Health Maternal and Child Health Community

Community Update

No. 1:  8 November 2005

In this Issue

Intl & Local NGO & CBO

From the Moderator  | Network Activity  |  Member Postings |  Community News

From the Moderator Our First Update! After over 6 months of exciting exchanges, it’s now time to start binding things together. It is my great pleasure to send you the first MCH Community Update, where we have tried to capture a flavour of our activities thus far. We have had 13 very interesting queries, with over 160 email exchanges from Community members, not counting the messages you have sent encouraging this initiative, which I have not posted fearing email overload. We intend to issue this Update periodically as a regular service to the Community.  In it we will provide: l Information on network activity – Queries, e-discussions and other messages posted over the period; members signed up l Postings submitted from our members announcing events or other happenings, job openings, and readings of interest or for member comments l Announcements and news about Community events and other activities, as well as news of interest from other Solution Exchange Communities and from our UN System partners. These Updates are for you.  Please send me any information that you want to disseminate to members.  I will circulate a notice in advance about when to expect the next issue, so that you can reply with any material you would like to include. This first Update is no way complete, it lacks about everything, but — it’s a beginning. Please provide suggestions or comments on how you think it can be improved. Be on the lookout later this year for a member list, so that members to know more about each other, and a Community “Home Page” – your own Website where you will be able to easily access this update and other useful material, including the repository of Queries and Knowledge Products. Meghendra Banerjee Resource Person & Moderator, Health Communities Solution Exchange ________________________________________________________________ Network Activity Completed Queries (from start-up to 7 November) Skilled Birth Attendants Facing Medical Emergencies, from UNICEF, New Delhi (Comparative Experiences) – posted 2 May 2005 How organizations have dealt with the limited ability of Skilled Birth Attendants to deal with medical emergencies, including a role for Traditional Birth Attendants. Download this Consolidated Reply – MS Word (218 k) PDF (185 k) Controlling Iron Deficiency Anaemia among Children Under Three Years, from AIIMS, New Delhi (Comparative Experiences) – posted 23 May 2005 Suggestions for (1) treating and (2) preventing anaemia among children below three years through micronutrient supplements, fortification etc. Download this Consolidated Reply – MS Word (200 k) PDF (180 k) Exclusive Breastfeeding Promotion Strategy, from W&CD, Haryana (Comparative Experiences) – posted 10 June 2005 Strategies for bringing an increase in mothers who exclusively breastfeed their child for the first six months, at both the inquiry stage and for defining an action plan Download this Consolidated Reply – MS Word (145 k) PDF (157 k) Low Cost Sanitary Napkin, from SRUSTI, Orissa (Advice)  -- posted 20 June 2005 Considerations and technologies for producing a low cost sanitary napkin and for promoting it among rural Self-Help Groups Download this Consolidated Reply – MS Word (120 k) PDF (84 k) Low-cost approaches for sustaining RCH services in rural hospitals, from Emmanuel Hospital Association, New Delhi (Comparative Experiences) – posted 6 July Examples of how and where charitable hospitals (and not just community based projects) have provided RCH services at a low and affordable cost Download this Consolidated Reply – MS Word (127 k) PDF (83 k) Estimating Unit Cost of RCH Services, from Centre for Budget & Policy Studies, Bangalore (Advice) – posted 21 July 2005 Methodological considerations, and sources to investigate further, for calculating state level allocations and expenditures on RCH Download this Consolidated Reply – MS Word (129 k) PDF (105 k) Controlling Neonatal Mortality in Orissa, from CINI, Kolkata (Comparative Experiences) – posted 8 August 2005 Research findings / data / intervention history on neo-natal mortality in Orissa, as an input into the dialogue between the State Govt. and NGOs Download this Consolidated Reply – MS Word (194 k) PDF (99 k) Promoting complementary feeding practices, from NIN, Hyderabad (Comparative Experiences), cross-posted with the Food & Nutrition Community.  Posted 30 August 2005 Sharing practical experiences in promoting timely and appropriate complementary feeding practices to counter prevalent under-nutrition in under 3 children Download this Consolidated Reply – MS Word (200 k) PDF (141 k) Counseling Sexually Active Adolescents, from Mumbai (Advice), Cross-posted with the Gender Community. Posted 21 September 2005 A private practitioner seeks advice and suggested approaches to counseling sexually active adolescents girls Download this Consolidated Reply – MS Word (162 k) PDF (112 k) Universal screening & targeted nutrition intervention for preschool children/ from New Delhi, (Comparative Experiences) Cross-posted with the Food & Nutrition Security Community. Posted 4 October 2005. Sharing success and challenges in implementing universal screening and targeted nutrition intervention for preschool children in India. Download this Consolidated Reply – MS Word (241k)  PDF (153 k) Setting up Telemedicine Centres in remote villages of UP / Sanket Info & Research Agency, New Delhi, (Comparative Experiences) posted 6 Nov 2005. The essentials for setting up a telemedicine facility, including funding recommendations, as an input to an initiative by a Member of Parliament. Download this Consolidated Reply – MS Word (220 k) PDF (119 k) ____________________________________________________________________ Open Queries Send your replies to se-mch at solutionexchange-un.net Reaching Out of School Adolescents for Anemia Control, from Medical College Vadodara, Gujarat (Comparative Experiences). Cross-posted with Food & Nutrition Security Community. Reply By: 10^th November. Ways and means of reaching out of school adolescent girls to improve their nutritional status and control anemia effectively. Operationalisation of urban ICDS, from USAID - UHRC, New Delhi (Comparative Experiences). Reply By: 11^th November, 2005 Operational issues facing the implementation of ICDS for the urban poor, including functional linkages with other Government Departments and NGOs.		Community News Upcoming E poll to decide the first 6 e discussion topics... watch out for this event Recently Held The MCH Community Visioning Workshop MCH Community’s first Visioning Workshop was held during 4 – 6 October 2005 in New Delhi. This was an opportunity for our network members to meet face to face, learn about existing methods of knowledge sharing and participate in building knowledge products on key issues in MCH in India. The workshop proceedings have been recorded and a CD ROM will be mailed to all the participants, provided we have the complete postal address. Download the  Presentations of the 3 Key Note Speakers in the Visioning Workshop EmOC – Dileep Mavalankar (PDF , 1.2 MB) IMNCI – Vinod Paul (PDF , 11 MB) Skilled Care at Birth  - V K Manchanda (PDF , 200 KB) From other Solution Exchange Communities Coming Up Food & Nutrition Security Community – Visioning Workshop, New Delhi; December 2005 Recently Held Regional Meeting (South) on Solution Exchange for the Water and Environmental Sanitation Network; Chennai, 7 November 2005 Read the agenda. Recently Launched Under the thematic area of 'Poverty', Solution Exchange has recently launched a Community of Practice on Work & Employment comprising of practitioners with an interest in the area of livelihoods, employment generation and entrepreneurship. For further information on this community and to subscribe visit http://www.solutionexchange-un.net.in and click on the link for Work and Employment. From our Partners WHO National Conference on Research in HIV & AIDS (10-13 January, 2006), New Delhi CONFERENCE DEADLINES Abstract Submission:  November 14, 2005 Registration:  Open till December 10, 2005 Read More UNDP ACTION RESEARCH ON VULNERABLE WOMEN Invitation for Proposals Technical Proposal – Interested Institutions / Individual Researchers are requested to send research proposals, so that they reach United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), on or before 12:00 Noon on Wednesday, 16 November 2005. Read More
_______________________________________________________________________ Membership As of 7^th November our Membership list has reached 390! Some demographics: For every network, membership is a crucial issue – for us it’s no different. Our success depends on how wide and how sharp we are. By wide I mean representation of all sectors and from all the states, and by sharp I mean all primarily focused on MCH issues. The high representation of members from NGOs is very encouraging. However, what is most encouraging is that about 12 percent of our members are from Government & Public Sector. Having an active dialogue across the sectors is a real boost to this effort – we can learn so much from each other. Our membership ranges from 3 in Assam to 136 in Delhi . Now what this means is - we are missing out on the experience of states like Assam, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Jharkhand and all North Eastern States, and they are missing out on our rich discussions. We even have many states unrepresented as you can see from the map. We can correct these imbalances if each one of us takes the responsibility of introducing 1 member from own state and 1 from the least represented ones. What do you say? Of course, to keep the Community sharply focused we would only want to introduce somebody who can contribute to and / or is keen to learn from collective experience. So, happy hunting - I will again take a count in a month’s time to see how we have fared. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Member Postings Upcoming Events From Shantanu Datta, Emmanuel Hospital Association, New Delhi, Posted 28^th June 2005 National Workshop on "Guidelines for Management of Severely Malnourished Children at Domiciliary Level", 11-13 November, 2005, at Jawaharlal Nehru Auditorium, AIIMS, New Delhi. Organized by Department of Human Nutrition, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. Contact Prof. Umesh Kapil, Organizing Secretary at umeshkapil at yahoo.com From Sandip Roy, IPHA, Calcutta,  Posted 24^th July 2005 Joint National conference of IPHA & IAPSM, 21 to 24 January 2006, on the occasion of IPHA’s golden jubilee year.  To be HELD at S.V. Medical College, Dept. of SPM, TIRUPATI, Andhra Pradesh.  For details about the conference please see workshop information. Updated information will be available at the conference website in the near future. From Shubhranshu Choudhary, Freelance Journalist, New Delhi, Sent 16^th October 2005 I am writing from an e-discussion group called Chhattisgarh-Net (http://36garh.notlong.com) which discusses issues related to development of Chhattisgarh state and its people. We are trying to put together a People's Website of Chhattisgarh to go up on 1st Nov when the state turns 5. Any suggestion/help for any study/link/story related to Public Health issues of Chhattisgarh to be put on the site will be highly appreciated. Contact Subhransu Chowdhary at smitashu at gmail.com. From Barenyo Chowdhury, ORG, Kolkata, Sent 24^th October 2005 PiD Course in Preventive Health Care - Partners in Development – Appreciating the growing demand for professional development managers to manage the ambitious development and social responsibility initiatives in the region, ORG India proposes to organize a series of short training courses. The emphasis of the PiD courses is to augment capacity of the various development partners to undertake enterprise promotion, programme planning and implementation. Last date of application 18^th November 2005. Read the course detail Contact Borenyo Chowdhury at barenyo.chowdhury at orgindia.com Job Opportunities We are building this section for regular updates on job opportunities in the MCH field. So if you have a vacancy you may want to put it here!! Resource Corner Is anyone interested to share their readings, new publications with the community? We are building this resource corner, where your recommended readings will feature. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Many thanks to all who contributed to this issue! If you have items to feature in this News Update, please send it to Solution Exchange for the Maternal and Child Health Community in India at se-mch@solutionexchange-un.net .  In case your email doesn’t support viewing this news update, please visit http://www.solutionexchange-un.net.in/health/newsupdate/mch-update-01-081105.htm to view the original Disclaimer: In posting messages or incorporating this information, the UN accepts no responsibility for its veracity or authenticity. Members intending to use or transmit the information contained in these messages should be aware that they are relying on their own judgment.
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