P a g e | 14 more conversant with child development issues. The intent is that these officers serve as managers of the community council-based Auxiliary Social Welfare Officers. At a physical resource level the district offices lack sufficient transport. All four divisions share a single vehicle, which means in practice there is virtually no capacity to do outreach visits or case follow-ups. Difficulties exist in the monitoring and evaluation of delivery of services across the board, including the MoSD. The lack of human resources at district level means that the time and, often, the skills to manage the M&E system are lacking, with consequent impacts on the timeliness, quality, and availability of information. Data clerks are in short supply at the district level, which means that the manual nature of data management at that level is not translated into the electronic data required at the national level. The Situational Analysis of VC in 2011 correctly noted: MoSD lacks the influence and capacity to manage the broader data collection requirements associated with the OVC response. Vertical reporting structures in line ministries meant that data which was relevant for monitoring the OVC response was not provided to MoSD except on request. During the development of OVC M&E indicators, all line ministries were involved and indicated that data would be made available for these indicators. However, in practice this has not been the case. While advances had been made in terms of education data, for example, data were only collected on orphans, not other vulnerable children. For food security, there were no data that allowed the tracking of food security interventions for OVC caregiving households compared to other households…. It goes on to note key challenges of the NOCC comprised of both structural matters and operational issues:      Lack of statutory authority of the NOCC to co-ordinate the multi-sectoral OVC response. The absence of a Cabinet instruction to enable NOCC with management and decisionmaking authority. Lack of political backing for the NOCC. Lack of Parliamentary oversight and lack of a Parliamentary Memo that would give the NOCC legal status to perform its functions. Lack of visible commitment of senior actors in the NOCC to the operations of the Committee. Loss of interest in the NOCC by a number of stakeholders, who view the Committee as not especially relevant to advancing the interests of OVC stakeholders. The district arms of the NOCC, the District Child Protection Teams (DCPT) are often most active when implementing programs, rather than in co-ordination of the OVC response.