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This report from SOS Children’s Villages and the University of Bedfordshire provides reviews and assessments of the implementation of the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children in 21 countries around the world. The report is aimed at enhancing knowledge around violence against children in alternative care (especially what makes children vulnerable and what puts them at risk) and providing policymakers and practitioners insight into the challenges of protecting children from violence as well as recommendations for change.
The report offers several key findings from an extensive…
This report - produced by SOS Children’s Villages, Centre for Excellence for Looked After Children in Scotland, and the University of Malawi - is based on a synthesis of eight assessments of the implementation of the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children (“the Guidelines”) in Benin, Gambia, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Togo, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
It considers common challenges to implementing the Guidelines identified in the eight countries and provides a platform for effective advocacy to promote every child’s right to quality care. At the end of each chapter, the report provides…
WHAT: A report that identifies gaps and provides recommendations for protecting and supporting girls living on the streets. It provides models of good practices from Ghana, Kenya and Zimbabwe.
WHO: Social and community workers involved in the protection and support of children living or working on the street, specifically girls ages 12 to 18.
WHERE: While this report is primarily based on work with girls in Zambia, its examples of good practices include lessons from worldwide programs and research, and thus…
Part of series of ‘How-to’ Guides that highlight successful initiatives by Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and their implementing partners around the world, this Guide provides practical strategies and tips from CRS/Zimbabwe’s experience facilitating child participation in educational initiatives. The Guide is meant to provide ideas and inspiration for other organizations interested in ensuring approriate child participation in educational programmes.
The Guide provides an overview of the concept and importance of child participation and six illustrative examples of…
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…
Children and youth affected by AIDS typically face a wide range of stressful events and circumstances, including poverty, the loss of caregivers and loved ones, having to drop out of school, the burden of adultlike responsibilities, and social isolation. Increasingly programs for orphans and vulnerable children are addressing not only their material and educational needs, but their psychosocial needs as well. Yet there has been little research on how to evaluate psychosocial support (PSS) programs and the impact of these programs on vulnerable youth’s psychosocial well-being.
This report…
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…
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…
There is widespread recognition of the urgency necessary to address the problem of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) within the context of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, especially in sub- Saharan Africa. Many countries in the region, in collaboration with development agencies and non-governmental organisations (NGOs), have outlined policy guidelines and identified models of intervention. As a result, a considerable number of programmes targeting OVC have been implemented in the past few years. However, there are very few which have been independently evaluated in order to establish…
This brief highlights a sound practice for Operations Research (OR) that was culled from the experiences of CRS Zimbabwe’s Support to Replicable, Innovative, Village/Community-Level Efforts to support children affected by AIDS (STRIVE) Program on Operations Research. The brief outlines the relevance and need to avoid double counting of program beneficiaries.
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