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- Community based Child Development Programme is an
important paradigm shift from an institutional strategy
to the family/ community.
- In 1999 - a ‘crèche’ approach;
survey revealed children overprotected and irrelevant/misfits to the
issues of the community. Hence the emergence of Child Focused Community-Based
Development (CFCDP). With the centrality of the child, the whole family
was provided socio-economic interventions to rise above the poverty
level.
- Physical growth is measured using the Road to health
card. Provision of 1500 extra calories was available through midday
meals. This is provided through day care centers – Early Childhood
Care Education Centers (ECCEC).
- NIRPHAD emphasizes interventions with gender equality
(sex ratio is falling in UP).
- Low status of women will increase violence against them
- Further, human rights of women will not only be violated but
communities will have to seek brides in other villages.
- NIRPHAD opposes diagnoses for determining sex of the child (which
may lead to foeticide).
- NIRPHAD won accolades at the “Child 2000”
Conference held at Vancouver for its poster "Who determines the
sex of the child? - the father". This enabled the staff to explain
to the family elders that women should not be blamed if they cannot
conceive a male child.
- NIRPHAD was finalist in Stockholm Challenge- 2002,
2004 and 2006.
Impact: NIRPHAD strives to enable
target groups to become self reliant and part of the national mainstream
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