A Qualitative Assessment of Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Two Zimbabwean Districts

A Qualitative Assessment of Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Two Zimbabwean Districts
Author: Shungu Munyati
Publisher: HSRC Press
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2006
Genre: AIDS (Disease) in children
ISBN: 9780796921444

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The Human Sciences Research Council was commissioned by the WK Kellogg Foundation to develop and implement a five-year intervention project focusing on orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in southern Africa. In collaboration with several partner organisations, the project currently focuses on how children, families, and communities in Botswana, South Africa, and Zimbabwe are coping with the impact of HIV/AIDS. The aim of the project is to develop models of best practise so as to enhance and improve support structures for OVC in the southern African region as a whole.

Psychosocial Conditions of Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Two Zimbabwean Districts

Psychosocial Conditions of Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Two Zimbabwean Districts
Author: Parkie Shakantu Mbozi
Publisher: HSRC Press
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2006
Genre: Orphans
ISBN: 9780796921475

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In 2002, the Human Sciences Research Council was commissioned by the WK Kellogg Foundation to develop and implement a five-year intervention project focusing on orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in southern Africa. In collaboration with several partner organizations, the project currently focuses on how children, families and communities in Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe are coping with the impact of HIV/AIDS. The aim of the project is to develop models of best practise so as to enhance and improve support structures for OVC in the southern African region as a whole. This report forms part of a series that examines the work undertaken as part of the Kellogg OVC Intervention Project from 2002 to 2005.

Youth Resilience and Culture

Youth Resilience and Culture
Author: Linda C. Theron
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2014-11-21
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9401794154

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Until researchers and theorists account for the complex relationship between resilience and culture, explanations of why some individuals prevail in the face of adversity will remain incomplete. This edited volume addresses this crucial issue by bringing together emerging discussions of the ways in which culture shapes resilience, the theory that informs these various studies, and important considerations for researchers as they continue to investigate resilience. Using research from majority and minority world contexts, ‘Youth Resilience and Culture: Commonalities and Complexities’ highlights that non-stereotypical, critical appreciation of the cultural systems in which youth are embedded, and/or affiliate with, is pivotal to understanding why particular resilience processes matter for particular youth in a particular life-world at a particular point in time. In doing so, this book sensitizes readers to the importance of accounting for the influence of cultural contexts on resilience processes, and to the danger of conceptualising and/or operationalising resilience, culture, and their interplay, simplistically or idealistically. In short, the progressive contents of ‘Youth Resilience and Culture: Commonalities and Complexities’ make it an essential read for resilience-focused scholars, students, academics, and researchers, as well as policy makers, practitioners, and humanitarian workers engaged with high-risk populations.

Voices of Zimbabwean Orphans

Voices of Zimbabwean Orphans
Author: Manasa Dzirikure
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2014-10-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004283285

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The voices of orphans and other vulnerable children and young people and of their carers and professional development workers are documented and analysed to both criticise the inadequacies of current social development work and to create a new, alternative theory and practice of project management in Zimbabwe and southern Africa. This is the first extensive and intensive empirical study of Zimbabwean orphans and other vulnerable children and young people. Chronically poor children and their carers can be corrupted or silenced by management systems which fail to recognise their basic human needs. Resilience in the face of such adversity is celebrated by the dominant project management ideology and practice but is a major barrier to achieve genuine sustainable improvements in the lives of vulnerable children. We propose a new person-centred project management approach aimed at delivering comprehensive services for orphans, which explicitly recognises the needs of orphans and other poor children to be fully socially, politically and economically included within their communities and which avoids the reinforcement of power based inequalities and their unacceptable consequences. The moral bankruptcy of much social development work in Zimbabwe and elsewhere in Southern Africa is described and we delineate an alternative project management policy and practice.

Rethinking the Meaning of Family for Adolescents and Youth in Zimbabwe’s Child Welfare Institutions

Rethinking the Meaning of Family for Adolescents and Youth in Zimbabwe’s Child Welfare Institutions
Author: Getrude Dadirai Gwenzi
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2023-02-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3031233751

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This book examines the lives of children and young adults living in residential care systems in Zimbabwe and their unique conceptualization of family. While the importance of family for the development and wellbeing of children can't be overemphasized, the questions of what and who counts as family to orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs) are under-researched. Gwenzi brings a social constructionist approach to study OVCs in institutional care as well as living with their families in Zimbabwe, finding that they do not have a single definition of family and that they use diverse characteristics to describe what family means to them. With the data suggesting a need for belonging, continuity of relationships, protection, and trust, this study makes recommendations for policy and practice with youth in alternative care in sub-Saharan Africa.

National Plan of Action for Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children

National Plan of Action for Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children
Author: Zimbabwe. Ministry of Public Service, Labour, and Social Welfare
Publisher:
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2006
Genre: AIDS (Disease)
ISBN:

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Child-friendly explanation of the National Plan of Action (NPA) for Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children, a government of Zimbabwe programme to reach out to all orphans and vulnerable children and to provide services to improve their lives.

Protecting Childhood in the AIDS Pandemic

Protecting Childhood in the AIDS Pandemic
Author: Jody Heymann
Publisher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2012-02-20
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 019976512X

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Protecting Childhood in the AIDS Pandemic provides lessons from experts around the world on how to transform the outcomes of children affected by HIV/AIDS. It examines which public policies and programs best meet the full range of children's needs, from medical care to social support and from infancy to adolescence.

Situational Analysis of Orphaned and Vulnerable Children in Eight Zimbabwean Districts

Situational Analysis of Orphaned and Vulnerable Children in Eight Zimbabwean Districts
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: AIDS (Disease)
ISBN: 9780796922342

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In response to the AIDS epidemic and poverty, the Zimbabwean government and other organisations are implementing various programmes aimed at assisting orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in the eight districts surveyed. It is important to have an audit of the social services and support structures available for OVC in the eight districts and to have a clear understanding of the situation of OVC, including their needs and concerns, in order to have proper prioritisation, design and evaluation of programmes that are aimed at supporting the affected children.