AAK regards children as the prime catalysts for change in the wake of continuing rural health and education reform. The focal points of CCCD are:
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Child Participation –
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Build capacity for the youth (especially female) to organize and express themselves as active citizens.
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Engage children in monitoring the implementation of child rights by the govt.
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Create an enabling environment for child participation at all levels (through aptitude and attitude change among duty bearers).
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Child Protection-
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Improve knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) among children and parents on child abuse, female foeticide, child marriage and gender based violence.
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Promote community based child protection and its effective integration into the state / national child protection system.
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Improve child protection, legislation and policies.
3. Disaster Risk Reduction-
- Strengthen capacity of communities to reduce risk and be prepared for disasters and minimize impacts on children.
- Build capacity of staff on disaster risk reduction and enhancing response mechanism to make programs more disaster risk sensitive.
- Prepare communities and children to mitigate the impact of climate change.
Monthly Planning Map in a village
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Early childhood care and development –
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Enhance awareness on care giving practices for children aged 0-3 years for their holistic development.
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Enhance ECE/ ECD services and school readiness among children aged 3-6 years.
Social Mapping in a village
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Education –
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Facilitate completion of 10 years of quality education through improved access to quality education, enhanced quality of class rooms and increased transition to higher levels of education.
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Optimal Health –
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Improve maternal health by enabling women access to knowledge and quality health services.
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Improve nutritional status of malnourished children and promote child health through community and govt. engagement.
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Increase access to information and capacity building to exhibit responsive health seeking behavior and system strengthening mechanism for sexual reproductive health.
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Household Economic Security-
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Promote access to formal financial services ( savings, credits, insurance and remittance ) specially for women.
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Prepare young men and women to get formal employment or self employment through market oriented vocational, business development and life skills training.
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Increase children and young people’s access to food to meet their dietary needs for an active and healthy life.
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Water ,Environment and Sanitation –
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Facilitate availability of water and sanitation facilities in preschool, primary and secondary school for all girls and boys.
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Support all families to improve their hygienic practices including disposal of human and other waste.
- Enable children and communities access safe drinking water supply by making them aware about govt. schemes, policies and provisions.
Community Meeting at a village
Coverage of the Project: Name of Blocks/Gram Panchayats/Villages
- District – Mirzapur
- Block – Halia
- By Gram Panchayat