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Supporting ACEAC General Secretariat and ISPR activities ACEAC (Association des Conférences Episcopales de l'Afrique Centrale) is a structure for consultation and ecclesial communion between the three Churches from Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda. The three Churches of ACEAC seek, in a regional perspective, to implement their mission identity, share part of their history and are still experiencing more or less similar socio-political situations, including: "the lack of respect for democratic principles, insecurity, injustice, the lack of respect for the dignity of the human being, the persistent flow of refugees, the illegal exploitation of natural resources, the destruction of the environment, etc. 
In November 2016, during a three-day workshop in Goma, DRC, the technical commissions of ACEAC drew up a five-year strategic plan that defines the concerted actions of the Bishops' Conferences of the Churches of the Great Lakes countries. This strategic plan was adopted by the ACEAC Steering Committee in January 2017. This strategic plan comes to an end in 2021. ACEAC plans to develop a new five-year strategic plan for the period 2022-20023. Also, in addition to their joint CENCO-ACEAC pastoral mission of solidarity, listening and caring in the dioceses of Butembo-Beni and Bunia, which was carried out in January 2021, the ACEAC and CENCO bishops intend to also provide comfort to the populations living in the dioceses of Goma, Bukavu and Uvira, in order to fully explore the vulnerability of the Eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a population that has suffered too much and still suffers. This grant will provide institutional support to the ACEAC General Secretariat to monitor bishops' decisions as well as their peace missions in the Eastern DRC. It will also provide institutional support to the Institut supérieur de paix et de reconciliation (ISPR/ACEAC), which is a pastoral service of ACEAC and an academic institution supporting peace culture for a renewed social cohesion in the Great Lakes sub-region.
Improving natural resources management through the integration of the civil society, DRC This is an Internal grant from Cafod General Fund to support activities related to the project titled "improving natural resources management through the integration of Civil Society in DR Congo". The project's duration is for three years (from February 2011 to February 2014). The CAFOD Advocacy Support Programme Officer will conduct these activities in supporting the partner CERN as well as activities implemented on the ground by Civil Society Platform called "Cadre de Concertation" (CdC) and those covered by 6 Observatories of Natural Resources (ORN in acronym) especially in Mbandaka, Inongo, Bunia, Beni Butembo, Kalemi and Kananga in the Dem.Rep. of Congo. 
By this grant CAFOD and CERN intend to:
- Contribute in supporting natural resources management programme in DR Congo  in light to establish and to strengthen the Congolese’s Civil society on natural resources issues,
- Increase understanding of issues by local people relating to the management of Natural resources and their rights recognized in this matter.
- Facilitate involvement of the Congolese Civil Society Organizations on the decision making process and on influencing politics about the natural resources management.
Finally this grant will support and focused in supporting advocacy work and initiative undertaken by the partner as well as CdC, ORN, CSOs with regular and sufficient support from the CAFOD/Advocacy Support Programme Officer.
Strengthening water resource management and Gender awareness in Masisi and North Kalehe, DRC CAFOD’s partner Caritas Goma aims to strengthen water resource management in North Kivu, Masisi and Kalehe-north territories, by helping local community and civil society organisations to combat drought, water sources pollution and water-related erosion and landslides. 

The project will:

•	help communities improve best practices on water management;
•	increase household food production through improved access to potable water, by building new and repairing damaged water points while practising good land management; 
•	help women and men work together to tackle poverty in their respective communities through gender awareness and women’s empowerment.

The intervention will be based on the Disaster Risk Reduction approach, whereby trainers will be trained in water resource management and deployed to various villages to train in cascade mode. Each community will develop its own pollution, erosion and landslide risk reduction plan and set clear plans on how to use and manage available water resources to support agriculture, livestock and fishing. Women will be trained in leadership and gender awareness, and empowered in economic activities.
Food security for families of Tubimbi and Karhongo in South Kivu The NGO ‘Forum d’Appui à l’Autopromotion des Familles en Détresse’, FAAFAD in acronym, running since November 2013, thanks to CAFOD funding, small projects to support families in distress of Tumbi in Territory of Walungu, South Kivu Province in order to promote food security in that area.
  
The recently executed project has enabled 100 families in distress who are farmers, to apply new farming methods in their fields. Agricultural inputs distributed to families in distress and pigs as part of the experiment, arouse the enthusiasm on the part of many families in distress which are non-beneficiaries, following the gradual improvement of agricultural production observed in members of Households Solidaires (MESO) who area beneficiaries accompanied by FAAFAD.


Also, in these two groupings area of Walungu, most children do not study more. Some, for lack of school fees and the other by lack of family and social support, exposing them to the phenomena of "street children".

Indeed, for this project to meet the needs of families in distress, children and young people in difficult circumstances, FAAFAD advocates to accompany and support them in priority areas below:
- Agriculture
- Small livestock
- Trades apprenticeship to young people in difficulty
- Environmental Protection

These priority areas, the planned activities will be implemented through the approach Households Solidaires (MESO) and integrated management of soil fertilization (IMSF) to actuate the increase of agricultural production mechanism and fight against the current famine in the territory of Walungu in general and in the 2 groupings targeted by the project in particular.
 
The experience already gained about three years by FAAFAD in raising small livestock (rabbits, guinea pigs) for children in difficult circumstances as part of their schooling and women from distressed families in agricultural and livestock production of pork, in experimentation of a year, proof enough reason to expand the project to support families in distress of Karhongo having undergone the same socio-economic and security that Tubimbi, fo the profits of the following:
- 260 families in distress practicing subsistence farming and raising small livestock 
- 40 women of the families in distress, beneficiaries of pigs.
- 200 children orphans of both parents, children born of rape and child ex-combatants.
- 85 unemployed youth which among them former fighters, orphans aged over 18 and those born of Families in Distress (boys and girls).
- 7,500 people beneficiaries of agro-forestry seedlings and reforestation
Shifting the Power: strengthening the humanitarian and leadership capacity of CEDERU The need to strengthening local capacities in humanitarian response in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is crucial as local NGOs are usually the first responders in a crisis. DRC has been beset by multiple security crises subjecting civilians to extremely high level of violence and prompting large-scale and frequent population displacements. Moreover, there is adequate civil society space in DRC but humanitarian response have been lead and managed by international organizations. On one hand this is due to the logistical difficulties of the country and on the other hand, local organizations have been labelled as having poor management, systems, corruption, etc. The consequence is that INGOs have, in many instance, undermine existing capacities. Shifting the power Project in Drc aims at strengthening the humanitarian and leadership capacities of 11 local actors and so to be able to play a crucial role within the current humanitarian architecture in DRC. From the capacity self-assessment undertaken with CEDERU, the organisation has elaborated a one year capacity strengthening plan with 5 objectives and 16 activities focus on leadership, influence and preparedness and response.
Management of Children Friendly Space  Karisimbi-Goma Recent attacks of M23 rebellion on Goma in November 2012 and in April 2013, number of population from Nyiragongo and Masisi territory have fled from their areas to Goma town. Thanks to international community pressure, the rebels left Goma town and recently the resistance of the FARDC stopped them capturing the town again. The statement of security force involvement of the United Nations to bring peace to eastern DR Congo strengthening MONUSCO already present with a special force to combat all the negative forces has raised some hopes in the population.
This statement is not well felt In the ears of armed groups leaders who still recruit children and adults to increase their numbers in order to finally deal with this special UN forces. It should be noted that children in school holidays are set in the city of Goma in general. Those of the Commune of Karisimbi are exposed to forced recruitment and other abuse such as forced labour and sexual violence by armed groups because it is neighbour to the area controlled by these armed groups. During military campaigns, armed forces use to call for civilians, mostly children to transport their goods and munitions without their consent. In addition to this young girls are mostly exposed to sexual abuse.
This project was initiated to provide urgent protective environment to help children affected by these problems by framing through creative, varied recreational and leisure activities, listening, loving, accepting, and valuing them in respecting them, making them participate in some views and giving them the opportunity to express themselves.
Support for childcare will simultaneously strengthen the program of Community Early Recovery and Protection through this approach " Child Friendly Spaces for Children in Vacation," a program of child protection being implemented by APROFIME association , and enable  to take into account  new unaccompanied children (before they find / join their families) through a program IDTR (Identification, Documentation, Research and Tracing or reunification).
This intervention of child protection will benefit to 300 children within 150 children of 7 to 12 years and 150 children of 13 to 17 years in 2 sites organised into CFS for children in vacation during the two months of holidays.
"Vijana, tunaungana" (Youth, we unite) "Vijana, tunaungana" (Youth, we unite) is a project that will be implemented by youth in Bukavu from July to December 2021.
This project addresses challenges linked to the lack of cohesion between young people around common causes; the poor organisational and functional support for youth organisations; and the poor dissemination of national and international legal instruments ratified by the DRC that promote young people and that suffer from ineffectiveness. 
These challenges were raised after SWOT analyses made in April 2021 by a number of youth organisations in Bukavu, including Congo Handicap, the South Kivu Scouts Federation, the Provincial Youth Council, the youth component of civil society, Génération épanouie, COCORICO, Libre Grand-Lacs, Débout RDC, as well as by La Prunelle RDC asbl, in relation to the context, based on UN resolution 2250. This analysis was carried out by La Prunelle RDC asbl to develop the youth component of the provincial roadmap with the support provided by CAFOD in its "Tufaulu Pamoja" project.  To face these challenges, a platform of youth organisations "Collectif 2250" was set up, involving 20 organisations.
Through this project, the CDJP Bukavu expects to strengthen civic participation and engagement by youth from " Collectif 2250 " as social actors. This project plans to ensure the general awareness of legal instruments that promote young people, to strengthen forums for exchange between young people and political decision-makers, and to strengthen the capacities of the "Collectif 2250" platform in order to make its actions viable and optimal.
CAFOD partners and staff meeting: Team Building and capacity strengthening CAFOD as an organization is undergoing series of internal restructuring and CAFOD DRC is not spared from this. In the effort to readjusting with the new strategic direction, CAFOD DRC together with the partners worked out the new CSP that has just been adopted. This five-year CSP comes with a lot of structural changes regarding the internal and external context around Cafod ways of working. As a result of this, some programmatic frameworks have been developed that need to be discussed and briefed and/or communicated to CAFOD DRC partners. 
The coming workshop aims at discussing the way forward of the current CSP not only with cafod but also with cafod implementation partners who will also take part as they are the key actors on the ground. This will be the opportunity to also to discuss and update Cafod partners about that have come about on the sizing of implementations partners, geographic scoping etc we will also discuss quality standards, CAFOD structural changes, supply chain management and fundraising and the exit process for some partners. This will help CAFOD management team to understand how these changes affect work in DRC. A team building session is also aligned for cafod DRC partners in order to strengthen the ties and service the working climate which is key to staff performance. Some capacity strengthening on different relevant themes such as communication within the Team and how to communicate and sell our work to outside world will as well be facilitated. 
The funds being sought under this project will serve the purpose of organizing the three days’ workshop. The actual budget will be covering different charges related to partner traveling, accommodation and functionalities related to the workshop. There is huge logistical cost that will be impended to cover all the travel expenses of the staff and partners coming from elsewhere. The workshop and meetings will take place from the 1st to 3rd November 2017  at CARITAS Guest-house in Goma where all participants will as well be lodged.
Accompanying accountability efforts in the mining sector in mwenga teritory. The mining sector is undergoing some reforms. However, this is far from contributing to economic growth to the level of the potential of the available mineral resources. In the industrial mining zones, communities are abandoned and left to their own fate on the mercies of very powerful enterprises with very little if none at all involvement of customary authorities in the communities. The State on the other hand has neither the will nor the means to monitor and evaluate the contribution of the mining companies to the development of the decentralized territorial entity that hosts them and the province level as a whole.
Women's rights in mining areas are not respected and they are the most vulnerable throughout the production chain despite the indispensable tasks they perform. Women in mining areas remain vulnerable and do not have identity card of artisanal miners and yet they are members of the mining cooperatives that use their services. Women are obliged to sell their products at the lowest prices which does not improve the economic situation of their households. Stakeholders in the mining sector, particularly the body in charge of overseeing the provincial coordination, seem to ignore the mining sector and do not exert pressure on the massive human rights violations in the mining sector including those who have the governance of this sector in their attributions.
This project aims to address the challenge of women identification in the servicing circle which is key to a more clearer and accountable remuneration of their service that will in turn contribute to improving their living standard.
It will also take into account a considerable attention on advocacy activities that aim at strengthening the involvement of the local and provincial authority to address the challenges faced by the hosting community in regards to poor accountability and conflict of interest on the side of the mining company that is in most cases impoverishing the communities.
Stregntening the Mululi community water and livelihood project. The Mululi water project aims to support socio-economic growth of the local community by improving and ensuring the distribution of the water tanks accross the community. This aims to improve on the the health and livelihoods of the rural population by improving their access to clean water (more than 500 families) through a gravity-fed system. Local population have contributed through labour supply in digging canals and local materials. 
CAFOD and its partner technicians from Bukavu diocese sampled the water and confirmed the spring source to be potable and with sufficient flow capacity. So far, the engineer did put more water in the tank. Currently the water tank is always full and it may create land slide which is potentially harmful to the environment. The project plans to  add pipes and provide water to more community members. Because this will be by gravitation, the engineer has estimated that we can build 7 more water points. This will require some pipes and few plumbing materials in order to be able to distribute the water system as required.
Additionally this project will also compliment the bees keeping project with the same partner in Bukavu diocese. However, the groups implementing this project equally expressed some needs to be supported with some seeds and some agriculture materials for better livelihood mechanism around their bee keeping project. This project was discussed with Caritas Australia, and we were hoping that they will cover this part of the project unfortunately, their response for this year was negative as they were already limited in budget capacity. We would like to cover this as well to ensure that the project is complete.
Support the  REBAC implementation and the monitoring of natural resources  by Kongolo and Kilwa ORN This initiative aims at facilitating the sharing of  experience between REBAC and REPAM on mineral and forest exploitation. REPAM is Pan-Amazonian Ecclesiastic Network for the protection of the Amazonian forest. REBAC works in order to allow each inhabitant living in the region of the basin of Congo river,  the youth in particular, to understand the environment and climate change dynamics, to engage governements and international associations to put in place policies that protect the Congo river Basin environnment and encourage, reinforce civil society organisations and communities to take concrete behaviors and actions which protect the environment and the ecosystem.
- Set up effective dialogue frameworks among public authorities of decentralised entities and civil societies  in  Kilwa-Kasenga
- Facilitate  sensitization meetings between villages to find mechanisims against bushfires and climate change.
Promoting economic stability  of miners through the revitalization of their MUSO in Djugu territory As gold is a very run-down substance, its unavailability risks slowing the economic growth of the entire region, even though it is the only main activity in the region.
The gold-bearing population is not trained to develop alternative activities to this gold mining. The most common factor is the lack of an effective policy to control gold mining by the State. This and in this project we want to implement alternative activities to gold panning including trade, agriculture, breeding and feeding production chains. The project plans to design business plans in accordance with current standards with cooperatives and operational solidarity mutuals in the Iga-Barrier-Mongbwalu axis, more specifically in NIZI, LOPA and IGA-BARRIERE. This will enable them to be able to create income-generating activities alternative to gold mining. As a result of trade, agriculture and livestock farming, these gold miners will be able to take charge of their own lives. The soil in this area is fertile and the region offers a wide variety of products that can support the development of different commercial operations. The region also offers potential in the field of livestock farming, which could also be developed by these artisanal miners in addition to the other income-generating activities in which they will be trained. The project aims to ensure their commitment to ensure their own economic stability through attitudinal change, rational management of their income and lifestyle changes.
Support CAFOD and partners staff to desing and deliver SADI Programs CAFOD has now most of the policies, systems, training, guidance, tools and resources in place to help ensure that CAFOD is a safe and inclusive organisation and our partners are working in safe and inclusive ways. CAFOD DRC has completed the process of prioritising its partners in term of safeguarding. it has also supported its partners to make their self-assessment and capacity strengthening plans. CAFOD DRC plan to organise the SADI training from 3 to 6 June 2019. Two partners will be supported as well to test set up complaints and MEL system for their projects, one for each.
Emergency assistance to displaced affected by armed conflict in Mandumbi area in Beni Territory, DRC From September 2016 to February 2017, many displaced people fleeing multiple atrocities perpetrated by alleged ADF/NALU in Beni neighborhoods and on the main road (Beni-Kasindi and Mbau-Kamango), have been hosted in Mandumbi locality. Presumed ADF/NALU rebels have repeatedly repeated incursions to several villages and caused ambushes on the main roads causing civilian populations to desolate through killings of innocent people, robberies and looting of valuable property, house fires, kidnappings, etc.  
This project aims to contribute to the improvement of food security and the living conditions of displaced populations in the locality of Mandumbi, Groupement Batangi- Mbau, Beni Mbau Sector, in Beni territory, North Kivu province in DRC affected by armed violence.
More specifically to:
- Reduce household food insecurity of those displaced to Mandumbi village caused by abuses by armed groups in the Beni-Mbau sector, by facilitating immediate access to food supplies by way of a food fair (pending their return to their own villages);
- Reduce the vulnerability of the most vulnerable people such as the elderly, pregnant women, people with disabilities and unaccompanied children, by giving them access to essential household items.
- Allow the most vulnerable displaced households to regain their dignity by providing them with essential household items purchased in a non-food items fair.
The project targets 671 most vulnerable households including displaced and host families and will be implemented by SOCOAC within 2 months