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India

Through USAID’s Vistaar Project, IntraHealth is working with the national government and the state governments of Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand to improve maternal, newborn, and child health care in northern India. The state governments are poised to scale up a number of the best practices known to improve health among vulnerable groups, such as promotion of skilled attendance at childbirth, anemia prevention and treatment, and complementary feeding. As part of this work, the project serves as Secretariat for the Coalition for Sustainable Nutrition Security in India and led development of the coalition’s website.

IntraHealth’s work is focused on three major areas:

• Providing strategic technical assistance to strengthen maternal, newborn, and child health and nutrition programs based on shared government and USAID priorities and recommendations from evidence reviews
• Generating operational evidence about how to scale up effective and efficient maternal, newborn, and child health and nutrition interventions. This effort will contribute to the limited body of knowledge about what works in the area of providing technical assistance at scale and taking knowledge into practice.
• Advocating and promoting lessons learned from the evidence reviews and contributing to national-level advocacy efforts, especially to improve nutrition programming.  

Important cross-cutting themes for the project are generating and sharing knowledge, facilitating collaboration and convergence, and promoting interventions with a strong focus on gender equality.

Current Projects:

• Vistaar Project (funded by USAID, led by IntraHealth)
• Manthan Project (funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, led by IntraHealth)

Past Projects:

• PRIME II Project (funded by USAID, led by IntraHealth