The Jhpiego Difference

Helping people care for themselves by strengthening health systems and improving

delivery of care.

Jhpiego Donors

29, Okhla Phase – III, New Delhi – 110020, India. Tel: (91) 11-49575100www.jhpiego.org/india

International non-profit health organization

13 field offices with New Delhi as the India Country Office

Working in India since 2009 across states 20

A strong team of 350+

India

Johns Hopkins University Affiliate

Technical Support

Quality Assurance

PartnershipsCapacity Building

Strengthening Healthcare

Systems

updated: April 2018

Workingtirelesslytosavelives,improvehealthandtransformfutures

What are we up against?

Too many:

Ÿ India is a country of 1.2 billion 1people.

Ÿ 2Over 1/5th of all women aged 20-24 were married before the legal minimum age of 18.

Marry too young:

Losing too many newborns: Ÿ India is the largest contributor to

neonatal deaths in the world. A large proportion of these deaths are preventable by adherence to simple,

5evidence based care practices .

Ÿ 4Close to 13% of currently married women, aged 15 to 49 years, have an unmet need for family planning.

Large unmet need: Ÿ 3India’s Total Fertility Rate is 2.2 .

2,3,4NFHS-4

6WHO, 2014b.Wanted: 2.4 million nurses, and that's just in India. (Retrieved from World Health Organization website: http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/88/5/10-020510/en/)

5Levels and Trends in Child Mortality - Report 2017. Estimates developed by UN inter-agency group for Child Mortality estimation.

7World Health Organization - NCD Country Profiles, 2011

1Census 2011

Ÿ India ranks as low as 52 of 57 countries facing HRH crisis with an estimated deficit of over 2 million nurses. Available HR is

6sub-optimal .

Shortage of Human Resource for Health:

· Raising standards of care and fostering linkages: Creating benchmarks in nursing education through national and state nodal centers of nursing excellence

· Building a more competent health workforce

· Improving the quality of pre-service education in 30%* of existing public sector nursing institutions across the country using a blended learning approach

· Strengthening management and administrative capacities of nursing cadre by setting-up/ strengthening nursing directorates

· Drafting and implementing a roadmap for nursing midwifery cadre in partnership with the Government of India (GoI) and state governments

Human Resources for Health

How Jhpiego makes a difference?

Family Planning

· Training providers in comprehensive family planning service delivery using a combination of centralized and on-site training approaches and supportive supervision visits (SSVs)

· Increasing access to and expanding the basket of family planning choices (spacing and limiting)

· Strengthening quality FP services and ensuring quality counseling to facilitate informed choice

· Ensuring community participation in improving the provision of quality FP services

Using a Systems Approach to Programming

Maternal and Newborn Health (MNH)

· Reaching out to nearly 2600** public and private sector healthcare institutions, working at multiple levels (i.e. provider, institution and system)

· Ensuring high quality care during the most critical period - i.e. the intra and immediate postpartum period by empowering providers with skills and knowledge on critical evidence-based life saving practices

· Creating an enabling environment for high quality provision of care in facilities

· Lead technical partner in developing and implementing Dakshata - GoI’s flagship strategic initiative

· Developing a viable business model for quality assurance and quality improvement in the private maternal health sector

**Data till March 2018*State-wise distribution of nursing institutions and their admission capacity as on 31st Oct, 2016 (INC)

Jhpiego India also works in Adolescent Health and supports India’s Malaria elimination program

Growing burden of NCDs in India: Ÿ In India, the estimated deaths due to

7NCDs in 2008 were 5.3 million .

India

· Defining an operational model for ANC-based GDM screening and management in India

· Advocating and providing TA to GoI in developing a roadmap for HPV Vaccine Program in

· Improving access to early detection and treatment to Breast Health Care in India

Addressing India's Non Communicable Disease burden