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IHMP Publications IHMP produces training, audiovisual materials and monitoring tools in the areas of health, nutrition, water, sanitation, HIV/AIDS, Life Skills etc. IHMP’s materials are developed at the grassroots level with substantial inputs from the audience for whom they are intended. IHMP has always focused on participatory methodologies and interactive ways of learning. This is reflected in all its materials. Some of the materials are used by a community level worker during home visits, others are used during group sessions. All these materials can also be used by peer educators, women’s groups and adolescent girls groups. IHMP has developed innovative ways of participatory learning – these include a role play on infant nutrition – “The Nutritious Ruppee”, a cookbook on anemia prevention “Prevent Anemia Now”, a calendar on “Male Involvement” etc.which also serves the purpose of a self monitoring tool etc. All the materials are pretested at IHMP’s rural and urban sites. Training Manuals
The manuals comprise of a total of 220 one-hour sessions. There are five sections and can be taught five times a week over a period of 10-12 months. The five sections of 1. Social Issues and Institutions, 2. Local Bodies, 3. Life Skills, 4. Child Health and Nutrition, 5. Health. A community project is included to inculcate team building.
A basic guide to reproductive and child health. It has --- chapters. This manual has been prepared by the Population Foundation of India and adapted for Maharashtra by IHMP.
This sixteen session module focuses on the development of self confidence in adolescent girls. This is a skill based module with more than half the sessions on communication and negotiation skills. This module has been rated by the adolescent girls as one the of the most important modules of the Life Skills course. Audio-visual Materials
This
flashcard set is intended to promote the following behaviours:
The recipes have been compiled with the aim of helping families achieve the goal of daily consumption of iron rich and Vitamin C rich foods. The cookbook also hopes to provide a new perspective on dealing with the problem of iron deficiency anemia – through a change in the daily diet of families.
This register is used by a community level worker during home visits. She visits 15 houses daily. The register enables the detection of morbidity and there is provision to record the action taken by the worker during her home visit. Also there is provision in the register to record follow-up action taken. The surveillance register is divided into 4 sections. 1. Women’s Health: Anemia, Reproductive Health information is taken from the groups for keeping record and follow- up. 2. Child Health: Information on Diarrhea, Pneumonia and weaning food is taken of each child from the slums. 3. Family Planning: Use of contraceptives, complications in using it, information on willingness of use of contraceptive measures, all the information is documented in this register.
The card is a BCC tool and is also used for monitoring child growth.
Institute
of Health Management Pachod, Pune Centre
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The
Life Skills Manuals 
It
took IHMP more than three years to develop the Life Skills manuals.
Today more than 250 NGOs in Maharashtra are using these manuals.
The manuals can be used with various groups such as adolescent girls,
married adolescents, women etc. The manuals can be adapted to the
specific needs of different programmes and organizations.
70-80% of girls and women in India suffer from nutritional anemia.
Mira flash cards tell that women have double burden of work i.e.
at house and at work place, but they have to eat the rest over food
which is not enough for them as they have to go through so many
physical exertions. These flash cards give information on how to
prepare iron rich recipes and use of it in daily diet, to prevent
anemia.
The
level of under nutrition and anemia in children 6-14 yrs is very
high. One of the major reasons for this undernutrition is lack of
a balanced diet, specifically the low consumption of green leafy
vegetables. The flashcards have been prepared with active participation
of rural children and IHMP’s Bal Vikas programme team.
This cookbook was planned as part of an adolescent nutrition project
undertaken by the Institute of Health Management, Pachod (IHMP).
However as work on the cookbook progressed, its scope also grew.
We realised that the cookbook was not for only adolescent girls
but the entire family! Its audience could include women and children,
two groups which are very vulnerable to anemia.
