordinate action

across sectors.

Women’s Empowerment

& Employment

Health

Development

& Poverty

Reduction

Agriculture

Education

Social

Protection

strengthen political

structure

Improve Socio-political

discrimination

Improve

PDS

Eradicate Gender

inequality

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SPECIFIC ACTIONS FOR NUTRITION

Feeding Practices & Behaviors:

Encouraging exclusive breastfeeding up to

6 months of age and continued

breastfeeding with appropriate and

nutritious food up to 2 years of age and

beyond .

Antenatal and prenatal care of mother .

Fortification of foods: Enabling access

to nutrients through incorporating them

into foods.

Preventing food adulteration.

Micronutrient supplementation:

Direct provision of extra nutrients.

Treatment of acute malnutrition:

Enabling persons with moderate and

severe malnutrition to access effective

treatment.

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NUTRITION-SENSITIVE STRATEGIES

-Education & Health

In community: Giving practical and informational

training about : Nutrition, Breast

feeding , Good hygiene, Family

planning etc.

Promoting community based

projects with strict monitoring.

Part from providing rice and wheat

introduce other supplements of

nutrition (pulses, oilseeds, fruits

and vegetables.

State should priorities health

schemes especially concerning to

small children eg: ICDS(Intregrated

child development scheme).

Conduct nutrition training in agriculture , commerce and planning sector.

Nutrition as a subject in primary and secondary schools In curriculum..

Nutrition professional education with training medical and paramedical colleges.

Provision to compel doctors and other health personnel to serve remote areas.

Increase the number of doctors , nurses and health workers to handle 1.27 billion population of INDIA.

In curriculum:

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IMPROVING AGRICULTURE

Dealing land disputes

• Reducing defragmentation of land by security of property rights.

• making conflict management committee .

• Capacity building with local and regional farmers.

Strengthen

of existing programmes

• Strengthening farm credits.

• Crop Insurance programmes.

Improve agricultural

practice

• Adopt improved cultivation practices.

• Promoting biofortification.

• Improve post harvest management.

• Increase cultivation of traditional crops eg: legumes,pulses,roots etc.

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SURVEILLANCE Ensure transparency

• Introducing GPS system in vehicles carrying food grains to track on the trucks transporting food grains.

• Introduction of coupon system: where beneferies are provided with coupon bearing barcode .

Implementation of Right to Public Services by introduction of technology

• A interactive voice response system where citizen can call a helpline and get clarification regarding their entitlements and services.

• use of a service delivery monitoring software.

• Software to register complaint and automatically generating 3 SMS to the concerned department.

Make citizen charater

• Aware the public about it to demine the accountability of government.

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OTHER AREAS TO IMPROVE:

Employment

• Promoting their culture and giving them source of employment through it.

Awareness

About : Malnutrition and methods to prevent it, various welfare schemes, human rights, girl upliftment, etc

Through street play, puppet shows, radio, cable T.V, handbills, logo, media , internet etc.

After passing of food security bill and introduction of awareness campaign

against malnutrition by WCD with other welfare schemes and programme has

done a lot in this area but many primary problems are in dire need to tackle so

that malnutrition can be eradicated from the root s of the country.

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ORGANIZATIONAL SETUP FOR THE INITIATIVE

Chief controller

IT Team (to create employment opportunity)

Recruitment Team

Media

Co-ordination Team( coordination between the intersectoral

departments)

Finance Team

Curriculum Team ( experts of

various fields e.g.: cultural expert, health, tourism etc.)

•Regional organization

works under chief

controller team .

•One Regional controller

for each of 100 regional

and district centers

identified for imparting

of vocational training.

•He/she will be

supported by a venue

volunteer, co-ordination

volunteer, Trainee

groups and local NGO

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F

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Organizational cost (4 core per annum

approx )

Chief controller

Central teams

Regional teams

Logistic cost (40 lakh per annum approx)

Transportation cost

Establishment cost

Technology cost

(1crore per annum approx)

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CHALLENGES MITIGATION

Lack of family interest in

community based programme.

Lack of social pressure in

nutrition advocacy

limited availability of

qualified personnel in rural

areas to adequately address

the problem.

Cross sectoral coordination

complexity.

Availability of financial

resources

coordination and scaling of

the public distribution

programme with the local

NGOs, health and nutrition

officers at municipal and

regional levels

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REFERENCES

1. World bank

2. Cenus of India

3. World health organisation of India

4. Publication by ideas for India

5. Planning commission report

6. BBC News

1. Census of India

2. World health organization

3. Publication by Ideas for India

4. Planning commission report

5. BBC News

6. Ministry of women & child

development(WCD)

7. Public distribution system of INDIA

8. Credit for photos: bbc.co.uk, the guardian,

chowrangi.pk

REFERENCES


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