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View the Full Report Annual Report 15-16 Child in Need Institute Daulatpur, P. O. Pailan via Joka, 24 Parganas (S) Kolkata - 700104, West Bengal, India Phone : + 91 33 2497 8192/8206/8758/8759/8642 www.cini-india.org Child in Need Institute We start this year's Annual Report (2015-16) sharing some of our significant achievements at the national level and in the states of West Bengal (WB) and Jharkhand. At the outset let me express my deep admiration for all my colleagues (1,194, excluding volunteers), working in the summer heat and in the rain, reaching out to women and children in remote villages and slums. We acknowledge the wisdom and support of my colleagues and respected Governing Body members, which has been invaluable. Protection and trafficking of children and women has received our utmost attention this year, thanks to the work done by our protection team. Missing, run away and trafficked children first encountered in railway stations are taken into safe custody of our homes for boys and girls in Kolkata and a girl's home in Siliguri. ORD Village/Slum level Protection Committees under the Govt. of India's Integrated Child Protection Services (ICPS) are facilitated by CINI to start up in the respective project areas in West Bengal (WB) and Jharkhand. In Jharkhand a project supported by International Labour Organisation (ILO) is targeting vulnerable women and girls to stop them from being trafficked, lessons given by women, volunteering in the project, who W escaped from the clutches of traffickers in metro cities. In education, out of a total of 11,478 girls found to be out of school, 8,317 (73%) have been mainstreamed to attend age appropriate classes in local government schools in WB and Jharkhand. As they are at risk of being trafficked, they have been monitored in the GPower project using a software, for which CINI has received the “Mobile for Good” award from Vodafone Foundation. CINI is managing two residential schools in Kolkata, supporting 100 boys and 60 girls from deprived urban communities, supported by SarvaShiksha Mission, School Education Department, Govt. of WB. CINI's Adolescent Resource Centre (ARC) has been working closely with the Govt. supported SABLA FORE programme and with National Health Mission (NHM), focussing on prevention of anaemia and building capacities to improve sexual and reproductive health status among these vulnerable girls.CINI has been selected as National Training Partner by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare for the Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram, the National adolescent Health program of Government of India. In WB, CINI is the State Technical Partner for the SABLA-Kanyashree Convergence program by the Department of Women Development, Child Development & Social Welfare. In health and nutrition, CINI has successfully completed a UK Govt. (DFID) supported, MACHAN, 2 year project in North Dinajpur (WB) and Borough VII in Kolkata, focussing on improving child health and nutrition during the first 1,000 days of life. Other projects supported by various donors including UNICEF and from the corporate sector are targeting vulnerable children and women in slums and villages of WB and Jharkhand. CINI Nutrimix has been an immense success as a low cost nutritious supplement, marketed through CINI Community Initiatives (CINCOMM) to ICDS projects. Production units have been set up at village level by Self Help Groups and in other locations in Sunderbans, Siliguri, Murshidabad in WB and in Jharkhand. CINI continues to train and build capacities in Anganwadi Workers, Supervisors of Govt. sponsored ICDS and ASHA workers from NHM and NGO workers for various locations in West Bengal. A total of 13,111 trainees passed through our training centre during the FY 2015-16. Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, collaborates with CINI to conduct joint vocational training course on Child Protection and Early Child Development, up to bachelor's level.CINI is a collaborating training institute (CTI) by National Institute of Health and Family Welfare ( NIHFW) Government of India, New Delhi, for four north eastern states : Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Nagaland and Tripura. CINI IT Cell has collaborated with Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF), New Delhi to support NGOs in WB to set up .NGO domains, a website dedicated for the NGO sector. CINI can also be found on www.cini- india.ngo and has been featured by DEF in their February Newsletter. The IT Cell continues to support in- house development of software required by CINI for most of its programmes. We are grateful to our donors both in India and abroad including our support groups in Italy, Australia, UK, Holland and USA, who stood by us very faithfully over the past 42 years. More remarkably even during the recent financial meltdown in the west. Our support from the corporate world in India and abroad under Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), have started to gather momentum slowly and steadily. This support has allowed us to continue to learn from the poor and innovate, in our effort to reach them with minimal cost and maximum impact. Dr. Samir Chaudhuri Director, CINI 1 Foreword 1 1975-1985 Milestones 3 1. Under 5 clinic started in Balananda Hospital, Behala and St Vincent School, Thakurpukur, Kolkata 2. CINI getting the identity of a registered society Chapter 1 Introduction 5 3. Disaster relief operations in flood affected Moyna and Sunderbans in West Bengal and cyclone hit areas of Andhra Pradesh and support for Kampuchea refugees. Inspirations 7 4. Maternal and Child Health (MCH) project initiated in Moyna and Baikunthapur of West Bengal Chapter 2 CINI's Rights-based Approach to Development 9 1986-1995 5. Health programmes initiated in Tollygunje slums in Kolkata Chapter 3 Empowering Adolescents 10 ONES 6. CINI Urban Unit set up for implementing urban health programme focusing on street children in Foundation Day celebrations 13 Kolkata 7. Adopt a Mother programme initiated with support from Ami ci di CINI, Italy ONTENT Chapter 4 Fighting HIV AIDS 14 8. Relief work for victims of communal violence in Tangra, Kolkata C 9. Regional centre for counselling on HIV & AIDS set up with support from National AIDS Control Chapter 5 Maternal and Child Health 17 Organisation (NACO), Govt. of India 10. Adolescents' programme started Chapter 6 Educating Urban and Rural Deprived Children 22 11. Setting up of Fund Raising Unit in Kolkata CINI IN PRESS 25 12. Recognition as Regional Resource Centre by Ministry of Health & Family Welfare(MOHFW) for Easter Region, Govt. of India Chapter 7 Ensuring Child Participation and Child Rights 26 MILEST 1996-2005 Chapter 8 Maternal and Child Nutrition 31 13. Conferred Collaborative Training Institute (CTI) status for seven North Eastern states by MOHFW, Govt. of India. Chapter 9 Climate Change 36 14. Adolescent Resource Centre and CINI Jharkhand unit was initiated 15. Relief operation for earthquake victims of Bhuj in Gujarat Chapter 10 Convergence 37 16. Initiation of Life Cycle Approach (LCA) Cell Chapter 11 Capacity Building and Technical Support 41 2006-2013 Photos of events 44 17. Recognised as State nodal agency for rolling out Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) under National Rural Health Chapter 12 CINI's Emerging Roles 45 Mission, West Bengal 18. Pilot intervention on Child & Woman Friendly Communities Chapter 13 Partnering Corporate In Progress 47 (CWFC) initiated 19. CINI Jharkhand unit recognised as State Nodal Agency for under Chapter 14 HR and Governance 48 deprived children 20. 12 weeks certificate course on Reproductive and Child Health Chapter 15 Financial Report 50 started in collaboration with Jadavpur University 21. Community Health Care Management Initiative (CHCMI) Way Forward 53 launched with support from Dept of Health & Family Welfare and Dept of Panchayat & Rural Development, Govt. of West Bengal Acknowledgements 54 22. State Technical Resource Centre for conducting HIV & AIDS trainings in partnership with National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), India. Acronyms 59 Professor Sunit Mukherjee, 23. Community College established in partnership with Indira Chairman, CINI with Sponsorship Programmes 61 Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) Dr Subhash Mukherjee, 24. New CINI logo launched with new branding strategy his colleague,Professor of Contact Us 62 Physiology, Calcutta. 2 3 25. Awarded World Bank supported Development Marketplace project Introduction for income generation of women's groups by marketing low cost hild in Need Institute (CINI) is a registered non-profit organisation (NGO) under the Societies nutritious supplement, “Nutrimix” Registration Act and Foreign Contribution Regulation Act in India. We work with over 1200 Indian 26. Initiated Kolkata CHILDLINE, a 24 Cprofessionals and are guided by a Governing Body composed of experienced Indian practitioners, hour emergency service for academicians and administrators. Founded in 1974 in Kolkata (former Calcutta), West Bengal, CINI now has children in distress, under Ministry operations in the states of West Bengal and Jharkhand with a reach of more than 5 million rural and urban ONES of Social Justice & Empowerment, population of poor communities . CINI has been recipient of prestigious awards and recognitions for its Govt of India. contribution to development sector from India and around the world. 27. Setting up of Education Resource We work in local communities. Centre in Kolkata We are accountable to local communities 28. Shelter home for homeless Father Mathieson with Jim De Harpporte, women and girls in Kolkata started Director of Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and CINI focuses on the thematic sectors of Maternal & Child and Adolescent Health, Education, Nutrition and with support from Govt. of West his wife at a CINI meeting in the late 70's Child Protection. Starting with programme implementation on the thematic sectors, CINI has always strived Bengal Residential services for for innovations in its way of functioning over the years to add value to the existing policies and programmes boys and girls initiated in CINI of the government.
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