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Name of the ICDS Projects

Project Code

Category of Project (Central Sector / State Sector)

Nature of Project (Rural / Tribal / Urban)

Year of sanction

1

MAYURESWAR-I

1

Central Sector

Rural

1982-83

2

MD BAZAR

2

Central Sector

Tribal

1982-83

3

SAINTHIA

3

Central Sector

Tribal

1982-83

4

BOLPUR

4

Central Sector

Rural

1984-85

5

ILLUMBAZAR

5

Central Sector

Rural

1984-85

6

KHOYRASOLE

6

Central Sector

Rural

1985-86

7

LAVPUR

7

Central Sector

Rural

1985-86

8

NANOOR

8

Central Sector

Rural

1984-85

9

DUBRAJPUR

9

Central Sector

Rural

1986-87

10

RAJNAGAR

10

Central Sector

Rural

1989-90

11

SURI-I

11

Central Sector

Rural

1989-90

12

SURI-II

12

Central Sector

Tribal

1990-91

13

RAMPURHAT-II

13

Central Sector

Rural

1991-92

14

MAYURESWAR-II

14

Central Sector

Rural

1992-93

15

NALHATI-II

15

Central Sector

Rural

1992-93

16

RAMPURHAT-I

16

Central Sector

Rural

1993-94

17

MURARAI-I

17

State Sector

Rural

1993-94

18

MURARAI-II

18

Central Sector

Rural

1993-94

19

NALHATI-I(NGO)

19

Central Sector

Rural

1996-97

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Description

Activities

1

Supplementary Nutrition Programme (SNP)

156012 children aged 0-3 years, 141187 children aged 3-6 years and 55771 P74regnant and Lactating Women’s are receiving cooked food for 25 days in each month through 4784 Anganwadi centers.  

2

Pre School Education (PSE)

67955 Boys and 67865 Girls aged 3 to 6 years going for non-formal pre-school education in 3816 Anganwadi Centres for 25 days in each month.

3

Immunization

Immunization for children and mothers are provided from the Sub Centres of Health in each Wednesday of every week. Few outreach immunization camp are also provided from the Anganwadi Centres on Tuesday and Thursday of every week. On the same day Health checkup for mothers & children are also conducted.  DOTS service is provided on Monday and Friday from the Sub Centres of Health.  

4

Mother’s Meeting

Mothers meeting and Health camp are held on the 2^nd Thursday in all the Anganwadi Centres and on 3rd Thursday in the outreach areas in para or hamlet. 

5

Weighment of children

Children are weighed on 2^nd and 3^rd Tuesday in all the Anganwadi Centres. Proper Counselling and referral services are provided by the Anganwadi workers in case of malnourished children i.e. Grade- III to Grade-IV.

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Description

Activities

1

Anganwadi Building Construction

Total 796 no. of Anganwadi Building has been constructed from various fund like RSVY, PUP, BRGF, RIDF, MSDP, Panchayat etc fund. And also 264 Anganwadi building has been under construction, 450 AWCs have been proposed for construction.

2

Training Programme for CDPOs/ Supervisors/ Anganwadi Workers

For implementation of Positive Deviance Programme training for CDPOs/ BMOHs/ Supervisors (Health & ICDS) and AWWs have been arranged from district cell to GP level.

3

Sanitation facilities

Toilet and Sanitation facilities are available 95 no. of Anganwadi Centres.

4

Drinking Water facilities 

Drinking water facilities also available in 1700 no. Anganwadi Centres.

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Description

Activities

1.

Positive Deviance Programme

 Positive Deviance (PD), also popularly called “Keno Parbo Na” (Why can’t we do it?) in Bengali is a community based initiative to bring about sustained behavioural change of primary care givers regarding infant & young child feeding and care practices to address malnutrition among children below 3 years of age. The approach uses collective learning as a means to identify affordable and easy to follow child care practices followed by a handful of individual families to nurture their babies; and spread it amongst other families living in the same socio- economic milieu.

PD aims at reducing malnutrition among children below 3 years.

Strategy:
§         Capacity building of service providers at all levels
§         Convergence / multi-sectoral partnership
§         Community participation & mobilization
§         Promotion of local solutions to address problem of malnutrition
§         Gender sensitive child care practice
§         Behavioral change

Broadly, the PD approach has two phases for implementation:

·           Phase I: Community Mobilization to make malnutrition visible in a community using simple monitoring tools viz. Community growth chart, Social Map, Mother & Child Protection Card (MCPC) and COHORT register. The community is sensitized on the magnitude of child malnutrition in the area through weighing of children and documenting it in these tools – most of which are color- coded and gives a visual impression of the nutritional status of children of the area.

·        Phase II: Deals with identifying PD practices already existing in the community and advocating it through Nutrition Counseling and Child Care Sessions (NCCS) for reduction of malnutrition.

To identify PD practices, Focus Group Discussion (FGD) with caregivers and Positive Deviant Inquiry (PDI) in three households of each normal and moderately malnourished children are held, the result of which are shared with the community in a community meeting.

The Nutritional Counseling and Child Care Sessions are 12 day monthly sessions where the best practices prevalent in the community are learnt by the care givers of moderate and severely malnourished children through a process of “Learning by doing”. During the NCCS, which is mostly held at the AWCs, community contribution in the form of vegetables, eggs as well as participation of mothers in cooking are promoted to increase community ownership in management of child malnutrition.

Apart from hands on demonstration and practice of proper child feeding, group counseling sessions are held involving mothers/ primary caregivers where they learn issues ranging from Safe Delivery, Care of New born, early and exclusive Breast Feeding and timely and appropriate complementary Feeding, Immunization to Hygiene, Diarrhoea, ARI, Micronutrients, HIV/AIDS as well as need for Hygiene practices like hand-washing and cleaning utensils before feeding the child. They also learn child feeding technique (active feeding). These sessions empower the care givers and build their confidence in rehabilitating their children into higher nutritional grade.

The caregivers are urged to practice the same behavior at home for the remaining 18 days of the month. At the end of 6 such monthly sessions, there is usually significant weight gain in most moderate and severely malnourished children.

The skill based training on early and exclusive breast feeding and timely introduction of appropriate complementary feeding given to ICDS functionaries along with Health functionaries during IMNCI resulted in better counseling leading to improved practices at household level pertaining to EEBF & TCF.

Programme coverage:

Launched in March, 2006 with financial support from RCH-II under Department of Health & Family Welfare, the program is implemented by ICDS Department (Department of WCD & SW) with technical and monitoring support from UNICEF. Presently, the program is covering all 19 blocks of the district where PD has been initiated in a phased manner.

Achievement: A total of 2407 out of 2407 pre 1^st phase AWWs in the district have been trained on community mobilization techniques to make malnutrition visible to the community. Training on PD approach for initiation of Nutritional Counseling and Child Care Sessions (NCCS) has been completed in 1295 AWCs. Of them trained in PD, 678 have initiated NCCS for organization of community level malnutrition management camps covering 8000 moderate and severely malnourished children approximately. Moreover, 454 AWCs have been linked to SHGs/ mother support groups for assisting AWW in management of community based malnutrition management sessions.
 

2.

 KSY (Kishori Shakti Yojona)

A self empowerment training programme for Adolescent Girls. In this scheme adolescent girls are trained by various training like Kantha Stitch, Toy Making, Boutique Work, Beautician course, Agarbatti making etc. 2244 nos. for the year 2006-07, 1140 nos. for the year 2007-08 and 1425 nos. of  adolescent girls has been trained in this district.