{"id":537,"date":"2026-05-08T07:25:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T07:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.creativewebdesigner.co.in\/pahal\/?page_id=537"},"modified":"2026-05-08T07:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T07:26:15","slug":"poshanam-securing-nutrition-building-community-resilience","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/test.creativewebdesigner.co.in\/pahal\/poshanam-securing-nutrition-building-community-resilience\/","title":{"rendered":"POSHANAM \u2013 Securing Nutrition &#038; Building Community Resilience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">\n<b>Supported By :<\/b> Welthungerhilfe (WHH)<br \/>\n<b>Partner :<\/b> GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Internationale Zusammenarbeit)<br \/>\n<b>Implementing Organization :<\/b> Pahal Jan Sahyog Vikas Sansthan<br \/>\n<b>Duration :<\/b> 3-Year Intensive Intervention<br \/>\n<b>Program Area :<\/b> Madhya Pradesh\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\nPOSHANAM was designed to break the cycle of malnutrition by combining community-led nutrition education with household-level food security solutions and system strengthening.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\n<h6>Program Objective (Brief Overview)<\/h6>\n<p>The objective of POSHANAM was to improve maternal and child nutrition outcomes by enhancing dietary diversity, strengthening frontline worker capacity, promoting household nutrition gardens, and improving access to government nutrition schemes.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\n<h6>The Challenge<\/h6>\n<p>Chronic malnutrition, low dietary diversity, and weak last-mile access to nutrition services continue to affect tribal and rural families \u2014 especially women and children under two \u2014 reinforcing an intergenerational cycle of undernutrition.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\n<h6>Core Interventions<\/h6>\n<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list-style-02 alt-font font-weight-500 text-small text-uppercase text-extra-dark-gray\">\n<li class=\"padding-15px-bottom border-bottom border-color-medium-gray\">\n        <i class=\"feather icon-feather-check text-large text-gradient-sky-blue-pink margin-10px-right\"><\/i>Training of 1,784 Anganwadi Workers across 717 villages using the Nutrition Participatory Learning and Action (NPLA) model\n    <\/li>\n<li class=\"padding-15px-bottom border-bottom border-color-medium-gray\">\n        <i class=\"feather icon-feather-check text-large text-gradient-sky-blue-pink margin-10px-right\"><\/i>Establishment of 1,500 Poshan Wadis (Nutrition Gardens) to improve household food diversity\n    <\/li>\n<li class=\"padding-15px-bottom border-bottom border-color-medium-gray\">\n        <i class=\"feather icon-feather-check text-large text-gradient-sky-blue-pink margin-10px-right\"><\/i>Community-based nutrition counseling for women and caregivers\n    <\/li>\n<li class=\"padding-15px-bottom border-bottom border-color-medium-gray\">\n        <i class=\"feather icon-feather-check text-large text-gradient-sky-blue-pink margin-10px-right\"><\/i>Strengthening last-mile convergence with government nutrition services\n    <\/li>\n<li class=\"padding-15px-bottom\">\n        <i class=\"feather icon-feather-check text-large text-gradient-sky-blue-pink margin-10px-right\"><\/i>Promotion of behavior change for maternal and child feeding practices\n    <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"justify\">\n<h6>Impact Delivered<\/h6>\n<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list-style-02 alt-font font-weight-500 text-small text-uppercase text-extra-dark-gray\">\n<li class=\"padding-15px-bottom border-bottom border-color-medium-gray\">\n        <i class=\"feather icon-feather-check text-large text-gradient-sky-blue-pink margin-10px-right\"><\/i>Improvement in Women\u2019s Dietary Diversity (IDDS increased by one full food group)\n    <\/li>\n<li class=\"padding-15px-bottom border-bottom border-color-medium-gray\">\n        <i class=\"feather icon-feather-check text-large text-gradient-sky-blue-pink margin-10px-right\"><\/i>15% rise in Minimum Acceptable Diet (MAD) among children (6\u201323 months)\n    <\/li>\n<li class=\"padding-15px-bottom border-bottom border-color-medium-gray\">\n        <i class=\"feather icon-feather-check text-large text-gradient-sky-blue-pink margin-10px-right\"><\/i>Significant improvement in Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDDW)\n    <\/li>\n<li class=\"padding-15px-bottom border-bottom border-color-medium-gray\">\n        <i class=\"feather icon-feather-check text-large text-gradient-sky-blue-pink margin-10px-right\"><\/i>Stronger linkages between tribal families and state nutrition services\n    <\/li>\n<li class=\"padding-15px-bottom\">\n        <i class=\"feather icon-feather-check text-large text-gradient-sky-blue-pink margin-10px-right\"><\/i>Increased community ownership of nutrition-sensitive practices\n    <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"justify\">\n<h6>Indicator Based Impact Results<\/h6>\n<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list-style-02 alt-font font-weight-500 text-small text-uppercase text-extra-dark-gray\">\n<li class=\"padding-15px-bottom border-bottom border-color-medium-gray\">\n        <i class=\"feather icon-feather-check text-large text-gradient-sky-blue-pink margin-10px-right\"><\/i><b>Dietary Diversity (Women):<\/b> The Individual Dietary Diversity Score (IDDS) for women (15\u201349 years) increased by one full food group.\n    <\/li>\n<li class=\"padding-15px-bottom border-bottom border-color-medium-gray\">\n        <i class=\"feather icon-feather-check text-large text-gradient-sky-blue-pink margin-10px-right\"><\/i><b>Child Nutrition (MAD):<\/b> Minimum Acceptable Diet (MAD) for children (6\u201323 months) saw a 15% increase over the baseline.\n    <\/li>\n<li class=\"padding-15px-bottom border-bottom border-color-medium-gray\">\n        <i class=\"feather icon-feather-check text-large text-gradient-sky-blue-pink margin-10px-right\"><\/i><b>Minimum Diversity (Women):<\/b> Significant rise in MDDW (Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women) through increased local food variety.\n    <\/li>\n<li class=\"padding-15px-bottom\">\n        <i class=\"feather icon-feather-check text-large text-gradient-sky-blue-pink margin-10px-right\"><\/i><b>Government Access:<\/b> Tribal and rural communities are now better equipped to independently access state food and nutrition services.\n    <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"justify\">\n<h6>Key Learning<\/h6>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\nWhen nutrition knowledge is paired with local food production and system convergence, change becomes sustainable \u2014 not seasonal, not temporary, but structural.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supported By : Welthungerhilfe (WHH) Partner : GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Internationale Zusammenarbeit) Implementing Organization : Pahal Jan Sahyog Vikas Sansthan Duration : 3-Year Intensive Intervention Program Area : Madhya Pradesh POSHANAM was designed to break the cycle of malnutrition by combining community-led nutrition education with household-level food security solutions and 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