Self Help Groups and Reproductive and Child Health Programme

The present work on the Role of Self Help groups in Strengthening Reproductive and Child Health Programme is a original piece of work combining the modern theories with age old values inherent in the society in which the programme was applied. It sets out to explore a model which helped the poor women to start their economic life with the help of micro finance in an innovative manner in the health sector. The processes, applied in the development of the programme, have helped in bringing out a Sustainable Reproductive and Child Health Programme through increasing use of RCH knowledge, capacity building, social capital formation, network building, continuous needs assessment and fulfillment and development of an intra-sectoral linkage for sustaining the programs which were started to bring about the changes in their life. Most importantly, this work highlights the methodology applied in maintaining the development efforts for improving the Reproductive and Child Health Programme.

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Dr. Niyati Joshi, Deputy Director, Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Government of India, an officer of 2005 batch of Indian Statistical Service, was awarded Ph.D. in Population Studies from IIPS, Mumbai in 2007.He was previously a Commonwealth Fellow at Staffordshire University (UK) and University Grants Commission Fellow, India.