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Supporting socio-economic reinsertion of 405 vulnerable youth and children in Masisi and Goma, DRC The Democratic Republic of Congo in general, and in particular North Kivu province, has faced an armed conflict whose harmful effects have deeply affected children. Children experienced serious violations of their rights, including their recruitment into armed forces and militia groups, abductions, massacres, and family separation. According to the 2012 Humanitarian action plan from OCHA DRC, more than 40,000 children are non accompanied and vulnerable; 2000 child soldiers removed from armed forces; 1.7 million 3-17 year olds are not at school. During our field monitoring visit and workshops with partners, we decided to contribute to restore hope and dignity in the life of Congolese children and young people with a sustainable protection and early recovery Programme. CAJED is one of our long lasting partners based in North Kivu, working in this area of child protection, with over 15 years of experience with CAFOD. This project presented by CAJED will be implemented in Goma town and Masisi. CAJED will focus on three main activities to bring lasting change to the life of 405 children and young people:
•	Formal Education reinsertion: Community members and schools responsible will work together with social workers to identify, sensitize vulnerable out of school children to attend school in the next school year;
•	Vocational training and life skills: Some vulnerable children who will not able to attend formal education, will be assessed, and trained in vocational trainings, and life skills. At the end of each six month training cycles; trainees will be equipped to hold their own workshops with closed supervision and support from CAJED;
•	Small scale trading: There are some youth who will not like to attend school or vocational trainings. They will be trained in small scale trading, mainly in groups of 4 to 7 members. A strong market analysis will be conducted by the partner prior to cash transfer.
•	Special focus will be given to Girls, CAJED will work in consortium with a female led organisation named APROFIM, specialising in Girls Education and support.
•	In the meantime, some schools and training centres will be rehabilitated and equipped.
The overall outcome for this programme is to improve the socio-economic life of children and young people so that they will no longer be interested to return to armed groups and militias. This will contribute surely to peace building and stability in the targeted area.
Supporting the completion of the CERN project on improving the management of natural resources in DR "Improving the management of natural resources by integrating Civil Society Organisation" (DRC194) was 3 year project
co-financed by CAFOD (30%) and EC (70%) for a period starting from March 2011 to February 2014. This project aimed three main objectives:
-  Civil society, established and strengthened with regards to the issue of natural resources issue, can interact with state actors and the private sector
-  Local people have a better understanding of issues related to the management of natural resources and their rights in this regard.
- Beneficiaries and civil society Organisation at local and national levels are truly involved in the decision making and can influence policy.
This project was implemented by the partner CERN (Episcopal Commission for Natural Resources) and has put in place 6 ORN (Observatories Natural Resources) and 6 Consultation Framework established for an ongoing dialogue with extractive companies and local authorities.
Given that all project activities were completed in February 2014 and according to EC standard procedures, the Audit, the final evaluation and the final narrative report of the project should be submitted to EC no later than August 2014, six months later. Agreeing with the partner on the continuation of the project, CAFOD has proposed to allocate a fund for the following reasons:
1. Ensure the transition by expecting a continuation of funding from EC;
2. That said, ensure the completion of the Audit, the final evaluation and final narrative report smoothly ;
3. Facilitate accompaniment for monitoring activities on the ground if needed.
The expected amount is £ 20,000 (from CAFOD’s CGF FY 2014-2015) which will cover the period from May to September 2014. CAFOD’s Advocacy Support Programme Officer will be responsible for daily monitoring activities, providing his support and carrying out all activities related to this budget in close collaboration with the partner CERN.
Conflict Monitoring and Early Warning in South Kivus The project comprises non-eligible costs for training, planning and database development prior to implementation of EC-funded IfS Programme – Conflict Monitoring and Early Warning in South Kivus.
Institutional support to strengthen internal restructuring CAFOD has committed to support Caritas Congo for 3 years to help internal structuring. In line with SADI requirements, CAFOD is trying to track the progress on this important component with Caritas Congo. The fund will facilitate partner to make progress by putting in place and adjusting internal system to strengthen project feedback and complaints mechanism.
This will enable the participant to develop their action plans.
Strengthening church advocacy to promote vaccination against COVID-19 in DRC The Democratic Republic of Congo just like many other African country has been seriously hit by COVID 19. The 3rd wave has seriously swept the provinces of the eastern part of the country. Lately we have experienced some slight stability in the number of confirmed cases. However, “there is still this outstanding threat, and the risk is that if no measures are taken to strengthen protection measures, the next wave will even be more serious” as indicated by the Minister of Health Jean-Jacques Mbungani on October 21st 2021. 
The DRC launched a COVID-19 vaccination campaign on April 19, 2021 with the AstraZeneca vaccine. However, reception of this was very low from the community. Medical personnel have been among the most reluctant group of persons to get vaccinated even as they are at the front line. Generally speaking, the receptiveness of the vaccine in the DRC has remained low due to factors related to misinformation, cultural prejudices and plain lack of interest among the populace on the vaccine. Also, the DRC has been put on the list of countries that are at level 4 of COVID-19 and travellers from DRC are restricted to enter many EU and Asian countries. This means the situation is deteriorating drastically.
The project will work with faith leaders to sensitise communities in Kinshasa, North Kivu (Goma), and South Kivu (Bukavu). This project will work with church structures and community radios to sensitize communities on COVID-19 prevention measures and support the Bishops in their efforts to pass the messages on the importance of taking vaccine. The vaccine messages will target those at risk, including elderly and those with pre-existing conditions. General sensitization will target youth as this will have ripple effects and be transmitted to the whole community.
Building on the statement from the Bishops’ permanent committee, the project will work to amplify the voices of the bishops and influencers to model for the community and consequently encourage community to take vaccine.
Land and power conflict transformation in Uvira, Mwenga and Fizi territories This project includes a range of activities aimed to contribute to the inter-community’ peaceful coexistence in Uvira, Mwenga and Fizi territories as well as between the cross-border communities from Uvira, Fizi (in Uvira diocese) and those from Bubanza and Bujumbura diocese in Burundi. The project seeks to make in a credible, responsible and peaceful way the political and traditional authorities and community leaders in managing land and power conflicts in their respective communities. This project also aims to reduce the current tensions between the Congolese and Burundian communities from Uvira - Fizi and Burundi because of burundi political turbulences which make some Burundians refugees in Uvira (DRC).
To reach its objectives, the project will produce a power and land conflicts mapping in the diocese of Uvira; support the creation of a permanent inter-community dialogue framework bringing together community representatives, representatives from religious confessions, representatives of mining cooperatives and representatives of artisanal miners in Mwenga territory especially members from CDC (cadres de concertation). It also plans to organize dialogue meetings between conflicts’ parties, community leaders and the political, administrative and traditional authorities and to organise advocacy visits to policy makers at the territorial and provincial level. A sub regional peace Cultural Showcase bringing together delegates from Burundi and the Diocese of Uvira will be organized to consolidate the border peaceful coexistence.
The project will be implemented by CDJP Uvira staff with support from CAFOD peace building program Officer in close collaboration/coordination with Governance and Peace building PM and other relevant CAFOD’s staff.
The project’ activities will be executed in the border area of the dioceses of Bubanza and Bujumbura in Burundi as well as in Mutambala (Uvira territory), Tanganika sector (Fizi territory) and Wamuzimu Chiefdom (Mwenga territory) in Uvira diocese.
Emowering the psychosocial assistants/APS in South Kivu In post conflict situation, it is important to reconstruct communities. Among the main activities of reconstructions, the psychosocial care is very important as it helps people to manage their traumatic stories in order to reconstruct stakeholders’ lives. It is in this perspective that this project is elaborated to reduce people’s trauma. The project aims at reinforcing the capacity of the Psycho Social Assistants (otherwise known as APS) working in the trauma Centres that are managed by the Bukavu Justice and Peace Commission so that they can provide psychological assistance and support to the survivors of rape and sexual violence victims. The psychosocial assistance will concern the communities and individuals in need to be healed from trauma and thus enable them to restart a new life after conflict.  The training will focus on individual and group counselling.    
Listening to traumatic stories can be very stressful and in most cases support agents can be as well affected and be traumatised in return. If the APS is not able to manage his own stress, he cannot provide significant assistance to other victims. This project is in perspective so as to help the APS keep the balance while listening and offering support to survivors and the traumatised subjects. The APS will also learn technical process to manage their own stress in order to be fit and strong to be in position to help others.
Improving the Watsan and Health services for IDPs in North Kivu - DEC funds The project will focus on two sectors: Health and Watsan.

The health interventions will target 5 hospitals, 5 health centres and 11 nutritional centres managed by Caritas Goma, in the territories of Rutchuru and Masisi.
The project will support running costs and salaries of the 21 structures for 1 month in order to allow patients to be treated for free. The regional health authority has declared the gratuity of medical care for a period of three moths: November 2008, to January 2009. The government nonetheless does not provide any form of financial or in-kind support to medical facilities and only structures supported by external humanitarian agencies can manage to provide free medical care.
The project will also supply medicines and basic medical equipment to the 21 structures over three months.
The hospital of Birambizo has been looted and vandalized. It will be restructured by the project.
The centres targeted by this project have been selected with the following criteria:
•	High concentration of IDPs and vulnerable people
•	Lack of support by external donors or international NGOs
•	Accessible and safe, in areas relatively stable

The health interventions will provide clean drinking water, improved sanitation facilities and promotion of hygienic standards. The areas of intervention have been identified as being insufficiently served by other agencies; overcrowded with IDPs (Kitchanga and Mweso); around hospitals (Minova and Birambizo).
The (4) interventions will all include:
•	protection of springs and piping of water to distribution points
•	construction of public latrines and household latrines for the most vulnerable
•	organisation of hygiene promotion activities.
Emergency assistance to affected IDPs from Djugu territory in Ituri province (DRC) Tensions linked to the control of disputed land have been rising between the Hema and Lendu ethnic groups in Ituri (Eastern DRC). At least 49 people were killed on 1 and 2 March after a major Lendu attack on the village of Maze (UNOCHA). Fighting during February 2018 resulted in more than 60 deaths (UNOCHA). At least 29,000 people subsequently fled to Uganda (UNHCR) and tens of thousands more were internally displaced. Villages in the Djugu area of Ituri province have been burnt to the ground, and refugees have reported being attacked by men armed with machetes, spears, axes and guns. There is a concern on the humanitarian situation in the area where are reported burnt villages, ravaged crops and many basic social structures destroyed or burned. That situation created a great movement of population toward Bunia, Mahagi and other localities fleeing atrocities in Djugu territory
This project aims to provide emergency assistance to 400 most vulnerable households affected by this crisis (including displaced and host families) through a direct distribution of food and NFIs. Beneficiaries’ identification and registration will be done in close participation of the community (local humanitarian committee) and will be based on their vulnerability (score of both for food and NFI). Each beneficiary will receive a food ration of one month including 2.5 kg of rice (approx. 90kg), 18 kg of beans, 5 litres of vegetable oil, and 0,75 kg of salt and NFI kit composed of kitchen set, jerry can, clothes soaps, 2 simple mats and hygienic kit for women as per the cluster standards.
The project will be implemented by Caritas Bunia with support from CAFOD humanitarian staff based in Goma.
Social and educational reinsertion of separated children in Goma and the Masisi Territory This project will contribute to improving the living conditions of children in Masisi, Democratic Republic of Congo.

The objective of the project, is that using socio-economic reintegration, children and youth affected by armed conflict or from broken families will benefit from the support. For this third year, the aim is to guarantee the education and social reinsertion of children through formal and vocational education. 

Through this project, CAJED and APROFIME in Goma and Masisi, will meet, listen, identify and organise a Participatory Action Research (children's participation in choosing their reintegration project) with targeted people and communities prior to their formal or vocational education.
Rape Crisis/Trauma Programme Coordination, Learning and Advocacy (ACEAC/CEJP) To develop the capacity of national and regional partners to implement an integrated response to the immediate, long-term and structural impact of rape and sexual violence as a weapon of war in the Great Lakes Region.
CAFOD partners and Staff - Team Building and Capacity Strengthening Looking forward it’s positioning, CAFOD DRC held in 2015 a workshop with its partners and staff to define its new CSP in order to better sharp its strategic interventions in relation to the context (internal and external)involvement and relevant actors. As results of this strategic workshop, action points translated into long-, medium- and short-term objectives as well as the implementation strategies were defined and constituted the essential pillars of the CAFOD CSP for next five years. Through this planned workshop, CAFOD DRC aims to organize the CSP briefing for his partners and discuss about the way forward as the new CSP brings many changes as number of implementations partners, targeted regions, etc; with partners, we will also discuss quality standards, CAFOD structural changes, and communication, supply chain management and fundraising, and the exit process for some partners. It will help CAFOD management team to understand how these changes affect work in DRC. It’s also planned a staff team building and capacity strengthening on different relevant themes such as communication (within the Team and how to communicate our work to outside world); 
Proposal writing (from conception to development), Financial & Supply Chain main Procedures and Guidelines, Accountability, Webpromise, Staff Code of behaviour, and catholic social teaching.
All CAFOD DRC staff will attend the meeting, and relevant staff from London office will provide online support for trainings.
The funds being sought under this project will serve the purpose of organizing this one week workshop. Covering the charges of all the partners and CAFOD staff who are to gather for the purpose explained above. 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 12th to 16th June 2017, at CARITAS Guest-house in Goma where all participants will as well be lodged.
Support to socioeconomic reinstallation of returnee households in Nyakariba, Bashali, Masisi For over 15 years the North Kivu Province has been the theatre of armed conflicts and recurrent wars. These years have been characterised by interethnic clashes which begun in 1993, the massive arrival of Rwandese refugees in 1994, the so called liberation war lead by Kabila in 1996, the RCD war in 1998, the insurgence of armed groups such as CNDP, Mai Mai, PARECO, FDLRs, etc. where each of these was against the other and each one trying to get control of resources. All these armed groups and movements created a lot of insecurity of which the local population has been a victim for many years now. All these atrocities have also had a lot of negative effects on the civilian populations such as looting, burning of houses, loss of means of livelihoods, loss of property, sexual violence, killing of innocent people and other forms of human rights abuses, repeated and continuous displacement of the civilian populations, etc. The Nyakariba, Muheto and the surrounding villages were usually a target of different attacks between PARECO and CNDP. This is because CNDP had its headquarters in Kilolirwe a few kilometres away from Nyakariba. At every confrontation we saw the same results namely the displacement of the local populations and the establishment of IDP camps in and aroud Goma, Kilolirwe, etc.  .

In January 2009 the DRC government took some measures to try and bring peace to the Province. These lead to joint military operations between Rwanda and DRC to track down the FDLRs. Other initiatives were also taken where some armed groups accepted to render their arms and join the national army. Because of this peace is establishing itself slowly even if it is not perfect yet, people have left their camps where they have been living under tarpaulin tents and living only on humanitarian aid and have returned to their homes to resume their agriculture activities. These people have so far received food assistance distributed by Caritas Goma with the support of the World Food Programme.

This project aims at supporting the returnees to restart their agriculture activities in order to grow their own food and meet some of their immediate households needs.
Supporting Project for Protection and re-integration of ex-combatants in the diocese of Bukavu This Project is a support to DRC321 Project of Protection and re-integration of ex-combatants in the diocese of Bukavu, funded by Caritas Australia. The project is designed to strengthen the peace building process by promoting peace initiatives, through: community sensitization and education, training and support to ex combatant associations; income generating activities – support to sustainable livelihoods, animal husbandry, small businesses – that will contribute to the peaceful cohabitation between ex-combatants and their host communities. 
This four last months, several  monitoring trips were done in Bukavu and neighbouring to visit project’s beneficiaries. The last visit was done by Mme Lulu Mitshabu of Caritas Australia coming from Australia. Related to all visits, the progress of results were appreciated; beneficiaries are improving their living standard, a peaceful relationship is noticed between ex – combatants and host communities, the numbers of ex – combatants arrested for robbery, crime and other violence is reduced, a new hope of live is surrounding ex – combatants and their victims.
Related to the project’s achievements, the donor’s delegate was keen to save money for two next years, what is confirmed up – to – date, so support could continue for this fragile communities; and the donor requested a filming documentation of activities, and more technical support from CAFOD.
The aforementioned visits and team discussions, presented a need of further investment to develop and reinforce permanent Caritas Bukavu’s capacities assess of beneficiaries needs to prepare and ensure project quality and long term development, for a greater and more sustainable project next years.
Community Engagement and Livelihoods Support to Ebola-Affected Communities Since 1 August 2018, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been fighting an outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), the 10th such outbreak the country has faced since 1976. The current outbreak originated in the Beni territory of North Kivu province over one year ago and has spread to reach many villages and territories in North Kivu and Ituri provinces, including Lubero, Goma and Komanda. Incidence rates of EVD continue to grow, with many cases identified in remote areas situated outside of the coverage of health zones. 
To contribute to the response to stop Ebola, this project aims to increase community awareness of the safe prevention of Ebola, restore livelihoods and improve safe WASH practices
Strengthening the Church's engagement to promote citizen participation in the political arena This project is designed to reinforce and strengthen the capacity of the church to keep on engaging with political matters and at the same time to sensitize the citizen  also to engage and take part in the political process and thus participate meaningfully in the decentralization and the forthcoming election.  This project is will greatly emphasize on civic education of the local entities and build their capacity to rightfully request for accountability from the duty bearers. 
Supporting this project will significantly help to train and inform community based structures, men and women about civic education, dynamics of the political processes and the role that the citizens have to play in ensuring a coherent and peaceful process of the same. This project will also focus on mass mobilization as a way to sensitize the population to engage and take parts in the election.
In addition to the above, this project will also cover the environmental protection aspects. Pope Francis' encyclical came out strong on environmental aspect and the common house that we all have to protect. This project will enable the church to send out a strong message to all church structure to champion the environmental protection measures at the grass-root level. This is one of the simple and practical way to translate the theories into practice. It is likely that the impact of this will be more direct from and/or around church structures such as schools, hospitals etc. There is a likelihood that this may be replicated by other structures that may borrow the practice from our programs.