• Deciding on your level of engagement
• Analyzing the factors that cause a child to become OVC
  • Steps to building a problem tree
• Identifying Interventions that Benefit OVC
• Selecting a Package of OVC-policy interventions or project features
• Planning your OVC Interventions

Planning your OVC Interventions

With your priority OVC interventions identified, you are ready to plan the details of these interventions. In the case of those projects whose chosen level of engagement is simply Considering OVC, this may just involve making some minor adjustments to your project design. In the case of our roads project, it may mean ensuring that the project plan and budget include a worker education component that builds awareness about HIV/AIDS prevention and employee rules of conduct establishing severe penalties for the use of child prostitutes.

For those projects concerned about Including OVC, this phase may also involve only minor adjustments to the project design, such as requiring all social infrastructure to be accessible for disabled children. On the other hand, these projects may need to dedicate whole components to OVC. An education project that seeks to include street children or former child soldiers, in addition to all non-OVC children, may need to develop a special catch-up educational component that facilitates the transition of these children back into mainstream schools.

Finally, there are those projects in the category of Focusing on OVC, which are likely to have one or more project components that clearly target existing OVC or seek to prevent future OVC. For example, such a project might involve a component designed to reduce mother to child transmission of the HIV virus and another to deliver home-based care services to HIV/AIDS affected children and their families.

For guidance in preparing your project in the World Bank format, we recommend that you consult the Guidelines for PAD Preparation, which includes advice on how to develop a results framework for your OVC project or component.

Here is an example of what a results framework and work plan might look like for an OVC sub- component in a MAP project.