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The Community-Based Support for OVC (CUBS) Project is improving the well-being of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in Nigeria by integrating a currently fragmented OVC service delivery system, mobilizing community support, and raising awareness of the issues and needs of OVCs. Over five years, the project will provide 50,000 OVC with comprehensive OVC services and train 12,500 providers/caregivers in service delivery in 11 focal states (Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, Rivers, Gombe, Taraba, Kebbi, Sokoto, Ekiti, Enugu, and Imo). The CUBS project will scale up OVC service delivery, while offering new approaches for enhancing service outreach to OVCs, building community ownership, and addressing gender discrimination. Services to be delivered to OVC include food and nutritional support, shelter and care, protection, health care, psychosocial support, education and vocational training, and increased economic opportunities. The project will build the capacity of government agencies and service providers, strengthen systems, and award small grants to civil-society organizations and faith-based organizations to deliver OVC services. The CUBS project was awarded to MSH in partnership with Africare under the AIDSTAR I IQC contract, funded by the President's Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief through the United States Agency for International Development.

Related Links:

Gender Assessment and Program Framework Report

For a brochure on the CUBS Project (PDF 111 KB)

"Addressing Kid's Vulnerability," Weekly Trust (May 1, 2010)

New MSH Project in Nigeria Helping Communities Support Orphans and Vulnerable Children