Some health facilities in Bhagalpur, Bihar, were facing a common issue of having disproportionate areas covered by Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs are community health workers employed by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare) in comparison to the number...
The following story is part of a series from The Challenge Initiative in India called “Urban Tales,” occasional real-life stories of women and girls in India benefiting from TCI’s work supporting local governments to implement high-impact family planning and...
After The Challenge Initiative (TCI) began its engagement with Dhanbad, Jharkhand, in July 2022, an internal review of family planning HMIS data revealed that two urban facilities were not providing postpartum intrauterine contraceptive device (PPIUCD) services...
Cities in India that no longer receive direct support from The Challenge Initiative (TCI) are gradually becoming favorite destinations for state officials that want to learn how family planning and other health services are provided in urban settings. These cities...
The Challenge Initiative (TCI) enables city governments to scale up high-impact family planning practices and other interventions (HIPs & HIIs) in under-resourced, marginalized urban communities across three states in India (Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand). At...
In the steel city of Bokaro in Jharkhand, India, efforts to involve men in family planning primarily focus on a procedure called no-scalpel vasectomy (NSV). In fact, the entire country holds an “NSV Fortnight” every year from November 21 to December 4 to...