Chapter-I Background - Regional Resource Centre for North Eastern ...

They could motivate newly married women and recently delivered women to use family
planning. The AWC would serve as the depot for pills and condoms and also facilitate referral for other
methods.
They would participate in routine immunization and special campaigns like pulse polio and also
provide Vitamin A
In order to ensure effective functioning of the two areas of convergence discussed above, joint
planning of between the two at various levels is necessary.
Other cross cutting areas:
Success of convergence in health, nutrition, and empowerment requires convergence of approaches in:
planning modalities, monitoring and information systems, capacity building and training inputs.
Additionally the Health Department must ensure that convergence efforts are backed by a strong service
delivery system, responsive to community needs.
School
There may not be direct scheme / activities linked to the health indicators but as a major
Department having capacities and establishment across the state, it will be ensured that there resources
are being utilized for improving health indicators. This includes using of students in health programs,
school health programs in the schools in sensitizing the students etc to health needs. Teachers may also
be utilized for propagation of health information to the students in turn who will disseminate the
messages to the parents and community.
PHED
Under NRHM it is to help and to promote sustainable and equitable access to water,
particularly safe drinking water and sanitation facilities in urban and rural areas. It also promotes
effective management in order to reverse unsustainable exploitation of water resources.
The Community seeks to promote knowledge sharing and inter-agency collaboration as the means to
achieve this end. By tapping into the collective knowledge of diverse practitioners across the sector, the
Community helps members increase the effectiveness of water and environmental sanitation operations
and development initiatives. There are issues which is covered
• Access, quality and effectiveness of water and sanitation service delivery
• Responsible management of water as a natural resource
• Unsustainable use of water
• Water pollution and contamination
• Inadequate delivery mechanisms and infrastructure
• Inefficient institutional and governance structures
• Financial resource constraints
• Socio-economic and cultural barriers to water access
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