Our Valuable Children:

Quality and Sustainability of Care for Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC)

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Materials

Introductory Address by Dr. Ken Yamashita, Director of the Office of HIV/AIDS at the Bureau of Global Health, USAID and the Special Advisor for Assistance to Orphans and Vulnerable Children (Power Point)

Welcome by Dr. Arturo Alberti, President of AVSI Foundation (translation from Italian; MS Word document)

Presentation by Dr. Lucia Castelli, AVSI Program Manager of "Increased Access to Care for Orphans and Vulnerable Children in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa." (Power Point)

Presentation by Professor Giancarlo Rovati, Professor of Sociology at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, Italy (Power Point)

Presentation by Professor Carlo Lauro, Professor of Statistics in Naples, Italy (Power Point)

Presentation by Florence Nyangara, Evaluation Expert at Constella Futures (Power Point)

Witness by Lorette Birara, AVSI Rwanda (Power Point)

Witness by Rose Busingye, Meeting Point International, Kampala, Uganda (Power Point)

Concluding Remarks by Charlotte Ponticelli, Deputy Under Secretary for International Affairs, US Department of Labor (MS Word document)

"Our Valuable Children: twelve stories of hope"

Background Paper on Challenges of Evaluating an OVC Program during Implementation

Background Paper on Strengthening Family Capacity to Care for OVC: Making Care Sustainable