A sound mind resides in good health. Good health means being spiritually, mentally, and physically fit, and fitness boosts having a healthy life. SATHI-UP drives efforts to make people of the communities happier through Reproductive Maternal Newborn Child and Adolescent Health-RMNCH+A.SATHI-UP fosters the community by giving nutrition services to the people. Focus on family planning through improved planning methods and practices that joined together and lined up with the good health of both child and mother. Strengthening the quality of life and creating awareness among people on government policies, mobilizing the people, and creating a platform to share ground-level issues. SATHI-UP sensitizes and mobilizes the stakeholders and duty bearers to perform their duty in the best possible way so that the services of nutrition and health reached the focused group.

SATHI-UP holds up the hand with the Community-Based Organization-CBOs, a spiritual mentor, a local community advisor, and elected leaders to promote and strengthen community health and nutrition services among people. SATHI-UP tries to unlock the potential of an individual through improved health. SATHI-UP collaborates with Health and Nutrition departments and committees to enhance the quality of the delivery service system.

SATHI in the association with its member CSOs implemented the Family Planning initiatives in 20 districts of Uttar Pradesh. These 20 districts come in high TFR (Total Fertility Rate) category and under MPV districts (Mission Pariwar Vikas). This intervention is supported by the Global Health Strategies-GHS. SATHI as lead organization engaged with grassroots level civil society organizations and capacitated to them on government schemes and programs, latest evidence in family planning to address myths and misconceptions in the community and advocacy tips to raise the issues related to reach and quality of family planning services in block and district level health forums. This Initiative implemented in 2 planned phase. First phase engaged to 60 grassroots civil society organizations and second phase engaged to 30 active CSOs as Network partner and 11 CSOs pas partner for implementing Family planning intensive intervention. SATHI as lead partner worked to provide technical and handhold support to them for quality implementation of project activities, reporting, documentation and MIS.

Major activities/intervention under this initiative as

• Engaging with existing community leaders working to promote quality family planning services; and promoting to them as Community Champions to continue work on.
• Engaging to Community Champions and CSOs for conducting awareness generation activities at village level to address myths and misconceptions around FP methods specially spacing methods and by promoting delay in age at marriage, delay in first pregnancy, adequate spacing between two pregnancies and adoption of family planning by younger couples.
• Conducting advocacy activities at community block and districts level by Community Champions to improve access of FP services.
• Engaging with media to disseminate the success stories and community champions’ initiative.
• Strengthening linkages and advocacy for family planning with government officials to address implementation challenges