Improving Women’s Leadership for Strengthening Health and Nutrition Outcomes in Nagaland, India : Lessons from a Process Evaluation of Community Action for Health and Nutrition
Under the term “communitization,” in 2002 the state government of Nagaland transferred responsibility for local services to Village Councils and sector specific Committees. In the health sector, Village Health Committees were made responsible for m...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/146181564519651728/Improving-Women-s-Leadership-for-Strengthening-Health-and-Nutrition-Outcomes-in-Nagaland-India-Lessons-from-a-Process-Evaluation-of-Community-Action-for-Health-and-Nutrition http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32149 |
| Summary: | Under the term “communitization,” in
2002 the state government of Nagaland transferred
responsibility for local services to Village Councils and
sector specific Committees. In the health sector, Village
Health Committees were made responsible for management of
local health services, including salary payment as well as
use of small funds transferred by the state government. Some
1,300 Village Health Committees have been constituted and
their level of functionality varies widely, with many hardly
active. In 2016, the World Bank-financed NagalandHealth
Project included a US 15 million dollar component to provide
technical and financial support to strengthen implementation
of the communitization strategy. With the objective of
improving participation and leadership of women for planning
and managing health and nutrition services in the community,
the project mandates that all committees appoint a woman
Co-chair, in addition to a Chair (who could be a man or
woman). The project was initially piloted in 30 villages
across two districts, and has been scaled-up in a phased
matter since late 2017 to about 450 sites in all 11
districts of the state. |
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