CINI Strategic Directions 2022 2027
Health and nutrition
SD 1 Promoting maternal, new-born, child and sexual & reproductive health rights (SRHR) for a continuum of care for prevention of maternal and child morbidity, mortality, malnutrition
SD 2 Promoting adolescent rights and empowerment to nutrition and health including reproductive and sexual health and development
SD 3 Addressing evolving concern for non-communicable diseases (obesity, pre-diabetes, and hyper-tension) and communicable diseases (tuberculosis, post COVID and HIV linked with sexual reproductive health (SRH)) among mothers, children and adolescents in the communities, especially the vulnerable
Education
SD 1 Strengthening the education and Integrated Child Development Service (ICDS) systems to enhance enrolment, retention and quality education for vulnerable children, especially girls, through the involvement of duty-bearers (teachers, school authorities, local government institutions, parents and community members) and children
SD 2 Developing innovative evidence-based programme models for improving education outcomes and protection of vulnerable children and adolescents, especially girls, with the participation of communities and young people
SD 3 Strengthening government policy, programmes and systems in enhancing access to education by vulnerable
children, especially girls
Child Protection
SD 1 Strengthening existing government child protection systems in preventing and responding to child rights
violations, maximising a preventive approach and minimising an institutional approach
SD 2 Preventing and responding to child protection violations to address violence against children (VAC) through
CINI Preventive Child Protection Model at primary, secondary and tertiary prevention levels
Adolescent Programming
SD 1 Accelerating adolescent-led development through increased participation and empowerment
SD 2 Creating a family and community-based safety net engaging parents and other duty-bearers in service
provision and government
SD 3 Advocacy and networking to promote an adolescent empowerment programme model for replication and
scaling up
Child Friendly Communities
SD 1 Consolidating and strengthening the CFC approach through existing CFC labs
SD 2 Ensuring application of the CINI Method/CFC approach across HNEPA sectoral intervention areas
SD 3 Promoting the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and child rights-based programming practice at the local level
Training
SD 1 Developing the capacity of government functionaries from West Bengal, Jharkhand, Odisha, Assam and other north-eastern states to equip them with adequate knowledge and skills to deliver quality services to the community in the areas of nutrition; maternal, newborn, child health and development; and adolescent health, in addition to issues relating to non-communicable diseases (NCD), education and child protection
SD 2 Developing the capacity of NGOs, CBOs, technical agencies and academic institutions on issues relating to
health, nutrition, education and child protection with focus on gender, environment, digital safety and
prevention of sexual harassment (POSH) and other soft skills
SD 3 Providing need-based online and offline capacity building support to CINI staff to enhance the quality of
programming focusing on the CINI Method; health, nutrition, education and child protection programming;
training techniques; documentation; communication; operations and finance
Communication
SD 1 Establishing CINI branding
SD 2 Strengthening CINI’s digital presence to enhance its visibility and increasing utilisation of digital media as a tool of intervention
SD 3 Engaging effectively with media to communicate CINI achievements in enhancing outcomes for children and
adolescents in the areas of education, protection, health and nutrition
Fundraising
SD 1 Enhancing effectiveness of internal resource mobilisation
SD 2 Strengthening and expanding avenues for fundraising
Operations and Finance
SD 1 System strengthening
SD 2 Investment strategy of corpus and other funds, and timely realisation of funds
SD 3 Up-gradation of IT infrastructure (hardware and software)
SD 4 Maintenance and renovation of assets and properties
SD 5 Revenue generation through new opportunities