National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development

Aims to enhance programmes and perspectives on child development. National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development generally called as NIPPCD. It is an autonomous organization under the administrative jurisdiction of the Department of Women and Child Development, Ministry of Human Resource Development. The Bangalore branch of NIPCCD organizes training in child development for government personnel and NGOs of the southern states. It initiates research, documentation and dissemination in the area of child development, and has a library of publications on child development. It is the apex body for training and monitoring of the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) programme. As the Secretariat for the National Children's Fund it helps voluntary agencies implement child development projects.

NIPCCD is listed under the category- Child Development/Organizations and it was established in the year 1980. Focuses on child development, training, library, Integrated Child Development Services, resource centre. functions at the Local, State, National level and it works with children, women.

While the activities of the institute have expanded to promote voluntary action, research, training and documentation in the overall domain of Women and Child Welfare, it was initially started to train the top-and middle-level functionaries of the ICDS programme.  It is the apex body for training of ICDS functionaries. It has the responsibility of planning, coordinating and monitoring the training, designing, revising and standardizing of curriculum for all categories of functionaries; and preparing, procuring and distributing training material and aids. NIPCCD is not involved in training the anganwadi workers; but is involved in training the trainers, supervisors and child development project officers. 
 
Training
Apart from the ICDS programme, the institute conducts customized training programmes for various organizations at their request.

• Orientation course on project formulation for mother and child care for voluntary organizations to strengthen their capabilities in formulating viable projects and implementing and monitoring them effectively.
• Orientation course on learning disabilities for school teachers to help them develop methods and techniques to identify children with learning disabilities and how to help them.
• Skill training on the management of the ECCD (Early Child Care and Development) programme for the supervisory staff of NGOs.

 
Research
NIPPCD has undertaken many research and evaluation studies.

• A study of child welfare institutions in Karnataka between September 2000 and January 2001 to understand the functioning of the child care institutions and offer suggestions to improve their functioning
• It took up a four-year research project to study the psycho-social development of children in the 2-6 age group.
• In 1992 a study was formulated to investigate the factors responsible for malnutrition in early childhood and its relationship to mental growth and behavioral disorders.

NIPCCD is not a service organization as it concentrates on training and policy matters.  It has, however, opened a child guidance center at its premises at Yelahanka in 2003.  Being a child-related institution it was felt that a service component in a community-based model was essential.  Added to this was the non-availability of such a facility in the surrounding area.  The center will be open to children, 0-6 years or more, with development and behavioral problems such as learning disability, spasticity, slow learners, mental retardation etc.  They will be attended to by trained professionals and will be referred to specialized services as and when needed.  It will function at the NIPCCD premises and one day in a week will be devoted to community work at Yelahanka and Devanahalli. 
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NIPPCD is also a member of the Karnataka State Training Task Force that has been created to monitor and evaluate the ICDS training component. UNICEF has identified the Bangalore centre as the nodal agency to formulate the policy framework on ECCD (Early Child Care and Development) for implementation in the southern states. Since its mandate is to work towards public cooperation, NIPCCD works in close contact with a number of organizations.  It is a member of the BPNI (Breastfeeding Promotion Network of India and has been the secretariat for the Karnataka chapter of the Network on Information on Parenting (NIP).
 
Contact Address:
#18 ,Yelahanka New Town, opp to Escorts, Doddaballapur Road, Bangalore - 560064.
Ph 28462818, 28461355, Fax 28461793, Email [email protected], Websitewww.nipccd.nic.in/bangalore