Government and donor-funded Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children (OVC) programs operate throughout Uganda, offering services to vulnerable households and children according to the National OVC Policy (NOP) and National Strategic Program Plan of Intervention for OVC (NSPPI). Programs have used different methods or tools to identify and prioritize the households they will enroll. Without a standardized national approach for prioritizing households, it is unclear to local government and community members why certain households are selected over others and there is no guarantee that households selected are in accordance with Uganda government priorities. By creating a national tool to facilitate prioritization of household enrollment, a standardized approach will be used to select households, and community members will be aware of and actively involved in the prioritization process.
The Uganda OVC Household Vulnerability Prioritization Tool (HVPT) is intended to assist OVC service providers in objectively prioritizing households for enrollment in OVC programs.