Plan India Lets Girls Be Born

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• Sex-selective elimination of female foetuses,
  often through the misuse of the very technology
  that was developed for the care of an unborn
  child, continues to be a problem.
• Let Girls Be Born (LGBB) is an advocacy project
  through which Plan India, with the support of
  Plan International Netherlands, works to end
  discrimination and fight female foeticide through
  effective implementation of the law. The project
  is currently active in Jharkhand, Rajasthan and
  Uttar Pradesh.
• Innovations
• Geo-tagged mapping of testing centres on a portal
  that strengthens Pre-Conception and Prenatal
  Diagnostic Techniques (PC PNDT) cells through
  online tracking and compliance
• Changes in Governance Delegating Chief Medical
  Health Officers (CMHO) powers to the District
  Magistrate (DM) for effective enforcement of PC
  PNDT Act and to prevent any probable collusion
  with the offenders

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• Plan India undertakes capacity building of
  Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) who
  are trained at regional and block levels and then
  cascade their learning to peers and communities.
  These frontline workers (FLWs) coordinate,
  collaborate and consolidate efforts across the
  state to record and analyse data, identify and
  address gaps through grassroots level
  facilitation.
• Plan also works with the state governments to
  showcase learning from other successful
  initiatives across India. Piloted in Rajasthan,
  the Mukhbir Yojana or Informant Scheme
  incentivises sharing of information on centres
  providing sex determination services or operating
  illegally. It is now also active in Uttar Pradesh
  and Jharkhand. LGBB also works with volunteers
  empanelled by the State Legal Services Authority
  from the National Legal Awareness Programme and
  trained paralegals to disseminate information
  through Lok Adalats. The programme works with the
  communities on behaviour change and helps create
  a dialogue on roles for girls in the
  socio-economic context.

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• Active engagement with Panchayati Raj
  Institutions (PRIs) has led to the display of
  Guddi-Gudda boards within communities that
  present gender-segregated data. Effective tools
  for behaviour change, the boards drive ownership
  and spark reflection within communities over the
  issue of declining sex ratio. Peer educators and
  youth clubs have emerged as the backbone for
  community mobilisation and facilitation of
  on-ground actions. With work making rapid
  progress at both advocacy and grassroots levels,
  Plan is well on its way to ensure equality for
  girls right from their inception.
• Highlights
• Support to develop and manage the PCPNDT portal
  in Jharkhand. Called Garima Jharkhand the
  portal is being used to effectively monitor 938
  registered ultrasound centres and genetic
  laboratories such as IVF centres.
• 1,632 girls enrolled for governments flagship
  Sukanya Samiridhi Yojna with a total deposit of
  Rs 63,74,200 in the name of the girls by the
  parents.
• 848 girls enrolled for state-specific girl
  welfare schemes such as Mukhya Mantri Sukanya
  Yojna in Jharkhand, Rajshree Yojana in Rajasthan,
  and Kanya Sumangla Yojna in Uttar Pradesh.
• 99,650 community members reached with messaging
  on girls rights.
• 3000 students benefitted through the
  strengthening of Child Clubs and their libraries
  on gender equality in 15 schools of Jaipur.

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