Baseline survey of PAHEL, Bihar

Agency : CEDPA India, New Delhi

CEDPA India intended to pilot a community based women's leadership program in the two blocks, namely Punpun and Masaurhi of Patna, Bihar, with the financial support from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The agency intended to initiate a two-year project on sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services with two major objectives: a) to build the capacity of women Panchayat representatives at the district, block, panchayat and village levels to change them as agents in advocating, supervising and monitoring community health initiatives, especially those focusing on SRH services for young women and young couples, thereby responding to the demand for quality youth-friendly SRH services; and b) to strengthen the SRH services delivered by health providers at the government run health facilities by enhancing their capacity and making them youth friendly.

IIHMR was entrusted with the task of carrying out a baseline survey for the project. The focus was on the existing basic knowledge on SRH services among various stakeholders. The respondents included 500 youth men and women, 100 women Panchayat representatives, and about 50 heath service providers at sub-centres, additional PHC and block-PHC levels. Along with knowledge assessment of stakeholders and their present involvement on SRH issues, the Institute also conducted facility assessment of all the government-run medical facilities in both the blocks and the training need assessment of health workers and doctors working in those facilities.


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