Household Survey of Voucher Scheme in Haridwar District in Uttarakhand

Agency : Futures Group, New Delhi

The Innovations in Family Planning Services (IFPS) II project focuses USAID /India's support for reproductive and child health (RCH) activities for provision of accessible and high quality reproductive and child health services in three states of northern India, namely Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Jharkhand. The Futures Group provides technical assistance to the project, especially in program planning, monitoring and evaluation. To effectively address the needs of the project, Voucher Scheme was designed and implemented on a pilot basis m two blocks of Hardwar district. Since the Innovations in Family Planning Services - II Technical Assistance Project (ITAP) was in the concluding phase, it was decided to conduct an end- line survey for the Voucher Scheme in Hardwar. This information would help to identify gaps in the functioning of the Voucher Scheme, and scale up the program in other districts of Uttarakhand or states under IFPS II.

The major objectives of the survey were to a) assess the access to and utilization of antenatal, natal, newborn services and postnatal care services; b) understand the knowledge and practice of family planning methods; c) assess the potential demand for contraception; d) estimate the coverage of child immunization services; e) understand the breastfeeding and food supplementation practices; f) prevalence and treatment pattern of childhood illnesses, such as polio, measles, fever, cough and diarrhea; g) assess awareness and treatment seeking behaviour about RTI/STI and HIV / AIDS; and h) assess utilization of health care facilities and the quality of care.


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