Orphans and Vulnerable Children
Through USAID’s Care that Counts Initiative, HCI is supporting implementing partners to improve the quality of services for orphans and vulnerable children affected by HIV/AIDS. Photo by Marie-Eve Hammink, URC.
Tools for Assessment and Improvement
- • Quality Programs for Orphans and Vulnerable Children: A Facilitator's Guide to Establishing Service Standards
- • Child Status Index
- • FHI Program Standards: Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children
- • Pact Tanzania tools for working with volunteers
- • Illustrative Composite Standards for Core Services and Coordination of
- • Training materials from the Regional Training and Exchange Event, Ethiopia, November 2008
- • Testing Service Standards and Developing Best Practices for Reaching Standards in OVC Programs
Improvement Experiences
- • Applying the Science of Improvement to Achieving Quality Care for Vulnerable Children in Ethiopia
- • Improving Quality in Service Delivery for Enhanced Wellbeing of Children in Ethiopia
- • Quality in Focus Conference Calls
- • Changing youth participation from a “token voice” to a key actor
Other Resources