Overview of Nutritional Status of Vizianagaram

NFHS-IV (2015-16), 75.5% women aged 15-49, and 44.3% men in Vizianagaram are anemic. Eight out of 10 children below five years of age are suffering
with moderate or severe anemia, majorly because they are born to anemic mothers.
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Scope of Problem Relevance Issues and Gaps

Adults - 462 million were underweight Well-being of an individual Access

(2014)
Children under age of 5 - 155 million Awareness
suffering from stunting while 45% of deaths Mortatlity Rate
linked to undernutrition (2016) Affordability
Child Growth
District Divisions Mandals
Accountability
1 2 34
Malnutrition
Lack of human resources
Total Population Villages Panchayats
23.44 Lakhs 1551 935
Non-communicable diseases No coherence among govt. schemes

Congenital disorders No convergence among stakeholders

Compensation dis-satisfication
Socio-economic liabilities
Source:- http://www.economicsdiscussion.net/articles/7-major-problems-
of-health-services-in-india/2305
Intervention Design: Improving Nutritional Intake
Collective and simultaneous systemic interventions are required for all the stakeholders to improve the nutritional intake among the beneficiaries with the
continuous and comprehensive monitoring mechanism at varied levels

Interventions Process -design

1 Capacity building programs for the multi-stakeholders

involved in the program such as ASHA, ANM and
• Partnerships with NGOs, academic institutions for
preparation of capacity building modules.
Aanganwadi workers at village level
• Involvement of CSOs and agricultural universities for
Providing adequate intake of required nutrition by the the research and documentation purpose to identify
2 beneficiaries through SHGs the local crops and its nutritional values

• Bottom up approach of creating a sustainable model in

Distribution of external supplements such as Iron tablets, folic some pilot villages
3 acid and required vitamins etc. through government
schemes/PPP model. • Behavioural changes among the beneficiaries intake of
the nutrients through awareness campaigns led
through IEC materials, Workshops

4 Setting up a community resource centre to mobilize the

villagers to prepare a balanced nutritional diet by growing
missing crops.

Identification Diagnose Deliver

(Mapping of beneficiaries required (Development of implementation (Execution of the implementation
additional nutrition through surveys ) plan based on intervention design) plan and process monitoring)
 Hurdles Mitigation measures

• Collaborations, Partnerships with private sector
with financial obligations for sharing their
resources
• Creating a pool of mentors from the available
stakeholders for ASHA, ANM and Aaganwadi to
provide a concurrent support through capacity
building program
• Developing a long term self-sustainable and
profitable model for private entities through
producing local nutrients and providing a market
place to it.
• Identification of highly active mentors through
regular workshops and focused capacity building
programs for such stakeholders.

• Behavioral shifts among individuals through • Developing an state of the art model in some early
awareness activities adopter panchayats/villages

• Developing coherence at varied levels among the

stakeholders involved in the service delivery
mechanisms