Solution Exchange India

What is the Solution Exchange for the Maternal and Child Health Community?

The Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Community is addressing the national development priorities and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) relating to improving maternal and child health and to reduce maternal, infant and child mortality, as per India’s Five-Year Plans, the National Population Policy 2000, the Rural Health Mission, and Phase II of the Reproductive and Child Health Programme (RCH-II).

The MCH Community connects the members of this Community and increases the effectiveness of their individual efforts, helping them share and apply each other’s knowledge and experience. Through Solution Exchange, colleagues can turn to their peers across India for solutions to the day-to-day challenges they face.

 What are some of the issues covered by this Community?

1. Reproductive and Child Health
2. Safe Motherhood
3. Emergency Obstetrics and Newborn care
4. Immunization
5. Nutrition
6. Family Planning
7. Adolescent health
8. Community participation; Role of Local Governance Structures in Health Care provision
9. Health Systems Strengthening
10. Public-private partnerships in healthcare delivery
11. e-Health

Who could become a member of the MCH Community?

1. Government primary healthcare administrators
2. Planners or policy makers in public health and nutrition sector
3. Programme officers of donor agencies sponsoring maternal and child health initiatives
4. MCH programme or project managers or technicians
5. Researchers and academics
6. Community health workers
7. Public or private sector nurses or physicians providing primary healthcare
8. Social service providers
9. Family Planning counselors
10. Health educators
11. Producers, distributors or retailers of MCH medicines

Community Organization

The Maternal and Child Health Community is comprised of:

1. Community members
2. UNICEF plays the role of a facilitating agency
3. Resource Group is the Advisory group representing key actors, key organizations and agencies in the field of maternal and child health in India, whose role is to establish the Community’s priorities, provides the Community with guidance, direction and support, commission collaborative work ("Action Groups") to tackle key challenges, and to evaluate performance and impact.
4. Resource Team - A Research Associate who manages the community interactions, moderates the discussion, organizes the production of Consolidated Replies and other knowledge products, and support community activities, both over the electronic network and in organizing face-to-face events, if any

Ongoing Query

[se-mch] QUERY: Using Appreciative Inquiry in Health Systems -    Experiences, Referrals. Reply by 16 March 2012.

 

Completed Queries

FOR COMMENTS: Exposure Draft to provide    Insurance Cover for PLHIV and People Vulnerable to HIV and AIDS.

Most Recently Issued Consolidated Reply -

CONSOLIDATED REPLY: FOR COMMENTS: Guidelines for Mother & Baby Friendly Health Services. Available  here

CONSOLIDATED REPLY: Tools for Assessment of Child Feeding    Episodes - Experiences. Available Here

To Contribute

To submit new query or to share information for the update, please write to se-mch@solutionexchange-un.net.in

For More Details write to :

Ms. Meenakshi Aggarwal
Moderator - MCH Community
Solution Exchange

UNICEF, 73, Lodi Estate, Delhi

Ph - 011- 24606561

Email : meenakshi.aggarwal @ one.un.org