Home visitors may meet every month with the CCC, while CCCs may meet as a body every quarter.
In the home visitor meetings, home visitors will discuss their reports and clients in order to obtain
advice and assistance with problems and to share ideas about how to help the children. The meetings
are a platform for joint problem solving and mutual support, as well as an opportunity for affirmation
and celebration of achievement.Another important function of the monthly home visitor meeting with the CCC is the handing over
of the home visitors’ OVC visit records. These reports on OVC status should be handed to the
designated person in the CCC, who will assess the infomation and use it to monitor the OVC
programme. This is primarily to enable the CCC to monitor performance and adjust as necessary.
It will also indicate whether the programme is successfully reaching those OVC in need of support.
An important additional purpose is accountability – both to the community as a whole and to donors
that support the CCC.(^20) Unit 1, Module 1 Guide to Mobilising and Strengthening Community-Led Care for Orphans and Vulnerable Children
Possible indicators that CCCs can use for monitoring include:
Existence of child registers
Number of home visitors trained
Amount of resources generated internally by communities for the care of OVC
(examples of such resources may include funds, assets, commodities or labour)
Amount of resources mobilised externally by communities for the care of OVC
Retention or turnover rate of home visitors
Number of OVC registered
Percentage of OVC registered who are visited regularly
Number or percentage of registered OVC and their households receiving support
Number or percentage of OVC that are either in school or in appropriate vocational
training
Number or percentage of OVC that have at least as much nutrition as is the norm
for children in the community, as defined by the community (for example, three
meals per day).
Number or percentage of OVC accessing specific services (such as healthcare,
home-based care and psychosocial counselling).