UNICEF COOPERATION IN INDIA

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UNICEF COOPERATION IN INDIA

• DR.S.K. CHATURVEDI
• UNICEF

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OVERVIEW

• INDIA TODAY Situation of Children and Women
• UNICEF IN INDIA Overview of the Government of
  India UNICEF Country Programme 2003-2007
• Selected key results of programme interventions

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INDIA - 2001
POPULATION 1027 million CHILDREN 0-14 350
million (34) CHILDREN 0-6 158 million (15)
Source Census, 2001
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THE OVERALL PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES ARE TO...

• Empower families communities with appropriate
  knowledge skills for the better care and
  protection of children.
• Expand partnerships in order to promote
  concerted collective action for children.
• Improve knowledge base on children that informs
  policy, supports programme formulation, improves
  monitoring and influences public discourse in
  civil society.

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SLOWER PROGRESS IN . . .
reducing infant mortality
64
55
Deaths per 1,000 live births
Target 45 by 2007
Source SRS
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REPRODUCTIVE CHILD HEALTH
Border District Cluster Strategy

• Immunization services
• Antenatal care prevention/management of low
  birth weight
• Community-IMCI (IMCI India)
• Essential/Emergency Obstetric Care and PMTCT
• Targeted Vitamin A and iron supplementation
• Community based child care

Border Cluster Districts 50 districts gt85
million people targeted, including 13 million U5s
Border Cluster Districts 50 districts gt85
million people targeted, including 13 million U5s
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REPRODUCTIVE CHILD HEALTH Key selected results

• Maintained high polio immunization coverage.
  There are fewer cases of wild polio virus this
  year than ever before.
• Steady progress in strengthening routine
  immunization coverage, consolidation and
  expansion of injection safety through procurement
  and supply of auto-destructible syringes.
• 72 health facilities now offer improved quality
  emergency obstetric care in targeted districts in
  two states.
• Integration and convergence of health and
  nutrition services in the 50 BDCS districts.
• Improved management of health services in the
  BDCS districts through the revitalisation of the
  sub-centre level of care
• Blood storage units established in first referral
  units in targeted districts.

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CHILD DEVELOPMENT NUTRITION
Selected key results

• Vitamin A distribution now part of routine
  immunization in 14/15 UNICEF supported states,
  more than 50 million doses provided.
• In 4 districts in one state, mothers feeding
  babies colostrum increased from 23 62 (1999-
  2003) underweight among under-threes is at 41,
  compared to state-wide norm of 54.
• Positive Deviance project in 95 villages in
  West Bengal led to elimination of severe
  malnutrition in these villages. Project expanded
  to larger scale.
• Important new law on infant feeding enacted.
• Programmes to combat anaemia among adolescent
  girls supported in 11 states. In 2 states, all
  girls receive supplements.

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CHILDS ENVIRONMENT Selected key results

• Rural water and sanitation reforms accelerated
  the Total Sanitation Campaign sanctioned for 350
  districts.
• In one state in just one year, 1 million
  household toilets installed.
• 20 water quality testing labs established and
  equipped in one state where arsenic has been
  found in water supply. An effective home filter
  for arsenic developed.
• Thousands of families are now using home fluoride
  removal filters with very positive results in two
  states.
• District plans for school sanitation are now
  being operationalized.
• Drought-proofing in 15 districts in one state
  completed.

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EDUCATION Selected key results

• Organised back-to-school campaign at the
  beginning of the school year attained near
  universal enrolment in select states.
• Identified 14000 schools across 14 states to
  demonstrate what constitutes quality learning
• Developed and provided gender-sensitive teaching
  learning materials for primary classrooms.
• Child-centred and interactive teaching methods
  developed for single teacher schools and a core
  group of (25) teacher-trainers have been trained
  in each state.
• Creation of reading corners in every classroom
  and provision of creative reading material short
  stories, rhymes, songs etc.
• Improved school environment through school
  sanitation and hygiene campaign with community
  support.
• Alternative learning opportunities created
  through - bridge courses, residential camps,
  alternative learning centres for out-of school
  girls, especially those belonging to socially and
  economically marginal groups in 4 states.

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HIV/AIDS Selected key results

• More than 300 PPTCT teams from Medical Colleges
  in state and districts hospitals have been
  trained.
• Coverage of PPTCT services increased.
• 60 of women who access PPTCT services accept
  voluntary counseling and testing. 90 of those
  who are HIV-positive and deliver at an
  institution take ARV.
• National guidelines for in school prevention
  education have been finalized, along with
  supporting communication tools.

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CHILD PROTECTION
Selected key results

• State policies on child labor elimination were
  influenced by UNICEF-supported learning in action
  interventions in three states.
• Breakthrough on policy focus on child
  trafficking prevention rather than rescue.
• Knowledge base on trafficking (in particular for
  commercial sexual exploitation of children) has
  been established.
• In the carpet belt, efforts to eliminate child
  labor expanded to three districts (1.6 million
  people,650 villages).
• Pilot projects on child labor elimination was
  supported in hybrid cotton seed production and
  migrant labor affecting roughly 4,000 children.