India: Childhood Malnutrition Eradication Program
Second Quarter 2014 Malnutrition Eradication Program Report
October 07, 2014
By Michael Matheke-Fischer, Santosh Pal & Amit Purohit
Summary of Activities
Our team of 60 Community Nutrition Educators (CNEs) and 6 District Coordinators is covering enormous ground every week across 5 districts and 600 villages in Madhya Pradesh. Our strategy continues to be closing the gap between the resources available and the families who need them by focusing on the basics of malnutrition awareness, identification, treatment, and prevention and inserting simple, but innovative technologies and practices.
- Continue to identify new SAM and MAM cases, refer complicated cases to the NRC and provide home-based counseling for all malnourished children
- Review all program data and make necessary changes in program reporting system
- Refer 1,000 SAM children to government centers for treatment with a 50% success rate
- Conduct 2,500 Community Nutrition Meetings
- Conduct 9,000 Individual Family Counseling Sessions
- Send CNEs to Nutrition Rehabilitation Centers (NRCs) to help counsel families present
- Continue to develop linkages with government health and nutrition services
- Continue pilot with Digital Green trust to produce and screen nutrition and health based videos in Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh
- Strengthen institutional capacity with support from World Bank’s India Development Marketplace Award.

Results &
ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Severe Acute Malnutrition
Identified 707 children suffering from SAM in Q2 (up from 358 in Q1)
Identified children suffering from SAM and gave counseling to the caregivers of each of these children. Saw an improvement from SAM to MAM in 402 children and ensured the 14-day treatment of 209 of the most serious cases at local Nutrition Rehabilitation Centers

Moderate Acute Malnutrition
Identified 1,633 children suffering from MAM in Q2 (up from 1,067 in Q1)
Identified children with MAM and provided one-on-one counseling to the caregivers of these children. Saw an improvement from MAM to normal in 1,112 children

Group Training Sessions
Village and Family Nutrition Training
Conducted 2,293 village nutrition training sessions, with over 15,398 people in attendance. Conducted 15,143 family counseling sessions

Community Based Video Screening Parternship with Digital Green
100 Villages reached
Since program began:
• Produced 36 Videos on Immunizations, Sanitation, Hygiene, Nutrition, and Diet
• Conducted a total of 2,771 disseminations in 100 villages, reaching 10,839 households
• Recorded 2,963 practice adoptions directly resulting from our videos.

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.

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Numbers
Served
During this quarter the Malnutrition Eradication program
- Identified 707 children suffering from SAM and gave counseling to the caregivers of each of these children
- Saw an improvement from SAM to MAM in 402 children
- Identified 1,633 new children with MAM and provided one-on-one counseling to the caregivers of these children
- Saw an improvement from MAM to normal in 1,112 children
- Successfully ensured the 14-day treatment of 209 of the most serious cases at local Nutrition Rehabilitation Centers
- Conducted 2,293 village nutrition training sessions, with over 15,398 people in attendance
- Conducted 15,143 family counseling sessions


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