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RWA.S1 Leadership, advocacy and communication to fast track the AIDS response The UNAIDS Secretariat continue its leadership role to establish an inclusive, result-driven global agenda for the Strategic Directions outlined in the UNAIDS Strategy for 2016-2021. It works across all Action Areas in collaboration with convening Cosponsors according to UNAIDS Division of Labour. The Secretariat raises awareness, advocates and builds commitment for Fast-Tracking the AIDS response to end the epidemic by 2030. Through leadership and advocacy the Secretariat works to keep HIV high on the global agenda and builds the vision, momentum and foundations for robust, sustainable political commitment to predictable and fully financed AIDS responses with higher returns on HIV investments
(2022-2023) RWA.S4 Coordination, convening and country implementation support Building on the accumulated expertise, systems and partnerships of the HIV response and on broader health and development efforts, the UNAIDS Secretariat works with countries and communities to strengthen national mechanisms for effective coordination and coherence. UN Joint Teams on AIDS in countries and other regional interagency mechanisms support inclusive and sustainable national HIV responses that promote a whole-of-government and whole-of society efforts to end inequalities and end AIDS as a public health threat. Together with communities and duty bearers, the Joint Teams use an inequalities lens to identify people who are being left behind and to urgently reduce the inequalities, inequities and exclusion experienced by people living with, affected by and at risk of HIV, including in humanitarian or other extreme circumstances.
The Young Women for Awareness, Agency, Advocacy, and Accountability (YW4A) The programme aims to strengthen and diversify young women’s participation and amplify their voices to effectively influence decision-making towards gender-just laws, policies, norms, and practices related to their bodily integrity and equal participation. The programme will achieve this through 4 main outcomes: 
1.	Strengthening the advocacy capacity of 27 women’s rights organizations (WROs) to amplify young women’s voices in Palestine, Egypt, Kenya, and South Sudan by 2025.
2.	Enhancing the leadership of 17,540 young women to effectively engage in collective action and decision-making in public, private, and civic spaces in Palestine, Egypt, Kenya, and South Sudan by 2025.
3.	Transforming social norms and practices of 22 faith-based organizations (FBOs) that constrain young women’s rights in Palestine, Egypt, Kenya, and South Sudan by 2025. 
4.	Influence the adoption, amendment, withdrawal or effective utilisation and implementation of 18 laws and policies towards promoting young women’s rights to leadership, participation and ending SGBV in Palestine, Egypt, Kenya and South Sudan by 2025.
Training in non-violent communication Sri Lanka, after over two decades of violent conflict, is now struggling to build peace and reconciliation.  Underpinning almost all initiatives is the need to enable people in conflictual situations – which can range from armed conflict and its aftermath to fraught relations within families, schools and neighbourhoods – to negotiate in a non-violent and non-confrontational manner to achieve constructive solutions to problems. In partnership with religious organisations and civil society groups, Centre for Communication Training (CCT) has been focusing on conflict transformation by promoting nonviolent communication (NVC).  CCT is a trilingual organisation (Sinhalese, Tamil and English) which since its inception in 2003 has introduced NVC in all parts of Sri Lanka.  In the first instance training is given to selected community members, and to staff of organisations which provide social services, and they in turn impart the principles of NVC to the communities where they work, and help them apply these principles in their day to day lives.  In order to follow up and assess the impact of trainings, CCT provides advanced NVC trainings to those who apply NVC principles in their work, and makes follow-up visits to local communities where NVC principles have been introduced, to monitor how the concept is being applied, and encourage training graduates to discuss and overcome problems in putting the principles into practice.
Outcome Harvesting support to Sri Lankan partners This project will deliver support to CAFOD's partners in Sri Lanka in the use and application of Outcome Harvesting (OH) as an approach to Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL), and programme and strategy development.
Promotion of inter-community understanding This project aims to increase constructive cooperation between communities and with local government. It is an effort to help them work constructively with each other to find solutions to community problems (of poverty, high unemployment, social isolation and social tensions).  Peace and Community Action (PCA) has developed an effective methodology of working intensively with small selected groups of community leaders and government officers to give them an understanding of non-violent approaches, and then supporting them as they apply their learning to their day-to-day lives, and build up self-confidence. 

The project ran in Matara District from 2007 to 2013, moving to Ampara District from 2013 to 2016 . It focuses on:  increasing trust, solidarity and community cohesion, and improved relations with government officers, so as to be able to tackle intra-community violence and find solutions to socio-economic problems; the establishment and strengthening of community-based organisations (CBOs) in every village; support for young people; and awareness programmes social problems; and inter-community exchanges to promote better understanding between different communities in Sri Lanka.  

Selected community leaders are helped to develop their own skills and strategies in order to resolve problems, facilitate long-term co-existence with others, and work together to achieve common goals; then encouraged to put their learning into practice by taking part in the implementation of community initiatives, and passing on what they have learned to neighbours and colleagues.
Caravan for Seed and Food Sovereignty The vital role played by small-scale food producers in sustaining rural livelihoods and nutrition in Sri Lanka is widely recognised, and indeed celebrated.  Moreover, at a time when fear is spreading about the likely health risks of allowing chemical agricultural inputs to contaminate the environment and enter the food chain, small farming and home gardening offer promising opportunities for the promotion of ecologically friendly methods.  Over the past year, Sri Lankan small farmers have become increasingly about proposals to restrict the supply of seeds to commercial companies - a move which would criminalise the longstanding practices of using or swapping home-produced seed, and threaten biodiversity as well as food sovereignty.  Small farmers in various parts of the country will therefore engage in a weeklong programme of activities, using street drama and leaflet distribution to publicise the issue, and present policy recommendations to government actors at both local and national levels.  One Caravan will begin in Kilinochchi in the north of the island and another in Hambantota in the south, and they will meet up in Colombo on 16 October which is World Food Day.
Evaluation of Active Citizenship for Development (ACDN) programme Social Scientists Association has been engaged to conduct an evaluation of Active Citizenship for Development (ACDN) programme which CAFOD has been supporting since 2011.  The objective is to inform CAFOD's learning and inform future project and programme design.
Support for families affected by COVID-19 Immediate socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 are most severely affecting the poorest and most marginalized, and in particular those previously relying on informal or day labour (approximately 60% of employment in Sri Lanka is informal), or with insecure rights. These households have been immediately rendered destitute and unable to buy food.  Government support measures are being organised, but civil society response is needed for rapid response and to help ensure that all vulnerable groups are included, and the government is actively requesting NGOs for help.  This grant will support provision of an emergency food and NFI package to 1,100 families at a cost of SLR 3,000 per pack. 

Targeted families will be those most vulnerable as a result of the COVID-19 lockdown measures or because a family member is under treatment for COVID-19. The pack will contain items for public health protection, including soap, face masks, and information leaflet in local language. Items will be sufficient for the needs of one family (4-5 members) for one week. 

This intervention forms one component of CSL’s wider national response to provide basic food and preventive health supplies for families which are vulnerable because they lack the means to purchase them; cash assistance for purchase of medicines; and PPE for social/ health/ care workers. There are particular concerns that children, pregnant mothers and older people will go hungry, and CSL plans to target its intervention to ensure they are prioritised.
Consolidation of the empowerment process for plantation community in Deltota Central Province comprises three districts: Matale, Kandy and Nuwara Eliya, whose population is ethnically and religiously mixed.  Tamil people, brought from India by the British in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, to provide a workforce for plantations producing tea and coffee, largely continue to live in very basic accommodation on the estates, isolated and marginalised; usually they cannot speak Sinhalese, and provision of services (health, education etc, and also retail outlets) to their communities is markedly sub-standard.  Rural Sinhalese are also not well-off, and the rights of poor people from all communities are often disrespected by those who are more powerful and socio-economically privileged.  A project aiming to empower the people living on and around 5 estates in Deltota DSD, through awareness-raising, community organising and leadership development, so as to mobilise them to work constructively together and engage as active citizens with local government, ran for 3 years 2013-16 under SLK145, and was found by an evaluation to have been very effective.  In accordance with the recommendations in the evaluation report, 2016-17 will be a final consolidation year in which the community based organisations will be strengthened and federated.
Active Citizenship for Development Network CAFOD has for several years been supporting a programme in which four CAFOD partners collaborate together to develop the capacity of members of the public to become active, engaged citizens and thereby uphold the socio-economic rights of their communities.  This started with a pilot participatory budget monitoring network of three local partners (plus one national partner), who trained local community members to identify, analyse and monitor government budgets at national, provincial and district levels. An island-wide network is being established in a range of districts in various parts of Sri Lanka, with Citizens’ Fora in each district. From March 2014 it was agreed that CEPA replace the existing national organisation in the network and would service the ACDN network members by building their capacities in data collection, monitoring and evaluation and the use of social accountability tools. They would also assist by distilling relevant local-level issues emerging from the nationwide network, and disseminating at national level, in order to promote more accountable public service budgeting and improved public service delivery in Sri Lanka.
Community organising, livelihoods and resilience for rural women The project focuses on women community leaders along with women who are actual or potential breadwinners within the poorest and most vulnerable families (including women heads of families) in two villages - one in Muthur, Trincomalee District, and one in the Mannar Divisional Secretariat of Mannar District.  Both villages were severely affected by the 1983-2009 civil war.  In addition, both are vulnerable to flooding and drought due to poor drainage facilities.  Working with local government structures and government services, the activities will strengthen the Women's Rural Development Society (an existing women-led community-based organisation) within each village so as to empower the officers and members to work with local government to secure action to improve local infrastructure and amenities.  An exposure visit will also be organised to economically successful communities in Anuradhapura to learn from their experience.  Support in the form of skills training and finance (on a part grant/ part loan basis) will be provided to women in poor families to develop livelihood initiatives.
Helping people move towards reconciliation. This project will build knowledge and attitudes for peace within targeted community groups in Sri Lanka, and will enable ethnically or religiously diverse communities to develop a better understanding of each other's concerns and aspirations, and facilitate them to develop links and constructive relationships with each other. Through building knowledge and establishing local forums for discussion and action, citizens and local government officials will be supported to actively participate in the on-going peace and reconciliation processes put in place by the government in Sri Lanka. Perspectives on peace and reconciliation from the community level will be communicated upwards to national decision-makers, faith leaders, and civil society leaders, and will contribute towards national efforts to develop a common vision for a plural, multi-ethnic and multi-religious society.
Capacity enhancement training for Caritas Sri Lanka staff SEDEC/ Caritas Sri Lanka (CSL) has grown and developed in terms of systems, structure and strategies.  However, many of the trained and experienced staff who worked at CSL during the time of the tsunami have left and new staff have joined both the National Centre (NC) and Diocesan Centres (DCs): they are now in need of training.  CAFOD, and other CSL funding partners, have highlighted the need to professionalize the service delivery of Caritas staff.

The training course designed for this purpose aims to equip project managers, finance and monitoring officers with the knowledge and expertise to be able to conduct their own planning, monitoring, evaluation and reporting, which is critical to CSL as it is involved in community-level social and economic development programmes.  The course, comprising five separate modules, will use the Logical Framework Approach, and will run in a workshop style with a high degree of participants’ involvement.  Since a case study approach will be used in this regard, the participants are expected to arrive with a project to work on throughout the course.
Empowerment of plantation community Central Province comprises three districts: Matale, Kandy and Nuwara Eliya, whose population is ethnically and religiously mixed.  Tamil people, brought from India by the British in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, to provide a workforce for plantations producing tea and coffee, largely continue to live in very basic accommodation on the estates, isolated and marginalised; usually they cannot speak Sinhalese, and provision of services (health, education etc, and also retail outlets) to their communities is markedly sub-standard.  Rural Sinhalese are also not well-off, and the rights of poor people from all communities are often disrespected by those who are more powerful and socio-economically privileged.  The project aims to empower the plantation people living on 5 estates in Deltota DSD, through awareness-raising, community organising and leadership development, so as to mobilise them to work constructively together and engage as active citizens with local government.  Social cohesion will also be fostered by encouraging interreligious co-operation and joint celebration of cultural programmes.
Building peace through power sharing This project began in a context where terms like “power sharing” or “devolution” were widely misunderstood, being thought to mean “secession”.  It aimed to help people realise that power sharing, correctly understood, is about the kind of effective decentralisation which is working well in very many countries today, and also about participatory democracy through which active citizens can help ensure that government works well for everyone, and addresses people’s real needs.   Initiatives were conducted by the National Peace Council of Sri Lanka over three years 2007-10, to encourage informed public discussion of the meaning and potential advantages of power sharing.  They proved encouragingly effective in arousing positive public interest, enthusiasm and commitment among civil society leaders in southern Sri Lanka.  The project now seeks to take this concept to the north of the country where participation and effective government were curtailed during the war years.
Enhancing resilience of people impacted by economic crisis Sri Lanka is undergoing a disastrous economic crisis due partly to COVID-19 but also to unmanageable levels of fiscal deficit and sovereign debt leading to default.  Food and fuel supplies, and medicines, are running out, and the agricultural system which was dependent on imported inputs has largely collapsed.  Many families have lost their means of earning income, and such food as is available has become unaffordable for many households.

SEDEC/ Caritas Sri Lanka will implement a multi-sectoral response to the emergency involving distribution of food rations, medical and psychosocial assistance, support to children's schooling, along with livelihood rehabilitation and measures to help people build their resilience and coping strategies.
Support for families affected by COVID-19 third wave. Sri Lanka is experiencing a third wave of COVID-19 infection causing severe health, economic, and psychosocial impacts particularly for the most poor and vulnerable citizens. Rising levels of infection through May and June threatened to exceed the capacities of the health services,  and led to stringent restrictions on movement and association. As in previous lockdowns, those in informal employment or reliant on day labour were most severely impacted by loss of income and inability to afford food and essential items. Caritas Sri Lanka will respond through its 13 Diocesan Centres to provide essential food, non-food items including PPE, educational materials, and medical assistance, to a total of 5460 families.
Housing, rainwater harvesting units and livelihood support for conflict-affected people The village of Aayithiyamali, in Manmunai West Divisional Secretariat spent nearly two decades cut off from external contact and development assistance due to civil conflict in the vicinity.  During a major military offensive in 2007 the entire population of Manmunai West (over 8,012 families) was displaced to refugee camps in Batticaloa Town, under the control of government forces.  When the people returned to their villages a year later, many homes had been destroyed, but little assistance was provided to help reconstruct homes and livelihoods.  They continue to live in extremely basic structures and in extreme poverty, yet were excluded from the aid-supported development in Batticaloa and surrounding areas following the 2004 Tsunami.  In November 2010 EHED (Eastern Human Development)/ Caritas Batticaloa completed a successful rehabilitation intervention in Aayithiyamali South, following which CAFOD agreed support for Caritas to extend the intervention to Aayithiyamali North.  50 of the poorest families are being helped through an integrated package of housing, toilet and water-harvesting facilities, fuel-saving technology and livelihoods support; and additional stand-alone livelihoods support is being provided for a further 30 families.
Early Recovery Programme for Selected  Flood Affected Community Members in Batticaloa District Over a million people were affected by an exceptionally heavy North-East monsoon in Sri Lanka in early 2011.  The impact was particularly heavy in the Eastern Province, which was one of the areas worst affected in the 2004 Tsunami, and where people were still struggling to recover from the consequences of the ethnic conflict concluded in 2009.  Among the three main districts in the Eastern province, Batticaloa suffered the most and received the highest rainfall since 1913 which led to the majority of the main roads being submerged under water and almost the entire population being affected.  Many houses and physical assets were either lost or damaged, and people's livelihoods which largely revolve around paddy cultivation were badly affected. 

This project involves a new partnership with Sewalanka in order to provide a package of early recovery support to 1,323 vulnerable households in Koralai Pattu South and Vellavely DS Division in Batticaloa district.  The package will include: food, NFIs, school materials, repairing roads and wells with cash-for-work, together with seeds and tools so that affected households are able to re-establish home-gardens and increase their food security.
Supporting livelihood diversification and increasing communal harmony in western Sri Lanka This project aims to support the diversification of livelihoods of the poorest and most vulnerable families in Kaddaikaduwa GN Division, Mundalama Divisional Secretariat, Puttalam district, western Sri Lanka. In addition, the project will contribute to improving interpersonal relationships between ethnic and religious groups (Sinhala, Tamil and Muslim). Activities will directly target 400 families including women-headed households.

Project activities include establishing 20 self-help groups (SHG), each with membership of 20 families, and training the committee members on the principles of savings, loans and repayments, and basic financial management. The SHGs will manage a revolving loan system which, during the project’s lifetime, will be accessed by individuals acting as representative of their family, to support their family’s livelihood, health or education needs. Training on different livelihood options and study visits to established farms and businesses will support all participating families to diversify their income sources and become increasingly self-sufficient and resilient to natural disasters (which are becoming both more frequent and intense).
Psychosocial and soco-pastoral support for families affected by Easter Sunday bombings The project will provide psychosocial support, immediate relief through cash vouchers, medical and travel assistance to persons bereaved, physically injured or otherwise affected by the Easter bombings.  110 families will be provided with livelihood assistance, and legal assistance will be given where needed eg for documentation and transfer of assets following family deaths.
Strengthening transformation, equality, participation and sustainability (STEPS) This project will take further forward the process of building a network of divisional and district-level reconciliation forums (DRFs) which began to be formed in Ampara 2016-19 to empower local communities to work together on Transitional Justice.  The priority in the second phase, as Sri Lanka struggled to come to terms with the impact of the Easter 2019 terrorist attacks and resulting anti-Muslim backlash, was on strengthening the DRFs and empowering them to identify and address local issues which could potentially exacerbate communal tensions, thereby creating a space for re-connecting and re-humanising dialogue in a safe environment.  Under Phase III, beginning August 2022, the reach of the DRFs will be expanded to included more members and associated stakeholders and supported to respond constructively to the current crisis in Sri Lanka.