The STRIDE program, a part of the Tribal Health Collaborative initiated by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Piramal Foundation, operates in partnership with Odisha's ST & SC Development Department. Its core mission is to enhance the health and nutrition outcomes of the state's tribal communities. Systemic enablers will be established under the program that lead to the continuous improvement in delivery of all entitlements fundamental to the wellbeing of tribal communities. This will be done by enriching the Tribal Database, a golden record of all tribal citizens, with high-confidence data and leveraging it to optimize the delivery of essential entitlements measured through the Quality of Life Index (QLI). The program encompasses a spectrum of interventions, from restructuring the MAMATA scheme to fostering access to Anganwadi Centres and enhancing social determinants like land rights, livelihood, and education, thereby paving the way for a healthier, well-nourished tribal population in Odisha.
Our approach to transforming tribal population’s health and nutrition outcomes is to establish systemic enablers such as policies, programs, data, tools and processes within tribal health systems. These enablers include the setup of a golden record of all tribal citizens, the Tribal Database, and leveraging it to optimize the delivery of essential entitlements. The Quality of Life Index (QLI), a multi-dimensional index, will measure saturation against a basket of 25 entitlements key to the health and nutrition status of a tribal household. QLI analytics will enable the government to maximize the saturation of existing entitlements by reaching out to missed eligible beneficiaries or addressing accessibility gaps and designing new programs/ entitlements where needed. QLI will set in motion the cycle of continuous improvement in health and nutrition outcomes. The target for 2025 will be to demonstrate the effectiveness of QLI as a system enabler by increasing the state-level QLI by 1 point.
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