India: Childhood Malnutrition Eradication Program
Fourth Quarter 2014 Malnutrition Eradication Program
May 20, 2015
Michael Matheke-Fischer, Prabhakar Sinha, Santosh Pal

Results &
ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Household Reach
Increase due to Migrant Families
Household coverage greater than expected due to early return of migrant families

Cluster Screenings
Numbers Down
Cluster screenings not as successful as anticipated due to intradistrict migration for daily wage work

Knowledge Retention
New Tools
Initial challenge in recording adoptions of knowledge retention, corrected with development and implementation of new knowledge tools

Background
& Objectives
Background
This project empowers communities through health literacy and connects rural communities with the government health and nutrition services available. This project aims to prove that a holistic, decentralized, community-based approach to malnutrition eradication will have better health outcomes, be more inclusive for children under 5, and will be more cost-effective in the long-run than centralized approaches, especially for rural, marginalized tribal communities. Our team of up to 75 Community Nutrition Educators (CNEs) and 6 District Coordinators has covered enormous ground across 5 districts and 600 villages in Madhya Pradesh.
Objectives
- To reduce the prevalence of underweight children under 5 years old and to reduce child mortality from malnutrition by strengthening communities and village level government facilities’ capacity to identify, treat, and prevent malnutrition.
- Continue to identify new SAM and MAM cases, refer complicated cases to the NRC and provide home-based counseling for all malnourished children
- Refer 1,000 SAM children to government centers for treatment with a 50% success rate Quarterly
- Conduct 2,500 Community Nutrition Meetings Quarterly
- Conduct 9,000 Individual Family Counseling Sessions Quarterly
- Send CNEs to Nutrition Rehabilitation Centers (NRCs) to help counsel families present
- Continue to develop linkages with government health and nutrition services
- Strengthen institutional capacity with support from World Bank’s India Development Marketplace Award.

Numbers
Served
Q4, 2014
• Identified 325 children suffering from SAM and gave counseling to the caregivers of each of these children
• Saw an improvement from SAM to MAM in 283 children
• Identified 742 new children with MAM and provided one-on-one counseling to the caregivers of these children
• Saw an improvement from MAM to normal in 627 children
• Successfully ensured the 14-day treatment of 150 of the most serious cases at local Nutrition Rehabilitation Centers
• Conducted 1,298 village nutrition training sessions, with over 10,101 people in attendance
• Conducted 10,736 family counseling sessions


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