CSHGP

World Renew designed and implemented the Parivartan Child Survival Project in partnership with EFICOR and the Government of India (GOI) in the rural Sahibganj district of Jharkhand State, India, targeting the entire district with an estimated population of one million people, including 350,461 women and children with very poor health status.  Parivartan was primarily funded by USAID as a standard category child survival project from September 2007 to March 2013.  The goal of Parivartan was to reduce mortality among mothers, newborns and children under the age of five through building and sustaining community capacity via achievement of four strategic objectives: (1) SO-1, strengthen public-private partnerships for maternal and child health services; (2) SO-2, improve access to quality maternal and newborn care; (3) SO-3, improve nutrition among children; and (4) SO-4, prevent and properly treat infectious diseases among women and children.  The key technical interventions for the project were maternal and newborn care (40%), nutrition (20%), immunization (10%), malaria (10%), diarrhea (10%), and ARI (10%).  The primary cross-cutting interventions were community

Source: DEC abstract, PD-ACX-658 (2013). The source's own text.