This book is an outcome of a study that was carried out on child headed households in Rakai district, Uganda. The study specifically examines the livelihoods of child headed households in the context of the DFID sustainable livelihoods framework and the poverty trap by Robert chambers. The book explores and establishes the livelihoods conditions, needs and problems of child headed households. The analysis reveals that much as NGOs have done a lot to assist child headed households, the impact of their programmes on the livelihoods of these children is minimal contrary to what is ...