It brings and keeps young children at the anganwadi centre. Its program for the three-to six years old children in the anganwadi is directed towards providing and ensuring a natural, joyful and stimulating environment, with emphasis on necessary inputs for optimal growth and development. The early learning component of the ICDS is a significant input for providing a sound foundation for cumulative lifelong learning and development.
It also contributes to the universalization of primary education, by providing to the child the necessary preparation for primary schooling and offering substitute care to younger siblings, thus freeing the older ones especially girls to attend school. Record of weight and height of children at periodical intervals Watch over milestones Immunization General check up for detection of disease Treatment of diseases like diarrhea, ARI Deworming Prophylaxis against vitamin A deficiency and anemia Referral of serious cases.
Anganwadi is run by an AWW, supported by a Helper. No technical staff has been sanctioned for the state for programme monitoring. At the grass-root level, delivery of various services to target groups is given at the Anganwadi Centre AWC. It also assists in service delivery and accreditation system where the capacity of ICDS functionary is strengthened. Impact assessment in selected States on early childhood nutrition and development, micro-nutrient and anemia control through Vit.
A supplementations and deworming interventions for children in the age group of months is also conducted by UNICEF from time to time.
CARE is primarily implementing some non-food projects in areas of maternal and child health, girl primary education, micro-credit etc. Under this the concerned State Government are required to contribute to the cost of Indiamix by matching the WFP wheat contribution at a cost sharing ratio. The survey data reveal that more than 45 per cent Anganwadis have no toilet facility and 40 per cent have reported the availability of only urinal; Of the 39 per cent Anganwadis reporting availability of hand pumps, half of the hand pumps were provided by the Gram Panchayat and 12 per cent provided by the ICDS; More than 90 per cent Centers provided supplementary food, 90 per cent provided preschool education and 76 per cent weighed children for growth monitoring; Only 50 per cent Anganwadis reported providing referral services, 65 per cent health check-up of children, 53 per cent for health check-up of women and more than 75 for nutrition and health education;.
Average number of days in a month in which services are provided at the Anganwadi centers are 24 for supplementary food, 28 for pre-school education and 13 for Nutrition and health education; More than 57 per cent of Anganwadi centers reported availability of ready-to-eat food and 46 per cent availability of uncooked food at the Anganwadi centers; Nearly three-fourth of the Anganwadis have reported the availability of medical kits and baby weighing scale.
On the other hand adult weighing scale has been reported only by 49 per cent of the Anganwadis. Major reasons causing disruption was reported as delay in supply of items of supplementary nutrition;. Evaluations in the past have thrown up a number of gaps in the delivery of ICDS. In many states, the ICDS has got reduced to a feeding programme operated through an overburdened and underpaid anganwadi worker AWW ; linkages with the public health system have been weak; the pre-school component is missing; early childhood care has never got the attention it deserves; anganwadi centres AWCs have not had the physical space to operate efficiently and effectively; community engagement and participation are virtually non-existent.
Falsification of data, poor management information systems MIS , and delays in release of funds and payments to AWWs are also reported from different states.
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This activity, unfortunately has not been very successful due to many reasons. It is to be appreciated that this activity needs a great deal of time, training, supervision and support. Unless these are forthcoming, it becomes just a wasteful time consuming ritual [ 5 , 6 ]. Nonformal nutrition and health education given by the AWW is aimed at empowerment of women in the age roup of 15—44 year to enable them to look after their own health and nutrition needs as well as that of their children and families.
The education is imparted through participatory sessions at AWC, home visits and small group discussions. Basic health and nutrition messages related to child care, infant feeding practices, utilisation of health series, personal hygiene, environmental sanitation and family planning are usual components covered by AWW.
Early childhood care and preschool education is yet another important activity of ICDS programme. This focuses on the total development of the child upto 6 years.
At this tender age, mother is the best teacher. In , school dropout and other adolescent girls in the age group of 11—18 year have also been included in the ICDS orbit for health and nutrition education, literacy, recreation and skill formation. At present this scheme is available in projects only. Preschool education has contributed a great deal in child development.
It encourages school enrolment and retention. It also helps ICDS beneficiary children achieve higher psychosocial development. Both the groups, though had far better score than the non-ICDS group. On the basis of this very significant observation, the possibility of introducing an age specific curriculum needs to be explored. Presently, preschool education in ICDS is aimed at 3—6 year age group. The younger children are educated through their mothers. Non-formal education for mothers is an attempt to improve upon their KAP.
This needs a detailed discussion in view of already over burdened AWW's present commitments and several child psychologists opinion against group teaching at very young and tender age. A central cell was established at New Delhi:. Evaluate the flow and availability of services and their impact on ICDS beneficiaries by undertaking annual surveys and research studies. Conduct orientation and training courses for medical officers and health functionaries of ICDS.
The monitoring developed by the CTC encourages interaction of functionaries at different levels to ensure smooth programme implementation. An effective uniform syllabus for various categories of functionaries has been prepared by the CTC in consultation with experts. The training curriculum is aimed to provide a comprehensive training package which is flexible enough to meet the local needs.
This training, regrettably, is disproportionately tilted towards record maintaining instead of quality assessment, support and education [ 8 ]. The senior faculty members from the departments of preventive and social medicine PSM and paediatrics of various medical colleges and institutions form the core of the component. Presently, they are over Their contribution is extremely cost effective and observation unbiased and objective. The evaluation is done in the form of multicenter annual surveys or unicenter research projects.
In , research activities were further strengthened and 4 regions Western, Eastern, Southern, and Northern were identified. Till today 24 annual surveys and a large number of multicentric and unicentric research studies have been conducted from time to time. The results of these studies were published in a book form in This document contains a lot of original data and makes an excellent reference book [ 7 ].
The studies confirm that on the whole the programme has done exceedingly well. The nutritional status of ICDS children, their immunization, vitamin A and iron and folic acid coverage have improved and are better than those of the non-ICDS children.
Their KAP about health and nutrition is also better. The programme performance however is not uniform. This is explained by the vast size of the country with several variables like local customs, whims and fancies, poor community mobilisation and participation, inadequate logistic support, irregular supply position, discrepancies between sanctioned and positioned staff, indifferent and casual attitudes of AWWs and other ICDS functionaries, inequitable workload distribution, inappropriate time budgeting and erroneous understanding of the priorities of ICDS service components.
Many other workers in the field have also spelt out weakness and lacunae in the programme [ 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 ].
Urgent corrective strategy requires to be worked out to further strengthen the programme. Some of the thrust areas for further research and innovative approaches are mentioned below. Innovative approach is needed to draw them to the AWC. The young children probably need a special treatment regarding CN and better sensitization to health and nutrition education.
Physiologically, in early childhood there are marked differences in food intake. Therefore, specific attention is required to be focused on narrow age groups to work out requirement and variety of CN e. We personally believe that 4 to 6 months is the optimal age to introduce CN. However, there are many pediatricians who recommend exclusive breast-feeding for the first 6 months. This controversy requires more information to formulate a definite policy.
We also need a firm policy regarding introduction of CN in low birth weight children. CN as designed presently must be wholesome, nutritionally and culturally acceptable with adequate micronutrients. The timing of CN should be such as not to affect the breast milk intake. Hence probably the best time for the small children is to give it in between feeds. We prefer serving hot meal at the AWC.
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