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Jali Watoto’s WORTH Program: Household Economic Strengthening in Tanzania Leads to Improved Care for Most Vulnerable C

Jali Watoto’s WORTH Program: Household Economic Strengthening in Tanzania Leads to Improved Care for Most Vulnerable Children Presenter : Linda Madeleka, DCOP, Jali Watoto and Pamoja Tuwalee , Pact Tanzania . Pact OVC Program.

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Jali Watoto’s WORTH Program: Household Economic Strengthening in Tanzania Leads to Improved Care for Most Vulnerable C

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  1. JaliWatoto’sWORTH Program: Household Economic Strengthening in Tanzania Leads to Improved Care for Most Vulnerable Children Presenter: Linda Madeleka, DCOP, JaliWatoto and PamojaTuwalee, Pact Tanzania

  2. Pact OVC Program • Tanzania: 71% children lack basic needs; 83% absolute poverty in rural and 29% in urban(DHS 2004/05). • HIV/AIDS prevalence 5.7% • Pact’s JaliWatoto (JW) program: • 40.6% of households in Lindi (South) are in the lowest wealth quintile as compared to 15.2% in the Kagera region (Lake Zone) - majority being vulnerable HIV-affected families • 30% adult women have no education compared with 17% of adult men • Proportion of female-headed households in JW areas being 59% • More than 50% of OVC are cared for by their grandparents Fig 1: Geographical areas that have integrated WORTH model into OVC Program.

  3. Overview of JaliWatoto • $27 million dollar MVC program from 2006-2011 (funded in partnership with USAID and Global Fund) • 42 implementing partners received capacity building services and sub grants to provide services to more than 153,000 vulnerable children (target was 110,000) in 26 districts in 5 regions • Program supported 26 district councils to identify MVC • Services included health, education, shelter and care, psychosocial support, protection and legal services.

  4. WORTH PROGRAM

  5. WORTH - community platformfor integration of health & social services • Beginning of October 2008, Pact Tanzania incorporated WORTH program into the OVC program • Training was incorporated for WORTH members on parenting skills, nutrition, hygiene, HIV prevention, stigma reduction, and community leadership. • In 2009, Pact integrated child protection into WORTH • Integration aimed at improving the livelihoods of caregivers, protection and care of children served under them.

  6. WORTH Results

  7. Successes and Challenges Successes: • WORTH • platforms for integration health and social services • Platforms to discuss social cultural and development challenges • Enhanced sustainability – (20%) household income increased and started IGAs using savings • Empowered community to take charge of their life – enabled the poor HIV-affected members in charge of caring their families • Addressed gender disparity - Involvement of men to form their own groups is at an increase. • Increase opportunities for caregivers-to save, access loans, start up / expand businesses and provide essential age-appropriate services to children Challenges: • Involvement of old guardians / caregivers is limited • Bad experience by community members on other type of village banking discourages caregivers from joining the groups

  8. Key Conclusion WORTH model has the potential to positively affect the care and protection of vulnerable children and increase the capacity of caregivers to sustain positive changes over time

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