342,778
Women, children, adolescents
and families
directly reached
(2016-2022)
TOWARDS HEALTH EQUITY:
Health Equity amongst the urban poor can be a powerful agent of change. Similar to health being critical to a child's development, health equity is an indispensable milestone of a community's development. This can be achieved by strengthening the community's capacity to access public health services while working with public health systems to provide quality services and by changing knowledge, attitudes and behaviours. SNEHA (Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action) is a step towards bridging the health equity gap and going beyond fighting illness to Raising Health For All.
Women & Children at the Centre of Change
A Continuum of Care Approach
A continuum of care RMNCH+A (Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health) means working with women and children from birth to adulthood in order to break the intergenerational cycle of poor health.
PREGNANCY
Enhancing public system response to maternal and newborn healthcare
Improving coordination across public health facilities for high risk pregnancies
BIRTH
Encouraging institutional deliveries through the public health system
Ensuring full immunisation in children and exclusive breastfeeding
CHILDHOOD
Identifying, preventing and treating malnutrition
Capacity building to deliver better public services for child health and nutrition
ADOLESCENCE
Educating adolescents on nutrition, reproductive health and gender equity and improving emotional resilience
Creating a cadre of youth to become community change agents
ADULTHOOD
Empowering communities and partnering with public systems to respond to gender-based violence
Providing mental health and legal services to women facing violence, and improved knowledge and access to planned parenthood
Improving knowledge and access for planned parenthood
Addressing gender-based inequities is an underlying area of focus across all programmes that SNEHA undertakes, because this is often at the heart of health inequity in communities.
Our Focus Areas
SNEHA works with vulnerable communities, public health and safety systems
to develop evidence-based models to address urban health challenges.
Maternal and Child Health
Know MoreWe work with communities to address health and nutrition challenges among mothers and children through a continuum of care approach.
Public System Partnership
Know MoreWe work with public systems to strengthen delivery of services to vulnerable communities.
Public System Partnership
Empowerment, Health and Sexuality of Adolescents
Know MoreWe work on improving the health and well-being of adolescents and building an adolescent friendly health ecosystem.
Empowerment, Health and Sexuality of Adolescents
Prevention of Violence against Women and Children
Know MoreWe work with communities and public systems to prevent and address gender-based violence in a holistic manner.
Prevention of Violence against Women and Children
Our Model
EMPOWERING COMMUNITIES
SNEHA works directly with vulnerable communities to improve health seeking behaviours, address gender inequities and promote optimal use of available resources.
STRENGTHENING SYSTEMS
SNEHA’s model is unique as it supports existing government health and safety systems for improving quality of healthcare delivery.
ADVANCING RESEARCH
SNEHA highly values ‘Research, Monitoring & Evaluation and
Impact Mapping’ ,
seeing these as enablers of efficiency and accelerators of change. At a larger level, it works towards creation of evidence-based models of health interventions to inform policy.
Other Programmes
We have expanded into nurse-aide training to empower young women and into palliative care to help communities manage life limiting illnesses better; supported by expertise and compassion.
Romila Palliative Care Nurse-Aide programmeReach and Impact
27%
Reduction in stunting among
children under two years of age
(2021-2022)
99%
Antenatal Care Clinics of public Health
Posts functional in intervention areas
(2021-2022)
69%
Survivors of violence accessing counselling
services reported reduction in violence
and distress levels
(2021-2022)
Blog
16 Nov 2022
Indeed, children are the best Gift of God. They are the future of tomorrow and the hope of today. It is the collective responsibility of society and the nation to take care of its children so that they have a healthy and happy childhood and grow up to be responsible citizens.
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Media
20 Dec 2022
“I don’t think there are any less sexual assaults, one decade on, they are still not reported enough – the honour and shame involved still stops the vast majority of women from speaking out or from major society change occurring.” explains Dr Nayreen Daruwalla
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