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Governance Action For People’s Development The project seeks to address a number of issues around integral human development through the Justice, Development and Peace structures of the Catholic Church in Nigeria, with a special focus on Kogi State in Central Nigeria. Internal governance systems in most communities in Nigeria are weak, leading to an inability of the community members to demand for and positively engage their local and state governments for improved provision of social infrastructure and services. There is a low level of awareness of the laws and statutes that exist to regulate the operations public offices and departments, making it difficult for the people to identify lapses in governance. In some cases, existing legislation is weak or absent, creating an open space for abuse of the authority of public office, and allowing corruption and mediocrity to thrive. 
Although the problem of underdevelopment is multi-factorial, one contributory factor is the lack of strong community governance structures that can work together with the local and state governments to serve the common good.  The weak community governance processes results from absent or weak community development committees (CDCs) and low awareness of the citizenry on their rights and responsibilities. Many existing CDCs do not meet regularly; some are ignorant of due process and regulatory frameworks for public governance.  The relevance of the CDCs is equally stalled by the existence of individual and group interests that are served by the status quo. There is also a lack of transparency on the part of the government agencies, this hinders citizens from monitoring government activities and permits corruption to thrive.  Government agencies exhibit poor understanding and sensitivity to community needs, often as a result of weak interface with community actors.
 
Project Outcomes include:
1. The Church and citizens influence national level policy in Nigeria. 
2. Citizen’s participation in governance is enhanced in four local government areas (LGAs) in Kogi State;
3. Community development influenced by citizens in targeted areas.
 
The main strategy adopted by the project will be to build the capacity of the Diocesan JDPC staff and selected community advocates to engage the government in dialogue around improved civic participation in governance. This will include increased participation of the citizenry in planning and budgeting for development and monitoring and evaluation of the activities of the various government agencies in the state. To achieve this, CCFN and partners will carry out workshops on advocacy, governance processes, budget monitoring, and gender-relevant laws and policies. Beneficiaries of these workshops, in addition to the diocesan JDPC, will include representatives of key stakeholder groups, community and religious leaders, and influential Catholics who have sufficient clout to champion advocacy initiatives. The project will also support participating communities to engage their local governments in regular discussion on the prioritization, commissioning, and monitoring of development projects in their communities.
Nigeria Disability Inclusion Pilot workshop This workshop is to facilitated the needed and training from CBM to CAFOD Nigeria and its partners to learn about disability inclusion in programming. 
The anticipated outcome is increased knowledge, technical skills and confidence of CWSI to embed disability inclusion into its project design, implementation and reporting (including data collection and analysis). The emphasis here is learning by doing. 12 months will provide the partner enough time to work through a simplified project cycle practically and capture relevant learning. There will opportunity to receive targeted mentoring from CBM and the OPD and for CAFOD staff to accompany the process and simultaneously learn. The partner will also have opportunity to shadow and have exchange visits with CBM and the OPD.
Livelihoods Support & Environmental Regeneration through the use of Eco-Friendly Briquettes in FCT. to make available, an affordable cooking energy substitute to consumers that can easily be accessed, and also support a benign environment through stemming deforestation and reduced emission of greenhouse gas to the atmosphere. 
JDPC intends to run a state-of-the-art briquette plant in the Federal Capital Territory. To achieve this purpose and given our technological knowhow, a moderate cost commercial briquette machine will be designed, fabricated and deployed in FCT so as to provide cheap energy, stop deforestation and desertification. The machine can operate on solar energy. Solar panels would be explored to achieve our intended design. This will produce Direct Current (DC) voltage. They can be built to provide nearly any DC voltage.

Fossil fuels are the major source for energy. The excess use of these fuels will lead to serious environmental issues like global warming and air pollution. Since the fossil fuels are getting depleted day by day, it is the high time to convert biomass wastes to useful biomass briquettes which will be the substitute for some of the fossil fuels.To address this energy challenge in Nigeria, JDPC with prompting from CAFOD is exploring other biomass resources namely: energy crops (grasses), agricultural waste, solid waste, shrubs and woods as viable feedstock for alternative energy production. Biomass resources of Nigeria can be identified as wood, forage grasses and shrubs, animal waste and waste arising from forestry, agricultural, municipal and industrial activities, as well as, aquatic biomass. To meet the future energy and climate goals, bio-energy will play a crucial role.

This project is part of CAFOD's contribution to both the cry of the earth and cry of the poor in Nigeria. The Nigerian Bishops Conference of Nigeria recently launched a 5-year Tree planning and environmental regeneration strategy. This project aligns and foster this vision for sustainable environmental reorientation and transformation in Nigeria.
COVID-19 Emergency Intervention for vulnerable households in 2 states: FCT and Kano This proposed intervention intends to address water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), food and nutritional insecurity as a result of COVID 19. Radio phone in program will be carried out to raise awareness among the populace. The COVID-19 pandemic is a health and human crisis pandemic threatening the food security and nutrition of millions of people in Nigeria. Hundreds of millions of people were already suffering from hunger and malnutrition before the virus hit and, unless immediate action is taken, we could witness acute food emergency in Nigeria. In the longer term, the combined effects of COVID-19 itself, as well as corresponding mitigation measures and the emerging global recession could, without large-scale coordinated action, disrupt the functioning of food systems. Such disruption can result in consequences for health and nutrition of a severity and scale unseen for more than half a century. 

The intervention is also proposing to provide Preventive Protective Equipment (PPE) to one hospital in each of the target location of Abuja (FCT) and Kano state. The PPE will help the hospitals to be better protected and thus more disposed to support COVID patients. Shortage of PPE is one of the major challenge health care workers are faced in this pandemic. The Catholic church donated to the Nigerian government some centres across the country as isolation centres for the management of COVID. Two of these facilities will be benefit from these PPE.

The involvement of faith-based organizations in responding to health epidemics cannot be overemphasized. As revealed in a press statement by CAFOD; Christian and Muslim Leaders played, essential role in tackling the Ebola virus especially in dispelling rumours and promoting authentic health messages. With COVID-19 pandemic, in Nigeria, a lot of people still do not believe that the virus is real, thus resulting in neglect of government prevention messages.
JDPC Advocacy Capacity Strenghtening for the Influence of Legislative Processes The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN), over the decades has been developing effective framework for promoting integral human development in Nigeria in conformity with the social teachings of the universal Church, with particular regards to the promotion of social justice and the common good.
 
The Conference, through the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria, through the Justice, Development and Peace/Caritas Nigeria of the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria (CSN) has been carrying out activities in respect of the social responsibilities of the Church which include promoting dialogue with governments, parliaments, political parties and civil societies.
 
In order to be more relevant in the political arena, the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria, in 2005, inaugurated a Think Tank (presently made up of 12 members) - a research, documentation and advocacy initiative with the particular objective to provide appropriate and effective framework and grounds, in terms of expert, professional and state-of-the-art data, for the Bishops Conference in its advocacy engagements with government and the civil society. 
 
The intention of the project is to change the monopoly of the political class in legislative matters and make the Church more relevant and physically present in the country’s National Assembly through the presence of a Catholic Liaison Officer, a position that CAFOD shall be supporting given its strategic role if the objectives of the project is to be achieved. This will enhance the voice of the Church, as representative of the poor masses in the Legislative House; and change the exclusivity right of the political class to the promulgation of Laws for democratic and good Governance in the country.

Such imminet changes shall also be enhanced through advocacy capacity strengthening for the JDPC Coordinators with focus on the Principles of the Catholic Social Teachings (CST). The strategy is that the trained Coordinators with their newly acquired skills will be transmitting information/data generated from the communities and the parishes to the Liason Officer at the National Assembly, to support issues based advocacy.
Action for Sound Policy Formulation and Increased Community Participation in Governance. The project aims to promote the process of formulating sound policy instruments at a national level, in Nigeria.
The project will help to mobilize Communities in Kogi State to use the tools of social accountability to monitor budgetary expenditure and demand for improved service delivery. 
The two areas of intervention are as follows:

1. Supporting National level advocacy for better policy formulation and Institutional Strengthening: This would be done by supporting the National Assembly Legislative Liaison Officer to monitor proceedings at the National Assembly, initiate processes that  provide avenues for the Church to contribute to pro-poor Bills and create avenues for collaboration with Executives and other policy makers.

2. Promotion of social accountability: This would be done by mobilizing the citizens of the target communities in Kogi State, using existing Community Structures.
Increasing Popular Participation in Governance in Kaduna State The Executive through the ministries' departments and agencies each year prepare and present a budget to the State House of Assembly. Government traditionally will name budgets such as “the peoples’ budget or budget of consolidation” etc. Even though the budgets are called “the peoples’ budget”. These budgets when passed end up not being implemented or partially implemented because  the government do not see the provisions in the budget as a covenant with the people. 

The Church in Nigeria has seen the importance of citizens’ involvement in governance. As a result of this, the project intervention will be hinged on Social Accountability (SA) with an objective to “give voice to the people by making them take up the responsibility of advocating for better service delivery for the well-being of all in Kaduna State”. The project is expected to create a culture of demand and accountability from citizens on the duty bearers that will bring about participation of the citizens on issues that affects them”.

Community based Development Associations, Traditional Rulers, Civil Society Groups and other non-state actors will be mobilised and empowered to take initiative for building engagement platforms. The engagement will strengthen participatory governance, ensure accountability and better service delivery of road infrastructure and functional health centers in Barnawa and Kakuri in Kaduna South Local Government; Sabon Tasha and Narayi in Chikun LGA and Ungwan Rimi and Doka communities in Kaduna North LGA. 

The project will leverage on the Kaduna State 2016 budget is designed to among others construct/rehabilitate rural roads and equipping 255 primary health care facilities. Some of these projects have begun while some are yet to commence. The project will have a 7 man Project Implementation Committee (PIC). It will be composed of 2 project staff, and 5 CSOs whose roles shall be to facilitate all engagements of the CDAs with the duty bearers. The PIC will also meet regularly to review and evaluate planned activities and call for action on decision taken.  The PIC will also develop terms of engagements, and facilitate the organisation of each of the town hall meetings. At the community level,  there will be 30 selected representatives of CDAs (5 from each community), made up of  males, females, boys and girls who will directly drive all engagements with duty bearers. The CDAs will monitor projects being implemented by government within their communities and ensure that allocations provided in the 2016 budget are adequately used to provide the basic services aforementioned.
Humanitarian Relief for Affected Population in Kaura and Zangon Kataf LGAs of Kaduna State, Nigeria Communities in Kaura Local Government Area of Kaduna State were attacked by an unidentified gun-wielding livestock militia on the night of March 24, 2022, according to a statement released by the Kaduna State Government. For unclear reasons, residents of the communities of Adan, Agban, Kagoro, Tsonje, Katanga, and Kadarko were attacked. The government of Kaduna State has enforced a 24-hour curfew. On March 25th, despite the curfew, enraged adolescents in Agban stopped a key highway heading to Jos and other regions, killing travelers of many nationalities, including women, girls, children, and elderly indigenous people.
At least 13 localities have been impacted by the attacks, with an estimated 40,000 people displaced. There have been 67 individuals dead and 2,677 dwellings destroyed. Farmlands have also been targeted, with armed men chopping down crops. Many people (including women, children, and the elderly) have fled to IDP camps in neighboring places such as Zonkwa and Kafanchan in search of safety. Food was the most important need for 61 percent of IDPs in these camps, according to a Red Cross fast assessment, followed by housing, NFI, psychosocial needs, and medical care. The surge of displaced persons has overwhelmed Zonkwa and Kafanchan, with the bulk of those displaced being women, children, and the elderly, while men and youths have remained, taking shelter in the woods and keeping guard at night. 
   This intervention is planned to serve as a lifesaving first step in stabilizing survivors during the initial period before they feel safe returning, as is typical of those in Nigeria's middle region. According to the assessment completed thus far by the Red Cross and local partners in the area, the requirements are fairly diverse due to the nature of the displaced households. The primary needs identified in the assessment findings were food, non-food items, and water and sanitation. The NFIs required include blankets, hand sanitizers, face masks, mattresses, toiletries, mosquito nets, and hygienic supplies such as sanitizers, to name a few. There is also a need for psychosocial/trauma counseling intervention, particularly because the targeted population is regarded as more traumatized and vulnerable in the context and reality of the attacks and their consequences.  The project will consist of supporting 2000 households (14,000 individuals) with multi-purpose cash transfers, NFI procurement and distribution, and psychosocial support.
Contribution to ECHO project co-financing to Caritas Germany This project is for the co-financing contribution of CAFOD to the ECHO project. The co-financing covers the cost of assessment by the Justice Development and Peace Commission, Maiduguri and Caritas Nigeria. In addition, the project covers the contribution from CAFOD to the 10% co-financing on the ECHO programming. Caritas Germany will contribute the same amount as CAFOD to the implementation of ECHO project.
Covid- 19 Intervention for the vulnerable Persons in Maiduguri Diocese The COVID-19 pandemic is the defining global health crisis of our time. (it could be said to be the greatest challenge we have faced since World War Two). Since its emergence in China in December 2019, the virus has spread to 213 countries (including Nigeria) with the number of confirmed cases rising daily in Africa the Americas, and Europe. Countries are racing to slow the spread of the virus by testing and treating patients, carrying out contact tracing, limiting travel, quarantining citizens, and cancelling large gatherings such as sporting events, concerts, and schools.
The wide increasing spread of Coronavirus across the globe has dominated global attention. In Nigeria the situation is not different as the Government at all level is committed to the fight against the increasing spread of COVID-19. The presidential task force on containment of COVID-19 has from time to time brief Nigerians on the current trends of activities and efforts put in by the Government, organization and individuals to contain the spread of the Coronavirus. The spread of the virus has tremendously increased in the last two months (from Feb. to date 2020). The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) has reported 12,801 confirmed cases as at 11:55pm, 8th of June 2020. Nigerian government is faced with hard choices about how to manage the virus. State Governors in Nigeria have already imposed border restrictions. Many are placing partial or blanket bans on public gatherings or insisting that citizen’s shelter at home. These are necessary but also costly measures.
In Maiduguri Diocese, there is a wide spread notion by general public mostly in remote communities that Coronavirus is a lie and the perception that, it is a foreign and rich persons’ sickness. Preventive measures such as social distancing, regular washing of hands or the use of hand sanitizers and other guidelines stipulated by the relevant authorities such as the NCDC are not properly adhered to. This Project is all about creating awareness on Covid-19 prevention and spread by enabling the vulnerable persons to have access to genuine knowledge on COVID19 and sanitary facilities to help curb its spread.
Assistance to People Affected by Crises through Food and Livelihoods in Michika LGA, Adamawa State N This 4-month project will seek to improve food security and to reduce negative coping strategies in Biang community in Michika LGA, Adamawa State. CAFOD will accompany the partner to implement the project. The role of CAFOD will include technical oversight to ensure quality programming, monitoring of results, liaising with the donor or reporting and sharing of success stories.

The project will target 3,420 IDPs and Host community members (approx. 570 households, 6 people in each household).  Outcome 1, the project will disburse cash for food assistance in 2 tranches of N 4,500 each in the second and third month of the project. In total each beneficiary will receive N 9,000. Each tranche has been calculated as the 70% of the Minimum Expenditure Basket (MEB) for food emergency needs per capita/per month. Each household will be given a pre-paid card that will act as an e-Wallet. Tranches for each household will be calculated depending on the number of people in the household, this is N4,500 * N household members = transfer value. The Food Consumption Score (FCS) will be used to capture progress. 

Outcome 2: The project will also aim to improve livelihoods by diversifying income sources of displaced and host community members. To achieve this, the project will train 150 beneficiaries on Income Generating Activities (IGA) who will later be given start-up kits worth N 70,000 each. Baseline and initial project assessments will confirm the specific activities that are more profitable and procure start-up kits accordingly. Training provided by the project will cover petty trading, business management and financial education. Target beneficiaries are vulnerable HHs currently not receiving any food assistance or livelihoods support in this location.
Humanitarian Capacity Strengthening 2021 - CCFN The main purpose of the HCS Transition project is to enable local and national organisations such as CCFN to improve the quality and effectiveness of their humanitarian preparedness and response capacity. This will be done through a process of capacity self-assessment and capacity strengthening action planning, Training of Trainers and cascading of learning on key emergency response and volunteer topics, and peer learning between the 9 organisations involved in the programme. CAFOD staff will provide support throughout this process.

The proposed objectives are:
•	Uphold agreed partner commitments for a further 1 year of support in Nigeria, Zimbabwe and Liberia.  
•	Support PEOPLE partners to continue to embed learning, policies and processes developed during PEOPLE.
•	Capture learning on the longer-term impact of capacity strengthening support to PEOPLE.
•	Involve existing partners and the CS team in piloting new approaches and developing CS tools.
•	Facilitate peer exchange between HCS and CAFOD staff and partners from other countries to share expertise and promote different CS approaches.
•	Learning from the transition phase and HCS experiences to date will feed into the development of a CS strategy and approach for the international programme.