Primary Health

In the area of primary health, our goal is to improve the delivery of health services to
remotely located and low-income individuals and families.

District Action Health Plans

For the third consecutive year, ICICI Foundation has worked with Public Health
Resource Network and National Health Systems Resource Centre to support the
preparation of District Health Action Plans in every district in Bihar. These plans
enable proper assessment of the available resources and requirements of the public
health system so that central government funding can be allocated on an informed
basis and health programmes can be implemented in a
planned and effective manner.

Village Health Committee-Sahiyya Resource Centre

ICICI Foundation has worked in partnership with the
Government of Jharkhand to establish the Village Health
Committee-Sahiyya Resource Centre to train and support Sahiyyas (community
healthcare workers) in all districts in the state. Innovative and contextualised training
materials and modules have been developed, so that the training is relevant,
comprehensiveand informative. Over 40,964 Sahiyyas have been trained with this new
training material.

Developing new products

for outpatient healthcare
With an aim to lower the
out-of-pocket healthcare
expenses, ICICI Foundation
has partnered with ICICI
Lombard General Insurance Company to design and support the delivery of the first
outpatient insurance product for Indias poor. This is being offered in conjunction with
the Government of Indias national health insurance scheme for inpatient care, The
Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana.

City Initiative for Newborn Health

This action-research study, aimed at lowering maternal
and newborn morbidity and neonatal mortality among slum communities in Mumbai. It
covered a population of approximately 400,000 spread over 24 slum clusters across 6
wards in the city and sought to mobilise the community to improve maternal and
neonatal care practices and care seeking.

government health care

community, block and

Elementary

MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH

Healthy Lokshakti is an initiative to reduce newborn and
infant deaths by ensuring that women receive good
healthcare during and after pregnancy and medical
assistance during delivery. It focuses on strengthening the
delivery systems at the
district levels.

Education

In the area of elementary education, we work to improve the quality of schooling processes
and outcomes in the public education system in India.

School and teacher education reform programme in Rajasthan

ICICI Foundation in collaboration with the Directorate of Elementary Education, State
Institute of Education Research and Training and Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (the
Government of Indias flagship programme for achievement of universalisation of
elementary education) aims to support and enable education functionaries to deliver
quality education in alignment with the current government mandates and strengthen
strengthen school and teacher education reform.
Chhattisgarh Curriculum and Textbook Development
ICICI Foundation facilitated a collaborative partnership
among its partner resource organisations; the Vidya
Bhawan Education Resource Centre, Udaipur and the state
government to support the process of school curriculum
renewal. Through the collaborative effort, critical support was extended to
strengthen the capacities of the State Council for Education Research and Training to
develop a new curriculum framework and textbooks. Today, four million students
across Chhattisgarh have benefitted from the revised curriculum and learn with the
help of these child-friendly
textbooks.

Creating an Education
Resource Centre in Chhattisgarh
In Chhattisgarh, ICICI
Foundationand its partner
resource organisations
Digantar, Jaipur, Eklavya,
Hoshangabad and Vidya
Bhawan Education Resource
Centre, Udaipur -- have created the Chhattisgarh Education Resource Centre (CERC),

a robust education resource centre that supports the government education

institutions to strengthen the quality of elementary
education in the state.
English Relay Programme
Launched in July 2011 byICICI Foundation in collaboration
with Axom Sarba Siksha Abhijan Mission, the English Relay
Programme aims to impact students of 100 government-run
elementary schools in Kamrup district in Assam. This programme is specifically
designed for students, who learn English as their second or third language and aims to
strengthen the capacities of the teachers so that the students may develop basic
English language
proficiency.
The Quality Education
Programme
The Quality Education
Programme in Baran, is a
collaborative initiative of
the Foundation and its partner
resource organisations,
which supports government
efforts to improve the
quality of elementary education
in Rajasthans Baran
district. In addition to
strengthening government education institutions, the programme has improved inservice teacher trainings, teacher and student attendance, classroom practices and
learning.
Muktangan Education Initiative
ICICI Securities, through ICICI Foundation, is continuing its
support of the pre-primary section of Muktangan, a
Mumbai-based NGO. Muktangan works within the
government school system and has taken full control of the
educational procedures of the Globe Mills Passage
Municipal School. Muktangans goal is to use alternative, holistic techniques to design
a model of quality
education that is sustainable
and affordable.

Skill development
hood

&sustainable Lively

India has an urgent need to create employment opportunities for those below the poverty
line. The Foundations first steps in its sustainable livelihood initiative will be to strengthen
two Rural Self-Employment Training Institutes (RSETIs) in Udaipur and Jodhpur, run by ICICI
Bank.

Rural Self-Employment Training Institutes

ICICI Foundation provides vocational training programme at Udaipur, Rajasthan. The
programme includes training in mobile repairing; shuttering / carpentry, plumbing and

a course to run a beauty parlour. Awareness programmes for local self help groups too
are organised on a regular basis.

ICICI Academy for Skills

ICICI Academy for Skills focuses on imparting vocational
skills to the youth and creating a direct impact by enabling
livelihood. The courses currently offered are Selling Skills,
Office Administration, Web Designing, Electrical & Home Appliance Repair,
Refrigeration & AC Repair and Pumps & Motor Repair. These courses are being offered
in partnership with industry leaders in their respective domains. We believe this
increases the
employability potential of the
trained youth.

Finance Inclusion
Universal Access to
Finance
Since the year 2000, ICICI
Group has been engaged in a
systematic effort to address the challenges of access to finance. Significant
milestones in this journey include the creation of the Social Initiatives Group within
ICICI Bank, which made universal access to finance a core part of its agenda; the
acquisition of Bank of Madura with its more than 100 rural branches; and the
investments in National Commodities and Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX) and Financial
Information Network and Operations (FINO).

Effective and Affordable Risk Management Solutions

ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company launched Indias first index-based
insurance to protect farmers from weather-related risks. Through a transparent and
easy to administer rainfall-index, ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company reduced
transaction costs, enabled quick payouts and made insurance and its benefits more
accessible to small and marginal farmers.