Transcript The 11th Five Year Plan

The 11th Five Year Plan
The Working Groups’
Recommendations
Some Important Measures are:
1.
NON-NEGOTIABLE RECOMMENDATIONS IN
THE
AREAS OF:

ICDS AND Nutrition

Early Childhood Education

Child Protection

Girl Child
2. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING
WATER & SANITATION):
 Access to clean drinking water will need to be
planned for and rigorously implemented and be
suitably redesigned and operationalized
 Explore replicating on a large scale the experience
of Sulabh Shauchalaya of establishing low-cost
sanitation technology.
 Introduce environmental sanitation in all schools in
the rural areas/urban slums etc.
2. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING
WATER & SANITATION):

Distribution of key micronutrients and
addressing
the problem of nutrition and
anemia among women and children.

Building up an effective health system capacity
so
as to clearly focus on important health
outcomes
spelt out in National Health Policy
2002.

The outputs to be achieved and outcomes
projected to be in line with the Millennium
Development Goals.
3. POLICY MEASURES AND STRATEGIES FOR
ADDRESSING PROBLEMS OF SLUMS
 Creating and updating database on slums (through
using Geographic Information System
 Slum improvement in the context of 74th CAA.
Participation process to include communities, civil
societies and elected representatives.
 Augmenting and facilitating access to serviced land
for slum dwellers
 Granting Tenure Security for Slum Dwellers
4. EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN
Important Thrust areas for the Eleventh plan:
 Nutrition and gender
Emphasis will be on provision of adequate supplementary nutrition
and micro nutrient supplements
Health and gender
Use life cycle approach, strengthen institutional deliveries,
capacitate health staff and make health centers operational,
address high rate of MMR.
4. EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN
Important Thrust areas for the Eleventh plan:
 Vulnerable groups
Special attention will be paid to:
• Women impacted by Violence
• Women impacted by internal displacement, disasters and Migration
• Women and Labour (domestic labour, destitute women who are homeless)
• Women and Health( women affected by HIV/ AIDS, women suffering from life
threatening diseases, women with disabilities, elderly and aged women)
• Slum Dwellers
• Single women (Adolescents, widows, Divorcees)
 Transforming SHGs to community based organizations
Such collectivization can enable them to operate on a bigger scale and can
truly come up as poor peoples’ institutions. They would also be in a position to
shift from micro credit to larger credit facilities offered by banking institutions
and thus will come into their own as a formidable economic force.