The Government of Tanzania recognizes the difficult circumstances faced by children and families affected by HIV/AIDS, poverty and abuse and has begun taking steps to respond to their plight. Through the National Costed Plan of Action for Most Vulnerable Children (NCPA), the government has identified intervention strategies that will have a direct impact on the lives and welfare of the country’s most vulnerable children. The NCPA includes recommendations for the smooth scale up of service delivery; guidelines for improved standards of care, support, and protection; and advice on how to harness essential resources. It provides an implementation strategy and a clearly defined monitoring and evaluation component. It also includes an estimated cost package.

The NCPA was officially launched by Mama Kikwete and the First Lady of the United States, Laura Bush, in February 2008. It is the plan that Pact Tanzania and all OVC Implementing Partners follow in Tanzania. The following list of resources is for all organizations implementing support programs for Most Vulnerable Children (MVC)

Resources for MVC Implementing Partners

1. Counselling Guidelines on the Disclosure of HIV Status [PDF, 171KB]

2. Approaches to Caring for OVC, Essential Elements for Quality Service [MS WORD, 684KB]

3. Counselling Guidelines on Child Sexual Abuse, CIDA, 2001 [PDF, 274KB]

4. Social Protection of Africa's OVC--Good programs [PDF, 316KB]

5. SCOPE and FHI, OVC Baseline Survey-- Psycho-Social Interviews with OVC, age 6-12 [PDF, 495KB]

6. SCOPE and FHI, OVC Baseline Survey-- Psycho-Social Interviews with OVC, age 13-18 [PDF, 1.2MB]

7. Counselling Guidelines on Palliative Care and Bereavement [PDF, 199KB]

8. Rights of Children Affected by HIV-AIDS-- Trainers Handbook, 2001 [PDF, 1.9MB]

9. Orphans and Other Children Made Vulnerable by HIV-AIDS, Meeting, December 16-19, 2001, Kenya [PDF, 1.1MB]

10. Counselling Guidelines on Survival Skills for PLWHA [PDF, 330KB]

11. Role of Stigma and Discrimination in Increasing Risks of Children Affected by HIV-AIDS [PDF, 416KB]

12. Expanding community-based support for orphans and vulnerable children [PDF, 433KB]

13. Basic HIV Counselling Guidelines, 2001 [PDF, 338KB]

14. A Situation Analysis of Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children in Mwanza Region, Tanzania [PDF, 1.3MB]

15. friends in need--handbook for care of orphans in community-zimbabwe [PDF, 3.8MB]

16. Participatory Enumeration of OVC--tool for mobilising communitites [PDF, 541KB]

17. Guidelines for Counseling Children in-affected by HIV-AIDS, 2001 [PDF, 372KB]

18a. Building Blocks- Africa-wide briefing notes- Economic Strengthening [PDF, 370KB]

18b. Building Blocks- Africa-wide briefing notes- Education [PDF, 327KB]

18c. Building Blocks- Africa-wide briefing notes- psychosocial support for ovcs [PDF, 378KB]

18d. Building Blocks- Africa-wide briefing notes- Social Inclusion [PDF, 368KB]

18e. Building Blocks in Practice-- Participatory Tools to Improve Care and Support for OVC [PDF, 1.3MB]

19. Policies for Orphans and Vulnerable Children A Framework for Moving Ahead, POLICYUSAID [PDF, 1.0MB]

20. Building Resilience in Children Affected by HIV-AIDS [PDF, 4.5MB]

21. Care for Children Infected-Affected by HIV-AIDS, Handbook for Community Health Workers [PDF, 2.0MB]

22. Conducting Situation Analysis of Orphans and Vulnerable Children Affected by HIV-AIDS, 2004 [PDF, 837KB]

23. A Family is Forever-- Discussion of Family Care needed by children affected by HIV-AIDS, 2004 [PDF, 924KB]

24. Sub-national Distribution and Situation of Orphans, an analysis of the PEPFAR in focus countries [PDF, 5.0MB]

25. Scope-OVC, Training programme-- Psycho-social support for OVC, facilitator's manual [PDF, 684KB]

26. Sub-national Distribution of Orphans in PEPFAR Countries [PDF, 5.0MB]

27. Understanding the needs of orphans and other children affected by HIV-AIDS in Africa, 2004 [PDF, 2.6MB]

28. CBO-NGO Support--the role of CBO-NGO support providers in response to HIV-AIDS in E-S Africa [PDF, 552KB]

29. Impact Assessment of MVC Community Care in Musoma Rural [PDF, 1.1MB]

30. Parrot on Your Shoulder--A guide for people starting to work with OVC [PDF, 1.3MB]

31. Integrating Support for Children Affected by HIV,AIDS into Home-Based Care Programmes [PDF, 488KB]

32. Future_Planning_Booklet for families and communities [PDF, 4.1MB]

33. Young children and HIV-AIDS--mapping the field, 2005 [PDF, 1.8MB]

34. Guide to Monitoring and Evaluating National Response to Orphans made vulnerable by HIV-AIDS, 2005 [PDF, 695KB]

35. HIV-AIDS, what about very young children, 2005 [PDF, 1.9MB]

36. Conducting Participatory Situation Analysis of OVCs affected by HIV-AIDS [PDF, 2.5MB]

37. Adolsecents--Orphaned and Vulnerable in the time of AIDS [PDF, 341KB]

38. Every Child Matters Outcome Framework [PDF, 53KB]

39. CHARWE - Data Mgmt for OVCs 2005 [MS PPT, 359KB]

40. You are Special--for children living in families affected by HIV-AIDS, 2005 [PDF, 6.4MB]

41. Impact Assessment of Vulnerable Children in Cambodia [PDF,275KB ]

42. Fourth Edition USAID projects, 2005 [PDF, 2.0MB]

43. CBO-FBO Capacity Analysis, a tool for assessing and building capacities for responses to HIV-AIDS [PDF, 184KB]

44. Raising the standards-- quality childcare provision in east and central Africa [PDF, 321KB]

45. NIGERIA-OVC FINAL ACTION PLAN - MAY11[MS WORD, 1.5MB]

46. Final Nigeria Plan of Action[MS WORD, 1.1MB]

47. orphans and OVC in zimbabwe [PDF, 271KB]

48. Tanzania National Plan of Action-- 2007 - 2010 [PDF, 1.48MB]

49. Orphans and Affected Families Resources List (Internet Link)

50. World Bank OVC Toolkit for Sub-Saharan Africa (Internet Link)

51. Speak for the Child- A Program Guide with Tools (Internet Link)

52. OVC Support Toolkit from FHI and Alliance (Internet Link)

53. Child Needs Assessment Toolkit [PDF, 1.1MB]

54. Where the Heart is - Meeting Psychosocial Needs of young Children in the context of HIV-AIDS [PDF, 1.9MB]

55. Child-friendly National Action Plan of Zimbabwe [PDF, 7.9MB]

56. Costing Analysis of Community-based Programs for Children Affected by HIV-AIDS, April 2005 [PDF, 284KB]

57. Family Reintegration for Children Living on the Street [PDF, 331KB]

58. Standards for Peer Education Programmes - Checklist [PDF, 117KB]

59. Support Women Caregivers Fight AIDS [PDF, 1.5MB]

60. Care for Orphans and Children affected by HIV-AIDS, A strategic Framework [PDF, 448KB]

61. Zimbabwe OVC National Action Plan [PDF, 194KB]

62. Framework for the Protection, Care and Support of OVCs living with HIV-AIDS [PDF, 398KB]

63. Report on the Africa Leadership Consultation, Urgent Action for Children on the Brink [PDF, 117KB]

64. Impact of HIV-AIDS on orphans and programme and policy responses, 2002 [PDF, 134KB]

65. Guidelines for Estimating Size and Characteristics of OVCs[MS WORD, 239KB]

66. SymposiumReport04 Best Practices for OVC [PDF, 266KB]

67. Plan of Acion--Mhamba [MS PPT, 141KB]

68. AN OVERVIEW OF OVC--Charwe [MS PPT, 53KB]

2006-07-28 OVC Guidance - FINAL [PDF, 104KB]

OVC Electronic Resource Catalogue[MS EXCEL, 54KB]

PsychsocialSupportStandards [PDF, 4.5MB]

SETTING_THE_STANDARDS [PDF, 453KB]