Grading of Anganwadi Centres Experience sharing by Himachal Pradesh

Need for Grading of AWCs To have a system of periodic and repeated performance assessment of all AWCs on broad based criteria To pinpoint specific areas of improvement as well as learn from best practices To inculcate a sense of competition and therefore improved functioning by CDPOs To track performance of AWCs / projects as a whole at the State level

Design of performa for Grading of AWCs State and Regional level meetings with DPOs/ CDPOs/ Supervisors. Brainstorming workshop at State level. Identification of broad indicators. Weightage to different indicators. Designing of the FORMAT for grading of AWCs. Field testing of the FORMAT-efficacy and time taken. Adoption of the FORMAT and its circulation amongst the CDPOs. 100 point grading; Grade-I above 80, Grade-II above 70 to 80, Grade-III above 60 to 70 and Grade-IV 60 or below.

Parameters for grading of AWC Broad Parameter ItemMaximum Rank/ Points 1. Physical set up of AWC (a)Govt./rent free private accommodation having facilities of safe DWS, separate kitchen, toilet, electricity, kitchen gardening and spacious place for outdoor activities (b) Govt. accommodation without kitchen, toilet, electricity, kitchen gardening but having spacious outdoor fames facilities (C)Private accommodation without kitchen, toilet, electricity, kitchen gardening but having spacious outdoor fames facilities (d)Only room in AWW / Helper house

Broad Parameter ItemMaximum Rank/ Points 2.Coverage of children under Pre-School Education Enrollment of eligible children (a) Above 90 % (b) 70-90% (c) 60-70% (d) Below 60% Attendance of children against enrolled children (a) Above 90 % (b) 70-90% (c) 60-70% (d) Below 60%

Broad Parameter ItemMaximum Rank/ Points 3.Pre school education activities (a) Conducts all PSE activities as per time table/ syllabus with teaching aids (b) Conducts all PSE activities but non-adherence to time table (c) Activities and time table partially followed (d) Complete deviations from time table and activities Performance of children under PSE (a) 80% or more performance of all activities (b) 70-80% performance of all activities (c) 60-70% performance of all activities (d) Less than 60 % performance

Broad Parameter ItemMaximum Rank/ Points 5. Coverage of children under SNP Enrollment of eligible children (a) 100 % (b) 80-90% (c) 70-80% (d) Below 70% Coverage of children against enrolled Children (a) 100 % (b) 80-90% (c) 70-80% (d) Below 70% Coverage under Health related activities Coverage under Immunization (a) 100 % (b) % (c) 90-95% (d) Below 90%

Broad Parameter ItemMaximum Rank/ Points Coverage under Health check-up/ Referral Services (a) % (b) 80-90% (c) 70-80% (d) Below 70% Growth Monitoring Weighing / plotting/counselling of regd.children (a) % (b) 80-90% (c) 70-80% (d) Below 70% Reduction in severely Malnourished children (Grade-III & IV) (a) 70 % above (b) 60-70% (c) 50-60% (d) Below 50%

Broad Parameter ItemMaximum Rank/ Points 8.Community Participation (a)Community participation in nutrition, accommodation, cooking gas, utensils,toys, dresses, furniture and other material (b)In more than 5 items listed in (a) above ©In more than 4 items listed in (a) above (d)In more than 3 items listed in (a) above Women Empowerment Empowering women through SHGs (a) Formation of 10 SHGs, bank linkages of more than 8 SHGs, more than 5 IG activities, more than 3 social activities (b) Formation of 8-10 SHGs, 4-5 bank linkages,4-5 IG activitiesand 2 social activities (c) Formation of 5-8 SHGs, 2-3 bank linkages, one iG activityand one social activity (d) Formation of 2-4 SHGs, no bank linkage/ IG activity/social activity

Broad Parameter ItemMaximum Rank/ Points Gender Issues (a) Having favourable sex ratio, no child/ mother death in a year, no case of female foeticide in Anganwadi area, no case of atrocities against women/ crimes against women (b) Having 3 of above favourable (c) Having 2 of above favourable (d) Having only one favourable Home visits and Health & Nutrition Education to women (a) Performs more than 10 visits in a month (b) Between 8-10 visits (c) Between 6-8 visits (d) Less than 6 visits Record Maintenance (a) All required 7 main registers and record being maintained neatly / no cutting in record and registers and all registers are complete in all all respect (b) All registers/ records are maintained neatly and are complete but cutting done in registers (c) All registers/ records maintained but are incomplete (d) Record maintenance in haphazard manner

Broad Parameter ItemMaximum Rank/ Points 12 Other Activities (a) Data bank of information of departmental schemes/ social legislation, loan schemes, application forms etc. available at AW level / coverage under BSY/KSY is 100 % (b) 80-90% coverage of KSY/BSY and in data bank only 1-2 information available (c) 70-80% coverage of KSY/BSY and no data bank information available (d) Below 70% coverage of KSY/BSY and no data bank information available

Monitoring All CDPOs to visit at least 10 AWCs in a month for grading of AWCs. Monthly reports are submitted through DPOs to Directorate on prescribed FORMAT Information is compiled, processed and analysed at Directorate level. Interventions are communicated to the DPOs for improvements and achievements of one distt. are conveyed to others for information, guidance and replication.

Status of Grading of AWCs in last 6 months (since inception i.e. Oct; 2005 onwards ) Total functional AWCs 7354 AWCs Graded 3000 Grade-I135 Grade-II502 Grade-III 1057 Grade-IV 1306

Impact of GRADING Experience sharing by field functionaries amongst themselves. Easy identification of bottlenecks / limitations. Helpful in finding objective basis for corrections/ improvements and proper strategy formulation. Good measurable instrument for assessing the efforts of ICDS functionaries. Graduation of AWCs and their upward mobility is monitored through focused efforts. Easy to indicate areas of improvement to AWWs.

Areas of Improvements/ Issues Tracking the movement of each AWC from one grade to another and of improvement in each indicator. Community involvement in grading. Ensuring regularity in grading Need to formulate monitorable indicators within identified parameters