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Multi-Sector Community-Driven Development (CDD) Projects, which include some Social Funds and Rural and Urban Development Programs, have the potential to reach all categories of OVC and to finance a wide range of preventive and coping interventions.
Multi-Sector CDD Projects often include the following types of activities:
- capacity-building for communities in participatory needs assessment, planning, project implementation, and operation & maintenance;
- capacity-building for local government in facilitating a participatory local development process;
- grant financing of sub-projects prioritized by communities and municipalities.
By definition, demand-driven projects respond to the demands of the communities they target. These demands tend to reflect the priorities of the adult majority, rather than those of children and certainly not those of orphans and vulnerable children. Therefore, to ensure that the demand-driven process does not forget about OVC concerns, it is necessary to make some adjustments to the community needs assessment and project identification process, which are described in more detail below. In addition, because communities may have little knowledge on how to deal effectively with OVC issues, it may be useful to give them ideas about possible interventions and to discourage proposals that are generated by the best intentions but have a bad track record (see the section on pitfalls).
Overview of possible interventions
In a demand-driven program, it is difficult to anticipate what types of sub-project ideas communities will come up with for OVC. It is recommended to use the checklist attached to screen community ideas. Here are some possible examples.
OVC Category |
Possible Interventions – Multi-Sector CDD Projects |
All OVC |
- School feeding programs targeting the most vulnerable children (see sub-section on school feeding in the education section).
- Income generating program to assist families caring for OVC to generate extra revenue to
finance this added household burden.
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Project Design Features by OVC Category |
Street Children |
- Peer support for families at risk of rejecting a child to go live in the street.
- Support to NGOs working with street children within a given municipality.
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Orphans |
- Assistance to de-facto orphan heads of households over 16 to improve household revenues (through job placements, inputs for agricultural and pastoral activities, etc.)
- Direct cash or in-kind transfers to orphan heads of households, elderly care-takers, extended family care-takers, or foster families to finance school fees and other added expense of caring for orphans.
- Development and support of networks of home visitors to provide assistance to orphan-headed households, extended family care-takers, and foster families (volunteers or paid social workers).
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HIV/AIDS affected children |
- All of the above.
- Training program in appropriate care for AIDS patients, including prevention of transmission.
- Development and support of network of home visitors to provide assistance to affected families (volunteers or paid social workers).
- Information and Communication campaigns designed to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS to children (eliminate misconceptions such as “sex with a virgin cures AIDS”) and to fight stigma.
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Children living with a disability |
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