ADRA India began implementation of the Polio Eradication Initiative (PEI) as the preceding Polio Eradication Programme, and then continued with the PEI programme as a partner of the Child Survival Collaboration and Resources group (CORE) since 1999. Since then, ADRA India has been implementing the CORE Group Polio Project (CGPP) with funding support from USAID through the Consortium, which has contributed to historic public health achievement of making India “polio free”, as certified by WHO on 27th March 2014. ADRA’s team used community mobilization and participatory approaches using behaviour change communication, trainings and advocacy models for community support towards strengthening Routine Immunisations (RI).
ADRA has been involved in strengthening national and regional immunisation systems to continue and sustain the efforts of Polio free India by planning and implementing supplemental polio immunisations, case detection and reporting, sensitisation of community health workers, and devising ways to improve the quality of polio eradication activities.