TY - BOOK AU - Subbarao,Kalanidhi AU - Coury,Diane TI - Reaching Out to Africa's Orphans: A Framework for Public Action SN - 9781280085604 AV - HV1337 -- .S83 2004eb U1 - 362.73/096 PY - 2004/// CY - Washington PB - World Bank Publications KW - Orphans -- Africa KW - Children of AIDS patients -- Africa KW - Orphans -- Care -- Africa KW - Orphans -- Services for -- Africa KW - Child welfare -- Africa KW - AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects -- Africa KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Reader's Guide and Executive Summary -- 1 Orphans and Vulnerable Children: An Introduction -- Defining and Identifying Vulnerable Children -- Risk and Vulnerability -- This Study: A Focus on Orphans -- Notes -- 2 Understanding Orphans' Risks and Needs in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Demand Side -- Economic and Social Risks and Vulnerabilities -- Psychological Risks and Associated Vulnerabilities -- What Are the Specific Needs of Orphans? -- Notes -- 3 The Supply Side: Caregivers and Their Strengths and Weaknesses -- Household-Based Care -- Institutional Care -- Care of Orphans: Assessing Community Capacity and Responses -- Notes -- 4 Interventions and Public Action to Strengthen Community Action -- Addressing the Needs of OVC Living in Family-Like Settings -- Addressing the Needs of OVC Living in Institutionalized Settings -- Desirable Interventions to Support OVC and Their Families -- Notes -- 5 Interventions and Costs: What Do We Know? -- Methodological Considerations -- Scale of the Intervention -- Program Costs -- Cost-Effectiveness and Quality of Care -- Ranking of Interventions -- Notes -- 6 Issues in Scaling Up Interventions -- Assessing the Current Situation -- The Financial Cost of Scaling Up a Public Intervention: Illustrative Exercise -- Who Should Receive Public Support? Issues in Targeting Public Interventions -- Coordinate Donor, Government, and NGO Efforts-Critical -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 7 Monitoring and Evaluation -- Implementing a Monitoring and Evaluation System -- The Monitoring Process -- Evaluating Programs -- Notes -- Appendixes -- A World Bank Interventions Directed at Orphans -- B Tables -- C The Human Rights Approach -- D Assessing the Coping Capacity of Households: A Practical Example of How to Compute the Score -- E Principles for Guiding OVC Interventions; F How Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) Can Help Mitigate the Adverse Impacts of HIV/AIDS -- G Checklist for Conducting a Comprehensive Assessment of the OVC Situation in a Country -- H SMART Indicators -- I Internet Resources -- References -- Index -- Tables -- 1.1 Examples of Risks to Children, by Category -- 2.1 Potential Impacts of AIDS on Families, Children, and Communities -- 2.2 Summary of Common Trauma Reactions by Age: War-Affected Children, Refugee Camps, Cambodia, 1990 -- 2.3 Children's Risks/Vulnerabilities and Needs -- 2.4 Risks Faced by Orphans, by Age Group -- 3.1 Who Is Caring for Orphans: Uganda, Zambia, and Tanzania -- 3.2 Indicators and Information Sources to Help Assess Weakening or Saturation of Extended Family Safety Net within a Community -- 3.3 Capacity to Cope at the Household Level -- 3.4 Propensity of Caregivers to Meet Orphans' Needs -- 4.1 Ways to "Prevent" Orphans -- 4.2 Responses Developed by Stakeholders to Meet Needs of OVC Living in Family-Like Settings -- 4.3 Interventions to Improve the Financial Situation of Families Fostering Orphans and Vulnerable Children -- 4.4 Risks Faced by OVC and Interventions to Help Families Meet OVC's Basic Needs -- 5.1 Cost of Interventions -- 5.2 Cost-Effectiveness of Models of Care in South Africa -- 6.1 "Needy Groups" by Setting: Malawi, Burundi, and World Vision -- 6.2 Alternative Approaches to Targeting Transfers: Advantages and Drawbacks -- Figures -- 1.1. Number and Proportion of Orphans Up to Age 14 in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1990-2010 -- 1.2. HIV/AIDS Prevalence and Incidence of Orphans in Sub-Saharan Africa, 2001 -- 2.1 Impacts of Parental Loss on Orphans, Sub-Saharan Africa -- 2.2 School Enrollment Rates by Orphan Status and Age, Rwanda -- 2.3 Work Burden on Orphans and Nonorphans by Gender, Rwanda -- 3.1. Ranking of Living Arrangements for Orphans; 5.1. Ranking of Living Arrangements for Orphans According to Their Cost-Effectiveness -- Boxes -- 4.1 Examples of Psychological Support Offered to Children Affected by HIV/AIDS in Tanzania and Zimbabwe -- 6.1 The Experiences of FOCUS, COPE, and World Vision UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3050721 ER -