1. Maternal & Newborn Survival Initiative (MANSI): It reduces mortality among neonates and infants by enhancing the capacity of Government health volunteers (ASHAs/Sahiyas) in the Home Based Newborn Care (HBNC) system. Tata Steel, the National Health Mission (NHM), American India Foundation (AIF) and the Society for Education Action and Research in Community Health (SEARCH) – the pioneer of HBNC in India – have collaborated in this public-private partnership, working in 12 blocks across Jharkhand and Odisha. This initiative lead to Reduction in Neonatal Mortality Rate (NMR) – 61% since Inception and Reduction in Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) – 63% since inception.
2. Regional Initiative for Safe Sexual Health by Today’s Adolescents (RISHTA): This initiative enables adolescents to make informed choices about their sexual and reproductive health and overall well-being as well as provides coaching on life skills and self-development. It Increased awareness about adolescent reproductive and sexual health in communities and improved overall health of adolescents by identifying and training peer educators among them (more than 700 developed in FY 2017-18) and Reached out to 19,601 adolescents in FY 2017-18 and also, Launched the RISHTA mobile application for profiling adolescents in FY 2017-18.