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Facilitation to increase Urban Resilience in Freetown Sierra Leone is prone to natural disasters, mainly recurrent floods, drought, and landslides, which are likely to be exacerbated by climate change. The core problem is that people living in risk-prone slum communities in Freetown experience frequent recurring climate-induced natural disasters resulting in greater exposure to health risks, loss of life, loss of property and economic instability. Natural disasters, principally floods, are becoming more frequent and have increased in intensity because of increased accumulation of silt and gravel.  The build-up of materials causes increased potential for flooding throughout the watershed, but particularly within informal settlements and slum communities. Environmental degradation, through mangrove destruction, deforestation and sand mining, increases the speed and force of the waterflow and the amount of the silt and gravel moving through the watershed. Inadequate drainage canals and culverts exacerbates the situation. The degradation also exposes the communities in the upper catchments to landslides. Unregulated disposal of solid wastes contributes to the severity and frequency of flooding. Therefore, in that view, Cordaid partner CRS in implementing an urban resilience and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) project to support the Local government (FCC), local communities and other stakeholders at the Catchment Area scale (in the Tower Hill Catchment Area of Freetown which includes 14 communities with about 284 000 residence, to accelerate community-managed and local Government resilience/ DRM priorities in the target area of operations in Freetown.  This would include joint technical and financial support to establish at least one Resilient Catchment Area Platform. The intervention is focused on mitigation and preparedness in disaster-prone communities—those hit cyclically by floods, landslides, and other crises, especially in areas facing the growing effects of climate change. The project intends to increase household community resilience capacity to prevent, withstand, and recover from recurring climate-induced natural disasters, at the community, ward, catchment and city scales in Freetown over 2 years. Residents of Tower Catchment Area
Ethiopia Tigray Conflict response The humanitarian situation in Tigray region is highly tense and volatile, with thousands of people reportedly lacking access to assistance since the conflict erupted on November 4th. This crisis comes at a time Ethiopia is grappling with a dire humanitarian situation caused by displacement, desert locust infestation, food insecurity and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The UN and humanitarian organizations continue to be extremely concerned about the safety and welfare of civilians in Tigray region, including more than 500,000 citizens and 200 aid workers currently in Mekelle where fighting is likely to escalate.
Access to the Tigray region is limited, and information on needs is mostly based on estimations and projections. However, as of 24 November 2020, on top of the 850,000 people already dependent on some type of humanitarian assistance in Tigray, UNOCHA is projecting 1.1 million additional people in need due to the conflict in Tigray and neighbouring Amhara and Afar regions.  Another 43,000 people have fled to East Sudan, UNHCR is preparing to cater to the needs of at least 100,000 refugees in the coming period (UNHCR regional updates 25-27 November). Moreover, there is an underfunding of the Humanitarian Preparedness Plan has an outstanding requirement of 75.6 Million USD. To provide emergency response to address the needs of people in Tigray and IDPs in neighbouring Afar regions. In consultation and coordination with UNOCHA, and the relevant clusters, APDA will target 7,500 most vulnerable households who have been affected by the conflict. For beneficiary targeting the cluster standards will be used. Criteria for beneficiary selection include: 
·	IDPs, returnees, 
·	Women (23% of the affected population according to the humanitarian preparedness plan)
·	Children (50.4% of the affected population according to the humanitarian preparedness plan)
·	Elderly headed households;
·	Physically disabled headed households; 8% of the affected population according to the humanitarian preparedness plan)
·	Households with persons with special needs (PSN) including PWD, PLW, chronically ill people;
·	Households with no basic items /or those who have lost most of their properties while fleeing.
DRA Innovation - CTP through 121 cash Reaching people in need with humanitarian assistance  in Ethiopia often still needs quite some time also when cash transfers  are used, a modality that is considered as less time- consuming compared to in-kind.  The main delays are in lengthy administrative processes needed to register and verify beneficiary lists and sharing those data with the financial service provider that ensures the cash transfer to the beneficiaries.  In this process the risk of making mistakes is high. 
The innovative CVA platform 121 is making the administrative process more (cost-)effective and efficient and will allow a more timely response with less mistakes to the benefit of people affected.  This is especially useful also for local partners in the JR that do not have the means to pilot cash innovations and face barriers to keep up with innovations in cash.The administrative cash process is currently mostly done manually in excel files and beneficiary lists are shared with FSP by email, with verifications in email exchanges of lists which is time consuming and risks of mistakes is high which delays the transfers to people affected or reduces effectiveness of response to the costs of beneficiaries in need of assistance. -	streamlining the cash transfer process , with specific attention for local actors by using 121 platform in selected cash projects of JR members. 
-	Creating a better work environment for the implementers by improving the SOPs for cash distributions. 
-	share learnings with all JR local and international JR members to enhance adoption and scaling of 121 within and beyond the JR. 
-	engage FSPs that are not familiar with 121  to integrate with 121 to support scaling in Ethiopia. The cash innovation  project will directly target 500 households in North and south Wollo Zone, Amhara region. CORDAID will ensure implemnting partners use strict vulnerability criteria, in line with the Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) and Clusters guidelines during beneficiary selection process. Special attention will be given to households with girls, women, children under 5, elders and PWDs as they are more vulnerable and disproportionately affected by the conflict. Implementing local partners are expected to use standard vulnerability criteria, and work together with local authorities to ensure the most vulnerable groups are reached.
Advanced agriculture for sustainable growth through improved potato crop in Iraq Since 2003 continuous conflict, instability and less Government attention severely affected agriculture and agro-based industry in Iraq. Whereas use of low-quality inputs, low yield, limited protection of national products and cheap import of agricultural products restricted growth of agro-based industry and high-quality agricultural production in Iraq.

The project will be focusing on the increased farm production of at least 400 small-holder farmers including farmers at Ataa AlKhaleej farm and agricultural area around Latifaya farm and in Al Rasheed area. To increase crop yield, the project will encourage farmers to use improved agriculture inputs e.g. Dutch seed potatoes from Interseed Holland company (Consortium private partner) and advanced agricultural mechanics. The improved yield will be sold to food processing businesses and to crop retailers in local market – the businesses will establish contract farming with targeted farmers groups.
ZOA, together with Cordaid and Al Khamiyat and Interseed will train and encourage farmers to participate in the project by attending on-farm capacity building training sessions, forming farmers groups and by adopting advance agricultural and irrigation methods for potato crop.

As a result, 100 farmers and their families, currently not being able to farm on their land, or having a limited yield, will be able to increase their income by more than 50% and more 30% of their farm production. Whereas all 400 farmers will learn climate smart agriculture practices to enhance their farm production.

The project contributes to National Development Plan 2018-2022 for agriculture sector and is in line with the policy of the Netherlands Development Cooperation for Iraq, which focuses on the development of the agriculture sector and stimulating employment and entrepreneurship opportunities in Iraq. The project and partnership contribute to SDGs 5, 8 12 and 17 by improving agricultural practices and engage local businesses. Farmers have increased yield and improved the quality of their farm output, through technical and hardware assistance and have access to markets in Al Rasheed area – Baghdad, by December 2022. Host Community
Climate resilience and agri-finance Microfinance is a powerful instrument to achieve positive environmental, social, and financial impacts by providing access to capital in low-income economies, which can improve the livelihoods of populations at the bottom of the pyramid, enabling them to build assets, increase incomes, and reduce their vulnerability to economic and environmental stress.
Smallholder farmers and MSMEs need green finance to absorb shocks and take advantage of opportunities but face a wide range of constraints in accessing this finance. Developing or transitioning to climate-friendly business models requires capital investments that smallholder farmers and MSMEs are unlikely to afford. Currently, accessing finance is constrained by issues that have historically faced smallholder farmers and MSMEs, such as strict collateral requirements, and those specific to green finance, such as higher perceived risk.
While financiers and development actors are working to address constraints, there remains little clarity on the extent to which green finance reaches smallholder farmers and MSMEs and how the flows can be expanded. Despite extensive data on climate finance flows and MSME financing, there is limited capacity on the side of MFIs in the Rwandan context on green finance flows, giving sense and reason to such Rabo Foundation intervention. 
According to Climate Resilience Through Microfinance study, conducted by Helwig et al. (2023) available in this link, financial mitigation and diversification among the farmers who indicated a climate and 
environmental impact as the most important problem affecting their household, over 80% admitted that the issue caused a reduction in income. In these cases, less than 3% fully recovered and close to 30% not having recovered, at all, with the rest having recovered only partially. 
This Rabo Foundation and Cordaid partnership will close the gap and sustain green finance by including 
financially smallholders’ farmers with the special attention on climate change impact. The approach is to support both supply and demand sides to identify the gaps and work together in finding sustainable solutions. Providing technical assistance to 4 MFIs to become climate finance ready, enabling them to offer climate sensitive and resilient financial services to 5000 farmers as well as creating a framework for replicability of climate resilience product development for MFIs. Micro-finance institutions
Improving the Health Sector Response to GBV through Mental and Physical Rehabilitation of Vulnerable People in Sinjar and Telafar Crisis situations such as natural disasters and conflicts cause significant disruption amongst the affected population. They can cause mental health problems due to the different types of losses suffered. Firstly, these situations cause significant material damage like road and sanitary infrastructure, buildings, food and energy sources. There are also often many economic losses across all sectors (primary, secondary, tertiary). People's livelihoods and jobs are nearly always impacted by the crisis. There are often heavy losses of human life. People go missing and die, others are injured and often suffer from disabling physical after-effects. Others are separated from their loved ones. These losses undermine the foundations of community life and the internal resources of the families and individuals affected. These mechanisms are weakened to a greater extent for people who are already vulnerable prior to the event in question (vulnerabilities related to age, gender, incapacities and impairments, social and economic status, etc.). The entire social fabric may be altered or destroyed, placing the individuals in an abnormal state of suffering. This may manifest itself in the form of psychological distress, or in a more disabling manner in the form of mental health disorders. Psychological distress is "a state of disquiet which is not necessarily symptomatic of a pathology or mental health disorder. It reveals the presence of non-severe or temporary symptoms of anxiety and depression which do not meet the diagnostic criteria for mental health disorders, and which may be a reaction to stressful situations (migration, exile, natural disaster which can induce symptoms of psychological trauma) or to existential difficulties".
Although it may not immediately result in a disability, the onset of an impairment or trauma in a crisis is a factor for psychological distress and a determining factor for personal vulnerability. This distress may lead to a lasting deterioration in the person's mental health or a permanent disability. Given the increased risk of experiencing symptoms of psychological distress in emergency situations, mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) interventions in these settings have emerged as a key issue to address. Indeed, active listening and psychological first aid implemented in the emergency phase play a decisive role in limiting the effects of psychological distress and in people's individual and collective reconstruction. In the long term, they also facilitate the process of building community and individual resilience. The emergency setting and the sensitive nature of these types of interventions ask for very careful interventions to avoid any potential adverse effects that might worsen people's circumstances. To improve mental health well-being and increase access to protection for vulnerable people and people with disabilities among returnees and host communities in Sinjar and Tel afar. This activity cover all people in need ,male ,female ,kids, people with disability .
Bashiqa: Support for returnees through health and MHPSS Support returnees in Bashiqa sub-district on Ninawa Plains through healthcare with special attention for Mental Health and Psycho Social Support (MHPSS), and Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV). The targeted villages are in the periphery and are so far not supported. Bashiqa population consists mostly of Yezidi returnees who suffered greatly from the atrocities of ISIS. Hence the attention for MHPSS and SGBV.
Two strategic considerations: 1. This project is connected through joint activities on the ground with another Cordaid project from the HAU in the same subdistrict. 2. Both projects in Bashiqa are important for the track record in our dialogue with different donors (Dutch MFA) who support “return in the region”. Long-term objectives:
Provide essential health care services to people in priority locations 
Reach as many people in need as possible across Iraq by securing safe access to front-line and newly retaken areas and continuing to provide sequenced assistance packages to people in acute need regardless of their location. 

Short-term objectives:
120,000 crisis affected returnees residing in newly liberated areas of Baashiqa in Ninewa plain, with destruction rate of 50% of the infrastructure are provided with Health services advocating for additional safe, dignified and voluntary returns. WHY THIS BIG NUMBER? 
advocating for additional safe, dignified and voluntary returns. Is this not a separate short-term objective? The short-term objective is than: the health services will encourage people to return.  (it is however hardly measurable, but good to mention). 120.000 people
Medical Education Education w. Maastricht University  Phase 2 In 2021, Cordaid reached out to SHE Collaborates (SHEC), the office for international collaboration and consultancy of the School of Health Professions Education (SHE) at Maastricht University, with the question if we were involved in the developments of improving teaching methods for higher education; either with research or implementation? The answer was a resounding “yes” as SHEC offers a tailored approach to innovative training and consulting in the areas of education, management and research on a global scale. In doing so, SHE Collaborates capitalizes on Maastricht University’s nearly 50 years of experience in implementing student-centered learning in medicine and health sciences. It is SHE Collaborates’ goal to promote improvement in health professions education practices worldwide through collaboration with partners from a variety of disciplines, educational backgrounds and cultures. The exploratory conversations soon became more concrete and at the end of 2021 it was decided to start a pilot collaboration, with the focus on changing the narrative of health professions education in Sierra Leone. 1. to build a community of practice in Sierra Leone of competent educators who are able to develop, design, deliver and evaluate education for health professions educators;
2. to continuously collect input for further development of educational material and policy;
3. to contribute to a national discussion on the desirability of for health professions education training as a pre-requisite to be employed as teachers in health professions training institutes in Sierra Leone. Participants from health professions training institutes that enroll in the Health Professional Education-course
Caritas Sy COVID-19 Cash for emergency Number of vulnerable IDP, returnee and host community households are supported to meet their acute basic and hygiene needs during the COVID-19 pandemic in a safe and dignified manner To contribute to increased resilience and protection of vulnerable households affected by the COVID-19 crisis in government-held Syria. vulnerable IDP, returnee and host community households
Transforming Eastern Province through Adaptation (Trepa) Climate projections show that climate change will have an increasingly serious effect on the Eastern Province in Rwanda, largely as a result of rising temperatures and changing patterns of precipitation. The mean rainfall is predicted to increase by between 0.1 and 1.24 mm per year, except during the short rainy season (Mid-September -Mid-December), showing a marked decline of between 0.412 and 1.65 mm per year. Temperatures in the Province have already increased 2.6 °C over 1961-201610 and are projected to increase a further 2.5 °C by 205011, up from the 1970 average.Temperature rise will increase evapotranspiration, resulting in increased crop water requirements and reduced soil moisture capacity. A study from ICRAF using the CGIAR CSI model for projection of the Soil Moisture Index estimated decrease in evaporation and increase in evapotranspiration by 2050 which will begin crossing critical thresholds in crop tolerance.12The combination of increased temperatures for longer periods and decreased rainfall especially in the short rainy season, makes the Eastern Province highly exposed to more dry spells with up to 7 days by 2050

The  project  will  be  implemented  through  three  Executing  Entities  (Rwanda Forestry Authority, ENABEL and IUCN through its Rwanda country office). In the EE role the IUCN Rwanda country  office  functions  as  an  in-country  entity  based  on  its  host  country  agreement on project management, member and advisory services
The project’s objective is: to achieve a paradigm shift in land management practices in Rwanda’s Eastern Province from landscapes that are degraded, fragile and unable to sustain livelihoods in the face of climate change to restored ecosystems and landscapes through building community resilience to enhance livelihoods, food and water security of the most vulnerable rural population. Cordaid is tasked to enhance financial nclusion and investments in climate resilient value chains for climate resilient agricultural and tree products. ​ Cordaid's objective it to enhance financial inclusion and investments in climate resilient value chains for climate resilient agricultural and tree products. ​ Members of groups (formal and informal) involved in the green activities such as agroforestry and selected value chains such as Maize and Beans
Borderlands Youth Forum In the Great Lakes region, countries are connected through a transnational, cyclical complex of state fragility, violent conflict, and mass displacement. While Burundi, DRC, and Uganda are culturally, linguistically, historically, and politically distinct, all three countries are characterized by unresponsive, unaccountable institutions that largely fail to deliver security, justice and basic services to people; and by deeply-entrenched patriarchal and gerontocratic norms and practices that underpin governance arrangements at all levels.  These characteristics have particularly deleterious implications for young people, especially young women, who constitute the majority of the region’s population.

This is especially evident in the region’s borderlands, peripheral spaces which tend to become sites of conflict due to their physical remoteness and political marginalization. Borderlands are often volatile, but also where regional interdependence is deepest and most visible, with communities connected by routine cross-border mobility, mixed migration flows, ties of family and identity, and management of common risks such as food insecurity, environmental degradation, and climate change vulnerability. Overall objective: Empower youth groups and networks in borderland communities of Burundi, DRC, Rwanda and Uganda to influence national and regional policymakers to strengthen cross-border political dialogue and cooperation in the Great Lakes, contributing to a more stable and peaceful future for the region
Evidence generating for lobby & advocacy purposes and exchange: Strengthen the capacity of youth groups from borderland communities to generate locally-grounded insights on conflict, security and justice issues with a cross-border or regional dimension 3 youth led CSOs in DRC, Burundi and Uganda and their networks / constituencies, youth leaders from the borderland communities. 

local, national, and regional political and peace and security stakeholders.*
Once the report will be finalized the results will be shared with key stakeholders
Programme d’appui Au Plan De Transition Du Système Educatif Centrafricain (Papt)- GPE Considering the validation of the Transition Plan (PT) revised in November 2017, Cordaid wants to continue to support the Central African education system by working alongside UNICEF in the implementation of a project to be implemented in Bouar- the Nana Mambere prefecture. Improve school supply and the learning environment for better access to pre-school and primary education, including for children in the most precarious situations. 720 pre-school children; 10,000 primary school children, including 5,000 girls and 5,000 boys.