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Micro planning process begins for UNICEF project in Krishnagiri

Staff Reporter

It will focus mainly on health-related aspects

Krishnagiri: A five-day micro planning process as part of the UNICEF-funded Child-Friendly Village Planning Project began in Krishnagiri block on Wednesday.

The micro planning process would mainly focus on issues related to Reproductive and Child Health, Child Development and Nutrition, HIV/AIDS, Education, Sanitation and Child Protection in the entire district. Krishnagiri was selected in the State, as the nutritional level of women and children was the lowest when compared with other districts.

The pilot project, which was introduced in Kelamangalam block, will now be extended to all the blocks in Krishnagiri district in 2006.

NGOs involved

The programme would be covered by Hosur-based NGO, Myrada, in the blocks of Thally, Kelamangalam, Hosur and Shoolagiri and Integrated Village Development Project (IVDP), an NGO, in the blocks of Krishnagiri, Kaveripattinam, Bargur and Veppanapalli.

As part of the project, a 15-day training was held for the representatives of the two NGOs recently on the objective of the programme. They would monitor it at the district, block and panchayat level.

According to UNICEF sources, "during the planning process a number of Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) exercises would be carried out in the villages like village mapping, resources and skills mapping, household survey, child and maternal deaths, female infanticide and foeticide, breastfeeding, child marriages, awareness among adolescents on HIV and AIDS, child labour, antenatal, postnatal and neonatal care, anaemia in children, adolescent girls and women and consumption of iodized salt."

Members of the Village Development Council would also be actively involved in the exercise. Along with this, polling booths would be established in the villages to provide information on behavioural objectives like child marriages, teenage pregnancies, HIV and AIDS.

Management committee

At the end of the planning process, every village will have a separate plan of action and would have formed a Village Level Management Committee, which would implement and monitor the plan, sources pointed out.

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