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This resource guide aims to assist program designers, funders, and implementers to select and incorporate appropriate and effective household economic strengthening (HES) measures into programs to preserve or reestablish family care for children. Poverty—not having enough of the essential requirements of life—is a structural driver of family and child vulnerability; it weakens families and increases the likelihood of children separating from them, although it is rarely the only contributing factor (Chaffin and Kalyanpur 2014, Delap 2013, EveryChild 2009, Laumann 2015). HES, which aims to…
This Practitioner Brief from the the Coordinating Comprehensive Care for Children (4Children) project presents key learning and recommendations from the Keeping Children in Healthy and Protective Families (KCHPF) project in Uganda. KCHPF is a project funded by USAID/Displaced Children and Orphans Fund (DCOF) as part of the Coordinating Comprehensive Care for Children (4Children) project designed to contribute to learning in the alternative care and care reform sectors. The KCHPF project supported the reintegration of children living in residential care back into family care in…
In 2013, in collaboration with UNICEF, the government of Rwanda established the Tubarerere Mu Muryango (Let’s Raise Children in Families - TMM) programme to enable the closure of large-scale residential care institutions for children and promote family-based care. The programme aims to build strong systems of protection and care that will have sustainable and wider benefits for children in Rwanda. This case study profiles the reintegration experiences of one child who has participated in TMM. It is based, where possible, on interviews with the child, his or her family, district social worker…
In 2013, in collaboration with UNICEF, the government of Rwanda established the Tubarerere Mu Muryango (Let’s Raise Children in Families - TMM) programme to enable the closure of large-scale residential care institutions for children and promote family-based care. The programme aims to build strong systems of protection and care that will have sustainable and wider benefits for children in Rwanda. This case study profiles the reintegration experiences of one child who has participated in TMM. It is based, where possible, on interviews with the child, his or her family, district social worker…
ABSTRACT
The broad-ranging benefits of cash transfers are now widely recognized. However, the evidence base highlights that they often fall short in achieving longer-term and second-order impacts related to nutrition, learning outcomes and morbidity. In recognition of these limitations, several ‘cash plus’ initiatives have been introduced, whereby cash transfers are combined with one or more types of complementary support. This paper aims to identify key factors for successful implementation of these increasingly popular ‘cash plus’ programmes, based on (i) a review of the emerging…
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Orphans and vulnerable children Programmes in Kenya are facing challenges of qualified project chiefs and lack of an extensive number of project administrators who have the applicable abilities required for project administration rehearses for effective project conveyance. The purpose of this study was to investigate factors influencing performance of orphans and vulnerable children Programmes in Kenya focusing on unbound project in TharakaNithi County, Kenya. The study was guided by the following objectives to assess the influence of donor funding, social cultural factors,…
The Burning Question addressed in this reflection piece is: How necessary and effective are cash transfers as a component of the economic strengthening pathway, hypothesized as crucial for the project goals of building family resilience as a means of preventing child-family separation or ensuring successful reintegration of children into family care?
This Reflection Note is intended as a means for AVSI staff and implementing partners on the FARE project (a project of …
Question of Study: How, in practice, were Household Development Plans used, and what was their value in improving the relationship environment and capacities of families to reintegrate previously separated children and youth back at home and to prevent separation?
This question was considered very important for the AVSI Uganda staff because of the recent and powerful experience with the SCORE project in which each household prepared a Household Development Plan (HDP) tailored to the available resources and potential already existing within each household. The tool proved very useful…
With the support of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Office of HIV/AIDS, and the Displaced Children and Orphans Fund, FHI 360 assembled a consortium of leading organizations and experts to address the needs of vulnerable populations, especially children, under the Accelerating Strategies for Practical Innovation and Research in Economic Strengthening (ASPIRES) project.
The primary goal of the project is to support gender-sensitive programming, research and learning to improve the economic security of highly vulnerable…
Introduction
In Uganda and elsewhere, poverty is one of the key drivers of child-family separation and is linked to other, more specific constraints on the ability of families to provide for their children’s basic needs, including food, shelter, hygiene and access to health care and education. Caregivers’ inability to pay for costs associated with children’s education, in particular, is a challenge for the poorest families in Uganda. Lacking the means to pay for education, caregivers sometimes place their children in residential care institutions in the hope that they will be able to…