Yuva Maitri Fellowship

Coverage: Madhya Pradesh

Training Area: Madhya Pradesh (majhgawan block form Satna District and karkeli block from Umaria district)

Title: Maitri Sushasan Yuva Fellowship

Details

The main objective of this program is to create and implement a comprehensive framework aimed at improving nutrition governance towards effectively addressing malnutrition in rural areas of Madhya Pradesh. This will be achieved through an integrated, multi-sectoral approach that offers a holistic solution to food and nutrition challenges. The development plan will focus on ensuring food and nutrition sustainability by engaging local governance structures, particularly the Gram Panchayats and Statutory Committees, with the community playing the steering role.

The vision is to realise prosperous, well-nourished Gram Panchayats. Through targeted interventions, this initiative aims to eliminate malnutrition, promote sustainable health and nutrition practices, and create a community where every individual, especially women and children, enjoys good health and adequate nutrition.

To achieve this goal, Maitri Sushasan fellowships have been provided to 16-16 active young social workers in majhgawan block (Satna district) and karkeli block (Umaria district) in Madhya Pradesh.

Beneficiary Groups

Children, women, and youth, Scheduled Tribe, and other marginalized communities in Satna and Umaria districts.   

Key Interventions

Our interventions include:

  1. Understanding the social structure and its interconnections with an implementation framework for a community-centric and well-resourced Gram Panchayat Development Plan in place.
  2. Empowering community institutions and local champions.
  3. Identifying one’s role in embedding dignity, justice, equality and democratic values in social interconnections
  4. Actively playing a role in embedding dignity, justice, equality, and democratic values in social interconnections
  5. Establishing discourse on constitutional values and civic qualities within communities.
  6. Improving access to and distribution of food with equity and dignity and adoption of appropriate health and nutrition practices.
  7. Increasing informed participation in GPDP processes and engagement in community monitoring.
  8. Showcasing the evidence based participatory model of GPDP.
  9. Assessing the needs of adolescent girls, pregnant women, lactating mother, newborn child.
  10. Identifying the most marginalized persons/families, common priorities.
  11. Changing practices and decision in the best interest of women and children (no delays in maternal care and nutrition, creating support system for exclusive breastfeeding and complimentary feeding, menstrual hygiene and equity in food practices)
  12. Encouraging participation of community members in Gram Sabha and panchayat processes
  13. Forming and building the capacity of women and youth groups and involvement of male members of the community.
  14. Improving food and Nutrition practices.

Duration:

Ongoing since September 2025