Building Bridges to Mainstream Opportunities: Displaced Children & Orphans Fund Guidance on Funding Priorities and Parameters for Street Children Programming

Summary

As a first step in its review of street children programming, USAID’s DCOF commissioned a desk study of emerging trends in the sector. DCOF next invited a Capstone research team out of George Washington University to study the psychosocial needs of street children. DCOF technical teams then visited newly funded street children programmes in Georgia and the Dominican Republic. As a fourth step, DCOF hosted a one-day planning retreat on street children programming in May 2005. This guidance document represents a final step in DCOF’s current internal review, and has been developed to provide guidance to USAID country missions and both local and international implementing partners on how funds from the Displaced Children and Orphans fund will be used in the area of programming for street children.