To ensure holistic development of adolescent population, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare launched Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram (RKSK) on 7th January 2014 to reach out to 253 million adolescents - male and female, rural and urban, married and unmarried, in and out-of-school adolescents with special focus on marginalized and undeserved groups . The programme expands the scope of adolescent health programming in India - from being limited to sexual and reproductive health, it now includes in its ambit nutrition, injuries and violence (including gender based violence), non-communicable diseases, mental health and substance misuse. The strength of the program is its health promotion and prevention approach. CINI supports Government of West Bengal to strengthen the programme with key strategies such as strengthening the adolescent engagement process through Peer Education approach, capacity building, participation of peer educators in the decision making platforms, also by influencing parents and adult decision makers from family and community

• CINI is the Technical Partner of State NHM in West Bengal & Jharkhand.
• To empower and build both social and technical capacity of adolescent girls and boys on six RKSK components including gender, reproductive sexual health, gender-based violence, rights and entitlements through strengthening convergence between different adolescent programs of different Departments like Health and Family Welfare, Women and Child Development and Education.
• To enhance capacities of communities, parents, service providers and local self-government to lead a sustainable process of adolescent development in their area through convergence between different programmes for adolescents
• To facilitate availability and accessibility of services under RKSK for the adolescent girls and boys including through operation of community level safe spaces and delivery of activities, life skills education, counselling and other support services with a gender perspective.
• Developing a holistic, scalable and sustainable model of a common adolescent development programmes through creating a gender sensitive and adolescent-friendly environment using twin strategies of adolescents as leaders and ensuring community participation share the learning and achievements of the project in the existing networks and platforms
• To share the learning and good practices of the project in the existing networks and platforms.