National Project Implementation Plan - NVBDCP

State-level: The States are responsible for implementing the program’s
preventive and curative services, and monitoring in accordance with central
guidelines. Every State has a Vector Borne Disease Control Unit under its
Department of Health and Family Welfare. The state unit is headed by the
State Program Officer, mostly a Joint Director, who is responsible for day-today
management as well as technical aspects of the program. She/he will be
accountable for the preparation and implementation of state project
implementation plan. The state PIP will be based on district implementation
plans developed following the guidelines provided by the NVBDCP. The focus
will be on improving outcomes in high burden districts for malaria and kalaazar
ensuring effective coordination with the NRHM.
The States have established State Vector Borne Disease Control Societies,
which are now in the process of being integrated with similar entities
established for other Centrally Sponsored Schemes into a single state-level
Health and Family Welfare Society under the NRHM. The State Integrated
Health Society will have the overall coordination responsibility for the
implementation of the project plans approved by the central Project Steering
Committee. Its main role will remain to channel funds from the GOI to the
States (and onwards to districts) for the financing of the programs (VBDCP and
other CSSs). These societies will also play a role in district planning and in
monitoring of program activities within districts.
State Project Coordination Committee: To ensure effective project coordination
and review, a State Project Coordination Committee for the five high disease
burden states of Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa, and Madhya Pradesh
is proposed to meet once a quarter. This committee will be chaired by the Chief
Secretary/ or a senior officer designated by him and will have the following
membership: Health Secretary; Finance Secretary; Director of Health Services;
Mission Director of the State Health Society; Regional Director,ROHFW; State
Joint Director/State Program Officer acting as the Member Secretary. This highlevel
Committee will review implementation progress and address constraints
through summary orders. Agenda will be circulated two weeks in advance and
minutes of the meeting within two weeks after the meeting.
District-level: At the district level, the District Integrated Health and Family
Welfare Society chaired by the District Collector will be responsible for the
overall coordination. It will approve and monitor the implementation of the
district action plans prepared by district Vector Borne Disease (VBD) officer. At
the district level, District Malaria Offices have been established in most places
headed by the District Malaria Officer who will be designated as nodal officer
for vector borne disease control. This is the key unit for the planning and
monitoring of the program. For high malaria and kala-azar burden districts, the
project will provide additional consultant support to the district VBD Officer.
Both of them will be provided management training covering the core program
principles, resource mapping, implementation arrangements for improved
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