Health and Nutrition Programmes

Adequate health and nutrition is essential for the healthy development of children. Families affected by illness may not be able to work or provide proper care.  Children in these situations are at risk of dropping out of school in order to care for a sick adult and work in order to replace lost income.  If the caretaker dies from the illness, the child risks a number of negative outcomes including living on the street or being placed in institutional care.

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UNODC,

UNODC published Guidelines to implement family skills training programmes for drug abuse prevention in March 2009. These guidelines contain evidence of effectiveness, principles of family skills training programmes, cultural adaptation guidelines, advice on how to recruit and retain families through the programmes, practical advice on training of staff, as well as information about monitoring and evaluating family skills training programmes.

EveryChild,

Evaluation of the need for increased understanding and inclusive responses to highly marginalized and separated children.

Save the Children UK,

Guidance on the development of monitoring and evaluation indicators for child protection, education, health and HIV, and hunger programs.

Steering Committee of the IATT on Children and HIV and AIDS,

Evaluates AIDS mitigation and targeting with child sensitive objectives and global guidance

Lubuto Library Project,

The Lubuto Library Project seeks to fill an important gap in services to vulnerable children in Africa by providing a bridge to schools and social services otherwise beyond their reach.

FAO,

A guide to setting up, operating and sustaining an agricultural and life skills participatory training program for orphans and vulnerable children (ages 12-18), living in situations of food insecurity.

Jan de Lind van Wijngaarden,

Qualitatively assesses the vulnerability of children living in institutional care in Vietnam. Includes specific recommendations for systems strengthening to reduce vulnerability in various institutional contexts.

Tatiana Feitosa de Britto, International Poverty Centre,

Provides analysis of the historical background and current structure of El Salvador's conditional cash transfer programme with attention to family integration

UNICEF,

Brief overview of a project designed to give monetary aid to poor families. Program seeks to reduce poverty while promoting health and education.

Katie Chapman,

This paper focuses on the impact of one form of demand-side policy option - social transfers, particularly cash transfers and vouchers - on access to health and education services by the extreme poor.