USAID-AIDSTAR One is collecting promising practices in food security and nutrition programming for OVC. Please share your ideas for promising practices!
Since the inception of PEPFAR, the needs of orphans and other vulnerable children — food and nutritional support, shelter and care, protection, health care, psychosocial support, education and vocational training and economic opportunity/strengthening — have been a priority for USG efforts in focus and non-focus countries.
Under USAID-AIDSTAR One, John Snow International and Nzinga International are now collecting ideas for promising practices in food security and nutrition (FSN) programming for orphans and vulnerable children (OVC). This might include a FSN intervention that is specifically designed for OVC (e.g. an infant and young child feeding (IYCF) project), or it might be a FSN component of a larger OVC program (e.g. school garden component within a larger school-based OVC program).
Ultimately, the finalists (i.e. the selected promising practices) will be developed into case studies and circulated widely as a way to share learning in OVC programming across implementing agencies, donors, host-governments and other stakeholders. The focus is on identifying FSN projects/practices for OVC that meet some or all of the criteria listed below:compatible ink