COVER HINDI - Ministry of Women and Child Development

Implementation Completion Report (ICR)
3.19 An ICR Mission from the World Bank visited
Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu and also held
discussions with the Ministry in July 2006 to assess the
performance of the project. As part of the project
completion process, the Ministry has submitted a
Borrower’s Evaluation Report to the World Bank for
inclusion in the ICR. The World Bank rated achievement
of the development objective of the ICDS-III Project as
‘moderately satisfactory’ in the Implementation
Completion Report.
Preparation for ICDS-IV Project
3.20 The Ministry has initiated the preparation for the next
phase of ICDS with the IDA assistance from the World
Bank. A draft Project Concept Note was prepared by the
Ministry and shared with the World Bank. As part of the
preparation, an International Development Association
(IDA) Mission from the World Bank visited the Ministry
during Sept 18-29, 2006 to carry out an Identification
Mission for the proposed ICDS-IV Project. The Mission
held several rounds of discussions with the Ministry and
also with the Planning Commission, Department of
Economic Affairs (DEA) and other development partners.
The Ministry is currently working on identification of the
States for possible inclusion under the ICDS-IV Project
and also finalizing the project interventions. A Preparation
Mission of the World Bank is scheduled to visit the
Ministry during January 29-Feb 16, 2006 to conduct highlevel
policy dialogues and to agree with the GoI on the
scope and key components of the support that has been
requested from IDA, and a process and time line for
preparation of the proposed support.
The ICDS Training Programme
3.21 Training is the most crucial element in the ICDS
Scheme, as the achievement of the programme goals
depends upon the effectiveness of frontline workers in
improved delivery of packages under ICDS. From the
inception of the ICDS scheme, the Government of India
has formulated a comprehensive training strategy for ICDS
functionaries. Keeping in view the importance of the
programme and its likely positive impact on the quality of
ICDS Scheme, the World Bank agreed to provide financial
assistance for implementation of the programme of ICDS
training during a period of five years w.e.f. 1998-1999.
Christened as ‘UDISHA’ (meaning new dawn), the focus
of the programme has been on eliminating the heavy
backlogs in job and refresher training of all functionaries.
The national training component was a part of the World
Bank assisted Women and Child Development Project
(ICDS-III Project). Assistance from the World Bank ended
on March 31, 2006, when the project was closed alongwith
the ICDS-III Project after 1.5 years of extension from the
original closing date i.e., Sept 30, 2004
Achievements under Project Udisha
[1999-2006]
3.22 Project Udisha has achieved its main objective of
clearing the backlogs of pre-service ‘job’ training. Overall
performance under the ‘job training’ of different categories
of ICDS functionaries is 115% of the PIP target, while such
performance under refresher training has been reported as
128%. The performance figures as per the revised targets
are 84% for all categories of functionaries under job training
and 68% under refresher training [Table 1]. It is worth
mentioning that a mammoth total of about 928,000 ICDS
functionaries, out of which 366,000 AWWs and another
759,000 persons have been imparted on-the-job and
refresher training respectively under the Udisha Project
through a countrywide network of about 600 Anganwadi
Training Centres, 40 Middle level training centres and the
National Institute of Public Cooperation & Child
Development (NIPCCD) and its Regional Centres.
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