Past Projects in Rural Settings

2015: IHMP is scaling up an integrated “Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health” (ARSH) project in 53 villages of Jalna district, which will eventually be scaled up in all the villages of the district.

2013 – 2015: IHMP has implemented an integrated “Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health” (ARSH) project in 25 villages in Aurangabad district, aimed at:

1.Empowering unmarried adolescent girls through Life Skills Education to delay age at marriage.

2.Protecting married adolescent girls from the adverse consequences of early marriage, early motherhood, sexual and domestic violence, and averting maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality.

3.Promoting attitudinal change in unmarried and young married men, thereby demonstrating a measurable change in the prevalence of gender based violence.

2010 – 2012: IHMP scaled-up the project for married adolescent girls to delay age at first birth and avert the adverse consequences of early motherhood through the Government infrastructure in 196 villages in one block.

2008 – IHMP undertook a collaborative study with the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, Brighton University, UK, in three states of India, on social norms, communication processes and institutional inputs for promoting sanitation and its impact on defecation behaviour, latrine use, quality of water and diarrheal diseases.

2008 – 2011: IHMP designed health systems for Municipal Corporations and NGOs to provide maternal and neonatal services in the slums of 7 cities in Maharashtra, and undertook the capacity building of these NGOs.

2008 – 2011: IHMP scaled-up the project for married adolescent girls to delay age at first birth and avert the adverse consequences of early motherhood in 5 districts of Maharashtra. The project was evaluated by external evaluators and the findings were published in The Lancet.

2006 – 2010: IHMP undertook a social assessment of factors influencing utilization of HIV services in rural Maharashtra, and demonstrated optimal utilization of decentralized HIV – Voluntary Counseling, Testing (VCT) and care services.

2003 – 2011: IHMP implemented a pilot programme for married adolescent girls aimed at delaying age at first birth and averting the adverse consequences of early motherhood. IHMP successfully demonstrated a delay in first birth, significant increase in contraceptive use, huge reduction in maternal and neonatal morbidity, and a significant reduction in low birth weight babies.

1999 – 2006: IHMP implemented a Life Skills Education project for unmarried adolescent girls for their holistic development. The other objectives were to provide them with basic health needs, and increase the average age at marriage.

1998 – 2003: IHMP implemented its Life Skills Education program and a project aimed at preventing anemia among unmarried adolescent girls in the slums of Pune city.

1996: IHMP prepared the project proposal and perspective plan on Women and Child Development for the State of Maharashtra as an assignment for the World Bank.

1994 – 1998: IHMP worked with a population of 20,000 to provide relief, health and education services,and counseling to individuals suffering from post-disaster stress as a result of the earthquake in Latur district of Maharashtra in which over 10,000 people died and 30,000 were injured. IHMP reconstructed an entire village and rehabilitated 110 families.