EFICOR in partnership with Christian Reformed World Relief Committee (CRWRC) received the CSHGP grant from USAID for the year 2007-08. The five year project will be operational with effect from 1st October 2007.

The proposed location of this Child Survival programme is the entire Sahibganj District in Jharkhand State, India. The total population of Sahibganj is 927,770, which includes 161,950 children under age five and 188,511 women age 15-49. The Child Survival and Health Programme will benefit the entire population of Sahibganj over a period of five years.
  
The goal of the CRWRC/EFICOR Child Survival Programme is to improve nutrition among children under the age of five and reduce mortality among mothers and newborns through building and sustaining the capacity of the community.   

During the five-year programme period, CRWRC/EFICOR seeks to achieve six strategic objectives in the Sahibganj district of Jharkhand, India.  The strategic objectives are in alignment with Intermediate Result 3 of USAID India's Health Strategic Objective; to "increase use of key child survival interventions" as well as the GOI National Health Policy (2002) , National Population Policy (2000) and National Rural Health Mission Goal(NRHM).

1. Increase community-based antenatal care for women aged 15-49.
2. Improve safe delivery practices and referrals for mothers aged 15-49.
3. Improve home-based post-partum care for mothers aged 15-49 and newborns during the first 6 weeks of life.
4. Increase the overall weight of children less than five years of age.
5. Increase rate of immunization among children aged 12-23 months.
6. Improve rate of prevention of malaria and treatment efforts among children less than five years of age and pregnant women.