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v. Outpatient Health Care Project: ICICI Foundation is partnering with ICICI Lombard General Insurance
Company to design, part fund and implement the delivery of India’s first outpatient healthcare product
for low income households. The project will offer outpatient insurance and will complement the
Government of India’s national health insurance scheme for inpatient care, the Rashtriya Swasthya
Bima Yojana (RSBY). To begin with, this insurance product will be offered through a pilot project in Puri
district in Odisha and one district in Gujarat.
b) Elementary education: In the field of elementary education, ICICI Foundation seeks to improve the quality
of public education by strengthening the state and district-level institutional bodies. Some of the key
projects undertaken are:
i. Quality Education Programme: The Quality Education Programme is a collaborative initiative of ICICI
Foundation and its partner resource organisations – Digantar, Jaipur and Vidya Bhawan Society, Udaipur
– that supports government efforts to improve the quality of elementary education in Rajasthan’s Baran
district. The major objectives of the project were to strengthen Baran’s District Institute of Educational
Training (DIET), work with the Sarva Shiksha Abhyan (SSA) team to provide adequate academic support
in the district and support selected cluster resource centres to develop model schools. This initiative
targeted 125 master trainers, 4,000 teachers from the 1,498 government schools and 144,971 students.
The programme has helped in improvement in the quality of in-service training and classroom teaching
practices. The teacher and student attendance has also improved in the schools that were part of the
project.
ii. Consultative meeting to improve quality of education: ICICI Foundation organised a consultative
meeting to share its work, emerging strategies and long-term plans with various stakeholders at India
Habitat Centre, New Delhi. The meeting was attended by the Foundation’s long-standing partner
organisations, representatives of the Central Government and the State Governments with whom
the Foundation works or has plans to work, and independent experts and resource persons. The
deliberations helped ICICI Foundation in formulating its proposed state-wide interventions for quality
improvement in school education in Rajasthan and Odisha.
iii. State-wide programme for improvements in schools education and teacher training: In Odisha, ICICI
Foundation in partnership with the Government of Odisha, plans to launch a programme to improve the
practices of in-service (current teachers) and pre-service (trainee teachers) teacher training in the state.
The programme will build the professional capacity of teachers and educators, as well as strengthen
the state’s teacher performance management mechanism. ICICI Foundation will work with the state
education functionaries to facilitate reforms in line with 2005 National Curriculum Framework, including
updating curricula, developing teacher training material and designing research and academic support
material. The scope of this programme will cover the training of 300 master trainers who will train 4,500
teacher trainers who in turn will train 100,000 in-service teachers and 10,000 pre-service teachers.
In Rajasthan, based on the success of its Quality Education Programme, ICICI Foundation has been
invited by the Government of Rajasthan to work with the State Institute of Education Research and
Training (SIERT), to revamp the state’s teacher training curriculum. The proposed project seeks to
revise the pre-service teacher training curriculum, build professional capacity of teacher educators,
including the SIERT and DIET faculty and strengthen and improve co-ordination amongst the multi-tier
academic support structure. The programme will also develop one block (in one intervention district)
as an e-learning hub for supplementing in-service teachers’ training and work on development of all
schools in two blocks in two districts so that the schools can become compliant with the Right to
Education Act. The overall goal is to train 500 master trainers, 80-100 nodal head masters, 20,000
student teachers, 250 key resource persons and 210,000 in-service teachers, which will impact about 8
million students across the state.
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