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Amazon Floods Livelihoods Recovery - Emergency Response - Caritas Brasileira This project aims to support 210 low-income farming families (c.1,050 people) located in 5 riverside communities in the municipality of Itacoatiara, Amazonas, Brazil, to rebuild their livelihoods after suffering devastating damage and loss to crops and livestock, due to the worst floods in Amazonas state since records began. These crops are both a source of food sovereignty and the main source of family income, via local markets. Many families have had to abandon their homes for months to wait for the flood levels to recede, and it is only now that they have been able to return to rebuild what they have lost. The project will focus on the following key activities: reconstruction of five community farinha (manioc flour) houses; replanting of four key crops that had been lost: corn, yam, banana and vegetables; agroecological and disaster risk reduction technical support to farming families. Key results are focused on rebuilding livelihoods sources so that food sovereignty, income generation and other house repairs can gradually improve over time. 

Agriculture and livestock is Itacoatiara’s second main source of income, and it is the largest agricultural centre of Amazonas, making the losses in rural areas affect the entire local economy. It was one of the most badly affected areas by the floods, where the highest river levels were registered due to its location on the left bank of the Amazonas River, in the eastern region of the state. Located in a low plateau area, with a small slope towards the water courses, there are large rivers, lakes, islets and small streams that run through the city. The Institute of Agricultural and Forestry Development of Amazonas (IDAM) reports that the flood has affected more than 3,000 families in 15 neighbourhoods, mainly in rural areas.

At the peak of the flooding, records show that the Negro river reached 30 metres, the Amazonas river reached 16 metres, and the Solimões River reached 21 metres.
Emergency response to Amazonas state drought The Amazon region of Brazil is facing a historic drought, exacerbated by the current El Niño effect, climate change and deforestation. The traditional October rains are yet to arrive, and forecasts predict the dry weather continuing into 2024. 

The communities who live in this extremely remote part of the country are heavily reliant on the rivers for their food, trade and access to services. However, this year they are facing record low water levels - the Rio Negro river in Manaus is at its lowest level since monitoring began in 1902. Boats can no longer traverse many of the tributaries, which have simply dried up. This is having an impact on the availability of food and basic supplies.  

Of the 62 municipalities in the Amazon region, 60 have declared a State of Emergency and the remaining 2 are under alert. Approximately 600,000 people (150,000 families) in the area are affected. 

This project,  in Tefé, Amazonas, strategically addresses the urgent needs stemming from the drought crisis by supporting 600 households(estimated 2100 individuals) with food baskets, water and hygiene kits.
Caritas Brasileira COVID-19 Emergency Response - Piaui and Maranhao This emergency project aims to minimise the impact of hunger and food insecurity of vulnerable families living in the states of Maranhao and Piaui, in Northeast Brazil, as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The project will distribute food baskets of non-perishable food items to a total of 3,380 families in situations of extreme vulnerability - especially those headed by women, with school-age children and adolescents who no longer have access to school meals as their main meal, due to lockdown measures preventing school attendance. 2,370 families living in 15 municipalities in Maranhão, and 1,010 families in 3 municipalities in Piauí will receive one food basket per family, in one distribution. The baskets will supplement family access to other food sources, and Caritas Brasileira estimates that they will contain enough food to sustain a family of 5 for 15 days. The project will last 3 months, covering staff recruitment, training, baseline/needs assessment, project execution and reporting.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, food insecurity has worsened alarmingly in Brazil. A 2021 national survey showed that 19 million are living with hunger. The Northeast Region has the second highest rate of people living with hunger (14%), and families supported by this project are living in extreme poverty, with reduced access to social welfare programmes (Bolsa Familia and government COVID emergency support); loss of access to school meals for children/adolescents; and lack of childcare services and social assistance. 

Meanwhile, Brazil continues to battle a third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, with over 534,000 deaths (second globally, behind the US), and 19 million cases. In Maranhão, there are currently 320,000 cases and 9,098 deaths (population of 6.8 million); Piauí has 18,700 cases and 552 deaths (population of 3.2 million). Vaccination rates are still slow, with only 36% vaccinated in Maranhao, and 35% in Piaui – well behind the 70-85% herd immunity threshold estimated by scientists.
Support for the National Street Children's Movement: Pernambuco The National Movement of Street Children (MNMMR) Pernambuco Regional was set up in 1985, to defend the rights of young people and children, and to address the needs of street children, as well as to monitor the violence carried out against them. The aim of the organisation is to encourage children to participate in the construction of alternatives to improve their lives and guarantee their rights.

In Pernambuco, the work is divided into 4 main areas: the promotion and defence of rights; the promotion of children and adolescent’s organisation and training; training for street educators; Strengthening internal organisation of the Movement.

MNMMR representatives sit on various state and municipal committees promoting the protection and rights of street children, and wider educational and health issues. Local Commissions of adults are responsible for making contact with the street children, and then encouraging them to form their own grass-roots organisations. These núcleos de base (grass-roots groups) are organised on the basis of solidarity, mutual aid, and co-responsibility.  CAFOD is supporting MNMMR with an institutional grant. IN 2007 we also provided funding for an institutional strengthening project with the accompanier of the Tarrafa project Hans Pepi.
Awa Guaja land protection campaign This project aims to remove all illegal invaders from the legally recognised Awa indigenous land which was demarcated in 2005, and create and implement effective measures to protect the land from future invasions, so that the Awa can live sustainably and free from external threats. Survival International aims to achieve this by launching a worldwide campaign to raise global awareness of the situation of the Awa, and lobby the Brazilian federal government to reinstate the federal judge ruling of 2009 to remove all invaders in the area. Activities will include the utilisation of new media, networking, and producing and disseminating a short film on the situation of the Awa to rally public and governmental support. 

This project is important because there are currently only 350 Awa living in four settled communities, and a further 60-100 Awa living in small uncontacted groups in the forest and in demarcated areas, who risk their lives due to external threats to their land and livelihoods. Threats include: the existence of three fixed colonist settlements, and the presence of illegal loggers, settlers and ranchers in the forest which are jeopardising the Awa's ability to have sustainable livelihoods through hunting and gathering in the forest; their health is at risk due to exposure to foreign diseases from these invaders; and the environment is threatened by deforestation and the resulting impact on climate change. In 2009 a federal judge ruling was passed to remove the illegal invaders from the Awa lands, but this has since been appealed by ranchers and invaders who remain there. Despite the fact that Brazil ratified the ILO convention 169 in 2002 to protect indigenous rights, this project is needed to lobby the government to respect and protect the Awa's rights to their land, and to prevent the further loss of life of this threatened community.
Human Rights Defenders - Defending Lives and Guaranteeing rights denied The project aim is to implement actions to protect the lives of human rights defenders (HRD) through the creation of protection network at local, state and at regional levels, strengthening security procedures in local grassroots organizations and social movements, raising awareness in target communities to protect HRDs and assisting with legal support for HRDs under threats. Beneficiaries are: small farmers, landless and indigenous people, fisherman/women, quilombolas, people living and working on the streets (catadores, ambulantes, sex workers and  homeless). Through activities of self protection and secure communication workshops, legal and emergency support for HRDs at high risk this proposal seeks to reduce the number of killing of HRDs.
CAFOD is contributing 10K to this proposal. Manos Unidas, DKA and Fastenopfer are also funding this proposal and Misereor has a larger project with SMDDH on HRD. This joint initiate was agree in the last meeting of the Brazil/CIDSE Working Group in Brasilia 2017.
Guaranteeing livelihoods: producing health, growing lives in the coastal zone of Paraíba Many poor rural families today are struggling to create a viable livelihood from farming. A number of factors put at risk the continued survival of rural communities, particularly for those who have recently secured land title, as well as the very concept of viable agroecological production. These challenges have intensified since the Pandemic with new  economic pressures. Climate change related drought and water scarcity has increased difficulties. To address these issues, this project will improve the quality, quantity, and resilience of small farmers' agroecological production, through investment in production and strengthening of the Agroecology Network. Combined, these efforts will help to secure access to healthy, nutritious food and improve income for rural communities, greater resilience to climate change and ensuring that agroecological farming is viable. As a consequence, this project will contribute to enabling the viability of small farming families' livelihoods, avoiding out-migration to urban and peri-urban areas, improving  food security and food sovereignty , valuing of sociobiodiversity, reducing rural poverty and preventing poor rural families’ socioeconomic situation from worsening.

The project will contribute to reducing poverty, improving livelihoods and quality of life for 60 families in Phase 1 and 168 families in Phase 2. These farming families currently participate in seven agroecological fairs, one agroecological grocery store in the Archdiocese of Paraíba and an online fair. The project will also reach approximately 5,000 people who buy produce in these spaces as 12000 people who will benefit from donations of emergency fresh food via public procurement contract. This will be achieved through actions to strengthen the production and commercialisation of agroecological food production, and through the consolidation of the Agroecology Network which the project beneficiaries participate in.
HIV and AIDS in Brazil: mapping and assessement of the current situation In 2007, the BSCG team received funds from the programme development fund in order to establish a partnership with a new partner Pastoral da Aids, with a view to the setting up of a HIV and Aids programme in Brazil.  This new partnership was part of a strategy of redefining our work on HIV and Aids in Brazil. 
Parts of these funds approved were destined for activities related to programme set up.  The following approval is for these funds.  These activities were planned to include set up and monitoring visits and partner meetings with potential further partners.  In addition to this, in order to complement the work of Pastoral da Aids and strengthen CAFOD’s contribution to working on HIV and AIDS in Brazil, we commissioned the translation of the HIV review document into English for use by CAFOD. We plan to produce a summary document to illustrate the case of HIV and AIDS in Brazil, in particular the role of advocacy.
Housing and Popular Organisation - São Paulo The Urban Community Development programme aims to improve the quality of housing and basic services for low-income families living in the shanty towns and tenement blocks of Sao Paulo, Brazil’s largest city.   To do this, it will use three strategies: advocacy, campaigning and capacity building at the grassroots.  The programme will be implemented by organisations with long years of experience who have already achieved important gains in improving the government’s housing policies.   All organizations have close links with the Church or are part of the Church’s structures,
The three programmatic lines of the programme are as follows:
a)	The guarantee of urban public policy for housing that will benefit low income families.
b)	Strong participation of women and young people who live in the Favelas and poor areas of the city in consultation and decision making forums for the city.
c)	strong capacity and increased impact of local organisations in the defence of the right to housing and more inclusive and less violent city.
Empowerment of the Indigenous People of the Médio Rio Solimões and Afluentes CIMI is a service agency of the National Conference of Brazilian Bishops (CNBB) formed in 1972 to provide training, advice and support to indigenous people and organisations, and to promote their rights. CIMI also provides direct services in the field of health, bi-lingual education and legal assistance. CAFOD supports the work of CIMI Tefé and two teams that work with the Madihá and the Deni indians. CIMI-tefe undertake training and accompaniment to indigenous populations in areas of ethno-development.
Evaluation of financial systems and procedures of CIMI and Caritas - preparation for the EU contract The overall goal of the proposed work is to conduct an evaluation of the financial policies, systems, procedures and practices of internal controls (administrative and accounting system controls), in order to assess whether the existing accounting, financial systems in Caritas and CIMI Tefé are suitable for the upcoming EU contract management (BRA557/ICD759) and to follow the rules of co-financing with the EU and CAFOD. The final product will be a report on the financial and accounting management systems, identifying strengths and weaknesses, and clear recommendations to overcome weaknesses, with step by step advice on what has to be done to correct and make the systems and procedures appropriate according to EU requirements and Brazilian legislation, enabling the efficient financial management of the project.
Urban Programme - Capacity Building This programme aims to contribute to a reduction in urban poverty and the impact of climate change through securing sustainable living conditions for poor and disadvantaged families living in slums, derelict tenements, illegal settlements and on the streets of the city of Sao Paulo. The livelihoods focus is on promoting access to housing and basic services. The CC focus is on advocating for mitigation and adaptation policies. 

This programme is projected to begin fully in September 2011 but the initial stage of this programme, a Climate Change seminar will be held in Sao Paulo, Brazil from 25-27th November 2010, jointly organised with Christian Aid. Speakers will include both CAFOD and Christian Aid partners, and key representatives from government and civil society organisations. 

The three main objectives of the seminar will be: 
1.To build understanding amongst excluded people living in Sao Paulo about the impact of CC, and support the inclusion of a CC agenda amongst social movements and organisations;
2.To contribute to the CC debate and generate future training materials; 
3. To strengthen networks and capacity regarding CC.
Humanitarian and emergency action for victims of the rains in Rodeio City, in the state of Santa Cat Since December 2022, several regions of the Santa Catarina State where it usually rains between 150 mm and 200 mm in the period, were recorded a volume three times higher than average. During this period, according to a survey published by the State Government, 17 municipalities suffered damage and two declared a state of emergency. Consequently, on the night of 17 January 2023, a torrential rain fell in the city of Rodeio (Located in the Itajaí Valley, 186 km from Florianópolis and has an area of 135 square kilometres and 11,488 inhabitants), causing significant damage. 
The municipality declared a state of public calamity on Wednesday (18). Many people have lost everything in their houses. Again, at the beginning of February the warning of heavy rains happened again in the Itajaí Valley, the rain of Thursday night (2) and early morning of Friday left homeless, flooded houses and blocked streets, especially for the vulnerability that caused by the  previous rain. 
The aim of this project is to enable vulnerable families affected by the floods in Rodeio to meet their basic needs and to succeed in restoring their lives both materially and psychologically. The dioceses chosen for this project is Diocesan Cáritas of Rio do Sul due to the proximity and the need for immediate response. Considering this general objective, the following intervention will be developed: 
For CASH, the project aims to assist 118 households with multipurpose cards. Distribution of unrestricted and unconditional multipurpose cards will allow families to choose the items and materials they most need at the time. Among these 118 families that will be contemplated by the project, it was identified through a rapid assessment together with the Diocese of Rio do Sul that 38 had lost everything in their homes, and, therefore, received a larger amount than the other 80 families that had partial losses. Therefore, common to both groups of families, the following needs were identified during the assessment: 1) food security, 2) non-food items (NFI) and 3) Hygiene items (WASH). As for the group that lost everything and still had damages to their homes, an amount will be included for the purchase and reestablishment of their homes, according to the 4) Shelter norms, enabling people to establish shelter and housing that meet their individual and collective needs.
BRA_06_02_Urban Livelihoods _supplementary grant to programme This approval is a supplement to the EC funded Urban Community Development programme (BRA0602) which aims to improve the quality of housing and basic services for low-income families, (in particular female and youth headed households) living in the shanty towns and tenement blocks of Sao Paulo, Brazil’s largest city.   
To do this, it will use three strategies: advocacy, campaigning and capacity building at the grassroots. The three programmatic lines of the programme are as follows:
a)	Guarantee urban public policy for housing that will benefit low income families. This will be done through the monitoring of public housing policy and programmes, raising awareness of the situation of low income populations in Sao Paulo and strengthening local community networks, as well as civil society networks at the national and international level. 
b)	Increase the participation of women and young people( who live in the Favelas and poor areas of the city) in community groups and in spaces of consultation and decision making forums on urban issues ( associations etc).
c)	Increase the capacity and impact of local organisations in the defence of the right to housing. This includes training the 3 partner organisations in various areas, such as financial management and programme planning and monitoring, so that they are better able to carry out their work, increase their impact and promote a more democratic, just and participatory city.

The programme budget is restrictive and inflexible and some core costs were not included at the outset. This specific approval is a  one off grant to supplement the programme in order to cover the following:

1)	Deficit in funding the salaries of the EC project staff- MDF.  (30000GBP)- 10000GBP from BSCG budget and 20000GBP from the approval of the bid for ID savings.
2)	Cost of accountants for each of the three partners MDF, CCJ, APOIO (previously allocated to BRA499- Audit fund but now being approved here) 11627.11GBP
3)	Costs of deficit in resources available for rent of APOIO building ( amount included in EC project does now not cover full rent amount)- 5790.34GBP
Simposio Nacional de Mudancas Climaticas e Justica Social This project will focus on the implementation of a national conference on climate change due to be held in Brasilia from 14-17 of March 2011, with the participation of civil society organisations, social movements, governmental representatives and experts on climate change issues. The conference aims to debate environmental preservation and reconstruction in the context of current levels of climate change. Themes will include: deforestation, agrotoxics, the use of soil, agrobusiness, and the use and defence of water. The main objective of the conference is to moblise civil society and churches to influence public policies and implement concrete changes on environmental issues in the context of climate change so that policies take special consideration of the poorest and most vulnerable populations.
The symposium is one of the activities undertaken by the Forum on Climate Change and Social Justice which links pastoral agencies, the Bishops' Conference, social movements, and civil society. The forum aims to confront Brazil's present model of development and the destruction of natural resources, promoting alternatives to the use of soil, the preservation of forests, alternative and clean forms of energy and the better use of water resources, all of which adversely affect the poorest populations in Brazil.
Land Reform Support Programme CPT Paraiba is the Pastoral Land Commission of the Brazilian Bishops conference. Paraiba is located in the North Eastern tip of Brazil, an area of extreme poverty and major land conflict. CPT provides pastoral, technical, legal, political and social assistance to poor rural communities with a particular emphasis on improving the lives of women and young people. CPT Paraiba is organised into 4 geographical teams in Agreste, Vale, Varzea and Litoral. The CPT work in 59 communities, of which 52 are assentamentos ( permanent settlements) and 7 are acampamentos (encampments/temporary settlements), i.e. areas of occupation where families need support to help get legal recognition of the land and defend themselves from eviction. These are: Antas, Arintingui, Mangue, Marinas, Ponta de Gramame, Salgadinho, and Tambauzinho.
This project, which is implemented by CPT Joao Pessoa (part of the wider network of CPT Paraiba), aims to support 623 small farmers, including 271 women that are part of 4 women’s groups,  who live in the state of Paraiba to increase their food security, remain on their land and preserve the environment. CPT will support rural families to become self-sufficient by training them in the use of organic environmentally friendly agricultural techniques to increase crop quality and production, support their participation and leadership in farmers’ cooperatives and associations, and increase the commercialisation of their produce at local eco-fairs and markets. The project also focuses on community organisation to access three key governmental agricultural commercialisation programmes: PAA (the Acquisition of Food Programme), PNAE (The National Programme for School Food), and CDL (Direct Local Purchase).