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Orphans and Vulnerable Children
Through the PEPFAR 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
- Using Collaborative Improvement to Achieve Quality Care for Vulnerable Children in Ethiopia
- 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 Care
- 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
- A community-led approach to improve early childhood development (ECD) and nutrition in Blantyre District, Malawi using quality improvement methods New!
- Care that Counts Initiative: A Standards-Based Approach to Improving Quality of Programs for Vulnerable Children and Families New!
- Improvements in quality of care and support services for vulnerable children in Bagamoyo District, Tanzania New!
- Improving Care for Vulnerable Children in Kenya: Results from Piloting Service Standards
- Care That Counts: Applying Quality Standards to OVC Services in Kenya
- Implementing Standards-based Quality Improvement Processes at the Community Level for Orphans and Vulnerable Children: The Strengthening Community Safety Nets (SCSN) Project, Ethiopia
- Kenya Children/Youth Workshop Report
- Nigeria Children's Workshop
- APHIA Plus OVC QI Workshop in Kenya
- 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