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Integration of safe, affordable, reliable, sustainable & modern energy into County development plans Energy access in Kenya is still low. The country is committed to improving access to safe, affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy, energy efficiency,  as well as development and use of renewable energy  as precondition for achieving national development goals such as poverty eradication, access to clean water, improved public health and education, women's empowerment and increased food production. The Interrelation between energy and poverty  from various countries demonstrate the opportunities vulnerable communities lose when they lack access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy services.
The project aims to support Effective integration of safe, affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy into County policies, development plans and implementation strategies.  specifically, it will (i)Strengthen capacity of Kitui County Government and CSOs/stakeholders towards integrating safe, affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy into policies, plan and strategies ( ii) Develop an advocacy strategy for informed advocacy on integration of safe, affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy into county development plans, police and implementation strategies 
The expected outcome are 
•Safe, affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy integrated into Kitui County Policies, plans and implementation strategies 
•County and stakeholder annual plans and budgets prioritizing safe, affordable, reliable sustainable and modern energy access and delivery. 
•Enhanced participation of local communities in the planning and delivery of safe, affordable, reliable sustainable and modern energy in kitui County
The approaches to be used include 
•	identification of key knowledge gaps and carry out research to inform advocacy strategy
•	Building capacity of partner for informed advocacy 
•	awareness raising and building understanding of county decision makers
The £ 16000/- project will be implemented in a period of 1 year/
Institutional Capacity Building A total of 120 priest and religious leaders will be invited to a one day non residential workshop which will be held once a month in the first three months. The priests and the religious will be invited through the Bishops office to ensure a high turn up and will be trained by the professionals in the legal field.   Training will be done by qualified coordinators once in every three months during their Diocesan meeting and it will cover most relevant legal topics.  Trainees will be expected to give feedback to the programme co- coordinators once in every three months during their Diocesan meeting. 

The trained paralegals and the priest will identify fifteen (15) members of the community from every parish, to include invitations to other religions as well as CBOs, who will be clustered into four regions for the residential workshops. The residential seminars will be in three phases during which the paralegal training manual will be employed.  The seminars have been planned to take place during school holidays to utilise locally available schools as residential places.  The paralegals who were trained in the past programme will be the trainers in the residential seminars.
Integrated Food Security Programme phase 2 - KCCB Programme Goal: To Contribute towards sustainable food security, just and peaceful co-existence for poor and vulnerable communities in Kenya and Uganda by 2021.

This a three (3) year project to be implemented by the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB); through two of its commissions i.e. Catholic Justice and Peace commission and Caritas Kenya. The project targets to empower the local farmers to engage the National and County governments in innovative advocacy - Citizen Voices and Actions. The communities will take a lead role in changing the policy framework for enabling environment in achieving optimum food production and water for agriculture and domestic use, as provided for in the Constitution of Kenya of 2010. KCCB will harness the influence of the religious leaders to help achieve this aim.

This Project will ensure special emphasis is given to the participation of the women, the youth (both boys and girls) and people with disabilities, through COFs engaging registered groups targeting these vulnerable persons. The Community Oversight Forums will be established to conform to inclusivity criteria (Sex, Age and Diversity) i.e. inclusion of women, as key players in food security and advocacy, the youth and people with disabilities.
Kajiado Pastoralists' Integrated Food Security Project This project aims to contribute towards food security and resilience for poor and vulnerable communities in Ewasu and Torosei locations of Kajiado County, Kenya. It seeks to improve: 
• income and livestock production levels, through training in financial and business management, and training in value addition on milk products, brick making for youths, goat distribution to special groups and water bottling for youth groups;   
• community access to water for both human and livestock use and safe sanitation and hygiene practices. This will be achieved through rehabilitation of water pans, construction of sanitation facilities and through hygiene promotion activities;
• disaster management and preparedness, and sustainable management of natural resources, through training and vulnerability assessments;
• advocacy for the target communities, through the identification of key advocacy issues and appropriate training and awareness campaigns

The project will seek to collaborate with the private sector and relevant government institutions both at the county and national level.
Support towards Pope Francis' Visit to Kenya This project aims to ensure the proper planning and execution of the Holy Father's itinerary in Kenya with the mandate to plan and coordinate various activities to ensure a successful visit of the Pope.
In November 2015, Pope Francis will make his maiden visit to Africa in a tour that will see him in three countries that have suffered Christian persecution and religious extremism. He will hold a meeting with religious groups, including mainstream Christian evangelicals, Muslims and Hindus to discuss challenges of religious tolerance and strategies towards a co -existence for a stable nation. 
To ensure proper planning and execution of the Holy Father's itinerary in Kenya, KCCB has formed a Papal Secretariat with the mandate to plan and coordinate various activities to ensure successful visit of the Pope. The Caritas Forum (CCF) partners meeting made an urgent financial appeal to CI member organisations (CIMOs) in Kenya for support to facilitate the Holy Father's visit.
Working with Pastoralists and other minorities in Kenya towards Peacebuilding and Policy Advocacy CAFOD has established a working relationship with Centre for Minority Rights Development (CEMIRIDE) on peacebuilding and conflict transformation and advocacy based on their mutual experiences and strengths and targeting the marginalised pastoralist communities in Kenya. The project focuses on the poor and vulnerable communities in the ASAL regions. CEMIRIDE’s role in this partnership involved designing appropriate strategies to intervene in the post election crisis with respect to pastoralist communities and also formulating short and medium term strategies on peacebuilding and conflict transformation. CEMIRIDE in this project is also expected to build on the ongoing long-term work of some of CAFOD’s partners in the marginalised pastoralist areas of the country. The project would be implemented in three phases which included:
1-Rapid Assessment on the effects/impacts of the post election violence on the marginalised pastoralist communities. The assessment was conducted and the findings disseminated to a wider audience. This report’s findings have been useful in planning peacebuilding activities and other programmatic initiatives in the organization. For instance, the findings of the survey enabled CEMIRIDE and partners to appreciate the historical and immediate causes of insecurity in various parts of minority and indigenous people’s areas.

2-Short term intervention focusing on advocacy and peacebuilding and conflict transformation  targeting Marsabit, Moyale, Samburu, Isiolo, Turkana South, West Pokot, Trans-Nzoia and the greater Kericho districts. These areas provided were targeted in the rapid assessment exercise whose findings have shaped CEMIRIDE’s engagement with the dioceses of Isiolo, Maralal and Marsabit on issues of advocacy and peacebuilding. This is set to be further consolidated in during the second year of the project.

3-Medium term intervention building on and consolidating the issues addressed in Phase 2 by building on the lessons and strengthening lobbying and advocacy as well as focused PBCT among the target pastoralist communities. Activities towards this purpose are projected to be implemented during this second year of the project especially concerted engagement with pastoralist parliamentary group, local community leaders, and media houses among others.
MMAAK HIV Prevention and Home Based Care Project The project team continued to provide prevention, care and support services in the three divisions of Nyangoma, Usigu and Maranda in Bondo district. These were achieved through media campaigns, dialogue forums, awareness campaigns, lobbying and advocacy activities training, distribution of IEC materials and home based care. Activities targeted men and boys on their vulnerability to HIV infection, and PLWHA receiving ARVs to adopt safe practices in order to prevent re- infection while adhering to treatment. The activities ensured quality and timely service provision. The services not only improved the quality of life of PLWHA but also reduced care burden on women in infected and affected families. 

Male community volunteers were trained on HBC, Counselling, advocacy and support group management.  More men are motivated to work as volunteers, change agents and role models. Majority are HIV positive themselves. Service provision has witnessed involvement of men leading to increased number of men accessing HIV related services. Women have been brought on board to ensure complimentarily in service. Continuous skills building with regular monitoring and evaluation to ensure effective application and better service delivery is necessary. 

During this period, the project continued to scale up initiatives to reach out to a larger male population.  Linkages with churches and other institutions such as the constituency AIDS committees and schools have improved. Men have been mobilized and motivated as agents of change. Men have taken on active roles in HIV mitigation. Successes during this period include the change of attitude by the community towards PLWHA, leading to increased number of people seeking support services from the project. Stigma is reducing as demonstrated by greater involvement of PLWHA in care and support activities, open to discuss HIV and AIDS issues and their HIV status; and joining of support groups or group therapies.
CAFOD Humanitarian Leadership Trainee Project CAFOD is a member of the Consortium of British Humanitarian Agencies (CBHA). The overall objective of CBHA is “To reduce suffering, mortality and morbidity in conflicts and natural disasters by strengthening the capacity and ability of the “third pillar” – the NGO sector - to deliver appropriate high quality, effective and timely humanitarian responses.”  

Amongst other things this will be achieved through capacity building which seeks to develop capacity within the CBH Agencies and the wider sector to increase the numbers and competencies of potential leaders, and increase the overall humanitarian skills and knowledge base of existing staff working in emergencies. One of the vehicles to achieve this is through the Humanitarian Leadership Trainee programme. Save the Children is the lead agency for the consortium on humanitarian leadership development.

The Humanitarian Leadership Trainee Programme is focused on bringing new leadership talent into the humanitarian sector. It is aimed at bringing new people into the humanitarian sector as well as enabling CBH Agencies to provide an exciting development opportunity for their most talented staff. 

CAFOD will participate in the Humanitarian Leadership Training Programme by hosting two trainees in its Kenya Nairobi Office. One trainee will be recruited in September 2010 and another one in the February 2011 intake. Each trainee will spend six months in Nairobi office and another six months on field placement with one of CAFOD's partners in the Horn and East Africa region. Save the Children will lead, develop the curricula and training programme for the trainees in consultation with member agencies.
The expected results of this programme will be to drive up minimum standards of staff leadership development across the sector and allow the CBHA to tailor courses to its member agencies’ specific needs. Furthermore, it is expected to address the lack of leadership in the sector and thereby improve the response to emergencies. CAFOD is not obliged to employ the trainees at the end of their training.
Market System Development Training In line with CAFOD's global strategy of 'Our Common Home' call to adopt an integral Ecology approach to our programming, the CAFOD Africa Programme team has agreed to adopt a Capacity Building programme for staff and partners on Market System Development(MSD) and Value Chain Analysis (VCA) Approach and models.

The Market Systems training is expected to equip staff and partners with an understanding of the Market System Approaches and Value Chains in order to strengthen our resilience work. The training will introduce MSD principles and strategies and compare this to conventional value chain development and other approaches
AMECEA PLENARY ASSEMBLY 2018 The AMECEA Executive Board shall be hosting the 19th AMECEA Plenary Assembly in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Friday 13th to Monday 23rd July 2018. As the highest decision making organ of AMECEA, the Plenary Assembly brings together all the members of  the Episcopate from the member Episcopal Conferences of the Association. These include the eight Episcopal conferences of Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, South Sudan & Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. The plenary is conducted in two sessions; the study,  and  business session. During the study session other agents of evangelization and partners of the Association will attend. 300 delegates are expected to attend this plenary. 
This project is thus a £15, 000 contribution of CAFOD as an AMECEA partner to facilitate the hosting of this plenary.
Emergency Drought Response - Maralal (GEF) The project will target 1760HHs rights holders comprising of rural pastoralists and agro-pastoralists drawn from Samburu county. The specific locations of the beneficiaries will be Lengusaka, Laresoro Longewan, Amaiya, Baragoi (Samburu County). These areas are  hardest hit by the biting drought manifested by food and water shortages, inter and intra community conflicts and high malnutrition rates. The target group includes highly vulnerable members including the disabled, elderly people, women headed households and people living with HIV/AIDS.
El Nino Preparedness Assessment Planning- Kenya & Uganda 2015 With the predictions of an El Nino phenomenon in Kenya and the South and East African Region, there is need for a preparedness plan for CAFOD and the Caritas Network in Kenya and Uganda. As of November 2015, Most of the CAFOD partners in Northern Kenya had developed contingency plans for a possible El Nino response. Caritas Kenya has already initiated discussions within Kenya to discuss the planning as well as on deliberations for a possible El Nino Appeal .

No concrete decisions have been made so far although discussions with Rome have been going on. CAFOD has actively been represented and participated in these meetings.This being a quick onset emergency and understanding that our reaction times to response needs to be ramped up, our preparedness and response planning requires even higher level of preparedness and planning. At the current time, no appeals have been issued although for CAFOD, the importance of informing our supporters about the impending crisis is can not be over emphasized. Carrying out assessments at this time and stage in the crisis will place us at a better position to provide value added data and field level data to any calls for RRFs applications as well as START funding that requires participating organizations to have some prior understanding of the situation and up-to-date actual field level assessment information. Thus assessment information is paramount and indispensable to a successful application as well as to enhance our capacity and ability to provide timely and targeted response in our strategic geographic areas. 

To realise this , there is need to constitute assessment teams to carry out flood risks assessments as well as identify any large affected populations that have not yet been reported by the press in our main areas of work in both Kenya and Uganda.
Home Based AIDS Care and Children's Programme 1.	To provide care and support to people infected and affected by HIV and AIDS
2.	To strengthen client referral systems through networking and collaboration with appropriate health and social service providers.
3.	To reduce socio-economic impact of HIV and AIDS to the infected and affected people, especially among the sexually active groups 
4.	To improve service delivery through continuous capacity building of the programme staff
5.	To empower PLWHA and orphans on their rights and stigma and discrimination
Development of Amani Garden as an educational centre in the community of Biddi The purpose of the project is to promote sustainable food and nutrition security of Bidii community by use of ecological farming techniques.  Although Kitale has generally been a highly agricultural potential region continous use of ianppropriate farming techniques mainly us eof chemicals, environmental degradation, land subdivision as a result of population explosion has led to reduced food production leaving most poor hosueholds especially slum dwellers and small farm holders food insecure.

OTEPIC has been working with these poor communites for over two years supporting ecological farming and other livelihood support activities for the community to ensure improved access to food and other basic necessities.  Over the period OTEPIC has been able together with the community to identify the essential needs for Bidii community in order to attain sustainable food security and has designed a project that wiill focus on capacity building of the community in appropritate and sustainable food production methods.
Peaceful elections and transtion;Conversation of faiths Project The Catholic Archdiocese of Mombasa in collaboration with other stakeholders proposes to mobilise and prepare a team of religious leaders to promote dialogue, understanding and cooperation in tackling the growing religious suspicion and a new wave of religious fundamentalism in the coastal region. 
The project is twofold, one is sensitization of faith leaders on how to address the challenge of growing religious suspicion and a new wave of religious fundamentalism, and manage the engagement with political leaders from this region on addressing the historical injustices and two, setting up of an interfaith team to monitor, gather information and distil it for advocacy. 
The project aims to build safe and supportive networks for inter-faith dialogue and conversation of faiths. The project targets religious leaders in the Archdiocese of Mombasa. The project will include:
o	Inter-faith conferences,
o	Dialogue circles among faith communities,
o	Joint inter-faith services,
o	Emergency preparedness in view of upcoming elections 
Archdiocese of Mombasa through its Justice and Peace Com will promote tolerance by working with religious leaders through the Coast Interfaith Council of Clerics (CICC), District Peace Committees (DPCs) and other influential community leaders. CJPC will build the capacity of these groups in early warning and early response, peace building and conflict management (PBCM) and alternative dispute resolution (ADR) skills in five (5) flash point areas prone to violence and negative ethnicity within Kilifi, Kwale and Mombasa counties. The enhanced capacity will enable the selected religious leaders, DPCs and community opinion leaders serve as peace ambassadors and spearhead dialogue forums and community outreach activities between different communities within the identified flash point areas. 
With regard to objective two, Caritas Mombasa will train teams of respected and committed community members on incident debriefing as well as psycho-social support. It is expected that we shall have able persons to provide community-friendly counselling services and attend focus group discussions (FGDs) in order to identify cases that need psycho-social support and where possible support them or refer them using the referral systems set.

Tentative proposed areas include Likoni, Majengo, Kisauni (Mombasa County), Ukunda (Kwale) Kipini (Tana River) and Kaloleni (Kilifi).  The exact localities will be mapped out after final consultations with Ecumenical leaders and District Peace committee members. The estimated number of program beneficiaries is about 5,000 people.
Climate Change Advocacy in Kenya Climate change poses immense challenges to the lives and livelihoods of many people in Kenya. For instance through recurrent droughts, drying of water sources, erratic rainfall, flash floods and landslides and the spread of diseases like Malaria. 
Therefore this project aims to create a people free from the vulnerabilities of climate change, and empowered by the improvements to their livelihoods. 

The project seeks to achieve this through 4 closely interlinked outcomes which include; a positive policy and legislative framework being in place, strengthened participation of Kenyans in the climate change debates at the local, national and international level; vulnerability of poor communities to climate change in Kenya being reduced.

The proposed project will be implemented by the Kenya Climate Change Working Group (KCCWG) through working in close collaboration with the Parliamentary Committee on Renewable Energy and Climate Change (PANERECC), and actively engaging the Kenya Populace in climate change issues. The project is closely linked to ongoing CAFOD work on Sustainable Livelihoods and Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation.