Orphans and Vulnerable Children - CRIN

Community Stakeholders’ Meeting

Once the mobiliser has gained a sense of how HIV/AIDS has impacted the community, what

responses have been undertaken, and who the key stakeholders are, WV helps convene a two

to three day meeting of the community stakeholders. Such stakeholders are concerned community

members who are already taking responsibility for assisting OVC or other vulnerable community

members, or are interested in doing so.

These community members typically come from:

At the meeting, WV facilitates a process through which the range of stakeholders:

 Identify problems that have emerged in the community in the last three to five years (usually

more people ill and dying; more children orphaned)

 Identify links between these problems and HIV/AIDS

 Identify responses already underway to assist vulnerable children and households

 Identify gaps and unmet needs

 Decide on the next steps for expanding care for vulnerable children in the community, building

on existing strengths.

Participatory tools such as social and resource mapping, activity profiles, and focus group discussions

may be used to help elicit the community members’ experiences and ideas.

STAGE 2

Churches and other faith-

based organisations

Schools and other education

or skills facilities

Traditional leaders

Women’s and

men’s groups

Community-based organisations

and local NGOs

Government departments

in the community

Local businesses

Support groups of PLWHA

Political leaders at

grassroots level

OVC themselves and

households caring for them

Parents’ groups

Healthcare facilities and

Human rights and child outreach programmes

advocacy groups

Youth groups

Micro-finance groupsand savings clubs and youth clubs

Guide to Mobilising and Strengthening Community-Led Care for Orphans and Vulnerable Children Unit 1, Module 1^7