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Support to advocacy for people affected by armed conflict in Eastern Congo This project is a support to activities of the protection and early recovery program initiated by CAFOD in close collaboration with of its partners to try to answer in a comprehensive and integrated approach to the issue of protection and holistic care for victims of armed conflicts the Eastern DRC. 

It will specifically support advocacy component by providing a reliable database and a file of claims to submit to the bishops for more effective advocacy on the issue of sexual violence both locally, nationally and internationally. 
In addition, this project will support partners by organizing joint activities such as holding meetings/workshops to enable a better understanding of program objectives and activities by all partners, facilitating joint evaluation of related activities implemented by different partners and learn lessons for better orientation tower the objectives to get a real impact to the targeted beneficiaries and communities at the end of the program. 

To do so, the project will undertake the following activities: 
- Organization of meetings / workshops of concertation within all partners before and during the implementation of the program; 
- Collecting and handing out data on program activities from all partners to prepare files for the advocacy; 
- Field visits to the targeted dioceses (Bunia, Dungu, Goma and Bukavu/Shabunda) to monitor activities and discuss with beneficiaries; 
- Compilation of data and quarterly reports received from partners to prepare documents for advocacy; 
- Discussions at the CEJP level and harmonization of data collected in the field to meet the expectations of bishops and facilitate their understanding on situation in regard to advocacy activities they will undertake; 

The project will be led by the Episcopal Commission for Justice and Peace (CEJP) through its Assistant of the Executive Secretary based in Bukavu and in close collaboration with CAFOD and other partners directly involved in the program.
Multisectoral emergency assistance to the most vulnerable people affected by storms in Kalima On the night of the 5th March a torrential rainstorm accompanied by devastatingly strong winds in Kalima, Maniema destroyed the houses of 851 families (more than was initially anticipated at the alert stage). Houses in the area are typically made from mud and straw and they were no match for the weather. These people are now homeless, some are lucky enough to have found refuge with host families, but others are sleeping in schools and other public buildings, while the worse off are sleeping outside with no shelter. Most of those affected have also lost their livelihoods as 250 hectares of farmland was destroyed at a critical time in the agricultural calendar as many crops have just been planted and others are ready to harvest. The Central Health Zone has predicted a rise in malnutrition as food insecurity dramatically worsens. They have also predicted the spread of water-borne diseases and the local health centres are ill-equipped to deal with any outbreak, lacking drugs and equipment. 
CAFOD and Caritas Kasongo will target 1275 household or 7650 people. The cash will be done through mobile money which means people will not have to wait in long queues to receive their cash.
Protection and emergency assistance to LRA attacks survivors in Dungu and Niangara in DRC Since 2008, the whole north-eastern border of the DRC has been occupied by Ugandan rebels (LRA) where they have established several camps in the bush from where they came to loot, kidnap and kill people they find, regardless of gender, age, etc.
As of September 17th, 2008, they simultaneously attacked many villages in that part of the country and have not only murdered, killed, looted and abducted several people, but also burned all houses in these villages. This situation continues to intensify in some areas bordering the national park and 168 attacks were recorded in the first half of this year (2011) constituting over 79% of attacks recorded in 2010.
These atrocities and attacks created internal and external displacement of very massive population of those villages to urban centres like Dungu Ngilima, Bangadi and Southern Sudan and UNOCHA had reported several people killed and at least 337.393 internally displaced people (about 131.583 or 39% in the territory of Dungu) living in inhumane conditions as about 76% of them have not received any humanitarian assistance. 
Due to a weak protection of the civilian population by government forces (army and police), people have set up self defence groups who also engage in exactions of the population.
This project will help solve the problem of protection of the population by wide awareness of different actors and psychosocial care for victims of abuses by the LRA and will also help the most needy vulnerable rebuild their lives through specific support to meet their immediate needs (such as income-generating activities, temporary shelters, etc.).
Promoting participatory and equitable governance in South kivu This project aims to improve the living standards of the people of South Kivu, The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). 

The DRC and particularly the eastern part of the country has experienced various forms of violence over the past decades. This is due to the activities of various armed groups that have been active in this part of the country for over a decade. 
Poor governance is the main cause behind many social ills in the DRC. Although the country is known to be rich in minerals and natural resources, poverty is still very high and the majority of the population do not have access to basic services and most of these live with less than 1 dollar per day. 

CAFOD has been working in partnership with CDJP Bukavu for the past five years to implement a project around good governance. This project has been built on community structures to lead reforms on various governance issues from the community level. The past phase has come to its end. In the effort to sustain achievements of the past phase CAFOD will be working with CDJP Bukavu for the next year to particularly consolidate the community structures to effectively participate and monitor the political process, to engage and promote social dialogue between the leaders and the people, to effectively promote gender in governance structures and encourage the emergence of female leadership at all levels. 

The major aim behind this initiative is to bring about better governance that is accountable and service delivery oriented so as to improve the living standards of the people of South-Kivu
Promoting economic stability of communities around the Iga-Barrière - Mongbwalu area. For several years, SOKIMO concession 40 has been the subject of problematic cohabitation between the industrial mining companies and the artisanal miners. The consequence is that this situation creates an economic instability of the population whose source of income is entirely based on this artisanal mining until then, because legally not being allowed to work in this part. It is in this sense that this project aims to promote the economic stability of the population affected by this problem of coexistence (industrialists, mining craftsmen, women, children ...) on the Iga-Barriere-Mongbwalu axis through a plea On the one hand, the possibility of establishing a mechanism of cohabitation between industrial societies and artisanal farmers, and on the other hand the possibility of establishing Zones of Artisanal Exploitation (ZEA) on perimeters not exploitable industrially.
Concretely, the change targeted by this project is that the miners (cooperatives) who work illegally on the mining concession of Mongbwalu Goldmines (MGM) and the Mining Company of Kilo-Moto (SOKIMO) have spaces (ZEA)) legally granted either by the Mining Cadastre or by agreement between the industrial mining companies and the Mining Cooperatives. In addition, Mutual Solidarity Mutuals (MUSOs) have their business plan to promote activities that would constitute alternatives to gold panning.
These changes will then occur thanks to the advocacy actions to be carried out at local, provincial and national level on the one hand, and through the support of MUSOs in the development and implementation of alternatives to gold panning through Of their business plan.
Indeed, change will occur through advocacy because the decision-making power of change rests with decision-makers (state and / or mining companies); And through the accompaniment because the MUSO members themselves would have weak capacities in the elaboration and implementation of business plan. Concretely, the Cooperatives created in concession 40 will have ZEAs to carry out their mining activities; And, MUSOs will have their business plan to promote their alternative activities to gold panning.
The results of advocacy actions, when cooperatives work legally and MUSO have alternatives to gold panning, is that traceability of gold will be ensured to combat fraud, and members of cooperatives will (Because the cooperatives, according to OHADA law also have a vision of local development). The State will also derive the profits generated by the collection of taxes. As for MUSO, they will have alternative activities to gold mining, which will contribute to the widening of their sources of income, thus improving their living conditions.
Planning and evaluation training for Great Lakes livelihoods Partners Keeping in mind the aim of the Livelihoods programme being to contribute to the reflation of agro pastoral activities, socio economic reinsertion of young people, reunification of families affected by wars and consolidate peace in the Great lakes region as well as the main objectives are:
Provide partners with powerful tools that enable them to meet the requirements of institutional donors which are demanding about the positive impact that the funding they provide may occur at the level of the beneficiaries of the programs that we implement through our partners here in the Great Lakes region.
In order to achieve this, CAFOD great lakes trough a consultant would organising a 3 days planning workshop during which participants will discuss and analyse  best tools for proper strategic approach based on results with have visible impact.
It is also planned to organise a 3 days workshop of self-assessment for the agriculture and livestock pilot project of Bunia which ended in March 2010.
Finally a visit to the western part of the DRC will be organised with the aim to explore the possibilities of supporting some dioceses in neighbourhood Kinshasa, in line with the new DRC strategic paper.
Consolidating Great Lakes Sub regional Peacebuilding programme through partner capacity building CAFOD’s Great lakes Peacebuilding program is in its third year of its implementation in Burundi, DRC and Rwanda. Seven Diocesan justice and peace commissions from these three countries have been funded by CGF and succeed to build an open cooperation between cross-border communities especially youths and women.  Others key successes produced by the Peacebuilding program to be capitalised are: 
•	Back to the dialogue between ethnic communities leaders in north and south Kivu province in eastern DRC (Diocese of Goma and Uvira)
•	Easing tensions and distrust for peoples by federating new cross-border friendships between youths and women living in Kivu with those from Rwanda and Burundi through the conviviality days launched, the fight against prejudice, consolidating mutual trust as well as strengthening communication between border communities. The program also strengthened the "Wanting to live together" and reconciliation of cross-border communities as well as the commitment of the Church in peace education.
•	Use of local media (community radio broadcasting stations) for carrying peace messages and awareness of peaceful coexistence as opposed to radio "Milles collines" which distilled hate messages that have contributed to the genocide in Rwanda in 1994
•	Reducing electoral violence in Burundi driven by strong awareness raising of youths in responsible citizenship

However, status in Great Lakes Region still remains volatile and requires a strong involvement of various actors for sustainable peace.  Region is challenging poor management of natural resources, poor management of refugies and internal displaced persons which reinforces the suspicion between states and between communities corruption, activism of armed groups and militias, extreme poverty of the population, unemployment especially among youths that lead them to join armed groups, increased of insecurity in many rural areas and the lack of effective protection of people and properties, etc. Peacebuilding program faces also funding issue and lack of resource mobilization. 
This PSGA is an internal grant to support joint activities during the program implementation including:
•	Support partner in building their capacity and implementing strategies; 
•	Monitoring and accompaniments’ activities

These activities will benefit CAFOD’s programme staff, partners and beneficiary communities. The CAFOD peace building Program Officer will be responsible for the implementation and ensuring partner’s accompaniment, strengthening partners, making link with beneficiaries and learning from results and impact of project. All this will be under supervision of Governance and peace building Program Manager.
This project aims also to plan for the year three of the program with keys partners basing on these findings, context’s evolution, and CAFOD’s strategic priorities in the region, added value and impact to be done.
Emergency assistance to displaced households of Kabasha, Beni Territory, affected by armed violence. Since the rebel group Mai Mai commenced its attack on villages in locations South-West of Beni in late 2013 (such as burning of houses, looting, theft, abductions, torture and rape), communities have been forced to move to nearby locations such as Mataba in Kabasha for safety. Despite the severe vulnerability of these IDPs and host families, they have not received any humanitarian assistance to date. Difficulty to survive has forced some to take risks to return to harvest their fields or return but rebels continue their attacks. 
 
Local partner, SOCOAC has found that priority needs are food security, essential household items, protection and healthcare. This project will provide emergency food and NFI assistance to 606 households/3,030 people (432 displaced and 174 host families) in the locality of Kabasha whose level of vulnerability in food security and NFI is high.  This presentation will focus on "closed fair approach" to give recipients the chance to make their own choices on items they really need.
Humanitarian Capacity Strengthening Project for SOCOAC (April 16 - March 18) The northern part of the North Kivu Province in DRC has been marked by  recurring insecurity due to armed groups attacks namely from famous Ugandan rebels known under ADF-NALU acronym. DRC authorities has declared them to be a terrorist group which should deserve close international community attention. This said, SOCOAC was created on a development base intending to federate local farmers in a region where soil is fertile and people may produce enough food for their families and even for market. They have progressively moved to humanitarian since a few years ago and developed partnership with CAFOD and others including FAO, Care International, etc.

SOCOAC was part of the Phase One of the Humanitarian Capacity Development programme (HCD), the only non-faith based organisation within the portfolio in the West-Africa and Great Lakes (WAGL). In our DRC Strategy for the HCD, we recalled the importance of continued support to existing partners mostly for consolidating achievements and ensure we prepare consciously and bilaterally an exist process. Meanwhile, since the start of Phase Two in April 2016, the HCD framework was revised to adapt to new trends in humanitarian. As a consequence, some of almost completed capacity where reassessed to low score which is normal given the new lenses used. However, SOCOAC has improved continuously its humanitarian work through providing assistance to affected community in the Beni territory thanks to START fund in particular. The structure is still weak as that is the case for most of national organisations because of institutional funding issue.

Earlier November 2016, a self-assessment was conducted with their team in Beni with around 20 staffs participating. The following result were considered to be a basis for their new capacity strengthening plan until mars 2018.  There is a need to:
a)	Improve managerial capacities for senior staff in alignment to the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS)   
b)	Develop a comprehensive strategy for resources mobilization. . 
c)	Draw up their communication policy focused on the humanitarian context in Beni territory.
d)	Develop policies for better staff management and its performance development. 
e)	Acquire an accounting software and adapt to OHADA system in accordance with new requirement in the DRC. 
f)	Improve capacity in humanitarian programming based on the CHS
g)	Systematize the monitoring and learning practices.

In relation with the staff turnover which is a consequence of the lack of institutional funds, internal discussion in the DRC team concluded that additional funds of 5,000 £ from another CAFOD source will be allocated to SOCOAC to complement  the 5,000 £ dedicated by the HCD. The extra amount from the DRC country budget will cover their Emergency Programme Assistant costs.
Empowering the youth for a more stable and peaceful society The ongoing war in eastern DRC has affected thousands of people in local communities, especially women and children.  Armed groups such as CNDP, M-23 and the Mai-Mai as well as foreign groups such as FDLR, FNL and others that had recruited numerous children from this region who were used on the frontline of fighting. Indeed, the violent conflict in North and South Kivu creates some conducive circumstances to the recruitment of child soldiers. Once abducted, the children are brutalised and forced to serve as soldiers, porters and if girls they are used as sex slaves.
Support on hydro-agricultural developments for rice farmers of Tshangu and Mikonga in Kinshasa This action aims to follow up and follow on the current Project (DRC403) involving rice farmers of Tshangu and Mikonga in the surroundings of Kinshasa in which, our partner MAMBELI ONGD is supporting farmers to Improve agricultural production, which leads to raise their livelihoods and make them able to fight against the scourge of poverty and food insecurity which is undermining the slums surrounding Kinshasa’s neighbourhoods and the Malebo Pool.
Agricultural perimeters of Tchangu and Mikonga-air congo, located in the Malebo Pool in Kinshasa are subject to severe degradation, caused in part by the flood waters of torrential rains and secondly by landslides due to peripheral erosions; making these areas less suitable for farming with the resulting reduction of farming areas and consequently low production, low income and the impoverishment of the occupants are actually observed in the mentioned area.
The serious deterioration of the agricultural sites where MAMBELI ONG is doing business with CAFOD financial supports since four years, require extensive hydro – agricultural works to improve irrigation schemes, intensify market gardening, and maintain high the production of rice Seed. Since 2015, the basic hydro agricultural facilities are made related to budget availability provided by CAFOD; so DRC309 and 403 projects were implemented for the construction of a dyke in Tchangu area, and also the rehabilitation of the basic irrigation channels in Mikonga-air congo, to protect the cultivated area, and maintain the soil restoration. Related to the severity of the repeated damage caused by environmental disasters, a complementary program of hydro - agricultural works to achieve the goal of protecting and restoring the sites is indispensable and requires financial support.
It is planned the rehabilitation of the dyke at TCHANGU and the improvement of irrigation capacities and canals drainage in Mikonga-air congo area.
The requested budget of £ 40,000, will help to rescue 350 farmers’ household with an average size of 7 persons. The farmers are regrouped in associations coached by Mambeli, the farmers are working in a poor populated environment of more than 500,000 people.
Engendered livelihood governance: Toward a more consolidated approach Women farmers encounter in their work various difficulties among which: no access to quality seeds, fertilizers necessary for their farming activities, problems related to the lack of knowledge of new techniques, problems of transformation of agricultural products, of evacuation and market access of products, problem of farm income management, just to name a few. And yet, the work of these women contributes to food insecurity. If their activities were growing more and more, they would help to combat food insecurity for a large part of the population, especially the poor populations living in the outlying and densely populated neighbourhoods of the city. 
This  project is to prepare women to change their vision of individual work into a new approach that is more cohesive envisioning a "kind of social economy enterprise" co-operative based on benefit sharing and risk reduction for the development of members of the Cooperative. This involves the work of awareness, persuasion to arrive at the change towards "associative spirit". To do this, they will have to benefit from capacity strengthening on this issue in order to understand the usefulness of a cooperative. 
The project will also help to strengthen their capacity with access to information on tax, market access and market status for some of the agricultural products.
Transparency and inclusive governance This initiative aims to bring about better governance, accountability and service delivery so as to improve the living standards of local communities; working in the Bunia Diocese, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

The Bunia Diocese is located in the North-Eastern part of DRC. The people of this diocese are known to be farmers and partially pastoralist.  This area is rich in minerals and natural resources (Gold, Timber and oil). The two territories of the diocese were devastated by armed conflicts and ethnic clashes in the early 2000nds which brought down many social structures. 

The population of this part of the country has very limited access to basic services due to the centralized governance structures. However, poor governance poor governance is the main cause behind many social ills in the DRC. Over the past few years the Ituri civil society has responded with practical actions to these challenges in providing basic services, promoting human rights and teaching people their duties and responsibilities. 

CAFOD worked in partnership with CDJP Bunia over a five year period, implementing a good governance programme. This current project will build on local community initiatives to lead advocacy reforms on various governance issues at the community level. The past phase of the governance programme has come to an end. 

In an effort to sustain the achievements of the past phase, CAFOD will be working with CDJP Bunia over the next year to consolidate the community structures to participate and monitor the political process, engage and promote social dialogue between leaders and citizens, promote gender equity in governance structures and encourage the emergence of female leadership at all levels.