Major Activities
UNICEF provided SRSO with Rs 9.41 million to organise communities in Shikarpur, Larkana, Shahdadkot & Ghotki districts .
Mother & Child Health-care is to organize communities in the non-LHW covered areas and to conduct focused awareness campaigns on pneumonia and diarrhea, strengthen catch-up of routine immunization and tetanus shots.)
The setting up of 4 Social Mobilisation Teams (SMT) comprising of one female mobiliser and one male
mobiliser, who worked with communities and Community Resource Persons (CRP) in the villages with
no LHWs presence. The scope of work of social mobiliser included:
- identification of target villages;
- identification of CRPs in each village;
- orientation and training of the CRPs on their assigned role and
responsibilities, and on how to conduct health sessions with the communities;
- managing the CRPs;
- coordinating with health respective in the area;
- assessing the need for items such as de-worming tablets
and tetanus vaccinations in their area;
- and most importantly, sensitising community members regarding
the importance of health interventions with women and children.
1,218 CRPs were
brought onboard during the course of the project to carry out activities in the following areas: strengthen
routine immunisation and mobilised communities for immunisation activities, particularly polio; facilitate
the provision of tetanus vaccination and clean delivery kits; antenatal and postnatal care and community
Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF)
227,338 men and women
community members were sensitised by the trained CRPs with the help of counselling cards on reducing maternal and child mortality.
