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2011 – 2012Seventh Annual Report

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CENTRE FOR HEALTH AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

Annual Report adopted by CHSJ at the 14th Governing Body Meeting held on 11th August, 2012.

Centre for Health and Social JusticeBasement of Young Women's Hostel No.2 (Near Bank of India)Avenue 21, G Block, Saket, New Delhi - 110 017.Phone: 91-11-26511425, 26535203 Telefax: 91-11-26536041Email: [email protected]: www.chsj.org

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Executive Summary i

Acknowledgements i

Centre for Health and Social Justice 1

Organisational Profile 1

Our work during the year 1

Strategic Objectives 3

Thematic Areas 5

Theme : Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights 5

Theme : Men and Gender Equality 7

Theme : Community Action for Health Rights 10

Theme : Health Rights and Marginalised Communities 12

Strategic Interventions 13

Research and Information Management 13

Partnerships and Networking 17

Operational Mechanisms 19Organisational Effectiveness 19Capacity Building 19

Annexures

Annexure 1: CHSJ Staff as on 31st March 2012 20

Annexure 2: CHSJ Governing Body and 21CHSJ Advisors

Annexure 3: Distribution of CHSJs Work AcrossDifferent States in India 22

Annexure 4: Financial Summary 2011-2012 23

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

It is my pleasure to present the Annual Report of CHSJ for the year 2011-12.

This was the sixth year of CHSJ, and this year presented successes and challenges in equal measure. Onthe positive side, the work of CHSJ in the policy domain was vindicated when we were among the feworganisations asked to represent civil society interests on the Steering Committee on Health in the 12th FiveYear Planning process. We were also able to contribute to the starting up activities of Community Monitoringin NRHM in two states. We continued the process of providing rigorous grassroots level evidence of healthpolicy implementation through our coordination of a series of rapid assessment studies covering eight states.Our work with men which was earlier limited to addressing gender based violence, expanded both in scopeand spread as we were able to see successes around engaging men on issues of parenting, women’sreproductive health and addressing deep-seated social issues like daughter discrimination and dowry.Lessons emanating from our work were also represented in reputed international journals and reports.

Balanced against these successes, we faced operational challenges in generating sufficient funds toimplement the entire range of strategic activities that we had planned. CHSJ’s health and human rights workis primarily dictated by the lived realities of the poor, and our team was stretched as it continued to addressemerging priorities without adequate funding support for such work.

As in previous years, our work was enriched by our partners and we continued to develop and strengthenpartnerships across sectors and with Government agencies. On behalf of the Trustees, Governing Body andStaff of CHSJ, I thank them all for their confidence in CHSJ and look forward to a continued association.

Abhijit DasManaging Trustee and Director

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The growth and success that CHSJ has enjoyed in the few years of its existence is substantially due to the immensesupport and encouragement that it has received from various quarters- individuals and institutions. We wish to thank allour friends, funders, partners, advisors, service providers and all those who have been unstinting in their support. We alsowish to thank the team which has continued to perform and achieve milestones despite many adversities. Finally, we wishto express our deepest gratitude to the many women and men in the communities from whom we continue to learn andtake our inspiration.


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OUR WORK DURING THE YEAROverview

This was the sixth year for CHSJ. It was a year withinteresting contradictions. CHSJ had establisheditself around the launching of the NRHM and twoof its thrust areas – developing accountabilitymechanisms through independent civil societystudies and developing and implementingcommunity monitoring methodologies have beenacknowledged as key inputs in the policy domain.This year, we continued the tradition bycoordinating fifteen small-scale studies andpresenting them before key functionaries of the

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and thePlanning Commission. The importance of thisfeedback process was further acknowledged by theGovernment of India, when the Director wasappointed as a member of the Steering Committeeon Health for the 12th Five Year Plan formulationprocess. While the process of providing feedbackthrough independent civil society studiescontinued, the process of community monitoringhas still to find favour in most states, even thoughit is part of the overall NRHM mandate. However,CHSJ was able to facilitate the starting of thecommunity monitoring process in the states ofBihar and Sikkim. CHSJ continued its experimentto integrate expenditure tracking to communitymonitoring through partnerships in Assam andOrissa. CHSJ’s expertise in developing communitymonitoring methodologies is also acceptedglobally and Open Society Foundations hasengaged CHSJ as a resource organisation for itspartners in Eastern Europe and Africa. CHSJ alsobecame the Asian hub for a global Community ofPractitioners on Accountability and Social Actionin Health (COPASAH) established during the year.

The area of reproductive and sexual health andrights was another key area for CHSJ from itsbeginning. Maternal health, safe abortion, familyplanning and population issues have been centralareas of concern. In the last two years, CHSJ alsosuccessfully coordinated the National Secretariat of

The Centre for Health and Social Justice (CHSJ) is a civil society institution working on issues related to health andsocial justice. CHSJ seeks to strengthen accountability of public health systems and health governance throughresearch, resource support and advocacy. CHSJ also seeks to develop ways through which men can engage ininterventions aimed at gender and social justice. It is a registered Charitable Trust and has its headquarters in NewDelhi.

ORGANISATIONAL PROFILE

To support creation of equitable, gender just andaccountable health systems in India where:• Mechanisms are established for identifying

rights violations – including gender injustice– and denial of quality services at all levels;

• Citizens/citizen groups, especially themarginalized are part of planning andfeedback mechanisms that are operational(i.e., they address rights violations anddenial of quality services) for public healthprograms at all levels)

• State/public and social accountabilitymechanisms and processes are developedand are in use.

MISSION

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the ICPD +15 civil society review process in thecountry. This year however, CHSJ was unable togenerate funding to continue research, materialproduction or advocacy in a comprehensivemanner as it had done in the past. However, itsexpertise was sought by many organisations,researchers and journalists. The Director wasinvited by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundationto deliver the Annual Beth Peterson MemorialLecture on Maternal Health, in Seattle.

CHSJ’s work on the intersection betweenhealth rights and marginalised communitiesreceived a boost when a long pending proposal inpartnership with the National Campaign on DalitHuman Rights through the DFID funded PoorestArea Civil Society (PACS II) project was sanctionedtowards the latter part of the year. Hopefully, thisproject will enable CHSJ to develop a successfuloperational partnership where Dalit leadership atthe community level will be able to negotiateNRHM service entitlements for the benefit of Dalitcommunities.

When CHSJ started its work six years ago, thework with men on gender equality was the smallestin its portfolio, today, it has emerged as the largest.CHSJ has been able to integrate its work on menand gender which started with violence againstwomen into its other interest areas viz.reproductive health and contraceptive use,fathering, caste based discrimination and healthprogramming. Most of this work is beingimplemented as field based action research projectsin the states of Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra andMadhya Pradesh. CHSJ was also able to contributeto three international reports which investigateand describe work with men.

Compared to some of the operational successesdescribed above, this year was also marked by

financial uncertainties. Since these uncertaintieswere not hidden to the staff, many left, eventhough they had not been asked to do so. Werealised that we were not alone in our lack ofsuccess in securing funding when a group ofindigenous rights-based organisations cametogether to find ways to negotiate thecontemporary funding realities. We made manyefforts to seek funds by responding to requests forproposals by funding organisations. We wereunsuccessful because we were not able to respondto the priorities and operational requirement ofthose organisations. CHSJ is a small indigenousorganisation which questions large-scaledevelopment solutions around health from theperspective of the most marginalised usingrigorous methods. We realise we are on the rightpath when other social justice movements arewilling to partner with us to examine the domainof health rights. We realise that we are successfulwhen our expertise is being called upon and thepoints made by the research we coordinate arebeing acknowledged. We also realise that since ourwork entails asking and enabling others to ask‘critical’ questions and since we do not implementmass-produced and reproducible developmentsolutions, our work will not attract a majority ofthe available development funding. However, asthe year closed we were able to attract fundingaround work on reproductive rights and childrights and we are optimistic that in the comingyear we will be able to further consolidate ouroperational achievements with the support of allour partners, well wishers, and last, but not theleast, the women and men in the communitywhose successful struggle against the mostimpossible odds remains our abiding inspiration. �

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STRATEGIC OBJECTIVESOur strategic objectives and some of our achievements against these objectives during this year have beenas follows:

Strategic Actions Achievements

Strategic Objective 1: Create a shared understanding with concerned stakeholders (the affected; citizens’groups) on critical issues related to health, that are backed by rigorous evidence

• Facilitated the coming together of the CoalitionAgainst Two-Child Norm and CoercivePopulation Policies building on stories ofcoercion and poor quality services associatedwith female sterilisation from different states.

• Provided support to National Alliance onMaternal Health and Human Rights (NAMHHR)activities, particularly to the study on equitydimensions of the IGMSY implementation in itspilot phase

• The Director delivered the Beth Peterson MemorialLecture on the invitation of Bill and Melinda GatesFoundation at BMGF headquarters, Seattle and atthe University of Washington, Seattle, drawingattention to the need for building evidence fromgrassroots reality for successful policy making inmaternal health.

• Coordinated a series of studies on NRHMimplementation, with a focus on marginalisedcommunities. These studies were shared withthe Ministry of Health and Family Welfare andPlanning Commission.

• Some of these studies were shared withconcerned stakeholders and governmentofficials at the state level.

• Initiated a collaborative project with Swadhikar,a constituent group of the National Campaignon Dalit Human Rights on building capacityamong Dalit leadership to engage with NRHMin Madhya Pradesh.

Strategic Objective 2: Citizens’ groups have become capable enough to engage with the state and amongthemselves to improve accountability.

• Coordinated the capacity building of 15 civilsociety groups from 8 states in conductingrigorous field research in partnership withSchool of Public Health, SRM University,Chennai.

• Continued to support Jan Adhikar Manch,Bihar, to strengthen its advocacy against two-child norm in municipal bodies and in thepanchayati system in the state.

Identifying emerging issues and buildingrecognition of priorities related to marginalisedcommunities, in selected states, in collaborationwith local partners and other stakeholders.

Building evidence on the impact of existing policiesand programmes on the core health concerns of thepoor and marginalised (in selected states) andmobilizing local stakeholders (including stateparties) through consensus building on issuesidentified through such evidence building, in orderto influence the existing discourse and practices.

Strengthening citizens’ groups for evidence basedadvocacy through capacity building, networkingand information sharing in order to increase stateand social accountability and influence effectivepolicy implementation.



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Strategic Objective 3: Mechanisms have been established and capacities have been developed within thesystem to engage with the community for effective and accountable service delivery.

• Continued active participation within theAdvisory Group on Community Action, astanding committee of the National RuralHealth Mission. Helped develop a strategy forstrengthening communitisation within NRHM,in consultation with the Secretary, Health andFamily Welfare, MoHFW.

• Facilitated the initiation of communitymonitoring processes in Bihar and conductedtraining of state and district level officials ofNRHM, Sikkim, on how to develop andimplement community based monitoringmethodology in the state.

Strategic Objective 4: Methodologies have been developed and shared for involving men as responsibleindividuals and citizens to ensure gender justice.

• Used ‘realist’ methodologies to understand theprocess of change among men and in genderrelations in a project addressing violenceagainst women implemented with partners inUttar Pradesh.

• A paper based on Men’s Action for StoppingViolence Against Women (MASVAW) interven-tions with men leading to changes in genderrelations in Uttar Pradesh was accepted forpublication in a prestigious internationaljournal.

• Over one hundred stories of family andcommunity level challenges and changes werecollected from the ongoing intervention withmen in Maharashtra.

• Shared the importance of working with menand boys to address gender issues in a globaland a South Asian meeting on Ending ChildMarriages organised by The Elders.

• Continued to engage with and supportnetworks like MASVAW (UP), Forum to EngageMen for gender equality (FEM, India), SouthAsian Network to Address Masculinities(SANAM), MenEngage Alliance (South Asia andGlobal).

Engaging with health systems to developleadership, operational capacity and mechanismsfor improved design, delivery and monitoring ofquality, accessible, health care services, with pro-active people’s involvement.

Develop community level methodologies andassociated materials for engaging with men tochange existing social norms, behaviours andrelations which privilege men and perpetuategender inequality in society towards gender justice.

Engage with other individuals and groups to furtherdiscussion and action on men’s roles as responsibleand accountable individuals, members of thefamily and society and as citizens.




THEMATIC AREAS

Theme: Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights

CHSJ played a supporting role to differentadvocacy efforts on Reproductive and SexualHealth and Rights (RSHR) issues in the country.

Securing Maternal Health and RightsCHSJ continued its advocacy efforts to promotewomen’s rights to safe delivery. CHSJ participatedin the Government of India mandated AGCAenquiry into maternal deaths in Badwani district.CHSJ provided information support to HumanRights Law Network and the Jagrut Adivasi DalitSangathan, Badwani, for their Public InterestLitigation cases for securing quality maternalhealth services in the High Court of MadhyaPradesh. The recommendations provided in theAGCA Badwani Maternal Death enquiry report,which CHSJ was involved in preparing, have beenheld as key benchmarks by the High Court ofMadhya Pradesh for improving maternal healthrelated service delivery in the state. CHSJ’s partnerCHARM who conducted an enquiry into maternalhealth services in Bihar has also filed a PIL in theHigh Court of Patna for seeking better maternalhealth services in the state. CHSJ worked withNAMHHR partners for strengthening theirapproach to evidence based advocacy including

conducting research and engaging in strategiclitigation. CHSJ provided technical support to NAMHHRmember organisations for designing andimplementing a collaborative study investigatingthe equity and accountability dimensions of theIndira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana, which is apilot scheme of the Department of Women andChild Development to provide conditionalmaternal health benefits to women.

CHSJ participated in the first global meeting onending child marriage organised by The Elders.This meeting led to the formation of Girls NotBrides, a Global Partnership to End ChildMarriage. CHSJ was later involved in facilitating acountry level visit by the Girls Not Brides teamwhich led to the first South Asian meeting of thepartnership in India. CHSJ was invited to make apresentation at this meeting. The Director of CHSJ was invited by the Bill andMelinda Gates Foundation to deliver the 2ndAnnual Beth Peterman Lecture Series on MaternalHealth. This included a series of lectures at theBill and Melinda Gates Foundation Headquarters

The work of CHSJ is operationally divided into four thematic and two strategic areas. The following is a description ofour work during the year.



in Seattle, USA and at the Department of GlobalHealth in the University of Washington in Seattle,USA. The lectures focussed on the importance oflooking at grassroots reality when judging policysuccesses and highlighted the inadequacy ofcurrently used methodologies in understandingthe lived experiences of marginalised women.

Advocacy on Population and DevelopmentIssuesOn 31st October 2011, the world’s population wasestimated to reach seven billion and mediareporting around the issue confirmed that fears ofexplosive population growth continued to prey onthe minds of policy planners, health managers,media and the general public. There was franticglobal reporting about India’s high population thatwould soon overtake China’s. An examination of

domestic population programmes revealed thatstates like Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Biharhad started incentive based family planningprogrammes with prizes like Nano cars, washingmachines, colour TVs and DVD players beingoffered as rewards. A commission on women'sdevelopment in Kerala headed by retired JusticeKrishna Iyer proposed penalties for women whohave 3 or more children. Considering thesedevelopments, CHSJ started a discussion amongconcerned individuals and organizations. Ameeting of Delhi based organisations was alsoconvened and on 25th of November 2011 theNational Coalition Against Two Child Norm andCoercive Population Policies was formed. Thegroup resolved that the first Secretariat for theCoalition should be hosted within Centre forHealth and Social Justice. CHSJ continued tosupport state level advocacy on population issuesin Bihar throughout the year and also initiateddiscussions for similar work with organisations inRajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Orissa.

Advocating for Informed Choice andQuality of Care in Family Planning ServicesCHSJ continued its efforts to draw attention to thisissue. CHSJ supported MANJARI, Rajasthan, toconduct a district level study on the issue and theresults were disseminated locally and at thenational level. CHSJ was also able to successfullylink the lack of quality sterilisation services forwomen within the national family planningprogramme with the Forced/ Coerced SterilisationWorking Group of the Campaign to Stop Torture inHealthcare.





Theme: Men and Gender Equality

Working with men on issues related to masculinityand gender equality is central to CHSJ’s overallmission of finding different ways to promote socialjustice. Working with men and boys is essentialbecause patriarchy creates unequal conditions andstructures and men need to understand theirprivileges and compulsions and become partners inthe quest for equality in their relationships at theindividual and community level and also withinstate mechanisms. Our work with men at thecommunity level is an effort to identifycontextually effective practices which may then beincluded in public policy and programming withina well articulated gender equality framework.During the year, CHSJ was involved in a number ofdiscrete efforts in different places across thecountry.

Engaging Men to End Violence AgainstWomenCHSJ has been implementing the project over thelast two years in partnership with SAHAYOG inthirty villages of two districts of UP. This projectwas part of a multi-country project, supportedthrough the UN Trust Fund on EliminatingViolence Against Women and the project wascompleted during the year. The key focus duringthe year was to implement an exit plan, whichincluded a series of Exit Planning Workshops foryouth leaders. The main purpose of theseworkshops was to introduce the participants tolocal resources and to integrate them with the

existing state level network of MASVAW. In order tostrengthen the support of men to womengrassroots leaders (panchayat representatives) aseparate training was organised with theirhusbands. Since the project ended this year, anendline survey was conducted by our projectpartner, International Centre for Research onWomen. CHSJ has been trying to adopt a ‘realist’evaluation process as part of this project andconducted three separate documentation processeswhich included a) collecting stories of challengesand changes and compiling a timeline basedprocess documentation; b) doing a videodocumentation of what has changed from differentperspectives- the interviews have been transcribedfor analysis and a short video film “Chuppi Todo”(Breaking the Silence) has been prepared; and c)conducting a survey with new fathers to

STORIES OF CHANGE• In a village in Pratapgarh district the men’s

group intervened in a case where a man used toabuse and beat his widowed sister-in-law andhad asked her to leave the house. The men’sgroup talked to the man and then involved theGram Pradhan who threatened to use thePWDV Act.

• “My friend did not allow his wife to go out andwork under MGNREGA (a scheme for rurallivelihood). He used to abuse and beat her toprevent her from going to work. After theintervention of the men’s group, she is nowworking. She goes to bank on her own andtakes out money from her account." GramPradhan of a village in Pratapgarh.

• Some of the married youth had beenmotivating and helping their wives to continuetheir studies, others are helping their sisterslearn to ride the bicycle so that they cancontinue going to high school which is somedistance away from the villages.

• There has been an increase in women’smobility. “I can clearly see how women arenow able to go out for doing market and otherwork. I hardly saw any women in the villagestreets two years ago.” Youth leader from

Jaunpur district.


understand their gender related behaviour. Apartfrom this, various resource materials preparedduring the project duration were finalised in Hindiand in English and electronic versions have beenposted on our website. The findings from thisproject were shared at a meeting of project partnersalong with UNTF in Washington DC.

Samajdar-Jodidar: Enhancing MaleParticipation for Improving Gender EqualityThis project is being implemented in 100 villagesacross three districts of Maharashtra with thesupport of UNFPA. This project is beingimplemented through five field level partners andhas been designed to bring about changes inknowledge, attitudes and behaviour of men andboys around gender discriminatory behaviour andnorms especially in the context of parenting,spousal responsibilities and intimate partner abuseat the family and community level. During theyear, the emphasis was on increasing men’sinvolvement in women’s reproductive health-seeking behavior and utilisation of public healthfacilities under NRHM. The trained communitylevel animators took the lead in the planning andexecution of campaigns. The project involves over3000 men across different age groups in the villagesand reached out to over 10,000 men during thecampaigns. A retreat for animators from all fiveproject areas was organized for them to interactand reflect on their achievements and challenges.The three best Animators from each of the fiveproject locations were felicitated for theircommitment and initiatives for gender justice.

The project is being documented using a ‘realist’evaluation framework in order to understand theprocess of change better. A quantitative baselineand a qualitative study were completed during theyear and a review of literature on masculinities inMaharashtra was also commissioned. Stories ofchallenge and change are also being collected fromthe field.

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KEY ACHIEVEMENTS• The project area has 200 groups and 100

Animators in 100 project villages.• There are regular discussions in these groups

on different issues like gender, gender basedviolence and discrimination, masculinity,sexuality, men’s participation in women’ssexual and reproductive health andcontraception.

• A campaign on male responsibility in women’sreproductive health was conducted in allvillages using a variety of printed and visualmaterial. The news of this campaign waswidely covered and reported in localnewspapers.

• Changes in knowledge, attitudes and adoptionof some gender equitable behaviour have beennoted among a majority of Animators andamong some of the group members.

• Stories from the field are validating theprogramme theory and providing evidencethat the project is moving in the desireddirection.

• The Animators have started encouragingreferral services in some villages. Women’saccess to health services has increased andimprovements in the sub-centre facilities arebeing noted in some places.

• Women’s participation in panchayats hasincreased. Women have started gettingproperty rights by entering of their names inproperty related documents.

• Animators are writing their experiences,successes and challenges in the quarterlynewsletter published by the project.


Mobilising Men to Challenge Sexual andGender Based Violence in InstitutionsThis project was aimed at developing male ‘genderequality’ champions within different institutionalcontexts, who would then campaign within theseinstitutions to bring about changes in institutionalrules, regulations and functioning to improvegender relations and address gender and sexualviolence in these institutional settings. This wasthe second and final year of the project in whichthe progress over the last year was reviewed andmentors and activists met to discuss ways ofcontinuing to support one another and theinstitutional change processes that had beeninitiated. The project was being implemented overthe last two years in collaboration with theInstitute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK and12 mentors and champions worked in differentsettings, viz. universities and colleges, local selfgovernment institutions, youth wing of a politicalparty, bar association and so on.

Sajhedar: Family Health Campaign:Accountability for ChangeThe project was started during this year inpartnership with local implementing organisationsin Morena and Sidhi districts of Madhya Pradesh.The overall goal of this project is to bring aboutpositive changes in the lives of women in ruralcommunities by reinforcing a process of public andsocial accountability. This will be done byhighlighting men’s accountability as responsiblepartners and parents within the family and society;and improving the quality and utilisation of publichealth services by addressing the accountability ofhealth systems to the community. As this was thefirst year, key activities included partner selection,identification of intervention villages andconducting the baseline enquiry.

Other InitiativesTowards the end of the year, CHSJ started a newproject called Caring Fathers: A Campaign onCaring Fatherhood, which will be looking at men’sroles in securing the rights of children. This projectprovides an opportunity for CHSJ to start workingwith child rights groups and a partnership has

been initiated with HAQ Centre for Child Rights,an organisation working on child rightsprotection, based in Delhi.

Training InitiativesCHSJ also provided support to SANAM (SouthAsian Network to Address Masculinities) to developand implement a year-long Fellowship programme.CHSJ continued to work with Jagori for thetraining of Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC)Instructors, Drivers and Conductors under theirSafe Cities project. CHSJ also conducted a training of the office bearersof different Trade Unions to create a violence freeand gender equitable environment at the workplacewhich was organised by International LabourOrganisation (ILO), South Asia and ILO, India. Besides these activities, CHSJ continued to engagewith and support a number of networks workingwith men at the state, national, regional and globallevels which are discussed later.

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STORIES OF CHANGE• "Most of the Heads of Departments of the

University, Principals and male teachers ofcolleges initially denied that sexualharassment took place in their institutions.They also felt that women were themselvesresponsible for such incidents. Now, keystakeholders like the Proctor, Chairperson ofAnti Sexual Harassment Committee and theCoordinators of the Centre of Women Studiesand Development are ready to listen and havestarted the discussion on makingenvironment in the campus violence free andwomen friendly" - Mentor working withUniversity based ‘champions’ in Varanasi

• A new perspective has developed among malepanchayat members in some villages ofAlmora district after one ‘champion’ startedconducting gender workshops with them.They have started raising issues in panchayatmeetings like girl’s education, women’sparticipation in development schemesimplemented through the panchayat and thepanchayat’s role in implementing thedomestic violence laws.


Decentralised Monitoring of HealthExpenditureCHSJ has been implementing this project inpartnership with Action NorthEast Trust (ANT) inAssam and The Humanity in Orissa. During the year,the project moved ahead from the investigationphase to the community health expenditureawareness phase. Community level meetings, cyclerallies and wall writing were conducted to explainhow much health related expenditure was beingincurred for maternal health and other illnesses. Thekey component of such messaging was to highlightthe free nature of these health services as a part ofNRHM. Village level committees were also trainedon different financial aspects of NRHM and on howto engage in planning for the Untied Funds that arereceived at the village level. The project was able toenergise the VHSCs to start independent planningin Orissa.CHSJ also organised a two-day workshop ofleading practitioners of decentralised expendituretracking in health and this served as anorientation for CHSJ’s own partners who areworking at the community level in Maharashtraand Madhya Pradesh. It is expected that some ofthe promising practices emerging from thisproject will be incorporated into the work in thesestates as well.

Supporting Communitisation Initiativeswithin NRHMCHSJ continued to play an active role to promotecommunitisation initiatives within NRHM at thenational level and in certain states. The initiativesof CHSJ to support and strengthen theimplementation of NRHM were acknowledged bythe central government when the Director of CHSJwas invited to be a civil society member of theSteering Committee on Health for the 12th FiveYear Plan preparation process by the PlanningCommission. The Secretary, Ministry of Health andFamily Welfare, also invited CHSJ to prepare aroadmap for strengthening communitisationwithin NRHM across the country. This outline wassubsequently discussed by Ministry representativesand members of the AGCA and some of theinterventions recommended are underconsideration. CHSJ continued to facilitate the start-up ofcommunity monitoring activities in Bihar andduring the course of the year, NRHM, Biharinitiated community monitoring in the state withPopulation Foundation of India (PFI) functioningas the state nodal organisation. CHSJ providedtechnical support to PFI to adapt the communitymonitoring methodology for the state andfacilitated the first state level orientation

workshop. CHSJ was invited by NRHM,Sikkim, to help initiatecommunity monitoring activitiesin the state. A five-day trainingwas organized in Gangtok, Sikkimin February 2012, to train stateand district level officials tounderstand the importance ofcommunity monitoring withinthe overall framework ofcommunitisation and to developskills in conducting communitymonitoring exercises.

Theme: Community Action for Health Rights



Technical Support to Open SocietyFoundations’ Accountability andMonitoring in Health Initiative (OSF-AMHI) CHSJ has been providing technical support to OSF-AMHI partners in Bulgaria and Macedonia todevelop and implement community monitoringmethodologies to improve access to maternalhealth, child health and immunisation servicesamong Roma communities. CHSJ’s technicalsupport has been instrumental in developing thesecommunity based accountability methodologiesfor the first time in these countries. CHSJ alsoprovided technical inputs on community basedaccountability methodologies to OSF-AMHIpartners working in Eastern Africa. CHSJ is helpingto develop a resource manual on communitymonitoring methodologies which will beappropriate for use by OSF-AMHI partners.

Membership of Community ofPractitioners for Accountability and SocialAction in Health (COPASAH)OSF-AMHI facilitated a Convening of Practitionersof Community Monitoring in Health inJohannesburg, South Africa. CHSJ was involved asone of the resource organisations in designing thisConvening workshop. At this workshop, theparticipants expressed the need to establish acommunity of practitioners around communitymonitoring for accountability in health. As aresult, COPASAH was formed. COPASAH aims tostrengthen the field of community monitoring bystimulating active exchange of experiences,sharing of resources, production and disseminationof conceptual, methodological and practicaloutputs and networking and capacity buildingamong member organisations. CHSJ is a member ofthe steering committee and is also the Asian hub. Ithas also been entrusted with the responsibility todesign and develop an interactive internet basedplatform for sharing information, tools and otherresources to support the community ofpractitioners.

Other InitiativesCHSJ provided technical support along withPRAYAS, Rajasthan, to Department of Health andFamily Welfare (DoHFW) and Department ofWomen and Child Development (DWCD), MadhyaPradesh, to improve Quality of Services throughCapacity Improvement and CommunityMonitoring on Village Health and Nutrition Days(VHND).

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS• The Director of CHSJ was appointed as one the

few civil society members of the SteeringCommittee on Health for the 12th Five YearPlan processes by the Planning Commission.

• The Secretary, Health and Family Welfareinvited CHSJ to prepare a roadmap forstrengthening communitisation within NRHMthrough increased civil society participation.This outline was subsequently adopted andrecommended to the Ministry through theAGCA.

• CHSJ was invited by NRHM, Sikkim to train itsofficials to implement community monitoringin the state.

• CHSJ was able to facilitate the startup ofcommunity based monitoring and planning inthe state of Bihar

• CHSJ was selected to be the Asian hub for theCommunity of Practitioners on Accountabilityand Social Action in Health – a globalcollaboration.



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CHSJ continued its work on Health Rights andMarginalised Communities to examine therelationship between social exclusion and access tohealth care services and rights in the Indiancontext. The Centre strengthened its partnershipwith National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights(NCDHR) through a joint project which started inmid-September. This project ‘Health Rights andEntitlement of the Socially Excluded Communitiesand Women under NRHM’ is supported throughthe Poorest Area Civil Society (PACS) projectfunded by Department for InternationalDevelopment (DFID), UK. The project seeks tobuild capacity among Dalit communities toadvocate for improved health services at thecommunity level. It is being coordinated byNCDHR and implemented by three Dalit-led fieldimplementing partners in Raisen, Chhindwara andBetul districts in Madhya Pradesh. CHSJ isproviding technical support to this project. As thiswas the first of a four-year project, the key activitiesincluded capacity building of associated staff andorientation of different stakeholders. CHSJ alsocontributed to a quantitative baseline studycoordinated by PACS and designed andimplemented a qualitative baseline study. CHSJalso designed the MIS for the project.

Theme: Health Rights and Marginalised Communities



Evidence based advocacy is a key strategy in CHSJ’s work towards making health policy and programming responsiveto the needs and rights of the poor and marginalised. Research and Information Management contributes to thisaspect of our work.

STRATEGIC INTERVENTIONS

Research and Information Management

ResearchCHSJ has been conducting research both tounderstand the impact of government policy and

programming on the lives of the poor as well as tounderstand the impact of its own and other NGOinterventions. It has also been engaged in

Topic of the study Organisation Study State

Mapping perception of SC/ST PLHAs in accessing and utilising HIVprevention, care and support services in Andhra Pradesh SAKSHI Andhra Pradesh

Assessing communitisation of health services among Dalit communities PARA Andhra Pradesh

Costs and consequence of utilising maternal health care: findingsfrom two districts in Assam CHSJ Assam

An assessment of the status of public health facilities compared with IPHS norms in Sheikhpura district BVHA Bihar

Determinants of utilisation of maternal health services among SCsand Muslim women in Patna district CHARM Bihar

Maternal death audit for action towards making every pregnancy saferin Jharkhand NEEDS Jharkhand

A study on access and utilisation of cash incentive programmes underNRHM by forest based tribal women of Heggadadevanakote taluk inMysore district SVYM Karnataka

Convergence and coordination related to ASHA functioning inChhindwara district in Madhya Pradesh MVPS Madhya Pradesh

An assessment of quality of care and consequences of femalesterilisation in Bundi district MANJARI Rajasthan

Status and utilisation of maternal health services among migrant JATAN families in Rajasthan SANSTHAN Rajasthan

Assessment of level of involvement of VHSC with focus onutilisation of Untied Funds, Baran district CHEERS Rajasthan

Assessment of functioning of ASHA Sahayogini under intersectoralcoordination of DWCD and DHFW in Jhunjhunu district SRKPS Rajasthan

Assessing post partum care and management of complications indistrict Mirzapur SAHAYOG Uttar Pradesh

Exploring utilisation of health care services from “24 x 7 PHCs” inWest Bengal CINI West Bengal

Understanding services, convergence and community participationat VHND in Bankura district IMAN West Bengal



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developing capacity among NGOs to conductrigorous research. During this year, CHSJ workedclosely with School of Public Health, SRMUniversity, Chennai and UNFPA, India to developand implement the second round of training onRapid Assessment of Health Programmes (RAHP).This three-phase, year long programme wasconducted in two batches in Chennai and Delhi toprovide opportunities to NGOs from all over thecountry. In all, 18 NGOs selected from 8 statesparticipated in this programme.

All the participants were supported to conduct afield study and the findings and recommendationsfrom 15 studies were presented at a NationalDissemination Meeting on 16th September 2011,which was attended by bilateral organisations, UNagencies, media and civil society organisationsfrom across the country. It was also attended byDr. Syeda Hameed, Member of the PlanningCommission and Mr. P. K. Pradhan, Secretary at theMoHFW, who acknowledged the wide range offeedback. These findings were also presented anddiscussed by each participating organisation at thestate and/or district level.

Studies by InternsCHSJ continued to host student interns from theLiverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Universityof Liverpool, UK, who conducted the followingstudies under supervision from CHSJ mentors -

• Men and Caring: Sexual and reproductivehealth related partnership and fatherhoodbehaviour of men associated with MASVAW inUttar Pradesh- a qualitative investigation.

• Why women do not go to health facilities forchild birth in Uttar Pradesh, India – aqualitative study.

CHSJ’s research team continued to provide researchand evaluation related inputs to its field projects.The baseline study for the Samajhdar- Jodidarproject was completed and that for the Sajhedarproject was started. A quantitative investigation tounderstand changes in the gender related attitudes,knowledge and behaviour related to pregnancy andchild care among men who were part of the menand gender project conducted in two districts ofUttar Pradesh was also started. CHSJ is workingwith Dr. Sanjeev Sridharan, an evaluation expertbased in Canada to develop its capacity in applyingthe ‘realist’ evaluation methodologies tounderstand gender related changes in men. A process documentation was done of the projectin UP (Engaging Men to End Violence AgainstWomen) using this approach and it is also beingapplied to the ongoing project in Maharashtra(Enhancing Male Participation for ImprovingGender Equality).

Information ManagementCHSJ believes that meaningful and contextualinformation aids empowerment, strengthensaccountability and supports timely advocacyaction. CHSJ has been supporting this process indifferent ways.



Web Enabled ServicesWebsite: The CHSJ website is a repositoryshowcasing our activities and interventions acrossthe country and beyond. This year, work alsostarted on re-designing the website, which will belaunched in April 2012. We have also beenmaintaining distinct web domains for some of oursignificant activities like ICPD+15 Secretariat andRAHP.

Reprohealth_India e-group: CHSJ continued tohost this listserv which remains an active andeffective forum for disseminating knowledge andbest practices and generating debates aroundpolicy measures and their implications for themarginalised around issues of reproductive healthand gender equality. http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/reprohealth_india/

Health News Update: We continued posting newsupdates focusing on public health and socialjustice issues. Thirty one updates comprising 434news clips compiled from reputed news sourceswere disseminated during the year.http://www.chsj.org/health-news-updates.html

NC_TCN_Coercive-Population-Policies e-group:CHSJ started this listserv to connect variousstakeholders on the issues of two-child norm andcoercive population polices. Within a short period,this listserv has become an e-platform foreducating and sharing information amongdifferent stakeholders. https ://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en-US&fromgroups#!forum/nc_tcn--coercive-population-policies

Blog on Coalition against Two Child Norm: A blogto support the work of the National Coalitionagainst Two Child Norm and Coercive PopulationPolicies was launched in January 2012 to shareinformation about new developments in familyplanning, global and national news related topopulation issues. The readers include themembers of the Coalition and the general public. http://coalitiontcn.wordpress.com/

FilmChuppi Todo: CHSJ produced a 22-minutedocumentary film “Chuppi Todo” (Breaking theSilence), which shows the journey of young menand boys towards gender equality and thesubsequent change and impact of this on theirfamilies and community. The film is in Hindiwith English subtitles. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HVoVUy0XQr8

Articles Published• How Far are we from Universal Health Coverage

in India: Abhijit Das and Moumita Ghosh,published in Budget Track, Volume 8, Track 2,August 2011.http://www.chsj.org/uploads/1/0/2/1/10215849/bt_vol_8_track_2.pdf

• Support for Children Identified with AcuteFlaccid Paralysis under the Global PolioEradication Programme in Uttar Pradesh,India: a Qualitative Study: Rie R Yotsu,Katherine Abba, Helen Smith and Abhijit Das,published in BMC Public Health.http://www.biomedcentral .com/1471-2458/12/229

• Men and Care - A Multi-Country Qualitativestudy of Men in Non Traditional CaregivingRoles: The report was published by InstitutoPromundo and ICRW. The Indian study wasauthored by CHSJ. http://www.chsj.org/uploads/1/0/2/1/10215849/men_who_care.pdf

• Mobilising Men in Practice - Challenging Sexualand Gender Based Violence in InstitutionalSettings. This report published by IDS includestools and lessons and CHSJ implemented theproject in India.http://www.chsj.org/uploads/1/0/2/1/10215849/mobilsing_men_in_practice_online_final.pdf

• Engaging Men to Prevent Gender-BasedViolence. A multi-country intervention andimpact evaluation study was published byInstituto Promundo. CHSJ contributed in thereport and research process in India.http://www.chsj.org/uploads/1/0/2/1/10215849/engaging_men_in_gbv_-_multicountry_impact_study_-_promundo_.pdf



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• Realisations and Relationships - Men,Masculinity and Violence against Women: AnAnalysis of an Intervention, was published bySAHAYOG, Lucknow and was written by theSAHAYOG and CHSJ teams.http://www.chsj.org/uploads/1/0/2/1/10215849/relation-_realisation-_published.pdf

NewsletterSamajdar Jodidar, a quarterly newsletter in Marathiwas published to facilitate communicationbetween Animators from 100 villages to enablethem to share and learn from each other’s work,achievements and challenges and thereby gainmutual support in this journey for gender equality.The first edition of the newsletter came out in July2011 and three editions have been published inthe year.

PublicationsCommunication material: Under the project“Enhancing Male Participation for ImprovingGender Equality in Maharashtra”, the followingmaterial was developed to facilitate Animator’swork both through developing their ownunderstanding and to enhance their work withmen and boys:1. Booklet on project concepts and approaches2. Booklet on communication skills and how to

use communication material3. Flash cards on gender and discrimination4. Game on men and masculinity5. Poster exhibition on men and reproductive

health

E- Manuals: Under the project “Support of Actionsto Eliminate Violence against Women”, in UttarPradesh, a set of manuals on communityinterventions with men and boys on genderequality was published for electronic circulation. http://www.chsj.org/eliminate-vaw-in-uttar-pradesh.html

Library: We have been maintaining aninstitutional library for the past few years andcurrently it has around 1500 books related to theissues of health, violence, gender, sexuality, humanrights and so on.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS• The film “Chuppi Todo” (Breaking the Silence)

was an in-house production with members ofthe CHSJ team responsible for all facets of theproduction from conceptualising to shootingand editing the film. The film was appreciatedboth by international partners and by thecommunity. The process of film-making was atremendous learning experience for all theteam members involved.

• CHSJ successfully developed in-house capacityto develop and manage different IT basedcommunication platforms like websites, blogs,listservs, etc. CHSJ’s skills were acknowledgedby COPASAH when it asked CHSJ to manageits IT based communication platform whichwill start in the next year.

• The popularity of Reprohealth listserv as acommunication platform on different issuesrelated to NRHM and reproductive health hasincreased and its membership went up from500 to 650 members during the year.

• CHSJ developed a range of resource material indifferent languages including English, Hindiand Marathi. The material includes posters,games, flash cards and booklets in Marathi. Anewsletter in Marathi was started.

• CHSJ supported research was acknowledged asa source of independent feedback for theNRHM in the Five Year of NRHM Report of theMinistry of Health and Family Welfare.

• CHSJs research was published and accepted forpublication in reputed international journalslike BioMed Central and Culture Health andSexuality. Intervention reports were publishedin international journals of reputedorganisations like Institute of DevelopmentStudies, Sussex UK; International Centre forResearch on Women, USA and InstitutoPromundo, Brazil.



STRATEGIC INTERVENTIONS

Partnerships and NetworkingWorking collaboratively through partnerships and building stronger endorsement on issues through networks is centralto CHSJs approach to achieving long term sustainability of its interventions. All our thematic work gained from thepartnerships we developed and the networks that we engaged with and continued during the year. Our engagementswith National Alliance on Maternal Health and Human Rights, Healthwatch Forum, National Coalition Against Two-ChildNorm and Coercive Population Policies, CommonHealth and others were crucial to take our work ahead in the domainof reproductive and sexual health and rights. We learnt important lessons on strengthening accountability mechanismsat the community level from our collaborations with other members of the Advisory Group on Community Action andpartners of COPASAH. Our relationship with NCDHR and its constituent groups was key to deepening our ownunderstanding on issues of social marginalisation. Our colleagues and associates of MASVAW, FEM, SANAM andMenEngage Alliance provided us inspiration and challenged us to deepen our own understanding on masculinities andgender issues as they apply to men. We were enriched by our close working relations with partners in academicinstitutions like the School of Public Health, SRM University, Chennai and the Department of Global Health, Universityof Washington, Seattle, USA. Some of our key partners this year were as follows:

International� Asia Pacific Research and Resource Centre On Women (ARROW), Malaysia� Centre for Reproductive Rights (CRR), USA� Global Health Leadership Program, University of Washington, Seattle, USA� Human Rights Watch, USA� International Budget Partnership (IBP), USA� International Centre for Research on Women (ICRW), USA� Instituto Promundo, Brazil� Institute for Development Studies, UK� Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK� John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, USA� Oak Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland� Open Society Institute, New York, USA� Partners for Prevention, Bangkok� Save the Children, Sweden� Sonke Gender Justice, South Africa

National� AAKAR, Delhi� Aarohi, Uttarakhand� Advisory Group on Community Action, a standing committee of NRHM, MoHFW� Astitva Samaj Vikas and Sanshodhan Sanstha, Maharashtra� Azad Shiksha Kendra, Uttar Pradesh� Family Planning Association of India (FPAI), India� Human Rights Law Network, Delhi� Halo Medical Foundation, Maharashtra� HAQ - Center for Child Rights, Delhi� JAGORI, Delhi � Madhya Pradesh Vigyan Sabha (MPVS), Madhya Pradesh� MANJARI, Rajasthan� Nari Samata Manch, Maharashtra� National Rural Health Mission, Bihar� National Rural Health Mission, Sikkim� Population Foundation of India (PFI), Delhi



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� PRAYAS, Uttarakhand� PRAYAS, Rajasthan� SAHAYOG, Lucknow� Samyak, Maharashtra� Savitri Bai Phule Mahila Mandal, Maharashtra� School of Public Health, SRM University, Chennai� SUTRA, Himachal Pradesh� Swadhikar, Delhi� Tarun Chetna Sansthan, Uttar Pradesh� Action NorthEast Trust (ANT), Assam� The Humanity, Orissa� The Hunger Project, India� Yuva Gram Vikas Mandal, Maharashtra� Dharti Gramotthan Evam Sahbhagi Gramin Vikas Samiti, Morena (Madhya Pradesh)� Gram Sudhar Samiti, Sidhi (Madhya Pradesh)� UNFPA, Delhi

Networks� CommonHealth� Community of Practitioners on Accountablility and Social Action in Health (COPASAH)� Forum to Engage Men (FEM) � Girls not Brides – Global Partnership to End Child Marriage� Healthwatch Forum � Jan Adhikar Manch, Bihar� Jan Swasthya Abhiyan� Mahila Swasthya Adhikar Manch, Uttar Pradesh� Men’s Action for Stopping Violence Against Women (MASVAW), UP� MenEngage South Asia� MenEngage Global Alliance � National Alliance for Maternal Health and Human Rights (NAMHHR)� National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR)� National Coalition against Two-Child Norm and Coercive Population Policies� South Asian Network to Address Masculinities (SANAM)� Wada Na Todo Abhiyan (WNTA)

and many other state level organisations/networks across India.



ORGANISATIONAL EFFECTIVENESSThe organisational effectiveness and developmentprocess which had been initiated in 2009continued across 2011-2012. Several institutionalprocesses aimed at strengthening our structure andfunctioning were introduced this year also. Inter-sectoral teams were formed for taking forward keyorganisational strategies like building partnerships,engagement with social movements, fundraisingand so on. The mentorship process which had beeninitiated earlier to support individual growth wascontinued. The Core Group continued to take upcritical organisational issues. Staff appraisals wereconducted keeping in mind the Key PerformanceAreas (KPA) and Competencies set for each work-profile.A Strategic Planning Meeting was organised duringApril 2011. During this workshop, which wasattended by the senior staff members and fewGoverning Board members, the Vision, Missionand Strategies of CHSJ for the next three years werefinalised. CHSJs strengths and opportunities wereanalysed by staff members. Several decisions weretaken including the assigning of organisationalroles to prepare for future growth. This meetingplayed an important part in streamliningorganisational development.

CAPACITY BUILDING• CHSJ organised a meeting on Working with

Men And Boys for Gender Equality, February,2012

• Staff members attended the Medico FriendCircle Annual Meet, January, 2012, in Wardha,Maharashtra

• Staff members attended a workshop onLeveraging Social Media in support of Maternaland Reproductive Health, organised by theMacArthur Foundation, in December, 2011

• CHSJ organised a one-day training on DifficultConversations in Difficult Relationships,facilitated by Tejinder Singh Bhogal, in October,2011

• Staff members attended the NGO AccountantsNetwork Regional Convention with a Focus onFCRA 2010, held at Delhi in October, 2011.

• CHSJ organised a lecture on Masculinity, byRahul Roy in September, 2011.

• Staff members went for the Basic Training onGender, Sexuality, Sexual and ReproductiveHealth in Hindi, organised by CREA, in August,2011.

• CHSJ organised a lecture on the history ofFeminist Movement by Runu Chakravorty inJuly, 2011

• Staff members attended a meeting on AuthorityDynamics: Expectations, Myths and Choices,facilitated by Uma Jain (ISABS), in June, 2011.

• Staff members attended the ConnectITWorkshop organised by NASSCOM Foundationin June, 2011

CHSJ continued to organize in-house capacitybuilding events mostly for perspective buildingand upgrading technical skills. Weekly Tuesdaymeetings remained an important fora fordiscussion where all members were encouraged tospeak on different issues.

OUR OPERATIONAL MECHANISMS



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CHSJ Staff (as on 31st March, 2012)

Abhijit Das, Director

Ajay Kumar, Finance Officer

Anita Gulati, Administrative Officer

Lavanya Mehra, HR Officer

Leena Uppal, Programme Officer

Mahendra Kumar, Programme Officer

Nibedita Phukan, Programme Officer

Pratibha D’mello, Programme Manager

Satish Kumar Singh, Deputy Director

Shakti Jamdade, Programme Officer

Shreeti Shakya, Programme Assistant

Tulsi Manimuthu, Administrative Assistant

Virendra Kumar Rai, Programme Manager

Vishnu Vyawahare, Programme Associate

Office Assistants

Ishu Das

Mahfuz Alam

Annexure 1



Annexure 2

CHSJ

Governing Body

Abhijit DasDirector, CHSJ and ClinicalAssistant Professor, School ofPublic Health and CommunityMedicine, University ofWashington, Seattle (USA)

A. R. NandaFormer Executive Director,Population Foundation of India,former Secretary, Family Welfare,Ministry of Health and FamilyWelfare, Government of India

Rajani VedAdvisor, Community Processes,National Health SystemsResource Centre

Renu KhannaFounder Member, SAHAJ, Societyfor Health Alternatives, Baroda

Satish Kumar SinghDeputy Director, CHSJ;Convenor MASVAW

Subhash MendhapurkarDirector, SUTRA, HimachalPradesh

Suneeta DharDirector, JAGORI - Women'sTraining and Resource Centre

Usha RaiSenior Journalist andCommunication Consultant

CHSJ Advisors

In addition to our board members, we benefited from the guidance providedto us by our advisors:Aaron Katz – Principal Lecturer, Health Services and Global Health, School of

Public Health, University of Washington, USAA K Shiva Kumar – Advisor UNICEF, Development Economist Amitrajit Saha – Senior Advisor, HIV and Human Rights, UNDP, Regional

Office, Eastern and Southern AfricaAmy Hagopian – School of Public Health, University of Washington, USAEnakshi Ganguly Thukral – Co-Director, HAQ-Centre for Child Rights, DelhiImrana Qadeer – Fellow, Centre for Women’s Development Studies, DelhiJashodhara Dasgupta – Coordinator, SAHAYOG. Expert on gender, health and

citizenship Kavita Srivastava – Human rights activist. Associated with MKSS, Right to

Information and Right to Food Campaigns and PUCLLeila Caleb Varkey – Public health researcherMangesh Kulkarni – Faculty, Department of Politics and Public

Administration, University of Pune, expert on masculinities studiesMira Shiva – Public health specialist and activist on drugs and trade related

agreements Nandinee Bandopadhyay – Independent consultant on community

engagement for marginalized populationsNarendra Gupta – Public health specialist. Coordinator of PRAYAS, RajasthanPaul Divakar – Dalit rights activist. General Secretary, National Centre for

Dalit Human Rights and Dalit Arthik Adhikar AndolanRahul Roy – Founder Trustee, AAKAR. Film-maker and expert on masculinitiesRamakant Rai – Child rights and health rights activist. Convenor, National

Coalition for Education (NCE), IndiaRavi Duggal – Senior Trainer and Analyst, International Budget Partnership Ravi Verma – Regional Director, Asia Regional Office, International Center for

Research on Women (ICRW), New Delhi S. Srinivasan – Founder Trustee, Locost Standard Therapeutics, Baroda. Expert

on medicines and pharmaceuticalsSanjay Srivastava – Professor, Institute of Economic Growth. Expert on

masculinities studiesSanjeev Sridharan – University of Toronto and St. Michaels Hospital, Canada.

Evaluation specialistSarojini N B – Women’s health researcher and advocate. Coordinator of

SAMA - a resource organization on women’s health and rightsSharad Iyengar – Public Health Specialist. Secretary and Chief Executive of

Action Research and Training for Health (ARTH), UdaipurSundari Ravindran – Women’s health and rights researcher. Hony. Professor,

Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies (AMCHSS), Sree ChitraTirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology,Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala

Tejinder Singh Bhogal – Innobridge Consulting, Expert in organisationalchange and development.



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Annexure 3

Distribution of CHSJ'swork across different states in India

JAMMU &

KASHMIR

JAMMU &

KASHMIR

HIMACHAL

PRADESH

HIMACHAL

PRADESH

PUNJABPUNJAB

HARYANA

HARYANA

DELHIDELHI

UTTAR PRADESHUTTAR PRADESHRAJASTHANRAJASTHAN

GUJARATGUJARAT

MADHYA PRADESHMADHYA PRADESH

MAHARASHTRAMAHARASHTRA

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KA

KA

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KA

ANDHRA

PRADESH

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PRADESH

TAMIL NADUTAMIL NADU

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UTTARAKHANDUTTARAKHAND

BIHARBIHAR

SIKKIMSIKKIM

ARUNACHAL

PRADESH

ARUNACHAL

PRADESH

ASSAMASSAMNAGALANDNAGALAND

MANIPURMANIPUR

MIZORAMMIZORAM

MEGHALAYAMEGHALAYA

TRIPURATRIPURAJHARKHANDJHARKHAND

WEST

BENGAL

WEST

BENGAL

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HATTIS

GA

RH

CH

HATTIS

GA

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ORISSAORISSA

INDIA

� RAHP II Study Partnership

� Technical Support for Community Monitoring within NRHM

� Health Expenditure Tracking

� Leadership Development Programme for District Programme Managers under NRHM

� Partnerships related to work on Men and Gender Equality

� Networking on Men and Gender Equality

� Baseline study for Reproductive health project for AAROHI

� Evaluation study for SAHAYOG

� Participation of Socially Excluded Communities within NRHM

� National Coalition against Two Child Norm and Coercive Population Policies

� Support to Jan Adhikar Manch for advocacy on Population Policies



Financial Summary 2011-2012

Balance sheet as on 31st March 2011-2012

Liabilities Fixed Assets

Corpus Fund 5,000.00 Fixed Asset (Trust) 785,633.00

Fixed Assets Replacement Fund-Vehicle 315,039.00 Fixed Asset (FCRA) 139,438.00

General Fund 1,014,969.72

Restricted Fund Current Assets

Foreign Grants unutilized 9,786,046.21 Security Deposit 155,000.00

Indian Grants Unutilized (434,935.00) Loan and Advances 313,821.37

Committed Liabilities 516,101.69 Cash & Bank balance 9,808,329.25

Total 11,202,221.62 Total 11,202,221.62

Income & Expenditure

Expenses Rupees Income Rupees

General Fund General Fund

UNFPA RAHP 3,035,297.00 Project Fund 10,019,382.00

UNFPA Maharashtra Project 6,683,890.00 Consultancy 347,367.00

Fund Refund to UNFPA for RAHP 300,195.00 Staff Contribution 232,475.00

Trust Expenses 509,241.00 Other & Bank Interest 41,076.02

Depreciation 153,558.00

FC Fund FC Fund

ARROW 48,309.00 ARROW 48,309.00

International Budget Partnership 890,803.50 International Budget Partnership 890,803.50

IDS (Gender, Power, Sexuality) 72,097.00 IDS (Gender, Power, Sexuality) 72,097.00

IDS (Men & VAW) 543,982.37 IDS (Men & VAW) 543,982.37

MacArthur 625,794.74 MacArthur 625,794.74

OAK Foundation 103,362.00 OAK Foundation 103,362.00

Open Society Institute 984,221.88 Open Society Institute 984,221.88

PACS Project 336,803.00 PACS Project 336,803.00

Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine 57,219.00 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine 57,219.00

The Hunger Project 136,478.00 The Hunger Project 136,478.00

Excess of Expenditure over income 41,880.98

Total 14,481,251.49 Total 14,481,251.49

Annexure 4



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Receipts and Payment

Receipts Rupees Payment Rupees

Opening Balance Foreign Grants Utilized

Foreign Contribution A/c. 1,365,774.68 ARROW 48,309.00

General A/c. 201,849.96 International Budget Partnership 890,803.50

Advances & Imprest (Net) (202,726.26) IDS (Gender, Power, Sexuality) 72,097.00

Fixed Asset Replacement Fund-Vehicle 121,740.00 IDS (Men & VAW) 543,982.37

MacArthur 625,794.74

Foreign Grants Received OAK Foundation 103,362.00

IDS (Gender, Power, Sexuality) 234,905.00 Open Society Institute 984,221.88

IDS (Men & VAW) 539,646.00 PACS Project 336,803.00

MacArthur 3,390,701.00 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine 57,219.00

OAK Foundation 5,558,795.00 The Hunger Project 136,478.00

Open Society Institute 1,352,790.00

PACS Project 452,300.00 Indian Grants Utilized

Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine 56,825.00 UNFPA RAHP 3,035,297.00

The Hunger Project 524,250.00 UNFPA Maharashtra Project 6,683,890.00

Fund Refund to UNFPA for RAHP 300,195.00

Indian Grants Received

UNFPA Maharashtra Project 6,234,695.00 Other Expenses

UNFPA-RAHP 3,345,704.00 CHSJ-Office Expenses 45,555.00

CHSJ-Salary 301,230.00

Bank interest CHSJ-Office Rent 162,456.00

FC Fund 109,130.00

General Fund 26,445.00 Closing Balance

Foreign Contribution A/c. 9,786,046.19

Other Income General A/c. 22,283.04

Consultancy 347,367.00 Advances & Imprest (Net) (202,280.32)

Other & Bank Interest 41,076.02

Staff Contribution 232,475.00

Total 23,933,742.40 Total 23,933,742.40



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