Household Economic Strengthening

Poverty is a leading cause of child separation.  Families may be torn apart by the stresses of trying to provide for their basic needs, and children may be abandoned or exploited for financial purposes.  Household economic strengthening aims to reduce a family’s vulnerability to poverty, increase economic independence, and improve people’s ability to provide for their children.  

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Economic Strengthening and Keeping Children in Family Care: Uganda Learning Event Compiled Notes and Presentations
ASPIRES Family Care,

This report compiles presentations and notes from the Accelerating Strategies for Practical Innovation & Research in Economic Strengthening (ASPIRES) Family Care Uganda Learning Event, Economic Strengthening and Keeping Children in Family Care, held May 29-30, 2018.

Struggles, successes, and setbacks: Youth aging out of child welfare in a subsidized housing program
Lisa Schelbe - Children and Youth Services Review,

This study used ethnographic data to examine a program providing subsidized apartments to youth aging out.

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Catalyzing Business Skills: For Children - Trainer's Guide
Making Cents International,

Making Cents International (Making Cents), in partnership with ChildFund International, developed the Catalyzing Business Skills curriculum for the Economic Strengthening to Keep and Reintegrate Children into Families (ESFAM) project in Uganda. This Trainer’s Guide is intended to be used with children participating in savings groups who are interested in engaging in successful income generation activities.

Catalyzing Business Skills: For Caregivers - Trainer's Guide
Making Cents International,

This curriculum aims to build the financial literacy and business knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for adult members of Economic Strengthening to Keep and Reintegrate Children into Families (ESFAM) savings groups to successfully generate income.

Catalyzing Business Skills: For Youth - Trainer's Guide
Making Cents International,

Making Cents International (Making Cents), in partnership with ChildFund International, developed the Catalyzing Business Skills curriculum for the Economic Strengthening to Keep and Reintegrate Children into Families (ESFAM) project in Uganda. This Trainer’s Guide is intended to be used with youth participating in savings groups who are interested in engaging in successful income generation activities.

Let's Stop Trying to Quantify Household Vulnerability: The Problem With Simple Scales for Targeting and Evaluating Economic Strengthening Programs
Whitney M Moret - Global Health: Science and Practice,

This article discusses efforts in 3 countries to develop simple, valid tools to quantify and classify economic vulnerability status.

ChildFund Deinstitutionalization of Vulnerable Children in Uganda (DOVCU) Final Report
ChildFund,

This final report on the “Deinstitutionalization of Vulnerable Children in Uganda” (DOVCU) project identifies its successes as well as some shortcomings and key learning that is directly relevant to other projects working to support family care for children.  

Catalyzing Business Skills
Making Cents International,

Catalyzing Business Skills is a suite of three financial literacy and business skills curricula developed by Making Cents International and Child Fund's Economic Strengthening to Keep and Reintegrate Children into Families (ESFAM) project in Uganda.

DOVCU Learning Brief 1: The effect of DOVCU’s integrated package of interventions on children and families at risk of separation
ChildFund International,

This learning brief analyzes quantitative data from the first of the project’s stated objectives: examining the extent to which “Deinstitutionalization of Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Uganda” (DOVCU) project interventions decrease vulnerabilities for households and children at risk of separation.

DOVCU Learning Brief 2: The effect of DOVCU’s integrated package of services on reintegrating children and families
ChildFund International,

This learning brief analyzes quantitative data from the second of the “Deinstitutionalization of Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Uganda” (DOVCU) project’s stated objectives: examining the extent to which DOVCU project interventions decrease vulnerabilities for reintegrating children and their families.