sewa rural

SEWA Rural

About SEWA Rural

• 100 bed Hospital, including FRU (3,000 deliveries every year)

• Vocational training center (ITI) • Women empowerment program, • Eye care (5,500 eye operations every year)• Community Health (mHealth project, Gram

Sanjeevani Samiti)• Project area: Jhagadia block (87 samitis and

200,000 tribal population)

Objectives

• Enhance understanding of CAH• Develop plan of operationalising CAH in state

in context of public hearing

Case study of CAH

Case study of CAH

Why this community acted? (Obj-1)

• Household level factors• ASHA• Community cohesion• Service provider factors• Role of technology

Outputs towards public dialogue

• 2 VHSNC sammellans (2010, 2011)

• 1 Jan Samvad (2011)

Results Department No. of issues

presentedNo. of issues

resolved (April, 2013)

No. of issues getting resolved

(April, 2013)

No progress so far

Water supply 6 2 3 1

Irrigation 3 0 2 1

Block development

1 0 0 1

Education 1 0 0 1

ICDS 4 1 0 3

Road & building 29 5 3 21

State Road Transportation

5 1 3 1

Health 6 0 0 6

GEB 13 1 2 10

Total 68 10 13 45

What are some essential elements to arrange dialogue? (Obj-2)

• Ready and field tested road-map• Cooperation from local government• SR’s 3 decades of track record of working with

government and local community

Things we could not do…

• Could not arrange more Jan samvads• Engaging local govt and community on

sustained basis was difficult• Creating “ownership” of the VHSNC

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