Odisha PVTG Nutrition Improvement Programme(OPNIP) – Odisha PVTG Empowerment & Livelihoods Improvement Programme(OPELIP)
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Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups
Problem
- High prevalence of undernutrition among the PVTG community,
- Poor childcare practice in remote PVTG habitations where women have to work hard to support the household economy
- Parents used to leave their children with their elder siblings for their take care, due to which children were unable to attend school regularly.
- Lack of nutritious meals during pregnancy puts the children at a higher risk of diseases and mortality.
- Small children from hilly areas were not able to regularly commute to the Anganwadi centers due to geographic inaccessibility
Solution
- Facilitated Matru Sishu Poshan Kendra (MSPK) cum to provide safe and hygienic space to small children of working parents.
- Provided early childhood stimulation and close motherly care and attention through a trained crèche worker for 7-8 hours
- Provision of 3 nutritious meals, regular anthropometry & growth monitoring of children as well as a source of additional income for women
- Provision of Hot Cooked Meal (HCM) from registration of pregnancy till completion of exclusive breastfeeding to pregnant and lactating mothers
- Children of 3-6 years from remote hamlets/tagged villages living far away from AWC are provided snacks and hot cooked meals at their own village.
Outcomes
- Improved nutritional status through regular growth monitoring results and early identification of growth faltering
- Early enrolment, and adequate antenatal check-ups, ensure the dietary diversity of pregnant & lactating mothers
- Ensured the consumption of a cooked meal by the children, who are the intended beneficiaries, thus strengthening the ICDS services.
- There has been improvement in weight for age, weight for height and height for age.
- Promotion of hygiene and improvement in pre-meal & post-meal hand washing practices by children.
Challenges
- Difficult terrain of PVTG habitation
- Convincing the community to accept such initiatives as PVTGs are as such slow learners and hesitate to accept changes.
- The proposed nutrition interventions were to take prior approval with the consent of the Women and child development department.
- Capacity building of entire field staff and workers to get tuned to the programme design
- The selection process, with the involvement of other line department officials, was challenging to be completed within the limited time frame.
- Construction of buildings in remote locations and procurement and placement of all items in the center was too challenging.
Innovation
- Programme has taken the initiative to make the initiative entirely driven by the community through PVTG SHG women
- Introduction to Spot Feeding Centre for providing hot cooked meals for 3-6 years children.
- The active support from the Women & Child Development Department ensured the extension of services of ICDS to the last mile.
- The village-level committee, along with a staff of departments, monitor the programme.
- Management of centers, including timely procurement, maintaining a book of records and promoting kitchen garden.
- Early stimulation of young children before going AWC, the establishment of hand washing stations and regular anthropometric measurement
SKOCH Award Nominee
Category: Rural development – State Department
Sub-Category: secRural development – State Department
Project: Odisha PVTG Nutrition Improvement Programme(OPNIP)
Start Date: 2016-08-01
Organisation: Odisha PVTG Empowerment & Livelihoods Improvement Programme(OPELIP)
Respondent: Mr Dipti Ranjan Gantayat, Programme Officer(Capacity Building, Gender & Nutrition)
https://www.opelip.org/
Level: Excellence
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Summary
Looking at the significantly higher prevalence of undernutrition among the PVTG community, the Minorities and Backward Classes Welfare Department initiated a special outreach programme under OPELIP, i.e., Odisha PVTG Nutritional Improvement Programme (OPNIP) for improving health and nutrition amongst the 13 PVTG communities in Odisha.
Problems
Poor childcare practice was followed in remote PVTG habitations where women had to work hard in order to support the household economy. Pregnant women who lack access to nutritious meals during pregnancy put their children at a higher risk of diseases and mortality. Parents leave their children with their elder siblings, which hampers their education and small children of 3-6 years from hilly areas are not able to regularly commute to the Anganwadi centers due to geographic inaccessibility
Solutions
Matru Sishu Poshan Kendra (MSPK) cum creches provide a safe and hygienic space for the healthy growth of small children whose parents go off to work. At the creche, children receive three nutritious meals, supervised care and the attention of trained crèche workers. Pregnant and lactating mothers are provided with one Hot Cooked Meal (HCM) from registration of pregnancy until completion of exclusive breastfeeding. For PVTG children of remote villages, supplementary nutrition entitlement of Morning Snacks and Hot Cooked Meals is provided in the village of their habitation itself.
Outcomes
This project ensured early childhood stimulation and close motherly care and attention through trained crèche workers for 7-8 hours, which supports the community’s women in earning their livelihood and liberates older siblings to go to school. This improved nutritional status, early identification of growth faltering with referral to Nutritional Rehabilitation Centre, early enrolment, adequate antenatal check-up and ensured dietary diversity of pregnant & lactating mothers.
Challenges
The difficult terrain of PVTG habitation posed a challenge to effective implementation. Also, prior approval was taken from the Women and child development department to make the community ready for acceptance. The project required the capacity building of the entire field staff and workers to get tuned into the programme design and construction of buildings in remote locations. Procuring and placing all items in the center was too challenging.
Innovation
Introduction to Spot Feeding Centre for providing hot cooked meals for 3-6 years children, management of centers including timely procurement, maintaining a book of records and promotion of kitchen garden, early stimulation of young children before going AWC and establishment of hand washing station and regular anthropometric measurement
Opportunities
Programme has planned to upscale such initiative in all possible locations in old existing 541 PVTG villages and has a tentative plan to implement such initiative in newly notified 1138 PVTG villages under OPELIP Phase II
For more information, please contact:
Mr Dipti Ranjan Gantayat, Programme Officer(Capacity Building, Gender & Nutrition) at diptiranjan@opelip.org
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