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Climate Resilient Agriculture: transforming livelihoods of 61,570 poor women, men and children Kenya The project will be implement in three year  and aims to achieve improved livelihoods security for 61,570 poor women, men and children from hazard-prone and/or marginalised rural communities in Kitui, Marsabit and Maralal in Kenya, through an integrated approach that: increases the productivity and resilience of agricultural systems; consolidates engagement in markets and diversified income generation; strengthens adaptation to climate change; and increases the ability of local, small scale food producers to access services and influence development practices. 
There are four interrelated project outcomes namely: 1. Small-holder farmer households are using sustainable and agro-ecological practices Kitui- Kenya 2. Small holder farmer households engaging in local markets in Kitui, Marasabit and Maralal - Kenya 3. Communities Kitui, Marasabit and Maralal -Kenya have increased capacity to manage risks 4. Learn and capture the best practice and use to inform and influence climate resilient development policy and practices by CAFOD and partners 
The proposed project fits with the CAFOD East Africa Regional Strategy in that it is an integrated project. In the current strategy integration is the main focus. Additionally, the project focuses on food security that include accessibility, availability, stability and affordability while integrating key components on disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and governance which are core components of the East Africa strategy.  
Poor Women, men and children living in remote and hazard-prone rural areas in Kitui, Marsabit and Maralal - Kenya rely on smallholder agriculture to provide their main source of food or income. Despite macro-economic growth in Kenya communities are unable to maintain a basic standard of living. Poverty is widespread (MDG1), many face food insecurity, and livelihoods are highly dependent on climatic conditions. The most recent research has found that there is high probability that climate change will exacerbate the vulnerability of agricultural systems particularly in regions of Africa, (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2014 5th Report,  in Kenya, prolonged periods of drought are common (National Climate Change Response Strategy, 2010). 
CAFOD has significant experience of working in Kitui, Marsabit and Maralal in these areas there exist clear constrains that hinder people from realising a sustainable livelihood exemplifying the need for the proposed action. These constrains include: Limited adaptation in agricultural systems, Limited livelihood options, Constraints within the market systems, Vulnerability to risk and Limited Voice and Influence.
The project support is from DFID and CAFOD appeal under match Fund III.
Promoting gender equality with church partners Gender inequality in Kenya has mainly been perpetuated by poor policies at both the national level and at the local level, including the Catholic church. Women’s contribution to the economy has been grossly unrecognized, a factor which has led to ineffective development of policies since in actual sense women perform 2/3 of the workload.  

The Catholic Church in Kenya did an evaluation on its Women and Gender Development programme (WGDP) in 2003.The report identified gender mainstreaming as a cross cutting issue in development.  It was realized that there can be no meaningful development without addressing the pressing gender concerns. 

The Kenya Episcopal conference adopted the churh gender policy in November 2011.This landmark policy,though not to the standard of any good gender policy is a pointer of the positive steps that the Catholic church in Kenya is willing to engender its programmes.It is also the first policy of its kind.


The proposal therefore seeks to clearly identify and bridge the gender disparities in understanding and in programme implementation by the Catholic church . Alongside this the proposal seeks to support CARITAS Kenya to push  roll out the  gender policy document for the Kenya Catholic church and to fund CARITAS Kenya to do gender training in three pilot dioceses.

The project shall amongs many other things:-

•	Undertake a gender audit in two dioceses in order to contextualize  and recommend to the church the gaps and opportunities available in each diocese being mindfull of the cultural sensitivities in these dioceses as well as bring out lessons that can move forward the engerndering of projects within our partners as well as allighning to tthe organization’s gender global strategy.
•	To Lobby the Kenya Episcopal conference, through the more open minded Bishops to support CARITAS initiative in rolling out the gender strategy.
•	Support CARITAS Kenya to carry out gender trainings and mentoring in three pilot dioceses in Kenya,carrry out exchange visits,develop a gender audit checklist and carry out women and girls specific trainings.
•	CAFOD to build / strengthen the capacity of its partners on gender as a contribution to gender compliance. 
•	CAFOD, CARITAS and funded partners participate in the 16 days of activism against violence against women for the first time.
•	Have a learning meeting of all the CAFOD gender network meeting in Nairobi to evaluate the mainstreaming of gender amongst partners and within CAFOD.

The initiative has identified Gender, Environment and sustainable Development (GESD) based on its experience of working with the Catholic church on gender issues to help carry out the gender audit and the TOT trainings in the dioceses.
Isiolo Integrated Food security Project Phase II This is phase 2 of the Integrated Food Security Project (IFSP 2) in Isiolo Diocese.  The Project is being implemented in three Locations of Isiolo Subcounty namely: Leparua, Merti and Oldonyiro.   

This community led project for 1,410 rural pastoralists and agro-pastoralists to be implimented over three years by 2021. 

These communities are targeted primarily because of its high vulnerability to socio-economic crises manifested by livelihood and food insecurity and environmental degradation. The project will work through community organised groups including: VSLA groups, crop and livestock farmers and schools in remote locations of Isiolo County. The vulnerable groups to be targeted include female headed households, widows/widowers and people with disabilities (PWDs).

Project Outcomes
Outcome 1: Enhanced livestock production for 540 HH in Merti, Leparua and Oldonyiro 
Outcome 2: Enhanced crop production for 60 HH in Leparua area of Isiolo County
Outcome 3: 810 households in Leparua, Merti and Oldonyiro have access to increased and diversified income sources
Outcome 4: 600 HH practice sustainable management and rehabilitation of land, forest and water sources for strengthened ecosystem

Caritas Isiolo will contribute towards sustainable food security, and integral ecology for poor and vulnerable communities in Isiolo County, Kenya
Enhancing Citizen Participation in Devolved Governance and Conflict Prevention This project aims to assist in advocating national governance and conflict management in Kenya. 

Catholic Justice & Peace Commission (CJPC) as a national office has purposed to use the national level structures of the Bishops and parliamentary liaison desk for national advocacy on governance and conflict management; and diocesan structures for advocacy on county governance and conflict management at the county level.

National office – will focus on capacity strengthening of dioceses in advocacy and technical support, bishops’ capacity strengthening, national inter-religious forums, policy advocacy, and engagement with parliament and county assemblies. 

Some of the key outcomes from cooperating with the CJPC will include ensuring that the poor have an equal voice in the decision making process, both at a local level and national level. As well ensuring that the Church represents the poor effectively at all levels of society and facilitates meaningful relationships with decision makers at all levels.
Diocese of Homa Bay Integrated Food Security Programme In this project CAFOD’s partner Caritas Homa Bay aims to reduce community vulnerability to HIV and AIDS through the promotion of agro-enterprise and income diversification for 6000 households in Homa Bay county.  

According to the National AIDS Control Council survey report (2011) Homa Bay County’s HIV and AIDS profile indicates prevalence of 27.1%, in comparison to a national prevalence of 5.6%.  As a result community members have experienced high child mortality rates; an increase in orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs) and child-headed households; an increase in the number of dependants per guardian; and reduced food production and access to food. 

Despite the high number of NGOs and government agencies intervening in the region, none of them are directly focusing on the food requirements of vulnerable groups. The communities do not have diversified sources of income and are instead confined to limited varieties of staple food crops of maize, beans and sorghum.

In response to these vulnerabilities Caritas Homa Bay plans to establish 60 Agro-Enterprise Development Groups (AEDGs) and 21 young farmer clubs, through which:
- crop diversification and small ruminants will be promoted and increased;
- resource mobilisation skills for the 6000 households through Savings and Internal Lending Communities (SILCs)  and a collective marketing approach will be enhanced.
Building Community Resilience; harnessing traditional Ecological knowledge to combat climate change Inspired by OCH and aligned to Africa framework call to enhance local voice and agency, this project will contribute to two outcomes of the Kenya Resilience programme; 
Outcome 3; Degraded landscapes restored and protected through sustainable land management and providing a stream of ecosystems services 
Outcome 5: Policy and decision makers are actively implementing plans, budget and initiatives that support environment and food security, water  related issues, and livelihoods of women and youth.

Phased in annual plans for three years,  Jesuit Hakimani through this project is seeking to  enhance Voice and Agency of local community in policy dialogue that will lead to understanding impacts of climate change to marginalised and indigenous communities.

Traditional ecological knowledge, has potential to play a central role in both indigenous and non-indigenous climate change initiatives also called climate change local adaptation mechanisms. The detection of environmental changes, the development of strategies to adapt to these changes, and the implementation of sustainable land-management principles are all important climate action items that can be informed by traditional ecological knowledge.
Intention is to  include traditional ecological knowledge as a voice of the local community into climate research, ecological education, resource planning and decision-making processes that should eventually be incorporated, as a local voice & local content into the climate change policy, climate action plans and assessments, and more important for resilience improve adaptation efforts at County, National, and Regional, levels. The two objectives are;
1. Local voices and local content developed to inform training and evidence based advocacy activities  
2. Inclusion of indigenous knowledge and information in local, national and regional policy dialogue and advocacy engagements
Building Community Resilience to Recurrent Droughts in Marsabit The Diocese of Marsabit Project on Building Community Resilience to Recurrent Droughts will be implemented in the districts of Marsabit, Chalbi, Laisamis and Moyale in Northern Kenya. This is a two year project targeting Kargi, Sololo (Walda), Hurri Hills and Dirib Gombo locations that are adversely affected by the impacts of recurrent and prolonged droughts. The project is targeting 5,300 drought-prone men and women living in the target locations.

The Overall goal of the project is to build safer, resilient and sustainable communities in Kargi, Huri Hills, Sololo and Dirib Gombo in Marsabi tin the light of recurrent droughts. The project has three closely interrelated outcomes that include; improved community and partner capacity to effectively engage in drought preparedness and mitigation reduced crop losses due to drought and improved environmental conservation and sustainable management of natural resources. 

The Project will endeavour to promote community participation through establishing a complaints handling mechanism to enable target communities provide feedback on the progress of the proposed project and have project staff responding to their feedback in a constructive manner. The project will also mainstream HIV and AIDS and Gender through having gender considerations factored in during the beneficiary's selection processes and through awareness creation. The development of this project has been closely informed by a two year DRR pilot project that was implemented in the Diocese of Marsabit in 2009 to 2011. During the implementation of the pilot project, the Diocese of Marsabit realised the benefit of investing in DRR activities rather than focusing purely on emergency intervention programmes as far as reducing disaster losses and safeguarding the development gains realised through development programming.
Justice actors as catalysts for change CAFOD led activities This a complemntary project that will employ the use  of GIS mapping for advocacy. It will complement ongoing advocacy work and peace building work in the diocese of Marsabit and Maralal in Kenya and diocese of Soroti through the National Commission for Justice and Peace in Uganda. It will provide realtime evidence for action by citizens and governments.
Laudato Si Workshops (Nairobi) Follow Up workshops with Country Reps and CAFOD partners to give opportunity to explore how CAFOD can apply the message of Laudato Si through its work and how our work can develop to embody the encyclical.
Maralal Diocese Drought Assistance Project This is a 3 month emergency programme that aims to provide immediate life saving support to affected pastoral and agro pastoral households in Maralal District.  The project will prevent people from having to sell essential assets to buy extra food and drugs. The project will primarily be implemented in 4 villages of Ngilai, Bendera, Logetei and Nachola in Baragoi division. The project will be linked with a two year DRR programme whose purpose will be to build the resilience of the local communities to future droughts and related hazards.

These areas are inhabited by the Turkana, Samburu and Pokot pastoralists groups who have raided each other for years creating tensions and displacements that have never healed with time. Recurrent cattle raiding between these communities has left the communities living in fear and destituted and chronically reliant on food. The Project is based on preliminary proposals submitted to CAFOD by The Diocese of Maralal Development office to protect the most vulnerable people. The project aims to support complement and strengthen the ongoing livelihoods and Disaster Risk Reduction work already underway in the affected pastoral and agro-pastoral zones. This proposal entails providing support in the following areas; 

•	Provision of emergency water systems to communities affected by drought and without any form of water supplies to survive on.
•	Provision of take home food rations for children leaving the supplementary feeding programmes.	
The project aims to provide direct support to an estimated 1,500 people who will receive a food ration plus 3000 people will benefits from emergency water supplies over a 3 month period. Indirectly, the population to benefit is estimated at 8,432 people.
Drought Response in Isiolo, 2006 This project will build upon the immediate drought response work undertaken by these Diocese Development Teams between March and July 06.  The purpose of this project is to improve food security and reduce malnutrition and morbidity of at least 18,000 in Isiolo and Kitui districts through the provision of supplementary food to the most vulnerable population, through the provision of essential medicines to health facilities, through the provision of livestock support services and through improving access to water for 6 months
Isiolo HCD project 2015 A CAFOD will support Diocese of Isiolo through provision of grant to develop a new strategic Plan and establish a consolidated HR manual.  Diocese of Isiolo will develop these documents through consulting with staff, organisational management and ensuring activate participation of all stakeholders.  It is expected that this process will improve relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders, build teamwork, bring coherence to different projects and parts of the organisation, ensuring they are pulling together.
Kenya 2017 Drought Emergency Response in Marsabit and West Pokot Counties Kenya is facing a severe drought, which is because of failed rains in MAM and OCD long and short rains, respectively. On 10 February 2017, the Government declared a national drought emergency, with 23 of 47 counties affected. The number of food insecure people more than doubled – from 1.3 million to 2.7 million and then 3.0 million people in March. Marsabit( Marsabit diocese) and West Pokot(Kitale diocese) counties are among the worst affected 

Water access and availability has been adversely affected in these areas, with populations having to go through longer walking distances to the scarce water points, since the water points are also drying up, as well as very long waiting times. In Marsabit, for example, the major sources of water for livestock currently is boreholes, which was not normal at this time of the year as the main source is usually water pans. In some places, such as Moyale, Kalacha, Dukana and Gatab shallow wells, water pans and springs were being used. The return trekking distances from grazing areas to water points is 50-70 kilometres for camels, 20-30 kilometres for cattle and 15-25 kilometres for small stock in agro pastoral and pastoral livelihood zones (KFSSG , 2017).

Humanitarian interventions by the Government of Kenya, at both the national and county-level, as well as by other development partners, across various parts of the pastoral and marginal agricultural areas, are likely mitigating the severity of acute food insecurity outcomes. However, insufficient and uncoordinated response efforts to date, in some areas, and lack of clarity on numbers of planned beneficiaries and coverage areas, make it difficult to assess the impacts of the humanitarian assistance and future. FEWSNET has projected that without adequate and sustained humanitarian assistance, more poor households could face Emergency (IPC Phase 4) outcomes between the dry period of July and September, particularly in Marsabit.
In response to the appeal by Caritas international, CAFOD will contribute £50,000 to Caritas Kenya as part of the intervention in Marsabit and West Pokot Counties.
Organisational Capacity Strengthening Project Following recent expansion, Caritas Kenya seeks to achieve the following in this one-year capacity-strengthening project: 
1. Enhance its capacity to undertake its coordination, facilitation and representation roles, through: developing a 10-Year strategic plan; staff skills development; Caritas ‘brand’ development (website design; and management, visibility material development, etc.) and purchasing office equipment.
2. Improve coordination, information sharing and learning among diocesan Caritas offices and Caritas International member organisations, through meetings and forums at country and diocesan level. 
3. Improve the capacity of selected diocesan Caritas offices to deliver quality services in social development through such  training measures as: national workshop on local resource mobilization and business model building; solidarity visits to diocesan Caritas offices and staff skills development on identified training needs.
CDMu Sustainable Agriculture Project (i)	To provide funds, training, agricultural and management inputs to farmers that will allow poor and marginalized persons (mainly female headed households) to carry out sustainable agriculture. Production of a variety of crops will help each beneficiary household to improve its nutrition while surplus yields will be sold to earn some cash income.

(ii)	To provide credit for business, training and management of crop husbandry to poor farmers, particularly women. This will help to improve and increase food production and will address food insecurity.

(iii)	To provide credit for the purchase of water pumps in order to promote micro-irrigation in some parts of Maragua District. This will help to increase food production, improve household income and food security.

(iv)	To restore and maintain the fertility of soils on participating farms by engaging in soil conservation and water retention activities

(v)	To assist some farmers to add value to primary products and engage in small-scale agro-enterprise.

(vi)	To develop the capability of the Diocese Development Office (DDO) by improving staff capacities in order to help meet the programme planning, implementation and management challenges of the Diocese now and in the years to come.

(vii)	To equip the development office with one vehicle, two motor cycles and basic office equipment.
Conflict Prevention and a Peaceful Election in 2012/13 Kenya has been on a recovery path from experience of election  violence experienced. As set in Agenda four,  the  reform processes has  realized  new laws passed  in the  form  of  a new  constitution. The  major  setback is continued citizenry and voter apathy, lack of strong public engagement in the Constitution  implementation processes and subsequent political processes  including  upcoming elections - this has become the major challenge in Kenya. The  processes is further complicated by new electoral laws and electoral reforms as Kenya moves closer to the next general elections.  The passivity of citizens will impact negatively on electoral reforms and validation  of the election results.  

Citizens and political  aspirants are gearing up for elections based on the  county  system. As a result some  counties are polarized as ethnic identity and  perceptions are playing a major role in the  quest  for county leadership and political positions. This is an indication of  high possibility of  violence.  

The  project is focusing on  these strategic areas  in view of  supporting  free and fair elections;
-	Stronger public engagement in political  processes  towards  2012/13  elections 
-	Working towards   peaceful  elections processes  with an acceptable  outcome in 2012/13 

Governance and Democracy Programme within Catholic Justice and Peace Commission will anchor the project. The project will be carried out in six  dioceses  of Marsabit, Isiolo, Maralal, Mombasa and Malindi for community based activities. Some of the activities will include carrying out intensive civil campaigns, development of a simplified version for Constitutional Education during diocesan workshops and disseminating this information throughout the established church structures and communities. Election oberservers  will be  trained and a monitoring  report  shared  with  stakeholders. This is a twelve month project from May 2012 to May 2013.