An Information Booklet for Policy Planners, Programme Managers & Service Providers in Health Systems

Violence against women is all pervasive. The document presents the debilitating effects of violence against women in its various manifestations like domestic violence, pre-birth elimination of females and sexual violence, and presents legal and policy measures to stem the practice.

Frequently Asked Questions on PCPNDT Act and their answers (Hindi)

Continuous fall in child sex ratio in India can bring the country face to face with a situation when it may become extremely difficult, if not impossible, to make up for the missing girls. This booklet captures the decline in the child sex ratio through the use of maps for key Indian states.

Downward trend in Child Sex Ratio continues unabated in India. This UNFPA commissioned study takes stock of the initiatives taken so far, and presents a consolidated view of the reasons for the continuing decline in CSR.

This handbook for general public throws light on various provisions and applications of the PC & PNDT Act, and encourages people to be part of a social movement to actively discourage the rampant discrimination against girl child.

Meant for the implementation bodies of PC & PNDT Act, this handbook aims at making their role clearer by outlining their functions, powers and tasks as well as imparting a better understanding about the issues around adverse sex ratio and the PC & PNDT Act.

The medical community, which has the potential to play a major role in eradicating sex selection, has instead contributed to its prevalence. This handbook answers questions specific to medical professionals while outlining their responsibilities towards society.

The pamphlet was developed in collaboration with IMA and is meant primarily for clinics and practitioners so that the clinics and hospitals act in accordance with the Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act, 1994.

Adolescents are at risk of early and unwanted pregnancy, of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV/AIDS, and vulnerable to the dangers of tobacco use, alcohol and other drugs. The objective of the Consultation was to firm up the operational guidelines, particularly in terms of components related to training, service delivery, communication, quality standards and monitoring.

Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health (ARSH) is a key objective of Reproductive and Child Health Phase - II (RCH II) Programme and National Rural Health Mission. This guide is designed to help key resource persons at the district and state levels in implementing the broad framework of the National Strategy.

The number of adolescents (aged 10-19) in India is nearly over one-fifth of the population. Adolescent girls have limited choices and are caught in the cycle of early marriage, repeated pregnancies and childbearing. The Orientation Programme is interactive in which facilitators actively engage the participants in the teaching/learning process.

A series of 10 handouts for ANMs/LHVs comprises reference material for each module.

This ten-module orientation programme meant for medical officers (as facilitators), deals with issues such as nutrition, pregnancy, contraception, HIV/AIDS, growth & development and sexual & reproductive health concerns among adolescents.

The handouts provides information to complement the material covered in the Introductory Module to the Orientation Programme.

This is a multi-centric study capturing the experiences of users and providers with progestin only injectable contraceptive - DMPA.  Several service delivery issues have been highlighted along with important feedback on provider perspectives and quality of counselling services.

A publication jointly brought out with Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, this reference manual along with the facilitator\'s guide helps to provide standardised information during the process of a series of contraceptive update seminars being organised by the Ministry.  Apart from giving detailed information on modern temporary and permanent contraceptives, the manual also talks of reproductive rights and the critical components of quality contraceptive services.

A publication jointly brought out with Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, this facilitator\'s guide along with the reference manual helps to provide standardised information during the process of a series of contraceptive update seminars being organised by the Ministry.  The guide contains session details with step-wise processes to be followed by the trainers conducting the session.  A CD containing all 3 products - Reference Manual, Facilitator\'s Guide and Presentations is also available.

This document provides a policy framework for advancing goals and prioritizing strategies to meet the reproductive and child health needs, and to achieve net replacement levels by 2010.

In the decade after ICPD, countries undertook several initiatives to translate promises into policy and programmatic actions. This document highlights trends and patterns in fertility levels and mortality rates, adolescent health, HIV/AIDS, gender issues and population ageing, and their impact on overall population and development goals.

The report on the Colloquium captures discussions on development and human rights in the implementation of effective population policies at the Centre and State levels and means and mechanisms to achieve the same.

The National Commission for Women, in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund, organized a national level workshop in New Delhi in October 2004 to hold intensive discussions on the growing prevalence of violence against women and its grave consequences on their health. This is the resolution unanimously adopted by the participants at the workshop.

Health care providers are generally the only people women see in case of the physical abuse or violence. This information booklet is aimed at sensitising the service providers to violence as a public health issue, and the cause of reproductive health ailments.

The report is a documentation of interventions supported by the UNFPA India Country Office. UNFPA has been working closely with the Government of India as well as with the state governments to strengthen health sector responses to violence against women (VAW). The report talks about interventions aimed at addressing VAW and facilitating preventive processes in five states - Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Kerala.

At a workshop held by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and National Commission for Women, the participants discussed the need for greater gender mainstreaming in health service delivery.  The recommendations talk of gender sensitisation in policy, planning and monitoring services. It also mentions the importance of creating an enabling environment and advocates that planning and monitoring be gender sensitive

This pamphlet is for promoting the rights of women to the enjoyment of highest attainable standards of health, mental and social well-being.

This module gives a basic exposure to medical personnel on gender issues, with a focus on reproductive health.

This module gives a basic exposure to Female Health Workers on gender issues with a focus on health, especially reproductive health.

This training module gives a basic exposure to medical personnel on gender and reproductive health issues.

An application guide for gender sensitive health service delivery was developed as a part of partnership with National Institute of Health and Family Welfare to mainstream gender issues in all health training at national, state levels and district levels.

The Government of India and several state governments have encouraged NGO involvement in development sector over the years. This document explores the processes adopted in capacity building and strengthening the partnership between government and NGOs to achieve reproductive and child health goals.

What is sex selection? What are its root causes? How does it impact India\'s sex ratio at birth? What can we do to address this illegal practice?  This booklet answers such vital questions, and more...

With a view to accelerate the reduction in maternal mortality, Government of India initiated a scheme called Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) in 2005 under its National Rural Health Mission (NRHM). The scheme aims at reducing maternal and new born mortality rate by promoting institutional delivery for which financial incentives are provided to mothers who deliver in a health facility. On the request of the Government of India, UNFPA commissioned this concurent evaluation study of JSY in five high focus states of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.

The ASHA flipbook is designed in Hindi to help field workers disseminate information about family planning and contraception in a simple and interactive manner. The information in the flipbook has been divided into sections for: 1. Newly-married couples (Focus on delaying first birth); 2. Parents with one child (Focus on birth spacing) and; 3. Parents with a complete family (Focus on limiting child bearing). 
 

The `sex ratio at birth` defined as the number of girls born for every 1000 boys born, is a more accurate and refined indicator of the extent of prenatal sex selection. The comparison of observed sex ratio at birth with normal sex ratio at birth gives an idea of girls missing at birth. Sex ratio at birth in India for the period (2007-09) was 906, while the internationally observed normal sex ratio at birth is 952 or more girls born per 1000 boys. Accordingly, it is estimated that the practice of prenatal sex selection has resulted in approximately 5.7lakh girls being missed annually in India during the period 2001-08.

A study to explore the causes of medical workforce shortage in rural maharashtra was commissioned by UNFPA to understand and identify the factors that impede doctors from joining Government Service. The Study was undertaken by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. The study brings out the importance of reviewing human resource policy related to doctors so as to retain doctors in the public sector. The study also reveals that apart from financial incentives, there is a need to look into the working conditions, career pathways, transfer and posting. It brings out that with the fast paced economic development in the country, doctors find alternate opportunities in the private sector and also opt for alternate professions. The study provides evidence to policy makers to formulate appropriate human resource policies for doctors to work in the public health system in rural and remote areas of the State.

This manual is a five-day capacity building programme covering methods and sources of obtaining data on various development sectors of demography, reproductive and child health, education, poverty, drinking water and sanitation. The last section on monitoring and evaluation sums up the amenable indicators or their proxies that can be monitored or tracked at the district level. The course design includes hands-on practice and software for estimating various indicators using indirect demographic techniques.

On the request of NACO, UNFPA conducted concurrent evaluation of this intervention in collaboration with UNICEF. The zone-wise findings were shared with NACO and other stakeholders to inform better implementation and mobilization activities among general population. This brief report provides the overall findings of the concurrent evlaution and the recommendations for making such programme even more effective. The zone-wise detailed findings have also been compiled which can be obtained from UNFPA.

An attempt to simplify the processes of assessing the quality of data from the perspective of
improved planning and tracking of feasible Millennium Development Goal (MDG) indicators at the
district level have been worked out after a review of development data generated by various
national flagship programmes in two districts each in Karnataka and Rajasthan with good and notso-
good data systems in the country. The present guide is an outcome of this study and the
approaches proposed in the guide are pragmatic and can be easily comprehended by statistical
officers through self-reading and a quick orientation.

This rapid assessment was conducted internally by UNFPA and IIHMR. The methodology was
decided in an internal brainstorming meeting and tools were developed to investigate project
achievements in terms of improving knowledge of the health functionaries on various data
elements of the Health Management System (HMIS). The field work for gathering data was
undertaken by the project staff during June - July, 2011. The summary report has been prepared
at UNFPA HQ, New Delhi, which provides interpretation of the data and brings out the lessons
learned and the way forward. The efforts of all those involved in this process are gratefully
acknowledged.

The study report focuses on two major aspects that are often the most significant of successful implementation of any law. One is the whole administrative set-up that is on offer to implement a law.   This study has therefore sought to understand the status of implementation structures and the current system of implementation being followed, specific focus on functionality. The second aspect of this study is the legal perspective and current status of legal activity in terms of case law documentation and legal rigour in reaching logical ends to an original complaint. Right through the effort, bottlenecks and barriers as identified have been mapped that they can be addressed and remedial measures rapidly brought into force.

An overview of declining child sex ratio in India and Madhya Pradesh (Hindi)

Based on the request of the Planning Commission, UNFPA commissioned a study to review the performance of fifteen ongoing financial incentive schemes for the girl child in India to promote the well-being of the girl child in India.

The report covers a primary survey carried out in seven states - Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra, Odisha, Punjab, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal - having a higher percentage of population in the age group 60 years and above compared to the national average.

This report synthesises what is known about the health and social consequences of marital violence for women in India. The review focuses on sexual, reproductive and child health consequences. It also reviews evidence of a range of social outcomes including substance use, women\'s autonomy and self efficacy; and inter-generational effects (witnessing parental violence when growing up). The study was undertaken with support from UNFPA.

The purpose of this book is to facilitate sensitization workshops on VAW for Medical Officers to address VAW within the parameters of their work.

Report of the Workshop on Violence Against Women: Health Sector Perspective organised by the National Commission for Women and UNFPA in October 2004

Mahilaon ke Viruddh Hinsa: Swasthya Vyvastha Ki Pratikriya
Jan Swasthya Vyavastha Ke Karmiyon Ke Liye Nirdesh Pustika

Certificate Course on Contraception in Clinical Practice from June 2013 - September 2013
Ideal for Specialists and General Practitioners

Last date for Registration: 15 April 2013
Course Fee: Rs. 2500/-

This paper attempts to study changes in the pattern of living arrangements among the elderly in India on the basis of two rounds of the National Family Health Surveys (1992-93 and 2005-06).The paper investigates differentials by residence, social, economic and demographic characteristics. The trends reveal that there is feminisation of ageing happening in the country

‘No Country for Young Girls?\' is a powerful film that engages, provokes and promotes public dialogue on the issues related to gender-biased sex selection. It is useful in facilitating individual and community action on the issue by making them reflect upon their life and experiences. The film has been designed as an experiential learning tool to increase and extend the impact of NGOs and other social organisations in tackling the problem in partnership with community actors.

Frequently asked questions on interlinkages on Gender Biased Sex Selections and Access to Safe Abortions

This report brings together insights from institutions and networks whose work has been rooted in interventions against systemic poverty and inequality across the Indian sub-continent. It is felt that this is a significant first step in ensuring that the debate on the post 2015 agenda is more inclusive of the global south not just in terms of participation but also in terms of generating ideas and content for the new vision of global development.

Evidence and Action: Good Practices On Integration Of Gender, Human Rights And Culture In UNFPA Programming - India

As part of the SKCC project, a research was carried out on the nutritional and health status of college going girls in districts of Bihar by the college students.

As part of the SKCC project, a research was carried out on the nutritional and health status of college going girls in districts of Bihar by the college students.

This publication captures the journey of UNFPA India. It reflects upon the experiences of UNFPA in addressing the issue.

Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP) for Sexual and Reproductive Health in Disasters:A Course for SRH Coordinators: Facilitator\'s Manual

The MISP Manual has been formulated jointly by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in consultation with various stakeholders, academic experts and specialists in the concerned subject and officials from the Ministries and Department of Government of India and State Governments.