Women Development Initiatives in Delhi

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Women Development Initiatives in Delhi

• Dr. G. Narendra Kumar
• Secretary, Social Welfare
• Govt of NCT Delhi

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Initiatives

• Stree Shakti- taking hospital services to slums.
• Gender Resource Centers- Economic Empowerment of
  Women
• Mission for Development of Women- Reducing IMR,
  MMR, Female Foeticide, School Drop Out Rate among
  Girls Economic Empowerment through
  Microenterprises of Women.
• City Level Plan of Action for Children.

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Stree Shakti

• Women in 1700 slums of Delhi do not have access
  to health care due to absence of facilities and
  social inhibitions in availing of health care
  services.
• Prevelance rate of the following 5 high incidence
  diseases is almost double in slum clusters RTI,
  Refractory Errors, TB, PEM, Anaemia.
• On the second Sunday of every month health camps
  are set up in a slum cluster , where hospital
  care services are provided.

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Stree Shakti(2)

• NGOs help mobilize the beneficiaries and ensure
  smooth conduct of the camps.
• NGOs also help in providing referral linkages .
• Both participating departments provide services
  such as legal aid services, technical education
  services, yoga, mental health services.

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SERVICES UNDER HEALTH COMPONENT STREE SHAKTI
PROJECT

• AT CAMP SITE
• General Health Screening medical examination of
  women accompanying children by specialists
  (gynecologists, physicians, pediatricians,ophthalm
  ologists)
• Screening for Ca cervix Ca breast
• Laboratory Services investigations Blood
  hemoglobin(Diagnosis of anaemia )
• Blood sugar random (Screening for
  diabetes)
• ECG (Screening, supporting diagnosis of heart
  diseases)
• Ultrasonography (Investigation of abdominal
  pelvic
  tumors/mass
  other specific conditions like uterine diseases,
  menstrual disorders, sterility etc.)
• Treatment of common diseases including RTIs
  STIs (drug dispensing free of cost)
• Issuance of Stree Shakti Health Card
  referral
•   ISM Homeopathy services- examination,
  treatment referral
• Voluntary counseling blood collection for HIV
  testing
• Active suspect TB case finding for confirmation
  DOTS treatment
• Health Education awareness like nukkad-nataks
  on AIDS health exhibitions, distribution of ORS
  packets chlorine tablets, TB control etc.

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POST-CAMP SERVICES

• Hospital Level
• Registration of referrals on priority basis at
  exclusive counters- Stree Shakti
  Counterscreated for the purpose
• Follow up of referrals- examination by concerned
  treating specialist, investigations
  comprehensive management of the patient including
  hospital admission, if required.
• Hospital charges for the paid services like
  registration fee, investigation charges etc. are
  waived off to the maximum possible extent.

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POST-CAMP SERVICES

• Community Level
• Identify the referrals, motive guide them to
  attend the nearest hospital/health facility for
  necessary follow-up as per advice of doctors at
  Stree shakti Camps. NGOs engaged by Social
  Welfare Department carry out this activity. 25-30
  NGOs have been identified MOU has been signed
  with Social Welfare Department.
• Post-test counselling on AIDS at VCTs of Delhi
  AIDS control Society for those whose blood was
  collected at the camp sites for HIV tests.
• At Gender Resource Centre, health education of
  beneficiaries on all aspects of Health Family
  Welfare with respect to Primary Health Care.
• Training capacity building of
  community/voluntary workers Self-help groups on
  all aspects of health care services.

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Current Scenario

• Around 200 camps have been held over 3 years.
• Around 1 lakh beneficiaries covered.
• Catchment area population of around 10 lakh has
  been covered.
• Women in age group 15-45 years to be/ being
  covered .

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Stree Shakti- Outcomes

• 30 increased attendance of women from catchment
  areas at hospitals.
• 42 improvement in level of satisfaction about
  quality of services.
• Greater appreciation among health care providers
  and NGOs about health status of women in slums.
• Increased awareness to avail of government
  services.

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Gender Resource Centers
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Women Welfare in Delhi

• Gender Resource Centres
• As a sequel to Stree Shakti Camps, Gender
  Resource Centers (Stree Kosh) set up to provide
  single window information cum facilitation centre
  and to evolve strategies, programs for
  sustainable empowerment of women covering
  health, literacy, skill development and legal
  Aid.
• Highlights
• Four GRCs setup in four districts
• Expansion programme under way for opening sub-
  centres and other GRCs
• Programme being implemented in active
  collaboration with voluntary organisations.
• Attempts at convergence of services
  for holistic development of women. Focused
  attention to establishing infrastructre for
  sustaining womens empowerment.
• .

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GRCs(2)

• GRCs program revamped and expanded.

State Cell
GRC
Sub-Center
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GRCs Roles at Various Levels

• State Cell- Team of experts to reconfigure the
  overall framework.
• GRC at district level to provide planning,
  training, marketing and monitoring support
  services with higher scale economies.
• Sub-centers- Vocational Training, Formation of
  SHGs, Health Services in slums , health and
  nutrition camps.

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GRCs(3)

• Evaluation study pointed to high level of demand
  for GRC services.
• Focus on economic empowerment with spinoff into
  other empowerments.
• Convergence of vocational training and
  microfinance to achieve setting up of
  microenterprises.
• Initiative scaled up with the setting up of GRCs
  in all districts, 20 sub-centers and proposed to
  be further upscaled to 99 centers in the next few
  months.

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Mission on Women Development Issues
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Women Empowerment -Mission Map

Female Foeticide
IMR,MMR
Economic Empowerment
School Dropouts
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Mission Approaches
Project Mgmt
Time bound Results High Quality Services
Delhi Development Goals
Improved Governance
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Critical Mission Projects

• Reducing IMR, MMR
• Improving personal contacts for improving
  neonatal care.
• Increasing immunization rate to 90.
• Universalization of ICDS.
• Early detection of pregnancy related
  complications.
• Increasing the number of assisted deliveries.
• Developing referral linkages among health care
  facilities.

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Critical Mission Projects(2)

• Reducing Female Foeticide by Enhancing the Value
  of Girl Child
• Building community pressure against female
  foeticide.
• Increasing public safety.
• Better enforcement of dowry laws.
• Fostering Excellence among girl children.

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Critical Mission Projects(3)

• Reducing Drop Out Rate
• Girl Child Protection Scheme.
• Additional academic support.
• Reading facilities for girl children in slums.
• CBT
• Safe Transportation
• Incentives to teachers.

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Critical Mission Projects(3)

• Economic Empowerment
• Vocational training for women in slums
• Formation and Capacity building of SHGs.
• Microfinance support.
• Developing markets for products.
• Universalization of creches.
• Generating Government support through backup
  services.

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Institutional Arrangements

• Mission Mode Society Mission Director, Sectoral
  Managers and Professional Experts.
• District Service Centers.
• Combination of ICDS and RCH2 Functionaries at
  field level.