To provide technical assistance to the GOI in ending preventable newborn, child and maternal deaths
IPE Global has received a grant from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to assist the Government of India (GOI) in ending preventable newborn, child and maternal deaths. IPE Global will assist the GOI and other key stakeholders including the civil society and the private sector to scale up interventions in Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCH+A) in India.
The project will provide technical experts to work with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, GOI at the national, state and district level. The focus will be on six states which include Delhi, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Punjab and Uttarakhand where the GOI has designated USAID as the lead development partner. As needed, project will also provide specific technical assistance to other high-burden states.
“We are proud to be associated with such an important national programme for saving the lives of babies, children and mothers,” said Ashwajit Singh, Chairman and MD, IPE Global.
Some of the recent projects where IPE Global has been engaged to provide their technical assistance are DFID: Design and Implementation of Sector Wide Approach to Strengthen Health (SWASTH) in Bihar, India; ADB: Monitoring and Evaluation of Nutrition Improvement through Community Empowerment (NICE), Indonesia; DFID: Technical and Management Support Team (TMST) for Design and Implementation of Odisha Health Sector Reform Plan, India among others.
EH News Bureau