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The National Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children Policy (NOP) is the official policy governing OVC of the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development (MGLSD) of the Republic of Uganda. The policy interprets a vision of a society where all orphans and other vulnerable children live to their full potential, where their rights and aspirations are fulfilled. The Ugandan Government, through MGLSD, is mandated to promote the social protection of poor and vulnerable children. Such children include orphans, those who live on the streets, those that toil under exploitative conditions of labour…
The NSPPI provides overall guidance to implementers to mitigate the impact of orphanhood and other vulnerabilities among children in Uganda. The overall goal of the NSPPI for Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children in Uganda is to increase the scale of effective programme interventions that reach vulnerable children, either directly or through the households in which they live, by 2010. The NSPPI builds upon existing policies and programmes and is a vehicle for implementing the Social Development Sector Investment Plan (SDIP) and the NOP.
The vision of the NSPPI is a society where all…