UDBHAV Welcomes You

Hope Is Where the Heart Is

Who We Are

UDBHAV EDUCATIONAL & RURALDEVELOPMENT SOCIETY (R) (UERDS) Our strength lies not only in the words we stand by, but most importantly in the actions of our initiatives. From the moment we started our work in 1985, we understood that by working together we could overcome our challenges much more efficiently, and that is why we ultimately decided to launch UDBHAV. We strive to make a positive change in all of our pursuits.

The undaunted passion to serve the poor and the marginalized has been the driving force behind the initiatives of UDBHAV Educational & Rural Development Society (R.)(UERDS) in its journey of Integrated Rural Development Programme comprising of Health, Education, women empowerment, child rights, Livelihoods and Advocacy for over three decades now.. From a humble beginning in a small district in Karnataka way back in 1985, UERDS today has its presence in all over the State in india. The spirits of dedication and motivation that has been propelling us in all our humble endeavors have lead us to achieve major milestones during all the years.

The challenges and changing dynamics in the society have made us emerge stronger and orient to stay connected firmly grounded with the principles we have believed in. We immensely thank our dedicated team and march ahead with renewed energy to serve better. There are diversified projects implementing aiming at comprehensive primary health care, water management and livelihood and sustainable development of the people we serve.

UERDS today reaches out to over lakhs of people through direct management of 7 PHCs (Primary Health Centers), 11 Mobile Health Units, 7 Citizen Help Desk, 1 Women Help line, and 1IWMP (Integrated Watershed Management Programme)project, 3 Antenatal Care Project, 2 capacity building training programme for 487 Village Health Sanitation Committees(VHSCs) in Chamarajanagar District, 296 VHSCs in Kodagu District. More than 300 dedicated professionals serving the poor in rural areas. With a prime objective of ‘Reaching the Unreached’ to provide services to the underserved and the poor in the remote areas, UERDS continues to serve the community it has been serving with renewed energy and dedication. UERDS has pioneered and implemented a successful Public-Private-Partnership model that helps leverage the government's significant investment in public health care Infrastructure, Education,Agriculture, by complementing it with a socially committed, not-for-profit but professionally competent management team.

UERDS Vision

A society in which we strive to provide an equitable and Integrated Health Care, Education and Livelihoods by empowering marginalized people of Karnataka to be self-reliant. To progress with unity by empowering the poor and marginalized to ensure there human dignity.

UERDS Mission

To develop a dedicated service minded team that enables holistic development of marginalized people through innovative replicable models with a passion for Dedication, Commitment and Excellence.

Ways We Help

The Focus of Our Efforts

Primary Health Centers

Helping Those Who Need Us Most

UERDS has been managing 7 PHCs in Karnataka under Public Private Partnership model in collaboration with Karnataka Health Development & Reform Project of State Government. Comprehensive Primary Health Care with innovative initiatives of integrating vision centers, mainstreaming traditional medicine, community mental health, mobile dental care along with enabling 24x7 services with the staff headquartered at PHCs is the key differentiator of the services offered by the UERDS.

Impact of Project Activities

24 hrs. Service availability in PHCs and sub-centers.
Increased utilization of all basic services, emergency services, RCH, etc.
Committed, trained and motivated work force.
Improved health indicators in the community.
A study conducted by The Institute of Health Management and Research on the PHCs found the services to be of high quality. A recent study compared servicedelivery system of UERDS-run PHCs with that of the government-run ones and found the service delivery of UERDS to be better.

Mobile Health Units

The Future Looks Bright

UERDS, in collaboration with Karnataka Health System Development and Reforms Project and National Rural Health Mission runs four Mobile Health Units to cater to the underserved, and remote areas in Karnataka. These are the areas that have remote habitations and are far from the PHC or have no access to any health facilities.210 remote villages are covered under these 7 projects. Nearly 14,000 patients are availing the facilities of this project from 7 Taluks.

OBJECTIVES

To provide primary public health care services including referral services .

To reduce the infant & maternal mortality, along with communicable diseases like malaria, T.B, AIDS, diarrheal diseases, etc.

To provide essential health care services for chronic illness such as Diabetes Mellitus, Hypertension, Epilepsy, Chronic Bronchitis, Chronic Bronchial Asthma, Chronic Arthritis, Acid Peptic Disease, etc.

To provide minimum Laboratory Investigation such as Urine for Alb& Sugar, Pregnancy test, and Blood Sugar level estimation, Hb%, blood smear for malarial parasite, sputum for AFB, etc.

To create awareness among community regarding communicable and non-communicable diseases, along with their prevention through IEC activities.

To encourage the private sector in providing qualified essential health care to rural communities with the purpose to establish sustainable services in such communities.

Impact of the Project

• Mother and Child Health Care.

• Effective implementation of National Health Programs.

• MHU staff has actively participated in PRA and CNA programs conducted over the year.

Bio medical waste disposal practices have been consistently and diligently followed in all the MHUs.
Health Camps resulted in increased awareness, especially in usage of ORS.
Effective referral service and follow up by ASHAs and PHC staff.
Increased institution deliveries in head quarter PHC.

Health education programme

Health education programme i.e IEC (information, Education Communication)is conducting in our designated Remote Villages weekly twice on Health, Sanitation,Communicable Diseases, Nutrition, Newborn care,Breast Feeding,IMR, MMR, Hygiene, HIV/AIDS, ANC care, PNC Care Etc., assigned by Health Department and also implementing National Health Programmes.

Citizen Help Desk

Citizen Help Desk is one of the innovative schemes which empowers the public with information and provide guidance of health in Government Hospitals. The Urban poor encounter problems like lack of awareness about the services provided, drugs and treatment provided free of cost, long waiting time to get treatment, poor grievance redressal system, lack of awareness about how to lodge a complaint etc. which lead to establishment of CHDs for more transparency and accountability.

UERDS in association with Coalition against Corruption (CAC) started the CHD project at 6 Government Hospitals, under NRHM (National Rural Health Mission)

Objectives of Citizens Help Desk are:

To improve services at the Government hospitals by educating the staff and public about facilities and services available;
monitoring the quality of Health care against parameters like time taken by doctor to attend a patient,
availability of free drugs etc.;
timely feedback to the concerned authorities regarding staff and drug stock outs.
To enhance transparency and accountability in the delivery of services
To empower the public with information from Help Desk and provide guidance through posters, leaflets and boards
To enhance the productivity of the staff through counseling, confidence building and motivational sessions
Establish a link between service providers and users through regular feedback mechanism.
Conduct regular interaction camps in the areas inhabited by poor to build confidence amongst the poor to access services at Public hospitals.

Structure and Functioning of Citizens Help Desk:

The 24 hour Citizens Help Desk, each with one Help Desk Manager and four trained community volunteers provides following services:

1. The required information & guidance to the patient on the facilities, charges etc.

2. Collect feedback on the quality of services from patients (in-patients and out-patients) and identify bottlenecks in effective delivery of services.

3. Register grievances with regard to health service through in person and help line.

4. Redress grievances by referring them to the concerned officials and follow up.

5. Acts as a channel of communication to the “Arogya Raksha Committee”.

Impact of CHD:

Reduction in average waiting time to patients
Introduction of ‘Q’ system in OPD
Increase in Bed Occupancy Ratio
Help and Information to approximately two third OPD patients and approximately 75% OPD patients
Decrease in prescriptions for drugs and investigation outside the hospital
3 to 4 health awareness programs in each month.

VHSC/ARS CAPACITY BUILDING PROJECT

Village Health & Sanitation Committees/Arogya Raksha Samithis is the first step towards community orientation of Health Care Services and to make health as a ‘People's Movement’.
UERDS has implemented this project From March 2010 to March 2012 in 2 Districts namely Chamarajanagar, Kodagu successfully. UERDS provided capacity building Trainings as per the KHSDRP(Karnataka Health Development & Reform Project) framework to all the members of VHSCs/ARS.

The content of the training is developed with focus on the following issues.

Health institutions and health programs.
Social aspects impacting health status like child marriages, son preference etc.
Demand generation for health care services.
Planning and monitoring of health care services.
Operational issues - Constitution, monthly meetings, funds management, reporting.
Roles and responsibility of VHSC/ARS members in improvement of health status of their community.

OBJECTIVES:

Making Health as a ‘People's Movement.’
To Empower VHSC/ARS Members.
Strengthening Sub Centers & existing CHC.
Integration of various Health & Family Welfare programs.
e4Supporting to National, State & District Health Missions.
Developing capacity for preventive Health Care.
To develop understanding on Health issues.
Planning and Monitoring of the health care services through community monitoring.

IMPACT OF THE PROJECT :

Better participation of communities in Health processes at village level. Identified weak and vulnerable habitations for special attention from the district administration (District Health Mission).
Building up local inters- sectoral co-ordination within Gram Panchayat for village level planning.
Strengthening the concept of Swasth Panchayat - Panchayat Level Health & Human Development Index based assessment and planning.
Panchayats can understand their own performance and which would act as a link to block level planning so as to improve health outcomes and make the visible impact.
Bringing Panchayat functionaries on village health platform and improving their understanding for local level health planning and implementation.
Enhancing capacity of Panchayat Raj Institutions to control and manage public health services at village level.
VHSC/ARS Members are more aware & capable of independently monitoring health activities at village level.

IWMP (Integrated Watershed Management Programme) Chamarajnagar Taluk

Mallaiahnapura Sub Watershed area for IWMP Program has been selected on the basis of poverty, percentage of vulnerable, percentage of small and marginal farmers, ground water status, moisture index, area under rain fed agriculture, drinking water situation in the area, percentage of degraded land, productivity potential of land & continuity of another watershed that has already developed/treated.Watershed management as a strategy has been adopted by Government of Karnataka especially in the rain fed regions of semi-dry tropics. These regions are characterized by low and un-dependable rain, low soil fertility, poor infrastructure development, low literacy and high incidence of migration. The low fertility of crops results in lower productivity of crops which have a very low biological efficiency. Several studies have identified that there is a dire need of a systematic and scientific approach to deal with watershed development.

OBJECTIVES

The basic objective of this project is based on village/micro watershed plans. These plans are prepared after taking into consideration the land capability, site condition and local needs of the people with the help of watershed Department.

Understanding various aspects of the Integrated Watershed Management Program.
Skill development.
Sustainability of Projects.
Confidence Building.
Undertaking community development activities.
Empowering the Mass.
Facilitate & co-ordination with relevant program of agriculture, horticulture, rural development, animal husbandry etc with watershed development & convergence plans for enhancement of productivity and livelihoods interventions for asset less persons.

CONCEPT

Integrated Watershed refers to the conservation, regeneration and the sensible use of all the natural resources like, land, water, plants & animals within the watershed area. Watershed Management tries to bring about the best possible balance in the environment between natural resources on the one side and man and animals on the other. Since it is the man which is primarily responsible for degradation of environment, regeneration and conservation can only be possible by promoting awakening and participation among the people who inhabit the watersheds.

Understanding the Concept of Integrated Watershed Management project.
Community Organization.
Equity and Sustainability.
Involvement of Self Help Group, Common Interested Group, women & weaker sections of Society.
Greater access to income generating opportunities.
Sharing of benefits by community.
More employment opportunities for landless and weaker section.

PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION:

From Feb 2011, we are implementing Integrated Watershed Management project in mallaiahnapura sub watershed area in Chamarajanagar taluk of same district. Geographical area of watershed covers 3467.5 hectares belonging to private and community lands in Mallaiahnapura sub watershed, covering 6 micro watershed areas.Micro Watershed geographic area available for land treatment is 3467.5hectares.

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