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Indomitable Courage

Author : Hema Rawat

“Adversities like COVID-19 taught us to come up with better solutions for well-being of families. The women collectives in our village planned and collaboratively worked with a rousing courage for safety of families, particularly adolescent girls,” said Archana Dalavi from Usmanabad district in Maharashtra, who lived as a homemaker for a large part of her life. She also supports her husband in agricultural activities to facilitate resources for family’s sustenance.

26/02/2024

A Marathon

Author : Hema Rawat

Heading towards their paddy fields to complete the day’s task before the sun set appears a mundane task to an onlooker. In a dainty village of Tikanpal in Bastar, Chhattisgarh, the walking pace and body language of three women farmers capture attention since it resembles swiftness of a marathoner. Meet Chameli Kaushal (28), Buddho Kashyap (35), and Ramvati Kashyap (35), who also advance in life like a marathoner.

18/09/2023

Women Collectives Tackle Teen Sex, Contraception And Nutrition

Author : Sadhika Tiwari

Bastar & Mumbai: Ratni Kashyap, 20, sat in her courtyard with her 17-day-old newborn, snugly wrapped in a towel, soaking the November sun. If Kashyap were aware of family planning, this child would have never been born, she said. Kashyap was 17 when she got married. Girls in her village of Balenga in a tribal-dominated village in the Bastar district of Chhattisgarh are sometimes married off as early as 14 or 15, she said. Within a month of marriage, she had conceived her first child, who is now two.

24/01/2021

बिहार में महिला समूहों की बैठकों से गर्भवती माओं की जांच और पोषण में सुधार

Author : Sadhika Tiwari

नई दिल्ली: सात महीने पहले 22 साल की उम्र में जूली देवी दूसरी बार मां बनी थी। जूली लगभग 18 साल की थी जब उसने अपने पहले बच्चे को जन्म दिया। पहले बच्चे का प्रसव घर में ही गांव की एक दाई की सहायता से हुआ।

07/12/2020

From face to face to phone-based data collection from Swabhimaan impact evaluation sites: Lessons from Bihar & Chhattisgarh on adapting process monitoring

Author : Neha Abraham, Monica Shrivastav, Bharati Sahu, ROSHNI-CWCSA Abhishek Saraswat, IIPS

‘How are programmes adapting?’ ‘How have field activities and essential services been affected and what are the challenges faced by frontline workers?’ ‘What lessons can we learn about the resilience of community-based institutions to support systems during health emergencies and what are the new areas where capacities need to be built?’ These are questions policy-makers, programme implementers, evaluators and researchers have been engaging with since a nation-wide lockdown was announced in India on the 24^th of March, to deal with the COVID-19 crisis.

12/07/2020

Why DAY-NRLM's work on nutrition programming must be gender responsive

Author : Neha Abraham, Bharati Sahu, Monica Shrivastav, ROSHNI-CWCSA

As part of our work to integrate gender into nutrition programming implemented via women’s groups under the National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM), we conducted a formative study in 2018 to gauge the social-cultural milieu of our Swabhimaan intervention sites in Bastar, Chhattisgarh. The study was intended to inform programme design to engage men for gender transformative action, based on the felt need to specifically address the ways in which patriarchy impacts nutrition interventions in the field. In this post, we share some reflections on our findings, on why programmes for women and girls’ nutrition must engage men in conversations on gender, and how we are attempting to do this via NRLM’s women’s groups and their existing platforms.

27/06/2020