SHAKTI facilitated improved agriculture practice in 1937.5 Acres of Land…

 

With the support of ATMA, Rayagada, Shakti Organisation has facilitated improved agricultural practice in 1937.5 Acres of land in Ramanguda and Kasipur Block in Kharif 2012.

Agricultural intervention	Land in Acres	No of farmers	Schematic support	Block
Hybrid Paddy	625	288	RKVY	Ramanaguda
SRI Paddy	62.5	25	State Plan	Ramanaguda
Line Transplanting of Paddy	500	228	State Plan	Ramanaguda
Line Sowing of Pulses	250	192	State Plan	Ramanaguda
Line sowing of Minor Millet	500	322	RKVY	Kasipur
Total	1937.50	1055

SHAKTI selected to conduct ASHA 6th & 7th Module Training…

 

Shakti Organisation has been selected as the District Training Site to conduct the ASHA (Accredited Social Health Activist) 6^th & 7^th module training.

SHAKTI’s training center, Ramanaguda has designated as training site.  ASHAs will be trained on module 6 & 7 on Home based New born Care (HNBC) at the community level.  Management of breast feeding problems, Child health, Infant and young child feeding, Assessing the mal-nutrition, immunization, Assessing and classifying diarrhea, Fever and ARI and new born care are the major focus area of the training.

It is expected that 200 ASHA will be trained by end March-2013. Each batch of training consists of minimum 30 participants and the training is residential in nature and for five days.

SHAKTI launched Livelihood Intervention….

 

SHAKTI recently launched Livelihood Intervention in Ramanaguda Block. It’s a three year project named as Sustainable Livelihood Enhancement and Enterprise Promotion (SLEEP).

The basic goal of the programme is to promote a co-operative of 400 women forest dwellers, who are dependent on NTFP collection. We will support them in organizing, skill building of processing of NTFP and Market linkage.

The main focus is Tamrind processing, Hill Broom binding and leaf plate sewing, which will help the primary NTFP collectors a sustainable income. The project is supported by RGVN-HIVOS India.

SURAKHYA…….

SHAKTI got a  new project from UNICEF to work at Rayagada district named SURAKHYA .

OVHA (Orissa Voluntary Health Association) and UNICEF in partnership with the Government of Orissa are launching this IYCF (Infant and Young Child Feeding ) initiative in the state as Project SURAKHYA. The project aims to introduce, improve, strengthen evaluate and sustain the key infant and young child feeding practices at the household and community level .

To reduce childhood morbidity and mortality it is necessary to focus on avoiding malnutrition in children below the age of 2 years. Of all proven preventive health and nutrition interventions, IYCF Practices  have the single greatest potential impact on child survival. Therefore, reduction of child mortality can be reached only when nutrition in early childhood and IYCF specifically are highly prioritized in national policies and strategies.

This initiative looks at strengthening interpersonal communication of frontline functionaries for counselling mothers and care givers on improved IYCF practices

          SURAKHYA: This is a Odiya word meaning the act of protection.

CMAI chooses Shakti Oragnisation as partner

Shakti is please to announce that it has been chosen to be a partner in the CHIN for Change Programme organised by the Christian Medical Association of India (CMAI)

This is a Participatory Communication Initiative for improving access to public healthcare services for rural communities. It aims to build the capacity of community members, community organizations and the public health providers in communicating their needs, entitlements and challenges, so that the public is able to demand and receive their entitlements as promised under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM).

The project objectives are
(1) To develop a participatory communication strategy (including communication packages) to advocate for health entitlements of rural communities.
(2) To enhance the capacity of the service providers, civil society organizations, media and PRI on communicating and advocating for NRHM commitments.
(3) To promote community awareness on NRHM entitlements.
(4) To form & to promote exchange of forums/round tables among various stakeholders the experiences, innovations, learning and challenges.
(5) To document & disseminate key processes and learnings

Shakti Organisation has been chosen as one of CMAI's partners in Orissa. Shakti's role will be one of community sensitization, advocacy and the facilitation of systems strengthening. After conducting a baseline survey, Shakti will employ an evidence based action approach to develop participatory communications strategies designed to build awareness and increase knowledge within the community of the available public health services so leading to demand creation and increased utilization levels.

CHIN Communication Initiative for Health India Networking
CHANGE Communication Health Advocacy in NRHM Grassroots Empowerment