PINAKI MAJUMDAR
Jamshedpur, Jan 29: An Engagement Coordination and Arrangement (ECA) on maternal, adolescent, child care and nutrition in Kolhan division in Jharkhand between National Health Mission, Tata Steel Foundation and American India Foundation under the flagship project MANSI (Maternal and Neonatal Survival Initiative) was signed on Friday.
After a decade of successful implementation of MANSI across 1700 villages in 12 blocks across three districts of Jharkhand and Odisha, an enhanced version of MANSI was rolled out through the Public Private Partnership (PPP) model in Kolhan covering all 38 developmental blocks across three districts – East Singhbhum, West Singhbhum and Seraikela- Kharsawan.
The programme will cover 5000 villages across over a period of 5 years (June, 2021 – May, 2026) and will reach out to approximately four million marginalized and vulnerable tribal populations in the region.
MANSI has emerged as a good, collaborative programme.
The agreement fortifies the partnership between NHM, TSF and AIF and the commitment to improve healthcare services in Jharkhand. The partnership will also develop, test and implement innovative public health solutions to co-create and scale sustainable impact.
Sourav Roy, chief, Corporate Social Responsibility, Tata Steel, said: “The programme is the consequence of more than a decade of persistent effort which has yielded benchmark reductions in infant and maternal mortality rates while building a stellar public private partnership model which emanates from Jharkhand. The Tata Steel Foundation remains in gratitude for our collaboration with the National Health Mission and AIF. And indebted to the trust of communities and Sahiyya didis as we build one of the largest maternal and neonatal health programmes in the country over the next decade.”
