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Highlands Region Road Improvement Investment Program - Project 1 The Investment Program focuses on the Highlands core road network (HCRN) of 2,500 kilometers (km) of major national and some provincial roads, which carry the bulk of the traffic in the region. The investment program will include (i) projects to improve about 1,400 km of the HCRN, to be funded through four or more tranches under this multitranch financing facility (MFF); (ii) design and supervision of road improvement works, preparation and administration of long-term road maintenance contracts for the entire 2,500 km of the HCRN, and capacity development of road agencies; and (iii) monitoring the socioeconomic benefits of the improved and maintained roads in the Highlands region. Support will also be provided for policies such as road user charges (to increase the resources available for road maintenance). In addition, technical assistance (TA) will be provided to support the Department of Transport to prepare a new National Transport Development Plan (NTDP) for 2011-2020.
Health Services Sector Development Program (Second Additional Financing) Access to quality and affordable health services increased (National Health Plan, 20212030).

A more sustainable and efficient health care system achieved.

National frameworks and PFM enhanced.

Subnational health system management strengthened.

Health service delivery components strengthened.
Road Maintenance and Upgrading (Sector) Project (Supplementary Loans) The supplementary financing is in line with the impact and outcome of the previous loan as approved by ADB. It aims at scaling up the impact of the Project on PNG economic development and social integration by financing more road sections to improve road access to the private sector and communities, reduce their travel cost and time to major commercial and service centers, and enable them to tap economic and social opportunities in the Highlands region. It will support the Government's efforts to enhance export-led economic growth, generate income for local communities, and reduce poverty. The outcome will be increased economic activities and social improvement in the region.
Rural Primary Health Services Delivery Project The project will strengthen rural health systems in selected areas by expanding the coverage and improving the quality of primary health care in partnership with state and other service providers. It will build on Asian Development Bank experience in strengthening health service delivery in rural areas of PNG. The project will cover two districts in each of the following eight provinces: Eastern Highlands, East Sepik, Enga, Milne Bay, Western Highlands, West New Britain, Morobe, and the Autonomous Region of Bougainville.
State-Owned Enterprises Reform Program, Subprogram 2 The program, comprising three subprograms, targets improvements in the operational performance and financial sustainability of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and helps strengthen service delivery. Policy reforms improve the legislative and policy framework for SOEs, the governance and transparency of SOEs, and financial sustainability of specific SOEs. Policy actions achieved under subprogram 1 have been sustained and are built upon by subprogram 2 actions.
Improved Technical and Vocational Education and Training for Employment Project The project will assist the government in implementing reforms to strengthen the technical and vocational education and training (TVET) system and to prepare students to be more competitive and responsive to employment and industry demands. It will focus on construction trades and agriculture programs in 10 TVET colleges identified by the government as centers of excellence, which will serve as models for subsequent reforms to other TVET colleges in the country.
COVID-19: Rapid Response Program Among the Pacific developing member countries of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), only PNG is currently affected by community transmission of the coronavirus disease (COVID19). The country is classified as a small island developing state, in a fragile and conflict-affected situation. It exhibits vulnerabilities in its economy and health system, limited fiscal space, and significant reliance on development partners to help it achieve its development objectives. The economy is projected to contract by 2.9% in 2020, and poverty and unemployment are rising. To manage the adverse socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19, the government is implementing a $769 million countercyclical program, including an economic stimulus package that encompasses the government’s COVID-19 health, education, and multisector response plans. Collectively, these represent the government’s overall pandemic response plan, and the proposed CPRO will help the government implement it. PNG meets the access criteria of the CPRO.
Afghanistan CAFOD Associate This project is to support Misereor in employing and hosting the CAFOD Associate for Afghanistan. 

The Afghanistan programme is in a growth phase and the capacity of London-based CAFOD staff to monitor the programme, provide financial oversight and to provide technical accompaniment support, is limited given the challenges of the insecure context.  Given the growth of the programme, and the need for CAFOD to ensure programmatic impact, monitoring and learning, accountability and financial stewardship, it has been identified there is a need to strengthen in-country support to partners.

The specific objectives of the post are to:
•	Support partners to strengthen capacities and delivery, based on agreed capacity development plans, particularly for institutional funding (IF) supported projects. High priority areas are project design, MEAL, and financial management.
•	Strengthen CAFOD’s direct monitoring and financial oversight of the Afghanistan programme.
Support for BAAG's Fundraising and Network Co-ordination Activities To provide central support to the British and Irish Agencies in Afghanistan Group (BAAG) in order to strengthen its internal fundraising capacity, and to continue its Afghanistan-related networking and advocacy work during a historic year in UK and Afghan politics.
Humanitarian Assistance to Conflict Affected Families in Paktika Province Through the proposed intervention, conflicted affected women, men, boys and girls will be targeted in Gomal and Barmal districts of Paktika province. Women, girls, men and boys will be reached through distribution of hygiene kits, food items, and hygiene promotion sessions focusing on food hygiene while women and girls will also be offered menstrual hygiene management (MHM) trainings as well as specific training for lactating and pregnant women on infant and young child nutrition and hygienic practices for breastfeeding. Approx. 4,421 (1,547 male and 2,874 female) beneficiaries will be targeted through this intervention.
DEC Afghanistan Crisis Phase 1 - Cash for winterization and food assistance for vulnerable families The convergence of conflict, drought and COVID-19 has left thousands of people in Afghanistan unable to meet their basic needs and survive the winter with dignity. In the target region of Daikundi 18,863 people have been displaced, while at the same time the province is hosting 18,778 IDPs and within Takhar there are 35,522 IDPs. In Samangan, 17,255 people have left the region and 17,645 IDPs have come from other provinces (OCHA ). Already in 2020, almost half of the population of Afghanistan lived in poverty. Currently, 22.8 million people are at risk of hunger, and about 3.2 million children under the age of 5 suffer from acute malnutrition (WFP).

The project regions Daikundi (with a population of 686,593 people) and Samangan (with a population of 572,253), are currently particularly hard hit by the effects of the drought. All harvests have declined significantly due to conflict and the weather conditions in 2021. While Daikundi’s agricultural backbone is growing almonds, Samangan is heavily dependent on rain-fed agriculture and livestock farming. 

As well as the drought, the pandemic, and the international sanctions after the de facto takeover by the Taliban led to a breakdown of local markets and (trans)national supply chains, which destroyed the livelihood and income opportunities of many families while at the same time the cost of food and non-food items continued to rise considerably between August and December 2021. Additionally, there is a financial crisis in which the first private banks have ceased operations. These socio-political upheavals of the last few months have led to a drop in income which also threatens the livelihoods of communities in both regions. 

The project objective is to ensure the survival of the most vulnerable families in Samangan, Daikundi and Takhar provinces who are acutely affected by food insecurity and the effects of winter through the provision of cash for food and winterisation.
Humanitarian and Community Cohesion Project SDO will support the target community with unconditional cash, as well as peace building trainings. This intervention, at the nexus between humanitarian response and peacebuilding is vital, as SDO's analysis highlights that communities are not only suffering due to the humanitarian situation, but also due to conflict at community level, as a result of displacement.

The project will encompass two activities: Distribution of unconditional cash for the most vulnerable households in the targeted districts of Balkh and Herat, to allow them to meet their basic needs. The second area of focus will be on holding peace building workshops for 490 household heads. The project will build the capacity of the household head on mediation, negotiation and dialogue, to serve a more permanent, and sustainable, structure for continuing peace dialogue at the community levels during and beyond the life of the project.
Gender Audit for the WASH and WRM projects in Afghanistan Roughly 61% of rural Afghans do not have access to safe drinking water. In Ghor Province in the central highlands, the percentage jumps to 92%, making it the worst ranked province in the country for clean drinking water. In Lal District, the eastern-most district of Ghor, CRS assessment data indicates that a lack of safe drinking water is a major issue for family health, with children experiencing diarrhoea as much as 2-3 times per month.   
 
The strong gender component , with sex disaggregated data included in baseline and reporting data, and with women's empowerment element in the WASH work, contributes to the gender priority within our partner international  programme priorities. In addition, a gender audit will be undertaken by CAFOD and the development of a plan to address recommendations will improve CRS, our partner Afghanistan's capacity to engage in gender equitable and responsive practices and programming
General financial support Girls Not Brides is a global network of more than 1,500 civil society organisations from over 100 countries committed to ending child marriage and ensuring girls can reach their full potential. The strength and passion of Girls Not Brides lies in our member organisations, who are based across Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas and the Middle East. 
They work to end child marriage and make sure that all girls around the world can stay in school, stay healthy and have the futures they dream of. 

Girls Not Brides member organisations are supported by a secretariat and a Board of Trustees based across Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America and the Caribbean. The secretariat works with member organisations and supporters to advance the knowledge base on child marriage, raise awareness of the issue, and campaign for legal and social change.
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Assistência humanitária aos deslocados de guerra de Cabo Delgado The ongoing emergency has its origins in the upsurge of violence in Cabo Delgado province in northern Mozambique, which is forcing thousands of people to flee attacks by armed groups who identify themselves as Islamists in order to save their lives. 
According to UNHCR in February there were at least 100,000 displaced people within the province. In recent months there has been a drastic increase in the attacks started in October 2017 and perpetrated by these armed groups. The violence is spreading through the Districts of the South, causing the massive displacement of the inhabitants to the capital of the region, Pemba
In the last three weeks the displaced have begun a more distant migration, arriving also in the territory of the Province of Nampula especially in the Districts situated along the main road that colleagues the North with the city of Nampula (Erati, Nacaroa, Monapo, Meconta up to the city of Nampula itself), mostly counting on the support of relatives or acquaintances or temporarily placed in reception centres (primary schools now closed by Covid-19 or administrative posts).
The situation is serious: in the areas affected by the attacks, and in the area where IDPs arrive there are no conditions for humanitarian assistance. Tents, food and hygiene kits are the main material shortages.
The Diocesan Caritas of Nacala operates at the level of the territory of the Diocese of Nacala which includes n. 10 Districts, namely Nacala, Nacala-a-Velha, Memba, Erati, Nacaroa, Monapo, Liupo, Mogincual, Ilha de Moçambique and Mossuril. Out of these Districts, 4 to date are hosting IDPs.
Lhuvuka Parque Limpopo The project aims to improve the socio-economic situation of 26,500 people living in the Limpopo National Park area by enabling them, through increased participation in the Park’s management, to access the benefits of tourism, nature conservation and other economic activities.  At the Park’s creation in 2002, one of the stated objectives was to improve the living conditions of the Park communities: to date this has not happened, although their rights, interests, livelihoods and homes are directly affected by the Park. These people live meagre existences, subsistence farming, keeping some livestock, and relying heavily on the forest resources for fuel, building materials and wild foods.  They experience great difficulty in accessing services such as health and education, and employment opportunities are so reduced that a large proportion of men have migrated to Mozambican cities or South Africa in search of work, leaving women to head the households.  The project, implemented by a consortium of three local organisations (ORAM, CEDES and Caritas Chokwe), is building the capacity of the community-based committees to enable them to defend their rights, press for their interests, and use their 20% share of the Park’s profits effectively.  This includes training in: relevant legislation, lobbying/ advocacy, conflict prevention/resolution, income-generating skills, project design and financial management.  6,500 of the beneficiaries live in an area designed as a “resettlement zone” rather than a “multi-use zone”, meaning that they are to be moved to an area outside the Park.  The project will accompany and monitor all stages of the resettlement process to help this group press for their rights.  This is particularly important given the conflict of interest currently arising between private investors, the District government and the communities in the resettlement location that has been identified, together with potential friction with the future host communities.
Production and experimental use of organic compost in  Maputo Province The present proposal constitutes a “bridge” between the first financing of CAFOD (Small Grants) to Caritas Moçambicana/LVIA occurred in 2008, for the completion of the FERTILIZA composting centre, and the elaboration of a future 3 years proposal for the introduction of improved agriculture techniques in 4 rural communities where all CAFODs’ partners of southern Mozambique are operating.

The project aims to support the further development the compost production centre, FERTILIZA, created in 2008 by 11 ex waste scavengers,(FERTILIZA is working towards its technical and financial autonomy); and to introduce and promote the use of compost produced from organic waste by FERTILIZA and other environmental friendly techniques in 2 rural communities in Maputo Province in order to improve the efficiency of agriculture production of vulnerable groups (women, youth, children, HIV positive).

The compost “on-site” application will be undertaken in the community of Magude, (Where Diocesan Caritas of Maputo operates) and the community of Mumemo, (where the Franciscan Sisters operate), both CAFOD partners. In the near future those communities (in particular the most vulnerable) could use the composting technique to manage their organic waste in a sustainable way, and at the same time improve their agricultural efficiency and their nutrition.
Lhuvuka Parque Limpopo – Phase II The project is the second phase of a project that aims to improve the socio-economic situation of 26,500 people living in the Limpopo National Park area by enabling them, through increased participation in the Park’s management, to access the benefits of tourism, nature conservation and other economic activities.  At the Park’s creation in 2002, one of the stated objectives was to improve the living conditions of the Park communities: although progress was made during the first phase, the situation of these communities is still not secure even though their rights, interests, livelihoods and homes are directly affected by the Park. These people live meagre existences, subsistence farming, keeping some livestock, and relying heavily on the forest resources for fuel, building materials and wild foods.  They experience great difficulty in accessing services such as health and education, and employment opportunities are so reduced that a large proportion of men have migrated to Mozambican cities or South Africa in search of work, leaving women to head the households.  The project, implemented by a consortium of three local organisations (CEDES, ORAM and Caritas Chokwe) implemented a first phase from 2006-9 during which it built the capacity of community-based committees to enable them to defend their rights, press for their interests, and use their 20% share of the Park’s profits effectively.  The second phase will build on this work, with particular emphasis on equipping the communities with the skills needed to secure livelihoods that are not reliant solely on agriculture; lobbying and advocacy techniques to continue pressing for their rights and interests; and accompanying the resettlement process.  6,500 of the beneficiaries live in an area designed as a “resettlement zone” rather than a “multi-use zone”, meaning that they are to be moved to an area outside the Park.  The resettlement process has been fraught with problems and to date very few families have moved.  During the second phase the project will continue to accompany and monitor all stages of the resettlement process to help this group press for their rights.  This is particularly important given the conflict of interest that arose between private investors, the District government and the communities in the resettlement location that has been identified, together with potential friction with the future host communities.
Cyclone Freddy - First emergency Response in Zambezia Freddy made landfall in Mozambique in Quelimane district, Zambezia province, as a tropical cyclone.
The National Institute of Meteorology (INAM) indicated that, until 12 March, heavy rains, between 100 mm/24h and 200mm/24h are expected in the provinces of Manica, Sofala, Tete and Zambezia and high risk of flooding is forecasted for Nampula and Zambezia provinces. The Zambezi and Tambarara river basins in Tete are reporting above-threshold levels. The water level at the Buzi, Pungue and Save basins in Sofala are also above alert level. In Zambezia, the Licungo, Ligonha and Meluli basins are expected to rise above alert levels following heavy rains. While preparedness activities were undertaken to prepare for a second landfall of Freddy, partners continue to respond to the needs generated by the first landfall of Freddy and floods which cumulatively affected more than 239,000 in southern and central Mozambique. The first landfall resulted in significant infrastructure damage, as more than 22,000 houses were affected, almost 14,000 were destroyed, 60 health units were flooded, and 1,265 km of roads were damaged. Of particular concern is damage to agriculture as 92,000 hectares of crops have been affected including in areas where 400,000 people are already food insecure (IPC3).
Heavy rains and flooding are a concern as the cholera outbreak continues to spread. As of 11 March, the cumulative number of cholera cases reported across the provinces of Gaza, Manica, Niassa, Sofala, Tete, Inhambane and Zambezia stood at 8,318 cases across 31 districts. This is an increase of cases of 1,081 in the last week
CSR, Extractives and Sustainable Development: making the links in Mozambique The proposed action research recognizes the key role which the private sector is playing in Mozambique’s development and its potential to contribute to poverty reduction. It aims to conduct research into Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and social dialogue among foreign companies operating in the extractives industry in Tete province, Central Mozambique. Having a better understanding of CSR policy and practice and its impact on communities as well as the broader development of Mozambique is key to strengthening the contribution of the sector to sustainable development. This action aims to create a common understanding of existing CSR legal frameworks and policies amongst companies, communities and other stakeholders. It will strengthen the capacities of local CSOs, improve practices of selected companies and provide recommendations for the implementation of CSR in the extractive sector. Increased strategic engagement and dialogue with communities will contribute to companies’ policies and practices becoming increasingly socially responsible, therefore contributing in a more positive way to sustainable development and poverty reduction.
participatory review of CAFOD strategic plan in Mozambique CAFOD Mozambique developed a first strategic plan in 2006 for the period of 2006 - 2010 as guidance to its activities.
With A New CAFOD corporate strategic framework ( dec 2009) in place, CAFOD Mozambique is now ready to review the Mozambique country strategy.
CAFOD intends to consult all partners  for joint analysis of mozambican context, consult on partners strategic plans and to discuss possible synergies between CAFODs and partners intentions.
CAFOD staff  will present a draft version of new country strategy for discussion with partners/stakeholders and other CAFOD entities, based on further analysis of data collected from partners , stakeholders adn CAFOD itself.
At end of project, CAFOD Mozambique will have a final version of new coutnry strategy 2010 -2015