ICDS Mission

1. ICDSMission

2. VISION of ICDS Mission • 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

3. 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 CSRin convergence with NRHM

4. Objectives of ICDS restructuring and Mission • 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

5. Focus of ICDS restructuring and Mission • To decide and mention all activities with their physical and financial targetswith 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 to accelerate programme outcomes

6. ICDS MISSION Reforms and restructuring

7. Programmatic Reforms under Mission • Repositioning the AWC as a vibrant ECD center & first village level out post for Health, Nutrition and Early Learning • Action plan for opening up AWCs minimum of six hours daily • Action plan for construction of AWCs with revised cost norms and finalization of timeline. • State proposal for upgradation, maintenance, improvement and repair of AWC building. • State initiative for improving SNP with revision of cost norms. • Action plan to strengthening Training System – • Plan for Setting up of State Training Cell at Directorate level.

8. 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

9. Revision of norms: SNP

10. 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

11. 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 2013-14 , 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

12. 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

13. 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.

14. Innovations & good practices : • To improve community participation • 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.

15. Innovations and good practices : • To improve IYCF & Combat child malnutrition • 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 “PrathamAhhar” to introduce complementary feeding for improving IYCF in 10 NRC districts and 2 IGMSY districts. • Scale up of “MatriAmrit” 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

16. THANK YOU- Directorate of Social Welfare Government of Assam