Objectives

To ensure access and quality health services to the AN and PN women that encompasses

• Access the services of Primary Health Centers
• Ensuring Institutional Delivery
• Reducing the Maternal Mortality Rate
• Reducing the Infant Mortality Rate
• Ensuring feeding of colostrum and exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months

To create an enabling environment for adolescents and this encompasses

• Addressing sexual and reproductive health of adolescents and realizing their rights
• Addressing mental health  issues of adolescents
• Bridging the gap between adolescent children and their parents
• Creating education opportunities, career guidance and identifying livelihood options
• Educating Adolescent in Life skills
• Improving academic performance of school going adolescents

Activities Carried Out

1. Selection of Club Mentors, Village Health Workers and Coordinators
2. Meetings with Panchayats, PHCs, Schools and other stakeholders
3. Meeting of Family Members of AN & PN Mothers
4. Meeting with Parents and other stakeholders
5. Formation of adolescent Clubs
6. Club Activities
7. Evening Tuitions
8. Monthly Tests
9. Adolescent Club Melas
10. Summer Camp
11. Sensitization of Stakeholders
12. Capacity Building for the staff team

Outputs / Achievements

The project activities were completed in the month of September 2017. It is too early to realize the outcome of the project activities. However the following immediate outputs can be seen: 

Adolescents Development

1. Parents’ involvement increased. They realized the need and started giving importance for education of their children. They do not send their children for work for wages.
2. Club Members performance in terms of Hand writing, completing the home work and taking initiatives for new learning improved.
3. The club members’ self confidence level increased. They are able to set their short term and long term goals.
4. Club members were given opportunities to exhibit and sharpen their cultural talents. The drop out of children from schools reduced.
5. The club activities helped the members to complete their class and go to the next grades over the three years. The following table shows the No of club members passed out to the next classes.

 

Academic year	No of Clubs	Total No of Members			8th STD			9th STD			10th STD
		Boys	Girls	Total	Boys	Girls	Total	Boys	Girls	Total	Boys	Girls	Total
2013-14	29	403	443	846	40	48	88	11	16	27	8	16	24
2015-16	60	739	799	1538	148	139	287	71	51	122	19	28	47

6. About 3000 adolescents were exposed to outside world in different places over 3 years. It was evidenced that the No of Adolescent girls attended these trips higher than boys.
7. About 30 trained club mentors got opportunities as full time and part time educators in different organizations.
8. Club members realized their responsibilities in taking initiatives to address common issues of the villages
9. There was no child marriage reported in the working villages during the project period. Five such incidents were stopped through the adolescent clubs and mentors.
10. The people’s attitude towards construction and usage of toilets changed. About 377 individual household toilets have been constructed and being used.

Home Based Care for AN & PN Mothers

1. All the pregnant women (1143 AN & PN Mothers) registered with the Primary Health Centers
2. The eligible mothers benefited from different schemes by availing support
3. The AN mothers were prepared for safe and institutional deliveries. As a result there was > 98% (882 out of 895) Institutional deliveries
4. The mothers realized the importance of colostrum and exclusive breast feeding and practiced it.

Following is the Report of External Assessment carried out by Ms. Saulina Arnold, a senior Development Consultant

External Assessment Report