Title: Communitycentered Orphan Care Institutions
1Community-centered Orphan Care
Institutions
- Diana Aubourg
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- Pan African Childrens Fund (PACF)
2Overview
- Approaches to Orphan Care
- Community Vs. Institutions
- Case Study Findings
- Lessons Learned
- Moving Forward
3Approaches to Care for Orphans
- Three Approaches
- Community-based Orphan Care
- Orphan Care Institutions
- Community-Centered Orphan Care Institutions
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5Emerging Consensus
- Families are the First Line of Defense
- Increase Capacity of Community to Care for
Orphans - Scale-up Existing Community-based Responses
- Institutional Care as a Last Resort
6Why Institutions as a Last Resort?
- fail to meet the emotional, psychological and
developmental needs of children - cultural import to sub-Saharan Africa of western
missionaries and foreign charity groups.
7Why Institutions as a Last Resort?
- orphanages are likely to be used as a refuge from
poverty (Subbarao, Mattimore, Plangemann, World
Bank 2001) - an expensive way to increase the problem John
Williamson, Senior Technical Advisor,USAID
8- Reconceptualizing Orphan-care Institutions
9Community-centered Orphan Care InstitutionsDefi
nition organizations with temporary or
permanent residential programs for orphans and
other vulnerable children that incorporate in
their overall objectives both a commitment
todeveloping the child as well as
supportingorphans and their families in
communities.
10An Emerging Model Community Based Child Care
Institutions
- Community Mobilization Institutional Care
Community-centered Orphan Care Institutions
11- Community-centered Orphan Care Institutions
- active in community mobilization, relief support
and reintegration of children with families - residential care programs include comprehensive
self-development and life skills training
programs for orphans - collaboration with government, child-centered
NGOs, faith institutions, schools and major
donors - evolving from street outreach and other
community-based initiatives - working towards sustainability - agricultural
food production and other income generating
activities
123 Case Studies from Zambia
- Anglican Childrens Project active
community-based orphan program - Lazarus Project - outreach to street children
and sex workers (and family model of care of
residential care) - DAPP - Childrens Town active community-based
orphan program
13Emerging Model Community Centered Orphan Care
Institutions
- Explored the Following
- What makes them community-centered?
- How did they evolve?
- What is their institutional base?
- What is their overall philosophy?
- What do they offer children in residence?
- What is their relationship to government?
- From which networks and donors do they draw
support?
14Anglican Childrens Project
COMMUNITY-BASED ORPHAN PROGRAM
RESIDENTIAL PROGRAM (50 Children- ages 6 to 19)
Care and Prevention Teams (CPTs) organized in
Garden Compound
CANAAN CENTER
Children attend government schools
- Home visits to vulnerable households
- Emergency relief services
- Sponsorship of orphans in government schools
- Fundraising and income generating projects
- Bible Clubs
The Anglican Church
SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
REINTEGRATION
- Canaan Bakery
- Agriculture Training
- Tailoring
- Computer Skills
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16Lessons Learned
- Community-based Emerging Model
- Orphan Care Community-centered
- orphan institutions
-families and communities care for orphans
-residential care for orphans and street
children
- community based support for orphans and families
- reliance on local volunteers
- -IGAs skills training
- -family/community-centered outlook
17Limitations/Research Gaps
- Sustainability and Scaling-up
- Quality of Care for Children in Residence
- Government Regulation of Institutions
- Economic Coping Mechanism for Poor How to
identify most needy children
18MOVING FORWARD
- Research should target sustainable and replicable
practices of community-centered orphan care
institutions - Move away from Community vs. Institutions Polemic
- Engage, dont Isolate! - Encourage existing institutions to reintegrate
children and (re)connect and (re) engage with
community
19The Orphan Crisis
Diana Aubourg daubourg_at_onebox.com