Udaan - a 360 Degree Approach to Prevent Adolescent Pregnancy in Rajasthan
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Udaan - A 360 Degree Approach to Prevent Adolescent Pregnancy in Rajasthan About Udaan Keeping Girls in School Adolescent Health Education Improving Contraceptive access & Choice Gallery Udaan in Press News Stories from the Ground Udaan - A 360 Degree Approach to Prevent Adolescent Pregnancy in Rajasthan Project Udaan seeks to reduce adolescent pregnancies in Rajasthan by leveraging existing government platforms and programmes across the Health and Education Departments, for scale up and sustainability. It adopts a multi-sectoral approach About Udaan to prevent adolescent pregnancy, layering interventions beyond sexual health, to fundamentally change the way adolescent programming is carried on. Keeping Girls in School Adolescent Health Sri Ganganagar Education Hanumangarh Improving Contraceptive access & Choice Churu In-school Adolescent Bikaner Jhunjhunu Gallery Reproductive and Sexual Health Education Sikar Alwar Udaan in Press News Jaisalmer Nagaur Bharatpur Dausa Jodhpur Jaipur Stories from the Ground Dholpur Improve choice Karauli Retain girls in Ajmer Sawai secondary and access to Tonk Madhopur Barmer schools contraceptives Pali Bhilwara Bundi Jalor Baran Rajsamand Sirohi Chittorgarh Kota Udaipur Jhalawar Pratapgarh Intervention Districts Dungarpur Banswara BACK…. Keeping Girls in Secondary School Udaan attempts to keep girls in school through their enrolment (school-going and dropout girls) at secondary school level while ensuring that the eligible girls receive their scholarship through collective efforts. School and community-level interventions have been designed to About Udaan increase girls’ enrolment at secondary level school by generating wide public awareness on the scholarship schemes and mobilising communities to support girls’ education and facilitate their going back to school. Udaan works towards strengthening scholarship delivery Keeping Girls in School systems (IT enabled) and builds capacities of government functionaries for effective state-wide scale up to ensure sustainability and Adolescent Health Education stability. Improving Contraceptive access & Choice Additional Girls Enrolled Scholarship Fund Disbursed Across Rajasthan Gallery (Udaipur & Dholpur) 25.7 $ Mn Udaan in Press News 55,570 Stories from the Ground 2019-20 30.6 $ Mn 2018-19 51,722 10.4 $ Mn 2017-18 45,270 2019-20 2016-17 42,301 3.4 $ Mn 2018-19 2015-16 39,208 2017-18 BACK…. 2016-17 In-School Adolescent Health Education In-school adolescent health education is a result of a ‘Human Centred Design’ (HCD) approach to identify effective ways of reaching out to adolescents. The research involved consultations with adolescents, parents of adolescents and other stakeholders in About Udaan Dholpur district. The suggestions through HCD: Schools are the best place to reach out to adolescents, as most of Keeping Girls in School them are in schools and schools provide a safe and enabling Adolescent Health environment to transact. Education In-school adolescents can be the change agents for out-of-school Improving Contraceptive adolescents, thus ensuring the utmost coverage. access & Choice Teachers taking the lead on improving knowledge, attitude & Launch by Member of Legislative Assembly Gallery practices around SRH amongst adolescents would itself lead to Shri Rohit Bohra (Rajakhera Dhoulpur) wider acceptance by the traditional communities. Udaan in Press News Adopting these findings, Udaan project conducted a pilot in limited Stories from the Ground geography to test feasibility and adaptability of the in-school approach to delivery SRH information. Post implementation of this approach spread across 2 academic sessions, the results were encouraging and recognised by the Dholpur district administration led by the district collector and the chief medical and health officer. The administration convinced with the approach had approved scale up across the district from 2020-21 academic session, covering 282 Secondary and Senior Secondary schools reaching to about 78,000 adolescents. Launch by Member of Legislative Assembly BACK…. Shri Giriraj Singh Malinga (Bari, Dhoulpur) Improving Contraceptive Access and Choice Udaan is an integrated intervention which seeks to prevent adolescent pregnancies in Rajasthan by leveraging existing government programmes and platforms for realizing girl’s potential and reducing the number of babies born low birth weight from teenager mothers. IPE Global supports the efforts of Rajasthan government in rolling out injectable contraceptive ‘Antara’, that prevents pregnancy for three About Udaan months for all women in 14 Mission Parivar Districts (MPV) of Rajasthan. In addition to this, AntaraRaj, a web application for tracking Antara uptake and reminder services for users has been developed by IPE Keeping Girls in School Global in 2017-18. The initial focus was on the rolling-out of the AntaraRaj web-based application in the 14 Mission Parivar Vikas districts, Adolescent Health however, it is now implemented across all the 33 districts of Rajasthan. IPE Global also support the state governments effort towards Education addressing unmet need for contraceptives by increasing access to quality family planning services. Improving Contraceptive access & Choice Gallery Total Doses New Users 613,097 Udaan in Press News Stories from the Ground 301,927 220,580 217,910 88,017 99,478 94,393 140,345 20,039 34,262 Jul17 - 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 TOTAL Jul17 - 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 Total Doses Mar18 (upto Users Mar18 (upto Jan21) BACK…. Jan21) Stories from the Ground Keeping Girls in Schools Systemic Reforms and Improvement Efficiency in Government Corridors About Udaan Moving Children Across the Hills of Phalat Saving Children from the Streets of Dholpur Keeping Girls in School Whispered Secret from the Wall of Jhadol Adolescent Health Education Story about 6 brave girls crossing the difficult mountain terrain to go to school : Improving Contraceptive https://www.ipeglobal.com/blogs/the-famous-six-in-the-auto-rickshaw-to-school-58.php access & Choice Story about compromised safety of girls on the streets that hinders their education: Gallery https://www.ipeglobal.com/blogs/walking-undisturbed-for-many-is-a-luxury-59.php Story about a wonderful Teacher who brought back a student to school because of his non-judgemental attitude: Udaan in Press News https://www.ipeglobal.com/blogs/whispered-secret-from-the-walls-of-jhadol-60.php Stories from the Ground Adolescent Health Education Story about how Sexual and Reproductive Health works its magic in our project area: https://poshan.outlookindia.com/story/poshan-news-how-a-schoolgirl-convinced-her-newly-wed-sister-and-brother- in-law-to-take-contraceptive-counselling/341432 Improving Contraceptive Access & Choice Story about Antara working its magic in the field : https://www.ipeglobal.com/blogs/the-antara-mantra-breaking-the-cycle-of-choice-less-choices-for-women-61.php BACK…. Systemic Reforms and Improved Efficiency in Government Corridors It was not a great day for Mahima or her parents who had just received the news that the scholarship they had applied for, was rejected for the second time in a row. Mahima’s parents had been waiting for more than a few months by now wishing that somehow their daughter’s scholarship application would get through and were disappointed to hear that the documents they had submitted was supposedly not in place and could not figure out what could have possibly gone wrong. While the parents blamed themselves for belonging to one of the disadvantaged communities for being the possible reason for the rejection, Mahima blamed herself feeling that the break she took between Class Eight and Nine, should be the reason for her scholarship application to be rejected each time. Meanwhile, at the IPE Global Office at Jaipur, the Udaan Team who had realized that the government scholarships were a motivating factor to increase enrollment and retention in schools, found a pressing bottleneck – paper and pen documentation and manual verification of documents - which are the usual practices within the bureaucratic system, delayed the entire scholarship process as applications got stuck or kept shuttling between desks endlessly. The part of the team that advocates and liaisons with the Government Officials to bring forth systemic reforms and improvement, found a way out of this rut and realized the need to connect the Bhamashah - a plastic card that contains details about each member of the family that is required to avail welfare schemes of the government with Shala Dharpan - the online scholarship portal, to mitigate this issue – the solution, was as simple as that. Now, the issue was about convincing a rigid and traditional bureaucracy to change from paper to screen. Soon, during a meeting with the Government Officials from the Education Department, the members of Team Udaan, stepped up and demonstrated the ease in operating an online portal that facilitated senior officers present there to find logic and sense in the suggestion which soon helped in easing their migration from paper and pen documentation to swifter digital systems. This strategy to systematically digitalize the entire process that connected the checking and sanctioning of scholarship applications under one portal within a specific time-bound framework, subsequently brought in accountability and transparency into the system that has established an effective working partnership between the service delivery system and the community. Today, after applying online during one of the E-Mitra