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| RCH >Regional Resource Centre > Current Initiatives |
| Current Initiatives |
- VHAI-RRC participated in the deliberation on the ‘Revised NGO Guidelines’ organized by NHSRC at NIHFW during the year.
- VHAI is a core member of the group on ‘Child Survival Call to Action’. It has played a significant role in the drafting of Civil Society Pledge. This has been submitted to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, GoI.
- RRC Coordinator participated in the discussion on ICPD and Beyond 2014 organized by UNFPA. This deliberation could surface the key RCH issues like the need of safe abortion under NRHM and other untouched key parameters affecting lives.
- Participation in “PNDT Workshop” organized by Integrated District Health Society (South District) on 11th January, 2013 and also had discussion to address the issue of a declining child sex ratio in Delhi with Delhi state & district officials.
- VHAI-RRC participated in the consultation on “Strengthening Skills and Competencies of Front Line Workers” hosted jointly by UNICEF, NHSRC & MOHFW and provided inputs & reflection on the present context of Institutional Arrangements for front line workers.
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| Technical and Management Training |
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A Thematic Workshop on Public Private Partnership to Restore Gender Balance and Ensure Effective Implementation of PC-PNDT Act
VHAI-RRC in collaboration with National Rural Health Mission, J&K and Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, GOI organized a Thematic Workshop on “Public Private Partnership to Restore Gender Balance and Ensure Effective Implementation of PC-PNDT Act” on 21st July 2012 at Regional Institute of Health and Family Welfare (RIHFW), Nagrota, Jammu.
The workshop was attended by Hon’ble State Health Minister, Mission Director, NRHM, J&K; State NGO Coordinator, NRHM, J&K; Officials from SHS, J&K and PC-PNDT Cell, J&K State Govt.; NGOs and senior consultants of various institutions. |
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The workshop dwelt at length on declining sex ratio and measures thereof to capture the trend in light of PC&PNDT Act and Public Private Partnership to restore Gender Balance, Social aspects of PNDT and other related issues in implementing act I letter and spirit. |
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A Workshop on Strengthening Community Based Monitoring on 21 March, 2013 at Conference Hall, Directorate of Health & Family Welfare, Dehradun, Uttarakhand |
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Regional Resource Centre – VHAI organized a Workshop on Strengthening Community Based Monitoring in collaboration with Directorate of Health & Family Welfare, Government of Uttarakhand and MoHFW, Govt. of India on 21 March, 2013 at Conference Hall, Directorate of Health & Family Welfare, Dehradun.
The workshop was successful in bringing together all the 13 NGOs implementing Community based monitoring in 13 districts of Uttarakhand and all the District ASHA Resource Centres of Uttarakhand for an exchange of their experiences and views of implementing community based monitoring in Uttarakhand. The workshop could bring forth the areas where the state government officials perceive the involvement of NGOs essential for an improved delivery and outreach of health services. |
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Key Recommendations of the Workshop
- Community Monitoring and Planning Committees - constitution, frequency of meeting, roles of members should be revised
- Mechanisms to address systemic gaps emerging from CBPM process and feeding into the planning process should be strengthened
- Capacities and mechanisms to institutionalize and scale up Community Based Planning & Monitoring
- Active involvement of MOIC for redressal of grievances for CBMP
- The payment mechanism of ASHAs under JSY should be carefully looked at in order to avoid delay as well as making it as per the services provided by them
- Cross validation of report cards, prior to presentation in Jan Samwad needs to be done
- Community mobilization through folk media should be initiated
- Introduce simple indictors for monitoring like VHSC meeting, VHND meeting, utilization of untied funds, registration of deaths & discussion
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| Advocacy |
- VHAI – RRC has been advocating the concerns of MNGOs and exploring the various opportunities for the better collaboration of GO-NGO. A series of meetings with the Mission Director and Principal Secretary, Uttarakhand have been conducted on the same.
- For constant support and guidance from the Central Government Health officials, regular Meetings with the Joint Secretary (P) and Director, NGO Division, NRHM, GoI in the Central Government sharing the activities of the RRC and understanding its future role and responsibilities.
- Meeting with the Mission Director and State NGO Coordinator, Delhi was organized to take forward the concerns of MNGOs in the state and to address the issue of a declining child sex ratio in Delhi.
- Meeting with the Principal Secretary (Health), Delhi Government was organised to discuss the possibility of a better involvement of NGOs in the State Health Programmes. As per the discussion some of the key areas which require urgent focus are declining child sex ratio, accessibility of health services in urban slums & training of ASHAs.
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Highlights of the major activities performed by RRC – VHAI during the year 2012 – 2013 |
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