Anganwadi Centers definition

Anganwadi Centers means a center established under the Integrated Child Development Services Scheme of the Borrower’s Ministry of Women and Child Development, to provide supplementary nutrition, non-formal pre-school education, nutrition, and health education, immunization, health check-up and referral services.

Examples of Anganwadi Centers in a sentence

  • In India, for instance, early childhood care and education (ECCE) is almost entirely provided by the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) system, serving close to 80 million children between 0 to 6 years of age through a system of Anganwadi Centers (AWCs).

  • Furthermore, visits to Anganwadi Centers in Bihar indicated that 24% of the Centers were closed during times they should have been open, and that meals were only served on 59% of the days on which meals should be served (▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ and ▇▇▇▇▇▇, 2013).

  • This method of stratification by intervention and control areas reduces the bias associated with clustering around Anganwadi Centers.

  • While working on this project and others at CARE, I was immensely fortunate to be granted access by CARE- India to data estimating health and development indicators of children, attitudes and practices of caregivers to help children achieve their development potential, and capacity of community centers, called Anganwadi Centers (AWCs), to address health, development and educational needs of the community of Chhattisgarh, India.

  • The ICDS program delivers a package of integrated services to pregnant and lactating women and children less than 6 years of age through community-based Anganwadi Centers (AWC).

  • An intervention is currently being implemented in 31 Anganwadi Centers (AWCs) in the two districts selected as intervention districts.

  • In addition to dispensing IFA tablets during antenatal care visits to health facilities, the Department of Health and Family Welfare collaborates with the Department of Social Welfare to distribute 100 IFA tablets to out-of-school adolescent girls and pregnant and lactating women through events organized around Anganwadi Centers (AWC).

  • This baseline also hoped to determine the level of functioning among Anganwadi Centers (AWCs).

  • Topics covered in these discussions included typical food acquisition and consumption; challenges related to food security; the purchase, preparation, and intra-household allocation of food resources; household expenditure; household food insecurity; and utilization and perceptions of food and nutrition support provided by the Anganwadi Centers and Public Distribution System.