Serving Orphans and Vulnerable Children OVC in Mozambique

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Serving Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) in
Mozambique Namibia Partnerships to Strengthen
Micro Credit and Health Education

• Sandra Dalebout, Project HOPE

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Presenter disclosures
Sandra Dalebout

• (1) The following personal financial
  relationships with commercial interests relevant
  to this presentation existed during the past 12
  months

No relationships to disclose
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OVC in Africa

• 11,600,000 million children in sub-Saharan Africa
  are orphans due to HIV/AIDS
• Effort to keep children in their own communities,
  with extended family members

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Caring for OVC in Africa

• Seven established domains of OVC care are agreed
  upon by the international community

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Project HOPEs Program

• Sustainable Strengthening of Families of Orphans
  and Vulnerable Children in Mozambique and Namibia
• USAID Funded project
• April 4, 2005 to April 2, 2010
• Aim Improve economic status and quality of life
  of 45,000 OVC and strengthen the capacity of
  families to provide care and support to 75,000
  OVC
• Focus on OVC caregivers

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Program area
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Integrated model

• Focus on OVC caregivers
• Economic strengthening
• Health education/ parenting skills
• Community outreach

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Partnerships

• For the success of the program, partnerships are
  crucial
• Key partners include the community
• Volunteers
• Ministry of Health and Education
• Local hospitals and clinics
• Microcredit organizations (Koshi Yomuti, Shack
  Dwellers)
• Local NGOs and CBOs (Catholic AIDS Action)

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Community outreach

• Volunteers are trained in OVC care
• They train caregivers and reinforce better care
  with OVC caregivers during home visits
• Provide referrals as needed

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Community gardens

• Volunteers in Mozambique started community
  gardens
• Caregivers involved with working gardens
• Food provided to OVC families sold
• Profits used to buy school materials clothes
  for OVC

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Community based organization

• New CBO founded by 2 Project HOPE volunteers and
  5 religious leaders
• Started farm
• Proposal to government to buy water pump
• PRODEZA Zambezia Rural Development Project
  provided agricultural inputs

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Growth monitoring

• Volunteers trained to conduct growth monitoring
  using Ministry of Health standards
• Successful partnership with volunteer, MOH, and
  Okahao Hospital

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Birth certificates

• Birth certificates provided free to OVC
• 3 months of dialog with local government
  officials to
• help understand needs
• coordinate mass registrations
• provide transportation to registration sites

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Measuring program success

• Tools to measure program success include our
  Member Profile
• Economic indicators
• Child-level data
• Baseline after 1 year in the program
• New low literacy parenting map for use at
  household level recently developed implemented
  to measure impact at the child level across all 6
  domains

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Parenting map
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Caregiver economic impact - exceeding specific
economic standards
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Caregiver Economic Impacts (Namibia)
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Child impact nutrition (Namibia)
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Results across domains
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Results health indicators
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Conclusion

• Partnerships are needed to improve the lives
  orphans and vulnerable children in Africa.