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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…
Of an estimated 15 million Kenyan children, approximately 1.7 million are orphans. About one-third of them are barely able to comprehend their loss, having not reached five years of age. 650,000 have lost their parents due to AIDS. Moreover, the number of orphans is projected to grow to 2.5 million by 2010, with 500,000 of these children having lost both parents.
Behind the numbers are courageous efforts by Kenyans around the country to absorb children orphaned or made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS (OVCs) into traditional extended family systems. Grand-mothers, aunts and uncles, among others,…
The South African School Nutrition Programme was established in 1994 to address the food needs of impoverished school children. However, researchers are divided about the policy value of the school nutrition programme, with one group wishing to expand the programme whilst the other advocates limiting its scope. This paper argues that the lack of balance between school feeding and other nutritional considerations de-legitimises the programme’s narrow targeting and strengthens arguments for the expansion of the school nutrition programme.
The paper tells the historical story of the school…
SIMBA is an innovative program designed to promote economic development in HIV/AIDS affected communities in Zimbabwe and to reduce the economic vulnerability of affected households and individuals. While most microfinance service programs are not structured to meet the needs of affected households, SIMBA targeted five specific vulnerable groups: widows, orphans and youth, commercial sex workers, care providers, and people living with HIV/AIDS.
SIMBA partners with local AIDS Service Organizations (ASOs) that organize care-providing services through a community-based volunteer network…
One of the major challenges facing governments, international organizations and NGOs in their response to the rapidly rising number of orphans and vulnerable children is the lack of data on the situation of orphans, and on the quality and effectiveness of interventions. Continuous assessments of national strategies aimed at improving the welfare of orphans are needed in order to assess the effectiveness of these interventions. A key area is the food and nutrition situation of orphans and other children made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS. Inconsistent findings make it difficult to assess if orphans…
This report examines and discusses the risks faced by African orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs); the costs and pros and cons of interventions working with OVCs; and provides guidance on what kinds of intervention or approaches might work in a given country context or situation.
The study emphasizes three concerns: the vulnerabilities associated with orphanhood require immediate attention; there is an urgent need to target assistance to the neediest children; although there is still no blueprint on the best way to scale up interventions, the World Bank’s multicountry AIDS programs…
The vast majority of poor people in Africa have no access to formal social protection mechanisms and formal safety nets. Formal safety nets redistribute resources to poor people to reduce chronic poverty or to protect them against risks posed by disease, loss of employment, drought, conflict, financial crises, or macroeconomic adjustment. Safety nets can both reduce poverty in the short term and, when coupled with the longer-term approach taken by social protection programs, contribute simultaneously to a broader development strategy.
In Africa and elsewhere, safety nets were promoted in…
This toolkit is designed to equip World Vision Area Development Programs to start, expand, and enhance HIV/AIDS responses. This toolkit is also intended to provide ADP staff with concrete assistance to achieve the FY05 goals for HIV/AIDS programming established by World Vision International.
This toolkit includes both practical programming guidance and a range of hands-on tools that ADP staff can apply in their contexts. The toolkit is based on the sound practices of HIV/AIDS programming developed by World Vision, as well as lessons learned by partners.
The primary intended users of the…
South Africa has seen a rapid increase in HIV prevalence among the general population over the past 10 years, from less than one percent in 1990 to twenty percent in 2001. As the HIV/AIDS epidemic increases, so do the number of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC). In 2002, an estimated five million people (approximately 12 percent of the population) were living with HIV/AIDS. Because of the average 10-year period between infection and death, even if HIV prevalence declined rapidly, South Africa would still experience an increasing orphan burden for many years to come. Projections show that…
No one wants children to suffer the harshness of life in poverty. This can drive some parents to entrust their children to an orphanage or to work in domestic service. It can lead some social workers to remove children from a home because their family is poor. There are times when these are the best options available: the children will be better fed and the parents may have the time to overcome a crisis and build a more stable home. Outcomes are far worse when children leave of their own accord and end up on their own in the streets. But even in the best of…