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Save the Children India

CONTENT

1. Who we are
2. Vision & Purpose
3. Our Focus Areas
1. Quality Inclusive Education
2. Child Survival
3. Child Protection
4. Emergency Response and Child Centred Disaster Risk Reduction

4. Where we work in India


SAVE THE CHILDREN INDIA

In April, 2008, Save the Children India became an independent member of


International Save the Children. It is responsible for all fundraising and programmatic
interventions in India.

Our work here covers:

Child Protection

Education

Child Survival

Community-based Disaster Risk Reduction

Responding in Emergencies

Facsimile of declaration of
Geneva signed by M.K.
Gandhi in 1931.
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WHAT WE DO AND HOW WE OPERATE

Quality programming in health, education and child protection to reach the most
socially excluded groups

First to respond to emergency situations and the last to leave

Influence policy change with government bodies and ensure the effective
implementation of government schemes through NGO partners

Professional team comprising of technical experts from development and corporate


sectors

Efficiency in operation, utilisation of funds and spending

Reliable accountability and reporting

Dependable grant management and financial systems

Long term scalable and sustainable solutions.


WHERE WE WORK
We work actively with the
communities and the government in
10 states to bring lasting changes for
the most marginalised children.

Quality Inclusive Education

Child Protection

Child Survival
Save the Children has
already benefited over 3 Responding to Emergencies
million children across & Child Centred Disaster
India. Risk Reduction
WHERE WE WORK
Jammu & Kashmir

New Delhi

Rajasthan
Bihar
Jharkhand West Bengal
Gujarat
Orissa
Maharashtra

Andhra Pradesh

Tamil Nadu
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DONOR DISTRIBUTION - 2010

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ALLIANCE CONTRIBUTION - 2010

2% 2% 5%
2%
5%

18%
SC Finland
SC India
SC Italy
SC Netherlands
62% 4% SC New Zealand
SC UK
SC US
Other

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THEMATIC DISTRIBUTION OF GRANTS - 2010

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TOP 10 GRANTS IN 2010

No. Donor State Value (Rs.)


1 EU Multi 195,966,000
2 Dutch Lottery Delhi 85,050,189
3 ECHO West Bengal 27,720,000

4 ECHO J&K (valley) 19,500,000

5 Reckitt Benckiser West Bengal 14,641,440

6 ECHO J&K (Leh) 12,000,000


7 SC Finland Rajasthan 9,003,660
8 SC Italy Maharashtra 8,782,475
9 MCHIP Jharkhand / UP 7,794,765
10 RB Pharma West Bengal 6,020,910

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OUR APPROACH

1. Child centric

2. Integrated and community-


based

3. Working closely with district


and state governments

4. Multi-level media presence


and advocacy

5. Influence policy changes and


implementation at the state
and national level

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QUALITY INCLUSIVE EDUCATION

•7 million children in India under 14 years do


not have access to quality education
• Approximately 50% of all children drop out
before they complete their elementary education
•Save the Children is working to create quality,
inclusive, learner-friendly environments for all
children
•To ensure that the Right to Education Act, 2009
is implemented.
EDUCATION - WHAT WE DO

Promote learner friendly inclusive Create sustainable programmes by building


environments by effective community capacity within the education system and
participation and active learning using our projects as pilots to demonstrate
methodologies ‘best practices’

We work on collaborative models between


Ministry of Women and Child Implement the Right to Education Act,
Development and Ministry of Human 2009 so that children of the most
Resource Development, so that children are marginalised sections of society receive an
provided stimulating learning environments education
and receive quality basic education
THE RIGHT TO EDUCATION - OUR
OBJECTIVES
To ensure that the Right to Education Act, 2009 is implemented...

• To promote access and retention to quality inclusive education in government schools.

• To strengthen the capacities of existing government schools and their governance.

• To improve participation of children, their parents and the community in education planning.

• To improve learning levels of children.

• To reduce drop out rates of children.

...by developing models of practice and advocacy with the government and civil society.
NEWBORN AND CHILD SURVIVAL
(HEALTH + NUTRITION)

India is the largest contributor to the annual global


tally of deaths of children under five years old -
approximately 1.8 million.
Save the Children is working to help India reach MDG
4 on reducing child mortality by 2/3 rd by 2015.
Our objectives are to:

•Increase the chances of survival of children between


the ages of 0-5 years

•Reduce levels of malnutrition in children

•Improve new born and maternal health

•Steer the behaviour of communities towards better


child health and nutrition practices.
HEALTH AND NUTRITION

In 2008, Save the Children initiated health and nutrition projects to evaluate interventions within
existing large-scale delivery systems (NRHM, ICDS). The project will play a catalytic role within
the national health sector, providing helpful insight and guidance into the government health
system and the community-based actors who deliver health and nutrition services in India.

Where we work:

•Delhi and Maharashtra - Urban Health

•Bihar, Rajasthan and West Bengal - Health and Nutrition

•Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand - Technical assistance on newborn care through MCHIP (Maternal
and Child Health Integrated Programme)

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EVERY ONE CAMPAIGN

EVERY ONE objectives:

•Increase coverage and quality of maternal,


newborn and child health nutrition services,
particularly for the marginalised

•Change public opinion and inspire visible


expressions of support by mobilising 5mn people
to take action and create political /social
environment to achieve MDG 4

•Make government systems more accountable to


sustain increased coverage.
NEWBORN AND CHILD SURVIVAL (HEALTH + NUTRITION)
- WHAT WE DO

Facilitate coordination between the


Analyse local situation to assess health Department of Health and Family Welfare
needs and existing gaps in newborn and and DWCD to ensure effective delivery of
care for children under five years Government’s health and nutrition delivery
systems

Strengthen community involvement and


Capacity building of community health
role of civil society partnerships with
workers on maternal and child health
India’s health systems through advocacy
nutrition
and capacity building
CHILD PROTECTION

• India is home to close to 13 million children child


labourers under 14 (Census 2001)

• We work with state authorities & civil society


organisations to free children engaged in labour

• Save the Children is working to withdraw 50,000


child domestic workers from domestic help

• We have been instrumental in the creation of a


national child protection system.
COMMUNITY-BASED CHILD CENTRED
DISASTER RISK REDUCTION

Since 2008, we have reached approximately 98,000


children in 275 villages. We focused on building the
leadership among children and enabling their participation
in Panchayat-level decision making.

Our Aim:

• To increase preparedness of children and their families for


emergency situations in the aftermath of natural disasters
through child-centred and community-based approaches

• To manage disasters better

• To minimise the impact of natural disasters to


communities in disaster prone areas

• To build child-centred resilient communities.


EMERGENCY RESPONSE

Since 2008, we responded to all the major emergencies in the country. Our assessments show that
nearly 50% of all affected people in any emergency are children - the most vulnerable and easy
targets for trafficking.

• Kosi Floods, 2008 - Mounted an Alliance-wide response. SCUK was our counterpart. We
reached 117,000 people, about 60,000 of them children

• Mautam in Mizoram - We reached 3,000 households over a period of one year with
comprehensive relief and recovery

• Cyclone Aila, 2009 in the Sunderbans - Save the Children has been the major responder and it
is still continuing through ECHO support. Intervention pre-selected for DipECHO funding

• South India Floods Response, 2009-10 in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka - We reached
16,000+ children through education kits child friendly spaces, etc.

• Leh Cloudburst and Floods Emergency (ongoing) - We reached 400 families with
comprehensive relief and recovery support.

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EMERGENCY RESPONSE & CHILD CENTRED DISASTER
RISK REDUCTION - WHAT WE DO

Education Child Protection

Distribute relief supplies during emergencies


and assist with long term rehabilitation
efforts
We ensure that children are able to continue
Operate child friendly spaces supporting
with their schooling by providing them with
children’s psychological needs as well as
a safe space to learn in the aftermath of
carrying out nutritional and healthcare
disasters.
assessments.

Protect children from being trafficked for


commercial sex work and child labour.
JAMMU AND KASHMIR

For the past 30 years, we have


had programmes mainly in the
Ladakh region. Over the past 6
years however, we have extended
our work to the regions of
Jammu and Kashmir, focusing on
education and child protection in
orphanages.
JAMMU AND KASHMIR – Current Initiatives

1. Protection of with children in government run institutions

3900 children in the eight districts of Anantnag, Baramulla, Kupwara, Doda, Poonch, Rajouri,
Leh and Kargil in 192 villages are beneficiaries of the training given to caregivers at
government run residential institutions on how to improve standards of care of children.

2. Quality Inclusive Education for children involved in labour

24,000 children in the age group 6-14 years, including approximately 100 children with
disabilities, 500 orphans, 500 child laborers and 2000 children of scheduled tribes in 400
villages/urban wards in the 11 districts of Leh, Kargil, Doda, Rajouri, Poonch, Baramulla,
Anantnag, Pulwama, Kupwara, Budgam and Srinagar are a part of our education programmes to
increase retention and drop out rates.
RAJASTHAN

In Rajasthan, we have
programmes in 15 districts
focusing mainly on reducing
child mortality below the age
of five years as well as
creating quality inclusive
learner friendly environments
for children in government
schools.

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RAJASTHAN – Current Initiatives

1. Quality Inclusive Education of children in the most marginalised areas

We work in 210 Villages with 93,000 children and 40 government schools. We are focusing on
creating inclusive quality learning environments in schools. Through this, we indirectly hope to
reduce child labour, child marriage, discrimination, physical, sexual and emotional abuse

2. Protection of children working in brick kilns

We are working on improving the status of the most socially excluded children - approximately
18,000 - by increasing access to schools and creating child protection committees in their
communities. In 6 districts of southern Rajasthan, we are increasing public demand for systemic
changes (in policy, program and their implementation) in the education sector for poor and
marginalised children.

3. Child Survival

We are reaching out to 57,000 pregnant and lactating mothers, newborns, infants and children under
age 5 years directly and 1,000,000 beneficiaries indirectly through district level interventions in
110 villages.
WEST BENGAL
In West Bengal, we work to protect
children involved in child labour,
promoting access to education and
preventing deaths in children below five
years. We have also responded to the
emergency caused by Cyclone Aila in
2009.
WEST BENGAL – Current Initiatives

1. Protection of working children

We are working with 3,000 migrant children vulnerable to trafficking, in 60 brick kilns to ensure
access and retention of children into formal schools. Girls involved in hazardous beedi rolling in
24 villages in Murshidabad are being mainstreamed into government schools.

2. Quality Inclusive Education for street and working children

We work with street and slum children across the Kolkata Municipality area, mainstreaming them
into formal schools. We have set up 8 learning centres and have collaborated with 11 private
schools to facilitate peer education.

3. Child Survival

We promote exclusive breast feeding amongst lactating mothers through counselling. We also help
with immunisation of children. The objective is to prevent child mortality under the age of 5 years.
BIHAR

In Bihar, the work centres


around emergency relief and
child-centred disaster risk
reduction with a focus on
child protection and
prevention of trafficking of
children in 190 villages in 7
districts. We have also
begun working on child
health and nutrition since
2008.
BIHAR – Current Initiatives

1. Emergency Response and Protection of children affected by natural disasters


We are reaching out to 90,000 children affected by floods and natural disasters, children involved
in child labour, children facing violence in schools and children denied access to public
health services due to child trafficking.

2. Child Protection
We worked to disseminate the Astitva state Plan of Action to prevent trafficking and are now
working to implement it. We are training and strengthening Anti Human Trafficking Unit
members and have trained over 2,000 police officers.

3. Child Centred Disaster Risk Reduction


We are launching a schools safety program in partnership with the Department of Disaster
Management.

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DELHI

In Delhi, we are working in 6 urban districts,


focusing on increasing access to education
for street and working children, access to
child survival and basic health care services
to communities most neglected. We are also
working to support government schools.
DELHI – Current Initiatives

1. Quality Inclusive Education

Implementing the early childhood education component in 130 ICDS centers of East Delhi. The
project will reach out to 7800 children over 3 years. We work with educators and students at
the primary level to create model inclusive schools. Our projects on inclusive education cover
43,000 children and 605 teachers in 64 MCD schools.

2. Protection and Education of street and working children

We work with 600 children living in the largest rag picking community in East Delhi, focusing
on child protection and education. We work with children working and living in and around
Nehru Place in South Delhi where our office is located. The Education and Activity Centre in
Nehru Place aims to cover 400 children in two years.

3. Child Survival

We provide much needed health services in 6 districts of Delhi covering 60 slum clusters reaching
out to a population of 600,000 through mobile health units.
ANDHRA PRADESH

In Andhra Pradesh, we are working


in 6 districts focusing on child
protection issues of vulnerable
children, early childhood care and
education and emergency relief and
child-centred disaster risk reduction.
ANDHRA PRADESH – Current Initiatives

1. Protection of socially excluded children

We are working with children from Muslim minority communities, children from scheduled castes
and tribes, children living with and affected by HIV and children vulnerable to trafficking.

2. Quality Inclusive Education in Tirupati

We are working in the urban slums of Tirupati to create child focused, gender sensitive and inclusive
learning environments for 5,000 children between 3-6 years.

3. Emergency Response

We provided relief to 8608 children and 4274 adults after the floods. 3000 families received hygiene
kits and over 10,000 children received emergency education kits. 35 schools were provided with
teaching and learning aids.
MAHARASHTRA

In Maharastra, our work centres


around the four cotton growing
districts where issues of child
protection and education of children
involved in agricultural labour are
addressed. Recently, we have also
started working in
Gadchiroli to demonstrate and test
the scale-up of a model for home –
based infant care.
MAHARASHTRA – Current Initiatives

1. Child Rights for Change

Movement initiated in 986 villages in Vidarbha to address gross violation of children’s rights in
the area. Reaching out to 100,000 children, we use a combination of community-based
interventions for child protection, quality of education, health and community (especially
women) empowerment, to ensure that working children are weaned away from work and
other children are prevented from entering in to the workforce. We work in collaboration with
government to ensure sustainable results.

2. Quality Inclusive Education with government schools in Mumbai

Interventions in 14 schools of Greater Mumbai to reach out to nearly 3000 students, with the
aim of making them responsive to the needs of children. The aim is to reduce the drop-out
rate and improve learning levels.

3. Child Survival

Children in Mumbai are beneficiaries of our efforts to generate awareness about safe motherhood,
family planning and general health problems, to reduce child mortality.
GUJARAT

In Gujarat, work centres around the 4 cotton growing districts where issues of child protection
and education of children involved in agricultural labour are addressed.
GUJARAT– Current Initiatives

Quality Inclusive Education for children involved in agricultural labour

We are reaching out over 100,000 children by training 1177 anganwadi workers - with a special focus on
language development for children. We are structurally enhancing the centres with art and other learning aids. We
are also working with over 17,000 parents to involve them better in the learning processes of their children.
OUR BUDGET - 2011

Save the Children’s budget for 2011 is INR 119 crores

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TOP 10 GRANTS - 2010

No. Donor State Value (Rs.)


1 EU (via SC UK) Multi 2,799,514
Dutch Lottery
2 Delhi 1,215,003
(via SC NL)
3 ECHO (via SC UK) West Bengal 396,000
4 ECHO (via SC UK) J&K (valley) 278,571

5 Reckitt Benckiser (via SC UK) West Bengal 209,163

6 ECHO (via SC UK) J&K (Leh) 171,429


7 SC Finland Rajasthan 128,624
8 SC Italy Maharashtra 125,464
9 MCHIP Jharkhand / UP 111,354
10 RB Pharma West Bengal 86,013

50 grants won in 2010, total value of ₤6.7m

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Children at a Child-Friendly Space following the flash flooding in Leh./ August, 2010.

Thank You!
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