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indicators in Themes of Poverty Free and Enhanced Index. This set has also been prepared in consultation with
Livelihood Village, Child Friendly Village as well as Ministries & States, UNICEF and select GPs. Understanding
Socially Secured Village. Addressing malnutrition in of 85 indicators under Child Friendly Village becomes easier
children is also part of the Theme of Healthy Village along as grouping of indicators that are for child survival,
with Child Friendly Village. Availability of safe water and development, protection and participation of children. For
sanitation in schools, Anganwadis, Child Sex Ratio and example, pregnant and lactating mothers, 0-3 and 3-6 years
Education for girls feature in Engendered Development as children and adolescent girls are facilitated under umbrella
well as in the Theme of Child Friendly Village. Providing ICDS services to fulfill their nutritional needs; pregnant
functional toilets in schools is part of Clean & Green Village, women are assisted by ASHA and ANM for safe delivery,
Self-sufficient infrastructure and Child Friendly Village. birth certificate by GP as first legal paper of identity to the
Concerns over health of children, out of school girls, crime Child are the indicators basically related to Child Survival.
against children, child marriages are part of the indicators of
socially secured village with child friendly village. Bal Sabha Target Values
is also a common feature of child friendly village and village
For each indicator, a target value for 2030 needs to be set by
with good governance. Thus, the inter-relationship and
the GPs. This target value may be set not less than -
efforts taken to achieve indicators connected to children in
the Child friendly village Theme will pave the way for a. A quantifiable National Target specified by Government
achieving other themes also (and vice versa). of India, either in the NIF, or under the Schematic KPI
(which would be better than or equal to a quantifiable
Targets under theme child friendly village
UN SDG Target specified under the UN SDGs for
The Vision Statement of Theme Child friendly village is
2030);
reflected through 17 Local Targets (List is in Annexure-I,
Table 3) for the Gram Panchayats to work on. In broad terms b. The value of the top or average of the value of the top 3
all Targets are based upon the core pillars of child survival, performing States/UTs;
child development, child protection and child participation. c. The value of the best performing GPs
The Targets are measured by Indicators, around 85 indicators For example
(consisting of 63 indicators and 22 sub-indicators) are chosen
a) MMR Target 3.1 calls for a reduction in the
to track the progress towards 17 targets under the Theme
global maternal mortality ratio (MMR) to less than
Child Friendly Village. These are the small measurable steps
70 per 100000 births by 2030. NIF has taken the
to achieve defined Targets. Performance Indicators under
Target value as described in SDG Framework.
this Theme have, as stated before been grouped under the 4
Gram Panchayat being a small entity will have to
core pillars i.e. Survival, Protection, Development and
definitely take the Target value as zero, for reasons
Participation of children. The training and capacity building
that, numbers of (live) births would be less than
inputs and the assessment frame of LIF move in tandem. The
hundred, and consequent value of the numerator
LIF is given in Annexure-I, Table 2.
would be almost equal to 0.
Interpretation of Indicators
b) Target value of Vaccination Indicator has been kept
While flagship schemes have their KPIs and outcomes being
100 in NIF. GP Target value also should be the
seen, GPs have this entire set of Indicators for inter-
same at 100 % to meet the National Target.
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