Ethiopia’s Yekokeb Berhan Program for Highly Vulnerable Children was a five-year program funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) that was designed to improve child-wellbeing by ensuring that highly vulnerable children and their families can increase their knowledge, skills, self-reliance and access to appropriate, quality-driven services that will, in turn, lead to healthier, more productive and more fulfilling lives.
The program was implemented by Pact, in partnership with UNICEF, Child Fund, FHI360, 40 local implementing partners and the government of Ethiopia (primarily the Ministry of Women, Children and Youth Affairs) in all nine regional states and two city administrations. Trained, incentivized volunteers individually assessed over 500,000 children annually through application of the program’s Child Support Index. Care plans and interventions follow, all of which are monitored for quality-assurance and documented on the program’s national database. The Care Plan Training used by Yekokeb Berhan is available along with the Child Support Index and Care Plan Tool.