A report from a meeting for exchange and learning between organisations working with orphans and vulnerable children in India, looking community responses to working with this group. The experience of Plan International, Palmyrah Workers Development Society and the International HIV/AIDS Alliance was presented to the meeting. Specific responses to working with orphans and vulnerable children discussed in the report include lessons from a child participatory approach, prevention of mother-to-child transmission and the development of community action
This executive summary includes new orphan estimates for 34 countries; a description of what children, families and communities are doing to address their growing orphan problems; strategies for interventions that have been adopted; and a new strategic agenda to guide coherent action by the world community