India
Population Programme (Female) (Jan 2000 –
Apr 2001) An Awareness & Skill Development
Program for Young Women aimed at raising RCH
indicators and population control.
Municipal
Corporation of Delhi under IPP
VIII Project, Govt. of India,
provided financial support for this
programme of one-year duration
CONCEPT
Using reproductive and
child health approach to control population
of a well defined lowly literate population
TARGET
POPULATION
10,000 People living in
slums in and around Zakhira ( west Delhi)
OBJECTIVES
Improving all RCH indicators
by spreading awareness on reproductive health.
To motivate the eligible
couples of the slum population to adopt small
family norm.
To create awareness out
mother and child health facilities available
in the neighborhood Getting ANC and immunisation
of pregnant women.
To help raise their socio
economic status
To promote employment opportunities
for girls and young mother in order to make
them self reliant.
Getting pregnant women
delivered in hospitals or atleast by trained
Dais.
Getting all children immunised
on WHO guidelines.
STRATEGIES
IEC through Person-to-person
contact and group meetings in the community
Individual and group counseling
and Motivating people to adopt small family
norms.
Forming mahila mandals,
groups of adoloscent girls and mother-in-law
groups
Improving literacy level
of young women
Conducting workshops on
reproductive and child health for young female
volunteers to work as peer- educators
Empowering women through
vocational training courses.
Getting all children immunised
and all pregnant women checked by organising
Reproductive health /Antenatal cum Immunization
camps
Networking with Governement
run dispensaries and hospital for services.
RESULTS
ACHIEVED
All the RCH indicators
were raised by more than 20% at the end of
this one year project .
4800 women made aware on
Reproductive and Child health
82% of children received
full immunisation
100% of pregnant women
registered for AN checkups
Couple protection rate
went up by 31.11%
105 women trained in the
skill of cutting and tailoring