This two-page brief from USAID describes the “Keeping Children in Healthy and Protective Families” project, a project that is part of 4Children that “focuses on strengthening family care among households at high risk of children separating or where children can be reintegrated after having been placed in residential care.”
“Initiated in September 2014, 4Children is a five‐year USAID‐funded consortium of organizations led by Catholic Relief Services with partners IntraHealth, Maestral, Pact, Plan and Westat. The project aims in part to strengthen and build the evidence base for effective orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) programming through research and evaluation. Working with a team of leading experts in child protection and OVC, 4Children will design and implement assessments, evaluations and other special studies of new and ongoing projects and portfolios.
With dedicated funding from the Displaced Children and Orphans Fund at USAID (DCOF), 4Children includes an applied research project called “Keeping Children in Healthy and Protective Families,” (KCHPF) which focuses on strengthening family care among households at high risk of children separating or where children can be reintegrated after having been placed in residential care. From 2015 to 2019, 4Children will implement KCHPF in Cambodia, Rwanda and Uganda, priority countries for the United States Government Action Plan for Children in Adversity.”
