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Youth Engagement for accountability and peace Forum 2021 In the South Kivu province and much of eastern DRC, the situation is still affected by insecurity and political instability, combined with ethnic conflicts, armed group activism and wars that have serious consequences on the living conditions of the population, youth unemployment and illiteracy. 
Governance problems in the DRC at all levels with its corollaries such as corruption, impunity, poor management of public resources, a lack of trust between ethnic communities, a leadership and confidence gap between young people and leaders exacerbate the limited involvement of young people in the democratic space and limit their participation as citizens. Many youths are faced unemployment and are exploited by political leaders. Others are recruited into armed groups and this increase harm in most disadvantaged communities in South-Kivu Province.
Supporting this project expects to increase youth’s peace and citizenship awareness, to reduce ethnic and political manipulation and provide opportunities for youth to become change agents, and to engage in peace work and governance as key actors in nonviolent way. Project also expects empowering young people as genuine actors for change and peace in the region, informing them and raising their awareness as to their role and responsibility for building peace and political stability within the country.
The project plans to organize music festival and cultural activities as well as open space and workshops on topics related to Peacebuilding, leadership, entrepreneurship, civic and democratic participation, communication and dialog mechanism to build relationship as well as raising awareness in preventing and dealing with the corona virus pandemic (COVID-19). Faith leaders and key persons from local civil society and officials will mentor, share experiences and best practices with youths during the forum. 
Project activities will be cofounded by Bukavu’Diocese and implemented by Anglican church'  with support from CAFOD peace building program Officer. The youth peace forum will be held in Bukavu and Uvira will bring together about 15000 youths accross the province and neighbouring dioceses.
Amelioration de moyens de subsistance des agriculteurs dans le Pool Malebo, Kinshasa, DRC While Agriculture is the main life sector for over 80% of DRC people, related infrastructures were severely destroyed or degraded by decades of civil war and general insecurity. Thus, despite the country having the largest fertile space and 52% surface water in Africa, it is largely dependent on import from other countries. Yet, official forecasts from the Ministry of Plan predict an expense over 1.5 billion USD before 2025 for food only. This means that degrading economy will continue impacting on vulnerabilities, with a surge in larger cities such as Kinshasa. This city whose population is around 12 million, is particularly affected by the economic crisis, with consequences such as inflation and price rising, unemployment affecting household's economy and widespread impoverishment of the population. Yet, FAO rates 20% the actual drop in the purchasing power. However, Kinshasa has free and fertile areas in the Malebo Pool that runs along the semi-urban townships including Nsele, Masina and Maluku where the present
project is targeting. The Malebo pool is endowed with important agricultural and water potentialities and covers about 6,000 ha, conducive to urban and semi-urban agriculture thus constituting an important and exclusive source of income for around 5000 families by practising rice and vegetables. Unfortunately, only 80ha or 1.3% are exploited and these smallholders (estimated to 4.539 in 2009 by ACF (Action Against Hunger)) face many problems: low production, not organized, difficult access to credit and quality inputs, land insecurity and despoilment of sites, lack of processing plants, etc. Related to what explained above, the project's challenge is to refine the production factors and tools to increase agricultural productivity and to amend the marketing of agricultural production to improve the livelihoods of farmers and the living conditions of the riparian populations. The project will run 3 years starting Jan 2018 and the budget is 500,000.00 usd.
Need assessments for humanitarian crisis in DRC for FY17-18 Since more than 20 years, DRC has faced various humanitarian crises, mainly due to the activism of both national and foreign armed groups, who continue to operate in several provinces of the country on the one hand and, on the other hand, resulting of natural disasters such as floods, epidemics and bush fires. The Kasai region, which has been quite secure in the past, has also experienced major unrest which continues for almost a year following a customary conflict of power that has degenerated into sporadic clashes between government forces and armed groups spontaneously created after the assassination of the traditional chief Kamwina Nsapu. All surrounding communities were then involved in these conflicts, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths and more than one million displaced as well as refugees crossing to Angola. Recent statistics from UNOCHA showed that more than 7,3 million of people have been affected by this crisis with 6,9 million in the need of emergency assistance. The country hosts more than 2,1 million of IDPs and 541,000 refugees from neighbouring countries (Rwandans, Central Africans, Southern Sudanese and Burundians), all living in very deplorable conditions. These affected people and families are mainly located in the eastern DRC (including the provinces of North and South Kivu, Maniema, the former Province Orientale), Katanga and recently in Kasaï. Despite all the effort, the humanitarian community in the DRC (including CAFOD) remains unable to cover all the basic needs of these affected people, as well as those of their host families.
This project is designed to enable CAFOD to support its partners to undertake needs assessments in order to better understand problems in targeted areas, objectively identify priority needs of the most affected populations to prepare well-adapted and high quality proposals to address these priority needs while complying requirements of major institutional donors such as ECHO, DFID, UNHCR, Pooled Fund, etc.
Monitoring for the project Counsils's house and women's socio-economic conditions improvement Centre Olame will implement a project aiming to contribute to emotional and economic rehabilitation of women and their families surviving of all kinds conflicts and help them develop a system of resilience through the approach of sociotherapy in counselling homes in 30 parishes covering the 5 territories plus the city of Bukavu  (Kabare, Walungu, Kalehe, Idjwi and Mwenga). 

This project will be monitored by CAFOD DRC whose staffs are based both in Goma, so implying important monitoring
trips. The present project enclosures project Start up workshop, monitoring costs, financial & monitoring trainings, and an external audit which will happen at the project end.
Emergency Response for volcano-affected population in Goma Nyiragongo volcano erupted on the night of May 22 to 23 2021. This was followed by strong seismic activities in the city of Goma and surroundings, with a high risk of a new eruption. This pushed the provincial authorities to issue an evacuation order on May 27, 2021. To be precise, the evacuation particularly concerned 10 quarters out of 18 in the city of Goma. This evacuation order sparked a movement of large numbers of people who had to leave taking the directions as per the government evacuation plan in order to ensure their safety and therefore leave the main red corridors of the lava flow that runway down to the lake, coming from the Nyiragongo. So far, it has been reported that 405,907 people were displaced since the volcanic eruption to different locations such as: Sake, Bukavu, Rutshuru, and Rwanda.
As part of the Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) program, teams from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) have identified 4,000 affected households who live in 13 collective centers, including 11 schools and 2 churches, in the city of Goma and the territory of Nyiragongo. As classes resumed on 14th June, households living in these schools are forced to vacate classrooms during the day.
Through this project, Caritas Goma and Anglican Church are proposing to undertake a 3-months emergency live-saving support focusing on Cash Based Intervention through paper vouchers (for food and basic NFIs), and WASH support.
The project will seek to reach at least 6,875 affected people (approximately 1375 households) in the Nyiragongo territory in Goma, North Kivu province. 
Project implementation strategies will focus on provision of life saving support to affected population, at individual/household and community levels.
Civic Education and the Promotion of Participatory Democracy in Archdiocese of Kinshasa 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 Kinshasa, is simultaneously established in Bukavu and Goma by other partners with specific activities.
Emergency assistance in NFIs to 947 new households in Goma and surrounding sites, North Kivu, DRC This project aims to provide emergency assistance of essential non food items to 947 households displaced by the recent conflict between FARDC (government army) and the forces of M23 in spontaneous sites in and around Goma town (such as Notre Dame or Bulengo IDPs camp) in North Kivu. Following a rapid assessment done by Caritas Goma and CRS on November 22nd 2012, and other international NGOs (OCHA reports), food and non food items needs were identified as a priority for the IDP households newly arrived in Goma occupying churches, schools (such as Notre Dame d'Afrique and Don Bosco Centre) and some IDP camps toward South/Western of Goma (Mugunga 1, Mugunga 3, Bulengo, Lac Vert, etc.). 
Some of these families (713) have received food assistance for 15 days ration from Caritas Goma funded by CAFOD, but they continue facing the lack of non food items such as cooking sets to prepare foods, jerry cans to keep drinking water and clothes, blankets and plastic sheeting to protect against bad weather during this raining season. 

Trough this project, each targeted household will receive a kit of non food items including kitchen utensils, beddings (covers), clothes for women, children and men (second hand), plastic sheeting, soap, mat, hygienic kit for women, etc; according to minimum standards defined by the NFI/shelter cluster. 

The project will be implemented by Caritas Goma staff with support from CAFOD emergency team and in close collaboration/coordination with other humanitarian actors in Goma.

It is planned to conduct an external audit at end of project activities.
Supporting the CENCO's advocacy initiative In response to the ongoing contextual challenge in the country, CENCO has renewed its efforts and has initiated a series of advocacy activities in Rome, Brussels, EU etc . The next steps of this mission (if the means and agenda of the President of CENCO allow them) will be in Berlin, London, Washington and New York. There is need to lobby now so that the DRC already starts to prepare for the next elections by demanding: the reform of the electoral law, the organic law governing the CENI, the reform of the Constitutional Court, the creation of a genuine civil registry file by the census of the population; it will also be a way to put a definitive end to the dangerous debate of national registration.
As part of its mission and at the request of the President of CENCO, the CEJP is preparing an important advocacy mission to the European Parliament to meet Ms ARENA, Chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights. This advocacy will target the security situation in Ituri, North and South Kivu.The mission will include 3 steps:One. National advocacy with members of the government and accredited diplomatic missions in Kinshasa Two. Preparation of the advocacy file with the CDJP: Goma, Bukavu, Beni-Butembo and Uvira in Bukavu, a CEJP team will travel to Bukavu to also participate in the relaunch of the Peace to the Great Lakes campaign"
3. Advocacy mission to Brussels is also aligned led by The President of CENCO (Father Nshole and Father Clement). During this stage, the delegation will meet with European parliamentarians, the Belgian cabinet of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Belgian associations and the Congolese diaspora as well as the international press). The findings of this mission will be presented to the Standing Committee of Bishops in February 2020.
Four degrees. Advocacy mission in Berlin (April 2020).
Given the difficult time the world is going through because of the COVID19 pandemic, apart from those pleas, CENCO is also raising awareness among the Congolese population to fight against Covid 19 in the DRC.
To implement this, Cenco is requesting resources to support the effectiveness of these aligned activities and support the logistics of the activities.
Accompanying the Bishop's advocacy efforts to promote the democratic space Project will support support the bishop's advocacy meetings as well as the bishop annual meeting to harmonize upcoming strategy to political process
The effort to deliver the social mission of the universal church, through the Bishop conference known as CENO has remained at the centre of all CENCO's action. This with the effort to monitor the actual situation throughout the political process in the country aiming to promote peaceful power transition. Currently the country is not doing well, the democratic space has been reduced with limited freedom of expression. Human right defenders continue to be silenced, corruption has gone high and the cost of living has seriously gone up due to governance failure. In response to all these ills, the catholic church has chosen not to stand-by idly, but to take concrete actions that could lead to some change. Some of the action include the civic education program lead by the CEJP that targets the youth, several bishop’s letters that raise the voices on acts of injustice and poor governance, the church effort to disseminate legal texts, the use of the media to promote civic education. However, so far there has not been a manifest of any good will whatsoever from the power in place to implement this agreement even as of now way beyond the time line. 
This initiative will support the implementation of the extraordinary meeting of the bishops, the general assembly meeting of the archbishops and the bishop annual meeting which will serve as opportunity for the bishops to revisit and evaluate the current situation and thus position themselves accordingly.  This project will as well pay special attention to civic education of the population and the promotion of non-violent means as a way of expression in order to limit blood shedding. The Operationalization of the technical working group otherwise known as the observatory will as well play instrumental role to ensure effectiveness and strategizing on various bishop's gathering.
Rehabilitation and equipment of  Kyahala and Katanga health centre in Birambizo and Walikale Health Most of basic services such as health facilities had been destroyed by the war and equipments were  plundered in East DRC. In Nord Kivu province, 41% of health facilities belong to the Catholic Church, Managed directly by Caritas Goma; among them more than 60% were  plundered and destroyed during the last 15 years of war. Despite the effort made by humanitarian organisations to support free of charge medical care in 7/34 health Zones, Birambinzo and Pinga remain with very few infrastructures. This causes a high maternal mortality rate (540/100,000) due to lack of health facilities, delivery complications at home. High infant mortality rate (143/10,000). There’s a long distance between the existing health facilities and beneficiaries, more than 50 km is the distance to be undertaken by  by sick people or pregnant women to attend the Hospital. Caritas Goma, made a strong advocacy to provincial authorities as well as lobbying tofunding  partners with the view of exploring ways of improving this worrying situation in which the concerned population has been leaving as result of war and conflicts.
The current proposal in terms of activities is aiming at rehabilitating Katanga heath centre in Pinga health Zone(walikale territory), and Kyahala health centre in Birambizo(Rusthuru territory). We have in the two locations, 19,540 people who will benefit directly from this project, most of them are internal displaced, returnes and host families. Caritas développement Goma, submitted the present project in order to support this work while he committed to provide minimum equipment and drugs. Health authorities in province have committed to provide health workers and their salaries. The main goal of this project is to improve medical care through the  rehabilitation and equipment of Katanga and Kyahala health centre in North Kivu province by the end of November 2012 so that:
•	People in targeted area have access to health facilities nearest and in time;
•	Maternal and infant mortality rate is expected to decrease at least to 10%( current maternal mortality rate is 540/100,000 survival childbirth, and 149/100,000 people) 
•	Vaccination cover of DTC3 is improved by 20% (currently at 56% would be improved up to 76%)
•	17 Health worker are trained and appointed to provide healthcare to people
•	2 local committee of Community health workers (30 persons)are trained and participate in improving community health status
Caritas Goma will undertake some activities to achieve this, some of them will be directly funded by the partner up to 12,000 USD especially minimum equipment of each centre. While the following work will be funded by cafod in this project: Rehabilitation by a selected tender; trainings of heath workers and community workers by provincial authorities, monitoring and evaluation. The diocesan department of Health will be the implementation section which has a very strong experience in Primary health care management with a very long background with cafod and other sister agencies in this area of work.
Promoting demogracy and gender perspectives in governance structures This project aims to promote gender equality within the governance structures of the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

CEJP is the national commission for peace and justice, it coordinates the actions of all the CDJP scattered throughout the country. CAFOD has worked in partnership with CEJP to implement 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 equality 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.
Sub regional CAFOD’s Peace building program  annual review for year 1, Bujumbura,  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 proposed sub-regional peace building programme 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.   

During the mid-review held in Goma in January 2014 with implementing partners, some encouraging results emerged which need to be capitalised on for consolidating the programme. Peace building is also a process that requires consistency and a continuous education on peace and analysis of conflict factors. 

In the peace building programme framework we plan to have a review with the implementing partners. 

This project aims to: (i) bring together peace building programme implementation partners involved in peace initiatives in the Great Lakes sub-region, and (ii)  carry out an overall review of the implementation programme for the first year 
This review which will be held in Bujumbura and will be attended by approximately 17 participants from DRC, Rwanda and Burundi. It aims to run for two days.