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To continue R&D in the sector. To create new
ideas and new service delivery designs that
can optimise costs and make more efficient
the deployment of critical life enhancing
services is a preoccupation at Naandi.
This is where we test if our ideas can stand
the rigours of inquiry. How much money does
it take? What is the final impact? How can
this be mainstreamed in the day-to-day
business in the life of a person, a village
or a state so it can sustain? Is it reaching
out to the poorest of the poor?
In this category fall two projects: One a
clinical trial to see how a set of cost
effective interventions in high neo-natal
mortality areas can being down newborn
deaths (CHAMPION Trial), and the other
is to demonstrate a new 'convergence' model
of working, for government departments to
make a greater impact on the lives of
children. Traditionally, child welfare
services for better health, nutrition and
education have been run separately by different
departments within the government.
Our
action research project proposes and
implements ways in which the departments can
work together and how villages on their part
can become more involved in the
'convergence' so there is better dialogue
between the service providers and the
service receivers.
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