| Name of the Project |
Integrated Nutrition and Health Programme (INHP) |
Project Area |
7 sectors covering of 5 Mandals in Gudur block, Hanamkonda Block and Parkal block |
Project Status |
January 2003- 2008 |
Source of funding / Supported by |
CARE-INDIA |
Target group |
women and children with poor nutrition |
Goal |
Main goal of INHP is mother and child welfare aimed at improving the nutrition and health status of vulnerable women and children
|
Objectives |
To mitigate the suffering of the vast multitudes of the population at risk of Under nutrition, Malnutrition, Morbidity among women and children in Andhra Pradesh |
Approach/Strategy |
INHP-III End point envisages that, the empowered communities shall access demand and control resources, sustain and spread behaviors for optimal maternal and child nutrition supported by responsive systems, utilized by all
Strategy
- Care for antenatal
- Care for lactating mothers
- Care for Newborn child
- Importance of breast feeding to infants
- Complimentary feeding
- Importance of Vitamin – A for both mother and child
- Immunization for children
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Main Activities |
activities in the fields of:
- Capacity building to ICDS supervisors on Nutrition and Health through streamline and Joint AWC visits, Block meetings, Project meetings, Sector meetings and NH Days.
- Creating awareness in mothers through and AWW by using pictorial booklet.
- Providing need based inputs to the community and counseling the mothers.
- Strengthening counseling skills to mother’s committee leaders bring behavior change in mothers
- Continuous monitoring of beneficiaries through house to house visit to
know whether she is receiving the necessary counseling from AWW, ANM and CA
- Co-ordination with Integrated Child Development Schemes (ICDS) and Health departments for regularizing Nutrition and Health Days.
- Support AWW to update records, social map and to ensure no left outs and dropouts.
- Coordination with ICDs, Health and PRI members
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Results/ No of beneficieres |
We have achieved the goals of this year through community meetings, house to house visits, mass awareness programmes etc. |
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