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Rohingya Crisis Appeal - End of Appeal Evaluation In August 2017 a violent crackdown by Myanmar’s military on Rohingya people living primarily in Rakhine 
State in Myanmar led to hundreds of thousands of Rohingya fleeing the violence in which over 6,700 were 
killed, thousands were injured including through rape and other forms of sexual abuse. Many of their homes 
and villages were destroyed. Over 700,000 sought refuge in the Cox’s Bazaar area of Bangladesh.
The Rohingya have endured decades of persecution & displacement, with over 100,000 Rohingya refugees 
already living in Bangladesh, primarily in the Cox’s Bazaar region prior to the August 2017 influx. 

CAFOD responded with support to two long-term CAFOD partners, Caritas Bangladesh and DAM, who were involved in the immediate, community-led response where local communities provided emergency relief such as food & shelter. A large-scale response was rapidly established with significant presence of UN agencies, international NGOs as well as Bangladesh national NGOs with significant experience of emergency response.

This evaluation aims to draw together learning from across CAFOD’s Rohingya Crisis response to understand how best we can strategically support responses that align with & support our strategic priorities. A short evaluation report including evaluation findings, lessons learnt & recommendations for action will be the key output of the evaluation. This project will cover the costs of an experienced consultant with expertise to undertake the evaluation & work with partners and CAFOD staff to produce a high quality final report.
Emergency Shelter Assistance for households severely affected by tornado in Dinajpur district The project will provide emergency shelter assistance to the households severely affected by a tornado, which hit the Parbatipur and Nawabganj upazilas (sub-districts) of Dinajpur district on 26 April 2022.  A total of 7,025 people have been displaced and the affected communities are now suffering from a lack of shelter, food and WASH facilities. In addition, at least 310 hectares of crops, including boro paddy, jute, corn, banana, mango and litchi have been destroyed. Some affected households are now meeting their basic needs through strategies that impact their long-term resilience, such as advance selling of crops, mortgaging household assets, advanced selling of labour at very low prices, and selling products at reduced prices. Through this 3-month project, Caritas Bangladesh will provide cash support to 162 households for shelter repair/reconstruction. Worse-affected and most vulnerable households will be targeted, including female-headed households and families that include a person with disability (PWD).
EA28-2017 - Emergency and Early Recovery Program for Floods 2017 Affected People of Bangladesh EA 28/2017 has been launched in response to the devastating floods that have affected almost 6 million people in the Northern part of the country since 11 August. This proposed Emergency & Early Recoveryprogramme, from August 2017 to June 2018 (nine months implementation, plus two months for preparation of final reports, external evaluation and audit), aims at covering the needs of 7,000 households (35,000 people in Bogra, Dinajpur, Jamalpur, Manikganj, Nowgoan and Thakugoandistricts) by ensuring their access to food and livelihoods (through unconditional cash, Cash for Work and agricultural inputsupport activities) as well as increasing their resilience via “build back better” Shelter (providing cash/training to 3,500 families for shelter repairing/construction).
Safeguarding Workshop - OKUP We would like to support CAFOD’s partner OKUP with the opportunity to receive training on safeguarding, reporting and managing sensitive complaints and aligning safeguarding with the existing child protection policy. This training will provide a space for OKUP to reflect on the way they engage with people and communities, particularly vulnerable women and girls, and will provide them with the latest information and guidance on safeguarding and reporting. This training should be interactive and may include practical exercises as per the consultant’s recommendations. The London based Bangladesh Programme Officer will be visiting Bangladesh at the time of the proposed training and will therefore attend and participate.
Advocacy and communication with communities to empower for accessing social services (ACCESS) The project targets marginalised rural poor people, particularly women, people with disabilities, adolescents and children from extremely poor families, those without land or assets, and fishermen’s families who are denied basic services.  It works by establishing ganokendras (GK), a kind of community-based organisation which links up grassroots-level communities with Community Resource Centres (CRCs) established at union level.  (A union, meaning a group of villages, is the lowest tier of local government in Bangladesh.)  The GKs and CRCs promote basic literacy and help people to be aware of, and to access, government services to which they are entitled: these include health and education services, support with livelihoods development, and social security for the most vulnerable.   The project also provides skills training and microcredit to help people earn a better income, and vocational training for young people which includes use of computers and the internet.  Communities are mobilised to analyse the risks they face from natural disasters (which are very common in Bangladesh) and to improve their capacity to cope with emergencies as they arise.
UK Aid Match Fund III: Climate Resilient Agriculture (CAFOD costs) The project is part of a consortium based programme in which 5 organisations are collaborating together to support poor women, men and children from hazard-prone or marginalised rural communities to adapt their livelihoods strategies to better cope with climate-related shocks and stresses. As the contract holder, CAFOD is responsible for coordinating the consortium, monitoring the programme and providing overall support to joint activities. CAFOD will recruit a Consortium Coordinator and Senior M&E Officer in Bangladesh to support this programme. This project is for the operational costs incurred by CAFOD for activities such as the baseline, advocacy strategy development, consultant fees and annual workshops.
EA 13/2020 Emergency and Recovery Assistance to Cyclone Amphan Affected People in Bangladesh The super Cyclone “Amphan” formed in the Bay of Bengal and made landfall at Satkhira with wind speed 130-140 kph at 5 pm on 20 May 2020 after crossing west Bengal-Khulna coast near Sundarbans. The Cyclone hit Rajshahi-Pabna regions passing through Khulna, Jashore and Jhinaidah with wind speed 96-110 kph. 
The main impacts of the Cyclone are as follows- 
* About 2.6 million people of 76 upazilas under 19 districts in Khulna, Barishal and Rajshahi divisions in Bangladesh were affected. 
* At least 26 people were killed due to uprooted of trees, wall and houses collapsed and boat capsized. 
* Nearly 55,767 houses destroyed out of total 205,368 damaged, destroyed 32,037 hectares of standing crops, vegetables and fruits; damaged 18,707 hectares of shrimp and fish cultivation plots and died 14,268 of livestock.  
* Damaged 440 kilometers roads, 76 kilometers of embankments, 40,994 toilets and 18,235 tube-wells by the Cyclone Amphan and storm surges. 
*According to a primary estimate, the cyclone caused damage worth around Tk 1,100 crore (BDT 11 billion). 

For this project Caritas Bangladesh will provide emergency and early recovery support for six months to address food insecurity, hygiene and shelter needs in eight unions under four upazilas of three districts in Khulna, Satkhira and Patuakhali for a total of 2,040 households (10,200 individuals).
Contribution to Three Research Studies to Mark Fifty Years of Caritas Bangladesh For a year from 25 November 2021, Caritas Bangladesh has been marking its 50th anniversary of working to support emergency response and development work in Bangladesh. With the theme 'Caritas Bangladesh: 50 Years' Journey with Love and Service', the Golden Jubilee celebrations will culminate in a closing programme in November 2022. 

To mark the anniversary, Caritas Bangladesh is conducting three research projects into the organisation's contributions during its fifty-year history. These will seek to identify the most successful models of assistance, learnings, and future strategic directions for Caritas Bangladesh, other NGOs, and Bangladesh as a whole, bearing in mind contextual developments and future perspectives. The three research assignments will be carried out by a contracted consultant, focusing on Caritas Bangladesh's work in the fields of Disaster Resilience, Agriculture & Environment, and Educational Services for Entrepreneurship and Self-Sufficiency. 

Funds for the Golden Jubilee initiatives are being contributed in part by Caritas Bangladesh staff. To help meet the expenses for the research projects, CAFOD are contributing a one-off grant of £10,000.
Caritas Bangladesh MFIII Extension Phase This project will provide £40,000 to Caritas Bangladesh for a 1 year extension phase of the MFIII Climate Resilient Livelihoods programme from July 2018 - June 2019. During this extension phase, Caritas Bangladesh will further build the capacity of 89 Farmer Field Schools established during the MFIII programme across the regions of Rajshahi, Dinajpur and Sunamganj. With this additional capacity, these 89 FFS will independently practise lessons learned from MFIII, including effective operation of Farmer Field Schools, active engagement with local government authorities and greater dissemination of learning within their communities by June 2019. Within the 89 FFS, Caritas Bangladesh aims to work with 2,798 Smallholder farmer households to adopt climate resilient and DRR practices learnt through the project.
CAFOD Operational activities for the EU funded OKUP project ICD840 With nearly one quarter (24.61%) of its workforce unemployed or underemployed, and the growing pressure of new entrants (around 1.5 million) into the labour market each year, Bangladesh has become one of the top 10 countries of origin for labour migrants. There has been a significant increase in women migrants in recent years, due in part to the Bangladesh government’s pro-migration position, to promote migration among women. The government is still unable to ensure a transparent and accountable recruitment system that highlights and protects the rights of migrant workers, especially those of women and underage girls who are subject to trafficking, exploitation and rights violations.
In response to this situation and corresponding to the EIDHR call’s Global Objective, the impact of this action will be that women and girl migrant workers and their communities are more resilient to and united against unsafe migration, trafficking and exploitation and rights are better protected through improved institutional justice mechanisms. The outcome of the action will be more women and girl migrant workers are making an informed decision for migration and accessing justice in an enabling legal environment in cases of rights violations, trafficking and exploitation.   
This project refers to CAFOD's operational costs to support OKUP in this EU funded project.
OKUP Safeguarding Policy & Implementation Support This project is provide capacity strengthening support to CAFOD's partner OKUP, to develop a comprehensive Safeguarding Policy and roll this out across their organisation to all staff and regional offices. The project will be supported by a specialist in protection, child and human rights and Bangladeshi law, who will act a consultant and accompany OKUP through this process. The work involves reviewing existing policies, designing a Safeguarding Policy and accompanying Feedback Mechanism which aligns with OKUP's ways of working and existing practices, training all OKUP staff (currently 105) on the new policy and ensuring it is implemented at the across the organisation and with the people OKUP support. This process is expected to last for 14 months.
Collective Action for Improving Migrants’ Rights and Access to Justice (CLAIM) Each year more than 500,000 Bangladeshis migrate overseas via regular and irregular channels, of which 13% are women/girls. Although overseas labour migration has furthered the country’s economic growth, the lack of access to proper information and awareness of migrants’ rights, presence of unlicensed and corrupt recruiting agents and subagents, poverty, and gender-based violence often force women and girls to choose irregular channels and fall victim to trafficking, forced labour, and exploitation. On return, they face discrimination and exclusion due to negative societal attitudes towards women migrants. 
Based on OKUP expertise in community-level engagement and national and international advocacy, and lessons learned from previous projects including with CAFOD, this project will work at three levels: raising awareness amongst female migrant workers and their communities; providing legal support and strengthening the capacity of judicial duty bearers; and national and international advocacy.
The project’s immediate results will be:
-	Women and girl migrant workers and their communities are equipped and empowered to uphold their rights and advocate against unsafe migration, trafficking, forced labour and exploitation.
-	Migrant workers and duty bearers (e.g. law enforcement agencies, lawyers and judicial officials) are mobilised with the knowledge and tools to access and secure justice.
-	National and international policy makers take action to safeguard the rights of women and girl migrant workers and improve their access to justice mechanisms.
Integral & Authentic Human Development workshop Bangladesh This year the Church will be reflecting again on integral and authentic human development, particularly in the light of the anticipated Encyclical addressing issues of climate, environment, the global economy and poverty; and the planned Synod on the Family. Reflection and debate on development, human flourishing and the impact of poverty is part of a rich tradition in the Church’s Social Teaching, beginning with Populorum Progressio in 1967.

As a Catholic agency it is critical that we engage with this teaching, and indeed contribute insofar as we are able to the development of Catholic Social Thought from practical, theological and theoretical perspectives.

CAFOD has agreed to employ an expert in Catholic Social Teaching and development for a one year period, in order to enable the organisation to reflect on its own understanding of development within this framework and tradition and advance its corporate understanding. The theology programme has been asked to focus for this year on international programmes and support this reflection.

This expert, together with the a CAFOD staff member from the Advocacy team will host the workshop in Bangladesh as part of a wider set of workshops taking place globally to reflect on the meaning and practice of integral and authentic human development in the light of the recent Encyclical.
Improved food and livelihood security in Bangladesh (Caritas Bangladesh) This project is part of a programme in which four Bangladeshi partners are collaborating together in order to address food and livelihood insecurity, which were identified as the key problems in Bagerhat district.  The partners hold regular meetings and build up linkages with other networks through which monitoring information, reviews, evaluations and experiences can be shared.  Caritas Bangladesh is focusing on activities relating to sustainable agriculture and alternative livelihoods.  This includes training in organic farming methods for rice and vegetable cultivation; tree plantation; supporting the role of women in agriculture; and strengthening people’s organisations. Caritas is also supporting advocacy initiatives through its membership of Caritas Asia.
Promoting Disability Inclusive Sustainable Development Goals: Making Targets Reality ADD Bangladesh, are currently undertaking work entitled: SDGs and Disability: Making Targets Reality. ADD is seeking to expand their existing engagement in SDGs (disability focused) work at the national and local level with support from this fund.  ADD International were significantly involved in lobbying for the inclusion of disability issues in the SDGs at the international level and are now working to engage in the roll out of SDGs at the national level. The following major activities planned for the proposed work supported by CAFOD are; 8 district and 3 divisional level SDG familiarisation workshops with Disabled People's Organisations (DPOs), government departments and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), policy influencing work targeting various Ministries and their concerned departments. Advocating for more budget allocation at the national and local government level (80 Union Parisad), linking SDGs, UN Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and National Disability law commitments and how these can be tracked through DPOs by strengthening their capacity (3 DPO training sessions), 2 national dialogues, media engagement, 4 inter-ministerial coordination meetings in terms of resource allocation and financing some specific goals related to disable people and the SDGs. The project is funded under CAFOD's PPA Top-up funding for work on the Sustainable Development Goals.
Inclusive Development Endeavour for Advancement of persons with disability (IDEA) This project aims to mobilize people with disabilities living in hard to reach areas in south-west Bangladesh and organize them into self-help groups and disabled people's organisations (DPOs) as well as building capacity of persons with disabilities in the wider area.

ADD Bangladesh’s ultimate goal is to create a grassroots movement of persons with disabilities throughout Bangladesh contributing to a vibrant disability rights movement. ADD mobilizes people with disabilities (PWDs) at the grassroots level by providing awareness, skills and leadership development training, and encouraging them to come together as self-help groups (SHGs) at the community level and DPOs at the union level. 

The project will be implemented over 2 years (April 2015 - March 2017). The project will form DPOs and SHGs in remote locations where PWDs are often extremely marginalised and excluded from development initiatives. The groups will provide platforms for PWD to negotiate access to services (health/sanitation, inclusion in social safety nets etc.) and mobilise resources for creating livelihood and income opportunities. The project will also provide training and livelihood support to PWDs (at least 50% women) as well as linking them to public and private sector market actors. Advocacy and policy influencing activities will also target at a local and national level.

Additionally, this project will aim to strengthen ADD's organisational capacity including updating and training staff on relevant policies (HR and Gender), improving monitoring and evaluation (M&E) skills among a key staff and developing high quality communications documents.
Networking and scaling up of agro-ecological activities and bio-diverse farming This projects will support Ubinig's Nayakrishi network of farmers to strengthen activities aiming at the regeneration of ecological, social, economic, spiritual and cultural foundation of farming. The network places farming practices based on biodiversity and agroecology, with systems free from pesticides, herbicides, chemicals and external inputs at its heart. Seed preservation, exchange and learning are also key aspect to this network. The network is designed to develop a strong market for organic crops and food. This work funded by CAFOD, includes improving network links with like minded organisations such as Caritas Bangladesh (another CAFOD partner) and will help to contribute CAFOD's programme in Bangladesh, which is aiming to build an interconnected network of like minded organisations who can share and learn together. CAFOD's existing partners such as Caritas Bangladesh, will learn and if beneficial, replicate the learning in their own agroecology focused work. Key activities in this project include training small holder farmers of agroecology techniques, including seed preservation and seed exchanges, through farmer field schools, women farmer networks and community seed banks, exchange visits and network building with likeminded organisations and collective marketing of agro-ecological products. 

Specific Objectives
1.	Continue to practice, learn and consolidate Nayakrishi through capacity building and scaling up of present activities to cope with livelihood opportunities and market options.
2.	Dissemination and extension through networking with farmers and organizations committed to regenerate 
a biological, ecological and environmental basis of agriculture in order to consolidate and expand an organic and safe food market.
DEC Phase 1 - Rapid Response Appeal - Rohingya Refugees 603,000 Rohingya refugees have arrived in Bangladesh since 25 August, and are living in extremely difficult conditions in the Cox’s Bazar district. Priority needs are food, health, shelter, and WASH. The total population in need of assistance, including affected host communities, is 1.2 million.

The proposed response intends to address the immediate food needs of the newly arrived Rohingya Refugee people for 15 days. Direct food and NFIs distribution are identified as suitable strategy for responding to the immediate needs of the Rohingya Refugees.
Improvement of livelihoods through honey bee farming in Bangladesh This project aims to improve the income, livelihoods and living conditions of the most disadvantaged farmers, including women and Adivasi (indigenous) families, through bee keeping and increased crop production by pollination. The project will directly target 250 disadvantaged farmers (147 women) in Birol sub-district, Dinajpur district, northern Bangladesh. The project will reach a total of 1,250 people including the farmer’s family members.
Replacement of lost livelihoods assets for most affected households following 2011 floods - ADD Exceptionally heavy monsoon rain from late July to August 2012 affected or damaged crops, fish/shrimp/crab ponds, other household assets and income generation activities. Approximately 4,277 households of the ‘Improved Food and Livelihood Security’ (IFLS) programme beneficiaries in Bagerhat district, Bangladesh were affected. 

This grant will support ADD in responding to the needs of the IFLS beneficiaries who lost their livelihoods assets, and whose households were made severely vulnerable owing to the floods. The response is taking into account the recommendations from the mid-term review of the IFLS programme, which was undertaken in December 2011.