OVC Pathways (12)
This pathway contributes to change by:
Promoting sustained access to quality education services for OVC, especially girls. This will include early childhood development, primary, secondary and vocational education. Through this pathway, CARE will promote both improvements of the education services at the side of the service providers, as well as their use at the side of the service user (the OVC).
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Promoting access and quality use of healthcare services (including psychosocial and reproductive health services) for OVC. The pathway will focus on the Minimum Package of Services for OVC as developed by the Government of Rwanda.
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Promoting improved utilization of food resources and more equitable intra-household distribution of food. This is expected to lead to improved quality and quantity of food intake and as a result to improved and sustained nutrition of OVC.
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Promoting the economic security of households containing OVC. This will include:
- Access to savings and credit;
- Vocational training;
- Skills in enterprise development;
- Facilitation of cooperatives;
- Ensuring equitable distribution of the benefits of economic activity within the household.
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Facilitating OVC and households containing OVC to set up enterprises and access markets, as such supporting the role of OVC as market actors in their own right, and promoting responsible private sector engagement.
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Raising awareness among OVC, parents, community members and local authorities on child rights and protection mechanisms, and challenge negative intra-household and community perceptions about OVC.
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Promoting participation and representation of OVC in decision-making processes that affect them and their families. These processes include planning, budgeting, social services, district priority setting, EDPRS development, etc. The pathway will focus both on the level of OVC (capacity and confidence to access information and to participate) as well as on the level of the decision-making bodies (receptiveness to participation by OVC and their representatives).
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Promoting gender equity and equality among OVC by actively engaging men and boys, by preventing GBV and by ensuring people affected by GBV have access to the services they need.
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Promoting girls' leadership by creating opportunities for sport, student governance, life skills and social networking.
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Advocating for favorable laws and policies on access to services, resources and inheritance for OVC. In its advocacy efforts, CARE will look both at the policies and laws themselves as well as at the level of their implementation.