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Smiling faces at a community creche

Health Resource Centre (SHRC), Chhattisgarh

provided the experience that helped to shape

the NRHM (which later became the National

Health Mission). PHRS was brought into

being as a documentation and dissemination

initiative of the SHRC. It focused on the

NRHM elements of decentralized planning

and communitisation that it considered

could truly change the health scenario of the

disadvantaged population,’ says Dr. Rupa

Prasad, Executive Director, PHRS. ‘Now, we

are focusing on building scalable approaches

for community level health systems, family

planning services, adolescent health and

so on, keeping gender, equity, and social

inclusion at the center of our interventions.’

Some of PHRS’s models include

community-based childcare (crèches) like

the one Sidhu went to, and working with

women’s self-help groups/women collectives

to promote the concept of good nutrition.

Advocacy and action to improve health

outcomes for Particularly Vulnerable Tribal

Groups (PVTGs), operational research to

influence policy and improve public health

systems, and providing technical expertise on

health and nutrition to governments are other

aspects of PHRS’s work.

HCLTech Grant Project Title:

Community-

Based Intervention to Create Demand for

Family Planning Information, Services, and

Products.

Beneficiaries:

40,000 young married men &

women, 50,000 adolescent boys & girls

Location:

150 villages in 2 districts of

Jharkhand