OVC National Plan of Action

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OVC National Plan of Action

• 2006-2010

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Goal

• The goal is to scale up the national response to
  OVC/MVC, building on previous and existing
  experiences to reach more children, with more
  services over a longer period of time consistently

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Technical Components

• Service delivery environment
• Education
• Health
• Household level care
• Protection and security
• Psychosocial support
• Measuring the process (ME)
• Community economic capacity building and resource
  mobilization.

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Service Delivery Environment
5 Strategic Objectives
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Objective A

• Strengthened Coordination, Supervision and
  Management of Service Provision for MVC
• Enhance Information and Communication among
  Ministries and Agencies by the use of Information
  Communication Technology (ICT).
• Strengthening the MAC at the District, Ward and
  Village level to function as District OVC
  Coordination Committee
• Organise training sessions for the OVC
  subcommittees at District, ward and Village
  levels

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Objective B Developed and/or Reviewed Policies
to Incorporate MVC Issues

• Accomplish the task of reviewing the National
  Child Development Policy and the Youth Policy
  Dev. Of Social Welfare and Family Development
  Policies
• Reviewing of the existing relevant policies and
  strategies and identifying gaps with regard to
  the care, support and protection of MVC through a
  consultative process (the education policy, The
  Health Policy, Community Development Policy, etc.

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Objective C Streamlined Laws and Regulations for
Care, Support and Protection of MVC

• Strengthening the legal framework in dealing with
  children and enforcement of Laws and Regulations
  to care, support and protect MVC by
• review of relevant Laws and Acts to the best
  interest of children and in particular MVC access
  to community justice and paralegal services at
  the community and village levels
• Educate Communities on the Rights of Children and
  in Particular MVC

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Objective D Community Mobilization to Support
Scaled-up Response for MVC

• Introducing the MVC Program in the remaining
  districts

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Objective E Strengthened Political Will and
Commitment to Support MVC Related Activities

• Implementing advocacy and awareness raising
  campaign among Parliamentarians, Political
  leaders, and Councilors

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HOUSEHOLD LEVEL CARE

• 7 Strategic Objectives

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Objective A Improve household food security and
nutrition of MVC/OVC in the short and long terms.

• Provide food to school going MVC (Program to
  provide food in schools)
• Conduct training on adequate food intake and
  proper nutrition

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Objective B Improve household economic status to
ensure food security

• Mobilizing resources for income generating
  activities
• Conducting training on income generating
  activities e.g. on identification of activities
  suitable to the local environment that MVC can
  undertake
• Linking them to sources of funding

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Objective CEnsuring Shelter, bedding and
clothing adequacy

• Provide basics assistance for shelter, clothing
  and bedding
• v?bed net (1 per year)
• clothing (3 pairs of clothes per year)
• blanket and bedding (two pairs of blanket,
  two pairs of bed sheet and one mattress per
  child) )

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Objective D Improve Personal Hygiene

• Sensitization campaigns
• Develop mechanism for reaching out of school
  children on personal hygiene
• Develop mechanism of providing soap, water,
  sanitary pads to MVC

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Objective E Child Rearing and Upbringing

• Ensure proper child rearing and upbringing
• Home visits (Child headed Households)
• Orient care takers/guardians on proper child
  care practices through community IMCI
• Training of Village Health Workers in follow up
  of the service poor
• Village health workers to Conduct dialogue at
  household level on proper child care practices
  level

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Objective F Foster Care and Availability of Care
Providers

• Conduct a feasibility study on social safety nets
• Put in place a mechanisms that supports foster
  families in order to promote foster care

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Objective G Building Capacity among the MVC,
Households and the Local Communities

• Child-level Interventions
• Providing vocational training, apprenticeships,
  and formal education
• Facilitating establishment of MVC
  income-generating groups, providing microfinance
  services, and legal support to the MVC

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Objective G Building Capacity among the MVC,
Households and the Local Communities

• Household-level intervention
• Provide business grants, labor-saving techniques,
  microfinance, and legal support and advocacy to
  households with MVC

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EDUCATION

• TO ENABLE MVC TO ACCESS EDUCATION

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Pre-School Education

• Identification of pre-school going age MVC by
  community, ward, and district
• Pay for MVC preschool fees in areas with private
  pre-school facilities

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Primary Education

• Identification of primary school going age MVC
  by community, ward, and district
• Pay for MVC primary school fees in areas with
  private primary school facilities
• Pay for the education expenses (Stationery,
  uniforms, other specific requirements by the
  school

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Secondary Education

• Increase the number of MVC support for secondary
  education by the Government through the ministry
  of education
• Increase the number of MVC support for secondary
  education through the Local government funds
• Mobilize communities through the MVC committees
  to support some of the MVC from their communities
  for secondary education

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Vocational Training Technical Education

• Identification of MVC who are eligible for
  vocational training and apprenticeship
• Identification of relevant vocational training
  centers within the district, community and or
  neighboring communities
• Identification of firms/institutions willing to
  take MVC for apprenticeships

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• Pay for the required fees and expenses for the
  vocational training and or apprenticeships and
  Provide the MVC with upkeep allowances
• Organize the MVC which have complete vocational
  education/apprenticeships into groups/societies
  and facilitate them to access credit from credit
  sources available within the district e.g. some
  local governments provide credit to societies

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Higher Education

• Identify Eligible OVC for Higher Education
  Support
• Pay the Fees for the MVC
• Pay for the non-fee expenses
• Give personal monthly allowances

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HEALTH CARE

• 11 Areas of Intervention

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Areas of Intervention

• Improving access of MVC to essential health care
• To increase MVC access to adolescent health
  friendly services
• To improve outcome of mother and child in PMTCT
  services
• To improve access and quality of health services
  for HIV infected MVC

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Areas of intervention

• Improving access of MVC to growth monitoring
  services
• Improving and strengthen growth promotion for MVC
  
• Improving knowledge on nutrition among MVCs
  households
• To improve nutrition among MVC through school
  health programmes

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Areas of Intervention

• To provide home based care to MVC and their
  chronically ill household members
• To improve hygiene, sanitation ad access to water
  MVC and their households
• Provide support for RVT for MVC living with
  HIV/AIDS
• Provide Nutritional Support to MVC under ARVT

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Social Protection and Security
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To promote and protect OVC rights

• Amending the relevant provisions of the Child
  Policy relating to the protection of OVC rights
• Amendment of the other sectoral policies to
  ensure provision of child protection and security
  in each sector

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Ensuring MVC protection and security at the
community level

• putting in place effective Community Justice
  Facilitation
• Forming a National Community Justice Facilitation
  Team
• Training the National Team of CJFs
• Training and putting in place CJFs at the
  District, Ward, and Village/Community level

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PSYCHOSOCIAL SUPPORT
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Psychosocial Support

• Review existing OVC/MVC programmes in selected
  communities to find out how psychosocial needs of
  OVC/MVC are addressed
• Review of the existing training programmes and
  materials on psychosocial support
• Conduct skill training sessions on the use of
  psychosocial support material for stakeholders

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Psychosocial Support

• Modify and adopt PSS programmes and material from
  various sources for stakeholders and clients
• Strengthen OVC/MVC committee at all levels to
  address and monitor psychosocial support
  activities at all levels
• Strengthen OVC/MVC intervention programmes to
  incorporate psychosocial support components

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Psychosocial Support

• Identification of the most vulnerable/ affected
  areas/ communities and children
• Raising stakeholders' awareness of psychosocial
  support (seminar/workshop)
• Conducting skill training sessions on
  psychosocial support for stakeholders (TOTs) from
  district to village level

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Psychosocial Support

• Dissemination of materials to key stakeholders
  (TOTs
• Setting up psychosocial support activity
  coordinating machinery
• Preparation of psychosocial support intervention
  materials for OVC/MVC
• Creating a psychosocial support monitoring
  mechanism

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Measuring the Process

• Monitoring and Evaluation

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Resource Mobilization Framework

• National, District and Community Level