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POPULATION
FOUNDATION
OF INDIA
State Level Advocacy Conference at Patna
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Population Foundation of India otganised a
two-day State-level Advocacy Conference on
Population Stabilisation, Health and Social
Development Issues in Bihar on December 14-15,
2002, at Hotel Maurya, Parna. The Conference was
inaugurated by the Honourable Minister of Family
Welfare, Government of Bihar, Dr Shakeel Ahmad.
Experts from international organisations, senior
officials from Central and State government; invited
speakers for making presentations from Delhi and
Parna, members of the Governing Board of the
Foundation and representatives of dedicated institu-
tions and non-government organisations concerned
with the issues participated in the Conference.
Dr Shakeel Ahmad released a Wall Chart on Bihar:
Population and Development: 2002 and District-Profile
of Bihar specially brought out by the Foundation.
The two days deliberations of the Conference
were able to bring out government/non-govern-
ment/international perspectives of population,
health and social development issues and the
Lighting of lamp (left) Dr Bharat Ram, Chairman, PFl
(right) Prof Ranjit Roy Chaudhury and Mr B G Deshmukh,
• Members, Governing Board, PFI and Mr A R Nanda, Executive
Director, PFI
• important role of advocacy in promoting
population related programmes in the
• State. Population experts presented an
overview on health, population and
development scenario of Bihar and
also on Population of Bihar and
Jharkhand: past trends and future
prospects.
Dr Shakeel Ahmad, Minister of Family
Welfare, Government of Bihar and
Dr Bharat Ram, Chairman, PFI,
releasingPopulation and Development:
2002 Wall Chart of Bihar. Others seen
(from left) are Mrs Avabai B Wadia,
Mr B G Deshmukh, Members,
Governing Board, PFI and
Mr A R Nanda, Executive Director, PFI.
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Engendering Population
Stabilisation
The new era in population and development after the Inter-
national Conference on Population and Development at Cairo in
1994, emphasised on quality of care and the well-being of human
beings. This can be achieved by recognising the interrelationships
between population and development policies and programmes aimed at
achieving poverty eradication, sustained economic growth, education,
especially for girls, gender equity and equality, provision of universal
access to reproductive health services, including family planning and
sexual health.
Human well being is the core concern of development and population
stabilisation, but it has been acknowledged that there is a disparity
between women and men where developmental attainments are
concerned. This difference has its roots in a social system where women
are less valued than men. The subordinate status of women in society
deeply influences their health status.
Reproductive rights embrace certain human rights. These rights rest
on the recognition of the basic right of all couples and individuals to
decide freely and responsibly the number, spacing and timing of their
children and to have the information and means to do so, and the right
to attain the highest standard of sexual and reproductive health and also
the right to make decisions concerning reproduction free of
discrimination, coercion and violence.
Gender discrimination between men and women has not only
deprived women from their reproductive rights but from many other
rights throughout the life cycle.
The last round of Census in India (2001) has brought to light the fact
that proportion of girl children had reduced (mostly due to sex selective
abortion with sex determination using ultrasound and other technolo-
gies) despite increases in literacy and economic well being. Besides,
emotional and physical abuse; differential access to food, health care and
education; child marriage ete. are some flagrant acrs of gender discrimination.
National Population Policy, 2000 has recognised the overriding
importance of women's empowerment and improvement in the welfare of
the girl child as thrust areas in population programmes. Population
stabilisation is to be seen in the larger context of gender equity and
equality, as well as a rights-based approach. Any ad-hoc and truncated
approach bereft of such consideration will be counter-productive in the
long run.
Policies and programmes need to change. This entails developing an
integrated approach that addresses the need for widespread social,
cultural and economic changes, in addition to legal reforms. The girl
child's right to be born and survive, and equitable access to health,
nutrition, education and opportunities in life have to be protected and
promoted by State and civil society at any cost.
Governments, legislators, community and religious leaders, family
members, media, academics and others need to pro-actively promote
gender equality and equity. Leaders at all levels, as well as parents may
promote positive role models that motivate boys to become gender-
sensirive adults and enable men to support, promote and respect women's
sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, recognising the
inherent dignity of all human beings. A beginning has already been
W made. What is needed is a sustained advocacy and constant vigil to usher
in the process of change.
(A RNanda)
• Continued from page 1
The Conference brought in sharp focus the grim
realities in Bihar in relation to growth of population,
• socio-economic condition of the State, bureaucratic
• structure, poor health service-delivery, unmet need in
: relation to family planning, low-level of literacy etc.
The recommendations emerged out of the two days
• Conference were presented at the Valedictory session.
Recommendations for Bihar
1. Present health and population scenario of
• Bihar is a matter of concern and deserves urgent and
concerted action by all. Bihar is the only State where
decadal growth rate (growth rate during the last
• decade) has gone up. Although fertility is falling
• slowly in Bihar, it has given rise to substantial
regional variations within the State. It will take at
• least 30 years for fertility levels to reach the replace-
• ment level in Bihar, if present trends continue. This
can only be reversed if proactive steps are taken.
The current trends show that 75% population
• growth in Bihar would be in the age group 15-59.
Suitable jobs should be provided locally, otherwise
: out migration from Bihar would reach mammoth
• proportions.
The State should formulate and come out with a
• Population Policy, which may include time bound
• programmes for population stabilisation and major
• employment and income-generating schemes.
2. Similar conferences may be organised at each
• division and in selected districts of the State.
Apart from having district profiles, we should
• consider having block profiles. Areas where
• government has withdrawn, silent gaps can be filled
up with NGOs efforts.
3. Panchayats should be made focal points for
• implementing programmes in rural areas. There is a
• need to empower and strengthen Panchayati Raj
Institutions in Bihar. The Foundation may like to
• take-up the programmes based on its past experience
in Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. M S Swaminathan
• Research Foundation and Institute of Social Sciences
models can also be considered in this regard.
4. Advocacy with politicians, religious leaders,
• legislators, government officials and other decision
• influencers is needed. There should be common
• community-based agenda addressed with a common
• voice. There is also a need to sensitize the 'advocates'
• who are advocating on gender issues, age at marriage
and adolescent health and rights.
Media has a major role to play in population
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stabilisation and social development of Bihar.
There is also a need for informed debate on
value-based issues like respect for human beings/
human dignity. Different types of communication
messages for different segments of society are needed •
to create awareness and sensitize them on crucial
issues of gender inequality and women's rights to
health and sexuality.
Rights-based approach is needed for addressing to •
women's and children's issues.
5. Unmet needs are prevalent in large areas of
Bihar. People should be provided with all available
choices for family planning. Condom vending
machines may be installed at public utility places.
They have to be maintained well after installation.
"Sulabh Prasavalayas" (Maternity Huts) for safe-
delivery and health care of the mother and the new-
born should be established. These are cost-effective.
A trained dai can be placed at each centre. This will
Mr A R Handa, Executive Director, PFI, (left) presenting the
• recommendations during the valedictory session, others seen
(from left) are Mrs Avabai B Wadia, Mr B G Deshmukh,
• Ms Justice Leila Seth and Prof Ranjit Roy Chaudhury,
• Members, Governing Board, PFI
help in increasing the level of institutional deliveries,
Indian System of Medicine can be tapped and
as a large number of women go to traditional dais
promoted in rural areas.
for delivery.
COMPFED (networking of dairy cooperatives),
Dual protection programmes through condoms
an alternative model of socio-economic development
and IUDs will playa crucial
is a self-sustaining and sound
role in protecting the women
from RTIISTD, HIV/AIDS as
well as for spacing/birth
Different types of
communication messages
business model providing
employment to a large number
of people. It also has a Rural
control. This can also help in
for different segments of Family Health Project. This
reducing maternal mortality and
morbidity. ANMs can be
involved in this programme by
society are needed to
create awareness and
model can be urilised for
promoting other health and
social programmes in Bihar.
organising refresher training
programmes. There are 66 per
cent of the chemist shops
existing in remote areas of
sensitize them on crucial
issues of gender
inequality and women's
Models for involvement of
private clinics and hospitals
could be evolved replicating
from elsewhere. There is a need
Bihar. They can be made nodal
distributors of contraceptives
like condoms and oral pills.
rights to health and
sexuality.
to address to the issues of
quality of care and medical
standards in providing the
Indian Medical Association
health services.
may be approached for promoting IUCD
6. There is an urgent need to improve the literacy
programmes.
• level, especially female literacy. The age at marriage is
JANANI's model is a ray of hope as it is reaching : another issue linked with female literacy, as 75 per
the unreached in Bihar in providing family planning • cent of the girls get married before the legal age of 18
services. This should be supported and tailored to • years. Ministry of Human Resource Development has
suit the poor.
• to play an important role in this regard. Zilla
Tele-family welfare programmes developed by
• Sakhsharta Committee in each District with District
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, can be
Magistrate as a Chairman, can also play an important
promoted and urilised. This can be taken up by the
role in promotion of literacy programmes. NGOs can
Government and the funding agencies as these
supplement this task through their interventions.
programmes provide personalised healthcare and
Women's empowerment can playa major role in
treatment to the community at a lower cost.
improving the population situation of Bihar. By
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raising the economic status of women, we can reduce
State Government should have better mechanism
the gender bias and can also address other issues
• and coordination between health and family welfare
directly or indirectly related to population stabilisation. • departments. State Government may also consider
The adolescent health and development
• placement of a senior officer for RCH and FW
programmes can be promoted through integrated
• matters to assist Secretary (FW). Consultants may be
and coordinated efforts of national, international,
: hired by Government of India for providing support
government, non-government, community based
• to the Department. There is a need for infrastructural
organisations and the beneficiaries themselves. There • and workforce rationalisation and strengthening of
is a need for sound information based scientific
• monitoring and financial management capacity.
planning for effective programmes using an epide-
There should be a single window system inside
miological approach for community based opera-
the government. The proposals should be approved
tions and management of sustainable programmes. • at the district/state level within the given time-frame
7. There is a need for efficient operation of the • for submission/ approval at the Center.
State Committee of Voluntary Agencies (SCOVA) to
8. There are a good number ofNGOs working at
channelise the funding from the Government.
• the district level. Although many networks of NGOs
A quarterly meeting with Chief Secretary of the • have been created in the past, but to address the
State on population issues should be organised.
• population issues, a homogenous network is
required. A network of networking agencies can act
Meeting with the
Honourable Chief
• as a facilitator for effective implementation of
• programmes at all levels. It was proposed that
Foundation can play an important role in this regard.
The present scenario of Bihar needs long-term
Minister of Bihar
• partnership (20-25 years) of government, NGOs/
• SHGs/Gram Sabhas/Media/Professional bodies and
Chairman of Population Foundation of
India, Dr Bharat Ram, along with members
of the Governing Board and Executive Director,
met Smt Rabri Devi, Honourable Chief Minister
of Bihar on December 15, 2002. Others present
were Dr Shakeel Ahmad, Honourable Minister
of Family Welfare, Shri Shyam Razak, Minister
of State for Energy and officials of Government
of Bihar.
• priority should be given to health and education.
The non-government organisations should work
• complementing and supplementing the government
initiatives. Close coordination with the government
• may help in expediting a change.
Greater transparency and accountability is
required among NGOs/CBOs.
9. People's movement in birth registration apart
from population stabilisation, health and social
• programmes is needed.
Alternate financing programmes can be consid-
• ered, such as micro-health insurance schemes.
Members of SHGs and Panchayat Wards can be
• encouraged for monitoring of the programmes in
• their areas.
Self-Help Groups should be promoted to provide
• self-employment to the marginalised community
: and to financially empower them. Health and family
planning programmes should be a part and parcel of
the economic empowerment of the community.
Support should be provided to 'good practices'
and 'research' for wider dissemination.
Smt Rabri Devi, Hon'ble Chief Minister of Bihar with
the Chairman & Governing Board Members of PFI
10. A follow-up meeting was suggested by
• forming a Task-Force to be operated from Patna.
Others seen (from left) are Shri Shyam Razak, Minister
of State fOr Energy, Dr Shakeel Ahmad, Minister of
Family Welfizre and officials of government of Bihar.
• The Foundation would like to invite like-minded
• organisations and networks for formulation of
• concrete future action plans in the state.
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Population Foundation of India organised a
Press Conference on November 29, 2002, at
India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, to share
with the media Foundation's present activities and
its future plans. Dr Bharat Ram, Chairman,
Mr B G Vetghese, Dt Abid Hussain, Membets of
the Governing Board and Mr A R Nanda,
Executive Ditectot, addressed the Press Conference.
Around thitty journalists from print and electronic
media wete present.
Dr Bharat Ram in his address said that stabilising •
population is an essential requirement fot promoting •
sustainable development with more equitable
distribution. However, it is as much a function of
making reproductive health care accessible and
affordable for all, as of increasing the provision and
outreach of primary and
secondary education,
extending basic amenities
Stabilising population
transport and communica-
tions.
including sanitation, safe
drinking water and
housing, besides empower-
ing women and enhancing
is an essential requirement
for promoting sustainable
development with more
While explaining the
reproductive health
conditions prevailing in
India, Mr A R Nanda
their employment opportu-
nities, and providing
equitable distribution.
emphasised that there are
areas that need priority
attention. The Foundation
has decided to focus its activities on socio-demo-
• graphically backward areas comprising 327 districts,
• mostly in the states of Bihar, Chattisgarh,
• ]harkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Rajasthan,
• Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal and 122 districts in
• 13 states and Chandigarh (union territory) having
• child sex ratio less than 900 per 1000 males.
Strong advocacy efforts are needed to involve and
• empowet a range of different constituencies,
• including policy planners, government service
• providers, activists, non-government organisations
• and the media to catalyze a process of networking so
• that gender-sensitive and rights-based population
Dr Bharat Ram, Chairman, PFI (second from left)
addressing the Media. Others seen (from left) are
Mr A R Nanda, Executive Director, PFI, Mr B G Verghese
• and reproductive health ethos are effectively
• internalised and programmes responding to
• community needs are designed with the active
and Dr Abid Hussain, Members, Governing Board, PFl
• involvement and participation of the community.
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Ionrder to optimise its interventions in matters
of advocacy, policy dialogue, research and
piloting new approaches, Population Founda-
: over the years in response to changing priorities in
• the country, particularly with respect to Reproduc-
• tive Health, Reproductive Rights, mainstreaming
tion of India organised a three-day interactive
• gender concerns and decentralised programme
workshop during October 7-9, 2002.
• planning and implementation. Mr A R Nanda,
Dr G Giridhar, CST Adviser, UNFPA,
Executive Director, PFI, shared his valuable
Kathmandu facilitated this 3-day workshop.
• thoughts and his expectations from the exercise.
Mr Francois M Farah, UNFPA Representative for
PFI's professional staff made presentations on
India, was present during the first forenoon of the • various projects of the Foundation, its various
workshop and made valuable contributions.
• activities related to advocacy programmes, monitor-
Ms Ena Singh and Ms B Bhamathi ofUNFPA
: ing and evaluation procedures etc. SWOT analysis
Country Office in Delhi, made very useful presenta- • (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats)
tions on how UNFPA programmes have evolved
• was conducted and comparative advantage of PFI in
the context of national
Foundation's Mission
priorities was discussed. The
workshop also briefly dis-
cussed the 7-S framework-
The Population Foundation of India (PFI) is dedicated to promote effictive
strategy, structure, systems,
formulation and implementation of gender sensitive population and development
staff, skills, style and shared
policies, strategies and programmes. PFI seeks to accomplish this by extending
technical and financial support to individuals and civil society institutions;
piloting innovative approaches; and building support at the nationaL
sub-national and community levels through informed advocacy.
• The Foundation endeavors to address the critical issues of population, health
values, and a need was felt to
articulate PFI niche areas
more clearly consolidating the
projects with respect to
geographical coverage,
functional area coverage,
and sustainable development for better quality of life by increased access to services, funding levels and steps to
promotion of advocacy programmes, capacity building at various levels and
improve effective monitoring
facilitating enabling environment for optimal utilisation of resources.
• The Foundation aims to promote, expand, build awareness and strengthen
commitment towards a rights-based approach, empowerment of women, increased
male responsibility, a life cycle approach, gender equality and equity, informed and
and evaluation. The three-day
workshop was very purposive
and useful. All the discussions
were summarised and PFI's
Mission Statement was drafted
expanded choice of contraceptives and promotion of small family norm by forging
and finalised.
meaningfUL partnerships with institutions both in public and private sectors.
Prof Ranjit Roy
• The Foundation strives to focus its activities on issues of reproductive and sexual
health and rights, HIVIAIDS, child health 6' rights, women's health, adolescent
health and development, unmet need for family planning services and female
foeticide. The vision encompasses serving the economically weaker and
marginalised sections living in the socially and demographically backward districts
Chaudhury, Member
Governing Board, PFI and
Mr Francois M Farah,
UNFPA Representative,
attended the concluding
session of the workshop.
of the country for sustainable social change.
Mr Nanda appreciated the
• The Foundation acts as a think tank and advocate at various levels in
support received from
formulating and influencing population policies and programmes. It serves as a
catalytic agent to promote programmes directed towards the goal of population
stabilisation and development.
UNFPA and reiterated his
desire to carry Out the
suggestions arising out of the
worl<shop.
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rucentlYth,e Foundation initiated community
radio programmes in the states of Bihar,
hhatisgarh, and Orissa. Meetings with
local non-government organisations and script
writers were held at Jagdalpur in Chhatisgarh and at
Patna in Bihar.
At Jagdalpur, the Foundation organised a meeting
with representatives of non-government
organisations on November 19, 2002, with the
support of Bastar True Light Samiti, a local NGO.
Forty nine NGOs from Chattisgarh, twelve NGOs
from the border areas of Orissa and some media
persons attended the meeting. The purpose of this
meeting was to bring all NGOs of Chhatisgarh and
Southern Orissa at one platform to make them
understand the concept of community radio
programme and how effectively they can use this
communication tool in empowering the community
on health, population and social development issues.
Script wtiters, who were well-versed with the
community
• problems, were
• encouraged to
• write scripts. The
• local media
• appreciated
• Foundation's
• initiative. Representatives of NGOs, media and script
• writers assured their full cooperation and support in
• making this programme a success.
At Pama, the Foundation organised a meeting
• with reptesentatives of non-government
• organisations on December 13, 2002, with the
• support of Bihar Voluntary Health Association,
• Pama. Representatives of fifteen non-government
• organisations were invited from different districts,
• where medium-wave programme of All India Radio,
• Pama has the reach. Script writers' workshop was
• organised on the same day fot inviting scripts from
• the writers who are associated with AIR-Pama.
The 2001 census revealed that there has been
a dramatic drop in child sex ratio (0-6) in
Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal
Pradesh, Maharashtra and Punjab as compared to
the 1991 census.
In Delhi, the child sex ratio has fallen below 850
as per 2001 census. Female foeticide and infanticide,
and deliberate neglect of the girl child are the main
causes for the sex ratio differentials.
Considering these increasing practices of
neglecting the girl child in general and female
foeticide in
particular, Popula-
tion Foundation of'
India supported an
advocacy
programme of the
Centre for
Women's Develop-
: ment Studies, New Delhi, for organising awareness
• generation campaigns against female foeticide
• among teachers and students of Delhi Colleges and
• Universities. The objectives of these campaigns were
• to raise awareness among students and teachers
: against sex determination by motivating voluntarism
• and to influence Government and Parliamentarians
• to expedite the amendment process of the Pre-Natal
• Diagnostic Techniques (PNDT) Act. The college
• students were chosen because these adolescents will
• be the future parents and important agents for social
• change. Through students, parents and other
• members of the society could be reached.
Various campaigns have been organised by a core
• group formed out of 19 north and south Delhi colleges.
• Cultural activities, such as screening of films on
• female foeticide in the colleges,road shows, choreogra-
• phy shows, street plays, debates, etc. were the part of
• campaigns which were also supported by the media.
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Mr Harishankar Singhania and Mr Jamshyd
N Godrej, country's renowned industrialists and
Governing Board members of PFI, have been
conferred with Padma Bhushan, a civilian award
on the Republic Day of 2003.
Prof Ranjit Roy Chaudhury, President of the
Delhi Society for Rational Use of Drugs and
Governing Board Member of the Foundation,
has been awarded the UNESCO/UNITWIN
Award by the Director General-UNESCO at
Paris on November 13, 2002, for outstanding
contribution in the field of rational use of drugs.
: "Development strategies for increasing access to
early safe abortion services" organised by IPAS India
• at Ranchi, on December 17, 2002.
• '" Dr B P Thiagarajan, Joint Director (M&E) was
• invited by the Foundation for Research in Health
• System (FRHS), Pune, for a visit to their project
• areas during September 29-30, 2002.
· * Mr Vincent Victor, Joint Director (lEe) and
: Mrs Geeta Malhotra, Programme Officer (lEe)
conducted a training programme on "Behavioural
• Change Communication" for the field-level workers
• of Christian Medical Association of India (CMAl)
• from various regions, at New Delhi, during October
30 - November 1 2002.
'" Executive Director attended and also chaired the · * Dr Sharmila G Neogi, Programme Officer (RCH)
inaugural session of the meeting on "Abortions in • attended a workshop on "Prevention options for women
India: How can Research help us move forward"
• - female condoms & rnicrobicides"at India Habitat
organised by Population Council at Goa on
• Centre, New Delhi, during October 10-11, 2002.
November 10, 2002.
• '" Dr Sharmila G Neogi attended a workshop on
'" Executive Director had a meeting with
"Role ofNGOs in sustainable development" organised
Mr Richard T Scholesberg,President and CEO, Packard • by AlWEFA at New Delhi, on November 11,2002.
Foundation on November 12,2002, at New Delhi.
'" Ms Sunita Arora, Programme Associate, partici-
'" Executive Director attended the International
• pated in an international conference on "Safe
Planned Parenthood Federation's 50th Anniversary
motherhood best practices" organised by The White
Symposium on November 14, 2002, at New Delhi. • Ribbon Alliance India at New Delhi, during
• '" Executive Director attended "National Seminar on • October 3-6, 2002.
• Social Security" organised by Rajiv Gandhi Social
'" Ms Sunita Arora, attended a State-level workshop
Security Mission, Govt. of Rajasthan, during
• on "Approaches to improving adolescent reproductive
• November 19-20, 2002, at the Harish Chandra
health in Bihar & Jharkhand" organised by
• Mathur Rajasthan State Institute of Public
• International Centre for Research on Women
• Administration, Jaipur.
• (ICRW) held at Parna during November 19-20,2002.
• '" Executive Director attended the "National
• '" Dr A A Jayachandran, Programme Associate
Conference on Rural Health" at Loni, Maharashtra, • (M&E) attended and presented a paper on "Age at
• organised by Pravara Medical Trust, Loni, during
• marriage in India: still an enigma to be solved" in
December 5-6, 2002, and presented the lead paper • Population Association of America Conference in
• on "Population Policy: Numbers vs Quality".
• Atlanta, Georgia, USA, during May 9-11,2002, at
• '" Executive Director attended a workshop on
• Hilton, Atlanta.
Meeting with Management Sciences for Health
Mr Dennis Brown, European Director and
Mr Paul S Lalvani, Consultant, Management Sciences
for Health (MSH), France, visited the Foundation on
October 3, 2002 and made a presentation on the
working pattern of MSH collaborativelywith health
care policy-makers,managers, providers, and consum-
ers to help dose the gap between what is known about
public health problems and what is done to solvethem.
Mr Lalvani shared with the participants, who were
from various national and international organisations,
about MSH's four technical areas of excellence:
Health Services, Health Reform and Financing,
Leadership and Management, and Pharmac~utical
Management. Their activities are focussed on
educating health care managers, providers, and
consumers through technical assistance, training,
applying practical management skills to public
health problems in public and private sectors and
replicating innovations in health management. This
model was proposed for remote areas where people
could be benefited from it and get standardised
medicines for health care.
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kfour-dayinterface meet was held at the
Foundation during November 26-29, 2002
n empowering SHGs on Reproductive and
Child Health/Family Planning. Representatives from •
the following partner NGOs attended the meeting:
• Bal Niketan Sangh, Indore, M.P.
• Indian Potash Limited, Amravati, Maharashtra
• NIAHRD, Cuttack, Orissa
• MYRADA, Bangalore, Karnataka
• SAADOW, Dindigul, Tamil Nadu
• CRED, Madurai, Tamil Nadu
The purpose of the meeting was to discuss in derail:
• The training content and methodology to be
adopted for training the animators.
• The implementation strategy, modalities of
monitoring and evaluation.
• • Networking among NGOs involved in the
project for sharing of their expertise and
materials among them to enrich the project.
Major recommendations and suggestions were
• given on the planning of baseline survey, selection
• and training of animators, linkages and
• arrangements for referral of identified cases with
• health problem, IEC activities at village/slums,
• monitoring by the NGOs, end-line survey, etc.
• Dr Dinesh Kumar Sarangi, Hon'ble Minister of
Health & Family Welfare, Jharkhand State.
• Mr Dennis Brown, Mrs Sandhya Rao and
Mr Paul S Lalvani of Management Sciences
for Health (MSH), USA.
• Dr Cynthia Steele, Vice President (Program),
international Women's Health Coalition
(IWHC), New York.
• Mr Carl Haub, Population Reference Bureau,
USA.
• • Dr Saroj Pachauri, Asia Region Director and
Dr Shireen J Jejeebhoy, Senior Programme
Associate, Population Council.
• Dr Vijay Dhasmana, Member, Presidential Body
& Finance Controller, Himalayan Institute
Hospital Trust (HIHT), Dehradun.
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To enhance the overall health and develop-
ment of adolescent~ ~13~18 ye~rs) focussing
on career opportunities mcludmg a special
component on sexual and reproductive health in
Dehradun, Udham Singh Nagar and Nainital districts
of Uttaranchal, the Foundation has collaborated
with Himalayan Institute Hospital Trust, Dehradun.
• To empower adolescents on issues of reproductive
health, protection against STDs, HIV/AIDs and
sensitise them on issues of gender equality and
equity through schools and kishore/kishori groups in
selected semi-urban areas around Telco Colony in
East Singhbhum District of ]harkhand, the
Foundation has collaborated with Parivar Ka1yan
Sansthan, a non-government organisation supported
by Tata Engineering Company (TELCO).
• To empower adolescents on issues of reproductive
health, protection against STDs, HIV/AIDs and
sensitise them on issues of gender equality and
equity through schools and kishore/kishori groups in
selected urban bastis in ]amshedpur, ]harkhand, the
Foundation has collaborated with Tata Steel Family
Initiaties Foundation.
• To build the capacity of small non-government
organisations in eastern Uttar Pradesh for effective
implementation of reproductive and child health
•
Centre for Rural Entrepreneurship and Technical
• Education (CREATE).
• • To build the capacity of the health personnel of
: the 26 dioceses of the Church of North India on
relevance of Behavioural Change Communications
in implementation of health and social development
• projects, the Foundation has collaborated with
• Synodical Board of Health Services (SBHS), Church
• of North India, New Delhi.
•
•• To sensitise elected representatives on population,
• health and social development issues in Sahaspur
• and Vikasnagar blocks of Dehradun and ]aunpur
block ofTehri Garhwal, the Foundation has
• collaborated with Emmanuel Hospital Association,
• Dehradun.
• • To sensitise members of Self-Help Groups on
• issues related to reproductive and child health in
• cyclone affected areas of Kendrapara and
• ]agatsinghpur districts of Orissa, the Foundation has
• collaborated with Voluntary Health Association of
India in Orissa with its APARA]ITA project.
projects/programmes, the Foundation has set up its
eleventh Regional Training & Resource ·Develop-
ment Centre at Mirzapur in collaboration with
• To create easily accessible training facilities fot
• doctors and ANMs from private, NGO and public
• sectors in selected districts of Bihar; to deliver large
volumes of family planning services at affordable
prices to the low and low-middle income groups and
• to benchmark and promote quality of care, the
Foundation has collaborated with ]ANANI, a non-
government organisation in Bihar. The project will
• be implemented initially in the district headquarters
• of three districts-Motihari (East Champaran), Purnia
and Gaya.
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N,tackingpoverty directly-as a matter of
human rights, to accelerate development
nd to reduce inequality within and among
nations-has become an urgent global priority. World
leaders have agreed on a variety of new initiatives,
including the United Nations' Millennium Develop-
ment Goals (MDGs). According to UNFPA state of
world population 2002, development has often
bypassed the poorest people, and has even increased
their disadvantages. The poor need direct action to
bring them into the development process and create
the conditions for them to escape from poverty.
The world's nations agreed as long ago as 1994
that population and development work is central to
this purpose. The 1994 International Conference on
Population and Development (ICPD) addressed
population and reproductive health concerns within
a broad development framework, stressing the need
to incorporate diverse population issues-including
growth, location, age distribution and movement,
and their evolving dynamics-in addressing issues of
sustainable development.
The ICPD adopted important goals, including
better reproductive health, universal education and
Millennium
Development Goals
Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education
Goal 3: Promote gender equality and
empower women
Goal 4: Reduce child mortality
Goal 5: Improve maternal health
Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis,
malaria and other diseases
Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for
development
• gender equality, all within the context of human
• rights. Work toward these goals fits seamlessly into
the MDGs, and reinforces progress towards them.
Works towards population goals helps reduce poverty
in severalways. Two of the most important are:
• Slower population growth has encouraged
• overall economic growth in developing countries.
Since 1970, developing countries with lower fertility
• and slower population growth have seen higher
productivity, more savings and more productive
investment. Incomes, the usual measure of poverty,
• have risen across the board.
• Incomes do not tell the whole story. Successful
• developing countries have also invested in universal
• health care, including reproductive health, and
• education. They have moved to reduce gender
inequality and remove obstacles to women's partici-
pation in the wider society. These social investments
: promote human rights. They improve human well-
• being, help close the gaps between the poor and the
• better off, and reduce the disadvantages under which
• poor people labour. Poor people themselves measure
• the quality of their lives in this broader way.
: (Exurptr from UNFPA state of world population2002-peop/e,
• poverty &possibilities)
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Population Foundation of India participated in
the Sixth Social Development Fair held at
Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, during
:
December 7-15,2002. The objective of the Fair was
to focus important development issues such as
empowerment of women; gender equality; health
concerns including maternal and child health,
adolescents, aged etc.; promotion of literacy, HIV/
AIDS, drugs and narcotics, environment and other
related issues of population and development
through government and non-government efforts.
The Fair provided a good opportunity to the
Foundation to share its multifarious activities and
publications with a large number of visitors.
New Joining
Mr Subir K Kole has joined the Foundation
as Programme Associate (M&E) on 1S{
January 2003. Before joining the Foundation,
Mr Kole was working as Programme
Manager with MAMTA-Health Institute for
Mother and Child, New Delhi.
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