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Improving readiness of Goma and Nyiragongo population to future Nyiragongo eruptions The proposed project is a preparedness intervention that aims to contribute to the efforts of improving the preparedness of Goma and Nyiragongo population to future Nyiragongo eruptions. The overall goal is to contribute to the reduction of deaths, injuries and trauma related to volcanic eruption. It will focus on the 4 high risk zone of Goma and some villages of Nyiragongo territory. The emphasis will be put in schools, and public institutions such as market, prison, center of PLWD, Hospitals established in the targeted zones. For mitigating harm and losses, the project will : Support the improvement of the capacity of participating schools and public institutions in the high-risk zone to prepare for and respond to disasters, especially volcanic eruption; and for the Civil protection and humanitarian actors to have an up to date information on vulnerable persons in order to inform their evacuation plans; Conduct the feasibility study of the evacuation sites; and support GVO early warning system. To make this happen, the project intends to facilitate the elaboration and the drills exercises of Disaster Management plans for volcanic eruption; the acquisition of knowledge of existing risk in the environment and the skills for prevention/mitigation/preparedness measures, especially for risk related to volcanic eruption;  including the acquiring chef of Quarters to collect information on vulnerable persons in the household using KOBO. Thus, beneficiaries will be trained, and will get necessaries capacities to develop their plan, test them and to build the culture of Disaster risk reduction in the area.
Supporting the CENCO Boshop's plennary meeting in preparation to the forth-coming political process The non-holding of the elections according to the constitutional deadline of December 2016 had given rise to two political negotiations, including those started on December 8, 2016, at the Inter-diocesan Center under the lead of the Bishops of CENCO. This resulted in the signing of the December 31, 2016 of the "Global and inclusive political agreement " between different stakeholders. Since then this agreement has suffered in its actual implementation because of a selective and biased application by the power in place.
The failure in the implementation of this agreement left the place for two years to a transition that is significantly dominated by the presidential majority that has tailored the political area to suits their need and interest.
The Bishops plenary meeting will aim to design and populate boldly the CENCO's position on the next six months, a period that is crucial in preparation of the forthcoming election. This will guide the message of the church in the 47 dioceses to meaningfully play its role and influence the citizen participation before, during and after the long awaited election.
Accompanying the church's advocacy efforts CAFOD works in DRC and other countries of the Great - Lakes to support partners to deliver emergency and long-term responses to several challenges affecting the populations in these areas – WASH, Early recovery, better governance and peace building etc
CAFOD aim is to improve the living standards of the most vulnerable. I the DRC context CAFOD works for the betterment of the victims of natural disasters and armed conflicts, to increase the income of rural and urban populations, reduce their vulnerability, improve their access to infrastructure and quality services, develop their human, physical capacity, financial and enable them able to make their voices heard in order to achieve the most appropriate and effective solutions that allow them to be able to fully support.
To work more closely with partners and beneficiaries, CAFOD has a country office in Kinshasa since 2004. This is seconded by a sub-office in Goma which is overseen by a Program Manager.
CAFOD DRC is keen to accompany partners and the Catholic Church advocacy initiative that aim at promoting democratic space for the less advantaged and improving the lives of the poorer within the community. In this effort, the advocacy program officer had to take part in a workshop in London in order to exchange experiences with other program advocacy teams and also build their capacity in the advocacy of some crosscutting themes
Youth Engagement for Peace and stability forum In the North Kivu province and much of eastern DRC, the situation is still affected by insecurity and political instability, combined with ethnic conflicts, armed group activism and wars that have serious consequences on the living conditions of the population, youth unemployment and illiteracy. 
Governance problems in the DRC at all levels with its corollaries such as corruption, impunity, poor management of public resources, a lack of trust between ethnic communities, a leadership and confidence gap between young people and leaders exacerbate the limited involvement of young people in the democratic space and limit their participation as citizens. Many youths are faced unemployment and are exploited by political leaders. Others are recruited into armed groups and this increase harm in most disadvantaged communities in North-Kivu Province.
Supporting this project expects to increase youth’s peace and citizenship awareness, to reduce ethnic and political manipulation and provide opportunities for youth to become change agents, and to engage in peace work and governance as key actors in nonviolent way. Project also expects empowering young people as genuine actors for change and peace in the region, informing them and raising their awareness as to their role and responsibility for building peace and political stability within the country.
The project plans to organize music festival and cultural activities as well as open space and workshops on topics related to Peacebuilding, leadership, entrepreneurship, civic and democratic participation, communication and dialog mechanism to build relationship as well as raising awareness in preventing and dealing with the corona virus pandemic (COVID-19). Faith leaders and key persons from local civil society and officials will mentor, share experiences and best practices with youths during the forum. 
Project activities will be cofounded by Goma’Diocese and implemented by CDJP Goma' staff and “Maison des Jeunes” with support from CAFOD peace building program Officer. The youth peace forum will be held in Goma and will bring together about 15000 youths from Goma Diocese and neighbouring dioceses.
Supporting reconciliation and peaceful coexistence in Uvira, Fizi and Mwenga This project will Contribute
to peace building efforts amongst communities in Uvira Diocese.
It aims to work for positive transformation of conflicts within and between communities by strengthening parishes’ justice and peace Mobilizers’ capacity, Promoting women participation in the peace process, sensitizing social actors and communities to peace and peaceful cohabitation.
The project will also strengthen local mediation committees; organize exchange visits to share experiences on peace
with other border dioceses, especially Bujumbura diocese in Burundi.  
The goal in organizing these visits is to allow cross-border communities of the Great Lakes region (Bujumbura and Uvira)
to increase exchanges to discuss the mechanisms for peaceful resolution of conflicts and community tensions. 
Project activities will be implemented by the CDJP Uvira in three regions forming the Diocese of Uvira (Uvira, Fizi and Mwenga territory – area: 36,000 km ²) targeting about 1,640,000 beneficiaries. 
The project will be implemented by CDJP staff with support from CAFOD peace building program Officer in close
collaboration/coordination with Governance and Peace building PM and other relevant CAFOD’s staff.
Project d'anticipation et de reponse a la crise due aux inondations fluviales a Kindu et Kailo Ce projet a pour objectif de contribuer à la réduction de l'impact que ces inondations pourraient avoir sur la population de Kindu et d'apporter une réponse urgente aux personnes affectées par ces inondations. 
Les activités à réaliser tendront compte de trois moments à savoir avant, pendant et après les inondations: 
Pour ce faire, les activités suivantes seront réalisées : Appuyer l'organisation des réunions de coordination pour l'activation du plan de contingence; organiser une évaluation conjointe des besoins; appuyer la vulgarisation du programme DRF en particulier le modèle inondation; appuyer l'organisation des EPVC et plans Communautaires; appuyer les activités communautaires avant le pic de l'inondation et après l'inondation (Déviation du trajet de l’inondation, protection des points d’eau contre la hausse des niveaux d’eau et réduction des risques que l’inondation atteigne les villages; versement d’argent en échange d’un travail consistant à dégager les cours d’eau); appuyer l'élaboration des cartes des zones inondables; organiser l'impression des cartes; organiser la distribution de ces cartes aux structures publiques; diligenter une étude de faisabilité de mise en place SAP à base communautaire; appuyer le renforcement ou la mise en place de SAP; appui à l'activation du plan de contingence; appui à la diffusion de l'alerte des inondations; évaluer d'impact des inondations; réponse rapide à travers le transfert de Cash; appuyer la réhabilitation de certaines infrastructures comme les écoles, les marchés, les centre de santé endommagés ainsi que les latrines de certains ménages vulnérables; plaidoyer auprès des autorités de réglementation des rivières pour qu’une communication et une planification appropriée soient mises en place; appuyer les activités de distribution des produits d’assainissement; former les agents de promotion de l’hygiène; sensibiliser aux bonnes pratiques d'hygiène.
Earthquake response: Support to providing a conducive educational structure The northern part of the Archdiocese of Bukavu was hit by an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 on the Richter scale. This was precisely on August 7th, 2015 at 3:25 am. Several public buildings were badly affected. The famous  Mugeri Seminar was not spared. This seminar is a boarding school and serves as a secondary school training and a moral and intellectual educational basis for many elites’ youth of the region. The dormitory of the boarding school was affected by the earthquake and this was one month before school resumes in the month of September (last year). The diocese tried to arrange a place that could serve as a temporary shelter for the pupils. However, this place is not convenient for children, because it is part of the main school warehouse that has been rehabilitated to creates some space so that children could at least have somewhere to sleep as  the school resumes. 
Currently, Mugeri seminar has 192 students distributed as follows: 25 children in form six, 29 children in form five, 23 children in form four, 35 children in form three, 39 children in form two , and 41 children in form one.
The Mugeri seminar was created in 1921. This champion school was once again affected by tremors of the earthquake in February 2008. All the buildings were built of mud and this back in 1935 and no one ever had the idea that one day there will be earthquake.
The Mugeri seminar is the first secondary school in the region. It has contributed and continues to contribute to the training of the diocesan clergy and also to the intellectual elites of our province. Most of the diocesan clergy are the products of this champions school. The need to rebuild the dormitory for children in Mugeri is a pressing need and a direct responsibility of the bishop in order to avail a decent structure for the children, a shelter that is conducive for the children’s protection and security so as they can thus study in good conditions. In fact, there are other buildings affected by the earthquake at Mugeri School, however the most urgent need is the housing of the children who are currently sleeping in bad conditions, a thing that can have an negative impact on their school performance.
This project will as well have a particular attention on the Simama project. This is particularly the Katana Simama committees. The nature of the support will be purely social in order to touch the lives of the women who have been affected by the war and continue to experiment some pain and trauma as a result of the war. Some of the activities will include some small-scale income generating activities for women who have been pre-assessed and analysed. A way of empowering them to be self reliant and respond to the basic needs of their traumatized children (results of rapes).
Conflict Monitoring and Early Warning in Eastern DRC The project will bring together CAFOD partners in North and South Kivu provinces each monitoring and reporting on conflict indicators to produce a consolidated database that will serve to inform and report on peace/conflict trends to EC, DFID, UN policymakers, and underpin CAFOD international advocacy strategies as well as national Justice and Peace Commission advocacy action in-country.
Integrated Community Development Project in Kabare, Kalehe and  Beni-Butembo territories, DRC The social economic situation of the people in the eastern DRC has been seriously affected by the instability and poor governance that has settled in a country since some years back. Our experience on the just ended ex combatant project has shown that even though army’s groups could stop activisms, the impact of these is still felt in the broader community. Past project experience demonstrated the willingness of communities to deploy themselves in livelihood activities that can significantly contribute to the community recovery in case a conducive environment is set.  Youths are facing problems as they are not landowners, thus cannot practice agriculture economically, while others do not have capital to start their own business. This has resulted in majority idling at home this making them vulnerable to joining militia groups or engaging in petty and/or organised crimes. Following the global financial crisis, many humanitarian organizations closed and left behind a number of uncovered needs. The current project aims by June 2024 to contribute to an integrated community development effort by improving the socio-economic conditions of 2010 people of rural communities in the territories of Kabare-Kalehe and Beni Butembo. This will be achievable through improving food security and incomes of 2010 local communities though sustainable agriculture practices, cooperative and small enterprise development. The project will also reinforce the capacities of 120 youths through vocational training and support activities that reduce domestic and gender-based violence against women and young girls. Cafod is  part of  aid localization agenda, this project will be implemented by Cafod in partnership with   its long term local partners namely Caritas Bukavu and CAJED that are well grounded in the community with strong community based network which is key for project sustainability.
Emergency NFI Assistance for communities displaced by armed violence in Beni territory/Lume This project aims to assist in providing the most critical needs of displaced communities in Democratic Republic of Congo.
Since December 2015, violent attacks by rebel groups on the West Coast of the highway Oicha-Eringeto has led to population movements in Beni territory. The repeated attacks to villages has resulted in a number of deaths and injury, as well as the displacement of many communities.  

These communities are now in a severely vulnerable state, having abandoned their homes and livelihoods, and now residing with host communities without access to basic services. In January 2015, SOCOAC undertook a needs assessment to identify the most critical needs for these displaced communities. 
SOCOAC is well placed to respond with essential household item distribution; having a robust understanding of the needs on the ground, coordinating effectively with other humanitarian actors in the area, and with strong previous experience in implementing Non-Food Item responses.
Projet d'assistance d'urgence en faveur des déplacés de Mangina Through the distribution of unconditional cash, this project will empower the community as we will do a survey prior to the cash distribution to assess the power dynamic within HHs and carry out sensitisation around targeting, especially as it will be largely women who will be receiving the cash on behalf of the HHs. Priority will be given to the most vulnerable households  affected by the current attack, including widowed women, children heads of households, elderly people, people with disabilities, chronically ill, and / or other people who are unable to buy  goods of their choice that meet the need of their households. The targeting criteria will be included within the sensitisation to ensure the do no harm principle is adhered to. The targeting criteria will also be informed by a tool developed through a recent Start Fund Learning Grant (see section 2.3 below for more information).
We will organize the mobile banking  through which each household will receive £58.14. The head of the household will receive the cash for the HH. This amount has been advised by the NFI cluster group. Throughout the project, we will take into account the COVID-19 prevention measures as stated by the government and include COVID-19 sensitisation activities which will reach 16,200 people. The vulnerabilities of certain groups will be taken into consideration. The cash will be done through mobile banking which means people will not have to wait in long queues to receive their cash. Queues will also be socially distanced.  CAFOD and SOCOAC will target 1250 households (7500 individuals) with unconditional cash, among them:1125 of those affected directly by the attack and125 of the host famillies affected by the current crisis, especially in the city of  Mangina in Mabalako health zone. This represents respectively 75% of1500 direct affected HH and 10,4% of 1200 host families to ensure "Do No Harm" is taken into consideration.
Promoting accountability and transparency in the extractive sector and resource management in South The majority of armed violence in eastern DRC has been carried out in mineral-rich areas of the eastern provinces of North and South Kivu and Orientale province where state authority is almost absent and corruption is high. Mwenga territory in South Kivu sits on a huge gold deposit that has become an Eldorado for many companies from the west. In 1998, when the Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD) was ravaging South Kivu Province, Toronto-based company, Banro Resources Corporation, received government authorisation to mine. Since the start of their mining operations in the area, the community that relied on artisanal mining has been denied access to land and has been pushed to the brink of poverty.

The needs assessment conducted in 2011 by the Bishop ad hoc Commission on the Natural Resources (CERN) with support from the Catholic Relief Services (CRS), reveals that the mining communities have become poorer than the national average in terms of income, has become food insecure, many people have abandoned farming, water sources have been damaged, the number of out-of-school youth has doubled, the community has been divided around cultural issues, and the HIV infection rate has climbed.

This project seeks to improve the governance of natural resources in the Mwenga territory by building inclusive institutions to manage resources, helping companies to work in partnership with local governments and civil society and be transparent about their income and how their money is spent. This will be achieved through dialogue between extractive companies, governments, civil society and local communities on artisanal mining issue.

The project aims to reach 200,000 households (50% men and 30% women and 20%, children and youth). It is a one year pilot project with possible extension based on lessons learned and success of the first phase. It will also build on the learning from the Mugbwalu extractive project and Bunia to better model dialogue between stakeholders. CAFOD’s Advocacy Programme Officer will provide technical support to help ensure the success of this project.
Rapid Response Project for Internally Displaced Persons in Rwanguba Health Zone, Rutshuru Territory The displacement crisis Rutshuru territory began when clashes resumed at the end of March 2022 between the Congolese Armed Forces (FARDC) and elements of the M23 armed group, more specifically in the Jomba Groupment. The humanitarian situation deteriorated sharply in the Rutshuru and Rwanguba Health Zones when at least 10,400 households sought safety and refuge from the violent clashes in the neighbouring localities in these two health zones, mainly on the Rutshuru-Tchengerero-Jomba and Bunagana axis.  As of June 14, 2022, it is reported that 11,337 households (55,803 people) have been displaced. Nearly 80%, are camping in collective centres such as schools and churches, which are now overcrowded, and the few available social amenities are extremely overwhelmed. Due to continued fighting and tensions, further movement sparks are expected. Humanitarian needs of the displaced populations continue to rise due to limited lifesaving and protection responses and unabated movements. Documented critical needs of the displaced population include food insecurity due to loss of livelihoods and livelihood assets, malnutrition due to lack of food, health risks due to lack of access to medical care, habitation in unsafe environments and exposure to harsh environmental conditions, and risks related to poor access to safe and adequate water, safe and adequate personal and household hygiene and sanitation services and facilities.  Despite current ongoing humanitarian interventions, critical gaps still exist.
CAFOD through its local partner SOCOAC through this project aim to provide life-saving support and support in alleviating the suffering of the most vulnerable displaced households and most vulnerable host families, specific focus being high risks persons such as people living with disabilities, the elderly, the chronically ill, female and child headed households within Rwanguba health Zone.
Youths supporting peace in the border dioceses of Bukavu (DRC) and Cyangugu / Rwanda The proposed project aims to support youth’s university students from Cyangugu (Rwanda) and Bukavu (DRC) dioceses in building peace and reconciliation among cross-border communities.  It intends  to reduce the risk of political manipulation and distrust of students even border residents by promoting the peace culture, education for peace and social cohesion for sustainable development through social, cultural, media activities as well as common interest initiatives which respect mutual identity.
The project plans to make effective the rapprochement and interaction between cross-border youths from these two dioceses, to address the lack of information that they are victims in conflict environment, to help them understand what triggered the conflict at community level and to get them informed on their rights how to assert them. To this end, establishing youths framework for peace dialogue, sensitizing youths and community in reconciliation process, bringing cross-border youths to take peace initiatives and creating university justice and peace commissions will bring youths to contribute significantly to building peace in the sub region and build relationships which go beyond existing divisions and to turn them back to the violence.   

This project will be implemented in 06 universities and higher institutes of Bukavu which organizes the faculties of peace and which have a significant number of Rwandan students, these are:
•	Official University of Bukavu (UOB);
•	Catholic University of Bukavu (UCB);
•	Evangelical University in Africa (UEA);
•	Centre University of Peace (CUP);
•	Higher Institute of Technical and Commercial enterprises (ISTCE);
•	University of CEPROMAD (UNIC, former Higher Institute of Business Administration, ISGEA).