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Strengthening peace leadership in the Asia region This project consists of two strands: 1) Build the capacities of local peace practitioners and their organisations, supporting cutting edge peace research 2) Support non-state armed group (NSAG) leaders to develop themselves as leaders in peaceful transformation of conflicts they are involved in.

1st strand: With its Applied Conflict Transformation Studies (ACTS) programme and its new ACTS PhD programme, CPCS builds the capacity of peacebuilders from local civil society across the region. This project aims to support CPCS in raising up peacebuilders by equipping them with skills and a support structure that will facilitate truly locally-led, community-focused peacebuilding work, and contribute to unique, cutting edge research on Asian perspectives of conflict transformation. Between the residential seminars, the students continue to work in their respective organisations, which allows for an immediate opportunity to apply the learning from the programme to their peace practice. Scholarships under this project will enable civil society leaders to go through CPCS’ ACTS PhD programme. 

2nd strand: To bolster peace efforts and prevent the reoccurrence of violence in post-conflict contexts, it is important that key individuals in NSAGs that participate in peace processes are supported to increase their leadership capacity. Engaging key individuals in long-term leadership development increases the sustainability of peace interventions, as the individuals apply new and improved leadership skills to their respective organisations’ transitions to pursue their objectives using peaceful means. During this project, NSAG leaders will go through a training programme with five modules centred around two fundamental leadership development threads: 1) the personal thread, focusing on creating space to pause, reflect and restore while delving into the ideas of identity, power and one’s own history as resources for leadership; and 2) the professional thread, which focuses on the technical skill set required in conflict transformation.
Emergency Flood Relief Response in Thabaung Township, Ayeyarwady Region This proposal aims to implement food distribution activity for the most flood-affected community in Thabaung township. The project targets to implement at 7 villages comprised of Del Gone, Mee Thway Daike, Nwe Ni Chaung and Zee Phyu Kwin village tracts under Thabaung Township. Total target of direct beneficiaries are 200 households for one-month food support. The project implementation process and distribution standard will follow the SPHEER humanitarian and CI standard in order to make sure of effectiveness within the beneficiaries. Besides, the project will facilitate the community to get community led beneficiaries identification and ensure of community led humanitarian activity. The project period is one month for both project implementation and completed reporting.
Exploring functional coexistance between religious groups in Myanmar SEM will work with religious leaders (Buddhist, Catholic, Muslim) and lay people (12 in total) from different backgrounds and regions/ States in Myanmar to promote a positive recognition of each other and for them to be able to live in a functional coexistence. Engaging with faith leaders is one of essential elements to transform positively conflicts and other obstacles for sustainable peace and development in Myanmar. In this sense, SEM will organize a one-time workshop in the International Network of Engaged Buddhists (INEB) in Thailand with resource persons from Thailand, Sri Lanka and Myanmar. The purpose will be to foster common understanding between different religious group members about their needs, issues and interests of their own communities; to strengthen their communication and collaboration and to enable them to create action plans for community led activities that integrate inputs from different religious groups into a common vision for coexistence.
Following the workshop, the participants will implement their action plans in their communities in Myanmar, building communication and relations with other religious groups as well as keeping the network from the workshop participants for support and peer to peer learning.  Faith leaders are respected and listened in their communities and they are expected to be the ones who fill the vacuum in areas where there is a lack of services and unsatisfied needs. Moreover, they are key actors in conflict mediation and resolution and communities rely on them to lead interfaith dialogue and relations.
This will be the first interfaith initiative led by SEM after many years of experience working in the intra faith in Myanmar. This project will also benefit our partner organizations CBCM and MLK as they will select some of the participants from Catholic and Muslim background. The Buddhist participants will be alumni of SEM intra faith activities (Project MYA195).
Flood Response in Tedim Township, Chin State, Myanmar During August 2018 heavy monsoon rain affected 700 people from two villages from the Chin State in Myanmar. The heavy rain caused the Tuingo stream to flood the road leading to the villages of Kimlai and Mawnglang and to destroy a suspension bridge. The villages of Kimlai and Mawnglang which are located beyond the stream are suffering from lack of food and access to markets. KMSS Kalay immediately began to respond by providing food assistance for one month to all affected people in the two villages.  CAFOD's funds will be used to construct a motor-bike road and a suspension bridge using cash for work. CAFOD funds will also be used to provide food for 694 people for 15 days during the construction of road and bridge.
Strong Wind and Hail Response, Mandalay Diocese, Myanmar This is a 1 month recovery project for the strong wind and hail in Mandalay diocese of Myanmar. The strong wind occurred week commencing 25th April 2016. Initial emergency response was provided by some local private donor and KMSS-Mandalay; however, there is still critical extreme needs still to be met in recovery and rehabilitation, particularly for the most vulnerable. 

The overall goal of this programme is to assist the Strong Wind and Hail affected vulnerable victims of Sint Kaing and Kyauk Se Township in Mandalay so that they may recover to their situation as before the emergency. Main activities are in sectors of Shelter, Housing Reconstruction through providing Zinc, and Food Security through distributing rice and oil.
KMSS Institutional Development: The Financial Management Policy and Human Resource Management Policy Since the 2008 response to cyclone Nargis which led to a flood of donor funding in Myanmar, KMSS has been steadily growing and taking on larger and larger funding. Today, KMSS (including all its dioceses) has an overall turnover of around USD 13 million between 100 projects per year. Despite this extreme growth the organisational structure and systems (in particular HR and Finance) were not adapted and differ widely between different dioceses and the national office. The result is inefficiency and cases of nepotism, mismanagement and fraud. Aiming to sustainably address these issues,  KMSS (together with  international Caritas partner agencies) developed this Finance Management and Human Resource Management project in order to develop and implement adequate systems and policies across the entire organisation with all its dioceses.
Humanitarian Capacity Development Myanmar 2016-2017 The project contributes to Myanmar (SE Aisa) annual operation plan 2016/17 – ‘key partners capacity strengthend’
The quality and speed of CAFOD’s humanitarian work depends on the strength of its partners. The aim HCD for phase 2 of CAFOD in Myanmar is that to ensure greater impact and the overall purpose is existing partner and new partner organizations in country to respond more effectively and efficiently to any future emergencies in compliance with international humanitarian principles and standards. On the other hand, we aim that partner organisations become able to plan and deliver emergency responses to disasters with minimal external support so as to save lives and reduce suffering.
Humanitarian capacity development project (HCD) , Myanmar programme, is a partnership project between CAFOD and 3 Myanmar strategic partners (National Caritas); Dioceses of KMSS Yangon, Diocese of KMSS Pathein and KMSS National Office,  aiming at strengthening its capacity to prepare for and respond to emergencies . 
The project targets to improve performance in the context of planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of humanitarian services.  The process hopes to provide in-depth support through trainings & peer learning to improve organisational effectiveness by considering actions that will strengthen leadership & management, levels of skills & knowledge in international humanitarian standards, Disaster Management, fundraising,  M&E framework and safety & security of partners in emergencies.   These targeted areas of trainings were identified and prioritised in the capacity needs assessment workshop.
The trainings will not only benefit the 3 Myanmar strategic partners but also representatives of CAFOD Myanmar staff and representatives of partners & CAFOD staff from South East Asia. The identified training areas will in a profound and sustainable manner, improve effectiveness of partner organisations.
CAFOD Myanmar annual partners workshop As part of the annual strategic planning process CAFOD Myanmar organizes this partners workshop in order to: 1) share and update about context changes and issues; 2) promote peer to peer learning and exchange between our partners and 3)explore new opportunities in terms of funding opportunities, cross learning activities, networking and joint projects and programmes. Moreover, CAFOD Myanmar has been developing its new CSP and as a part of this process the local partners have been contributing through informal and formal conversations. This activity will also allow them to get updates on this and feedback to CAFOD on what they consider the most important needs and challenges for coming years.

This is also an opportunity to share with the strategic partners on their own organizational strategies and how they feed up into CAFODs ways of working and its proposed ToC. The second day of the workshop will also try to foster a discussion between CAFOD and the partners around the way projects are going and the support needed.
Peaceful Truth: Misinformation Management and Violence Prevention in Myanmar In Myanmar, misinformation  plays  a  significant  role  in  driving  intercommunal 
violence such as the targeting of the Muslim minority. The initiative proposed here is called Peaceful Truth and seeks to implement a project that uses information and communications technologies (ICTs) such as mobile phones (particularly SMS / text messaging) and social media to manage misinformation in Myanmar, with an initial focus on the city of Mandalay. Through community-based reporters and through close collaboration with community leaders for safely channelling information and for de-escalation, this project aims to reduce the risk of rumours inciting violence and exacerbating tensions.
Peaceful Truth is being built using lessons learned during the successful  Una  Hakika project  in  Kenya which  was  also implemented  by  Sentinel.
Emergency Response to Monsoon Floods in Magway and Sagaing Regions, Myanmar On 30 July, Cyclone Komen made landfall in Bangladesh bringing strong winds and additional heavy rains to Myanmar. This resulted in significant expansion of existing monsoonal flood waters, and combined with continued heavy rainfall, landslides, flash floods and flooding has occured in 12 out of 14 state and regions in Myanmar. Among the worst are Sagaing & Magway Regions and,Chin and Rakhine States; all of which have been declared natural disaster zones.

Together with NAG, CAFOD will provide immediate lifesaving inputs in food, water and hygiene for the most vulnerable flood affected men, women and children in southern Sagaing and Magway region. This will involve access to safe drinking water, the prevention of water-borne and water related diseases, access to food, and the creation of conditions facilitating a rehabilitation of infrastructure as well as resettlement of displaced families. The intervention will focus on 8,000 HHs in total: 5,600 households in 35 communities in Pwint Phyu, Saedoketayar and Yenanchaung, Magway Region and 2,400 households in 15 communities in Kalay Township, Sagaing Region.
Research: The role of China and the Wa in Myanmar's Peace Process This project will support a research piece on the Wa self-administered zone in Myanmar to better understand what are the conflict dynamics there and the interests of the largest armed organization in the country, the United Wa State Army (UWSA) as well as the support they receive from China. The primary objectives of this research are: 

1) To contribute with updated information and facts about the peace process in regard to the UWSA dynamics and their areas of influence.
2) To provide a better understanding of the conflict dynamics in the Wa region and an insight to key stakeholders that are engaged in the National Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) and peace process (International and national actors).  
3) To develop a research piece that will make a proper analysis and consider possible scenarios on how the UWSA will move forward on the peace process and how this will affect conflict dynamics particularly in Kachin and Northern Shan States.

The research will analyse the UWSA position regarding to the peace process as well as their current role in the escalation of violence and armed conflict in Kachin and Northern Shan States. This project will also support to close the existing gap of knowledge in Myanmar on who are the Wa, what is their main purpose and why the Myanmar government and military have been so cautious in dealing with them. If the peace process it’s to succeed the key negotiators will require to have a deeper understanding on the Wa and the strategy they have, which affects not just the Wa ethnic region but also areas where there are other ethnic groups such as Shan, Palaung, Kachin, Kokang, Lisu, Rakhine, Akha, Lahu among others. This 11 months research will be published into a book that will have English and Burmese editions and is expected to be accessed by 10,000-20,000 people (CSO leaders, INGO, external donors, foreign governments, academic institutions, think thanks, EAO members, people interested in peace process from different ethnic groups).
Promoting a Culture of Peace and Sustainability in Myanmar Phase II “Promoting a culture of peace and sustainability in Myanmar Phase II” is a three year project (Jan 16-Dec 18) focused on what SEM has identified as two critical areas of engagement in Myanmar: peacebuilding (specifically addressing systematic communal violence) and community rights and natural resource governance (in relation to infrastructure and resource extraction projects). This project has three main components
-	Peacebuilding, Overall outcome: Sangha (Buddhist Monks and Nuns) play a key role in promoting peaceful coexistence within their communities in Central Myanmar.
-	Natural resource governance and community rights, Overall outcome: Communities in the DSEZ project area are able to assert their rights and participate in creating resilient development outcomes in Dawei.
-	Strengthening civil society, Overall outcome: Resilient pathways for development fostered through civil society in Myanmar
This project will seek to reduce hate speech and its impacts that have contributed to the spread of communal violence in target areas in Central Myanmar. This will be achieved by engaging a broad spectrum of multi-level Sangha (from village to leadership levels) in a learning process of intra-faith dialogue, reflective, critical inquiry and peacebuilding approaches, so that moral clarity and inclusive consensus is able to guide their role as influential social and spiritual leaders and practitioners in society, and strengthen the resilience of their role in the face of external pressures and narrow nationalistic rhetoric.   
SEM’s strategy for natural resource governance and community rights (Dawei) is in strengthening capacities of local CSO’s to mobilise affected communities to assert their rights and participate in creating resilient development outcomes in Dawei. In response to the planned DSEZ and related projects in Southern Myanmar, this project will seek to create resilient development outcomes in Dawei through community empowerment, local and cross-border networking, and advocacy and public awareness raising. Advocacy will also be cross-cutting all components, as a means to strengthen civil society voice in engagement with the DSEZ stakeholders. 
SEM will facilitate requested trainings and exposures for local partner and wider organizations that provide exposure to alternative development ideas and practices. SEM will also provide networking, coordination and advisory support to partner organizations in order to support their institutional strengthening and programme implementation.
UK Aid MF III - Climate Resilient Agriculture in Myanmar: CAFOD Operational Cost This project aims to achieve improved livelihoods security for poor women, men and children from hazard-prone and/or marginalised rural communities in Myanmar through an integrated approach that: increases the productivity and resilience of agricultural systems; strengthens adaptation to climate change; and increases the ability of local, small scale food producers to access services and influence development practices. 
This project directly addresses the “lack of sustainable livelihoods” identified as one of the strategic issues/imperatives in CAFOD’s CSP for Myanmar. It follows key CSP internal and external imperatives by working with the Church, targeting the most vulnerable, building the capacity of our strategic partners to implement our CSP, engaging authorities (through its advocacy component), and coordinating with other local organisations (technical partner) as well as Caritas sister organisations (C. Switzerland and C. Australia for this particular project). Most importantly, this project directly pursues CSP Goal 2 by reducing the vulnerability of communities to “environmental and livelihoods shocks” via “the sustainable management of land use and natural resources, and the enactment of responsible governance”.
Finally, this project focuses on three out of five “targeting” areas set by the Myanmar CSP: Natural resource management, Capacity Building with “particular attention focused on KMSS NO”, and “working with the Catholic Church”.
This project will be implement in Ayearyarwaddy Delta region in Myanmar, highest hazard prone areas and local livelihoods rely on smallholder agriculture to provide their main source of food or income and livelihoods are highly dependent on climatic condition. To improved food and livelihoods security of local communities, project need to promote and focus on these challenges: limited adaptation in agricultural systems, limited livelihoods options, vulnerability to risks and limited voices & influence
Inclusive Peace Process through Multi-stakeholders Dialogue (II) GSMI has been implementing for the first time a III phase peace project (that started in 2013) and as part of the last year they have requested the support of CAFOD for: a) the capacity building for some beneficiaries (civilian CSO members) for the sustainability of the project; b) the support for the consolidation of a platform to dialogue about peace at the local level; and c) the support to GSMI to be capable to evidence and collect the lessons learnt and best practices for their peace project (2013-2017). This initiative has been funded in previous years by Norwegian Peoples Aid (NPA), organization that will continue to cover core activities until the end of the project. 

GSMI is now implementing the third phase with the project goal of targeting Stakeholders from Eastern Bago and Northern Karen to consult and dialogue with each other to have better understanding and take action together to strengthen peace process and contribute to community sustainable development. The project has three objectives: To strengthen the capacity of targeted stakeholders in order to mobilize and organize public participation on the peace process and to foster dialogue; To create a platform for CSOs and Community members to identify the issues and develop action to address with key stakeholders through dialogue; and to create a mechanism where they can update information on the issues of (peace, and development).

The project has been a great success and learning with many change stories. For example: the fear had been reduced among the civil society actors and they could come together with confidence to discuss issues, expressing their concerns and feelings related to peace and socio-economic development in public discussion and forum. Networks has been built across civil society actors and religious groups to action for common good to the public and they have been able to critically advocate and engage their institution in the peace process.
Strengthening the Catholic Church coordination and support in the health sector in Myanmar The Episcopal Commission for Health Pastoral Care (ECHPC) was formulated in 2004 by CBCM. Since then, Diocesan Health Commissions were formed in diocesan level but most are not functioning. Currently out of 16 dioceses, only 2 dioceses (Yangon and Mandalay Archdioceses) have a well-established health commission and well-functioning. At the national level, CBCM appointed Bishop Alexander Pyone Cho as the chairman of ECHPC of CBCM, but there is no advisory broad. And also coordination, collaboration among Catholic commissions is very weak.
CAFOD decided to support CBCM health commission with the coordination of KMSS as an effort to strengthen the capacity of the Catholic Church and its interventions in the health sector in Myanmar. Through this project a structure will be defined as well as a strategy, this has been a follow up effort after having supported HIV programs with KMSS for many years.
Reaching the most vulnerable communities in Myanmar through Church health services KMSS and ECHPC have been working for over a year in order to constitute a national strategy and plan that would be implemented in all 16 Dioceses. This work based on the vision that “Every person in Myanmar within the reach of the Catholic Church receives health care without discrimination in keeping with his/her human dignity”. After one year the ECHPC has a draft plan and board of members and has supported Diocesan Health Commissions (DHC) to be formed and start being operative in the areas where the most vulnerable communities are. For this, ECHPC has linked as well with government departments and other religious groups with similar initiatives (Baptist, Muslim, Buddhist) in order to learn from their experience and find commonalities. 

For this 3 year proposal the ECHPC will aim for the commissions to collectively advocate within the Catholic Church structure (CBCM, CRCM, Bishop, Parish Priest, Provincial) and with other relevant stakeholders (Catholic Business Group, Government Health Department, other community health providers) for effective health programmes and services; and to plan, implement and sustain their health services through their own means (finding ways of raising their own funds and sharing collective learning and support). CAFOD will provide support on their capacity to advocate for a common message in different levels (all 16 Dioceses) and also for them to provide services in an strategic way and find means to be independent and autonomous from external funding in the medium-long term.