Name of the project:NUTRITION MISSION “ An Effort to combat Malnutrition in Rural Ahmedabad with Community Participation
Applicant: Health Branch District Panchayat
Implementing agency: District Panchayat
About the project: As per NFHS III reports,the percentage of malnourished children in Gujarat is 45 percent and in Ahmedabad it is 35 percent. The government reports had also indicated that there was a significant prence of malnutrition in the Ahmedabad district.Thus, to improve the nutritional status of the children of the rural Ahmedabad, the District Panchayat, Ahmedabad had undertaken a special initiative by the name of The Nutrition Mission.

Objective: To improve the nutritional status and to decrease the prence of malnutrition in the rural children of Ahmedabad district. One more objective was to decrease the child mortality rate.
Target group: Children, their parents and the general community.
Strength areas: Approximately 1,44,772 children were surveyed. Malnutrition was accurately identified by digital baby weighing machines. The project has launched web application MATRA for monitoring in scientific way. Capacity building of 2,700 workers of health & ICDS department was done who can work as agent of change forever.
Achievements: The number of severely malnourished children was reduced by more than 50 percent in two years. The number of moderately malnourished children was reduced by more than 30 percent in two years.Moreover, child mortality ratio was also reduced from 20 per 1000 live birth in 2011 to 18 in 2013.
Key challenges: Challenges like how to identify malnutrition accurately, accurate documentation of huge data,and availability of fund for implementation etc which they sailed through successfully.

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