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Peace education and school reintegration for children affected by armed conflict in North Kivu, DRC This project is the continuation of the project (DRC219 and DRC302) on Social and educational reintegration of separated children in Goma and the Masisi Territory.

The ongoing war in eastern DRC has affected thousands of people in local communities, especially women and children.  Armed groups such as CNDP, M-23 and the Mai-Mai as well as foreign groups such as FDLR and FNL recruited numerous children from this region who were used on the frontline of fighting. Indeed, the violent conflict in North and South Kivu creates circumstances conducive to the recruitment of child soldiers.  All the armed groups in DRC are guilty including the Congolese Army itself.  Once abducted, the children are brutalised and forced to serve as soldiers, porters and in the case of girls, sex slaves.

Since 2006, there has been an effort to demobilise many of these children and youth.  An estimated 31,000 children have been demobilised from DRC’s battlefields, with a further 3,500 to 8,000 children who may still be with armed groups in the eastern DRC provinces alone. 

Demobilisation, disarmament and reintegration projects have previously tried to bring children out of the conflict and back to their communities, homes and families but limited resources and endemic conflict have made it difficult.  There are significant barriers to peaceful and secure reintegration such as the lack of to access education, training, food and shelter.  Limited funding for reintegration projects has also restricted real peaceful reintegration and support for children and youth.

This project in North Kivu (Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo), aims to address the lack of education and vocational skills training opportunities for children and vulnerable youth whilst instilling the values of a peaceful culture.  Training will also be offered to teachers, parents and community leaders about the effects of violence and conflict resolution skills.

Anticipated outcomes – children and youth:

1.	are reunited with their biological/foster families and training is provided on children’s rights, family mediation and ways of earning a living to support the household
2.	complete primary or secondary school or train in vocational skills, to be able to get a job and earn a regular income
3.	understand their rights, know how to report abuse, access child-friendly justice systems and live in a community that demonstrates respect for children’s rights; additionally, births are registered
4.	Participate in the project, understand issues that are important to them and make appropriate decisions.
Additional support to need assessments for humanitarian crisis in DRC (FY17-18) The security situation continues to deteriorate in almost all eastern DRC, particularly in North Kivu, and in Kasai (central DRC) due to the activism of several armed groups (various factions of May-May, Nyatura, ADF/NALU, FDLR and the phenomenon Kamwina Sapu), causing a lot of population displacement. On 30 September 2017, UNOCHA reported the presence of more than 1 million IDPs in the North Kivu and 762,000 in 5 provinces of Kasai region. All these populations live in very poor conditions, most of them (approx. 95%) in host families with whom they share the few resources still available, which plunges them all into a situation of very acute vulnerability. Despite their effort, the humanitarian community in the DRC (including CAFOD) remains unable to cover all the basic needs of these affected people.
This project complements the DRC526 to enable CAFOD to support its partners (Caritas Congo and SOCOAC) to undertake needs assessments in Kasai and North Kivu (Beni and/or Lubero territories) in order to better understand problems in targeted areas, objectively identify priority needs of the most affected populations and prepare well-adapted and high quality proposals to address these priority needs while complying requirements of major institutional donors.
Support project for vocational training of reunified youth in their families in Kinshasa The city of Kinshasa in DRC have more than 10 million inhabitants. The population growth is very fast these recent years; social services and infrastructure don’t follow as well.  There are many challenges, poor city management and political tensions did not encourage foreign investments, so many residents are jobless, and fend in informal economy. The political instability did not encourage foreign investment and businesses are not numerous. It is noticed a important povery exposing families and children at risk of being abandoned and becoming “street children”. The NGO platform REEJER which leading fifty organizations estimated 25,000 street childre in Kinshasa, in 2015.

Those children can be found living on the streets for many reasons: they may be - orphaned or abandoned, - abused and ran away, - neglected or felt unwanted by their families. 
They have to survive day-by-day, lacking of parents’ care, appropriate healthcare and needed support. So many of them faced traumatic experience. 
Without the basic skills and emotional stability that come from a normal childhood, it become difficult when adult to find and keep viable job. As the phenomenon goes back several decades before, we have now many adults victims of their past as street’ children; so it is very important to give them a chance, through professional training and providing of material for income generative activity.
Since 2004, the Communauté du Chemin Neuf (CCN), which is a Catholic community with ecumenical vocation, started to work for street children through their owner organisation
“Ndako Ya Biso” (NYB) which is a Listening Center especially for this kind of children and adults who experienced street. Children are followed in the Listening Center, supported in food and healthcare and education, after that they are reunified with their biological family. Since 2013, more than 100 youth, were psychologically accompanied and trained in some crafts activities, and received kits of incomes generative activities, many of them are working now for themselves. The funding was provided by Porticus and UNICEF, right now the programme with those partners ended, and there is lack of funding.

This project will support vocational  training for 25 youth, followed in Listening Center and already trained for basic primary knowledges, by December 2016. Impressed by the performance of the CCN initiatives, CAFOD want to cover the CCN budget gap to finalize the vocational training of these 25 youth; this is a punctual assistance.
Strengthening civil society and grassroots communities in Mongbwalu - To train community leaders, responsible for local NGOs and the grassroots communities of Mongbwalu in  fighting against poverty
- Help for the improvement of relationship between miners, civil society and local communities
- Constitute observers and alert teams related to the environment in the gold mining areas
- Promote and support women's initiatives in the local development and advocacy
- Initiate parliament for children of Mongbwalu and its surroundings
- Monitor the implementation of recommendations related to the impact of extractive industries on local  communities
- Organize exchange visits
- Get city leaders to mobilizing citizen to participate in the definition and elaboration of development policies for the region
- Empower local leaders in mastering social analysis
- Set up resolutions and draw recommendations on the protection of the environment in  the perspectives of sustainable development
Improved access to potable water, hygiene and sanitation in Idjwi and Kaniola, South Kivu in DRC The past 15 years of violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has claimed the lives of an estimated five million men, women, and children. Numerous armed groups engaged in a complex conflict have created a profound humanitarian emergency, particularly in eastern DRC[i]. Despite its abundant natural resources, the DRC is one of the poorest  countries in sub-Saharan Africa, with an estimated 80 per cent of the population living below the income poverty line. The socio-economic indicators, including access to drinking water and adequate sanitation, are alarming and falling below
international standards, causing approximately 80% of the common diseases.  In terms of hygiene and sanitation, 96% of the rural population do not have access to proper sanitation facilities[ii]. Since March 2011, the country has also faced a deadly cholera epidemic, reporting over 22,000 cases and more than 500 deaths[iii]. 
Collecting and transporting water is a time consuming responsibility which predominantly falls on women and girls.  Women and children living in villages must typically walk 4–10km every day to reach clean water, placing them at
significant risk of rape and other abuse, since many available water sources are isolated.  
This project will provide clean water and sanitation facilities and training to 26,100 people (14,355 women and 11,745 men) in Idjwi and Kaniola health zone in South Kivu province. Twenty nine (29) natural water sources and four (4) public drinking water fountains will be constructed and communities will be trained on how to maintain them. The hygiene and sanitation components of the project will train people in 4 schools and 4 health centres and will construct 16 public latrines in schools, 4 incinerators and 4 placenta pits around health facilities.  The BDD-OSD/Bukavu will integrate gender awareness into their programming as part of the Protection and Early Recovery Programme. Advocacy messages will
be developed and used during special events as a means to address the root causes of poverty in DRC. The project will be implemented from 1 June 2013 to 30 May 2014 (1 year).  The availability of water sources in these villages will
be of material importance to the communities, as well as of symbolic importance as an indicator of the territory’s transition from war to peace. Women and children will be significantly impacted by the availability of close proximity
water sources, as it will reduce their daily labour and the risk of walking in insecure areas to search for water.
Need assessment in Punia and Shabunda territories for HIP 2015 application . Punia and Shabunda territories are respectively situated in Maniema and South Kivu provinces. These territories are now a stage clashes between various militias and FARDC, but also between the militias themselves for either the leadership or control of mining squares. This brought the local populations of these territories to live in a state of movement and regular return.
To respond to some emergency needs, CAFOD has initiated a need assessment among the populations of these two territories with its partners Caritas Kindu and BDD Kasongo to apply for the HIP 2015 funds.
Emergency assistance project for flood-affected households in  Dungu city This project aims to help the victims of the torrential rains that fell on  Dungu city from the second week of October until the end of December 2019.
These rains were the basis of the floods which caused several material and environmental damage in Dungu city.
Thus, the project proposes to provide emergency aid in essential household items, AME for 300 disaster victims who had lost all their household goods, and houses washed away by the floods in Dungu town in Haut-Uele province in DRC. 
Given that several families victims of these floods are with host families, and others who are homeless and who are at risk of developing diseases of the hands due to the poor quality of drinking water and poorly preserved.
SOCOAC intends to distribute NFI/Shelter kits (women's clothes, pots, blankets, sheets, cans, etc.) to its affected families to prevent weather and waterborne diseases. SOCOAC will launch a tender for suppliers of NFIs. Once the NFIs have been received, the kits will be replenished by the day workers. And each essential kit will contain: 
- 2 covers, 2 20-liter cans, 1 7-liter saucepan, 3 metal plates, 3 metal cups, 3 metal spoons, 1 ladle, 1 small kitchen knife, 3 bars of soap, 1 6-yard loincloth, 1 tarpaulin and 1 insecticide-treated mosquito net. 
This could bring a big change in their habit of storing drinking water, in cooking; and as they will have materials, they will be able to build shelters to protect the chronically ill, the elderly, people living with disabilities, young children, and pregnant women.
Emergency Food Assistance and Protection Response in Munigi groupement, Nyiragongo territory The overall objective of the project is to save lives and alleviate suffering by providing basic Food Assistance items and protection support services to at least 12,000 people in Munigi groupement, Nyiragongo territory, North Kivu Province.  Food assistance will target most vulnerable 1,377 HHs (about 9,639 people) who will be receive food rations at 100% of the Minimum Expenditure Basket (MEB) as per the standards that are in alignment with the guidelines of the food security cluster in DRC. The basket for each household will include 50kg of corn flour, 10kg of beans, 3 litters of oil and 1kg of salt. This 100% of food basket ration will enable households access and meet their basic and immediate food needs. Distribution sites will be selected based on their proximity to target populations. During distributions, priority will be given to people with specific needs (PLWs, elderly people, people living with disabilities or disease and female and child HHs). A risk analysis will be carried out before distribution to ensure that all preventive measures are taken into account to reduce the risk of exposing the beneficiaries to various forms of harm and ensure the protection of beneficiaries. Protection support services will be provided through awareness raising activities on general protection, GBV and child protection. Protection activities will target at least 12,000 people in Munigi IDP site, with specific focus on Female Headed Households (FHH), People with Disability (PWD), families with members who are elderly, sick, and children under five. Key considerations will be made to ensure specific safety, privacy and security needs of women, girls, men, boys and people with special needs are addressed during delivery of protection activities.
The project will be implemented by CAFOD, in collaboration with Anglican Church (Goma Diocese), for a period of three months. Expected project impact is improved access of households to basic food items, and better protection mechanism for the most vulnerable in Munigi IDP site. Implementation of project activities will mainstream gender and persons with special needs’ priorities and participation.
The role of the youth in a more transparent and credible political process This project aims to educate the youth on the importance of their role in elections, and strengthen the capacity of youth clubs in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

The project will aim at creating awareness and sensitizing the youth about the electoral process, and how the youth has an important role to play in the whole process. The project will as well aim at strengthening the capacity of the youth clubs through the identified universities who will in turn populate the message to a broader group.

In an effort to accommodate new voters, the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI), being the election’s organizer in the DRC, made the decision not to enrol new young people who have reached the voting age during the period since the last elections.  This decision is the root of a serious dispute within Congolese society. Later this could become a source of conflict or a pretext which could be used by malicious politicians to manipulate naive youths.  That's why the Uganda Joint Christian Council (UJCC) has chosen to focus on this issue by looking for ways to avoid this future frustration. These young people need to be enrolled in order to get the electoral card not only to allow them to vote but also to have an identity card.
Support to food Security for 300 families of Tubimbi south Kivu This project will support children returnees and orphans in Tubimbi South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
As the number of orphans and vulnerable children grows in Eastern DRC, their communities become less and less capable of addressing all their basic needs, including their ability to go to school. The project will introduce livelihood, including agriculture to supplement the children’s diets with home-grown vegetables. Host families and orphans will be trained in methods that improve soil fertility and increase crop productivity, including composting, mulching, and organic pest control. Crops from the farm not only provide the orphanage with an ongoing source of food for the children, but the surplus are sold at the market, providing a source of income. Animal husbandry and breeding of pigs, genie pigs, etc. will help pay for children’s school. The project will also help provide a nutritious source of protein for the children in the communities, manure to fertilize gardens, and income for the orphanage as animals and their products are sold at the market. 

The project will be implemented by FAAFAD and aims to support families and orphans in Tubimbi south Kivu. The previous project, funded by CAFOD and implemented by FAAFAD helped families recover their agriculture livelihood and through income earned they paid school for children.
Economic Assistance to Vulnerable Families in Kinshasa during the COVID 19 Outbreak COVID-19 is having a significant impact on the global economy, and for cities like Kinshasa, the impact will be more severe, where casual labour and small businesses are a lifeline for many families who are already struggling to survive.The consequence of limiting or even closing businesses in Kinshasa will have an extremely negative effect on people’s means of survival, more so than the impact of the virus being contracted, experts have warned of the dire impact this could have on many families. People will be faced with an unenviable choice of staying at home and losing much needed income, or going out to try to secure an income and potentially spread the virus or increase their risk of contracting it.  The economic consequences on vulnerable families will be catastrophic in Kinshasa where many low-income families live in informal settlements and slums which make social distancing impossible. Many will be ill-served by measures that rely on the stockpiling of food, the availability of savings, the ability to work from home and the need to keep distance even from close relatives. In these environments, staying at home will itself be a risk as people live in cramped, poorly ventilated dwellings housing in large numbers, queuing to use shared toilets, drawing water from shared wells and using crowded public transport. Immediate help is needed to support vulnerable groups, particularly those working in the informal sector who can no longer access livelihoods (decreasing purchasing power and leaving them unable to buy food or basic items to help practice good hygiene and not further spread the virus), people living with disabilities, the elderly, the chronically ill, and child headed households. Alongside this immediate need for support, there is also a need for mass education campaigns to dispel myths and rumours spreading about COVID-19 and to inform on best practices.
humanitarian needs assessment in  Maniema and South Kivu provinces For several decades Maniema and South Kivu provinces have undergone the presence of armed groups of all persuasions, in a context of acute socio-economic crisis. Populations face multiple challenges in accessing basic goods and services. The security situation in these provinces continues to deteriorate, causing multiple population movements. The situation is marked by serious violations of fundamental rights. In the revision of the operational plan for the humanitarian response strategy covering the period from July to December 2019 of the Province of Maniema and South Kivu, the territory of Kalehe caught the attention and mainly the health zone of Bunyakiri which was Priority 1 and Kalonge priority 2. For Maniema, the health zones of Salamabila and Kabambare are targeted in priority 1 and the one of  Lusangi in priority 2. These territories of Kabambare and Kalehe, are affected by regular and frequent population movements, where villages are empty fearing abuses of groups in arms or during clashes. These villages emptied of their population are often the seat of plunder and fire. The orchestrated violence against the population has become a dissuasive weapon of war. on physical and gender-based violence (SGBV) are numerous in these regions, although many are not listed due to lack of accessibility, means of communication or actors present in the area. The humanitarian needs in these areas, due to these difficulties of physical and security access with the activism of national and international armed groups, are only exacerbated. It is to be envisaged for the year 2020 a deterioration of this already serious humanitarian situation.
Restoring hope and dignity: Supporting women in Goma, DRC, to form small businesses This project seeks to improve the socio-economic status of women and their families within and around the city of Goma in North Kivu Province, empowering them to earn a secure and sustainable living. Our partner, Caritas Goma, will support vulnerable women to form Saving and Internal Lending Committees (SILC) and to establish their own small businesses. This includes selling food such as potatoes, maize flour and beans as well as cooking charcoal and spices, household items and clothes. Many of the women this project will reach have been displaced or have lost their husbands or children due to ongoing conflict. The women are unable to access loans from banks and face extreme poverty.
During the first two phases of this project, which took place between 2012 and 2016, 400 women received training and support from our partner and have formed 14 solidarity groups. 
Until now, Caritas Goma has been managing the funds for lending, but after a detailed evaluation of this approach it was decided that the responsibility should be taken over by the women themselves to create independence and financial autonomy. 
Our partner reports an extremely high demand from women in the Goma area to join the project – the women have witnessed the success of SILC and wish to liberate themselves from poverty. Therefore, Caritas Goma aims to increase the number of people supported to 600 (350 from the previous phase and 250 in the coming phase) and include 10 new groups in the programme.
Community empowering This project will mainly target religious leaders across various churches across the Archdioceses as well as the youth. The president of the republic has offered a space for citizen consultations. This is the opportunity for all layers of the population to echo and voice out their concerns at various levels regarding various governance concern.
It is in this sense that the Anglican church is proposing to work with the youth and implement various decentralized consultations across the country particularly in the kivus to fetch the desiderata of the community which will be consolidated and taken up to the president's desk.
The project will also organize a solidarity trip to the diocese of Beni in communion with the populations that has been victim of various atrocities.
Additionally the project will support a round table of church leaders to inform on some future interfaith statement on governance and accountability monitoring.