Udisha, the new dawn for young women and children

Udisha, in Sanskrit means the first rays of the new dawn. Udisha is literally the new dawn for ICDS training and for ICDS itself. The nationwide training component of the World Bank assisted Women and Child Development Project, Udisha, has been cleared with an outlay of about Rs 600 crores for five years. UNICEF is also a technical collaborator in the Project. 

Udisha will cover about six lakh Anganwadi workers, about thirty thousand supervisors, about five thousand CDPOs, around two thousand ACDPOs and equally large numbers of community/ women's groups, as well as functionaries from related departments such as health, education and other partners. An outcome of a series of participatory national, regional and state level consultations organised by DWCD, GOI and states in collaboration with UNICEF and NIPCCD, Udisha is a milestone towards achieving the vision for young children for the 21st century. It envisages a spectrum of locally relevant training interventions for achieving women and child development goals- rather than training of only ICDS functionaries. It has a new emphasis on decentralised quality improvement processes, through State and District training plans of action, guided by intersectoral national/state training task forces. These are now constituted in all states and union territories, including partners, trainers, NGOs and functionaries themselves as members.

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