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Population Council and Africare/COPE—Evaluation of Services for Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Tanzania, Uganda, and Mozambique

Overview
Population Council and Africare/COPE (Community-Based Care, Protection, and Empowerment) staff developed these two baseline surveys, drawing on previous experiences and tools used by Population Council to assess the RAPIDS intervention in Zambia and by Africare/COPE to assess the “COPE for CABA” intervention in Zimbabwe. The instruments were used for an evaluation of services to support children who have been orphaned and rendered vulnerable.

Methodology/validity
The caregiver instrument asks questions on food security and nutrition, health, economic status and livelihoods, life skills, and HIV knowledge and practices, among other topics. Examples of topics discussed in the child instrument include demographics; health and nutrition; life skills, psychosocial well-being, stigma and discrimination; and household relationships and responsibilities. The caregiver instrument was administered to a household head (or spouse if unavailable). The second instrument was addressed to a child aged between 12 and 18 years selected at random from among those living in a household who completed the caregiver survey. Sampling was mixed rural–urban locations selected at random from within operational sites in three countries: Uganda (Kajara, Ruhaama, Rushenyi); Mozambique (Gondola, Sussundenga, Manica, Barue); and Tanzania (Kondoa, Mpwapwa, Kongwa, Dodoma Urban, Dodoma Rural).

These instruments were developed in consultation with questionnaires and programmatic evaluations created by FHI, WorldVision, and Measure DHS. The questionnaires were translated into local languages and back-translated to ensure that each question was fully understandable in the local dialect. They were administered through face-to-face interviews conducted by local researchers using hand-held computers in English, Luganda, Swahili, and Portuguese. Pre-testing took place during interviewer training.

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