HIV/AIDS Orphans: Monitoring and Evaluating Support Program Impact

This essay presents a monitoring and evaluation of the AIDS Orphans Education Trust project aimed at improving the lives of children orphaned by HIV/AIDS in Africa. It identifies the problem of lacking emotional and financial support for these children due to parental loss and societal stigma. The project's goals include enhancing agricultural productivity among orphaned families, promoting responsible resource use, strengthening psychological resilience, and providing educational and emotional support. The essay highlights the project's six-month setup period and its impact on improving the social and economic standards of the orphans through sustainable agriculture training and psychological support. It anticipates positive changes in the living standards and emotional well-being of the children, enabling them to cope more effectively with life's challenges. The study also emphasizes the importance of addressing the psychological and economic consequences of HIV on orphaned children and vulnerable families.

MONITORING AND EVALUATION
(Support for HIV/AIDs orphans)
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Problem Statement
HIV/AIDS has become a major social issue all over the world over the past years. Many
parents have succumbed to the disease, leaving behind many children to fend for themselves.
These orphans often struggle to make ends meet due to lack of basic needs. In many cases,
relatives fail to adopt them due to stigma associated with HIV/AIDS. In other cases, they are
severely mistreated and abused. As a result, they are forced to fend for their own needs. In
this regard, the main issue lies in the fact that many orphaned children lack the emotional and
financial support that they require to live their lives comfortably.
Thus, the AIDS Orphans Education Trust project is engaged in order to improve the lifestyle
and living conditions of children whose parents died of HIV/AIDS. Mainly, this goal will be
achieved through effective management and utilization of resources that are required to
improve the living standards of HIV/AIDS orphans in the region1. As a whole, the project
seeks to address and improve the psychological and economic status of orphans by helping
them to cope through educational and emotional support.
The NGO also plans to bring financial awareness to the orphans by supporting them and
helping them to engage in agricultural activities as well as improve the production of
agriculture. In addition, it seeks to raise awareness on the proper use of natural resources
among households of orphan children and other vulnerable children-led families. Before the
implementation of the project, many orphaned children in the African region lacked the
financial and emotional capability to live comfortably2. However, after the implementation of
the program, they were trained on sustainable agricultural practices, thereby improving their
economic status. Additionally, the children are now able to cope better emotionally due to the
1 Zakary, Omar, Mostafa Rachik, and Ilias Elmouki. "On the impact of awareness programs in HIV/AIDS
prevention: an SIR model with optimal control." International Journal of Computer Applications 133, no. 9
(2016).
2 Rödlach, Alexander. Witches, Westerners, and HIV: AIDS and cultures of blame in Africa. Routledge, 2016.

psychological support offered by the program to these children. As such, they are now able to
cope and deal with the challenges of life better than before the project was implemented
Time Devoted to Research
The successful setting up and implementation of the project was done within a period of six
months. Specifically, this is the time that was taken to set up structures and facilities for the
implementation of the project before it became fully operational to offer support to
HIV/AIDS orphans. So far the project has had the effect of raising the social and economic
standards of the orphans engaged in the project.
Goals and Objectives
 To improve the agricultural productivity among orphaned families.
 To improve the use of resources among household of HIV/AIDS orphans.
 To strengthen ability of target group to deal with psychological and economic
consequence of HIV.
 To provide emotional and educational support to orphan children.
Preparedness for Internal/External Environmental Changes
As a whole, the project is expected to bring changes in the social and economic
welfare of HIV/AIDS orphans living in Africa. The change would involve an improvement in
their standards of living as well as emotional status to be able to cope with the challenges of
life more comfortably3.
3 Lemke, Stefanie, Farideh Yousefi, Ana C. Eisermann, and Anne C. Bellows. "Sustainable livelihoods
approaches for exploring smallholder agricultural programs targeted at women from South Africa." Journal of
Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development

Bibliography
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livelihoods approaches for exploring smallholder agricultural programs targeted at
women from South Africa." Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community
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Rödlach, Alexander. Witches, Westerners, and HIV: AIDS and cultures of blame in Africa.
Routledge, 2016.
Zakary, Omar, Mostafa Rachik, and Ilias Elmouki. "On the impact of awareness programs in
HIV/AIDS prevention: an SIR model with optimal control." International Journal of
Computer Applications 133, no. 9 (2016)