Nagaland signed a Letter of Agreement to improve maternal and child health, nutrition and early childhood services across six eastern districts.
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DIMAPUR — Aimed at tackling malnutrition and improving grassroots service delivery, a multi-stakeholder convergence agreement was signed on Friday to strengthen maternal and child health, nutrition and early childhood development across eastern Nagaland.
According to a DIPR update, the Letter of Agreement (LoA), signed at the Commissioner’s Office in Kohima, brought together the department of School Education, department of Health & Family Welfare, district administrations and Eleutheros Christian Society under a unified framework aimed at delivering integrated services to mothers and children.
The pilot phase will cover 60 villages across six eastern districts—Mon, Longleng, Tuensang, Shamator, Kiphire and Noklak—identified for their high malnutrition burden.
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The initiative is designed as a demonstration model that could be scaled up across the state.
According to the agreement, the programme seeks to ensure access to quality education, nutrition and healthcare services through coordinated efforts.
It also aims to strengthen monitoring systems and establish a replicable model of convergence at the grassroots level.
Under the arrangement, the School Education department will focus on early learning, school-based health activities and improving infrastructure and teacher accountability, while the Health & Family Welfare department will deliver essential maternal and child health services, including immunisation, antenatal and postnatal care, and diagnostics.
The Eleutheros Christian Society will lead community mobilisation, awareness campaigns, supplementary feeding initiatives and training of frontline workers, besides facilitating Aadhaar registration drives to ensure inclusion in welfare schemes.
District administrations will oversee implementation, conduct regular reviews, ensure staff attendance and strengthen village councils for effective local governance. A district convergence committee, chaired by the respective deputy commissioners, will be set up to monitor progress, with quarterly block-level review meetings involving all stakeholders.