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Government Schemes for Nutrition

Poshan Abhiyaan

POSHAN Abhiyaan is a multi-ministerial convergence mission with the vision to ensure attainment of malnutrition free India by 2022. The objective of POSHAN Abhiyaan to reduce stunting in identified Districts of India with the highest malnutrition burden by improving utilization of key Anganwadi Services and improving the quality of Anganwadi Services delivery. Its aim to ensure holistic development and adequate nutrition for pregnant women, mothers and children.

The Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD) is implementing POSHAN Abhiyaan in 315 Districts in first year, 235 Districts in second year and remaining districts will be covered in the third year.

Major Features

  • The POSHAN Abhiyaan, as an apex body, will monitor, supervise, fix targets and guide the nutrition related interventions across the Ministries.

  • The proposal consists of

    • mapping of various Schemes contributing towards addressing malnutrition

    • introducing a very robust convergence mechanism

    • ICT based Real Time Monitoring system

    • incentivizing States/UTs for meeting the targets

    • incentivizing Anganwadi Workers (AWWs) for using IT based tools

    • eliminating registers used by AWWs

    • introducing measurement of height of children at the Anganwadi Centres (AWCs)

    • Social Audits

    • Setting-up Nutrition Resource Centres, involving masses through Jan Andolan for their participation on nutrition through various activities, among others.

Major Impact

The programme through the targets will strive to reduce the level of stunting, under-nutrition, anaemia and low birth weight babies. It will create synergy, ensure better monitoring, issue alerts for timely action, and encourage States/UTs to perform, guide and supervise the line Ministries and States/UTs to achieve the targeted goals.

KEY NUTRITION STRATEGIES AND INTERVENTIONS

These are key Nutrition strategies and interventions:

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  • IYCF (Infant and Young child feeding),

  • Food and Nutrition,

  • Immunization,

  • Institutional Delivery,

  • WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene),

  • De-worming,

  • ORS-Zinc,

  • Food Fortification,

  • Dietary Diversification,

  • Adolescent Nutrition,

  • Maternal Health and Nutrition,

  • ECD (Early childhood development)/ECCE (Early Childhood care and Education),

  • Convergence,

  • ICT-RTM (Information and Communication.

  • Technology enabled Real Time Monitoring) and Capacity Building etc.

Pillars of the Mission

  • ICDS-CAS(Common Application Software)

  • Convergence

  • Behavioural change, IEC Advocacy

  • Training and Capacity building

  • Innovations

  • Incentives

  • Grievance Redressal

Source:

https://www.india.gov.in/spotlight/poshan-abhiyaan-pms-overarching-scheme-holistic-nourishment

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