Resources

Volunteer Study Report 2019

Lessons learnt from community volunteers in SNEHA's Child Health and Nutrition (Aahar) programme (2016-2018)

Institutionalizing community participation processes in urban informal settlements

22 Aug 2019

A theory of change for community interventions to prevent domestic violence against women and girls in Mumbai, India

Authors: Nayreen Daruwalla, Surinder Jaswal, Prakash Fernandes, Preethi Pinto, Ketaki Hate, Gauri Ambavkar, Bhaskar Kakad, Lu Gram and David Osrin

The theory of change was developed in five phases, via expert workshops, use of primary data, recurrent team meetings, adjustment at further meetings and workshops, and a review of published theories.

21 Aug 2019

City-level Youth Symposium

“Not about me... without me” Young Lives amidst a Transforming Urban World

Empowerment, Health and Sexuality of Adolescents

17 Jun 2019

Aahar

SNEHA’s Child Health and Nutrition program called Aahar, shifted from direct implementation to a more hand-holding and capacity-building role, where we gradually started increasing the involvement of ICDS staff to deliver 6 mandated services

Maternal and Newborn Health

12 Jun 2019

Health committees to promote health seeking behavior

Health Committees are formed in communities with poor MNH indicators and hard to reach locations. These communities are selected after consultations with concerned health posts in the areas under SNEHA’s intervention.

Public Health

12 Jun 2019

Condom Depots

Promotion of family planning and ensuring access to preferred contraceptive methods for women and couples is essential to securing the well-being and good health of women.

Family Planning

12 Jun 2019

NGO and government partnerships to address and manage maternal Anemia

To improve the Hb status of women it is important to address this issue holistically through different strategies like early registration of pregnant women, early screening and identification of Hb status,

Maternal and Newborn Health

12 Jun 2019

Continuous capacity building and motivation of Anganwadi Workers (AWW)

At the beginning of each financial year, training needs assessment was conducted with 150 Sevikas to identify the themes and topics for the training.

Child Health and Nutrition

12 Jun 2019

Health Post Scorecard

SNEHA has been partnering with the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) and adjacent six municipal corporations of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR)

Public Health

12 Jun 2019

ICDS Scorecard

The Anganwadi scorecard was developed as a rapid assessment tool. The components for this tool were derived from the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) monitoring and supervision report (NIPPCD report 2013-14).

Child Health and Nutrition

12 Jun 2019

Khana Khazana (Recipe demonstration) through volunteers to ascertain appropriate feeding practices and behaviors

Community level cooking demonstrations through volunteers can be used as a medium to educate the community in order to have greater acceptance.

Public Health

12 Jun 2019

Engagement with religious leaders to influence immunization uptake in vulnerable urban communities

The strategy to involve religious leaders is based on the principle of the recognizing collective identity of the particular group and seeking religious leader’s buy-in for behavior change.

Public Health

12 Jun 2019