Sahiyya Movement – An empowering Process

January 21, 2006

Ministry of Health, Family Welfare, Medical Education and Research

Government of Jharkhand

VISION:

Healthy Jharkhand

& Happy Jharkhand

MISSION:“To Provide Quality Health Care

services to the last person in the Last Household of the Last Village”

Strategies for realizing our Vision

Strategies: Community Participation (involvement + Ownership) System Strengthening, Reorganization and reconstruction of the

existing infrastructure Convergence : Intra & Inter- Department Convergence Promoting active Public-private partnership Promoting integration of the Indian System of Medicines

(AYUSH) to provide choice to the people under one roof. Emphasis on the effective Capacity Building Effective Behavior Change Communication Effective HR placement and their utilization

Community Participation: An empowered Institution Building Process

Organizing Village Health Committee as an Organization in the Village

Group Organization and Leadership Development to address the Health issues in the village

Taking problem solving community action around Health issues

Mobilization & Management of Community resources as “Village Health Fund”

Government to provide the matching to the Community contribution

Action on keeping People in the Centre of Health Programme.

Community Participation: An empowered Institution Building Process (Contd.)

Focus on the Women and Children and marginalized section of Community.

Reaching to un-reach area and communities. Empowered community can analyze the cause

and effect of the Poor Health issues and identify the Health Issues of Village

Based on the causal analysis realistic Micro operational plan with strong community based monitoring system

Sahiyya, AWW and ANM are accountable to the community

Sahiyya – an empowering process

A Key Village Health Volunteer – a woman (of reproductive age) of village

Selected by the Village Health Committee No Honorarium by Government, Community will pay to sahiyya in cash or in kind A link between the community and Service providers A facilitator for convergence between ICDS-AWW &

Health worker -ANM A promoter of the Inter-personal-communication on

health issues A facilitator for community based monitoring system

Sahiyya – an empowering process (Contd.)

Village Drug Depot Holder Trained in the Preventive & Promotive Primary

Health Care A facilitator for integrated mother and child

health care (ANC, Institutional delivery and Routine immunization)

A family health communicator with the Eligible married Couple in the village.

A First Aid Provider in the community An agent for the Institutional referral and also

follow up for the completion of the treatment

Road map

Strengthening of the Sahiyya working Group Involvement of other departments like : Social Welfare,

PHED and Education Involvement of NGOs for implementation Development of Sahiyya Guideline Development of Field tested Training materials for the

facilitators and Sahiyya by Sahiyya working Group Development of Communication aid - Materials for

Sahiyya Orientation to the District & Block Health Service

Providers

NGO Partners for Sahiyya (as of Jan. ‘06)

Sl. No.

Name Of NGO No. of Blocks

Name of District

1 Krishi Gram Vikash Kendra

05 Ranchi

2 Nav Bharat Jagriti Kendra

05 Hazaribagh

3 R.K. S. Mission 04 Hazaribagh

4 Badlao Foundation 05 Jamtara

5 Samekit jan Vikas Kendra

05 Sariekela Kharswan

6 Tata steel Rural Development Society

05 Singhbhum (east)

7 Vikas Bharati 05 Gumla

Progress in – Sahiyya movement Around 1000 Village health committees have been

formed and same number of sahiyya have been identified.

We may reach to 5,000 selected and first phase trained Sahiyyas by March, 2006.

7 lead NGOs (TSRDS, KGVK, Vikas Bharati, RKS Mission, Badlao foundation, NBJK, SJVK) have been finalized and they are working in 34 blocks for formation of VHCs and sahiyaa

Convergence amongst Health, Social welfare, PHED, education and rural development departments.

An empowered health programme by empowered community – a Sahiyya Movement

Thank you