Kishori Utthan [Oct 2004 - March 2008]
http://www.kishoriutthan.org

Kishoriutthan is a multi-sectoral pilot initiative addressing felt and unmet needs of adolescent's reproductive and sexual health. It addresses issues such as gender roles and equity, early marriage, early pregnancy, poor personal hygiene, malnutrition and anemia, issues in general health and common ailments including RTI/STDs; besides enhancing knowledge, inculcating appropriate attitude and practices among adolescents through an integrated approach. The project also imparts need based skill on risk behavior management, survival and livelihood.

The primary goal of the project is to "Empower Adolescents girls through health, nutrition and overall development. Till now, more than 9 Lakh adolescents in the districts of Tehri Garhwal, Uttarkashi and Chamoli have been covered under this project and the achievements are:

* Reorganization of KSY Adolescent groups
* Study of adolescent health and livelihood needs
* Development of manuals, Training of trainers was undertaken in the areas of:
        * Health: Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health issues and needs including
          those of General Health, Hygiene, RTI/STD-HIV/AIDS, Common ailments.
       * Nutrition: Sources of Nutrients, Balanced diet, Recommended allowances,
         Prevention and Management of Nutritional Deficiency Disorders including Anemia.
       * Life Skill and Livelihood: Self-love, confidence building, goal setting, risk situation management,
         career planning and entrepreneurship development including marketing skill.
* The Master trainers in turn trained adolescent girls in groups at village level on a weekly basis.
* An user friendly, simple but comprehensive MIS was developed for effective data management and decision making at all levels
* Adolescent Resource Centers were opened at block/cluster level as low cost initiative to serve as nodal centers for adolescent activities, organization of events, advocacy of community issues & concerns etc. ensuring accessibility of adolescents
* Facilitation of adolescent friendly services either through fixed day clinics or other field service delivery interventions by the public health system was one key aspect of the initiative.
* An adolescent Jamboree (Balika Sammelan) meet was organized at Hill campus, Ranichauri with an adolescent-friendly agenda for exposure, recreation, education, career counseling.
* Liaison and linkages with other stakeholders involved sectors like Health, ICDS, WFP, Education, DWECD, Entrepreneurship and Livelihood etc were made optimizing resources and ensuring a multilateral initiative
* Operational research was undertaken in the areas of:
       * Consumption Pattern in Nutrition:
       * Follow up study on prevalence of Malnutrition
       * Mid term Review of the parameters of the project KishoriUtthan to measure changes
         and trend (both quantitative & qualitative) in project log frame achievables and elicit
         intermediate results