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Enhancing Resilience in Children affected by HIV and AIDS

January 1, 2007

This research paper explores the experiences of children within family and community practices which improve children’s perception on resilience. Focusing on existing local cultural practices and relationships, this research examines opportunities for children to build resilience within their communities to prepare them before and after a crisis. Various ages and developmental stages are considered throughout… View Article

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A Guide for National Quality Standards

This is a guide for interpreting and applying national quality standards for the protection, care and support of orphans and other vulnerable children in Uganda. It is designed to provide a structure and methodology for the development and application of relevant standards for the comprehensive, integrated protection, care and support of OVC at all levels.

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Accelerating the Education Sector response to HIV

This document is a review of the ‘Accelerate Initiative’, a working group launched in 2002 by the UNAIDS Inter-Agency Task Team on Education to prevent infection among adolescents and young people and to protect and support children affected by HIV and AIDS. The initiative was established to make use of education as a tool in… View Article

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Assessing the Human Resource Capacity for Implementation of the National Plan of Action for Orphans and Vulnerable Children

The purpose of this document is to provide coordinators, stakeholders, and implementers with a process, methodology, and tools for assessing government human resource capacity to lead and manage an effective implementation of the NPA. The human resource (HR) assessment will take a snapshot look at the numbers, cadres, and types of skills needed at the… View Article

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Enhanced Protection for Children Affected by AIDS

This paper provides additional information and outlines recommended actions for protecting affected children from increased vulnerability, and for reducing their increased risk of abuse, exploitation and neglect. While it discusses the protection issues facing children globally, its recommended action speak directly to the findings of Africa’s Orphaned and Vulnerable Generations: Children affected by AIDS, which… View Article

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Community-Based Management Information Systems

July 5, 2006

The key to sustainable support for children affected by HIV and AIDS is community ownership of interventions. There is little community-based systematic documentation of the effectiveness, strengths and challenges of information systems for programs that support children. Community-based management information systems (CBMIS) is an approach to decentralize and strengthen these interventions. CBMIS allows communities to… View Article

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Building Resilience: A rights-based approach to children and HIV/AIDS in Africa

May 1, 2006

A rights-based approach focuses on empowerment and supports the participation of rights-holders, who are often severely marginalized, in demanding their rights. This document provides an overview of problems affecting children, major responses and key recommendations for enacting rights-based programming for children living in communities affected by HIV/AIDS. Detailed recommendations are made at length for: 1)… View Article

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