1. Overall goals and objectives

The goal of the project is to strengthen sustainable local government and community systems that will improve access, utilization, coverage and quality of comprehensive services for vulnerable children. Specific objectives include: Strengthening capacity of local governments to initiate, lead, manage and consolidate partnerships across sectors, institutions and with civil society at parish, sub county and district levels to implement district OVC plans; Increasing demand and use of evidence based data for decision making at local government level for a coordinated, comprehensive and cost effective OVC response; Strengthening capacity of local governments and civil society to provide and monitor quality of services to

OVC and their households; and improving capacity of local governments and civil society to advocate for and mobilize resources for OVC services. The project will work in partnership with SDS and civil society funding mechanism to provide grants such that districts will be supported to implement social protection activities for OVC stipulated within their OVC plans as an integral part of the implementation of the district development plans.

2. Target populations and geographic coverage SUNRISE-OVC will focus on building district systems to be able to support quality and comprehensive OVC service delivery. This will be achieved through facilitating, training and equipping local government personnel and community service providers in 80 districts to assess provide and manage social protection services for vulnerable children and households. Capacity building activities will target local government personnel across social and management sectors particularly community based services department at district and sub county levels, education and health personnel, planning and production department staff as well as political leaders. At community level, members of the parish development committees, civil society groups and faith based organizations will be trained and facilitated with knowledge, tools and standards on identification of vulnerable children and households, support mechanisms and monitoring and evaluation of social protection interventions. The probation office will be support to provide direct services to 50,000 Vulnerable Children in areas of child protection and legal support. An estimated 2400 LG and civil society organization personnel will be provided with technical assistance in social protection interventions.

3. Enhancing cost effectiveness and sustainability

The project focuses on improving systems and capacity of LG staff and community resource persons in planning, management, reporting and coordinating social protection services for vulnerable children and households. The project will work with and through sectoral LG departments with a focus on community based services department staff that will in turn provide technical support to lower LGs and civil society for identification, analysis, targeting and quality holistic service provision. At national level, the project will work with staff of the national OVC implementation unit for joint implementation through MGLD's zonal technical services organizations that will provide decentralized and manageable technical support to all 80 LGs.

4. Health Systems Strengthening

The project will strengthen referral networks and linkages between community-based care and health facilities to ensure that the health care needs of OVC are addressed. The project will facilitate and equip

community OVC service delivery points including health facilities and outreaches with tools, guidelines, skills and standards for identification, targeting, analysis and approaches for improving access to holistic services for vulnerable children and households. The project will facilitate establishment of Community Based Learning Networks comprised of Community based OVC service providers including CSOs, opinion leaders, health workers and other community structures for replication and institutionalization of effective social protection practices for children and households. These networks will create effective partnerships for advocating and lobbying for improvement of community systems and structures for delivery of holistic services for OVC including health.

5. Cross-Cutting Budget Attributions

a. Human Resources for Health The project will train and equip health personnel at district and health facilities, community based OVC service providers including Village Health Teams in identification, targeting, standards and approaches for social protection in order to increase access and utilization of health services for vulnerable children and households ($100,000)

b. Construction/Renovation REDACTED

c. Food and Nutrition: Policy, Tools, and Service Delivery

The project will roll out OVC quality standards at district and community level. The OVC quality standards include food and nutrition support. In addition, assessment of gaps in food and nutrition policies and programs particularly NAADs and micro finance services in reaching and benefiting vulnerable households equitably will lead to identification of areas and strategies for systems strengthening and policy change. Community based OVC service providers of socio economic and food and nutrition services will be equipped with tools, guidelines, standards and skills to target and measure quality of services for vulnerable children and households ($200,000).

e. Education

Education will be promoted through strengthening the referral networks, mechanisms and linkages between community structures particularly local councils, parish development committees, youth and women councils, PHA networks, civil society groups, faith based organizations and other communities on one hand, schools and other public institutions on the other to ensure vulnerable households gain holistic capabilities such as household incomes, gender equity, good health and adult education essential for

accessing children's schooling (ie early entry into schools, retention and completion). The project will mobilize, train, facilitate and equip technical and political resource persons working with local structures, public service facilities particularly primary and secondary schools and civil society organizations to foster capabilities for vulnerable households to access children's education. Gaps analysis in policy and programs for education in reaching and benefiting vulnerable children as well as household and individual barriers for children's access to education will be analyzed and strategies for improvement devised ($200,000)

f. Water

No attributions

g. Gender: Reducing Violence and Coercion

The project will roll out universal birth registration systems aimed at fostering protection of children's rights and prevention of vulnerability including protection against defilement for the girl child, promotion of the right to education and property rights for girls and boys. The project will strengthen the capacity of LG community based services department to address social protection issues and child rights abuses affecting especially the vulnerable girls including defilement, early marriage, and child prostitution. Referral networks and linkages between health, legal, law enforcement, and judicial services and programs to prevent and mitigate gender-based violence will be facilitated ($50,000)

6. Key issues:

a. Health-Related Wraparounds

The project will facilitate, train and equip community and facility based health service providers with knowledge, tools and standards for social protection of vulnerable children and households. This will be achieved through linkages of project activities with other health interventions particularly HIV/AIDS care, health outreaches and human resources development for health.

b. Gender

The project areas for technical skills building include gender and child rights and protection. The project will roll out the national OVC MIS that will generate gender disaggregated data.

d. Mobile Population The project will target strengthening systems and capacities for LGs and communities to mitigate and prevent vulnerability of children including children living on the streets and children and households affected by conflict in Karamoja and Northern Uganda.

f. Workplace Programs

LG personnel, community resource persons and service providers will be trained in social protection measures and rights promotion for vulnerable children.

1. Target populations and coverage of target population or geographic area

SUNRISE-OVC will focus on building district systems to be able to support quality and comprehensive OVC service delivery. This will be achieved through facilitating, training and equipping local government personnel and community service providers in 80 districts to assess provide and manage social protection services for vulnerable children and households. Capacity building activities will target local

government personnel across social and management sectors particularly community based services department at district and sub county levels, education and health personnel, planning and production department staff as well as political leaders. At community level, members of the parish development committees, civil society groups and faith based organizations will be trained and facilitated with knowledge, tools and standards on identification of vulnerable children and households, support mechanisms and monitoring and evaluation of social protection interventions. The probation office will be support to provide direct services to 50,000 Vulnerable Children in areas of child protection and legal support. An estimated 2400 LG and civil society organization personnel will be provided with technical assistance in social protection interventions.

2. Description of service delivery or other activity carried out

FY11 planned activities for LG and community OVC management systems strengthening include: assessment of functionality and gaps of systems in promoting social protection for children and households, development and roll out of a tailor made social protection systems strengthening plan including strengthening integration and linkages for holistic service provision, tools development, facilitating cluster based learning networks and facilitating full functionality of community OVC service delivery points. Planned activities for OVC management information systems (MIS) strengthening include: identification of OVC data needs at community and LG levels, rolling out the national OVC MIS at community and LG levels and development of a strategy for management of LG based OVC strategic information. Activities for increasing access and monitoring of quality services for OVC include: continuous quality assessment and improvement of services at delivery points, dissemination of national OVC quality standards and related guidelines and regular supportive supervision for LGs and service providers. Finally, activities for advocacy and resource mobilization will include social mobilization, rolling out the universal birth registration, establishing referral networks and linkages for social and economic services for vulnerable children and households, rolling out community OVC mapping guidelines, partnerships and strategic alliances for social protection at community, LG and national levels, and capacity building for advocacy and resource management. The project will work in partnership with SDS and civil society funding mechanism to provide grants such that districts will be supported to implement social protection activities for OVC stipulated within their OVC plans as an integral part of the implementation of the district development plans.

3. Integration with other health activities

Through strengthening the referral networks and linkages with district and community based OVC service providers, the project will support vulnerable children and households to access comprehensive services including health care especially for children with HIV. Health personnel will be equipped with

guidelines and tools for social protection of vulnerable children and households in health programs.

4. Relation to the national program

The project's purpose is to strengthen sustainable capacity of LGs to lead, manage and coordinate implementation of the national OVC policy, strategic plan and guidelines including national OVC quality standards, OVC management information system, advocacy strategy, universal birth registration, support supervision guidelines and technical resources and tools for social protection of vulnerable children and households. The project will utilize the MGLSD structures, policies and expertise in the delivery of the project. Information from the field outlining key issues, concerns and challenges will be fed back to the ministry through the National OVC Steering Committee.

5. Health Systems Strengthening and Human Resources for Health

The project will strengthen referral networks and linkages between community-based care and health facilities to ensure that the health care needs of OVC are addressed. In addition, the project will facilitate establishment of Community Based Learning Networks comprised of Community based OVC service providers including CSOs, political leaders, children, and other community structures. These networks will create effective partnerships for advocating and lobbying for improvement of community systems and structures for delivery of comprehensive services for OVC including health.