Organising a VHND is combiuned task of ASHA, ANM, AWW and PRI member and all of them has seperate responsibility therefore needs seperate checklists. This checklist is meant for ASHA.

1. Checklist
Organizing VHND effectively
ASHA
AWW
ANM
PRI
Digvijay Trivedi, MBA, MA(Economics), PGDRD, PGDCPM
Programme Officer , SIFPSA

2. Objectives
Field Level
• Ensuring community
participation
• Improve coordination
among ASHA/AWW/ANM
• Increase client follow up
• Ensure sufficient logistics
arrangement and its use
• Improved recordkeeping
Block/District Level
• Ensuring timely support at
the field level
• Monitoring and feedback
• Improved MIS

3. About the Event
Services
Pregnant woman registration,
ANC , Vaccination :0-1, Vitamin A
and Supplementary nutrition to
children, Anti TB drug, Distribution of
contraceptives and referrals for FP
Community discussion
Danger signs of pregnancy
Institutional elivery and
PNC, EBF, Nutrition, Diarrhoea and
respiratory infections
care, Prevention of
malaria, TB, HIV/AIDS, STI, hygiene, s
anitation, age at marriage , sex
selection
Identification
Children with
disability, malnutrition, anemic
, Cases of TB, Leprosy and kala azar
Problems of old and destitute, SC
ST, minorities and weaker sections
Data Collection
Number of children with
disabilities, outbreak of disease
Deaths of children and women , Data
compilation related to
SC, ST, minorities and weaker
sections

4. Check 1- Pre VHND activities
• All households visited, specially SC, ST, minorities
 Yes
 No, specify reason
• List of currently PW ready and updated
 Yes
 No, make visit to HH for identification
• List of women coming for first ANC
 Yes, make it ready for ANM
 No, specify reason
• List of infants need immunization
 Yes, communicate it to the ANM
 No, specify reason

5. Check 1- Pre VHND activities
• List of children need care for malnutrition
 Yes, make it ready for ANM/AWW
 Partially done, ensure complete listing next month
 No, specify reason
• Children missed during pulse polio round
 Yes, communicate ANM
 No, specify reason
• List of TB patient
 Yes, ensure drug administration
 No, specify reason
• Coordination with AWW and ANM
 Yes, briefing about the number and type of expected
participants shall be done
 No, do it now.

6. Check 2- On the day -VHND
• All the listed women come for services
 Yes,
 No, contact them
• All the listed children come to VHND
 Yes,
 No, contact parents for reasons
• Expected service providers attended VHND
 Yes,
 No, inform MOIC/CMO, request to attend next VHND

7. Check 2- On the day -VHND
• Listed beneficiaries came and received services
 Yes, plan next level of services to them
 No, inform ANM/AWW/MOIC
• VHND completed successfully
 Yes, start planning for the next VHND
 No, list reasons and communicate to ANM/AWW/MOIC
• Identification of areas of improvement
 Yes, share it with AWW/ANM/PRI
 No, discuss with AWW/ANM/PRI

8. Outcome
• At the village level
Management
o Increased service delivery at door step
o Timely availability of service providers
o Registration for JSY, JSSK and other scheme
o Increased acceptability/ recognition to ASHA
o One place /one window coverage
Service delivery
o Identification of high risk cases:
delivery, anemia, malnutrition etc.
o Client follow up: FP, delivery immunization TB etc.
o 100% coverage can be ensured

9. Outcome
• At the District/block level
Management
o Proper monitoring and feedback
o Trust building of the health dept and administration
o Real time data base management
o Issues redressal at the field level
Service delivery
o Better planning for logistics and service delivery
o Management of high risk cases
o Increased coverage of all national programmes

10. Suggestions are requested for
improvement
Thank You