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Experiences of CHETNA, Centre for
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For further details on CHETNA contact :
Ms. Indu Capoor
Director CHETNA
CENTRE FOR HEALTH EDUCATION, TRAINING AND NUTRITION AWARENESS
Lilavatiben Lalbhai's Bungalow, Civil Camp Road, Shahibaug, Ahmedabad 380 004, Gujarat, India.
Gram: CHETNESS Telex: 91-121-6779 CEE IN and 91-121-618 RASA IN
Fax: 91-272-866513 and 91-272-420242
Phone: 866513, 866695
INDEX
1.
Introduction............................................................................................................................... 1
2.
CHETNA in Retrospect.......................................................................................................... 1
a. Phase I.................................................................................................................................. 5
Project activities in Health Education (1980-84)
b. Phase II................................................................................................................................. 7
Growing involvement in Health Training of
Children and Women (1984-88)
c.
Phase III................................................................................................................................9
Consolidation (1988-91)
d. Phase IV............................................................................................................................ 13
Creating New Horizons (1991-92)
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Child resource Centre (CRC)................................................................................... 13
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Womens health and development resource centre (Chaitanyaa).......... 17
3.
CHETNA as an Organisation............................................................................................. 19
4,
Major Activities during the decade............................................................................... 22
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Table - A brief Profile of CHETNA's activities........................................................... 21
A DECADE OF HEALTH EDUCATION
CHETNA, meaning awareness in several Indian Languages, is an acronym for
"Centre for Health Education, Training and Nutrition Awareness''. In the year 1980,
CHETNA began as a project of the Vikram A. Sarabhai Community Science
Centre (VASCSC), an activity of Nehru Foundation for Development (NED),
Ahmedabad From 1984, CHETNA celebrates its foundation day on "Vikram
Jayanti" (August 12) each year. CHETNA legally functions under the wider
umbrella of NFD headed by Shri Kartikeya Sarabhai.
The first activity of CHETNA was conducting trainings for the functionaries of
nutrition programmes of the Government of Gujarat. The activity was conducted
by three young enthusiastic women* then called as the "Nutrition Team" of
VASCSC. Through this programme the team realized the need to address nutrition
concerns through health education and awareness raising programmes. The teqm
also demonstrated its competency in preparation of educational material for grass
root and middle level health workers and in training of grass root development
functionaries. Since its inception, CHETNA has collaborated with various
governmental and non governmental agencies working in the area of health. In
the last thirteen years, CHETNA has developed itself as a resource centre for
health communication and education specially for addressing the health concerns
of disadvantaged women and children.
ChETNA developed its programme with a principled understanding that health in
India has been shrouded in much mysticism - high dependence on either the
Tantar-Mantras or on the allopathic doctors of the modern world. This
dependence has alienated the common people from understanding their own
health care system. The poor women have been the direct victims of this
inaccessibility to the knowledge regarding their own body and health. With this
understanding, CHETNA's main goal was to promote preventive health care,
demystify health care system and liberate people, especially women, from the
clutches of the quacks and doctors and, empower them to take care of their
own, their families' and their communities' health.
ChETNA therefore aimed to empower mothers and children through working with
government and non government organisations for enhancing health and nutrition
of communities by raising awareness through training and popular communication
material.
CHETNR IN RETROSPECT
The last thirteen years of CHETNA can be classified into four phases.
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* Indu Capoor, Minaxi Shukla and Pallavi Naik
A DECADE OF HEALTH EDUCATION
ChETNA, meaning awareness in several Indian Languages, is an acronym for
"Centre for Health Education, Training and Nutrition Awareness". In the year 1980,
CHETNA began as a project of the Vikram A, Sarabhai Community Science
Centre (VASCSC), an activity of Nehru Foundation for Development (NED),
Ahmedabad From 1984, CHETNA celebrates its foundation day on “Vikram
Jayanti" (August 12) each year. CHETNA legally functions under the wider
umbrella of NFD headed by Shri Kartikeya Sarabhai.
The first activity of CHETNA was conducting trainings for the functionaries of
nutrition programmes of the Government of Gujarat. The activity was conducted
by three young enthusiastic women* then called as the "Nutrition Team" of
VASCSC. Through this programme the team realized the need to address nutrition
concerns through health education and awareness raising programmes. The te,am
also demonstrated its competency in preparation of educational material for grass
root and middle level health workers and in training of grass root development
functionaries. Since its inception, CHETNA has collaborated with various
governmental and non governmental agencies working in the area of health. In
the last thirteen years, CHETNA has developed itself as a resource centre for
health communication and education specially for addressing the health concerns
of disadvantaged women and children.
ChETNA developed its programme with a principled understanding that health in
India has been shrouded in much mysticism - high dependence on either the
Tantar-Mantras or on the allopathic doctors of the modern world. This
dependence has alienated the common people from understanding their own
health care system. The poor women have been the direct victims of this
inaccessibility to the knowledge regarding their own body and health. With this
understanding, CHETNA's main goal was to promote preventive health care,
demystify health care system and liberate people, especially women, from the
clutches of the quacks and doctors and, empower them to take care of their
own, their families' and their communities' health.
L^HETNA therefore aimed to empower mothers and children through working with
government and non government organisations for enhancing health and nutrition
of communities by raising awareness through training and popular communication
material.
CHETNH IN RETROSPECT
The last thirteen years of CHETNA can be classified into four phases.
’ Indu Capoor, Minaxi Shukla and Pallavi Naik
1'ILISI' I
PROJECT ACTIVITIES IN HEALTH
EDUCATION (1980-84)
The Integrated Nutrition and Health Action Programme (INHAP) was the first
project of CHETNA undertaken to impart training on nutrition to grass root
functionaries working in hundred villages of 10 blocks in the state of Gujarat. This
project led the 'nutrition team' to learn about health related issues from the
ground reality. Along with this educational programme, the team also prepared
four posters and ten pamphlets on nutrition education. They were later printed for
mass education by the Government of Gujarat.
In 1981, CHETNA got involved in the training of field level workers (Anganwadi/
creche workers) of the "Integrated Child Development Scheme" (ICDS). But this
grass root level work slowly sparked off into a long term involvement with ICDS in
both the states of Gujarat and Rajasthan for the preparation of syllabus and
training of supervisors and district level functionaries.
In the first three years, while travelling to remote areas and interacting with
people in the states of Gujarat, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh the team felt that
there was a dearth of communication material available on the prevention of
common ailments. With the support of UNICEF, CHETNA prepared an educational
kit on GOBIFF Messages (Growth Monitoring, Oral Rehydration. Breast Feeding,
Immunization, Food Supplementation and Family Planning) to convey essential
health information to the community. This was prepared in three languages i.e.
English, Hindi and Gujarati.
In 1983, the team prepared a set of flip charts on ten common diseases
affecting children and mothers. The preparation of this set of educational material
was taken up in collaboration with "Gujarat Voluntary Health Association (GVHA)".
During 1984, an educational kit on Anemia, emphasizing its social dimensions, was
prepared with the support of UNICEF and Directorate of Adult Education, New
Delhi. AN educational materials have been conceptualized, field tested and
produced internally by CHETNA. The first few years of CHETNA were spent in
working at the grass roots with voluntary agencies and government(in programmes
like ICDS). In this phase, CHETNA demonstrated its distinctive strength in
preparation of popular educational material on health education.
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GROWING INVOLMENT IN HEALTH
TRAINING OF CHILDREN AND
WOMEN (1984-88)
ChETNA entered the second phase with an articulated mission. "TO PROMOTE
HEALTH AND NUTRITION EDUCATION AMONG POOR PEOPLE SO THAT THEY UTILIZE
THE EDUCATION AND REMAIN HEALTHY AND FREE OF DISEASES."
In 1984, with the support of Ford Foundation, CHETNA undertook a more long
term activity entitled “Child Survival” to promote grass root competencies for
ensuring better child health. CHETNA also developed long-term relationship with
agencies like Sadguru Water and Development Foundation (SWDF) Dahod, and
Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA) Ahmedabad, in developing their
organisational competencies in enhancing child survival. During this time, CHETNA
also worked with SWDF in organising women's health camps in their project areas.
Organisationally, CHETNA grew from its "trio-nutrition team" to a full fledged
organisation. The other members who joined were two full time field trainers, one
full time English steno-typist, a Gujarati- Hindi typist, a person for handling
publications, an artist for preparing popular publications, one for administration
and one as a support for office requirements. CHETNA's moving out from the
VASCSC campus to the 'Drive-In' building further helped to establish its
independent identity.
In 1985, CHETNA got involved in a UNICEF and Aga Khan Foundation (AKF)
sponsored project on health education entitled 'Childto-Child' In this programme,
CHETNA got several opportunities to establish contact with NGOs of Gujarat and
Rajasthan. In the year 1986, CHETNA organised several women's awareness camps
in the project area of Child-to-Child' and 'Child Survival'. These camps were
supported by Central Social Welfare Board (CSWB). As a result of these successful
experiences CHETNA was recognized as a nodal training institute in Gujarat to
conduct Organisers Training for agencies conducting women awareness camps.
During 1985-87 CHETNA, apart from its involvement in the area of ICDS
anganwadi (creche) workers' training, continued to undertake several short term
projects like training of staff for the project on 'Integrated Guinea Worm
Eradication Programme' (IGWED) in Rajasthan,'Water and Sanitation Awareness',
'Growth Monitoring'in Gujarat and Maharashtra, and Training of 'Traditional Birth
Attendants' (TBAs) in states of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Orissa and
Andhra Pradesh respectively.
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During the period 1984-1988, CHETNA produced a variety of educational materials
including the Gujarati and Hindi translation of the Child Birth Picture Book originally
written by Fran P. Hosken of WIN News. The copyright for doing this publication in
any language in India is with CHETNA. Since then several editions in different
Indian languages* have been published.
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During this time, CHETNA provided a new thrust to its health education by linking
health concerns with social, cultural aspects and developmental issues.
CHETNA appointed new staff for all its new projects. The organisation also
suffered from high turnover of the staff. It was a phase full of activities,
conducting research studies, organising training programmes, attending meetings,
preparing educational materials, negotiating with partner NGOs and donor
agencies.
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PHASE III
CONSOLIDATION (1988-91)
HETNA tried to consolidate its hectic schedule by not taking up short term
activities after the year 1988. It tried to give a closure to its projects "Child
Survival", "Child-to-Child" and also formally completed it activities with Day Care
Centre (DCC) training, on the job training for CSWB creche workers and Growth
monitoring. However, CHETNA began a field activity called Health Awareness
Campaign among women of Banaskantha District in the state of Gujarat, with the
support of the Royal Netherlands Embassy.
During this period, CHETNA made three shifts in its conceptual articulation of
health education. It moved from the health concern of 'mother' to a more
holistic concept 'women'. In the area of child health it emphasized a new
pedagogical input by involving children in child health education.
Preparation of educational material was intensified. In 1989, the quarterly news
letter which was earlier cyclostyed started going to the printing press with
attractive layouts. CHETNA published another quarterly health bulletin in Gujarati
"Amaro Patra Thamare Naame" which is a translation of the bulletin in Hindi
published by VHAI called "Hamari Chithi Aapke Naam".
In 1990 CHETNA underwent a comprehensive evaluation and future planning
exercise. CHETNA team asked itself very critical questions. The evaluation brought
out several directional issues.
Alongwith these three shifts, CHETNA introduced the use of traditional medicine in
Primary Health Care with an aim of reinforcing poor women's access and control
over their health practices. An all India survey on traditional practices for maternal
and child health was co-ordinated by CHETNA. Several field activities like
'Balmela' (Children's Fair) and 'Gram Yatras' (Village Rally) were also conducted
on Child health education. These grass root involvements provided insight into
developing training modules for Training of Trainers (TOT) on 'Women's Health' and
'Child Health Education'. During this period CHETNA made a shift from training of
grass-root level to middle level functionaries.
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Articulation of health issues in a broader social context. CHETNA realized that
improvement of health of the poor women cannot be achieved by only
providing health related information.
CHETNA focused on '.child health' and 'women's health' as two main areas
of its work with an emphasis on preventive promotive and wholistic health.
While CHETNA aimed to provide support to government and non government
organisations working on women's health and children's health, it decided to
limit its work to the states of Gujarat and Rajasthan only.
It was realized that, training and preparation of learning material was the
strength of CHETNA.
CHETNA also felt the need to get involved in field level implementation
whenever a need emerged.
CHETNA made a shift from Short term project to long term programme
planning.
CHETNA realized the limitations of project-oriented time-bound activities. The
termination of projects used to create many problems in terms of building an
ongoing team and developing long term relationships with other government
and non-government agencies.
CHETNA's decentralized planning, decision making and team approach further
enhanced its capacities.
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CREATING NEW HORIZONS
(1991-92)
The participatory evaluation re-confirmed CHETNA's strength in training and
preparation of health education material for women and children. CHETNA
underwent a collective process of reflection and analysis, to plan its future
directions. Based on this exercise, CHETNA decided to strengthen its support role
with the government and non government organisations in the states of Gujarat
and Rajasthan in an intensive manner. As a result of this, two new programmes
emerged. CHETNA moved from short term project oriented commitments to long
term programme oriented work. In the span of a decade (early 80s to early 90s)
CHETNA shaped its programmes not only in terms of local needs but in
consistence with the macro perspective.
The two Programme areas that emerged were:
(i)
CHILD RESOURCE CENTRE (CRC) and
(ii)
WOMEN'S HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT RESOURCE CENTRE (WHDRC)
These two new programmes provided a new script for the 90s.
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CHILD RESOURCE CENTRE (CRC)
Crc envisages to extend support to agencies working with children in the area
of health education with child centred approaches including the "Child-to-Child"
approach. CHETNA wanted to do it by developing a Network among the
agencies for sharing resources and expertise. CRC's objectives and strategy of
work were developed by conducting a series of need assessments through
consultations with individuals and organisations. CRC focuses its activities on three
major programmatic areas.
1.
Early Childhood Care and Education (3-6 years)
2.
Intervention in formal and nonformal education programmes through
promotion of child centred activity oriented approach like Child to Child (6-14
years).
3.
Health and development of adolescents ( 14-18 years) -
The strategies for intervention in each of these areas can be classified broadly
into four heads :
(i)
Conducting training programmes for functionaries working with children (3-18
years).
(ii)
Documentation of Experiences with child centred activities
(iii)
Networking and policy advocacy
(iv) Preparation and dissemination of Educational Material on child health
education
(i)
Training Programmes
Training for capacity building is the strength of CRC. Training is strategically used
for sensitization, capacity building and strengthening organisations, to enhance
coordination between both government and non government organisations
working on health education, and to promote networking and for initiate
advocacy. Some of the activities undertaken are :
(ii)
Documentation
CRC has collected a vareity of resource material in Child health education which
is a part of its resource centre.
Some new publications were developed in three languages Gujarati, Hindi and
English.
•
Growing up healthy
A booklet on Child to Child approach.
•
Balmela (Children's Fair)
A booklet on how to organise a children's health education camp ’Gram
Yatra
•
Gram Yatra (Village Rally)
A booklet on how to organise a village level health campaign with the
active involvement of children.
•
Two Video Films have been prepared on 'Balmela' and 'Gram Yatra'.
•
An "Educator's Manual" has been prepared on child centred health
education.
•
Three slide sets on topics like importance of Pre-school Education, Nutrition
and, Health and Sanitation.
(iii) Networking and Advocacy
CRC has been actively linking up with other agencies on the Child-to-Child
approach, Early Childhood Care and Education Forums like Forum for Child Care
Services (FORCES), Organisation Mondiale Pour L' Education Pre-scolaire (OMEP)
etc.
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To achieve the above perspective and understand WHDRC envisages to
undertake the following activities.
(a)
Documentation
Documentation on relevant issues pertaining to women's health and development
and particularly women's initiative to gain control over their health.
(b)
Material Development
Development of written and audio-visual materials on technical aspects of
women's health.
(c)
Awareness Raising
Establishment of linkages with grass root groups and help in organising awareness
programmes among women.
(d)
Capacity Building
WHDRC aims to build competencies among the grass root health workers to
effectively work on the issue of women's health. Special training programmes for
managers and supervisors of health programmes will be developed.
(«)
Networking
WHDRC envisages to collaborate with government and non-government agencies
working on women's health education.
(f)
Advocacy
Special input would be given in policy advocacy for women's control over their
own health care practices and promotion of traditional health care practices that
are within the reach of the common women.
If one looks at the individual activities, one might wrongly conclude that CHETNA is
doing similar training programmes producing similar communication materials, as it
had been doing a decade back. But a closer scrutiny would reveal that CHETNA's
deeper perspective and understanding on the issue of health is reflected in the
above two programmes. The present re-articulated mission reads as below :
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CHETNA's Mission is to empower Women and Children to gain control on
their own, their families' and their communities health.
ITS STRATEGY IS
•
To sensitize and train various levels of supervisory workers of both government
and non-governmental agencies active in the field of health and nutrition so
that they became aware, utilize available health education services and
furthermore, demand services they are entitled to.
•
To prepare and disseminate appropriate field tested communication and
training materials covering all aspects of health care, nutrition and women's
development in regional languages.
•
To network with government and voluntary agencies working in the field so
as to share experiences and strengthen existing programmes.
CHETNA as an organisation
Though CHETNA functions legally under the Nehru Foundation for Development
(NFD), it has strived to maintain a distinctive work style, systems and culture of its
own. Since the beginning, CHETNA remained as a group largely, consisting of
women.
ChETNA grew from the initial three member nutrition team to various project
teams, to the present CRC and WHDRC programme teams. Along with these two
teams, a communication and field team also works towards achieving its mission.
An administrative and support unit take care of all the organisational support
functions. The present total strength of CHETNA is forty.
Since the beginning, CHETNA has been stressing on professionalism, mutual
respect and sensitivity to women and children's needs.
During mid 80s with many ongoing short term projects, CHETNA had to employ
many new team members. There were organisational tensions because of lack of
orientation of staff. Since then, team orientation and team building has been
taken up very seriously. Since in 1991, CHETNA was undergoing a new
programmatic shift as a consequence of the evaluation, it was thought
appropriate to undergo process documentation exercise to make the shift
collectivised and trace its link to the past years. To-day CHETNA team looks at
new programmes with great optimism. The recent physical shift of office premises
from Drive-in to an old Bungalow in Shahibaug has also provided a fresh look.
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CHETNR's Relationship with Government and Non Government Organisations
ChETNA as an organisation worked both, with government and non government
organisations in the area of child health care, women's nutrition, sanitation etc.
The aim was to develop appropriate pedagogical methods for the training of
functionaries addressing these issues at the grass root level. CHETNA has used the
experiences of government and voluntary agencies to develop innovative and
appropriate training modules, manuals, posters, booklets and audio visuals.
ChETNA recognizes the role and contribution of the government in the field of
development. It therefore aims to utilize the government infrastructure and
functionaries to make the programmes outreach more flexible and participatory.
ChETNA has always believed in collaborating with NGOs as a part of its work
strategy. It has a good relationship with some of the field NGOs like SEWA, SWDF,
Bhansali Trust, Navdeep Pragati Yuvak Mandal, SEWA Mandal, SEWA Mandir, Aga
Khan Education Services (AKEFS), PEDO, URMUL TRUST, SARTHI, to mention only a
few at the Gujarat and Rajasthan level. CHETNA has also linked up with some of
the national networks like VHAI, Women and Health (WAHI) Network, FORCES and
International Groups like Child-to-Child Trust, London, South East Asia Regional
Bureau of the international Union for Health Education.
BUILDING INTERNAL COMPETENCIES
ChETNA as an institution has also gained expertise a the area of health care
education. The initial "three member nutrition team" today claims that the field
experiences have given them more wisdom then the text books have. This does
not however mean, that CHETNA team does not spend time in attending
seminars and reading. CHETNA tries to avail all opportunities to attend workshops,
seminars, conferences being held from the village to the international level. In
order to increase expertise on a particular area, CHETNA also sends team
members on study leaves for attending formal certificate courses.
ChETNA is one of the first support institutions in the area of training on women's
health and child health education, in India. It has developed internal
competencies to link from grass roots to International forums and in highlighting
children & Indian Women's health concerns at the National Level. CHETNA is a
group of young colleagues who are always open to learn. They undoubtedly will
be instrumental in shaping new horizons.
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A BRIEF PROFILE OF CHETNA'S ACTIVITY
Some of the main programmes of CHETNA over the years are as follows :
WHDRC
CRC
WATER AWARENESS
Activities
TBA* TRAINING
GROWTH MONITORING IN ICDS
WOMEN AWARENESS
T.P.* MCH
CHILD TO CHILD
CHILD SURVIVAL
ICDS GUJARAT
AND RAJASTHAN
80
81
82
83
84
85
DCC - ICDS
86
YEARS
Traditional Birth Attendants
Traditional Practises
87
88
89
90
91
92
MAJOR ACTIVITIES DURING THE DECADE
ACTIV1TY/PROJECT
CHIEF FEATURES
YEAR 1980
Integrated Nutrition and Health Action
Programme (INHAP) project 100
villages of 10 blocks of Gujarat State
Major Implementation activity which
covered training and education to
functionaries working with women and
children.
YEAR 1981
Training of Anganwadi workers of ICDS
later conducted for supervisors
Beginning of the long term relationship
with ICDS. CHETNA was invited to
seminars, workshop related to ICDS
training in health and nutrition.
YEAR 1982
A collaborative training with Lalbhai
Group of Rural Development Fund of
ICDS training in pre-school education
component.
ICDS
and
@ Government of Gujarat recognised
CHETNA as a Resource Centre for
nutrition training.
® Training of Anganwadi workers from
Rajasthan ICDS.
• Gradual spread of work in neigh
boring states specially Rajasthan.
• Training of district level
functionaries on health
nutrition.
YEAR 1983
•
Educational kit on GOBIFF prepared
® Simple health messages were
communicated. Worked in another
state (Uttar Pradesh)
•
Developed flipcharts on 10 common
diseases with Gujarat Voluntary
Health Association (GVHA).
•
• Training for Nutrition Instructors of
Anganwadi training centres of
Gujarat state.
CHETNA received recognition as
health and nutrition training
institution.
•
Prepared a Manual on Nutrition
Training for Anganwadi trainers and
Supervisors.
•
Developed popular educational
material on Anemia and women's
health.
• Policy makers were influenced to
anemia as a social problem.
Later UNICEF, Ministry of Health,
Govt, of India asked CHETNA to
develop an educational module.
YEAR 1984
•
Child Survival(CS) project under
taken in collaboration with SEWA,
Ahmedabad and SWDF, Dahod.
• Methodology for project developed
by visiting projects in Bangladesh
and studying Indian situation.
CHETNA faced some collaboration
problems.
Phase-1 (1985-88)was intensive training
and Phase - II was for extending
support to agencies and evaluate
the impact. Team experienced high
motivation working in this project.
•
Increased experience
health, nutrition.
in
child
© CS project enabled CHETNA to
develop an independent image and
a formal organisational structure.
•
Involvement in a workshop on 'The
care of the New Born with SEWA &
GIAP
•
Developed educational kit on
'Anemia and women's health'
• Preparation of educational material
important work area.
• Field implementation work reduced.
• CHETNA was now operating in
other such as Rajasthan, Uttar
Pradesh and Orissa.
YEAR 1985
• Series of training for medical
officers, CDPO's PO's supervisors in
12 districts of Gujarat
•
• Anganwadi training in Rajasthan
Recognised widely as Resource
Centre Training, Received National
level attention, Rajasthan appro
ached for ICDS training.
•
Publication of Gujarati and Hindi
version of the book "Child Birth
Picture Book",
• Gradual widening of perspective
on child health and development.
•
UTSAH project began for creative
play for disabled children
•
•
National workshop conducted on
Child to Child project.
• Valuable
produced
CHETNA got into this project as it
developed a clear perspective on
child development.
background
material
YEAR 1986
•
CHETNA involves itself in direct
implementation of Women's Aware
ness Camps with grass roots group.
•
Involved in preparation of commu
nication material on 'Water and
Sanitation, in Uttar Pradesh
•
Conducted Training in two districts
of Rajasthan for Supervisors' staff of
ICDS on Guinea worm Eradication
(Project) with SWACH.
®
CHETNA developed a perspective
on women and development.
•
Direct training of ICDS functionaries
• Good relationship with ICDS officers
helped CHETNA to develop a long
term relationship with ICDS.
YEAR 1987
•
Involved in the Growth Monitoring
(GM) project which was to develop
training
methods
on
growth
monitoring for ICDS and government
health functionaries in the states of
Uttar Pradesh, Orissa, Maharashtra
and Gujarat.
• Many new members joined.
CHETNA learned the process of
group development
® Worked with Government
YEAR 1988
National level workshop on "Child
to Child" conducted. A paper on
the project activities was presented
at Houston.
© CHETNA got involved in seminars
and Workshops
• Child to Child programme implem
ented in three Project areas of
Rajasthan
o Developed grassroot implementing
metholodogy on Balmela & Gram
Yatra in Gujarat.
• Training for Women Awareness
Training camp was organised.
© Developed a module on women's
awareness and helped other
agencies in field implementation of
camps.
•
•
UTSAH and GM project completed
• Training of staff of Day Care
Centre (DCC) run by Aga Khan
Education Services, India (AKESI),
Bombay.
®
Developed competency in pre
school education training.
o This depicted the changed perspe
ctive of CHETNA and also led to
the development of Resource
Centre.
•
'Child Survival Project' continued
the training for health workers
•
Undertook research on traditional
practices on 'Mother and Child
health.
• Established a link with organisations in
a
particular
network
(LSPSS)
promoting local traditional practices
for primary health care.
• Guineaworm Eradication project in
Panchmahals and Sabarkantha
developed manual on water borne
diseases
•
Direct field experience.
• Worked with Government
Organisation.
YEAR 1989
• The quarterly newsletter began to
be published in English (in print)
• Translation and publication in
Gujarati of 'Hamari Chithi Aapke
Naam'
•
Conducted training for Traditional
Birth Attendents in states of Orissa,
U.P,
Rajasthan,
Maharashtra,
Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat.
•
Health Mela conducted with grass
roots groups under 'Child Survival
Project'
•
Involvement in visual aid develop
ment on Water Sanitation in Uttar
Pradesh
•
CHETNA later decided not to
involved in such long distance
projects.
•
CHETNA made an intensive entry in
to direct field implemented activity.
•
Provided insight into early child
hood education.
YEAR 1990
•
Preparation of field activity on
Water and Sanitation awareness
amongst women in Banaskantha.
•
ICDS
supervisor's
Rajasthan.
Training
in
• Job training for creche workers 3
programmes
of
one
month
duration each
• Training Manual for block Extention
Educators on communication skills
•
Comprehensive Participatory Evalua
tion conducted
• Stragetic
directions.
Planning
for
future
YEAR 1991-92
• The 'Child Survival' & Child to
Child' project ended.
•
Participatory Evaluation concluded
•
Initiation of a Child Resource
Centre and Women Health and
Development Resource Centre
Programmes.
• Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI)
News Letter circulated in India
•
Inflation of the Child Resource
Centre (CRC) and CHAITANYAA
Womens Health and Development
Resource Centre (WHDRC)
• Change from short term projects to
long term programmes. Beginning
of a new phase for CHETNA.
•
Informed medical practitioners
about such an important health
concerns in India
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