ICDS Mission
VISION of ICDS Mission
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ICDS Mission will work in reaching ICDS
restructuring goals in accelerated manner/
mission mode.
It will focus and facilitate to fulfill the ICDS
goals and objective under Mission mode.
Facilitate to reach CM Vision for women
and children 2016
Facilitate to reach out the MDG goals for
maternal and child nutrition and health
Achieve ICDS Universalization with
quality
Goal of ICDS Mission
• ICDS Mission targets to attain three main
outcomes namely:
▫ Prevent & reduce young child under-nutrition (%
underweight children 0-3 years) by 10 percentage
point;
▫ Enhance early development and learning outcomes
in all children 0-6 years of age; and
▫ Improve care and nutrition of girls and women and
reduce anaemia prevalence in young children, girls
and women by one fifth.
• Contribute towards reduction in IMR, MMR, LBW
and CSR in convergence with NRHM
Objectives of ICDS restructuring and Mission
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To institutionalise essential services and
strengthen structures at all levels
To enhance capacities at all levels
To ensure appropriate intersectoral
response at all level
To raise public awareness and participation
To create data base and knowledge for
child development services
Focus of ICDS restructuring and Mission
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To decide and mention all activities with their
physical and financial targets with the revised
cost norms.
Tracking of expenditures against physical
targets
Monitor
the
programme
performance
effectively and take necessary mid-course
corrections.
Strengthen the existing monitoring mechanism
To strengthen the existing programme
management
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accelerate
programme
outcomes
Reforms and restructuring
ICDS MISSION
Programmatic Reforms under Mission
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Repositioning the AWC as a vibrant ECD center & first village
level out post for Health, Nutrition and Early Learning
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Action plan for opening up AWCs minimum of six hours daily
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Action plan for construction of AWCs with revised cost norms
and finalization of timeline.
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State proposal for upgradation, maintenance, improvement
and repair of AWC building.
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State initiative for improving SNP with revision of cost norms.
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Action plan to strengthening Training System –
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Plan for Setting up of State Training Cell at Directorate level.
Reaching U-3, PW & LM
• Home base Care and Nutrition Counseling for Pregnant
Lactating Mother and Mothers of Under 3.
• Action Plan for engaging of additional worker in all ICDS
projects.
• Improve growth monitoring and counseling
• Mother, child tracking through self monitoring and use of
family retained joint MCP Card.
• Stronger referral linkages with Health by using Joint MCP
Card as a referral Card.
• Early stimulation programme for under 3s to foster their
holistic development
• Roll out of revised MIS in all 27 districts : September, 2013.
• Action plan for supply of revised registers in 2 Hill district
and BTAD Area for uniform reporting system in AWCs .
• Roll out 5 Tier monitoring system
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Revision of norms: SNP
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Existing
Norms
(w.e.f.
16.10.08)
Approved norms effective from
the date of approval as per
phasing plan
(per beneficiary per day)
(i) Children (6-72
months)
Rs.4.00
Rs.6.00
(ii) Severely underweight Rs.6.00
children (6-72 months)
Rs.9.00
(iii) Pregnant women
and Nursing mothers
Rs.7.00
Rs.5.00
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Revision of norms: Other
• PSE Kits, Medicine kits, monitoring,
• Rent revisions
• Maintenance (of existing Govt. owned & non
rental AWC buildings)
• Improvement & Up gradation of building for
other facilities (kitchen, store, ANC facility
etc.)
• Additional rooms for Crèche,
• Other existing norms of ICDS Scheme shall
continue in existing form
New Provisions Under ICDS Mission
• SnehaShivir: for community/family care for
moderately malnourished children in minority, tea
garden, urban slums state should pilot Sneha Shivir
in around 500 AWCs.
• Linkages with NRC- Facility based care for SAM.
Presently 10 NRC are functional and by end of 201314 , eight (8) more would be functional by NRHM,
Assam
• ECC Day every month at AWCs for conducting
parenting sessions for improving ECC for early
stimulation to children under three years with focus
to children with special needs
• AWC cum Crèche centres for working mothers of
unorganised sectors specifically in urban slums,
tea garden; proposed to set up in 1865 AWCs (5%
of total ) in 2013-14 based on detail need
assessment
• Additional space & worker for longer hours
working (6 hrs)
• Accreditation of AWCs as well as AWTC/MLTC
proposed in all (27 nos.) districts and all
AWTC/MLTC
Innovations & good practices :
Strengthening Monitoring & Evaluation
• Revised MIS will be implemented in all districts by
September 2013. Registers are printed in Assamese
and Bengali and distributed to all districts. District
level master training underway.
• Strengthening VHSNC in coordination with NRHM
is underway. DSW is preparing guidelines for
monitoring VHND by DSWO/CDPOs and
Supervisors.
• Piloting social audits & establishing grievance
redressal cell up to project level
• Creating Field Learning Sites (FLS) as peer
learning model in Kamrup and Goalpara district
10% of total AWC.
Innovations & good practices :
To improve community participation
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Roll out of Mother’s Support Group or Matri
Sahayak Gut in all functional AWCs.
Increase involvement of AWCMC members in
AWC monitoring through capacity building of
AWCMC and PRI members in selected districts.
A system for fund transfer to all AWCMC for
SNP has been initiated in state since 2011-12.
State is proposing audit of AWCMC in phased
manner for removing the bottlenecks and
quality SNP
Model AWC: Adoption of 10 AWC by CDPOs.
Innovations and good practices :
To improve IYCF & Combat child malnutrition
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Release of State IYCF guidelines
Training cum counselling tool in local language
Special Project for reducing under five malnutrition in
Nagaon, Morigaon, Dibrugarh, Jorhat and Sonitpur
district.
Scaling up of “Pratham Ahhar” to introduce
complementary feeding for improving IYCF in 10 NRC
districts and 2 IGMSY districts.
Scale up of “Matri Amrit” to strengthen ANC services
and counselling to pregnant mother 8 SABLA districts and
2 IGMSY districts.
Scale up the concept of Kitchen gardens in 62153AWCs
THANK YOUDirectorate of Social Welfare
Government of Assam