This evaluation—conducted by MEASURE Evaluation, a project funded by the United States Agency for International Development and the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)—aimed to understand how orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) programming by the Government of Botswana (GOB) and the PEPFAR-funded Botswana Comprehensive Care and Support for Orphans and Vulnerable Children (BCCOVC) project prepares older youth to be healthy, productive young adults. It examined the effect of services on the educational, economic, and health outcomes of older youth graduating from the programs.
This mixed-methods evaluation was a one-time quasi-experimental study, with the intervention group receiving services from the BCCOVC project and the GOB and a comparison group receiving services from the GOB only.