BVHA

Networking: BVHA builds strong networks across institutions such as charitable hospitals, dispensaries, health centres, and voluntary organisations and other institutions to provide healthcare for the underprivileged sections of society.

Support: It conducts training programmes throughout Bihar to support technical and human resource development in voluntary health organisations and community-based organisations. This is mainly done with the vision to guide implementation and monitoring of community health programmes. It also provides trainings on health advocacy, as well as carries out health messaging and awareness drives across communities in Bihar.

Liaisoning and Advocacy: BVHA mobilises change agents at the community level to act as pressure groups in advocacy campaigns. Local government institutions such as Panchayati Raj Institutions, Voluntary organisations and Community-based organisations are trained to become prime stakeholders for demanding basic health services at the local level.

BVHA’s program work in Making Periods Normal includes various interventions including spreading awareness on menstrual hygiene management through the community, capacity-building of community-level health workers, and training of local governance institutions such as Panchayati Raj Institutions and School Management Committees. It does this through:

• Capacity building programmes among adult Men and Women.
• Assessments of status of sanitation facilities within the home.
• Trainings and Sensitisation activities done with women’s self-help groups, pregnant and married women.
• Vehicular Campaigns within and across villages.
• Stakeholder Meetings.
• Capacity building programmes among frontline health workers.
• Training sessions with School Management Committees to ensure safe and clean sanitation amenities.
• Local media advocacy campaigns.
• Advocacy with Health Departments, ICDS (Integrated Child Development Scheme) and the Education Departments at the state and district levels to push for their support in making sanitation and hygiene services available in villages.

Community Health Trainings: BVHA conducts training programmes on health issues with different institutions and social groups, including:

• Community Health programmes
• School Health Programmes
• Trainings of traditional Birth Attendants
• Trainings with Hospital Administration
• Development, motivation and leadership programmes
• Trainings on Organisational Management and Information, Communication and Documentation (MIS)
• Community trainings on diarrhoea management
• Community trainings on malaria control
• Trainings and awareness drives on Reproductive and Child Health and Sexual and Reproductive Rights and Health

Mass Education Programme: BVHA also carries out mass media communication campaigns to disseminate health and development oriented messages to underprivileged sections. Interventions in mass education programmes are made across diverse platforms, including:

• Slum awareness campaigns
• Traditional fairs
• Book fairs
• Exhibitions
• Local media, such as community radio