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The Capacity Needs Assessment (CNA) was planned, organized and conducted under the auspices of the USAID-funded Uganda Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development (MGLSD) CORE Initiatives Project. The Project is implemented by a partnership made up of Care Uganda (lead), International HIV/AIDS Alliance (IHAA), International Centre for Research on Women (IWRC), and the Johns Hopkins University (JHU). Led by IHAA, the assessment was conducted from August to December 2005 nationwide, using a team of 12 persons.
The purpose of the assessment was to determine MGLSD…
The Inter-Agency Guiding Principles on Unaccompanied and Separated Children (2004) underline the importance of identifying, registering and documenting unaccompanied and separated children as quickly as possible in an emergency context, whether a natural disaster or an armed conflict. Family Tracing and Reunification (FTR) has traditionally relied on outdated methods of registration, with data being recorded on paper and later entered into a database system. This results in precious hours and days being lost in efforts to reunite children with their…
Charts that accompany the Mother Jones article Orphan Fever: The Evangelical Movement’s Adoption Obsession by Kathryn Joyce, illustrating the trends in international adoptions from Liberia, Kyrgyzstan, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Haiti to families in the United States.
In this report, Retrak examines the situation of girls living on the streets in Kampala, Uganda and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and provides recommendations for necessary development programs such scaling up services and building new facilities for street girls. The research focused on gaining a deeper understanding of the situation for girls on the streets of these two cities, and guiding Retrak and other street children practitioners on the methods and programs that would best meet their needs.
The research in both locations adopted a qualitative method as primary data was received directly…
This report focuses on the experiences of Save the Children in monitoring, implementing and reviewing NPAs in Angola, Ethiopia, South Africa, Swaziland, Mozambique, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Each of the country offices commissioned the documentation of case studies to identify promising practices and challenges around effective implementation of NPAs.
This report consolidates these case studies and aims to draw lessons learnt from the various efforts undertaken by the country offices. The report analyses the differing processes that have been carried out in order to identify and develop a set…
Social protection, including social transfers and social services for the most vulnerable and marginalized, is gaining momentum as a development priority. Increased attention from governments, NGOs, academic institutes and donors is being accompanied by new calls to strengthen national Governments to coordinate, regulate, and in some cases implement social protection programmes at scale. In order to take up this role, there is increased recognition of the need to strategically locate social protection leadership with the appropriate Government ministry to maximize effectiveness. However,…
In Uganda, over 2 million children are orphans or otherwise vulnerable, representing 14% of the nation’s children. One in four households in Uganda fosters at least one orphan. Fostering by kin or community members is recognized as the best option for orphans and the costs are far less than those of caring for children in orphanages. Many programs in Uganda seek to support orphans and vulnerable children, in alignment with both international policy and Uganda’s national policy. Although there is some research on the efforts to assist orphans in Uganda, few studies have…
The aim of this guide is to draw together SCF’s recent experience of family tracing. It is divided into eleven sections. The first section presents the aims of the guide and methods. It briefly describes family tracing programmes in five countries: Angola, Ethiopia, Liberia, Mozambique and Uganda. The second section provides some historical background and looks at tracing on two different continents.
A National Plan of Action (NPA) for Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) is a government strategy document detailing a set of key objectives and the corresponding activities to address the national OVC situation. In general, NPAs share a common format, drawing their key objectives from the 2001 UN Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS, generated at the UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS. The plans are therefore oriented towards HIV/AIDS. NPAs are usually designed as a five year matrix, often broken down into one or two-year planning phases. The purpose is to respond…
World Vision (WV) and WV-affiliated microfinance institutions (MFIs) recognize that poverty and HIV/AIDS are inextricably linked and mutually exacerbating. Based on this recognition, World Vision and several WV-affiliated MFIs implemented pilot projects to test different approaches to integrating MED and HIV/AIDS response.
Each of these pilots has undergone an individual assessment or evaluation. World Vision and WV-affiliated MFIs felt it timely to conduct a review of the findings of all these assessments/evaluations and to consider relevant state-of-the-art findings by other…