Acknowledgements
The Guide to Mobilising and Strengthening Community-Led Care for Orphans and Vulnerable Children
has been developed by the Models of Learning programme, the research and development arm
of World Vision’s global HIV/AIDS Hope Initiative. This document has evolved through more than
a year of field-testing and review, beginning in late 2003.
Special thanks is due to the OVC specialists on the Models of Learning team, Grace Mayanja and
Faith Ngoma, who authored the initial version of the guide in response to the need expressed by
World Vision field staff and community partners. Sincere gratitude is also owed to the World Vision
staff and community care coalition members in Mozambique, Uganda, and Zambia with whom the
Models of Learning team worked to pilot the guide.
We are grateful to consultants Deborah Forbes and Michele Gaudrault, who revised the guide based
on the learnings of this pilot process and produced a review draft for the Bangkok International AIDS
Conference in July 2004. We very much appreciate the input of the more than forty World Vision
national HIV/AIDS co-ordinators and regional HIV/AIDS staff from across Africa who reviewed the
guide in September 2004 and made excellent recommendations for further refinement. We also wish
to thank the participants in the World Vision Africa regional OVC training of trainers workshop in
November 2004 for their guidance on additional improvements needed.
We are indebted to the South Africa-based team of consultants managed by Neil Verlaque-Napper
for their excellent work on a tight production schedule to finalise the guide for publication.
Sincere thanks to team member Alastair Findlay for his illustrations throughout the guide and on
the cover, as well as to team member Gill McDowell for her work to design, format, and edit this
version of the guide.
We gratefully acknowledge the following Models of Learning staff for their contributions to the
development of the guide: Namposya Chitanika, Angela Mubangizi, Kennedy Nkwemu, Maurice Sepiso,
David Serukka, and Richard Wamimbi. Models of Learning director Mark Lorey’s leadership of the
overall compilation, refinement, and production of this guide is appreciated. Finally, we offer thanks
to World Vision Africa HIV/AIDS director Martha Newsome and World Vision Africa communications
director Nigel Marsh for their ongoing support and wise counsel.
This guide will continually evolve as additional experience is gained and new lessons are learned.
Input is welcomed and appreciated. Please send comments and suggestions to the Models of Learning
programme: [email protected].
Ken Casey
Special Representative to the World Vision International President
HIV/AIDS Hope Initiative
2005