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Supporting the protection and community recovery of 500 victims of sexual violence in Ituri This project aims to increase the resilience of the most vulnerable populations in Djugu and Irumu in Bunia Diocese, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

The Ituri district has since been one of the centres of hostilities between militias and government forces. Human rights violations by uncontrolled armed groups on the civilian population remains very high, especially with regards to sexual violence. 

Since 2012 CAFOD has funded the project named SIMAMA in Ituri that has contributed to the recovery process of victims of sexual violence. To achieve the socio-economic integration, targeted people and communities were organised into six associations through which groups for mutual of solidary were developed as an exit strategy in 2014 - 2015.  In addition to the recovery of new victims of gender-based violence, this project would strengthen the results achieved by consolidating mutual of solidarity groups (MUSO) that have been created over the three years.
Livelihood support programme to farmers of outlying districts of Pool Malebo in Kinshasa The purpose of this project is to enhance food security of communities in Kinshasa and surroundings through Improve agricultural production of farmers from three associations, which leads to raise their livelihoods and able them to fight against the scourge of poverty and food insecurity that is undermining the slums surrounding neighborhoods and the Malebo Pool.
These crops are important cash and food crops, can be a pathway to food security and adaptation to climate change. This project will build on our actual experience with MAMBELI (DRC 309) and will directly support 362 farmers including 267 women headed households, 69 men headed households and 26 youth.

Farmers in the communities will be using the improved materials (seeds, bouture...) and organisational knowledge to increase total production while improving their welfare. To achieve this, the project will work with MAMBELI and conduct the following activities with farmers associations: 

1. Soil restoration of exploited areas
2. Strengthening structural and organizational agricultural knowledge and capacities of agricultural producers and MAMBELI NGO.
3. Production of rice seeds by R1 rice producers.
4. Intensification of crop production.

The expected outcomes includes:
-	50 linear meters of dike in Tchangu site are reinforced and protected 
-	1000 linear meters in Nkoli river at Mikonga areas are maintained and 20 ha of rice perimeter in Mikonga areas are restored. 
-	40 farmers trained and 5 executives from MAMBELI ONGD are strengthened and upgraded
-	3750 kg of certified rice seeds produced by initiated R1 seed producers.
-	362 households benefiting from market garden seeds and intensify vegetable growing.

The project will be implemented in the Pool Malebo – an area that is convenient for rice and other agriculture activities around Kinshasa.  The implementation of such project will need at least 50,000£ for one year
Support to advocacy initiatives on new Mining Code and Natural Resources Observatories This project aims to support the national advocacy process on the new mining code and support for the operation of ORN (Observatories of Natural Resources), in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
The project will firstly engage in strong advocacy for the revision of the Mining Code of the DRC so that it reflects the interests of the population; without neglecting the interests of other stakeholders, and meets the environmental principles and sustainable development of the country.

DRC is in the process of revising the Mining Code. It is unfortunate that the amendments proposed by the civil society are not included in the final document and the bill is blocked in parliament, due to pressure from mining companies. Given that, the CS with the support of several international NGOs have initiated a process of advocacy in Parliament, the Senate, and the Government in order to incorporate amendments of the CS. The project will, therefore organize advocacy meetings at all levels, and publish necessary documents to assert the well-being of populations affected by mining. On the other hand, the project is to support two observatories of Natural Resources (ORN) in monitoring the exploitation of natural resources and support of the population.
Operational support to ACEAC operational planning meeting and timely support to ISPR The Great Lakes region is still suffering the consequences of violence particularly in Rwanda, Burundi and in the Eastern DRC which have marked the last decades. Several initiatives have been undertaken by political leaders and international community in the effort to respond the crisis by strengthening political institutions, by supporting humanitarian organizations at national, regional and international level. Ongoing national process of democratization, with the support from UN and the International Community as well as the establishment of regional peace mechanisms, security and cooperation are also underway. ACEAC as the catholic regional body has not stood by idly.  In the effort to accomplish the social mission of the church, that of promoting peace and justice, ACEAC has initiated several advocacy and direct activities in the region as a way of contributing to the re-establishment of peace in the region.  By launching its interdisciplinary Advanced Master level capacity building Program dedicated to social actors otherwise known as ISPR, ACEAC aims to contribute to constructing the long-broken peace in the sub-region through the promotion, dissemination and rooting of a culture of civic cohesion and harmony among the people of the region.  ISPR/ACEAC intends to develop personal, interpersonal and intercommunity attitude of reconciliation through better knowledge on critical challenges underlying the fragile peace context in the region. These include poor governance, lack of accountability in the management of natural resources, poor service delivery, etc by aligning a program that is geared toward strengthening the societal ethics and family harmony, peace education, non-violent communication, etc. Three countries are involved in the ISPR project, DRC, Rwanda and Burundi through ACEAC. The students coming from dioceses, civil society and iNGOs will learn a lot regarding the mobility approach developed to achieve the academic cursus.
In addition to the above, this project will as well contribute to the development of the ACEAC’s operational plan that ought to complement the ACEAC strategic plan that was developed in the past year.
In the effort to strengthen this sub-regional structure, CAFOD is stepping in to contribute to the institutional support which will certainly improve the deliverables and operational quality of ACEAC.
Civic Education and the Promotion of Participatory Democracy in the Democratic Republic of Congo The end of last year was highly challenging, the country faced political, security and human rights issues because of the missed elections. The President Joseph Kabila who was supposed to step down at the end of his second and last term did not do, and the opposition called for demonstrations. The violence from security forces has caused hundreds of deaths alarming the international community. The President had to convene a Political Dialogue between the presidential and the opposition parties, but as the Dialogue was not inclusive the Agreement was rejected by local people and the international communities. The Catholic Church that raised voice for peace and respect of the Constitution remains credible for presidential and opposition political parties. So the Church was called to mediate the new Dialogue, an Agreement was signed on New Year’s Eve 2016. The agreement’s commitment stated that the presidential elections will be held before the end of 2017, the President will not seek for a third term and there will be no referendum nor changes of the Constitution. 

Unfortunately, four months after, the Agreement was not applied because of blockage from presidential camp, so the country is missing his first political alternation, and the political crisis has worsened, even the President declared work for election in time. .
Concurrently, the democratic and human rights space are seriously reduced.
Through this project, The Catholic Church, through the Justice and Peace Commission’s at the national (CEJP) and diocesans (CDJP Goma and CDJP Bukavu) are seeking to tackle this unstable context by preparing youths, marginalized and women to face tensions, manipulations, and  upcoming challenging elections. People need fairly-elected leaders to deliver basic services, and improve security issues around the country. This project aims to improve knowledge about the election process by disseminating programs of voter and civic education, starting now before the local elections and continuing throughout the election process and ensure that the material used is accurate and politically neutral. The Project plans to use sport and music to bring youth together and help them understand the importance of peaceful elections process and how to peacefully claim its rights. We also plan to use SMS messaging to inform youth on the progress of the democratization process and what the church is doing while educating them about civic matters. This project is implemented in Goma, is simultaneously established in Bukavu and Kinshasa by other partners with specific activities.
Capacity building and Monitoring for sub regional peace building program (DRC, Rwanda and Burundi) CAFOD has been implementing a Great Lakes sub-regional peace building programme since 2013 and has funded seven churches partners, predominantly diocesan justice and peace commissions.  
The aim of the sub-regional peace building programme implemented by CAFOD in a Great Lakes region is to ensure that people, especially those from marginalised and vulnerable communities living in conflict and post-conflict areas of the Great Lakes region (DRC, Burundi, and Rwanda), are able to benefit from resources and opportunities, have their rights secured and pursue their legitimate aspirations without recourse to violence, ensuring that both governments and people meet their democratic responsibilities.   

The annual review of peace building program done recently in Bujumbura shown that there has been significant progress, particularly in the promotion of civil society in the peace process (once considered by official as running for political Opposition). We noticed also the increasing of openness and cooperation between local administration and peace actors at community level, the active involvement of women and youth in the peace process, cross-border conviviality within community living in Rwanda and DRC, communities and families’ reconciliation as well as the awareness of the community in the search for inclusive and participatory solutions. But, context in the sub region remains volatile because of persistence of some major challenges such as  : intercommunity tensions, the low involvement of authorities in the process of seeking peace, the presence of armed groups and militias in some villages, the attempts to revise constitution in the Great Lake region and tentative to remain in power for actual national leader, fear related to election violence, volatile diplomatic relations between The DRC and Rwanda, extreme poverty of population and youth unemployment, funding issue and lack of resource mobilization. We need to have all this when planning for the year 2 of peace building program.   

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 activities
•	Mid-term review
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.
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Humanitarian Capacity Strengthening Project for Caritas Developpement Uvira (April 16 - March 18) Caritas Developpement Uvira is located in the south of the South Kivu Province close to Burundi's capital (Bujumbura). They have been facing humanitarian crisis following recurrent insecurity in-country due to armed conflicts in the region leading to massive displacement of population both internal and from neighbor countries mostly from Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania. In a recent past, CAFOD supported that partner to assist Burundian refugees in the Ruzizi plain and Fizi territory (South Kivu Province)  following the 2016 post-electoral crisis in Burundi which hasn't ended yet.  
Considering growing needs in the diocese and existing capacity to respond in terms of organisational skills, the Bishop was in touch with CAFOD DRC country representative to seek more support. In fact, the diocese has been challenging leadership and management issues and the bishop has started restructuring staffing at management level. This is also why they expressed their interest to be part of the Humanitarian Capacity Development Programme (HCD) after they heard progress from other involved in the Phase 1.
After selection process,  CAFOD Humanitarian Capacity Development Officer met with Bishop to introduce CAFOD and the HCD, our approach and key success from the phase 1. This meeting was part of the inception process for Phase 2 and we were also discussed commitment  as a pre-condition to continue the journey.
Restoring Hope and Dignity: Supporting women grow their small businesses in Goma, DRC. The decades-long war in eastern DRC has led to massive population displacements and for that many women and the poor have lost their livelihoods.  Currently, war between the M23 rebels and the Congolese army has once again added to the crisis. 346,102 people have been displaced from the territories of Rutshuru, Masisi and Nyiragongo to the city of Goma, this since january 2024. Many of them are farmers or small businesswomen.
This project will support 500 women and their families and      improve the socio-economic status of within and around the city of Goma, by economically empowering them to earn a secure and sustainable living. The project will be implemented by Caritas Goma (as implementing partner). Among these 500 vulnerable women, 300 will come from the existing Savings and Internal Lending Communities (SILC) program, and 200 will come from the brooder microfinance program, but they will now be connected to the Tujenge PAMOJA Micro-Finance Institution to access credit/loan. Here Caritas Goma will only play the role of facilitator by training participants and advocating to the Micro-Finance Institution to grant credit to women with a negotiated plan already committed. Women will also be trained in business running and basic accounting. 

Project Objective is : Contribute to improving the socio-economic conditions of households and their respective members through the development of income-generating activities in the city of Goma.
Outcome 1: 200 women beneficiaries of the project have access to credit to strengthen their income-generating activities, thanks to collaboration with the Tujenge Pamoja Micro Finance Institution
Outcome 2: 300 women members of SILC groups are initiated to the savings culture and the use of internal credit to finance their IGAs.
Outcome 3: Facilitate the interconnection of different players (government services, private sector, research institutions, etc.) to remove barriers to market access.
Mululi water project MULULI village is located in MWENGA territory at the boundary of WALUNGU territory, 150km south-west from Bukavu. Its population is estimated 2,004 inhabitants (approx. 1045 female and 959 male). Water for all uses is withdrawn from a large stream which also carries all human waste from upstream and worsened by upstream mining works. The nearest point for clean water is 3km farther in another locality on the next mountain. To reach it, women and children have to climb heavy slops and even cross the stream which didn’t get any bridge. Cases of drowning were reported in the past, and that’s one of reasons people prefer to continue drinking the stream instead of crossing it with no insurance to effectively get water due to long queue.  With such, diarrhoea is endemic and some cases of cholera occurs frequently.
However, there is a creek well located to feed the village by gravity with a yield of 0.7L/sec. CARITAS Bukavu sampled the spring and found water was potable.  The spring is located 3km upstream the village near the mountain’s pick in a bushy field. Not everybody could get there because of a risk of bandits and rape. This flow would provide an adequate water supply to all the village on 8hours/day basis. This will avoid women and girls to spend many hours climbing sloped mountains or queueing in other localities without enough insurance to get water which could even be refused to them. 
This project is the appropriate response as it will promote hygiene by providing both safe water through a gravity piped system feeding 6 taps.
Promoting youth and women ‘participation in peaceful electoral process in Walungu (South Kivu) 2023 is an electoral year in the DRC, during which the general elections will be carried out from local to national level. Local, provincial and national elections are to be conducted to elect the representatives in these different spheres of political and public affairs.  The process is one in which citizens have a very important role to play before, during and after the elections. They must be informed, through true, credible and reliable information, of the different stages, the issues surrounding them and the challenges they face.  The project pays particular attention to women and young people, who make up the majority of voters but are poorly represented in decision-making bodies. Young people are also the category of people most manipulated for political ends. The project aims to encourage women and young leaders to stand for election and to vote for others in order to ensure that they are properly represented and to make their voices/concerns heard. The project aims to build their capacities so that they can choose political leaders who are competent, honest, creative and committed to the country's development. Through exchanges on the profile of a good candidate, this project will guide the population's choice of leaders. This project has the advantage of linking governance concerns (civic and electoral education, accountability, participation, etc.) with the need to strengthen social cohesion and democracy by empowering the population on the positive changes to be made for responsible governance and citizenship by relying on people with expertise and experience in the field of civic and electoral education and on interactive approaches and by creating a network of collaboration with other relevant stakeholders.
Supporting socio economic reinsertion of 700 vulnerable youth and children In Masisi,Nyiragongo,Goma Since 1996 the North Kivu Province has faced war and violence, the harmful effects of which have deeply affected children. Children continue to experience serious violations of their rights, including recruitment into armed forces and militia groups, abductions, massacres, and family separation. According to the 2013 Humanitarian action plan from OCHA DRC, more than 40,000 children are non-accompanied and vulnerable, 2,000 child soldiers have been removed from armed forces and 1.7 million 3-17 year olds are not attending school. CAFOD is partnering with CAJED and Aprofime to restore hope and dignity in the lives of Congolese children and young people with a sustainable protection and early recovery programme.
CAJED is one of our strategic partners based in North Kivu, working in area of child protection for more than 15 years. This project, presented by CAJED, is the continuation of the DRC218 project - a three year project that that will train and reintegrate over 2,000 children. Over the two last years the project has already reached 852 vulnerable children in Goma town and Masisi territory.
 
This particular project will bring lasting change to the lives of 500 vulnerable children and young people – former child soldiers. The project will support:
• Formal Education reinsertion: Responsible community members and social workers will identify and sensitise vulnerable children out of school to attend school in the next school year; 
• Vocational training and life skills: Some vulnerable children who are not able to attend formal education are assessed and trained in vocational and life skills. At the end of each six month training cycle, trainees are equipped with start-up kits to open their own workshops with closed supervision and support from CAJED; 
• Small scale trading: there are some youths who will not like to attend school or vocational trainings. They will be trained in small scale trading, mainly in groups of 4 to 7 members. 
The project budget is 75,600.00$, equivalent to £45,000.00. CAJED will continue to work with APROFIME, on issues related to girls’ protection. APROFIME is a local NGO specialising in the care of children and young mothers and they have been working with CAJED for over 10 years now.
Starting Workshop Protection and Community Early Recovery programme DRC In October 2011, CAFOD DRC and Its partners reflected during a 3 days workshop on the development of a "Program of Protection and Early Recovery" to try to correspond in more effective, efficient and coordinated maner with other stakeholders, to the multiple problems of protection of victims of various atrocities due to multiple repeated wars that Eastern DRC has experienced and a relevant maner to support the rehabilitation of infrastructures of affected communities as well.
This three days workshop will involve 4 diocese partners: Caritas Dungu-doruma, Caritas Bunia, Caritas Goma, CDJP/Bukavu, CAJED and CEJP. The overall objective of the workshop is to have a clear undertanding of everybody about programmes objectives/outcomes, Monitoring and Evaluation; and explain tools which will be developped in collecting data and story of change. The workshop will be held in Goma, 26 participants will attend the workshop including cafod staff, partners, UN cluster representative and MoH.From 29th t0 31st May 2012.The overall outcome is the smooth implentation, monitoring and evaluation of our three year programme in DRC.
Promoting 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, implementing 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.