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 ndx 4. Encourage the voluntary sector to motivate village-level self-help groups to participate in community activitie. 5. Specific collaboration with the non-government sector in the social marketing of contraceptives to reach village levels will be encouraged. (viii) (b) Collaboration with and Commitments from Industr 1. The corporate sector and industry could, for instance, take on the challenge of strengthening the management information systems in the seven most deficient states, at primary health centre and subcentre levels. Introduce electronic data entry machines to lighten the tedious work load of ANMs and the multi-purpose workers at subcentres and the doctors at the primary health centres, while enabling wider coverage and outreach. 2. Collaborate with non-government sectors in running professionally sound advertisement and marketing campaigns for products and services, targeting all segments of the population, from village level upwards, in other words, strengthen advocacy and IEC, including social marketing of contraceptives. 3. Provide markets to sustain the income-generatir.g activities from village levels upwards. In turn, this will ensure consistent motivation among the community for pursuing health and education-related community activities. 4. Help promote transportation to remote and inaccessible areas up to village levels. This will greatly assist the coverage and outreach of social marketing of products and services. 5. The social responsibility of the corporate sector in industry must, at the very minimum, extend to providing preventive reproductive and child health care for its own employees (if > 100 workers are engaged). 6. Create a national network consisting of voluntary, public, private and non-government health centres, identified by a common logo, for delivering reproductive and child health services, free to any client. The provider will be compensated for the service provided, on the basis of a coupon system, duly counter-signed by the beneficiary and paid for by a system that will be fully articulated. The compensation will be identical to providers, across all sectors. The end user exercises choices in the source of service delivery. A committee of management experts will be set up to devise ways of ensuring that 32 this system is not abused. appendix I 7. Form a consortium of the voluntary sector, the non-government sector and the private corporate sector to aid government in the provision and outreach of basic reproductive and child health care and basic education. 8. In the area of basic education, set up privately run/managed primary schools for children up to age 14-15. Alternately, if the schools are set up/managed by the panchayat, the private corporate sector could provide the mid-day meals, the text -books and/or the uniforms. (ix) Mainstreaming Indian Systems of Medicine and Homeopathy 1. Provide appropriate training and orientation in respect of the RCH programme for the institutionally qualified ISMH medical practitioners (already educated in midwifery, obstetrics and gynaecology over 5-1/2 years), and utilise their services to fill in gaps in manpower at appropriate levels in the health infrastructure, and at subcentres and primary health centres, as necessary. 2. Utilise the ISMH institutions, dispensaries and hospitals for health and population related programmes. 3. Disseminate the tried and tested concepts and practices of the indigenous systems of medicine, together with ISMH medication at village maternity huts and at household levels for ante-natal and post-natal care, besides nurture of the newborn. 4. Utilise the services of ISMH 'barefoot doctors' after appropriate training and orientation towards providing advocacy and counseling for disseminating supplies and equipment, and as depot holders at village levels. 1. Government will encourage, support and advance the pursuit of medical and social science research on reproductive and child health, in consultation with ICMR and the network of academic and research institutions. 2. The International Institute of Population Sciences and the Population Research Centres will continue to review programme and monitoring indicators to ensure their continued relevance to strategic goals. 3. Government will restructure the Population Research Centres, if 33 necessary. -