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Rural Development Project - Pastoral Land Commission, Rondônia This project in the Western state of Rondônia located in the Amazon works to build the technical and practical capacity of rural families to manage their land - through experimentation and the application of agro-ecological practices and methods. The families receive training from specialist technicians in environmentally sustainable farming techniques. Their land is assessed and following meetings between families and technicians work begins to increase their agricultural production with the final aim of making them self-sufficient. The focus is on families working together because this will lay foundations for collective planning and production, thus strengthening the sustainable livelihoods of the entire community. 

The project also involves setting up an "information bank" which will provide both agricultural technicians and rural families with information on the research and practice of agro-ecological techniques, and in addition a "seed bank" that will protect and preserve the biodiversity of the region and promote the use of local natural resources.
Emergency Support for the Indigenous People of Roraima Against COVID-19 Over 514,992 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Brazil, making it the country with the 2nd highest number of infections in the world. Over 206,000 people have recovered from the disease and over 29,000 people have died. As only half a million tests have been carried out, scientists estimate these numbers to be under-estimated by a factor of 15, meaning that 5.6 million infections and 345,000 deaths likely. The Amazon region has been particularly badly hit, with health infrastructure being completely overwhelmed by the end of April 2020. There have been grave concerns for the survival of indigenous communities, and campaigners have declared that unless action is taken, we will witness a genocide.

This project will have two lines of action. Firstly, ISA will support two ethnic groups to self-isolate in the forest for up to 3 months to protect themselves against the spread of COVID 19. These groups are the Wai Wai and the Yanomami.  The Yanomami will remain in the forest for two to three months living off forest food and fishing plus some processed food (which will be provided by ISA) to secure basic nutrition. The Wai Wai families will travel to areas in the forest where they usually harvest Brazil nuts (the harvest runs from the end of May until August). This will provide them with additional livelihoods options, post-pandemic. The third group to benefit from this project are Macuxi, Wapichana and Taurepang people with support going to acquisition of COVID tests and PPE to indigenous communities based in Eastern Roraima who have constructed sanitary barriers at the exit and entrance of communities.  The other line of action is to carry on providing accurate information about the Covid to the communities and ensuring information from the communities are reported to the authorities (FUNAI and SESAI) in case of COVID infection and threats such as illegal mining and logging in their territories.
Urban Programme: New Media and Youth Engagement The Urban Programme aims to improve housing and basic services for families living in the shanty towns and tenements of São Paulo, through advocacy, campaigning and grassroots capacity building with a particular focus on women and young people. 

Young people have traditionally been “early adopters” of technology. CAFOD has been conversing with the UP coordinators over the past two years about how best to take advantage of these trends. In squatter communities, people are very present on Orkut – the largest social network in Brazil, and spontaneously share videos and experiences in their lives as squatters. Social media is a way of linking beneficiaries and implementers, and creating an organic sense of accountability between our partners and those they work with and serve.   During visits in the first two years of the programme, there was recognition by all in the UP of the need to change their approach to and develop more innovative ways of engaging young people in the UP and in the fight for social inclusion. We feel that the use of new media could be a cost effective way to engage young people and will have more impact by reaching a larger audience.

Objectives:
1.	Empowered youth in the Programme see themselves as the drivers of change and source of renewal for the housing movement – concerns and issues of youth beneficiaries are expressed so that the UP can be more accountable to them
2.	Increased profile of the Programme and the issues it addresses in relation to the major media and the middle class, enabling the Programme to achieve greater policy influence
3.	The benefits of better communication and sharing of experience between UP partners – facilitated by horizontal linking of partner representatives and their activists using social media
4.	Integration and improvement of online presence of the Urban Programme and its various partners and beneficiaries.
BRA-06-02- Administration Costs- (EC funded) Urban Programme This EC funded Urban Community Development programme aims to improve the quality of housing and basic services for low-income families, (in particular female and youth headed households) living in the shanty towns and tenement blocks of Sao Paulo, Brazil’s largest city.   
To do this, it will use three strategies: advocacy, campaigning and capacity building at the grassroots. The three programmatic lines of the programme are as follows:
a)	Guarantee urban public policy for housing that will benefit low income families. This will be done through the monitoring of public housing policy and programmes, raising awareness of the situation of low income populations in Sao Paulo and strengthening local community networks, as well as civil society networks at the national and international level. 
b)	Increase the participation of women and young people( who live in the Favelas and poor areas of the city) in community groups and in spaces of consultation and decision making forums on urban issues ( associations etc).
c)	Increase the capacity and impact of local organisations in the defence of the right to housing. This includes training the 3 partner organisations in various areas, such as financial management and programme planning and monitoring, so that they are better able to carry out their work, increase their impact and promote a more democratic, just and participatory city.
Urban Programme WASH - Gender and Basic Sanitation in Urban Favelas This project aims to address the lack of basic sanitation in favelas in São Paulo, Brazil.

The Urban Livelihoods programme aims to improve access to housing and basic services, including sanitation, for poor and disadvantaged families living in the shanty towns, illegal settlements and derelict tenement blocks and on the streets of São Paulo, Brazil’s largest city, whilst also tackling the impacts of climate change on the city’s poorest. 

This new project will specifically address the lack of access to basic sanitation in city peripheries and favelas (shantytowns) where the poorest men and women live. Vast inequality and the gap between rich and poor in Brazil is reflected in huge variations in access to water and sanitation, which disproportionately affects low-income women and female-headed households. 

This project will benefit low-income families, who will increase their participation in decision-making spaces and their capacity for community-based advocacy to access improvements in basic sanitation and better socio-environmental and living conditions. Women, often heads of poorer households, will be particularly targeted and supported to ensure their views, leadership and contributions in basic sanitation policies via participation in community organisations and public decision-making councils.
Urban Programme: a fair, inclusive and sustainable city - 2017-23: Semeando The Urban programme aim is to contribute to an inclusive city through capacity strengthening and training of local grassroots housing rights' and neighbourhood organisations in São Paulo in order to improve the living conditions of homeless families and families living in precarious and unsecure housing reducing their vulnerability to social and environmental risks. The specific aim of the programme is to consolidate the capacity of partners to support local organisations to defend pro-poor urban policies, participate in spaces of decision-making and carry out community-level training and capacity building on housing and related rights, and to protect housing rights defenders from persecution. This is the 3rd cycle of the Urban Programme in São Paulo. The expected results are for Semeando (1) Capacity of 45 local organisations to accompany constituents to monitor and participate in urban planning processes, manage security risks related to their work, and protect the space to participate is built (2) Increased advocacy and networking capacity of housing groups to defend pro-poor urban policies (3) Public debate influenced through targeted and strategic communication with new and existing audiences (4) Increased institutional capacity of partners and local organisations.
CIR - Bringing clean and safe water to indigenous people in the Amazon region, Brazil The aim of this project is to guarantee clean drinking water and water for agricultural production for 8 indigenous communities located in the indigenous territory, Raposa Serra do Sol, in the state of Roraima, in the Northern Brazilian Amazon. It will drill a new artesian well within the indigenous community of Sao Francisco, and thoroughly clean seven polluted wells within the surrounding communities, where the water quality has become too poor for household and agricultural use. The artesian well will be deeper than the home-made style wells typical of the region, and can reach deeper water sources throughout the year, meaning that it is more resistant to droughts. These new and rehabilitated wells will bring safe, sustainable sources of clean water to families living in these communities, improving their health and allowing them to use the water to make a living (such as maintaining small-holdings, agricultural development and raising livestock). 

The need for a new well in Sao Francisco has been identified through consultations between the community and CIR, as the current well is so deteriorated that it no longer fully functions to provide clean and consistent water throughout the year. Communities have reported cases of diarrhoea, kidney problems, and without clean water to guarantee basic hygiene, this is increasing risks of COVID-19 transmission within these communities. Children have also been adversely affected by these problems. Communities’ crops of corn, beans and cassava have been affected by the lack of water during the extremely dry summer period. To guarantee consistent water sources for subsistence farming would also prevent communities from traveling to the big cities risking further COVID transmission during the pandemic.
Administration and economic justice programme support The Economic Justice Programme focuses primarily on the issues of Debt, Social Rights and the Social Securirty System. Special attention is given to defending the social rights contained within the Brazilian Constitution, combating electoral corruption, carrying out the social audits of the debt and building leadership capacity in social movements across Brazil and Latin America.

The programme is implemented by CAFOD and four Brazilian partners experienced in education, campaigning and advocacy and with strong Church links. The implementing organisations include the Social Comission (Pastoral Social) of the Bishops' Conference, the Justice and Peace Comission, Jubilee South/Brazil and the Cry of the Excluded.

A first meeting took place between CAFOD and these partners in 2003 with a view towards strengthening networking and facilitating lesson sharing. Further partner meetings were held in 2004, 2005 and 2006 with the issue of debt and social rights identified by partners as the basis for collective campaigning and advocacy work in the coming three years, 2007-2009. The Economic Justice Programme follows on from the church programme (2004-2006) which involved the same partners.
Pastoral da Aids- Engaging the Catholic Church in the Fight against HIV and Aids This project aims to contribute to combating the AIDS epidemic through building the capacity of pastoral agents to undertake prevention interventions and education that reduce the level of new infections, to provide care and accompaniment of people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHAs), and to play an active role in influencing policy on HIV and AIDS in Brazil and improve access to public services and social rights.

Officially created in 2002, Pastoral da AIDS is a service organisation affiliated to the Brazilian Bishops Conference of the Catholic Church. Its aim is the reduction of the HIV and AIDS epidemic by engaging the local community in the struggle. Its chief areas of activity are: prevention, advocacy and campaigning, capacity strengthening, counselling, accompaniment and care of PLWHAs.

Pastoral da AIDS works on two levels: ensuring a consistent proactive response to the epidemic from the Church leadership and involving the broader communities fully in their work. It has its roots in voluntary work and relies upon this strong network of volunteers who work within the structures of the Catholic Church. At present, 3,000 volunteers working in 75 dioceses are engaged in capacity strengthening activities in the areas of preventive education, accompaniment of people living with HIV and AIDS and social accountability. More than 20,000 people living with HIV and AIDS are indirectly being benefited from home and hospital visits, and care and accompaniment by drop in and support centres linked to Pastoral da AIDS.
Urban Programme: a fair, inclusive and sustainable city - 2017-23 - MDF Over 2 million people in São Paulo live in unsafe and insecure housing in São Paulo. Many of these live in informal settlements or 'favelas' in overcrowded, poorly built dwellings, often located on marginal land, which lack basic infrastructure such as sanitation, street paving, electricity and are located far from jobs, health and education services, where they are risk from eviction, fires, vector-borne disease outbreaks, and increasingly due to climate change, flash-flooding and landslides. 
 
This project will improve the living conditions in 32 favelas (area of precarious and insecure housing), home to 14,000 families, in eastern São Paulo (Vila Prudente, Sapopemba, São Mateus, Jardim Iguatemi); by reducing vulnerability to social and environmental risks and engaging leaders in initiatives to regenerate the local environment. This will take place by strengthening the technical and organisational capacity of local grassroots leaders and neighbourhood organisations to: understand and monitor urban housing and environmental policies and budgets, dialogue with local authorities to enable the poorest access to land tenure formalisation, reduce environmental risks, decent housing, sanitation and essential urban services, work effectively with each other and other organisations for common goals, and shape policy-making to encompass local sustainable solutions to urban environmental problems. This will take place through trainings and capacity building of local neighbourhood groups, brokering and accompaniment of dialogue with local authorities, technical support to develop community environmental initiatives and networking with other groups with similar aims.
Indigenous Support Programme External Evaluation. The Indigenous Support Programme (ISP) was created in 2004 to guarantee indigenous rights to land use and demarcation, health, bi-lingual education and cultural preservation in the face of ineffective public policy implementation, the emerging threats of legal amendments that will adversely affect indigenous rights, the encroachment of indigenous lands by large-scale projects, and increasing changes in weather patterns due to climate change. 
CAFOD set up this programme with several organizations supporting them financially and technically. At each of its 3 year cycle, the program defined common work objectives.
Throughout its existence, diverse factors influenced the composition of the Program, with the entry and exit of organisations.
CAFOD set up the Several organisations supported financially and technically by CAFOD made up the ISP. At present, the ISP is made up of 4 organisations: Indigenous Council of Roraima (CIR), Indigenous Missionary Council - Prelature of Tefé (CIMI-Tefé), Hutukara Yanomami Association (HAY) and Socio-environmental Institute (ISA). Since its creation, the ISP went through 3 evaluations. The last one took place in 2013 and guided the construction of the latest cycle (2014-2018) involving 3 priority thematic axes, defined in agreement with the partners: (i) Territorial management and climate change; (ii) Indigenous rights and development threats; (iii) Institutional strengthening. Throughout this cycle, CAFOD financed 15 projects, totaling £634,673.37.
Drought/fires emergency response - Yanomami Indigenous Territory Droughts and forest fires which began in early February in the state of Roraima, North Brazil, have recently intensified, resulting in serious impacts on 2,030 indigenous people (935 women and 1,095 men) living in 19 remote communities in the Amazon rainforest, in Yanomami indigenous territory. These have been caused by the changing frequency and intensity of phenomena such as El Niño, making this the worst registered drought in 20 years in the state of Roraima – 13 of 15 municipalities have been declared in a state of emergency by the State Governor, Suely Campos. Small streams, tributaries and Amazonian wells close to the communities have dried up, and crops and houses have been burnt forcing communities to relocate to other areas. Main impacts on Yanomami indigenous people are: lack of drinking water and water for crops, lack of access to food, health issues such as smoke-induced respiratory problems, especially in young children, and displacement of communities. 

This project aims to secure access to food security and clean drinking water for 7 of the most affected communities - 1,170 people (512 women, 372 children aged 0-9, and 286 men) - by the fires and droughts. These communities are: Hatyanai (Apiaú region); Piau, Rasasi, Maraxi Bora and Apiahik (Totootopi region); and Homoxi e Koriaupë (Surucucu region) - in Yanomami Indigenous Territory. Main activities include: purchase and installation of 80 water filters in 4 communities; training of 8 Indigenous Environmental and Sanitation Agents and and booklet produced in Yanomami language on filter set-up and maintenance in 4 communities; purchase and distribution of 95 agricultural tools to 3 communities; distribution of 365 food baskets to 3 communities; and planting of fruit seedlings in 1 community after the rainy season near homes to benefit women and children.
HAY Bi-National Yanomami and Ye'kuana Forum - Brazil and Venezuela This project aims to support community members to participate in, and communicate the outcomes of a Bi-National Yanomami and Ye'kuana Indigenous Forum, so that challenges, problems and strategies are debated based on Yanomami and Ye'kuana needs, in the Brazilian Yanomami Territory. 

Key issues and threats faced by indigenous communities living in Brazil and Venezuela include: land management, youth migration to cities, organisational strengthening, illegal small-scale gold mining, and the growing threat of large scale mining projects and difficulty to access quality health care in the most remote communities. 

The Yanomami and Ye'kuana Binational Forum is an initiative that promotes the exchange of experiences and joint actions of the Yanomami and Ye'kuana people living on both sides of the Brazil / Venezuela border, in an area covering about 23 million hectares. 

By combining its nine indigenous organisations - five Brazilian and four Venezuelan - the Forum seeks to influence public policy and bi-national cooperation to respect indigenous rights guaranteed in both Constitutions, with the participation of civil society.
Projeto Crescer para a Paz ( growth towards peace) This project aims to enable children, adolescents, young people and their families to grow and develop in a culture of long-lasting peace in two violent urban favelas (shanty towns) in North East Brazil. The project is implemented by two local Brazilian organisations, GCASC and Galpao, based in Olinda and Recife. 

The “Growing towards Peace” project aims to address the problems of social violence, vulnerability and marginalisation of children and young people, through five key strategic lines of work: 
1) workshops with at risk children and adolescents on citizenship, the arts and culture, healthcare, parenthood and literacy and psycho-social support; 
2) vocational training and workshops on issues affecting young people, supporting them to become ‘multiplying agents (community activists); 3) engaging with the parents in meetings, home visits, community activities, cultural events and specific workshops and activities, such as the family group, women groups and Dad’s football. 
4) community lobbying and advocacy actions aimed at improving the community, and working with schools and health posts, to unify the community.
5) facilitating strategic planning, fundraising support and developing policies and procedures to ensure the organisations are accountable to their stakeholders, and strengthen the institutional capacity of the two organisations.
Strengthening communities' livelihoods and food security post-COVID-19 in Piaui This project seeks to support two groups of families who have been adversely affected by the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in Piaui, north-eastern Brazil: 1) 250 families in a situation of food insecurity; and 2) 200 farming families who need support to commercialise their agricultural production post-pandemic. Caritas intends to link up the farming families with those living in food insecurity, by providing them with 3 food basket distributions made up of at least 33% agroecological family farmed produce. It will also provide BRL 3,500 (£552 @6.3) micro-credit to the farming families to support them to invest in their family-based farming and provide logistical support and equipment to access local markets.  

Brazil was one of the hardest hit countries in the world by the COVID-19 pandemic: over 670,000 people died, and the knock-on socio-economic impacts led to it being put back on the World Food Programme’s World Hunger Map in 2020 (Brazil was removed in 2014 after a decade of progress in reducing hunger). But less than seven years later, more than half its 212 million population is grappling with some level of food insecurity – and almost one in 10 with serious hunger. The state of Piaui was heavily affected by the COVID-19 pandemic during multiple lockdowns where community-based markets and fairs were closed for long periods. The weakening of the livelihoods of local communities, based mainly on agricultural production and commercialisation, led to deepening inequalities and increasing food insecurity - Piauí was the Northeastern state with the highest increase in poverty rates between 2019 and 2021.