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ICICI Centre for Child Health and Nutrition (ICCHN)

last updated Mar 18, 2013

Overview

Implementing organization: 
ICICI Foundation
Implementation Partner(s): 
Bhavishya Alliance, Centre for Study of Social Change, Child In Need Institute, Dhan Foundation, Foundation for Research in Community Health, Foudation for Healthsystems Research etc.
Legal Status: 
Private (not-for-profit)
Year Launched: 
2008
Stage: 
Existing/expansion stage

Funding

Primary Source of Funding: 
Donor
Funders: 
ICICI Foundation
Summary: 

ICICI Centre for Child Health and Nutrition is an interdisciplinary funding, research and resource centre focused on the health and nutrition of vulnerable women, infants and young children across India. ICCHN is one of a number of institutional initiatives committed to building human capacity, increasing participation and promoting human development in India.

Key program components: 

ICCHN supports and works collaboratively on a range of initiatives with potential to translate into large-scale and sustainable improvements in child survival and development in India. Based in Pune, ICCHN’s team engages in field-based action-research projects in different regions of the country, facilitates state-civil society resource partnerships to strengthen public systems and programmes, and develops a variety of knowledge, policy and capacity building initiatives to address key sectoral gaps.

The key analytical perspectives that define ICCHN’s current understanding and approach to child health and nutrition in the Indian context are briefly outlined below:

  • Investing in early child health, nutrition and development is one of the most important and farsighted ways to build human capacity
  • Strategies focused on impacting child health and nutrition must take a multidimensional approach to women’s health, nutrition and socio-economic status * The proximate determinants of child mortality and malnutrition are limited in number and are largely preventable.
  • A number of highly effective and feasible intervention packages do exist. These combine essential preventive, promotive and curative services and involve figuring out how to work effectively at different levels – within households, communities, and health facilities.
  • There remains an area of considerable technical and programmatic debate, especially on the question of maternal supplementation and in determining an optimal mix of supplementation, fortification and dietary diversification strategies.
  • The achievement of these outcomes requires the active participation of a range of actors and institutions. Facilitative and long-term investments are needed to support and sustain state-civil society partnerships, build and strengthen innovative local resource institutions and expertise, and conduct rigorous and relevant research that learns from and responds to diverse Indian contexts.

In the year 2008-2009, ICICI Foundation made a grant of INR 150 Million to ICCHN by way of its Corporate Social Responsibility budget from the ICICI group of companies.

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