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Worrying Facts. Presented by: National Trust for Population Welfare N A T P O W. Challenges. High maternal mortality 350-400/100,000 LB¹ Low skilled birth attendance 18% One out of three women marry before 18 One out of three married girls have a child by 19
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Worrying Facts Presented by: National Trust for Population Welfare N A T P O W
Challenges • High maternal mortality 350-400/100,000 LB¹ • Low skilled birth attendance 18% • One out of three women marry before 18 • One out of three married girls have a child by 19 • One-third have children less than 24 months apart • Average birth spacing among women between 15 and 19 is 21 months • Lack of access to economic resources • Cultural/Tribal/Religious traditions or customary practices
Challenges Continue • Population living below poverty line 44% • People with no access to safe drinking water 64% • People who are living in single room houses 65% • Population with no sanitation 88%
Summary Implications • Shortage • Educational facilities • Health Services • Housing Units • Food • Clean Water • Living Space • Over crowding
NATPOW Introduction • NATPOW is a non-profit Organization established by the Government of Pakistan, working throughout Pakistan since 1994. • NATPOW works with 350 CSOs/ Private Sector Partners to build effective partnerships for interventions with special emphasis on following: • Community Mobilization and Participation • Advocacy and Awareness Raising • Capacity Building • HRD • Reproductive Human Rights • RH & FP for providing better health service to the • communities.
1. Literacy for Family Health Initiative-LFHI • Partner Organization: NCHD • Objectives • Building capacity and enhance the competency of • Literacy Teachers • Aims to reach 2.5 Million direct beneficiaries in 03 years, • Targeting 25-30 students per centre and 90% women Highlighted Projects
2. Scaling-up best practices in Pakistan to integrate Family Planning into Maternal, Neonatal and Child Healthcare services (HTSP) • Objectives • To reduce maternal, newborn and infant/child mortality • and morbidity, to provide a comprehensive maternal and • reproductive health packages to flood affected areas. • Mobilize communities to promote maternal health • through LHWs • LHW and Community mobilzers will increase demand for • Family Planning Highlighted Projects
3. Family Health Center • Objectives • To provide better health services to the marginalized • communities • To provide RH&FP conselling and services, to promote • healthy timing & spacing of Pregnancy • Social Mobilization for long-term positive behavior • change of communities towards health issues Highlighted Projects
5. KAP Baseline Household Survey • Objectives • To reach out 2.1 million people 1,050,000 children • under 18,462,000 women and 588,000 men • Selected 31 most flood affected districts to protect them • from water, sanitation and hygiene related diseases • Will improve hygiene behaviors through mass • awareness campaigns that will benefit the whole • population of the districts Highlighted Projects
4. Post Flood Health Care Relief Project 2010 • Objectives • Provision of Mother & Child Healthcare services, • including RH&FP • 50 Mobile Service Units were mobilized to provide • Healthcare services to poor and needy people • Each MSU visited 3 villages per day to cater for • healthcare needs of about 5000-6000 people per day Highlighted Projects
2010 MSU Project • Villages Covered (Camps) 8,460 • Ante-Natal Care 57,931 • TT Vaccination 10,074 • Referral for Save Delivery 6,813 • Post-natal Care 26,055 • UNFPA RH Kits Distribution 15,322 • Family Planning Client 35,011 • General Ailment 158, 073
MSU Project 2011 • 25 MSUs • 7 Districts • Health Department & PWD Sindh • Safe Motherhood & Child Healthcare Services • Special Focus on: • Basic Emergency Maternal and Neonatal Care • Reproductive Health & Family Planning • EmONC • General Ailment • Health Promotion Service • Each MSUs • 05 Staff Members • LHV/ Family Welfare Worker • Community Midwife (CMW) • Family Welfare Assistant (Male), and Driver.
Flood Relief 23/09/11 • Activity planned for Mirpur Khaas • 30 tents for 60 families • 200 family bags • 20 cows for 400 families
Crisis Response Cell – CRC • Back End Support to Field Activities • Monitoring results from MSU’s • Updates from Field Staff • Share Information with Media, and Donors • Share Regular Updates with GoP, Provincial Govt., NGOs, Partners.
Way Forward • Help in sustaining NATPOW’s established 60-Family Health Centers (FHC) in Most deserving-Underserved areas of Pakistan to provide Safe Mother & Child Healthcare services, like: • Supply of Medicines • Events which can raise funds for these centers • Monthly cash for bearing expense of one center • Help for raising awareness to these communities • Donate for organizing Health management committees • Donate for saving more lives