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Very little information is available on the ex-post cost of delivering services to orphans and other vulnerable children (OVC). This hinders large scale planning of interventions for OVC. This study responds by estimating the costs of some recent projects for OVC in Benin and in Eritrea.
The study shows that the cost of institutional solutions is high relative to family-based solutions. The average annual economic cost per child of a group home for orphans in Eritrea averaged about $1,900; that for an orphanage in Benin was about $1,300. The corresponding cost of orphans’…
The devastating consequences of HIV/AIDS on African societies, and its particular impact on children, is requiring every organisation involved in fighting the epidemic to find new strategies to address adequately both the scale of the problem and its duration. The crisis of children left behind by AIDS is a humanitarian, development and human rights challenge of unprecedented proportions.
Although there have been substantial gains in improving overall child survival, these gains are being eroded in African countries hardest hit by the epidemic. The scale of the epidemic on this…