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Efficiency of Anganwadi Centres–A Study in Thiruvananthapuram District, Kerala
Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) is one of the world's largest and most unique programmes for early childhood care and development in India. This study aims to find out the efficiency of anganwadi centres in providing service to beneficiaries and the factors affecting the efficiency....
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| Materyal Türü: | Printed Book |
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Journal of Academia and Industrial Research (JAIR)
2014
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| Online Erişim: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/004762.pdf |
| Özet: | Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) is one of the world's largest and most unique programmes for
early childhood care and development in India. This study aims to find out the efficiency of anganwadi
centres in providing service to beneficiaries and the factors affecting the efficiency. A cross-sectional study
was conducted in 200 anganwadi centres in Thiruvananthapuram district. An operational definition was
developed for each six services in ICDS in order to measure efficiency of anganwadi centres. Beneficiaries
like mothers of 3-6 years of children, pregnant women and lactating mothers enrolled in the anganwadi
centres and anganwadi workers were the study participants. Proportion and chi-square test were used for
data analysis. This study revealed that 5% of anganwadi centres were highly efficient, 63.5% are efficient
and 31.5% are not efficient. The factors like educational status of anganwadi worker, job status,
infrastructure facility, logistic facility, supervision, intersectoral coordination, support from health department
and community participation showed a statistical significant association with efficiency of anganwadi centres.
Infrastructure and logistic facility, supportive supervision and anganwadi worker’s educational status are the
important factors needed for the improvement of service delivery of an anganwadi centre. In addition to this,
coordinated work with health department, local self-government and of course the involvement of community
in all phase of the health activities help in its service quality. |
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| Fiziksel Özellikler: | Volume 3, Issue 3 August 2014 |