Orphans, Vulnerable Children and Youth Program

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Key Information

The projects that fall under Orphans, Vulnerable Children and Youth Program within CABDA aim to support the health and development of young people. Projects focus on vulnerable children living with and affected by HIV/AIDS by economically empowering their grandmothers, mothers, or older siblings as caregivers, promoting positive parenting, providing education and vocational training for children and youth, offering psychosocial support to children and their families, giving shelter and care for children and their families, and supporting health care for children and their families. Caregivers are supported with small loans to establish businesses, goat keeping, poultry keeping and farming. Projects also give support for college fees, school fees, ECD fees and vocational skills to vulnerable children and youth.  

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Kenya

Activity URL

http://cabdakenya.org/index.php/current-projects/

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2006 -

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

Stephen Lewis Foundation in Canada, Moi University College of Health Sciences

COVID-19 Response

Adapted

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Primary completion
  • Primary enrollment
  • Primary to secondary transition
  • Secondary completion
  • Secondary Enrollment

Other

  • Early childhood development
  • Transition from school to work

Other skills

  • Financial literacy
  • Vocational training

Quality

  • School-related gender-based violence
  • Teacher training

Skills

  • Literacy

Cross-cutting areas

  • Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Community sensitization
  • Early/child marriage
  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Empowerment
  • Gender equality
  • HIV and STIs
  • Menstrual hygiene management
  • Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys (both in school and out of school), Girls (both in school and out of school), Mothers, Other caregivers, Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Pre-school
  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary
  • Vocational

Other populations reached

  • Community leaders
  • Religious leaders
  • School administrators
  • Teachers - female
  • Teachers - male

Participants include

  • Adolescent mothers (pregnant or parenting)
  • Indigenous
  • Orphans and vulnerable children
  • People living with HIV/AIDS
  • People with disabilities

Program Approaches Back to Top

Access to school

  • Expanding boarding opportunities

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Community mobilization

Health and childcare services

  • Adolescent-friendly health services
  • HIV prevention
  • HIV treatment and care
  • Referrals to health services
  • Sexual and reproductive health services (including family planning)

Learning while working

  • Apprenticeship/internship
  • Vocational training

Life skills education

  • Gender, rights and power
  • Sexual and reproductive health (including puberty education)

Menstrual hygiene management

  • Educating girls about menstruation
  • Raising awareness about menstruation (beyond just girls)
  • Sanitary product distribution

Mentoring/psychosocial support

  • Adult (non-teacher) mentors
  • Peer mentors
  • School-based counselors
  • Teachers as mentors

Other

  • Other activities to end child marriage (not captured above)

Policy/legal environment

  • Advocating changes to existing laws/policies
  • Developing/promoting new laws/policies
  • Public-private partnerships
  • Raising awareness about existing laws/policies

Reducing economic barriers

  • Conditional cash transfers (including non-cash goods) to individuals/households
  • Financial literacy training
  • Income-generating activities
  • Scholarships/stipends for school fees
  • Vouchers/grants

School-related gender-based violence

  • Anti-violence policies and codes of conduct
  • Safe channels/mechanisms for reporting violence
  • Safe transportation
  • Support in and around schools (e.g. peer counseling, adult-to-student counseling)
  • Training of school personnel (including teachers)

Social/gender norms change

  • Engaging parents/caregivers of students or school-age children/adolescents
  • Group activities with students or school-age children/adolescents
  • Work with community leaders

Tutoring/strengthening academic skills

  • Literacy - in the classroom
  • Numeracy - in the classroom

Women's empowerment programs

  • Advocacy/action
  • Empowerment training
  • Leadership training
  • Self-help groups (financial, including savings and credit groups)

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Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
  • Increased enrolment in primary school
  • Increased literacy
  • Increased primary school completion
  • Increased progression to secondary school
  • Increased re-enrolment in school among out-of-school children
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased school enrolment (general)
  • Increased secondary school completion
  • Increased secondary school enrolment
  • Increased years of schooling
  • Reduced absenteeism

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved financial literacy and savings
  • Improved health - other
  • Improved maternal, newborn, and/or child health (MNCH)
  • Improved nutrition
  • Increased knowledge of HIV, puberty, and sexual and reproductive health
  • Reduced adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Reduced child marriage
  • Reduced poverty/increase household well-being
  • Reduced STI/HIV/AIDS
  • Reduced violence against children in the home