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Children Center
Idweli, Tanzania
Evaluation of a community-
based response to the
needs of orphaned and
vulnerable children
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The OVC Challenge
Worldwide:
15 million children orphaned by AIDS
Number expected to double by
2020
Sub-Saharan Africa:
Home to over 80% of the world’s
children orphaned by AIDS
Tanzania:
Approximately 12% of all children are
Institutional
HIGH Placement
Out-of-Village
Foster Placement
Range of
Cost Community-
per based Supports
Child
In-Village Foster
Placement
Extended Family
Placement
Institutional
HIGH Placement
Out-of-Village
Foster Placement
Range of
Idweli Hybrid: Community-Based
Cost
per Godfrey’s Children Supports
Child Center
In-Village Foster
Placement
Extended Family
Placement
Psychosocial Physical
OVC
Well-Being
Socioeconomic
AREAS OF
EXPERTISE
Fieldwork coordinator
10 trained field work assistants
Ethnographer
Typists and translators
Psychosocial Well-Being
Children’s Depression Inventory
Social Support Questionnaire
Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire
School Performance Survey
Children’s Sense of Well-Being
Caring for Children
Physical Well-Being
Physical Health Survey
Socioeconomic Sustainability
Children’s Center Development Process
Support and Sustainability Survey
Loan Recipient Interviews
Household Budget Survey
Children’s
Psychosoci
al
Well-Being
School Performance:
Center children had better school
attendance than village orphans and
expressed greater optimism and
hopefulness about being
able to shape a positive
future for themselves,
specifically through
knowledge and study
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Findings
Children’s
Physical
Health
in the village
Social
Integratio
n
Socioecono
mic
Sustainabilit
y
Systematic evaluation is
expensive and time-
consuming…but essential to
building a solid foundation on
which to develop policies and
implement programs that
positively impact the
overall well-being
of OVC
accountability
Fired Center’s Accountant and Manager
Angered Villagers
U.S. NGO withdrew funding
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Epilogue: April 2007 Funding
Response
Tanzanian AIDS coordinating agency: We
want to think that the funders will always
be there, but we need to clarify how the
Idwelians have contributed to the Center
living is unknown
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Senior Research Team
Victor Dukay, Ph.D. — President, Rose Mwaipopo, Ph.D. — Social
Lundy Foundation/U.S. anthropologist and lecturer,
University of Dar es
Harryl Hollingsworth, M..A. —
Salaam/Tanzania
Project Manager, Lundy
Foundation/U.S. Furaha Nsemwa — In-country
Dr. Sylvia Kaaya — Head of (Tanzania) Project Coordinator
Department of Psychiatry and Dr. Fausta Philip — Clinical
Mental Health, Muhimbili University Psychiatry, Department of
College of Health Sciences - Dar es Pediatrics and Child Health,
Salaam, Tanzania Muhimbili Medical
Carl Larson, Ph.D. — Professor Centre/Tanzania
(Ret.), Department of Human Jennifer Thompson, Ph.D. —
Communication Studies, University Consultant in the areas of
of Denver/U.S. conflict, culture and
Laurie Larson, M.S.S. — Qualitative communication /U.S.
Data Dorian Traube, Ph.D. —
Analyst, OMNI Institute/U.S. Quantitative
Dr. Rehabiamu Mahenge — Data Analyst, Assistant
Psychiatrist, Head of Department, Professor,
Mbeya Consultant Hospital/Tanzania University of Southern
California,
Claude
Idweli Mellins,
Evaluation — Lundy Ph.D. —© Associate
Foundation April 2007
School of Social Work/U.S.
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Children of Godfrey’s Children Center