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Access to Improved WASH facilities and Socio-Agro Economic Livelihoods Promotion in six villages The background of the project aims to contribute to CAFOD’s Food and Livelihoods Security and the Emergency Preparedness, Response and Recovery thematic programme frameworks – as set out in the CAFOD Sierra Leone and Liberia Country Strategy Paper (2016-2021).  
The project will be implemented in communities that were severely affected by the Ebola outbreak and are in the  rebuilding their lives. The Ebola outbreak affected every household in the  John Thorpe community claiming 1000 lives and affecting household income. Furthermore, the community is among one the most underserved in the western area districts with little and in some instances poor access to portable water, electricity, road and other essentially services. Several children were made orphans as a result of the Ebola outbreak which ravaged the community; homes where boarded up while children orphaned children were sent to interim care centres and to other extended family members.  Many families lost their income especially those that where left behind with the burden of caring for orphaned children. Markets and other income generating activities such as fishing, sand mining were halted due to the nature and spread of the disease. The outcomes of this project therefore is seeking to rebuild the lives of Ebola victims as well as contributing to the  Sierra Leonean Presidents’ Recovery Priorities, which is a 24 month plan that includes Water and Agriculture as key sectors in reinstating Ebola victim lives.

Caritas Freetown is an organisation that has a track record of working in the selected communities providing livelihood support and a mobile clinic facility.  The project will be implemented in collaboration with the relevant lines ministries- Water resources/ Ministry of Health MoHs, to provide communities with access to safe drinking water where there is the need and a hygienic environment. In order to support the communities with livelihood and income generating opportunities through the Ministry of Agriculture and food security the project will provide small farmers access to improved seeds with technical trainings and supervision that will increase agriculture production.
COVID-19: Cash Transfer Programme The Diocese of Kenema is located along the Liberian border and is comprised of some of the most remote and rural communities in Sierra Leone. Poor infrastructure, especially during the rainy season, can often limit the movement of goods and services within these communities; negatively impacting upon their economic livelihoods. As a result, there is a need to support these vulnerable individuals with cash transfers through mobile money, allowing them to determine what goods or services best address their current needs in the midst of this outbreak. Given the characteristics of the target group, they are extremely susceptible to economic shocks and many are already suffering from income insecurity, worsened by the outbreak. A large proportion of these populations either depend on subsistence farming for their livelihoods, or petty trading especially for the vulnerable women. 

With the outbreak of COVID-19, a series of regulations have been imposed by the Government to control the spread of the virus across the Country. Some of these regulations like the inter-district lockdowns, periodic mandatory 3-day lockdowns, social distancing measures and night curfews, limit the movement of people and hampers their economic activities. This has resulted in further worsening of the vulnerability status of the already impoverished populations. 
The proposed action will provide the target groups with cash transfers through a mobile service provider for three months, to ensure that their basic needs can still be met. The project will also engage one volunteer per chiefdom, to assist in both spreading messaging about the importance of still seeking medical attention, for pregnant mothers and teenagers, as well as lactating mothers, PWDs and the elderly, and also encourage the participating beneficiaries to use the funds judiciously in order to ensure that their families are catered for at the end of the day.
Improving  women Access to Land in selected  rural communities in Sierra Leone This project is aimed at working with stakeholders at all levels to ensure improved women’s access to land through research, sensitization and awareness raising and advocacy. In Sierra Leone women have been discriminated against in access to land in most of the rural areas, which has deprived women of their livelihood options and as such, they have continued to live in abject poverty. In 2007, the government brought in a piece of legislation known as the “Devolution of Estate Act 2007”
Women's Voice and Engagement (WOVEN) for Peace This project will focus on women’s empowerment in the peacebuilding process ahead of the 2023 Presidential elections in Sierra Leone. The project will engage and train women and religious leaders in gender-sensitive ADR mechanisms, recognizing that gendered discrimination is inherently engrained in decision making and access to justice systems shaped by customary practice. The project will contribute to improving prevention of violence against women and girls through changes in knowledge, attitudes, and practices. 
The proposed initiative is relevant to the Sierra Leone/Liberia Programme Strategy and African Framework because it fits in with the key thematic areas of Women’s Economic, Social and Political Empowerment and Improved Governance, of which peacebuilding, especially before, during and after vulnerable election periods, is a critical priority. It fits in with the key characteristics of IEPM as it promotes the voices and agency of women in peace processes and engages communities in meaningful dialogue to enhance a culture of encounter with religious and women leaders. The project seeks to address issues of discriminatory structures and especially social discrimination against women by empowering them through social inclusion to bring about transformative change. Furthermore, by addressing peacebuilding needs to prevent conflicts, the project also seeks to respond to the cry of the poor and the earth.
Support for children in Sierra Leone affected by the Ebola crisis This project will provide support for 120 children who have been affected by the Ebola crisis.  They include orphaned children, survivors of infection, those whose parents have been infected and the children of households accepting survivors. The project will run for 12 months.
Bee Keeping and Vegetable Cultivation and Marketing Project The Bee Keeping and Vegetable Cultivation and Marketing project is a Livelihoods  and food security project contributing to alleviating the food insecurity circumstance of the beneficiaries, and capacitating them to earn income from the sales of their surplus commodities. The project is geared towards empowering beneficiaries to contribute economically to the welfare of their families and their communities. The overall goal of the project is to empower 80 women and 20 youths in  the area of food and income security through Bee keeping and Vegetable production in the Serabu community. The modern organized production methods of honey and vegetables will maximize the production of both commodities. It means the increased yield can be used domestically thereby making the beneficiaries more food secure, and the surplus sold off for cash. The cash realised from the sale of the commodities will be used to grant soft loans to beneficiaries to take care of their personal problems, and some kept in a savings account that will earn interest. The project will target  Serabu Self-Help Development Association, a group of women and youth who have come together to mobilise resources and their efforts to work together for honey production/food crop cultivation and marketing in order promote food security, and break out of the shackles of poverty in their community. The group comprises 120 direct beneficiaries, made
up of 80 women and 40 youth.
Strengthening the capacity of Caritas Makeni and Caritas Kenema for effective delivery of services CAFOD has been working in partnership with the Caritas family in sierra particularly, the Caritas Kenema (CK) and Caritas Makeni (CM) since 1992. A number of projects aimed at community development, livelihoods and disaster risk reduction have been implemented during the course of the partnership. However there have been issues related to the capacity of the caritas family in Sierra Leone as a whole. Challenges have been in the areas of organisation governance, programmes implementation particularly monitoring and evaluation and financial management.  In as much as CAFOD has the accompaniment approach that is aimed at building the capacity of partners they work with, this has not been very effective and is rather supply driven rather than demand driven. 
In 2012, the CAFOD organisational assessment of Caritas Kenema and Caritas Makeni offices, the DRR midterm evaluation report and the CAFOD audit report came up with a series of issues relating to the capacity of both organizations.
Partner Capacity Building- Organisational Strategic plan In 2014, CAFOD Mano River team conducted an organizational assessment for all its partners and developed capacity building plan to run through a couple of years. The assessment averred that most Local NGOs are grappling with several structural issues including lack of strategic development plan and other work place policies. Therefore, these organisations struggle to present their visions and programme directions when meeting donors for programme interventions. Furthermore the assessment report shows that the issues are inherent with faith-based institutions because of the linkage with the overall development agenda of the parent organization. It is based on the afore-mentioned challenges and desire to support partner organisations in Liberia and Sierra Leone that CAFOD Mano River office decided to recruit a consultant to support the partners to develop clear strategic direction/plan for three organisations in Sierra Leone.
Organizational support This project need has emerged from the close consultative meeting with IRCSL leadership structure identifying the crucial need to continue maintaining their current office. Additionally, the need to continue enhancing communication internally and externally also emerged from the consultation meeting.  This support is critical at the moment as Sierra Leone will be experiencing another democratic and electoral transition in its political history. IRCSL had been very instrumental to create dialogue and mediation of peace across the nation and among political parties. The role of IRCSL had been very instrumental to uphold peace in the land and contributing towards the development and social cohesion in the country. As a moral guarantor of the land, their intervention cannot be overemphasized and CAFOD has used this leverage to dispense various projects through the IRCSL to ensure more recognition about the roles of faith leaders in all moral facets of the country. With these insights, CAFOD will provide the required supports as requested and continuous monitoring of future projects with IRCSL during this period.
Capacity Building Support on Extractives to Network Movement for Justice and Development This fund is intended to support the technical capacity of the Net Work Movement for Justice and Development (NMJD) to take a lead role in Natural Resource Governance and Economic Justice Network in Sierra Leone (NaRGEJ-SL). The support will enable the Executive Director of NMJD to participate in training on “Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development”, offered by the Vale Columbia Centre on Sustainable International Investment (VCC) and the Centre on Globalization and Sustainable Development (CGSD) at Columbia University, New York, USA from June 10, 2013 to June 21, 2013.
IPA Research Project The project will implement a large-scale community-level field experiment that encourage VSLAs to set up and operate as retail DF agents across rural unserved communities in Sierra Leone — a market environment that is poorly studied. Agents will be established to offer both mobile money (via Orange Money) and bank services (via GT Bank) in 3 separate phases that span 2022-2025. This is an environment where the penetration of DFS is extremely low and retail agents are “non-existent” in these rural communities, but where there is latent demand for and potential for supply of DFS. The study will include two interventions meant to connect unserved communities to retail agents. First, to examine the broader impacts of retail agent expansions, we will encourage and onboard existing VSLAs as agents (VSLAs-as-agents) in randomly selected communities (Treatment I). Second, to test improvements in quality of services and consumer usage of DFS, we will additionally implement a simple, anonymized feedback mechanism that provides monthly consumer feedback—based on digitized new user reviews or evaluations—to retailers and the community in a random set of connected communities (Treatment II).
EC-BAFS: CAFOD Activities The project will focus on economic empowerment of youth in two districts in Sierra Leone through sustainable employment creation in the Agricultural sector and enhancing the effectiveness of the vegetable-based value chain through capacity development, asset investment, linkages to markets and financial inclusion.
Documenting CAFOD Projects and Impact Through Film The purpose of this assignment is to highlight the work of CAFOD’s within targeted communities through the development of documentaries.The documentary will be aimed at reaching external audiences and should therefore provide an overview of CAFOD and its partners, and the impact of their work on all levels. Hearing directly from the community members themselves through the medium of film will effectively illustrate the impact of our projects.
Well Body 4 Betteh Education This project seeks to stimulate behaviour change leading to improved hygiene practices, increased   access to clean water, sanitation and quality education in rural communities in Bo District. It will also contribute to the response trajectory of the early recovery needs of targeted rural poor communities focusing on orphans, young persons and their families including victims of Ebola.  The project intends to respond to the following problems: inadequate and limited access to water supply, sanitation and hand washing facilities, unsafe water which leads to waterborne disease, young persons with poor hygiene and hand washing practices, lack of standard toilet facilities and poor and hindered access to education facilities and services. The planned actions will be done through community-led integrated approach leveraging on the community drive for change. A context analysis of our proposed target rural poor communities indicates the following:
1. Inadequate and limited access to water supply, sanitation and hand-washing facilities.
2. Young persons with poor hygiene and hand-washing practices.
3. Lack of standard toilet facilities.
4. Poor and hindered access to education facilities and services.
Organisational Support  Year 2 The project has been tailored to support the re-establishment of Caritas Kenema as one of the bodies of Caritas and the Catholic Church responsible for overseeing the delivery of charity and development in the Diocese of Kenema. The project will provide two years of support to the Kenema Office.
Organisational Development Support Over the years Caritas sierra Leone has faced challenges raging from reporting, financial management and other areas which needed immediate attention. The relationship between the national Office and the Diocesan Directorates needed to be clarified to have more clearer roles and functions. As a result, the Bishops Conference has taken a bold decision to close down the national office temporarily and undertake a review of its structure, functions, staffing and funding.
The Bishops Conference of Sierra Leone, with the support of its partners, now appeals for funding and technical support for an interim period of two years while the national office is restructured and renewed and CAFOD has commit to this process.
Financial Inclusion (Pilot) KADDRO is working in Kambia District in 3 chiefdoms (Masungbala, Gbinleh and Dixon) supporting poor and vulnerable rural women and youths in sustainable livelihood support. One of the components in the sustainable livelihood support is the establishment of Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) which encourage village/community people to be able to save and invest from their own production. 
However, this was challenged with high illiteracy rate and absence of financial institutions to make available their financial products and services to the grassroots population or community level outside the district headquarter town. At the moment, Kambia has only one Bank, three Micro credit organisations at the district headquarter town and seven Financial Services institutions spread in the chiefdom headquarter towns provided by IFAD. KADDRO intends to tap from knowledge, skills and human resources these institutions have to provide and or extend their financial services and or products to community/grassroots level. KADDRO intends to deepen knowledge through sensitization and education around financial inclusion at all levels (community, section, chiefdom and district levels). At the same time, the project will utilize creative approaches to strengthen linkages between VSLAs and financial institutions that will provide benefits for all stakeholders involved.
Capacity Strengthening Project 2016-2017 The proposed project is designed to continue with the capacity strengthening of Caritas Sierra Leone, using the 2013 Road-Map. The project is borne out of the commitment by the Bishop’s Conference of Sierra Leone, the National Advisory Board, and with support from the Catholic Development Agencies (CDA) partner’

The project will prioritize four (4) out of the seven (7) Road-Map pillars, namely to:
(a)	Establish mechanisms to improve Coordination 
(b)	Harmonization of key management policies 
(c)	Staff training / accompaniment
(d)	Establish mechanism financial sustainability of the National Office
Preventing Maternal Deaths in Rural Sierra Leone CAFOD is committed to supporting the Sisters’ nutrition programme and outreach clinics to help fight against preventable deaths from malnutrition for under 5’s and pregnant women. However, there is still great need to support the core maternal health services that the Handmaids Catholic Clinic and Maternity Centre provides.
This project is intended to provide HMS with basic medical equipment, supplies, and materials to prevent complications and preventable maternal deaths in rural Sierra Leone. 
 The following are key items, which would support the Sisters’ work: 
- PPH kits
-IPC Materials & PPE
-Assorted Medical Supplies (Sutures, Gloves, Syringes, etc.)
-Assorted Medical Equipment (Suctioning Machine, Scanning Machine, Electronic Weighing Scale, Blood Pressure Machine, Oxygen Concentrator, etc.) 
-Delivery Packs
EC-BAFS: Youth Economic Empowerment through Strengthened Vegetable Value Chains in Sierra Leone The action is a response to the call to promote agribusiness and innovative farming in Sierra Leone through the Boosting Agriculture and Food Security (BAFS) project. 

The overall objective will be to provide targeted economic empowerment and resilience strengthening of key rural communities in Port Loko and Kambia Districts in Sierra Leone. The specific objectives will be increased food and income security for medium-scale youth-led farmer groups and enhanced performance of the local and national vegetable value chain. 

The action will contribute to the development of a diversified and efficient agriculture sector that promotes sustainable growth and creates jobs by focusing on economic empowerment of youth through capacity development and job creation in the agricultural sector. At the same time, the initiative will also support the collaboration of Private Sector, Farmers and Non-State Actors in developing economic, social and environmentally sustainable Agriculture Value Chains by contributing towards a vegetable value chain that is economically, environmentally and socially sustainable.
 
The project will target youth, especially young women, in the creation of medium-scale youth-managed farms. In order to ensure that these farms are sustainable, the project will prioritize careful identification and capacity-strengthening of youth, land planning and management, and enhanced coordination among value chain actors. The environmental impact of each farm will be carefully assessed and the most sustainable and profitable methods for production will be prioritized. Technical support on production, marketing and value chain addition will also be provided. The project will facilitate sustainable service provision and will use social media and digital platforms to enhance connections between youth, strengthen information-sharing and access to markets, as well as offer ongoing technical support and financial services, including mobile money and linkages to lenders. 

This is one of two similar projects in Sierra Leone, each with a different partner.
Community resilience to food insecurity & emergency preparedness This project is design in close consultation with key stakeholders within the Masugbala and Gbinleh Dixing chiefdom. Findings where that these communities are underserved and the issues arose where poor access to clean and safe drinking water poor hygiene condition, food and livelihood security, access to land and women and youth participation and inclusion in governance issues.
KADDRO will work through appropriate line ministries and other organisation within the chiefdom to increase community resilience to food insecurity and natural disasters through sustainable livelihood support as one of the implementing partners of CAFOD within the Kambia District
FAMBUL (Fighting Against Malnutrition & Building Up Livelihoods) Project The proposed project will reduce preventable deaths caused by malnutrition amongst children under 5 (CU5s), and pregnant and lactating mothers (PLMs). We will increase the number of people that: have nutritious diets; adequately care for vulnerable groups; and demonstrate improved water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) practices. The project will target 8 communities within two Chiefdoms in Kailahun District, Sierra Leone.
Capacity Strengthening of organisational staff The project is gear towards improving organisational effectiveness and directions, improved understanding on the executing/ implementing technical projects such as WASH and value chain addition on agriculture led projects and improve programme deliverables. Caritas Bo will also focus on reducing duplication of project in communities among agencies through linkages and effective collaboration and work closely with trained community people to enhance ownership, accountability, transparency and project sustainability.