Title: India: Mawana Sugar Works.

POPLINE Document Number: 129293

Corporate Author(s):

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu International. Promoting Financial Investments and Transfers to Involve the Commercial Sector in Family Planning [PROFIT]

Source citation:

[Unpublished] [1997]. [2] p. (Subproject Profile)

Abstract:

The state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) in northern India has high rates of fertility and low contraceptive prevalence rates, with 84% of rural women in the state obtaining family planning through public sources. Such a high level of public sector services use indicates the existence of considerable room for private sector expansion into the provision of family planning. UP is also a major sugar-producing area, with more than 100 sugar processing plants, each employing approximately 1000 people and interacting with sugar cane growers within a 25-30 km radius. The sugar industry therefore affects the lives of 2 million people in UP. Promoting Financial Investments and Transfers to Involve the Commercial Sector in Family Planning (PROFIT) is supporting Mawana Sugar Works (MSW) in establishing a comprehensive, in-house maternal and child health and reproductive health (MCH/RH) program for workers and dependents. The subproject will initially reach an estimated 7500 people, but MSW may later expand the services to 45,000 farmers who regularly supply the company with sugar cane. The goal is to create a model for employer-provided health services in rural UP which could be replicated in other sugar processing plants and to provide access to family planning services through private employers. Shriram Industrial Enterprises Limited (SIEL), owner of MSW, and Parivar Seva Sanstha (PSS), a local nongovernmental organization affiliated with Marie Stopes International, are partners with PROFIT. Program implementation began in May 1997.

Keywords:

India
Summary Report
Nongovernmental Organizations
Commercial Sector
Industry
Family Planning Programs
Maternal-Child Health Services
Reproductive Health
Employment-Based Services
Asia, Southern
Asia
Developing Countries
Organizations
Commerce
Macroeconomic Factors
Economic Factors
Family Planning
Programs
Organization and Administration
Primary Health Care
Health Services
Delivery of Health Care
Health