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Care India

Defending dignity - Fighting poverty. Care India. Nagendra Babu G PG/011/051. CARE - evolution. One of the largest global network Founded in 1945 to help survivors of world war II A decade later scope of work phased out to fight with poverty and injustice

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Care India

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  1. Defending dignity - Fighting poverty. Care India Nagendra Babu G PG/011/051

  2. CARE - evolution • One of the largest global network • Founded in 1945 to help survivors of world war II • A decade later scope of work phased out to fight with poverty and injustice • Headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. • CARE works in 84 countries around the world, supporting 1,105 poverty-fighting projects to reach 122 million people

  3. Care - Introduction • Leading national devp. organisation • Focus areas are extreme poverty, social injustice and health • Focus group are poor women and girls of most disadvantaged communities • Because CARE highly believes that women have the power to help families and whole community when equipped with proper resources

  4. Services provided CARE’s Community Based Efforts are: • Basic Education • Boost MCH • Prevent the spread of HIV & TB • Livelihood Improvement • Urban microfinance • Urban Health Initiative • Ending gender based violence • Disaster Response

  5. Why women & girls? • CARE India recognises that these group are disproportionately affected by: • Unequal power relations • Experience violation of their rights • Face discrimination in personal & public lives • CARE help millions of women and girls find lasting solutions to poverty by developing their potential.

  6. What Numbers say… • For every year a girl spends in school she raises her family income by up to 20 percent • Educated women, who have healthier babies and they will educate their children • When a girl receives seven years of education, she marries four years later and has 2.2 fewer children • When women earn an income, they reinvest 90 percent of it in their families.

  7. Vision and mission • VISION: • We seek a world of hope, tolerance and social justice, where poverty has been overcome and people live in dignity and security. • MISSION: • We fight poverty and exclusion by empowering women and girls from the poor and marginalized communities.

  8. CARE – programme goal • 5M women and girls from the most marginalised communities in India have the power to realise choices in personal and public spheres to advance their positions. • CARE India will accomplish this goal by working with 50 million people to help them meet their health, education and livelihoods entitlements.

  9. Where it works? • Presently working in 197 districts in 15 states with its head quarters in New Delhi • With the focus on poorest of poor and marginalised communities, caste-discriminated (SC/ST) populations, tribal people, migrant workers and women and girls • Mainly works in AP, Bihar, Gurjarat, Orissa, MP, UP, Tamilnadu and West Bengal

  10. Programmes Mainly services are provided in four areas: • Education • Health • Livelihoods • Disaster Response

  11. Education Projects under Education are: • Girls’ Education Programme (GEP) • Formal Primary Schools • Alternative Schools and Approaches to Education • Udaan • Kasturba Gandhi BalikaVidyalayas (KGBV) • Early Childhood Care and Educatio(ECCE) - Working with the ICDS System • Power Within

  12. Health Projects under Health are: • SAKSHAM • AXSHYA • Bihar Family Health Initiatives • Bihar Health Sector Reforms (SWASTH) • Enhancing Mobile Populations Access to HIV/AIDS Services Information and Support (EMPHASIS)

  13. Contd… • GaonKalyanSamithi (GKS) • Sure Start • Urban Health Initiative (UHI) • Initiative to Manage People Centred Alliances (IMPACT) • MP Tribal Project - SEHAT

  14. Health Projects • SAKSHAM – AP • Obj: Enhance capacity of NGOs and CBOs to apply community mobilization strategies for reducing risk of HIV/AIDS • Training of Institutions, programme implementation units and NGOs • Technical assistance in implementation of NACP

  15. Contd.. • AKSHYA – MP, Jharkhand, Chattisgarh - 2015 • To enhance capacity for quality assured rapid diagnosis of DR-TB in 43 laboratories • To scale-up care and management of DR-TB in 35 States/UT’s of India • To improve the reach, visibility and effectiveness of the RNTCP through civil society support in 374 districts across 23 states

  16. Contd.. • Bihar Family Health Initiatives – 2015 • With support from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, this trying to improve maternal, newborn and child health outcomes • Project goals include: • Improving the quality of key family health services and delivery processes • Increasing utilization of key services and uptake of health promoting behaviors

  17. Contd.. • Bihar Health Sector Reforms (SWASTH): • CARE is providing Technical Assistance (TA) support to Govt. (GoB) to develop a comprehensive health sector reform, a nutrition policy and capacity building • EMPHASIS: • To address vulnerability in terms of HIV-AIDS amongst population from low prevalence countries Bangladesh and Nepal to high prevalence areas in neighboring India.

  18. Contd.. • GaonKalyanSamiti – Orissa • Supporting NRHM by building the capacity of GKS members to enable them to carry out their functions effectively. • NRHM mandates the formation of GKS in each village to ensure community participation • GKS formed under leadership of MO in block • 9000 samitis were formed in nine districts of Orissa

  19. Contd.. • SURE START – UP: • Aims at bringing about sustainable improvement in maternal and newborn health status through effective community action in 2 districts of UP • Urban Health Initiative – UP: • It is designed to contribute to India’s efforts to achieve the MDG of Universal Access to Reproductive Health by 2015 • Goal: To increase CPR by 20% in four cities of MP

  20. Contd.. • IMPACT – West Bengal • To support the RNTCP to decrease the morbidity and mortality caused by TB, MDR-TB and HIV/AIDS co-infection • Strategies: • Intensification and expansion of community based DOTS treatment • Strengthening of case holding and completion of treatment among re-treatment and MDR TB pts.

  21. Contd.. • MP Tribal Project: • To improve nutrition and health status of women and children • To enable access to quality education for children from SC/ST communities in 500 villages across Sidhi and Shahdoldistricts

  22. Livelihoods Projects under this are: • Insure Lives and Livelihoods ILAL • Cashew Value Chain • Livelihood Improvement for Economic Security • Banking on Change • Urban Microfinance • Balasahyoga • Kutch Livelihood Education Advancement Project K-LEAP • Enhancing Tribal Development Outcomes - SAMRATH

  23. Disaster response Andhra Pradesh Flood Recovery Project: • Goal – Rehabilitation of flood affected families in two districts • Interventions – • Reconstruction of disaster resilient houses • Support in Income generation • Sustaining livelihoods • Crucial rehabilitation services

  24. Empower a woman Transform a ….community Create lasting …..change

  25. Thank you..!!

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