• Introduction and overview of possible interventions
• Approaches for Stimulating and Responding to Demand for Sub-projects benefiting OVC
  • Ex-ante Targeting
  • Guided Needs Assessments
  • Local targeting and incentives
  • Other Design Features
• Selection Criteria for OVC Sub-projects in a CDD context

Selection Criteria for OVC Sub-projects in a CDD context

If your CDD project has a special sub-component for projects that benefit OVC, the following list of selection criteria might be useful in ranking sub-project proposals submitted.

All of the following criteria must be satisfied:

1. The sub-project was identified through a participatory needs assessment and sub-project identification process at the community level in which OVC and OVC caretakers represented the majority.
2. The sub-project can be implemented at the level of one community alone or the project is similar to other requests received from other neighboring communities and could be implemented collaboratively with other communities in that municipality.
3. The sub-project would not require a major policy change at the national level to be implemented.
4. The sub-project does not pose a risk of increasing the work burden for children living in the household.
5. The sub-project would not increase the time that young children are left unattended by their caretakers.
6. The sub-project proposal includes a viable targeting strategy to ensure that OVC and their caretakers are the primary beneficiaries.
7. The sub-project design helps to minimize the chance that non-OVC will benefit at the expense of OVC.
8. If incremental recurrent costs are required to sustain the sub-project, a viable approach to meeting these costs has been proposed by the requesting community.

At least one the following criteria must be satisfied:

1. The sub-project would decrease the gap between OVC and all children in their access to health services
2. The sub-project would decrease the gap between OVC and all children in terms of the percentage who are fully immunized
3. The sub-project would decrease the gap between OVC and all children in terms of their nutritional status.
4. The sub-project would decrease the gap between OVC and all children in terms of their primary school enrollment rate.
5. The sub-project would decrease the level of stigma experienced by the targeted OVC.
6. The sub-project would serve to better protect OVC and widows from unlawful property grabbing upon the death of a spouse or parent.
7. The sub-project would help to protect OVC themselves from HIV/AIDS and other STDs.