Situation Analysis of Orphan Children in Namibia

Summary

The Ministry of Health and Social Services (MOHSS) commissioned a situation analysis of orphan children in Namibia, including children orphaned by AIDS. Financed by UNICEF and conducted by SIAPAC, a local social research firm, the study was intended to measure both the quantitative extent of the orphan situation and to qualitatively establish the situations these orphans faced. The purpose of the situation analysis of orphan children in Namibia was to analyse and provide an understanding of the present situation of orphans children in Namibia. The aim was to feed into a process of intervention identification and consideration of the expansion/redirection of existing interventions to better meet the needs of orphans. As the study proceeded parallel progress was made in defining vulnerable children more widely in Namibia. Therefore, this study is to be used by the Ministry of Health and Social Services, and its partners in development, more broadly for vulnerable children programming.