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ChildFund International (ChildFund) is a child‐focused International Non‐Governmental Organization (INGO) which, since 1938, has worked with local implementing partners (LIPs), government, and other partner organizations to help create the safe environments children need to thrive. The purpose of this commentary is to reflect on the utility and possible application of the suggestions and study designs in this special issue to real‐life intervention studies in dynamic context settings. The commentary provides three regional case examples with evaluation study lessons learned from…
WHAT: Guidance on the development of monitoring and evaluation indicators for child protection, education, health and HIV, and hunger programs. Includes an overview of expected outcomes for each program area, and presents a detailed table of outcome indicators per each outcome. It also provides good practice examples of impact indicators.
WHO: Program managers and social and community workers involved with child care and protection, especially those with program monitoring and evaluation responsibilities.
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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…
Many developing countries are hard hit by the HIV/AIDS pandemic, particularly in Africa. India and other Asian countries are also being affected. In some areas, as many as one in every 3 women of childbearing age are infected with HIV and will succumb to AIDS, probably before their children reach adulthood. The US Census Bureau has estimated that 15.6 million children had lost their mother or both parents to AIDS by the end of 2000. More than 90% of these children are from sub-Saharan Africa.
Because so many young people are dying, the social framework that has been used for…