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The 11th Five Year Plan. The Working Groups’ Recommendations. Some Important Measures are:. NON-NEGOTIABLE RECOMMENDATIONS IN THE AREAS OF: ICDS AND Nutrition Early Childhood Education Child Protection Girl Child. 2. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING WATER & SANITATION):.
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The 11th Five Year Plan The Working Groups’ Recommendations
Some Important Measures are: • NON-NEGOTIABLE RECOMMENDATIONS IN THE AREAS OF: • ICDS AND Nutrition • Early Childhood Education • Child Protection • Girl Child
2. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING WATER & SANITATION): • Access to clean drinking water will need to be planned for and rigorously implemented and be suitably redesigned and operationalized • Explore replicating on a large scale the experience of Sulabh Shauchalaya of establishing low-cost sanitation technology. • Introduce environmental sanitation in all schools in the rural areas/urban slums etc.
2. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING WATER & SANITATION): • Distribution of key micronutrients and addressing the problem of nutrition and anemia among women and children. • Building up an effective health system capacity so as to clearly focus on important health outcomes spelt out in National Health Policy 2002. • The outputs to be achieved and outcomes projected to be in line with the Millennium Development Goals.
3. POLICY MEASURES AND STRATEGIES FOR ADDRESSING PROBLEMS OF SLUMS • Creating and updating database on slums (through using Geographic Information System • Slum improvement in the context of 74th CAA. Participation process to include communities, civil societies and elected representatives. • Augmenting and facilitating access to serviced land for slum dwellers • Granting Tenure Security for Slum Dwellers
4. EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN • Important Thrust areas for the Eleventh plan: • Nutrition and gender • Emphasis will be on provision of adequate supplementary nutrition and micro nutrient supplements • Health and gender • Use life cycle approach, strengthen institutional deliveries, capacitate health staff and make health centers operational, address high rate of MMR.
4. EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN • Important Thrust areas for the Eleventh plan: • Vulnerable groups • Special attention will be paid to: • Women impacted by Violence • Women impacted by internal displacement, disasters and Migration • Women and Labour (domestic labour, destitute women who are homeless) • Women and Health( women affected by HIV/ AIDS, women suffering from life threatening diseases, women with disabilities, elderly and aged women) • Slum Dwellers • Single women (Adolescents, widows, Divorcees) • Transforming SHGs to community based organizations • Such collectivization can enable them to operate on a bigger scale and can truly come up as poor peoples’ institutions. They would also be in a position to shift from micro credit to larger credit facilities offered by banking institutions and thus will come into their own as a formidable economic force.