devinitorg/iati-policy-markers huggingface dataset:
Accompanying MF formed and trained water committees and women associations to a sustainable resilien Small loans to women, when combined with social services such as water supply to the community, and key social development message, improve the well – being of borrowers’ children- particularly girls. CAFOD funded BDD Bukavu to provide water to 29 communities in South Kivu and AVUDES implemented a component of the project aimed at empowering women through microcredit. Such credit enabled women to make economic decisions and help increase family income. The project also worked on improving latrines in schools as the lack of single-gender sanitation facilities in schools results in low levels of attendance among girls, perpetuating cycles of gender inequality and poverty.  
The Much Fund project that supported 8 of our partners and worked in 113 villages (109 villages and 4 larger centres), will be ending soon. The programme was a great success and it impacts has been a subject of Bishops talks and we have received many complements from communities and political leaders. Some critical components of the project have been completed particularly those related to women empowerment. 
The present project is a “bridge funding” to allow our partners to operate for one more year while we continue
looking for other opportunities. Although the project was focused on water supplies for communities, microfinance was a suitable way for those who could not afford to invest in expensive but higher quality water and sanitation systems.
This was the case of low-income neighbourhood were AVUDS established savings-microcredit initiative for household management of domestic waste and the development of household sanitation facilities. AVUDS agreed to finance the initial 70% required to start up the credit system. The interest rate was set to cover the administrative costs. No securities to back up the loan were required, as the population did not have the resources to meet such requirements. The current project will follow 24 associations and 11 water committees in KALEHE for sustainable continuations before funds become available for next year continuation.
Supporting Goma diocese Youths’ Forum for Peace and Peaceful Coexistence The Great Lakes sub region continues to remain a post-conflict zone where peace is extremely fragile and war is not completely ruled out. Many youths are faced unemployment and are exploited by political leaders. Others are recruited into armed group and this increase harm in most disadvantaged communities in North-Kivu Province.  
Supporting this project dealing with youth’s from Goma and neighbouring dioceses expects to increase youth’s awareness, to reduce ethnic and political manipulation as well as hatred between cross-border communities in nonviolent way. DRC is running to general election in 2017 and there is an increased risk of spontaneous political demonstrations as well as risks of violent clashes due to lack of electoral process.  
This diocesan youth’ forum seeks to emphasis reduction of youth’s political manipulation, consolidating youth’s peacebuilding and conflicts awareness and supporting their civic engagement. The project plans to organize open space and workshops on topics related to Peacebuilding in the sub region. It also plans to strengthen youth’s capacities on democratic engagement and civic responsibilities to prevent escalation of incidents on electoral process in Goma Diocese. To reach its objectives, the project will sensitize youths, strengthen their communication and dialog mechanisms, build relationships focused on peace and reconciliation values, train on setting up and operationalising small business as key element of entrepreneurship. Faith leaders and key persons from local civil society and officials will mentor, share experiences and best practices with youths. Project plans also to organise youth’ socio-cultural peace exhibition that will be relayed by public media for a deep awareness.  Project activities will be cofounded by Goma Diocese. 
This project will be implemented by CDJP Goma' staff and “Maison des Jeunes” 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 youth forum for peace will be held in Goma and will bring together about 15000 youths from all Goma Diocese, Bukavu, Uvira, Rwanda and Burundi.
Complementary project of Reinforcement of ex combattant’s development commettees in Bukavu Diocese CAFOD and its partner, Caritas Bukavu, initiated a programme to support the socio economic reinsertion of former child soldier and ex combatants in South Kivu in April. The programme is multispectral and giving returning youth an accelerated skills training and livelihoods assistance and preventing many from joining rebel groups (see DRC 245). The overall budget for the project was 241,671.02 USD and CAFOD covered 161,671.02 USD from its core funds. Caritas Australia liked the project and added 80,000.00USD to the overall budget. These additional funds were asked to cover more ex combatants and reinforce the peacebuilding component of the project.
Activities funded may be summuarized as:
 - Sensitization of 5 communities and local authorities via communications channels available and adapted (media,  dramas, mobile video, radio magazine,…)
 - Train 100 community leaders on peace building, conflict resolution;
 - Train Ex combatants on peace building,conflict resolution, citizenship and governance;
 - Exchange visit in a province where community based conflict resolution is successful;
- Training on Non-violence;·     
- Training on the functioning of judicial institutions and systems·     
- Organize and structure development groups;·     
- Avail needed resources to the groups for their activities·     
Organise courses on practices on IGAs and micro credit, on themanagement and organization development groups, on the Prevention and Control against HIV / AIDS, on Sexual Violence, on Gender and Accountability;
To atteign 700 ex combatant within 140 members from communities directly, this project will cover 235 more ex combattants and members from communities.
Each community is committed to contribute with peer sensitization and information sharing. Engage in non discrimination and peaceful cohabitation. By themself, they had started this process by this need to be extended and improved. Ex combatant need employment which is not available within their respective community
Promoting CENCO's commitment to protect the Congo Basin The project is designed to strengthen the bishops' capacities in the field of the environment and natural resources in order to facilitate their advocacy for protecting the common home. This capacity strengthening will provide the bishop members of CENCO with the tools to mobilise their different diocesan structures for responsible citizen actions with regard to the environment and natural resources, and will also enable the bishops to consolidate their advocacy role for securing the Congo Basin and the Common House. 
The commitment of the Church, especially of CENCO, in the field of the environment and natural resources is based on the social doctrine of the Church and the Magisterium, on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, on international agreements, and on the DRC constitution and laws. The Church, constituted by citizens, has the full right and the imperious duty to contribute. This can only be done in a relevant way by sharpening the individual and collective conscience through knowledge of faith, law, science, technology, realities and shared experience. This is the reason for this special Plenary Assembly to be held at the top of the DRC church and which is in line with the Paris Agreement affirming the importance of education, training, awareness raising, public participation, public access to information and cooperation at all levels on the issues discussed in the Agreement.
This project will be held in Kinshasa and will target all the Bishops members of CENCO, the General Secretaries of CENCO and ACEAC, the Executive Secretaries of the Episcopal Commissions, the Director of the OPM, the members of USUMA-ASUMA and UCC-IPCM, the Director of the Liaison Office with the Parliament, the Secretaries of the Provincial Episcopal Assemblies, the focal points of the CDRNs at the level of the Ecclesiastical Provinces as well as the support team.
Management and Development of Rape Crisis Centres (CDJP Bukavu) 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.
Humanitarian assistance to 400 households expelled from Brazzaville It is from April 5, 2014, the Republic of Congo Brazzaville began to expel these Congolese from Democratic Republic of
Congo on its soil. These operations named in Lingala "Mbata ya  Mokolo is" understood as the "Slap a stronger than himself," according to the official version of the authorities of the Republic of Congo Brazzaville, were initially referred all
foreign persons in irregular and those involved in acts of delinquency or criminality. 
But following the passionate involvement in operations by groups of people excited, the situation escalated and expulsions
that spread throughout the territory of the Republic of Congo / Brazzaville, began to specifically target nationals the DRC. Expelled are from the following provinces: Kinshasa, Equateur, Bas-Congo, Bandundu and, to a lesser extent
Katanga, Kivu and Province Orientale. 
Faced with this situation, many Congolese from DRC decided to voluntarily leave the Republic of Congo, to avoid humiliation
and bullying, stress waiving their rights. 

In among those expelled, dated Monday, May 5, 2014, a total 71,407 compatriot were expelled from Congo / Brazzaville by Beach  Ngobila Kinshasa including: 
• 23,989 men 
• 17,965 women, 
• 29,453 children
Strengthening gender mainstreaming for partners in the diocese of Bukavu The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), in the heart of Africa, has endured more than a century of exploitation and the deadliest conflict since World War II. Caritas Australia’s programs in the DRC focus on woman and girl survivors of rape and sexual violence, child soldiers, and communities affected by conflict.  Our three programs together cover issues including HIV and AIDS, healthcare, protection and psychosocial support, microfinance, agriculture and emergency response.

Caritas Australia is currently working with CAFOD to support partners in the DR Congo who have had varying levels of experience in gender mainstreaming. 

Gender-based violence, especially threats directed at women such as sexual and domestic violence, remain a serious regional security concern. In the North and South Kivu Province, violence against women is prevalent. The lack of services for survivors, the lack of preventative measures and the linkages between violence and the spread of HIV and AIDS and other health and social issues, make the issue of violence against women and girls a human security concern within the region. 

In addition, the lack of effective responses by law enforcement officials and lack of adequate police treatment of victims is a contributing factor to the re-victimization and subsequently underreporting of violence against women and girls, in turn leading to decreased rate of apprehension and conviction of offenders.

This training in gender mainstreaming will strengthen the understanding of staff from Caritas Bukavu, CDJP Bukavu and Centre Olame in gender mainstreaming and build their capacity to mainstream gender in the project cycle as well as give them necessary skills that will help them be more effective in communicating about gender equality and play a role in advocating for much needed change
Emergency support on shelters to 250 households affected by torrential rains of  November 2012 in Du Since several years, cities of Dungu and Niangara face cyclic flooding every 7 to 10 years or in sporadic intervals. These floods often occur between the months of September and November. Dungu has seen its biggest flood in 1977, 1986, 1992, 1999 and 2002. The last flood in Niangara was in 2007.
Whenever there is the flooding, there has been considerable damage including population displacement, loss of shelter and NFI and loss of fields and gardens; all wells and sources of water contaminated.

Very often, these floods are each followed by the increase of malaria cases, diarrhoea and other epidemic diseases with potential increased mortality.

These days, torrential rains were recorded in the two cities and surrounding villages such as Mungere, Mbengu, Kungbe, Gbaga, Tundulu, Makilingbo and other downstream of Niangara. In the week of 11 to 17 September 2011, humanitarian agencies reported that more than fifty households were flooded neighbourhood of Uye river, forcing their occupants to move, while the rain still continued to fall in abundance.

According to local authorities and humanitarian community, 1/3 of people living in Dungu and Nyangara could be affected by these floods (approximately 85,000 people).

Worrying about this situation, the humanitarian community of the two Districts (Haut Uele and Bas Uele) has developed a contingency plan to be able to cope with this new threat; and in connection with this plan, it was asked to Caritas Dungu, to advocate for a support on shelters in favour of the affected households.

It is in this context that this project has been developed as a contribution of CAFOD in the effort to the construction and rehabilitation of at least 250 emergency shelters for the families in distress in Dungu centre.

This contribution will support the beneficiaries, victims flood, with sticks and other local materials, to enable them to build new shelters in the safest places identified by local authorities.
Field-level conflict analysies by church partners- Caritas Bukavu Diocese To monitor, analyse and report on field-level conflict indicators, so that data on the progress of peace and reconciliation in South Kivu can be made available to EU, UK government and CAFOD policy makers.
Councils house and Improvement of socio-economic living conditions of women and their households Since March 2006, that the Archbishop of Bukavu is supporting the socio-therapeutic approach to help communities to open up, especially women to be able to create spaces of discussion to raise the living conditions of the woman and the girl in the households. In the previous project, counselling homes were therefore supported in some places, and was limited in the area of sexual violence, while the lack of opportunity for economic recovery increased the vulnerability and poverty of victims of sexual violence.
In a continuation perspective, the project aim to contribute to emotional and economic rehabilitation of women and their families surviving of all kinds conflicts and help them develop a system of resilience through the approach of sociotherapy in counselling homes in 30 parishes covering the 5 territories plus the city of Bukavu, especially (Kabare, Walungu, Kalehe, Idjwi and Mwenga). This 1-year project run from August 2018 to July 2019.

At the end of this project, the women and young women who have been abused and who have had psycho-social therapy in 30 councils house, participate again in daily activities in the household and in the community. 900 conscientious men will become trainers of other men to combat the negative effects of abuse against women, in order to advocate for the rights of women / girls and the importance of ensuring their protection.

The implementing partner, Centre Olame, intervenes in all 40 parishes of the Bukavu archdiocese which cover 5 territories out of 8 plus the city of Bukavu. The CO is a sector Diocesan Development Office. Created since 1959, its mission is to coordinate the activities of the Women and Family in the Diocese of Bukavu. It supports the efforts of access to goods being of both rural and urban grace and income generating activities for the women and family well being. 
This project contribute to CAFOD strategic vision to end violence against women and strengthen the economic justice to fight poverty.
Shifting the Power: strengthening the humanitarian and leadership capacity of CEPROSSAN The need to strengthening local capacities in humanitarian response in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is crucial as local NGOs are usually the first responders in a crisis. DRC has been beset by multiple security crises subjecting civilians to extremely high level of violence and prompting large-scale and frequent population displacements. Moreover, there is adequate civil society space in DRC but humanitarian response have been lead and managed by international organizations. On one hand this is due to the logistical difficulties of the country and on the other hand, local organizations have been labelled as having poor management, systems, corruption, etc. The consequence is that INGOs have, in many instance, undermine existing capacities. Shifting the power Project in DRC aims at strengthening the humanitarian and leadership capacities of 11 local actors and so to be able to play a crucial role within the current humanitarian architecture in DRC. From the capacity self-assessment and the SWOT analysis undertaken with Ceprossan,  the organisation has elaborated a one year capacity strengthening plan with 4 objectives and 13 activities focus on leadership, influence and preparedness and response.
Supporting the ecological conversion, governance and peace programme in the DRC This innovative and integrated project is among the first steps in attempting to champion the ecological conversion even in our soft results programs. This project will be championed by the youth with aim to strengthen governance, peace and the environmental protection in Goma, North Kivu. The project aims to empower young people to address tensions, manipulation, and political and ethnic exploitation in a non-violent way by promoting peace and responsible citizenship through sport, arts performance, music and civic education. 
The project also aims to contribute to community-based environmental education, disaster preparedness (more related to environment), risk and climate change activities in a multi-stakeholder approach. The project will directly engage with local university, the authorities, and the local population in the framework of inclusive environmental governance. The project also aims to foster innovative creative expression among young people to protect the environment, and to strengthen the creative skills of young people to preserve our planet earth through innovative artistic and cultural creations.
This project will also attempt support small initiatives from the youth related to peace building, environmental protection, and civic engagement using new information and communication technologies.
Protection and re-integration of ex-combatants in the diocese of Bukavu, DRC This project is a continuation of an already started initiative. It aims to strengthen peace dynamics by supporting associations of ex-combatants engaged in income-generating activities in order to ensure their holistic community reintegration. The project will contribute to peaceful coexistence between ex-combatants and their host communities in Kabare, Kalehe, Walungu and Idjwiainsi and Bukavu in South Kivu province in DR Congo. 
In concrete terms, this project will support 32 associations of ex-combatants that is geared toward giving them a livelihood alternative and thus discourage them from joining back the negative forces. This support goes from their structuring into development associations to the strengthening of their income-generating activities by ensuring the clearance of all legal formalities in regard to the association legal status, the elaboration of the association’s internal policy, the granting of micro credit to the members, capacity building through training in the field of peacebuilding, and financial management support and advice.

Caritas Bukavu is a diocesan service with a social vocation with a preferential outlook focused on the poor, the poor and the vulnerable. It carries out humanitarian and sustainable development programs throughout the constituency of the Archdiocese of Bukavu around a radius that covers 36 parishes. Caritas Bukavu has already implemented similar projects with funding from CAFOD, which indicates its ability to implement the project.
This project may have an impact on the protection problems that arise in the area, especially those based on gender that are being fought through the CAFOD project through recovery, the protection of victims of violence sexual relations and peacebuilding implemented by the Diocesan Justice and Peace Commission (CDJP / Bukavu).
As a result, this project contributes to CAFOD's goal and mission of promoting the development of the marginalized person.
Shifting the Power: strengthening leadership capacity of Caritas Congo The need to strengthening local capacities in humanitarian response in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is crucial as local NGOs are usually the first responders in a crisis. DRC has been beset by multiple security crises subjecting civilians to extremely high level of violence and prompting large-scale and frequent population displacements. Moreover, there is adequate civil society space in DRC but humanitarian response have been lead and managed by international organizations. On one hand this is due to the logistical difficulties of the country and on the other hand, local organizations have been labelled as having poor management, systems, corruption, etc. The consequence is that INGOs have, in many instance, undermine existing capacities. The 'Shifting the Power' project in DRC aims at strengthening the humanitarian and leadership capacities of 11 local actors and so to be able to play a crucial role within the current humanitarian architecture in DRC. From the capacity self-assessment undertaken with  Caritas Congo , the organisation has elaborated a one year capacity strengthening plan with 5 objectives and 13 activities focus on leadership, influence and preparedness and response
Promoting demogracy and gender perspectives in governance structures CEJP is the national commission for peace and justice. Its coordination office is located in Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of Congo. CEJP coordinates the actions of all the 47 CDJP scattered throughout the country.  CAFOD has worked in partnership with CEJP to implement a five year governance programme that has been a success. The current project will build on the successes of the previous program to promote gender components within the government framework and to lead advocacy reforms on various governance issues at all levels. The major aim behind this project is to promote gender equity in governance structures and encourage the emergence of female leadership at all levels while engaging and promoting social dialogue for good governance, accountability, equal representation and service delivery thus uplift the citizens’ living standards.