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Mainstreaming Psychosocial Care and Support into Economic Strengthening Programmes

September 19, 2016

This resource includes a step-by-step guide for practitioners working with children affected by HIV and AIDS, poverty and conflict.  They were written through a consultative, participatory process and can be used either as guidelines for program design or as background information.  The six steps  start with enhancing the scope of psychosocial support in economic strengthening… View Article

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Collecting the Essential Survey Indicators of Orphans and Vulnerable Children Well-Being through Outcomes Monitoring – Facilitator’s Guide to the Data Collector Training

September 14, 2016

The US. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) mandates monitoring, evaluation, and reporting guidance with essential survey indicators.  This training manual is for facilitators who will train data collectors to administer the standardized outcome indicator survey.  This training manual complements the  Collecting PEPFAR Essential Survey Indicators: A Supplement to the Orphans and Vulnerable Children… View Article

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Guidelines on Children’s Reintegration

The premise of the Guidelines on Children’s Reintegration is that children develop best within a family.  The guidelines provide cross-cutting principles of government practice on children’s reintegration and guidance on program design for child protection programme managers in lower and lower-middle income contexts.  The guidelines are intended to be used as a reference document for… View Article

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Uganda’s National Action Plan for Child Wellbeing, 2016-2021

Uganda is one of the youngest countries in the world with 49 percent of the population under 15 years of age.  The National Action Plan for Child Wellbeing aligns five goals with the Sustainable Development Goals; namely, survival, development, protection, participation and implementation.  The National Action Plan outlines three objectives, 1) better health 2) better… View Article

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INSPIRE: Seven strategies for Ending Violence Against Children

This resource is aimed toward all those charged with the protection of children–including government, civil society organizations, communities, private sector, and families.  The title acronym stands for the seven strategies to prevent violence against children and adolescents: Implementation and enforcement of laws; Norms and values; Safe environments; Parent and caregiver support; Income and economic strengthening;… View Article

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Policy Brief on Resourcing Resilience: The case for social protection for adherence and HIV-related outcomes in children and adolescents in Eastern and Southern Africa

August 10, 2016

This policy brief on the longer report (published under the same name) gives a summary of the evidence on known risk factors for non-adherence among adolescents living with HIV and key findings on how social protection can support treatment outcomes.  The brief ends by making the case that child and adolescent-friendly social protection is feasible… View Article

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Resourcing Resilience: The case for social protection for adherence and HIV-related outcomes in children and adolescents in Eastern and Southern Africa

With increased access to antiretroviral therapy, many perinatally affected children are surviving to become adolescents and adults.  The bad news is that adolescents report much lower adherence rates than children or adults–which can lead to personal illness and increased risk of HIV transmission to sexual partners.  This study provides a comprehensive literature and policy review… View Article

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Protection and resilience: A simple checklist for why, where and how, to coordinate HIV and child protection policy and programming

There is strong evidence of the cyclical relationship between HIV and violence and that achieving an AIDS-free generation will mean protecting children from violence, abuse and neglect.  This short checklist provides practical guidance on how to link HIV and child protection policy and programming by suggesting actions for actors in both sides of programming (i.e.;… View Article

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