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Partnership mapping and consultative workshop for Sierra Leone and Liberia Partners. This workshop is to guide and inform CAFOD’s future engagement and increase awareness of the organisations’ development and humanitarian interventions in Sierra Leone and Liberia. It is a strategic approach aiming to help CAFOD design quality programmes that will support the new thematic programme framework (participatory governance, food and livelihood security, EPPR, including WASH). The idea is part of the organisation’s continuous shifting approach seeking to meet the dynamic needs and aspirations of people we work with.  Bringing together over 20 leading stakeholders across each of these countries, the workshop is designed as a mixed interactive session and hands-on group work that will inspire dialogue on the issues, driven by a human centred approach and facilitated by CAFOD programme team.
Piloting integrated conservation livelihoods approaches around Western Area Peninsula National Park. This is a pilot project supporting two communities near the Western Area Peninsula National Park (WAP-NP), namely Big Water in the Western Rural Area and Aberdeen community in the Western Urban area, in piloting small-scale livelihood opportunities and raising awareness among local communities on the sustainable management of resources. 

The pilot activity will be done in collaboration with 2 partner organisations - one with conservation focus (Conservation Society of Sierra Leone) and one with a community development and livelihoods focus (Caritas Freetown), with support from a consultant and CAFOD’s Environment Adviser. We hope that each can bring their own unique technical expertise and experience, to develop an integrated approach that combines environmental and development perspectives and practices. 

The project will promote evidence-based research, small-scale conservation livelihoods and awareness-raising/advocacy primarily.  Partners will undertake a combined participatory environmental conservation and livelihoods needs assessment, and to use this to identify viable and sustainable “conservation livelihoods” options for poor households in these communities. We expect that the project  has the potential to link conservation and livelihoods to generate net positive, measurable social and environmental outcomes alongside a financial return for poor/impoverished communities in the WAP-NP. The project approach is directly linked to CAFOD’s Integral Ecology Programme Model, emphasizing the interconnectedness of people and their environment as discussed in the “cry of the earth and the cry of the poor” rooted from the statement of Pope Francis.
Increasing rural access to food and livelihood security in small Bo chiefdom, Kenema district This project will be implemented in eight communities of small Bo Kenema district to contribute to CAFOD’s Food and livelihood security and Emergency preparedness, response and recovery programme framework.  It is also designed in line with the Sierra Leone Presidents’ recovery priorities, which is a 24 months’ plan that includes Agriculture and Emergency preparedness as key sectors under its post Ebola recovery strategy.  
Caritas Kenema is implementing this project in collaboration with other appropriate line ministries i.e. MAFFs, MSWGCAs and local council heads. The project will target not only vulnerable groups (women and youths) but also rural communities that were heavily affected by the Ebola outbreak.
EMPOWERING WOMEN WITH BASIC COMPUTER TRAINING SKILLS Sierra Leone is grappling with high rate of youth unemployment which is exacerbated by low capacity of young people in life skills including computer science.  Port Loko district, in particular, the situation is worse because of the closure of mining companies. Several young people who were employed by these companies have been laid off recently. The situation of youth unemployment for the girls is much more precarious as most of them do not have high level of education. 

Therefore, Maria Ines Vocation Institutes has been training young girls on life skills, specifically on tailoring, catering, cosmetology, and computer skills. However, the computers available in the computer laboratory are old and outdated, making it extremely difficult to provide adequate skill training for targeted young girls.  The prevailing conditions in the communities results in lots of anti-social and economic problems such as prostitution, early pregnancy and drug abuse because of limited job opportunities for young girls and further worsened by the recent close of several mining companies due to the outbreak of the Ebola Virus disease in the country. 
To address these problems, the project overall goal is to empower and enhance self-reliance of young women by increasing their access to employment in both private and public sectors through computer skills acquisition.  The specific objectives is to provide computer skills training for 100 young girls in Pork Loko district by the end of November 2016. The following outputs of the project will be pursued improve the computer laboratory of the Maria Ines Vocational Institute, Lunsar, with modern computer equipment and to increase access to vocational skills training, specifically computers, for young girls and women to enhance their employability and economic empowerment
PEOPLE EU Volunteers capacity stengthening project - Caritas Sierra Leone This project is part of the wider EU Aid Volunteers funded PEOPLE project, working with 10 organisations across Africa. The main purpose of the PEOPLE project is to enable local and national organisations such as the National Commission of Justice, Peace and Caritas of Liberia 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.

The project objectives are to:
1. Strengthen humanitarian preparedness & response capacity of NCJPC Liberia to design and deliver needs based humanitarian aid.
2. Strengthen volunteer management capacity of NCJPC Liberia to facilitate integration & active participation of volunteers in humanitarian action.
3. Strengthen collective dialogue, knowledge sharing, learning and peer- to-peer support between NCJPC Liberia and other partners on emergency response and volunteers.
Connect youth programme - Caritas Makeni Caritas Makeni is a national NGO instituted by the Bishop of Makeni in 1979. Since then it has been involved in development and relief operations in northern Sierra Leone. Generally, Caritas Makeni supports emergency and development projects in  peace building and reconciliation, child protection,  community capacity building, and rural infrastructure development.

Specific program interventions include:

?Mobilization of local communities, planning, implementation and management of project at local level.
?Providing technical assistance and support for projects implemented by grassroots groups.
?Supporting justice and peace development initiative and Programmes.
?Supporting relief inventions e.g. food aid.
?Supporting agricultural extension and small scale enterprise development.

The institution is committed to the human development of disadvantage, the structural transformation of the societies in which they live, and the enhancement of the physical environment upon which they depend for their survival. To effect change, the institution promotes a participatory growing process of integral development based on the formation of micro – organizations among the disadvantaged to promote their own initiatives.
The project is about providing Caritas Makeni institutional core cost support while conducting baseline surveys for the development a strategic proposal for the implementation of their strategic plan.  It seeks to provide the organisational an opportunity to reorganise their organisation and management structures with a long term strategic plan. As an institutional core cost support project, it will enhance the finalization of CM’s human resource management and  financial management for effective management. Part of this project support will go for beneficiaries and stakeholder awareness and needs assessment.
Improving Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Health and Education Facilities in Pendembu Koh, Kailahun This project, in Pendembu Koh, Kailahun District, Sierra Leone, will contribute to achieving improved WASH, Health and Education in the target area. As well as complementing the early recovery plan of the Government from the Ebola Virus Disease response crisis. 

At present, The Sisters of the Congregation of the Handmaids of the Holy Child Jesus is supporting the Pendembu community in the area of health, education, psychosocial counselling and livelihoods. The health facility and the boarding facility for teenage girls that is being supported by the Sisters of the Congregation of the Handmaids of the Holy Child Jesus does not have improved water WASH facilities. Non-governmental actors have implemented WASH projects in the community, however, this has been done without due consideration to the issues of sustainability and community ownership followed by Limited capacity within the Ministry of Health and Sanitation. 

This project will therefore help improve the education of girls/children in the intervention community. This will further improve the knowledge/attitudes and practices of the targeted groups in hygiene and sanitation, including wider hand-washing campaigns.
CAFOD Mano River Programme Strategy Development (Strategic Plan 2013-2015) CAFOD's Mano River programme is in the process of developing a new strategic plan that will guide the programme direction from the period 2013 - 2015. As part of the process of developing a Country Strategic Plan for the Mano River Programme, CAFOD provided detailed guidelines and defined the scope for this process to ensure that it is enriching, relevant and fit for purpose. 

The strategic plan will be brief, concise and actionable (not more than 10 pages and as per CAFOD’s CSP guidelines). It will be a living document, drawing together and building on the policies and priorities agreed by CAFOD’s team and partners in Sierra Leone and Liberia and reflect CAFOD’s global strategy( Just One World).

The expected Outcomes  for the strategic plan are:
A clear direction  and mission statement for Mano River over the next three (3) years within CAFOD’s global strategy
Clear defined development scenarios and imperatives  for CAFOD Mano River in the next three years
Clear strategic Objectives
Performance indicators and expected results 
An annexed resource plan
Addressing disaster risk through sustainable environmental management in Sierra Leone By focusing on sustainable land use management and agricultural activities, this project directly supports the MDG1, “to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger” and MGD7 “to ensure environmental sustainability”. This project aims to reduce the vulnerability of target communities to drought, bush fires and wind storms through sustainable environmental management. 10 communities in Kenema and Makeni diocesan areas in Sierra Leone are regularly affected by these hazards, the affects of which are in turn exacerbated by poor environmental management practices. The combination of poor environmental management practices and regular hazards results in hunger, poverty and reduced food security for the target communities in both the short and long term.  The project will improve the target community’s understanding and implementation of sustainable environmental management and agricultural practices that will reduce the target community’s vulnerability to hazards, improve their food security, reduce hunger and poverty, and ensure long term environmental sustainability.  
This proposed project will support 10 target communities to implement sustainable agricultural activities, including inter-cropping, fencing, and the use of drought resistant crops. The project will enable these communities to take practical steps such as planting trees to create windbreaks and stabilise the soil, and provide them with eco-stoves and water storage facilities. Finally, the project will support the 10 target communities to develop community disaster risk reduction action plans, enabling the communities to evaluate the hazards and the links between these hazards and their existing land use management practices, thereby enabling them to respond with small scale practical activities that reduce their vulnerability to both the hazard, and the resulting food insecurity.
FOC Capacity Building The project is about FOC Director to attend Human Rights Advocacy training at Columbia University in New York. The training is organized by the Centre for the Study of Human Rights.   The study focuses on Human Rights and Globalization, and provides extensive training and technical assistance to leaders from NGOs working to secure rights for those who have traditionally been excluded from decision making processes on the global level. It emphasizes on building the capacity of local actors and their organizations. It seeks to provide advance training on advocacy knowledge on how to use international human rights mechanisms to seek redress for rights violations, and connection to the policy makers, NGOs etc. As a capacity building support project, the knowledge and skills acquired will enhance the finalization of FOC’s strategic planning process which is advocacy work focused.
Adding value to cassava through improved  processing and marketing of the product (‘‘Cassava Biznes Sierra Leone remains one of the least developed nations in the world, with a UN HDI rating of 174/178 (HDI, 2013). The vast majority of economic activity in Sierra Leone is informal, with the formal sector dominated by large-scale mining. More than two-thirds of the population rely on agriculture for their livelihoods, mostly in subsistence farming, with rice as the staple crop and cassava been the major substitute. Agricultural production accounts for 45-50% of total GDP. Cassava been second most important food crop in Sierra Leone after rice and constituting a significant portion of the diet of the rural populations in every part of the country has over the years been grossly under developed. Cassava processing has been more of ‘boil and eat’ while marketing had been with wide price fluctuation within seasons and locations. However, efforts to develop cassava sector had always been geared towards fight against mosaic diseases to improve production, which is just one aspect of the value chain while other aspects have received inadequate attention thus limiting intervention impacts.
The Adding value to cassava through improved processing and marketing of the product (‘‘Cassava Biznes na Salon’’) project is in line with objectives expressed in the Government of Sierra Leone’s policy framework for agricultural development and guided by the National Agricultural Investment Plan (NAIP), which proposes to reduce poverty and food insecurity (MDG1) and thus contribute in achieving the MDG by 2015. The Sierra Leone Agenda for prosperity highlights agricultural development as the pathway to sustainable economic growth for the country. The Government’s flagship Smallholder Commercialization Programme (SCP) is a major component of the National Sustainable Agriculture Development Programme (2010-2030) and has processing and value addition as one of its main thrust.
CAFOD & EC Funded Unlocking the Potential of the Moringa Cake project - CAFOD Held Grant This proposal is aimed at directly addressing both short and long term income and food insecurity of vulnerable Sierra Leoneans in Kenema and Bombali Districts. This will be done through the sustainable development of small scale poultry and inland fisheries production schemes. The project intends to use innovative and locally appropriate approaches and technologies to improve production in both poultry and fish farming as a way of enhancing communities livelihoods options. It will benefit vulnerable populations, especially women and youth affected by years of conflict in Sierra Leone thereby contributing to the realisation of MDG 1 (i.e. Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger) and support youth employment initiatives in the Country. 
Capacities of local partners and selected communities in Bombali and Kenema districts will be enhanced to enable them pilot innovative, cost effective and locally appropriate initiatives aimed at increasing production, value addition, consumption and marketing of fresh water fish and poultry.
COVID-19 Response - Caritas Makeni The unprecedented outbreak of Coronavirus has already created a devastating social and humanitarian crisis within Sierra Leone, with severe negative economic impact, thus, reversing the impressive economic growth which the country had achieved in recent years. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, 782 people had been infected with the virus in Sierra Leone. (Source – MIC (SL 28/05/2020). 

There are worrying signs that Sierra Leone is ill-equipped to contain the spread of the virus. Those in quarantine are often left without food or water supplies and disruptions to the agricultural, mining, construction, tourism and transportation sectors have had a severe knock on effect on people’s livelihoods and income security. Restrictions on movement of persons and the suspension of weekly community markets in rural areas (LOUMAs), has also resulted in food shortages in peri-urban communities. There are also fears that the same restrictions on movement and fear of infection have prevented farmers from going to work, putting an entire planting season at risk and making hunger a stark reality for already vulnerable, rural communities. The risk of malnutrition and starvation in the hardest hit areas makes urgent provision of food to vulnerable people and parish communities a top priority.
Capacity Strengthening - CAFOD Led This project seeks to improve CAFOD's partnership framework by assessing the performance of CAFOD partner organisation. It provides a way for partner organisation to infer the social benefit created by its activities relative to the resources it invests, and aims to allow its leaders to understand the performance of their organisation over time and in relation to other organisations. The project also seek better ways to deliver programmes/ activities while improving partners' interventions at community level.
Context Analysis and Advocacy Training- Sierra Leone and Liberia For the 2018/19 GPAT initiated a new strategy of GPAT is trialing a new system of having focus countries where there will be a sustained effort to help contribute to a significant step forward for the country programme in terms of its Governance and Advocacy work. Sierra Leone /Liberia programme is one of the countries of support. As part of the MOU, GPAT and SL agreed to conduct a context analysis for the programme to inform the programming options in Governance and advocacy through a support visit.
Partners Capacity Strengthening Support 2018-2021 In 2018 CAFOD Sierra Leone undertook an organisational assessment of five partners through which areas to develop/improved were identified. This will improve programme quality and organisational structure if implemented correctly. The five partners: KADDRO, Street Child of Sierra Leone, Justice and Peace Commission Kenema, Missionary Sisters of the Holy Rosery and Handmaid Sisters Pendembu have developed a three-year plan from 2018-2021 based on key priority areas. This work is aimed at improving project management, execution and organisational capacity.

In the second phase of this project, additional partners were added into the project whilst inactive partners were excluded. The second phase began with an update from KADDRO, Missionary Sisters of the Holy Rosary and Handmaid Sisters of Pendembu on the progress made against their three-year plans. CAFOD Sierra Leone has also added Caritas Kenema (which is undergoing restructuring and receiving organisational support from CAFOD) and the Inter-Religious Council of Sierra Leone.
Improving the health status of people in and around Pendembu by increasing access to water This project is designed to contribute to food and livelihood security, water, sanitation and hygiene by increasing community access to these facilities. It will contribute to CAFOD’s Food and Livelihoods Security and the Emergency Preparedness, Response and Recovery thematic programme frameworks – as set out in the CAFOD Sierra Leone and Liberia Country Strategy Paper (2016-2021).  
The project will be implemented in five communities in Pendembu, Kailahun district, which were heavily affected by Ebola. The outcomes of this project are in line with the Sierra Leonean Presidents’ Recovery Priorities, which is a 12 month plan that includes Water and Agriculture as key sectors.   
The handmaid sisters are one of the implementing partners of CAFOD and will be working closely with the Health ministry and other relevant stakeholders in Kailahun District during the implementation phase of the project. The project outcomes are as set below: 
  •	To increase community and school access to safe drinking water and environmental sanitation: The project will build eight latrines and four wells in five communities and schools across the five selected communities in Pendembu Kailahun District taking into consideration availability of facility and population
•	To reduce the prevalence of water borne and sanitation related diseases through environmental and personal hygiene promotion: communities and schools will be engaged in discussion on personal and environmental hygiene through community health volunteers and school health clubs during awareness raising campaigns.
•	Farmers have increased production and income through vegetable cultivation: The project will support farmers in groups, and provide them with seeds and input to improve on their vegetable production within the five villages
Addressing disaster risk through sustainable environmental management in Sierra Leone By focusing on sustainable land use management and agricultural activities, this project directly supports the MDG1, “to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger” and MGD7 “to ensure environmental sustainability”. This project aims to reduce the vulnerability of target communities to drought, bush fires and wind storms through sustainable environmental management. 10 communities in Kenema and Makeni diocesan areas in Sierra Leone are regularly affected by these hazards, the affects of which are in turn exacerbated by poor environmental management practices. The combination of poor environmental management practices and regular hazards results in hunger, poverty and reduced food security for the target communities in both the short and long term.  The project will improve the target community’s understanding and implementation of sustainable environmental management and agricultural practices that will reduce the target community’s vulnerability to hazards, improve their food security, reduce hunger and poverty, and ensure long term environmental sustainability.