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Diocese of Isiolo Sustainable Livelihoods Programme The Catholic Diocese of Isiolo covers the entire area of Isiolo and Garbatulla districts and implements sustainable community development projects to help communities access essential services and reduce poverty. Over the last few decades, the Diocese through it's development office implemented integrated community development activities in micro-enterprise development, water and sanitation, agriculture and livestock development, education, community awareness and advocacy, human health and nutrition and disaster risk reduction.

As the number of disasters is on the rise, livelihoods especially in the arid and semi-arid areas have been adversely affected.  Having just emerged from a drought period resulting from failure of six rain seasons, the food security and livelihood situation of majority of the people in the region has become fragile.  This is compounded by outbreak of diseases such as cholera which claimed many lives in 2009.  Malnutrition cases have also been on the increase. According to the Famine Early Warning System information, the larger Isiolo District will continue facing food insecurity. 

There is need to develop and implement interventions that target not only the re-establishment of livelihoods but also measures that can reduce the impact of natural disasters such as drought on communities that have fragile livelihoods. CAFOD is funding livelihoods and disaster risk reduction projects in the Diocese. These projects complement each other.

The Sustainable Livelihoods project will be implemented in three divisions; namely Oldonyiro, Central and Sericho. A decision to implement livelihood activities in these divisions was arrived at through a process of needs assessment involving community opinion leaders. Needier locations and sub-locations such as Kipsing and Modogashe have been identified. Communities in these locations and sub-locations identified their needs as capacity building for community groups, improvement in animal and agricultural production, water and sanitation and access to financial services. The project will work with women and youth groups.  The rationale behind this is that women are the ones who are affected most due to lack of water and the need to put food on the table.  This will include women headed households.  Youth groups will be targeted for support in economic activities as they are most affected by unemployment. Keen interest will be given to ensure persons living with HIV/AIDS as well as other special groups like the physically handicapped are involved in the project. 

The project will target 4000 direct beneficiaries with 60% being women and 40% men and youth constituting 50%of the total number of beneficiaries.  With this coverage the multiplier effect is expected to reach a total population of 10,000.
Climate Resilient Agriculture: transforming the livelihoods of 35,342 people in Marsabit County This project aims to achieve improved livelihoods security for poor women, men and children in Marsabit county, 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;
• increases the ability of local, small scale food producers to access services and influence development practices. 

The targeted groups will benefit from increased crop and livestock productivity as a result of understanding and applying climate resilient agricultural practices and management of natural resources, which means they will suffer fewer losses due to climate-related shocks or environmental degradation. With increased food production and nutritional diversity at the household level, there will be year-round food security and reduced incidences of malnutrition.  They will have surplus to sell for household income and they will access fairer prices for products due to having a greater understanding of the market and how to add value, work in producer groups and engage with traders and input suppliers directly.
Kitui Community Based Green Energy Project (CB-GEP) As part of a 4 year programme, this project aims to increase access to modern, affordable and sustainable energy services for rural and peri-urban communities in Kenya. To do this, CAFOD, the Diocese of Kitui, the Diocese of Isiolo and Dupoto-e-Maa will work in partnership with CAFOD and Solar Works East Africa Limited, a private sector solar energy technology company. 

Community Based Green Energy Project (CB-GEP) in Kitui will target 138,256 households through 46 schools , 32 health centres and 32 rural community based groups in Kitui County, specifically in the districts of Kyuso, Mwingi, Mutomo and Kitui.

Income generation of women and youth groups will be facilitated through the provision of 4 ICT centres using solar-based computers and other office equipment, and commercial kiosks, all owned and managed by selected and trained youth groups. For women groups 28 green houses with solar Pumping systems will be set up for income generation.

Income generation of women and youth groups will be facilitated through the provision of ICT centres using solar-based computers and other office equipment, and commercial kiosks, all owned and managed by selected and trained youth groups.

Management of natural resources will be improved through the installation of solar water pumping systems at existing water structures, support for solar lighting systems for schools and health centres; by the use of energy saving stoves; and through community awareness raising on environmental protection.

Local partners and community groups will be trained to implement, maintain and manage the energy systems and on the benefits of sustainable environmental management, facilitating technology transfer and replication of the systems within the target areas.
Kenya Inter-Religious Lobby Campaign for Debt Relief Phase II 1.The Government of Kenya takes immediate steps to drastically reduce the domestic debt stock and to work for a reduction or cancellation of the international debt.
2.Parliament creates legislation to establish monitoring mechanisms that guarantee the official approval of new loans by Parliament on behalf of the Kenyan people and that facilitate the transparent use of development funds.
3.The content of the Public Debt Register will be published and open to public scrutiny.
4.The Government of Kenya takes action against those persons who have siphoned-off international loans into private accounts and to recover the monies lost.
ABG: Realising the Faith Potential Realising the Faith Potential in Diocese of Marsabit is a developmental project seeking to address the urgent need to work through the prevailing challenges to good governance in this region that is highly dominated by nomadic pastoralist way of life.  Implementation will focus in areas covered by Marsabit diocese and will involve dealing with issues that form the basis for bad governance and transform them into opportunities with the aim of building a strong foundation for better governance. 

The project intends to facilitate various Church structures and other stakeholders to actively participate in building a good governance environment within their respective locality. The project will create opportunities for civic engagements and support citizens to articulate of their rights and collaborate for accountable and responsive governance. In order to make citizens to more confidently and effectively network, communicate, negotiate and collaborate with the state, the project plans among other things to engage grass root communities to come up with development plan and utilize the plan to lobby for development initiatives. In addition, it will also establish interfaith alliance and make use of coalitions of faith leaders in lobby and advocacy for better governance.

The Diocese of Marsabit is well placed due to its structural capacities (grassroots networks) and long term experience working with the pastoralist to play a major role alongside other partners in addressing the challenges.  Some of these issues include negative ethnicity, insecurity, weak government institutions, and outstanding boundary issues, among others.  The Diocese also has well established infrastructure for intervention but requires support in terms of resources to implement the proposed activities and consolidate the gains made. 
In order the deal with these issues the project will engage the national and local level governance structures including the ministries, provincial administration and security machineries. In addition the program will engage the management of all the devolved funds among them the Constituency Development Fund (CDF), Roads Fund, Bursary Fund and Local Authority Transfer Fund (LATF).

The project plans to work with Catholic Church leaders and Church structures. It will also work with Interfaith Alliance and make use of coalitions of faith leaders to lobby and advocate for better governance. On other the hand working existing community structures and other stakeholders shall be made a priority.
Somali Refugee Response-by CRS This Emergency Appeal responds to the refugee crisis caused by drought and famine in Somalia. In Somalia, the drought and ongoing conflict has reached a crisis level affecting over half of the population, and resulting in more than 250,000 Somalis leaving the country in 2011 alone in search of assistance.  The resulting mass movement of rural Somalis to urban areas and across the border to Kenya and Ethiopia to seek relief in a relatively secure environment has put significant pressure on the already overcrowded refugee camps in Kenya. 
To contribute to improving the situation of refugees in these camps, Catholic Relief Services Kenya developed this two-year intervention. 
Caritas Internationalis is now launching this Appeal as a fourteen-month emergency response project (twelve months implementation, plus two months for preparation of final reports and audit), and we foresee the launch of a second Appeal for Year Two. 
The Refugee Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Project will help drought-affected refugees in Kambioos Camp in Dabaab, Kenya to meet their immediate sanitation, hygiene, and water needs. 

CRS Kenya will meet the needs of 12,000 newly arrived refugee households (or 48,000 people, approximately 53% of the anticipated 90,000 population) who are currently in the process of relocating into Kambioos Camp by:

-providing latrines/showers with hand-washing facilities, 

-promoting camp hygiene and sanitation with hygiene education and NFI hygiene kits for 12,000 households,

-supporting solid waste disposal management and water drainage,

-planning a contingency water supply as a back up to current plans, and

-Ensuring its activities are accountable to the people it is serving.

By implementing the above activities, CRS envisions the following results:
	
-Drought-affected refugees use sanitation facilities and services daily

-Drought-affected refugees demonstrate key hygiene behaviours for hand-washing, water handling, and latrine use

-Drought-affected refugees actively engage in the response

-Drought-affected refugees have safe and sufficient water for household use
Integrating VCT with Home Based Care FRACODEP implements an HIV and AIDS home based care (HBC) project for people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA) in the three parishes; St. Paul, Rang’ala and Nyang’oma. This project will focus on HIV prevention and HBC in two parishes of Rang’ala and Nyang’oma. The project will provide friendly Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT) services, capacity building for staff, PLWHA and vounteers, community mobilisation and sensitisation, production and dissemination of IEC materials and networking and collaboration.
Maralal START Shifting the power project 2016 The project aims to strengthen the role of caritas Maralal in humanitarian systems so that they can become more active leaders and decision makers in the humanitarian endeavour.   Caritas Maralal was appointed a lead agency for Samburu County in Kenya to lead the process to develop a county contingency plan with specific focus on  peace and conflict transformation pillar.  This is a national programme called Ending Drought Emergencies.  Besides facilitating peace and security sensitisation sessions, caritas maralal will develop a documentary, a case study on agents of change.  The documentary will be used for learning purpose and also a visibility for Caritas Maralal.
Food sovereignty for human dignity-Jesuit Hakimani The outcome for this project is to achieve government policies and practices reflecting community voices and needs. The aim is to de-centre the dialogue from food security to food sovereignty, declaring this as a right driven issue rather than service delivery as it is currently constituted. In order to actualize this we are seeking to pursue two outputs: a) Targeted advocacy to support food sovereignty in the counties of Kitui, Isiolo and Kajiado: b) targeted communities to increase voice and influence over budget planning on food security.
Promoting Pro-Poor, Climate Compatible Energy for Poverty Reduction and Sustainable The overall aim of this project is to promote informed, inclusive and integrated local and national discussion of the economic, environmental and social cost-benefit analysis of different energy pathways for sustainable economic development and poverty reduction in Kenya. In particular, the aim is to frame this discussion from an “energy for national development” rather than – or rather than solely – a “climate protection” perspective in order to get greater political traction.

This project also reflects a crucial moment for local development in Kitui County, where CAFOD’s strategic partner Caritas Kitui works. Planned open-cast, lignite coal extraction in the Mui Basin, Kitui County starting in 2016 could have potentially devastating economic, social, and environmental impacts on local communities, including on their food and water security and their land rights. Again, there is a huge information and analysis gap among local communities, and other stakeholders, including County and National government, and Catholic Bishops on the implications of the coal investments for sustainable economic development and poverty reduction in Kitui. It is vital that a baseline study be carried out before any coal investment-related activities begin.

This project meets CAFOD’s Vision 2020 aims of: (1) promoting working with Church partners; (2) integrating advocacy with programme work and; (3) building capacity among Southern partners and identifying/developing new strategic partnerships. The research will provide quantitative and qualitative evidence for policy guidance and will be used to inform and generate evidence-based discussion among national and sub-national policy-makers, public, business, Church leaders, local communities, international development partners and other stakeholders, and to create demand for energy planning that can deliver pro-poor, climate compatible development.
In terms of ensuring the project is “sustainable” in the sense of driving long-term structural change, this project can help to achieve such change by: 
•	Providing decision makers with the evidence needed to make informed choices about future energy investments and utilization of the energy generated.
•	Building public “energy literacy” and in particular building understanding about pro-poor climate compatible energy pathways so citizens can organise for change and hold decision makers to account.
•	Build the capacity of local communities and local and national level partners to participate in an informed way in energy decision making and to advocate for pro-poor, sustainable energy solutions.
•	SE4ALL advocates for energy efficiency, equity and renewable sources this project can fast-track the achievement of these pillars
Isiolo Intergral Ecology Project (IIEP) Caritas Isiolo Integral ecology project(IIEP) is a 3 year project with an annual funding of £50,000 from CAFOD General Funds effective 1st January 2023 to 31st March 2026.The project will contribute to the CAFOD  Kenya Uganda new programme strategy with the overall goal of building Resilient communities in which people, particularly women and girls, thrive in a peaceful, well-governed, and healthy, supportive natural environment.
The project overall goal is to contribute to Strengthened environmental conservation practices and community resilience to climate related shocks in Isiolo County. This will be achieved through the following closely  interrelated outcome areas, namely;
-Stakeholders achieve a strong understanding of the project and buy in
-Farmers, pupils and teachers in 4 areas (Leparua, Ngaresilicon, Kawalash and Manyatta Zebra and 4 primary schools (Hekima, Kawalash, Lenguruma and Manyatta Zebra) adopt agro-ecological farming practices.  
-Sustainable management and rehabilitation of degraded land for strengthened ecosystem services in 1 area -Manyatta Zebra. 
-Secure diverse livelihoods for households in 7 areas that support sustained management of natural resources- Leparua, Ngaresilicon, Merti, Ntepes, Lotulo, Oldonyiro and Kipsing.
-Increased participation of school children, teachers and communities in environmental conservation activities in 4 schools i.e. Hekima, Kawalash, Lenguruma and Manyatta Zebra 
-Improved inter-community relations in 2 areas affected by conflicts
-Enhanced mutual accountability and coordination in implementation of projects.   
This project proposes to work with three (3) schools namely Hekima, Akadeli and Kawalash and farmers in 8 areas- Leparua, Kipsing, Akadeli, Ngaresilicon, Merti, Oldonyiro, Lotulo and Ntepes. The project targets approximately 10,000 persons (1800men,2200women,2800boys and 3200girls)
Peace and Conflict Transformation in Northern Kenya. Conflict Sensitivity Approaches (CSA) Pilot project is a distinct part of the wider work of the conflict sensitivity consortium which will be implemented at the country level.  This pilot project will focus on how conflict sensitivity is applied during project implementation phase. In implementing the pilot, consortium will not fund new projects but will instead examine projects from current project portfolio of member organizations.  
The Kenya consortium will apply and implement the pilot in two levels:
a)Identifying a project that is on-going but implemented through partner organizations
b)Identifying project that a member agency is directly implementing and on-going

CAFOD  as a  consortium  member of the   Conflict  Sensitivity Consortium   will undertake a  pilot project through partnership   
This CS pilot project is not generated or implemented to correct errors in the Integrated Peace and Livelihood project but rather to develop and demonstrate effectiveness of conflict sensitivity or present the added value of conflict sensitivity to the target project.The pilot is expected to provide relevant information of conflict sensitivity and will guide members to develop conclusions that focus on changes that are only linked to conflict sensitivity but not improving programme quality. The pilot will provide the consortium members with advocacy messages that will be used in influencing donors and other stakeholders in adopting CSA practice in their work.

The Key purpose of the pilot is:
a)To make sure that our pilots draws out evidence based business cases and lessons learnt to inform conflict sensitive programming across our consortium and beyond 

Objective of the pilot:
a)To generate evidence based conflict sensitive lessons from various phases of pilot implementation
b)To identify key interaction indicators from the project through comparative analysis of conflict and project profile/Intervention  analysis
c)To identify at what stages of the project that conflict blind decision occurs and how this is checked and adapted
d)To devise strategies and options of project re-design and adaptation strategy
e)To use the pilot lesson as advocacy messages
f)To develop CSA tools/checklist
Promoting Pro-Poor, Climate Compatible Energy for Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Economic Develop The overall aim of this project is to promote informed, inclusive and integrated local and national discussion of the economic, environmental and social cost-benefit analysis of different energy pathways for sustainable economic development and poverty reduction in Kenya. In particular, the aim is to frame this discussion from an “energy for national development” rather than – or rather than solely – a “climate protection” perspective in order to get greater political traction.  The project comes at a critical time for influencing the implementation and financing of Kenya’s national energy and climate change policies . Kenya’s 2030 economic vision is for a 10% increase in GDP from 2012 onwards with energy as one of the key sectors for reform. In terms of its development needs, the Kenyan population is growing at a high rate, which has led to increase in demand for resources such as energy, food, and infrastructure – in the case of energy access, population growth is outstripping electrification. 67% of Kenyan citizens live in rural areas. Up to 90% of people living in these areas lack access to electricity, and rely on crude and unsustainable forms of energy supply such as traditional bio-mass. This project also reflects a crucial moment for local development in Kitui County, where CAFOD’s strategic partner Caritas Kitui works. Planned open-cast, lignite coal extraction in the Mui Basin, Kitui County starting in 2016 could have potentially devastating economic, social, and environmental impacts on local communities, including on their food and water security and their land rights. Again, there is a huge information and analysis gap among local communities, and other stakeholders, including County and National government, and Catholic Bishops on the implications of the coal investments for sustainable economic development and poverty reduction in Kitui. It is vital that a baseline study be carried out before any coal investment-related activities begin.