Ashish Gram Rachna Trust

Vision Mission and programmes of IHMP AGRT   Vision: A country free of discrimination against girls and women. Mission: IHMP AGRT has st Read morerived unceasingly to better the health and overall development of communities through the implementation of innovative programmes, training, research, and policy advocacy. The Institute aims at the holistic development of the individual, family and community and is deeply committed to the development of marginalised groups. Within the broad mandate of reaching the most disadvantaged groups, it is committed to the health and development of women, adolescent girls and children. IHMP AGRT’s basic commitment has been to reduce gender inequities intrinsic in Indian society. This is reflected in all its programmes.     Institute of Health Management, Pachod (IHMP) has demonstrated evidence-based capacity in the areas of Primary Health Care (PHC), Reproductive and Child Health (RCH), Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health (ARSH), and Life Skills Education (LSE) for empowerment of adolescent girls as follows:   1.     Focused interventions for married adolescent girls that have demonstrated delay in age at first birth, significant increase in contraceptive use, reduction in reproductive morbidity and significant reduction in low birth weight babies. Experience since 2003. 2.     Package of five well-tested interventions for effective implementation of Universal Health Care in rural and urban slum settings. Experience since 1996. 3.     Empowerment of unmarried adolescent girls through life skills education (LSE) thereby delaying their age at marriage, and improving educational and social status, since 1998. 4.     Design and validation of a culturally appropriate scale for measuring self-esteem and self-efficacy in adolescent girls. The scale is used for identifying vulnerable girls and evaluating LSE programmes. Design, validation and use of scale since 2008. 5.     Scaling up life skills education programmes for unmarried adolescent girls and protecting married adolescent girls from the adverse consequences of early marriage and conception through a network/ coalition of NGOs. IHMP has successfully scaled up MNH and ARSH programmes through three NGO coalitions/networks, so far. Experience since 2008. 6.     Integrated project for empowerment of unmarried adolescent girls, protection of married adolescent girls and gender sensitization of boys and young men since 2013. 7.     Prevention of malnutrition in children below five years by monitoring growth faltering episodes. 8.     IHMP has been at the forefront in demonstrating behaviour change communication strategies for hygiene and sanitation and other health behaviours. IHMP was commissioned by the World Bank to design the BCC policy for RCH, for GoI, in 1997. 9.     IHMP has been training and building capacity of NGO health professionals since 1986. The Institute has trained over 8000 NGO functionaries till now. 10. IHMP has demonstrated expertise in supportive supervision, monitoring and evaluation of individual NGOs and NGO networks.

The Institute aims at the holistic development of individuals, families, and communities, committed to the development of marginalized groups, with a focus on the health and development of women and children.

IHMP has expanded its services to urban slums in Pune, established a state-of-the-art clinical pathology laboratory and mobile medical unit, and has been recognized internationally for its public health training center, which has trained over 10,000 health functionaries from India, SAARC countries, and African nations.