MAMTA Experiments
The MAMTA Health Institute for Mother and Child is an internationally recognised non-governmental organization in New Delhi. MAMTA is present in 14 States of India and has extended its reach beyond national borders to Nepal and Bangladesh. The organisation is committed to integrated health and development issues in the context of poverty, gender and rights with life cycle approach. MAMTA provides training and guidance for mothers, mothers-to-be, teenage girls and family fathers/ husbands in the area of parenting, infant nutrition, child care and family planning.
MAMTA plans to expand to 50 more districts with over 200 village clusters in India and has entered a cooperation with the ICCL in July 2010 to evaluate how best to set up new operations in future. We accompany the entry project by conducting randomized experiments in which entry strategies in rural areas and slums will be systematically varied in order to find out which strategies are most successful for the organisation and its clients.
MAMTA is a national level NGO committed to integrated health and development issues in the context of poverty, gender and rights with a Life Cycle Approach. The organization initiated its work in an urban slum, Tigri (Delhi) in 1990 by providing clinical services to women and children with an aim to enhance their health status and improve pregnancy outcomes.
In the past 20 years the organization has evolved to expand its operations into newer areas including adolescent health, education, entrepreneurship development and empowerment of young people with a thrust on community participation for better health outcomes. More information about Mamta is available at http://www.mamta-himc.org.