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Shelter Program for IDPs in Kachin and Northern Shan State, Myanmar Kachin and Northern Shan State (NSS) have entered the seventh year of armed conflict in 2018. Following six years of armed conflict, the UN OCHA estimates that up to 123,000 people are now in need of basic humanitarian support in Kachin and NSS, roughly 77% of which are women and children. Altogether, 98,000 IDPs reside in 176 camps (87,000 in Kachin and 11,000 in NSS), with little or no prospects of return. Of these, approximately 48% live in areas beyond government control, where access for most international organisations remains restricted, but local humanitarian organisations continue to be able to operate, albeit with increasing constraints. The protracted and sporadic nature of the conflict has taken a high physical and psychological toll on displaced populations, some of whom have been displaced for more than six years, including secondary and tertiary displacements. There is little expectation that the situation in Kachin and NSS will improve soon.  In this extremely fluid environment, the risk of further population movement and displacement is highly likely in the near future. Additionally, an overall reduction in humanitarian funding for Myanmar to Kachin and NSS is very likely, as other areas are prioritised by donors. This will have an impact on the dignity and well-being of IDPs. The overall objective of the project is – 86 shelter units in IDP camps and 32 shelter units in host communities for about 636 IDPS in Kachin and N Shan State will be constructed to provide them decent standard of living units. This project targets 118 IDP families in three Dioceses; Lashio, Myitkyina, and Bhamo, in each of the dioceses one village/camp. A total of 636 people are targeted, of whom 105 male, 155, female, and 376 children.
RBF Education in Bouar, Baoro and Baboua (Nana Mambere Prefecture) This action intends to support quality education in the Nana Mambere Prefecture throughout the year 2019. It will provide support to 85 schools and 50.000 children using the performance-based funding approach to strengthen the capacity of the school's partners. Cordaid will work with Local and National Education authorities to deliver training and build teacher's capacity as well as providing basic teaching materials, furniture and hygiene facilities to allow quality learning. Improve the performance of the primary education system at the local and national levels in CAR through performance-based financing (PBF) and increase equitable access to quality education. 50,000 students including 25,000 girls and 25,000 boys.
Libya Floods Acute Crisis JR 2023 After Storm Daniel struck Libya on Sep 10, with over 5000 presumed dead and 10000 still missing. While rescue teams are actively searching for survivors, the widespread displacement is evident, especially in Derna and around Benghazi, where data indicates over 30000 newly displaced individuals. While local and national authorities are leading the work on the ground, they are overwhelmed by the scale of the disaster, as around 884000 people in five provinces have been directly affected by the storm and flash floods, with varying degrees of impact.
OCHA stresses the need for emergency shelter, relief items like tarps, blankets, solar lamps, and psychosocial support as well as food security and WASH. Hospitals are strained, treating both storm victims and their own affected staff, demanding urgent healthcare services. Benghazi faces escalating challenges due to an influx of internally displaced persons, and Al Bayda is also heavily affected. Together with Dan Church Aid (DCA), an ACT Alliance member, Cordaid will focus on two sectors: 

1. NFIs: Distributing NFI kits, prioritizing IDPs. Based on cluster standards, local customs, and coordination with the LRC and authorities, kits’ composition will be Solar lamp, Mattress, Floor mats, Blankets, Towels, Kitchen kits, curtains (for privacy), and necessary hygiene items. The overall kit value will be 200 EUR. Focus will be on the displaced households that have fled the affected areas, as they are amongst the most vulnerable right now. DCA expects to support 700 displaced households (4200 individuals).  

2. Multipurpose Cash Assistance (MPCA): To cater for the emergency multi-sector needs of the storm-affected population: two-month MPCA to enable households to meet their basic needs. 375 IDP and host community households (2,250 individuals) will receive 181 EUR twice, which is based on the current full MEB value (CWG April 2023). The transfer value may be revised in coordination with the Cash and Market Working group and other clusters. DCA will work with CSOs to identify the most affected and vulnerable households. DCA's response is rooted in inclusivity and a determination to reach all affected HHs, regardless of age, gender, religion, or ethnicity. It recognizes the diverse needs and vulnerabilities within the affected communities. Most of the response will be targeting IDPs who have left the affected areas to seek shelter in schools, public structures, or HCs. We expect that 90% of our beneficiaries will be IDPs and consider 10% of the budget for HC support as well. The first phase of emergency NFIs distribution aims at supporting emergency specific displacement related needs, the phase of MPCA will allow recipients to meet other basic needs, in an empowered and dignified manner. Vulnerable groups include female-headed HHs, HHs with individuals with disabilities or specific needs, pregnant and lactating women, and elderly. DCA will be sensitizing selection committees on inclusivity, facilitating access at distribution sites and coordinating with other actors and creating referral mechanisms.
Mapping Needs and Impact through Digital Health Innovation The objective of this project was to map, in fragile settings, where healthcare and/ or education needs are being met and where they go unmet, thereby intending to address two problems simultaneously. Firstly, the fact that in global health interventions and education interventions, it is often difficult to quantify where exactly the needs are highest, and how resources should be allocated. Interventions often take place based on incomplete information, and among international actors (such as Cordaid), there can be a tendency to simply continue working in areas (both geographically and thematically) where previous interventions have taken place. Secondly, it is often very hard, after a program has ended, to quantify and demonstrate objectively the effects of the intervention. The project aimed to bring two approaches together: through Performance Based Financing, the quality of data coming from primary schools from the PAQUE project would be verified, and through an innovative data platform, those data were to be combined with data from a plethora of other sources. (Open street maps, ministry data, UNICEF, Worldpop, etc) Ministry of Education, other NGO's, Cordaid's own use
MHPSS+ in Iraq and Syria Due to decades of war, the massive destruction and the atrocities by warring factions (ISIL is an important but not the sole
perpetrator), the needs on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) both in Iraq and Syria are high. All ethnic, religious
and tribal groups have suffered, but the last years - due to ISIL - minorities were hit the most.
MHPSS is an emerging policy area. This responds to growing understanding of the prevalence of mental health conditions like
anxiety and depression due to collective and individual trauma in fragile contexts. Those conditions also affect individual life
courses and collective capacities to overcome fragility. MHPSS has the potential to support these collective capacities when it is
strengthened by or integrated in a community approach, Primary Health Care and (S)GBV treatment.
The treatment capabilities for MHPSS are lacking due to the erosion of health systems and to the stigma of MHPSS. The latter
means that few healthcare professionals have been educated to provide MHPSS. The gap between the many needs and the
small number of caregivers is called “treatment gap or “mental health gap”.
This project builds upon the trackrecord of the successfull implementation of 5 projects so far that have been addressing
MHPSS, often in combination with Primary Health Care (PHC). In Spring 2017, Cordaid started MHPSS with Memisa funding and
continued in 2018 and 2019. The projects were complemented in 2018 and 2019 with OCHA and WHO funding. Since January
2019, Cordaid provides MH in the hospital of the city of Sinjar and PSS in a community center in the same city in a one-year
project. Sinjar is infamous because it is the symbol of the evil ISIL committed and where they committed genocide, rape and
sexual slavery to the Yezidi people. The collective trauma of the slowly returning Yezidis is immense. 
Because of similar context and needs in Syria Cordaid will expand its activities to health care in Aleppo. Cordaid will add
MHPSS to one Health Facility in the city of Aleppo that was reconstructed earlier by the Humanitarian Aid Unit of Cordaid.
This will benefit inhabitants of a very traumatized region.
The expansion to Syria will increase Cord-aids profile in Syria among donors and policy makers too. Overall objective is 
Rebuild resilient communities to overcome fragility, by 
• Integration of MHPSS into health systems in Iraq;
• Supporting heavily affected minorities;
• Supporting fragile and “former frontline” districts that are underserved;
• Working with majority communities thus preempting accusations of bias
for minorities;
• Involving communities and reduce “treatment gap”;
• Advocating for more policy attention for MHPSS unstable communities
ReGenerate Rwanda Western and Southern Rwanda are the poorest parts of the country – 58% of all households in the 
Southern Province and 49% in the Western Province fall into the poorest and poor categories 
(compared to 40% overall for Rwanda)
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. While poverty rates across the country have declined in recent 
years, in these provinces they have increased, with extreme poverty rising in the Southern province, 
while the number of poor households in the West has grown. Food insecurity similarly affects these two 
provinces to a greater degree than the rest of Rwanda – 29.9% of households in the Western Province, 
and 20.5% in the Southern Province are food-insecure, compared to a national average of 18.7%2
. The 
districts of Karongi, Nyamasheke, and Nyamagabe are among the ten poorest in Rwanda. A 
combination of factors keeps people living in poverty, including the acute land shortage and an underdeveloped non-farm economy3
, all leading to a reliance on casual agricultural labor and widespread unand underemployment, with farming being the main livelihood in Western and Southern Provinces The goal of ReGenerate Rwanda is to sustainably increase incomes for 30,000 women, youth, and 
men living in poverty in Western and Southern Rwanda. Using a market systems development 
approach, this five-year program aims to identify, catalyze, and scale up systemic solutions to reduce 
poverty, advance gender equality, regenerate the environment, and increase resilience. ReGenerate
Rwanda will take a gender-transformative and regenerative business approach, prioritizing young and 
adult women as the primary target group (representing 20,000 of the 30,000 poor people this program 
will benefit) and promoting nature-positive economic opportunities that will benefit our target population 
and the environment and natural landscapes that sustain them. By the end of the program, ReGenerate
Rwanda aims to have catalyzed systemic changes in the target market systems that lead to increased 
and diversified nature-positive incomes, increased household assets, increased off-farm employment, 
and improved gender norms and attitudes The target group of 30,000 will be comprised of poor women (at least 20,000), youth, and men in the 
poorer Ubudehe C and D48 household categories (i.e., with an aggregated monthly household income 
of up to RWF 65,000 (approx. USD 63) and land ownership of up to 1ha).
Age-specific Informal Sexuality Education (AISE) "Like Pamela Fragility does not affect people equally: young people and particularly some specific groups among them - the vulnerable ones (sex workers, LGBT community, young girls out of school, etc) - are more affected. Child marriage, sexually transmitted infections (including HIV/AIDS), sexual and gender based violence, mortality and morbidity related to early childbearing negatively affect their health and prospects in life. Young people are especially vulnerable since they are more often exposed to human rights violations due to their low social position. Their exposure to violence, limited access to income, and exclusion from decision-making set them apart. In ‘Leaving no one behind’, a central principle of the Sustainable Development Goals, Cordaid is concentrating its efforts on making SRHR accessible to the most vulnerable people and creating real social impact by ensuring meaningful involvement in programs for, by and with young people. - Empowerment of young adolescent mothers &  to give life skills education for single mothers;
- Prevention of drop-out of school, because of early pregnancy and early motherhood; 
- Address gender issues, stigma, psychological and social acceptation of motherhood;
- Prevention of  subsequent or second adolescent pregnancies. Teenage mothers and single mothers; low-literate.
EU Reset Innovation The RESET Plus Innovation Fund is a four year (2019-2022) initiative, funded by the European Union and implemented by Cordaid. The fund helps social entrepreneurs in realizing innovations that improve the livelihoods and resilience of 20,000 vulnerable people, where 50% of the beneficiaries are women. 
Actions are expected to influence existing systems by introducing and adopting new and appropriate methodologies, approaches, technologies and practices, in partnership with public and private stakeholders. To contribute towards improved sustainable livelihoods and strengthened resilience of vulnerable communities through innovative actions that have the potential to influence existing systems 20,000 vulnerable people, smallholder farmers.
AMEA  Kenya Local Network Coordination 3 AMEA is an alliance of agencies working towards the professionalization of Farmer Organizations (FOs). This is to be done through the pursuit of global standardization to be achieved through coordinated business service delivery using standardized, peer-reviewed assessment tools and curriculum delivered by certified trainers, coaches, and mentors; facilitation for access to affordable finance and promoting the use of agricultural technology. Agricultural Leadership Programme Developed by IFC -World Bank is one such curriculum. Currently, Cordaid is the host and network facilitator of the AMEA Kenya local network comprising 11 organisations. AMEA aims for systems change in the delivery of business development services for farmer organizations and Agri-SMEs. AMEA works towards inclusive and sustainable growth by improving and better coordinating the business development services for Farmer Organizations and Agri-SMEs which in turn create added value for farmers. The target group for AMEA are local network organizations, smallholder farmers and Agri-SMEs.
Pilot PBF Project in South Sudan implemented in Torit county The project will be implemented in Torit to supplement and complement ongoing health project funded by Health Pooled Fund Health system strengthening and stabilization and working through ministry of health South Sudan to ensure project are sustainable and resilient Health workers and men,women,boys and girls by age and gender
VHC Urban Resilience Mandaue Cebu Philippines Informal settlers, primarily fisherfolk, in the lowest lying zones of Jagobaio Village, Mandaue City remain exposed to coastal flooding and poverty. Despite urban resilience gains in Jagobiao village in 2018 and early 2019, informal settlers living in low-lying zones of the village, live in rudimentary conditions with lack of water, sewerage and poor quality building materials that exacerbating their risk conditions. A total of 300 household in Sitio Santo Rosario, San Antonio, Santo Nino and San Jose remain prone to extensive coastal flooding and storm surge. The households experience regular coastal flooding of up to one meter during heavy rains. Solid waste management challenges and pollution compound the flooding, clogging up the already poor drainage and increase health risks. The majority of these households are fisherfolk or daily laborers, and with limited livelihoods options, the majority of families live below the poverty threshold of 5,000 peso per month. The Cordaid and PARJ actions have been unable to directly impact this most vulnerable group to address resilience actions as a result of tenure status; drainage improvements, solid waste management and raised septic tanks in other parts of the village have not contributed to improvement for this group.

The City Government and PARJ recognizes the importance of the restoration and management of the mangrove zone within which these families live within direct proximity. As a part of the larger city wide planning involving PARJ and the Jagobiao fisherfolk association plans are underway for the establishment and management of a mangrove eco-park, all stakeholders recognize the importance of engaging families living in these areas as a basis of the strategy. The mangroves swathes in Jagobiao are one of the last remaining mangrove zones in Mandaue City. The need to conserve and preserve them is highly important considering the threats of converting these mangroves to fishponds and salt beds, reclaiming them for urban land developments, and pollution and siltation from upland communities. A model of Mangrove Protection and urban resilience empowers the most marginalized urban poor and local actors to work together in Jagobiao, Mandaue City

- Local actors combine capacities to agree a common strategy and plan for village wide action on Mangrove Protection and environmental management and poverty reduction to urban poor groups such as fisherfolks association (intervention funded by Cordaid – PfR efforts in 2019)
- Community managed protection of 31 hectares mangrove result in improved environmental conditions
- 300 of the most vulnerable families in Jagobiao have a 15% increase in monthly income 
- Community education programs in Jagobiao village enable at least 1500 villagers to engage in Mangrove protection and waste management 1,500 people in Barangay Jagobiao Mandaue City with highest vulnerability to hazards
Pilot Project making the Sierra Leone Poultry sector self-sustainable Sierra Leone has been through colossal difficulties between the civil war that ended in 2002 and the outbreak of the Ebola virus disease in 2015. Consequently, the country is among the least developed countries in the world with 70% of the population living beneath the poverty line. Nevertheless, there are expectations of growth in Sierra Leone, the economy has been recovering slowly and the GDP is expected to increase by 7.0% in 2019. According to the FAO, one of their main priorities for Sierra Leone is to see increased productivity along the food system value chain, improved livelihoods and nutrition outcomes through food and nutrition security and responsible agribusiness development by supporting the subsistence nature of the agricultural sector. Agriculture is the backbone of the economy, providing a main source of income to 60-70 percent of the workforce, which is around 400,000 farm families. In 2017, the agriculture industry represented around 50% of total GDP. However, the country has not yet managed to cultivate a sustainable agricultural sector, relying heavily on food imports and aid to feed its population. The main driver for the poor yields of production is that farmers still use rudimentary farming techniques, which result in noncompetitive farms and present a risk to the soils and environment.
To address this challenge, Cordaid, with partners PUM, embarked upon a pilot project in the poultry sector to increase the local production of eggs through technical and business support to select commercial poultry farmers. Objectives
The pilot was structured around two key aims:
•	Knowledge transfer of modern sustainable poultry farming techniques to support the development of a self-sufficient production for the local egg market in Sierra Leone; and,
•	Support for increasing the number of laying hens by at least 40,000 in 2018 by helping farmers to find finance for the flocks, but most of all by eliminating the uncertainty of availability of feed ingredients. Medium Size Farms: these are the typical SMEs that have the potential to scale, should they be given the right intervention that can address their business constraints.  The will be more willing to learn, hence the class room training will appeal to them, to create networks, and also engage in learning amongst peers and experts.
Addressing urgent food needs in ISIS clear and formerly Taliban held areas in Nangarhar Late 2020, the Humanitarian situation in Afghanistan rapidly declined. High levels of violence and conflict, natural disasters, high rates of poverty, and the COVID-19 pandemic, contributed to a worsening humanitarian and grave protection crisis, causing significant displacement and high multi-sector humanitarian needs across the country. The armed conflict, ongoing for more than 40 years, was exhausting coping mechanisms of the population, making them extremely vulnerable. At the start of 2021, according to HRP Afghanistan 2021, 18.4 million people (nearly half the population) are in need of humanitarian assistance and 17.6 million Afghans are acute food insecure. 50% of the children under 5 years are acute malnourished (HRP). 

The already precarious humanitarian situation was aggravated by the US/NATO Troops withdrawal announced earlier in 2021, but confirmed by the Biden Administration in April 2021. The US/ NATO Troops withdrawal intensified the conflict between the Afghan government and Non-State Armed Groups (NSAG) with fighting and displacement affecting nearly all provinces by July, causing loss of lives, further destruction and displacement by a rapidly advancing Taliban. From April until August, more than 670,000 people were displaced due to heavy fighting in the North (Kunduz), East (Nangarhar, Laghman) and South (Helmand & Kandahar) of the country. People were unable to tend to their fields and couldn’t harvest their crops, increasing food insecurity levels. Much to everybody’s surprise, the fighting came to an end on 15th August, when the former president of Afghanistan handed over Kabul peacefully to the Taliban to prevent further bloodshed. Recently the UN launched a new flash appeal, requesting an additional US$193M to cover the most urgent needs of 10 M Afghans until the end of the year, an increase of 2 M people. 

Additionally, in spring the previous government announced another drought , likely to last 2 years and affecting food insecurity and food prices further. With most of the Afghans relying on agriculture, this is affecting their crops but also their income and live-stock, compounding the acute food insecurity. General description and link with proposal: In response to the urgent food needs, Cordaid together with
its local partner (RRAA) will deliver cash for food in Achin, Speen Ghar, Nazyan districts of Nangarhar. As
Cordaid is in process of securing additional funding for the urgent ES&NFI needs ahead of the winter,
which will complement the proposed cash for food distribution.

Overall objective: To contribute to improved food security of conflict affected people in Afghanistan Afghani people (men, women, youth, elderly, PWD)