Our Story
A story of relentless commitment to empowering communities to improve their quality of life.
People
A highly driven team working together to create purposeful change.
Interventions
Our work spans across health, education, violence against women and community institution building.
Research
We believe systematic and scientific research is integral to creating change.
Innovations
Our new ideas and approaches continue to transform lives.
Nutrition
Adequate nutrition is the cornerstone of good health and wellbeing. The nutritional needs of the women and children are largely neglected across communities in our country. Our programmes aim to improve the nutrition outcomes and adequately integrate interventions from different sectors reaching out to communities, households and individuals. The focus is mainly to accelerate progress in achieving nutritional outcomes using a sustainable and scalable approach.
Our programmes address both the underlying (gender discrimination, inappropriate dietary practices and negative cultural norms) and immediate determinants (non-availability of nutrient rich foods) influencing the nutritional status of women and children using nutrition-sensitive programmes as platforms of delivery for nutrition-specific interventions. These women centric interventions together with promoting their nutritional status, empowers and enhances their decision making capacity and overall wellbeing.
We work closely with the Government to design and test innovations, provide technical assistance, facilitate knowledge transfer and ensure program sustainability.
Current Projects
Multi-sectoral Nutrition Project
Alleviate undernutrition through sustainable inter-sectoral and intergenerational approaches
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Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health
We partner with the government to improve outcomes of MNCH programmes.
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Adolescent Health and Education
We empower girls from underserved communities to claim their rights to health and education.
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Violence against Women
We empower marginalised women to lead a life without violence.
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Tuberculosis
We facilitate public-private collaboration and community engagement for treatment of tuberculosis patients.
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Nutrition
We help alleviate under- nutrition through nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions
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Orphan and Vulnerable Children
We improve access to health, education, social protection and welfare services for vulnerable children.
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HIV / AIDS
We support at risk communities to reduce their vulnerability to HIV / AIDS and access care and services.
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Non-communicable diseases
We work with communities and help build community institutions to enhance the power of marginalised groups to demand services and assert their rights and dignity.
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Multi-sectoral Nutrition Project
Malnutrition amongst women is one of the main causes of low birth weight of children and the associated mortality and morbidity. The Multi-sectoral Nutrition Project aims to improve access, quality and coverage of critical nutrition interventions in the most neglected geographies and population sub groups in Karnataka.
Goal: To reduce malnutrition among children below 36 months, adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women through sustainable inter-sectoral and intergenerational approaches in Chincholi and Devadurga blocks.
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Context:
In India 2.1 million children under the age of five years dies every year due to various causes; 50 per cent of these deaths are due to under-nutrition. Government of India has identified eight districts in northern Karnataka as high priority districts in its ‘RMNCH+A Call to Action Strategy’ to provide additional focus through innovative strategies and accelerate achievement of health and nutrition related targets. The Government of Karnataka also recognizes the urgent need to bridge the existing inequities and has responded through different sectors such as Women and Child Development, Health and Family Welfare, Agriculture, etc. Karnataka State Rural Livelihood Promotion Society under the Department of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (RDPR) proactively responded to address this need through strategies involving grassroots communities in the most backward blocks of the state, Devadurga of Raichur district (ranked 175th )*and Chincholi of Gulbarga district (ranked 173rd)*. (*As per Comprehensive Composite Development Index (CCDI)
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Implementation
Strategically implemented at three levels, the programme aims to improve:
- Availability and accessibility of Fortified Blended Foods (FBF) using local community structures
- Consumption of nutritious food by the target groups within family budgets through appropriate behavioral change communication (BCC)
- Linkages with existing nutrition enhancing services implemented by other social sector programmes.
To improve the nutrition outcomes, the intervention:
- Encourages village level community structures to produce and distribute Fortified Blended Food (FBF) to the identified beneficiaries
- Improves service delivery and outreach through the use of behaviour change communication tools
- Builds an enabling environment and creates platforms for co-ordination and convergence of community structures and state departments towards achieving the common goal
KHPT is implementing the project from 2015 to 2018 in partnership with Karnataka State Rural Livelihood Promotion Society (KSRLPS) under the Department of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj (RDPR), Government of Karnataka and the Karnataka Comprehensive Nutrition Mission (KCNM). The project is funded by the World Bank and GAIN.
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