This part of the OVC Toolkit is designed to provide very practical step-by-step advice to the following types of people:

• Government officials and World Bank Staff with an interest in developing policies that prevent and support OVC
• Government officials and World Bank Staff engaged in designing a project within a specific sector

Throughout this part of the OVC Toolkit you will find the topics covered listed on the left navigation menu. It includes suggestions on how to gather data on OVC, links to relevant sources, and suggestions for key in-country partners who need to be consulted during the situational analysis phase. It also provides tips on how to organize a meeting involving public and private stakeholders critical to addressing OVC needs. These guidelines include step-by-step instructions for analytical exercises that can be carried out during the workshop to better understand the origin and current status of OVC in the country and to identify appropriate interventions to prevent and respond to OVC. You will also find detailed advice on how to target your interventions, tips on selecting indicators for monitoring and evaluating success, and costing approaches with examples.

If your primary interest is in developing a national OVC policy framework, we recommend that you start by consulting the first section of this part: Developing National OVC Policies. It will guide you to the other relevant sections that may be useful to you. You may then want to skip directly to the part of the OVC Toolkit called What’s Special About My Sector, where you will find information about projects that have been tested with different types of orphans and vulnerable groups in a range of sectors.

If your primary interest is in developing a specific project within a specific sector, we recommend that you start with the second section to this part, Background Research and Secondary Data Sources, and work progressively through each of the subsequent sections shown on the left navigation menu. For you, this part will walk you through the project design process, while giving you tips on how to shape your project to benefit or, at least, “do no harm” to OVC.