Introduction
This part of Unit 1 provides the detailed instructions that a mobiliser can follow to help a community
start or strengthen care for orphans and other children made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS.
This guide recommends the following process to mobilise a community care coalition, as discussed
in Module 1:
1 Preliminary institutional mapping
2 Community stakeholders’ meetings
3 Forming a community care coalition
4 Action planning
5 Training community care coalitions
6 Identifying OVC
7 Identifying home visitors
8 Training home visitors
9 Supporting home visitors
10 Monitoring and reporting
11 Mobilising resources.
In Module 2, the following steps are recommended to be taken towards mobilising community-led
care coalitions in the support of orphans and vulnerable children:
Step 1 - Preliminary institutional mapping
Step 2 - Holding a first community stakeholders’ meeting to assess the community’s
OVC situation
Step 3 - Holding a second community stakeholders’ meeting to form a community care
coalition (CCC)
Step 4 - Action planning
Step 5 - Training community care coalition members.
Each step describes a number of actions to be taken to achieve the process outlined in Module 1.
These actions are described in detail in this module and include many reference information sheets
and reference forms that mobilisers can use to record their assessments, analyses and planning
towards initiating community-led care to support orphans and vulnerable children. The information
and reference sheets may be used as they are in this guide, or they may be adapted by a CCC
to suit their own requirements.
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