Community and Facility-level Assessment of Immunization Coverage in Rural NIPI Districts of Rajasthan: A Baseline Study

Agency : Directorate of Medical, Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of Rajasthan

The Governments of India and Norway have entered into a partnership to work together towards the attainment of MDG 4 that aims at reducing child mortality. The objective of Norway-India Partnership Initiative (NIPI) is to provide catalytic support that would make a strategic and sustainable difference to the rapid scaling up of quality child health services under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in five states including Rajasthan. In Rajasthan, NIPI has identified three districts (Alwar, Bharatpur and Dausa) to initiate interventions aimed at reducing child mortality.

For this purpose a baseline study was conducted to identify enabling factors and barriers to achieving full immunization coverage. Firstly, and analysis was carried out of the routine immunization program management systems and processes at the district, block and community levels. This was followed by the identification of knowledge, attitude and practice of the community for immunization coverage and a study of the linkages of the immunization program with other child health interventions undertaken by NIPI.


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