Impact evaluation of Gram Varta

Gram Varta is a Community Mobilization initiative using Participatory Learning and Action Approaches with SHG’s (SWASTH Project). The University of Göttingen received a grant from the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation to evaluate Gram Varta. MORSEL was selected as a sub-contractor by the University of Göttingen to survey 4000 households (household heads and women separately), around 2600 adolescent girls and 2000 pregnant women in 184 GPs of Madhepura district of Bihar. MORSEL also collected anthropometric data of Households and hemoglobin level of all members of 4000 households and 2000 pregnant women and their husbands. MORSEL also tested the presence of E Coli in the stored drinking water of 4000 households and the presence of parasites in the stool of kids below 5 years in the selected households