• Civil Society and Governance
  • Civil Society and Governance Overview
  • Institutional Capacity Building
  • Civic Education
  • Citizen Participation
  • Advocacy
  • Democratic Governance
  • Grants Solicitation and Management Capacity
  • Women's and Minority Rights
  • Disenfranchised Groups
• Education
  • Education Overview
  • Basic Education
  • Higher Education
  • Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
  • Education for Vulnerable Groups
• HIV/AIDS
  • HIV/AIDS Overview
  • HIV/AIDS Prevention
  • Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC)
  • Grants Solicitation and Management Capacity
  • Institutional Capacity Building
• International Visitors Exchanges
  • International Professional, Academic, and Cultural Exchanges Overview
  • Undergraduate and Graduate Academic Exchanges
  • Professional Exchanges
  • Youth Exchanges
• Capacity Development and Training
  • Capacity Development and Training Overview
  • Participant Training
  • Institutional Capacity Building
  • Undergraduate and Graduate Academic Exchanges
  • Grant Solicitation and Management Capacity
  • Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

Positive Change: Children, Communities and Care (PC3) Program

The Positive Change: Children, Communities and Care (PC3) project aims to improve the well-being of 500,000 orphans and other vulnerable children (OVC) and families affected by HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia.  PC3 strengthens program interventions focused on improving the lives of orphans and other vulnerable children (OVC) and their households, through psychosocial support, health and nutrition, livelihood, life skills, and educational programming.  The PC3 project addresses the needs of OVC affected and infected by HIV/AIDS in seven regions of Ethiopia: Amhara; the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region (SNNPR); Oromia; Addis Ababa; Afar; Dire Dawa; and Beneshangul-Gumuz.

The project is implemented is partnership with Save the Children US (prime grantee), CARE, Family Health International, and World Vision and aims to achieve the following results:

• Increased availability, quality and consistency of community-based support services for OVC and families affected by HIV/AIDS.
• Improved capacity of Ethiopian civil society organizations (CSOs) to plan, implement, monitor and evaluate, manage and report on OVC programs and services.
• More supportive environment for OVC and their households developed through strengthened coordination, networking and advocacy

World Learning is responsible for implementing the School Support Component of PC3 and works to create practical, replicable and sustainable model of school-based support for OVC through strengthened community participation.  PC3 School Support Component has been implemented in 339 primary schools in Amhara, SNNP and Oromia Regional States.  Through this program, World Learning is providing teachers with financial management and monitoring and evaluation training sessions, students with life skills training, and community members with community mobilization workshops. World Learning aims to give schools the capacity to provide OVCs with adequate psychosocial support and bring communities together to best solve this issue. One of the most successful aspects of the program includes the educational and vocational training to the children. To date, 76,307 OVC have benefited from these support services.