The Motwani Jadeja Foundation supported the Antara Foundation through MJF Grants during the Covid 19 pandemic to enable them to help the needy through their frontline workers.

The Antara Foundation has devised a mechanism where three frontline workers deliver maternal and child health services in each village – the ANM (a nurse-midwife), the ASHA (community mobiliser) and the Anganwadi worker (nutrition overseer) – together referred as the AAA. We aim to improve their efficiency and effectiveness through a continuum of interventions, starting from simplifying record-keeping, then setting up a common collaborative platform, and finally linking them digitally.

The AAA Platform brings the three frontline workers on one common platform. Each of these frontline workers has distinct but related roles, and they serve the same beneficiaries. However, all too often, they do not collaborate enough. The AAA platform solves this through three key activities – creation of village maps to synchronise beneficiaries, micro-planning to focus on the highest risk beneficiaries and regular AAAmeetings to plan and review each other’s work.