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Introduction: Economic strengthening practitioners are increasingly seeking data collection tools that will help them target households vulnerable to HIV and poor child well-being outcomes, match households to appropriate interventions, monitor their status, and determine readiness for graduation from project support. This article discusses efforts in 3 countries to develop simple, valid tools to quantify and classify economic vulnerability status.
Methods and Findings: In Côte d'Ivoire, we conducted a cross-sectional survey with 3,…
The Household Vulnerability Assessment tool (HVAT) is for assessment of families selected through the vulnerability prioritization process. This adapted tool helps to obtain in-depth baseline information about a family’s level of vulnerability to family-child separation, which will be used for monitoring progression of FARE beneficiary families’ vulnerability to family-child separation. The tool should be used with only households identified and prioritized using the Household Vulnerability Prioritization Tool (HVPT), and it should be administered only to families who will be supported. The…
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The Household Vulnerability Prioritization Tool (HVPT) is a national tool in Uganda developed to help government and implementing partners identify and prioritize households with, affected by, or at high risk for HIV for enrollment in orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) programming. This tool was developed specifically for the Uganda context and in collaboration with the Uganda OVC Technical Working Group.
The purpose of this document is to provide guidelines for other countries and implementing partners overseeing OVC programming, so they can adapt the…
This adjusted Household Vulnerability Prioritization Tool (HVPT) is intended to assist FARE Project in prioritizing households for enrolment into program/support. This tool should be applied to all households listed by the chairpersons LC I using the prescreening tool by a FARE Project staff. It can also be applied to households coming from referrals. The FARE project has adapted this tool to include additional indicators associated with risk of family-child separation. For further information in how to administer and enroll children, refer to the OVC Vulnerability Prioritization guidelines,…
The CPC Learning Network and UNHCR are collaborating to develop and test a Child Protection Index (CPI), a measure of strength of the child protection system in refugee settings, based on UNHCR’s Framework for the Protection of Children. This report details the results of the baseline study conducted from December 2014-February 2015 in Kiryandongo and Adjumani refugee settlements, Uganda.
While the need for strong child protection systems in refugee settings is clear, ways to measure the strength of these systems and the impact of interventions are very limited. The inability to measure…
A list of OVC national indicators used by the CORE Initiative for the prevention of OVC and HIV among youth in Uganda. The indicators will be used to assess the achievement of an increase in the scale of effective programme interventions that reach OVC, either directly or through the households in which they live, by 2010.
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This document begins by discussing the background for developing the psychosocial indicators that are used for measurement and the limitations of current indicators. The purpose was to create national level psychosocial indicators.
It goes on to provide an in depth review of the psychosocial impacts that HIV/AIDS have on children. Specifically it covers poverty, death, loss, grieving, stigma, discrimination, and increased risk of infection.
Finally, the author provides samples of surveys that can be used for measuring psychosocial indicators through caregiver and youth…
A Capacity Needs Assessment (CNA) was planned, organized and conducted under the auspices of the Uganda Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development (MGLSD) CORE Initiatives Project. The purpose of the assessment was to determine MGLSD and district management and operational capacity needs in providing leadership and coordination, and monitoring and evaluating the national response to OVC and AB/Y.
A total of eight districts were assessed and they included Bundibugyo, Bushenyi, Rukungiri, Kanungu, Kapchorwa, Kitgum, Lira, Masaka, Masindi and Pader. Analysis of the assessment…
This document provides a tool that was used to asses capacities for quality OVC response in Uganda by the Core Initiative. The broad capacity areas to be assessed were compiled from the capacity areas identified by OVC grantees and from key documents such as the National Strategic Program Plan of Interventions for OVC (NSSPI). A few capacity areas were added where key gaps were identified. The tool addresses the following capacities:
Quality OVC service delivery capacity
- Child…