Community
Health Development through Public Private
Partnership
NYSASDRI, in
partnership with The Interact Worldwide,
London and with support from the European
Commission has initiated an integrated development
programme from community health improvement
and their Socio-Economic Development. Entitled
as “Community Empowerment and Advocacy
for Sustainable Health Care for People in
Extreme Need in Orissa”, the project
aims to reduce poverty and improve the health
status of poor, underserved communities,
in Orissa, with a particular focus on women
and people from Scheduled Castes and Scheduled
Tribes, who constitute over 80% of the target
group. More than 100,000 people will directly
benefit from an empowerment programme for
economic skill development, rights awareness
and action, and behaviour change for health
promotion and gender equity.
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The project
will support skills training, income generating activities,
savings schemes, access to credit, awareness of rights,
skills and confidence to lobby local government, collective
development action by village groups, and positive health-seeking
behaviour. Women’s mobility, their participation
in decision-making, and their control over resources
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addition the project will provide high quality
health services through renovating/ equipping/
staffing two Primary Health Centres (PHCs),
training for Panchayati Raj Institutions
to ensure the provision of quality healthcare
services to those in most need, research
into Public Private Partnership and Primary
Health Care delivery in Orissa, and advocacy
amongst public, health professionals and
Government for improved public health services
and health sector reforms.This project was
started in September 2004 and will continue
for five years.The areas covered under the
project are Khankira, Nihalprasad, Bega,
Laulai, Ratanpur and Letheka GP of Dhenkanal
District and Mangarajpur, Badatanda, Hatibari,
Pingal, Kharadj, and Haripur of Jajpur District. |
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