It is estimated that more than 10,00,000 people die each year due to tobacco use in India
world over 60,00,000 people die annually due to tobacco use
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Activities
Activities
| STEPS Workshops/ Consultations Details | |||||
| STEPS Workshops/ Consultations | Objective (s) | Date | Location | Partcipants | No of stakeholders sensitized |
| National Consultative Meeting | The aim of this stakeholder consultation was to explore feasibility for effective integration of NTCP into existing targeted state health programs in consonance with Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003 (COTPA) and to facilitate an Inter-Governmental Consultation towards forming a Coordination Committee for effective implementation of the multiple objectives under STEPS at the Central and State levels. | 11 - 12 April, 2010 | New Delhi | Central and state government officials from the Health & Family Welfare department, customs, labour and Finance department; Centers of Disease Control (CDC); WHO; IIPHs; HRIDAY and PHFI. | 21 |
| State Consultative Meeting | To facilitate an Inter-Governmental Consultation towards forming a Coordination Committee for effective implementation of the multiple objectives under STEPS at the State level and to explore feasibility for effective integration of National Tobacco Control Program (NTCP) into existing targeted state health programs in consonance with Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003 (COTPA). | 15/7/2010 | Gandhinagar, Gujarat | State Tobacco Control Cell (STCC) and state departments of Information, Home, Education, Agriculture and Research, Finance; NGOs; IIPH Gujarat; HRIDAY and STEPS project team | 40 |
| State Consultative Meeting | To facilitate an Inter-Governmental Consultation towards forming a Coordination Committee for effective implementation of the multiple objectives under STEPS at the State level and to explore feasibility for effective integration of National Tobacco Control Program (NTCP) into existing targeted state health programs in consonance with Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003 (COTPA). | 20/12/2010 | Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh | Medical Health and Family Welfare Department, 17 participants from various NGOs, one lawyer, one official from the tribal and social welfare department, two from the Department of Child Welfare, five from the Education Department and one from the commercial taxes department | 56 |
| Expert Group Consultation on Smokeless Tobacco | The purpose of the Consultation was to highlight the type; pattern and the magnitude of the problem of smokeless tobacco use globally, regionally and particularly in India while collating available scientific evidence on the constituents and harms of smokeless tobacco products and deliberating on the rationale for regulation or possibility of a complete ban on its sale in India. | 4 – 5 April, 2011 | New Delhi | Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, Department of Revnue, Department of Tax Research, Department of Food Saty, Cancer Control Program, Central Government Health Scheme, Lawyers, World Health Organization (SEARO and Country office), Various training and Medical Intitutes including National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, All India Instutute for Medical Sciences, various national and international public health specialints and Tobacco Control Experts and Civil societies | 93 |
| Sensitization meeting | The objective of this meeting was to get a formal buy in from educational institutions to develop a cohort of master trainers which will deliver the HSR intervention across all levels of health facilities and enable these institutions to become District Resource Hubs to make these interventions a sustainable initiative. | 21/4/ 2011 | Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh | academicians and managers from medical, dental, nursing and paramedical colleges and officials from Indian Medical and Dental Association | 28 |
| Consultation on Government-NGO Partnership For Strengthening Tobacco Control in India | The consultation aimed to bring together NGO’s and Law enforcers in the state from the 12 districts where STEPS is operational to build capacity of Nodal officers designated by Government at State and district level to implement tobacco control policy and programs in true spirit. NGOs were trained for undertaking advocacy for community mobilization and to build NGO-Government partnership | 25– 26 April, 2011 | New Delhi | doctors, government officials from public health, youth and education departments, researchers, public health academicians and professionals, information specialists, media persons, NGOs and STEPS district and state teams | 100 |
| Consultation on Implementing School Health Programmes for Strengthening Tobacco Control in India | 1. To consult with the various stakeholders in implementing the school health program under Project STEPS; 2. To share with and orient the government and youth agencies to the school curriculum for STEPS school health program; 3. To develop action plans for the roll out of the trainings cascade for implementation of the school health program in the two states | 27-28 April, 2011 | New Delhi | State and district level Education Department officials and government youth agencies | 25 |
| Sensitization meeting | The objective of this meeting was to sensitize medical college faculties and district health officials about health system interventions in STEPS project and to help establish District Resource Hubs (DRH) for capacity building of health care works in the intervention Taluks | 13/5/2011 | Gandhinagar, Gujarat | Govt. of Gujarat (State Health Officials and District Tobacco Nodal officers); WHO – State RNTCP Medical Officer; faculties of Medical/Dental colleges of intervention districts and PHFI/STEPS members | 34 |
| District level Training of Law enforcers (Prakasam) | To train the district level law enforcers on various aspects of tobacco control and orient them to the STEPS project | 24/5/2011 | Prakasam, Andhra Pradesh | District level representatives from various departments including Police, Municipal Corporation, education, Panchayat Raj Institution, Medical and health, Industrial development, Mining, Fire service, Housing, Disability, Treasure, Roads and buildings, Agriculture, Handloom and textile, Labor and Prison | 35 |