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AIDS 2012 - Turning the Tide Together
“Evidence Based OVC Programming”How Household economic assessment informed HES Strategies for HIV/AIDS
Affected OVC Households
A success story of Africare – Pamoja Tuwalee USAID funded project in Tanzania
By Herbert MugumyaAfricare Tanzania
Pamoja Tuwalee is a 5-year USAID/PEPFAR supported OVC project with a goal of serving 150,000 OVC and 37,500 households
The project works through 21 subs,19 local governments (districts) in central zone covering originally 3 but now 4 regions of Dodoma, Iringa Njombe & Singida using family & Community sustained interventions,Strengthening local government Capacity and child protection Systems
Background: How HEA informed OVC Program Strategy Implementation
• Developed MOU – IMARISHA & Pamoja Tuwalee• Household Economic Assessment (HEA) survey tool developed
by DAI IMARISHA for use with Pamoja Tuwalee IPs • HEA Objectives: • Move beyond anecdotes to gain a better understanding of
economic dynamics of PEPFAR supported households, particularly vulnerability and resilience
• Establish a baseline for measuring impacts of ES interventions
• Findings informed the design of effective program strategies• Africare has adopted HES as a platform for sustained family and
community based OVC response
HEA Results: Savings and Financial Access
Financial Sector
IMARISHA HEA
Africare FinScopes Survey
Formal financial institutions
7.2% 5.9% 9%
Semi-formal financial institutions
1.2% 1.3% 2%
Informal /Savings groups
16.2% 11.0% 35%
Financially excluded
75.7% 81.8% 54%
Financial Access
TZS 0 - 2,00018%
TZS 3,000 - 5,00025%
TZS 5,000 - 10,00029%
TZS 10,000 - 25,00015%
TZS 25,000 - 100,000
10%
More than TZS 100,000
2%
Savings (among people who save)
HES TRAINING ACTIVITIES• Saving Internal Lending Community (SILC) groups• Chicken (Poultry) rearing• Animal husbandry (pigs, goats, rabbits)• Crop production (Backyard vegetable gardening
and cereal crops growing, etc)• Entrepreneurship skills for the youth
Household economic strengthening indicators
Total results
Dodoma region
Iringa region
Singida region
Number of SILC groups formed 650 138 453 59 Number of OVC HH IGA groups formed (chicken, piggery, goats, timber trrees, rabbits, fruits, crops)
614
82
436
96
Number of MVC households participating in HES (SILC & IGA) group activities
13,120
2,613
9,534
973
Total amount of money (US$) saved through SILC in last 6 months
237,568 85,346 143,141 9,081
HES SUMMARY OUTCOMES JAN-JUNE 2012
HEA RESULTS: ACCESS TO HOUSEHOLD FOOD
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Moderate Hunger
Severe Hunger
= 68.78%
= 9.05%
= 22.17%
Africare Sample
SILC GROUP MEETING - IRINGA
HEA RESULTS: HOUSEHOLD HUNGER RANKING - AFRICARE REGIONS
Source of food HEA AfricareBuy Food 76.3% 75.9%Food Aid 5.9% 6.9%
Grow Food (Agriculture / Horticulture) 37.5% 44.8%
Raise Food (Poultry / Livestock) 2.2% 6%
STRATEGY: FOOD SECURITY AND NUTRITION
• Focus on increased food production
• Three food types (legumes, root tubers, and meat/eggs)
• Produce enough to stop buying,• Food storage practices (dry
cereals)• Food assistance
Nutrition assessment (weight, height & MUAC)Nutritional counseling (optimal diet)Infant food supplements from clinics or locally madeWater, sanitation & hygiene
Increased food security Improved nutrition education
Outcomes HES on household food production
Caregiver IGA groups own 2 acres of land where they cultivate sunflower from which they produce cooking oil for home consumption and sale.
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Access to basic health care (Jan-June’12)
• 12,326 OVC have been registered in Community Health Fund insurance scheme. @ family annually pays $5
• 2,797 OVC Under 5 years obtained clinic cards (vaccinated) and their mothers were counseled for PMTCT and pediatric care, nutrition
• 4,936 Youth trained in life skills, HIV & GBV prevention and also referred for HCT, MMC & ART
Access to basic education (costs paid - caregivers savings)
Number of MVC supported to return to by region• Dodoma 692• Iringa 4,637• Singida 701• Total 6,030
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Access to Child protection and GBV prevention services
• 5,351 registered MVC received birth certificates
• Abused children referred for emergency health care
• Also, support abused children through justice system
• 340 youth clubs formed for life skills trainings
Caregivers fill forms for Birth Certificates