This brochure provides a summary of WFP India's gender-sensitive programmes. Banswara A planning tool for the supervisors in the Hajo Soru project in the district of Banswara in Rajasthan. Very often, data is collected, compiled sent up for reporting and the exercise is finished there. However, there is a need to use the data collected for improving the service delivery and improving the use of services by the community for whom it is meant. Nine key indicators, crucial for realizing the project goals, have been identified and elaborated upon with data.
Adolescent girls face more problems than boys, largely due to socio-cultural factors.
Adolescent girls are deprived of adequate health care, good nutrition and opportunity for schooling. Stunted anaemic girls with inadequate knowledge of personal care, family planning or child rearing practices enter into marriage and motherhood, thus perpetuating the problems of malnutrition and poverty to the coming generation. Although women are the major actors in human resource development, they are neither adequately recognised nor supported by their families or the society. Women represent the major segment of the poor, the malnourished and the illiterate. The project was implemented in the Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh in four ICDS blocks, Gandhwani, Nalcha, Sardarpur and Tirla from December 1994 to January 1996.