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Event for Dissemination of EU Study on Barriers and Opportunities of Scaling up Rooftop Solar in Bangladesh Contract related to: Event for Dissemination of EU Study on Barriers and Opportunities of Scaling up Rooftop Solar in Bangladesh - The Support Measures and Cooperation Facility for Asia and the Pacific 2022, 2023 and 2024 provides the European Commission the possibility to finance small-scale activities that are needed for the achievement of the objectives of the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI-Global Europe) in those regions.
Ebola is Real”: Eradicating Ebola through Public theatre (Public Awareness) To reduce the incidence of Ebola outbreak in Liberia and to promote the use of preventive methods in the control of Ebola in Bong County, CAFOD is supporting one of her partners Development and Education Network- Liberia (DEN-L) to implement a project that is focused on sensitization. The strategy employed is to conduct public awareness on Ebola through theatre. The public awareness will provide information on EVD through a forum, open engagement and discussion process that allows the awareness team to perform dramas on the modes of transmission and prevention of the disease.
PEOPLE EU Volunteers capacity stengthening project - Caritas Cape Palmas This project is part of the wider EU Aid Volunteers funded PEOPLE project, working with 10 organisations across Africa over 2 years. The main purpose of the PEOPLE project is to enable local and national organisations such as Caritas Cape Palmas to improve the quality and effectiveness of their humanitarian preparedness and response capacity, and their volunteer management systems. This will be done through a process of capacity self-assessment and capacity strengthening action planning, Training of Trainers and cascading of learning on key emergency response and volunteer topics, and peer learning between the 10 organisations involved in the programme. CAFOD staff will provide support throughout this process.
CAFOD/EC Land Rights in Liberia: Equitable access to Land for the poor and marginalised The overall objective of the project is  to contribute to secure land tenure for poor and marginalised women and youth across 40 communities in Nimba, Lofa, Bong and Margibi counties in Liberia. To achieve this overall objective, two specific objectives have been developed: Specific Objective 1: To improve the system of land tenure and demarcation in favour of marginalised women and youth; Specific Objective 2: To promote land ownership for poor and marginalised women and youth using conflict-sensitive approaches. 
The project estimated results include: 
1. Increased number of land with title deeds (community-led land demarcation) for women and youth; 2. Communities, in particular women and youth, are aware of their rights on land tenure and how to access the necessary services to legalise land possession; 3. Civil Society Organisations are better equipped to support communities on land rights issues; 4. A conflict sensitive approach is mainstreamed throughout formal and informal land entitlement proceedings.
Capacity Strengthening for National Partners in Liberia CAFOD Capacity Strengthening Initiative is meant to enable our national partners to improve the quality and effectiveness of their programmes/project work in the communities, best practices, and development of policies to meet humanitarian minimum standards.

We are working with national partners to put protection, safeguarding, and accountability at the heart of our work. We use a nine-component framework to plan and design high quality programmes with partners, as well as continuously assess and monitor our work, identifying and resolving any issues for delivering safe, dignified, and inclusive programmes. The SADI framework is composed of nine core components which together make programmes safe, accessible, dignified and inclusive. Each component has a statement of good practice, indicators to establish a programme’s level of adherence, and guiding questions to support practical application and understanding. It can be applied as an assessment tool for local partners to assess their projects, to guide programme design processes, and for quick reference.
Bringing Agenda 2030 to life: Strengthening the role of the Church and voices from the ground Agenda 2030 (which includes the Sustainable Development Goals – SDGs) includes transformational shifts for how the international community approaches sustainable development. These include leaving no-one behind, protecting the environment, deepening participation and tackling inequality. These correspond closely with key aspects of Catholic Social Teaching: preferential option for the poor, care for our common home and people as artisans of their own destiny – all emphasised in Laudato Si’. It brings together the cry of the poor and the cry of the earth.
Economic Empowerment of Disadvantaged (SEED) Youth in Liberia CAFOD and its partners aim to support the SEED project by overseeing two of the critical components: technical skill-building and business development and establishing strengthened linkages for job creation. The implementation strategy will focus on ensuring targeted disadvantaged youth are properly equipped to identify relevant training opportunities that are both engaging, while also offering sustainable livelihoods. Technical training will be hands-on and experiential, with a priority on small groups for easier management and personalization. Groups of 50 youth each will be trained in business development, planning, and management, entrepreneurship, as well as financial and adult literacy skills. These same groups will be trained simultaneously on the VSLA model and formed into VSLAs in the beginning of implementation. Each VSLA will have 25 members. By using the same groups for various capacity-strengthening activities, group rapport and cohesion will be built for solid support networks and sustainability. While the technical components are ongoing, activities will also focus on building networks between disadvantaged youth and potential employers and/or markets for enhanced opportunities,. In order to strengthen engagement and sustain youth wellbeing, a 2-week cash for work (CfW) activity will be implemented, focusing on waste management and city beautification. Trained youth who successfully complete the technical training will be provided start-up kits and organized into cooperatives for engagement in small enterprise development. Ongoing monitoring, paired with refresher trainings and technical support, will ensure that especially those youth who are struggling or falling behind can receive the advice and mentoring that they require to move off the street, create successful livelihoods for themselves and reintegrate into mainstream society. This is the second of two similar projects in Liberia.
Improved Livelihood for Smallholder Farmers through Increased Cassava Yields and Market Linkages This project builds on the recent (2022-23) investments in Sierra Leone and Liberia into a market systems development strategy for cassava in Liberia and maize in Sierra Leone, as well as ongoing GAP support to the Sierra Leone & Liberia Programme to strengthen agroecological practices and learning in livelihoods activities. 

The main livelihoods activities in Bomi County include subsistence farming and petty trade. Cassava crop can be processed into five main products: gari and fufu, cassava flour, cassava starch, ethanol, and livestock feed. Cassava’s economic potential in Liberia is pervasive nationally and market demand for cassava products exceeds supply by far.  According to a study commissioned by CAFOD, the cassava value chain is functioning sub-optimally at present in Liberia. In addition, cassava yields are low, processing capacity is only utilized to a limited extent, and farmers face high transport costs of raw cassava limiting their revenues.  Smallholder farmers also face very limited access to the right markets and microfinance (credit facilities). Moreover, there are minimal packaging, marketing, and branding efforts, poor access to energy for value addition, high spoilage rate due to poor storage and transportation practices limiting their revenues. Cassava yields can be increased using agroecological approaches, which have a positive impact on the environment, it is the best undertaking which can address both the cries of the poor and the earth.
There will be 100 smallholder farmers and two cooperatives. Training will focus on agroecological approaches to improve productivity, soil health and agricultural diversity, and the provision of farming tools and improved cassava cuttings. Using the MSD Approach, the project will ensure value-addition by introducing farmers and processors to simple cottage processing techniques. Cassava farmers and cooperatives will be supported to process their cassava produce into gari, fufu, starch, and cassava flour.
Addressing disaster risk through sustainable land use and land ownership management in Liberia This project aims to reduce the risk of the target communities to conflicts over land through peace-building and conflict resolution activities that also build sustainable livelihoods to support their long term food security needs. Communities in Cape Mount, Lofa and Grand Kru counties in Liberia are affected by drought, bush fires and seasonal flooding which, combined with conflict over land tenure and land ownership systems and the resulting conflict, results in a vicious cycle of land degradation, conflict and food insecurity. The project will be carried out in the communities of in the diocesan areas of Cape Mount, Grand Cru and Lofa with rural communities’ dependant upon agriculture and access to farming land for their livelihoods and that are affected by a combination of drought, bush fires and wind storms and conflict over land tenure.
Humanitarian Capacity Strengthening 2021 - NCJPC The main purpose of the HCS Transition project is to enable local and national organisations such as CCFN to improve the quality and effectiveness of their humanitarian preparedness and response capacity. This will be done through a process of capacity self-assessment and capacity strengthening action planning, Training of Trainers and cascading of learning on key emergency response and volunteer topics, and peer learning between the 9 organisations involved in the programme. CAFOD staff will provide support throughout this process.

The proposed objectives are:
•	Uphold agreed partner commitments for a further 1 year of support in Nigeria, Zimbabwe and Liberia.  
•	Support PEOPLE partners to continue to embed learning, policies and processes developed during PEOPLE.
•	Capture learning on the longer-term impact of capacity strengthening support to PEOPLE.
•	Involve existing partners and the CS team in piloting new approaches and developing CS tools.
•	Facilitate peer exchange between HCS and CAFOD staff and partners from other countries to share expertise and promote different CS approaches.
•	Learning from the transition phase and HCS experiences to date will feed into the development of a CS strategy and approach for the international programme.
Improving Community-Based Fisheries Cooperatives Structures to effectively function CAFOD, through Caritas and Development Office Monrovia shall provide technical support for six Community-Based Fishery Cooperatives (ELWA Community Fishery Cooperative Society Ltd. King Gray Fishery Cooperative Society Ltd. New Kru Town Fisherfolks Cooperative Society Ltd. Kpekor United Fisherfolks Cooperative Society, Ltd. Banjor Beach United Fisherfolks Cooperative Society, Ltd. and West Point Liberian Fisherfolks Cooperative Society Ltd.)
CAFOD and CDOM will train the Management Teams of each of the six cooperatives in Business Management and VSLA (Village Savings and Loan Association) Modules, facilitate the Leadership Elections and develop the Byelaws and Constitution for each cooperative, facilitate the development of each group’s business plan and budget, provide group and one-to-one coaching and mentorship on the VSLA, Business Management, Leadership, and how to conduct group meetings.
Strengthened Civic Engagement and Capacity-Strengthening for Inclusive and Equitable National Dev. This initiative will focus on utilizing the role of the Catholic Church to strengthen inclusive and equitable development and peace in Liberia. This will be accomplished through community engagement and capacity-strengthening of lawmakers to ensure that the voices of the most vulnerable are being heard and represented. 

Liberia has struggled to build an inclusive nation with shared values and cultural appreciation extending beyond the narrow political and economic interests of the ruling elite. State power and the control of resources has been controlled by the ruling class. This has been a great impediment to national development, eroding public administration and institutions so that they only represent the interests of those in power. The 2017 national elections saw a high turnover of elected officials, with 62% of new representatives in the Legislature. As in any democratic society, bringing in so many people with such vastly different ideas and interests to agree on key policy development and implementation can be challenging. CABICOL and NCJPC, in partnership with CAFOD, have been working over the last two years to develop the capacity of the legislature, especially Catholic lawmakers, to encourage that they employ Catholic values and social teachings in the discharge of their duties to ensure equality, justice, care for the poor and underprivileged, gender equality, and effective rule of law.
Provision of WASH Facilities in Over Populated Communities in Gbarnga City The project aims to improve health by provision of safe drinking water and promotion of good hygiene practices to serve the growing population of greater Gbarnga. Low access to adequate water supply, sanitation and hand washing facilities, lack of positive behaviours related to water treatment, toilet use and hand washing are key public health challenges in the region especially among children frequenting schools. This project focuses on improvement in these areas that will reduce several common illnesses that impede an entire community and a child’s learning ability to stay in school. The project seeks to improve the quality of consumable water provision and sanitary facilities in densely populated communities where people find it difficult to access safe water and WASH facilities. Also, it will reduce water and sanitation related diseases burden on Women and children (boys and girls) who are directly affected by lack of WASH facilities and poor sanitation and hygiene practices. It is intended to target 2,500 families:(over 10,000 people), 4 primary and secondary schools (2,400 students and 50 teachers) 1,000 boys, 1,400 females, 800 males and 1,700 women; aggregating 500 households. Three major strategies will be used to achieve the planned outcomes including: Community mobilization, participation and ownership to ensure social and financial sustainability, Behaviour changed methodologies based on collective awareness; Build capacity  of communities, particularly women, vulnerable groups, and local governments. The project envisage 3 main outcomes after implementation including: Scaled-up access to affordable and sustainable safe drinking water delivery points and sanitation infrastructure for 500 households, Improved Behaviour Change communications of individual households and community members through the participatory hygiene and sanitation transformation (PHAST) methodology, Improved school hygiene through hygiene promotional activities.
Promoting equal participation of disadvantaged in decision making on Natural Resource Management The JPC was established in 1991 primarily to respond to the widespread abuse of human rights which occasioned the 1989 Liberian civil crisis. The mission of the JPC is to speak on issues regarding human rights, social justice and peace. The JPC provides legal aid services, advocacy, civic education and fact finding.  The JPC covers the fifteen political subdivisions of Liberia.
This project will presents an opportunity for the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission in Liberia to raise their voices on issues of Natural resource management and empower affected communities to be active participants in the decision making processes and sharing of benefits from the mining and logging proceeds.
Information from this project will be shared with the Liberian Bishops conference for their advocacy work.
Enhancing Accountability and Citizens participation in Political processes in Liberia. The issues of social and county development funds are significant potential point of tension that need more attention in post-war Liberia; while at the same time, the remote locations of the selected target groups make them vulnerable to political exclusion and manipulation, and exploitation of their shared benefits.
This project will develop the skills of target groups in networking, advocacy for political and economic justice, social analysis, and civic engagements.
Urgent Appeal for Food support to vulnerable people and quarantined Catholic communities in Gbarnga Quarantine and restriction of movement of people as a measure to reduce the spread of Ebola affects economic activities such as trade and farming. As a result, food prices surge and most households find it difficult to provide food for their families resulting in inadequate daily food intake. To restore the hope of these vulnerable and quarantined communities, that seems to be slipping away, Caritas Gbarnga and CAFOD are embarking on distribution of rice (staple food of Liberia) for 3,491 households (3,000 community members (i.e. 1000 community members each from the three counties and 491 Gbarnga Diocesan staff) in Bong, Lofa and Nimba counties of Liberia. To ensure effective implementation of the project the partner will: i) identify beneficiaries through enumeration, ii) Secure store facilities for food items, and iii) Procure and distribute food items to Diocesan centres for onward distribution.
Support to the reconstruction of the Catholic Bishops Conference' National Secretariat The National Secretariat of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Liberia (CABICOL) was gutted with fire on the 19th of October 2021, bringing down nearly the entire structure. The National Secretariat hosts the offices of the Secretary General and the National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) among others.

As partner to the Catholic Church of Liberia, CABICOL, through the National Commission of Justice, Peace and Caritas (NCJPC) have asked for CAFOD's support to reconstruct the facility.

After reviewing the request, CAFOD Liberia and Sierra Leone has decided to support the church to reconstruct the facility through NCJPC, the charity arm of the bishops conference.
Socio Economic Empowerment of Disadvantaged (SEED) Youth Project - Phase II CAFOD and its partners aim to support the SEED project by overseeing two of the critical components: technical skill-building and business development and establishing strengthened linkages for job creation. The implementation strategy will focus on ensuring targeted disadvantaged youth are properly equipped to identify relevant training opportunities that are both engaging, while also offering sustainable livelihoods. Technical training will be hands-on and experiential, with a priority on small groups for easier management and personalization. Groups of 20-30 youth each will be trained in business development, planning, and management, entrepreneurship, as well as financial and adult literacy skills. These same groups will be trained simultaneously on the VSLA model and formed into VSLA Groups. Trained youth who successfully complete the technical training will be provided start-up kits and organized into cooperatives for engagement in small enterprise development. Ongoing monitoring, paired with business and technical support will ensure that the youth, especially those who are struggling or falling behind can receive the advice and mentoring that they require to move off the street, create successful livelihoods for themselves and reintegrate into mainstream society. This is the second of two similar projects in Liberia.
Urban Agriculture Project This project is intended to contribute to long-term poverty reduction in Liberia by improving livelihoods and mitigating the socio-economic impact particularly on Women and girls in Monrovia and its environ through the establishment of urban agriculture (vegetable production) intervention. Moreover, the goal of the project is to make farming an alternative livelihood for poor urban women and girls in Monrovia and its environs. It is envisioned that the project be implemented in five slum communities in Monrovia and its environs. The project will target 120 women and girls as project participants providing them with trainings in vegetable production, small business management and providing agricultural inputs (tools & seeds) to enhance their activities. 

Project Goal: To improve the livelihood security and make vegetable farming an alternative livelihood support to 120 poor peri-urban women and girls (direct participants) in five communities in Monrovia and its environs. 
 
Outcomes:
1.	Increased knowledge and skills of targeted participants through trainings for increased vegetable production and marketing;
2.	Increased vegetable yield and productivity of target participants’ farm operations through upgraded farming methods and inputs (seeds & tools ); 
3.	Improved and strengthened capacity of existing SHED’s Demonstration Farm to respond to food security status.
Married Young Women and Adolescent Girls Initiative (MYWAGI) This project aims to assist young women and girls in strengthening their economic capacity and participation in community leadership and gender development, as well as increasing the advocacy of local NGOs in human rights abuses, in Liberia.

There is high economic dependency of young married women and adolescent girls on their male counterparts which increases their (young married women and adolescent girls) vulnerability to HIV and AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. Women’s vulnerability is strongly linked to their overall disempowered position in society, and their (traditional) economic and social dependency on men.  A combination of gender-related factors leaves women and girls particularly vulnerable to HIV and other sexual and reproductive health problems. 

These include traditional cultural, socio-economic, educational and behavioural factors. Sexual debut among women is at a younger age than among men. Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) are widespread and further contribute to women’s HIV vulnerability. Unprotected sex with multiple partners is common, especially among the most sexually active young population, with many (young) women engaging in transactional sex to secure a livelihood. 

Several studies consistently show low condom use, partly due to women’s inability to negotiate consistent condom use in a context of economic dependency, coercive sexual intercourse or rape. As the girls have no say over when and who they get married to, they also have no control over when they are initiated into sex. Most of these girls sexual debut is unwanted and traumatic. Additionally, due to the high levels of violence that were a well-known feature during Liberia’s 14 year civil conflict, all elements of protection for girls and women disappeared in the maelstrom of violence. This included widespread perpetration of rape, whose legacy both in terms of the damage it has caused to victims, and in terms of societal preoccupations lingers on.