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Expanding Community-Based Support for Orphans and Vulnerable Children
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Contents

Summary

1. Background
1.1 Children affected by AIDS - the scale of the problem
1.2 Responses to increasing numbers of vulnerable children
1.3 Background to workshop

2. ‘Scaling-up’ support to orphans and vulnerable children
2.1 Increasing impact through ‘scale-up’
2.2 Tributaries of impact

Table 1: Tributaries of impact of OVC activities: focus, coverage, quality
and sustainability

3. Community level OVC responses
3.1 Characteristics of community-based responses
3.2 Community case studies from Zimbabwe
3.3 Scale-up of community OVC responses

4. Supporting CBOs and NGOs involved in community responses
4.1 CBO/NGO support
4.2 Case studies: CBO/NGO support for OVC initiatives
4.3 Scale-up of CBO/NGO support

5. Creating an enabling environment for scale-up
5.1 Enabling environment
5.2 Case studies: policy and advocacy around OVC issues
5.3 Creating a more enabling environment

6. Conclusion

Appendix: Workshop participants

Acronyms
CBO community-based organization
CINDI Children in Distress
COPE Community-based Options for Protection and Empowerment
FACT Family AIDS Caring Trust
FHT Family Health Trust
FOCUS Families, Orphans and Children Under Stress
INGO international non-governmental organisation
IPC Initiative Privée et Communautaire de Lutte Contre le SIDA
NGO non-governmental organisation
OVC orphans and vulnerable children
SC-US Save the Children Federation-USA
UNGASS The United Nations General Assembly Special Session

Copyright details
International HIV/AIDS Alliance
Queensberry House
104-106 Queens Road
Brighton BN1 3XF
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 1273 718 900
Fax: +44 1273 718 901
E-mail: mail@aidsalliance.org
Websites: www.aidsalliance.org www.aidsmap.com
Registered British Charity Number 1038860

Family AIDS Caring Trust (FACT)
12 R. Mugabe Way Box 970 Mutare Zimbabwe
Tel: +263 20 61648/6615/67493
Fax: + 263 20 65281
E-mail: rgp@aloe.co.zw

Print and pdf versions designed and published by Progression www.progressiondesign.co.uk Date of Publication: May 2002

This publication was made possible through the support provided by the African Bureau of the US Agency for International Development under the terms of Award Number HRN-G-00-98-00010-00. The opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the US Agency for International Development.

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