Poshan Abhiyaan (National Nutrition Mission) is India’s flagship programme to improve nutritional outcomes for children, pregnant women and lactating mothers.
Launched in March 2018, the programme, through use of technology, a targeted approach and convergence, strives to reduce the level of stunting, under-nutrition, anemia and low birth weight in children, as also, focus on adolescent girls, pregnant women and lactating mothers, thus holistically addressing malnutrition.
The programme aims to ensure service-delivery and interventions by use of technology, behavioural change through convergence and lays down specific targets to be achieved across different monitoring parameters over the next few years. To ensure a holistic approach, all 36 States/UTs and districts are being covered in a phased manner i.e., 315 districts in 2017-18, 235 districts in 2018-19 and the remaining districts in 2019-20. More than 10 crore people will be benefitted by this programme.
Digital Empowerment Foundation with technical support from UNICEF India is implementing the communication outreach and dialogue for achieving behaviour change in selected districts across 9 states.
26-29 December 2018, India Habitat Center, New Delhi
A team of two Lead Trainers (LT) from New Concept Centre for Communication development facilitated the Training-of -Trainers for 17 members of DEF as Master Trainers (MT), who in turn are expected to trainer 200 Poshan Preraks selected by DEF in conducting community dialogue on the 9 themes around nutrition targeted at 4 primary target population – Pregnant women, lactating mothers and infant, children and adolescent girls. They are also required to use the Mera App for monitoring of the intervention.
The 4-day sessions covered information on Poshan Abhiyaan, Facilitation and communication skills, use of communication material developed for the Poshan Abhiyaan for community dialogue and use of Mera App. The training concluded with mock sessions by the participants demonstrating their training and facilitation skills.
