Nurturing a Generation
Client: Save the Children
Location: Maharashtra
Sectors: Health
Practice: Monitoring & Evaluation
Dates Of Service: 2020
Zivanta Services: Endline Assessment
Zivanta Contact: Sudipto Sengupta
Status: Completed
Background
Save the Children has been addressing acute malnutrition holistically, by improving knowledge and understanding of the community that contributes to preventing undernutrition and strengthening of mechanisms to identify, treat and monitor children with acute malnutrition. The project covers 12 slums situated on the periphery of Deonar garbage dump – the biggest landfilling site of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) in Shivaji Nagar, Govandi, M/East ward of Mumbai. The project has been rolled out over three phases (Phase 1- 2010 -13, Phase II- 2014-2016 and Phase III- 2017-2020). During this period, it has effectively mobilized the community on maternal-child health and nutrition as well as established community-level groups to generate demand and improve access to government health and nutrition services.
Intervention
The Endline Assessment was conducted in the project location with the objective of assessing the nutritional status of the project area population along certain key indicators to assess the program performance.
Services
The Endline Assessment conducted by Zivanta Analytics did a detailed survey to understand whether:
a) Targeted communities have improved capacity in the community management of children with acute malnutrition that does not require medical treatment (CMAM) through enhanced capacity of the frontline health and ICDS workers and Nutritional Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) staff and systematic screening, identification and tracking of malnourished children and,
b)Targeted communities have enhanced Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCN) practices through Behaviour Change Communication (BCC).