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Improving advocacy work on transparency of extractive industries in South Kivu Province (DR.Congo) CAFOD and its partner; CDJP/Bukavu have agreed to conduct an environmental, economic and social impact study in Mwenga Territory in South Kivu Province (Eastern DRC) where the gold mining company; BANRO, is operating. This study will reinforce advocacy work already undertaken by the partner CDJP/Bukavu and the Observatory of Natural Resources (ONR acronym). Since April 2013, CAFOD has been supporting a project which aims to promote transparency in the mining sector in South Kivu and to strengthen civil society. The project is executed by the ORN. This project is based on the advocacy work undertaken through the establishment of a permanent framework for consultation and exchange withvarious stakeholders involved in the Extractive Industries’ issue in South Kivu Province. With this study, all stakeholders involved will have an effective tool on which to build their advocacy work and to influence change in the mining sector in South Kivu Province.The research will take two weeks (15 days at least) and will be executed in Mwenga where the company Banro has started its mining activities. It will be carried out by expert researchers from the Davis University of California (USA).

Based on data collection sheets, this research will be based on the following elements:  

1. Visiting chosen extracting sites  by the company BANRO for gold mining; 
2.  Undertake contacts in focus group of local communities (opinion leaders, influential groups, etc..) and authorities 
3. Interviews, filming and to take some samples (recycling centres, of tailings, water, etc..)

After the field trip, other contacts will be at the City of Bukavu with Civil Society Organisations in South Kivu, authorities and representatives of the company Banro for their contribution.

CAFOD intends to support this study with a total amount of £ 8,000 from the Transitional Fund (FY 2013 - 2014). Indeed, this study meets the AIM 1 of CAFOD’s Just One World (Increasing Power and Influence). As this is a CAFOD's Internal Grant, CAFOD’s Advocacy Officer in the DRC will accompany the whole process and ensure the success of this study and the publication of the final report.
Livelihood through poultry and vegetable production in Kimwenza In May 2015, SOWERS OF HOPE CONGO conducted a study on technical and environmental context in which the vegetable growers of Kimwenza operates and the results showed that farmers are facing difficulties accessing:

           - Good quality seeds, and 
           -  They lack standard technic for agricultural practices and soil preparation 

As a result production have been poor. It is in the spirit of improving this that SOWERS OF HOPE-CONGO decided to support around 500 farmers in Kimwenza. This project is a continuation of the “Project to support farmers of Kimwenza in Kinshasa” (DRC 388), which successfully support more than 420 beneficiaries. This new project will associates poultry and produce manure as organic fertilizers to increase production of vegetables and thus improving income for vegetable growers, vendors and poultry producers. This will create jobs and have a positive economic impact on communities around the Kimwenza site. 

Specifically, the project will:

•	Make available agro-ecological technical to vegetable growers allowing preservation of soil fertility;
•	Produce sufficient organic fertilizer in quality and quantity to meet the needs of farmers
•	Produce Sale and consumption eggs to sustain the project
•	Improve the skills of the organization in terms of capacity and resources to support the project's impact.

Activities will be focus on soil fertilization and training on poultry include:

•	Training on the use of manure, composting and accompaniment.
•	Techniques and mastery of disease in birds

The project will be implemented in Kimwenza-station Valley, Mont Common Ngafula in City Province of Kinshasa; which stretches along the Lukaya River and streams in the site. This valley is marshy dominated by small hills grassy savannah type.  The implementation of such project will need at least £43,600. for one year.
Accompaniment of bishops' joint advocacy initiative on peace in the Great Lakes "Peace in the Great Lakes" is a joint initiative of the Association of (Catholic) Episcopal Conferences of Central Africa (AECAC) and of the Bishops’ College of the Province of the Anglican Church of DRC, Burundi and Rwanda.  It is open to any other religion that adheres to the goals of justice, peace and reconciliation in the Great Lakes sub-region of Africa (hereafter Great Lakes) in light of Gospel perspectives and of the Churchs’ social teachings. It intends to be innovative in seeking lasting peace in the Great Lakes sub-region through an ecumenical and interstate collaboration involving Anglican and Catholic Churches from Burundi, DR Congo and Rwanda. Launched officially on 1st December 2013, the initiative aims to seek new ways to support sustainable peace in the region.  This will be done by and through the example of an ecumenical forum that will bear witness to justice, identifying and participating in activities to promote peace, listen to communities in their search for peace and provide an ‘alternative’ voice in the reconciliation process.  The launch of the project will initially run for 12 months and will involve all levels of church and community.

The project has aspirational outcomes:

1. the Catholic and Anglican Churches strengthen their collaboration
2. people participate in decision-making processes through the Bishops’ advocacy actions and are engaged in the justice and reconciliation process in the region
3. Decision makers incorporate the points of views of local communities in their decisions.

The project will be managed and monitored by CAFOD’s team: Jules Mbokani Mathe – Advocacy Support Officer, based in Goma and Rosanna Rosengren-Klitgaard – Programme Manager for Governance and Peace Keeping, based in Kinshasa.  This project’s impact and sustainability will be ensured through continued proactive involvement of the local communities and will be supported and galvanised by the advocacy initiatives at parish level and at a national level.

CAFOD intends to contribute with £20.000 from CAFOD’s CGF FY2014-2015 covering advocacy related activities such as workshops, press conference, media coverage as well as some bishops’ advocacy visit throughout the world.
IEPM Programme Strategy Development Workshop This project is being undertaken to get an overview of our current program and how it aligns with Our Common Home and the African Framework Model. It is carried out in workshop sessions in which CAFOD staff and partner organizations are covering topics like the Integral ecology characteristics, situation scoping, the Theory of Change and the African Framework Model.
The aims are: to teach the participants the ten integral ecology characteristics and how to incorporate them in our programmes, to explain the theory of change and how to develop one, to be able to carry out proper problem analysis/situation scoping by deeply analysing problems, their causes and consequences, to better understand Our Common Home as the foundation upon which we build our programmes and to develop a programme strategy plan that is fit for the DRC context and in line with the African Framework. 
This project is also for us to reflect on what has changed for all our stakeholders and our role in bringing about that change in our previous projects/programmes plus the changes we seek to see going forward and how we hope to bring about that change.
Shifting the Power: strengthening the humanitarian and leadership capacity of CEPROSSAN The need to strengthening local capacities in humanitarian response in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is crucial as local NGOs are usually the first responders in a crisis. DRC has been beset by multiple security crises subjecting civilians to extremely high level of violence and prompting large-scale and frequent population displacements. Moreover, there is adequate civil society space in DRC but humanitarian response have been lead and managed by international organizations. On one hand this is due to the logistical difficulties of the country and on the other hand, local organizations have been labelled as having poor management, systems, corruption, etc. The consequence is that INGOs have, in many instance, undermine existing capacities. Shifting the power Project in Drc aims at strengthening the humanitarian and leadership capacities of 11 local actors and so to be able to play a crucial role within the current humanitarian architecture in DRC. From the capacity self-assessment undertaken with Ceprossan,  the organisation has elaborated a one year capacity strengthening plan with 6 objectives and 15 activities focus on leadership, influence and preparedness and response.
Youth Education & reintegration Project in North-Kivu Province of DRC This Project implemented by CAJED and APROFIME takes into account:
1) The supported transition of children and youth affected by armed conflicts, including those associated with the Forces and groups armed (EAFGA), children from vulnerable families and those not assisted by transitional host families (FAT) in Goma and the North of Masisi; as well as the family reunifications (RF). Post-reunification monitoring also being done by implemented partners.
Partners will also provide financial support to Transitional host families for income generating activities, this to ensure the assistance of children who will be on their responsibilities. 

2) This project has to contribute to :
- The education of school children through school re-entry;
- Vocational training of youth who have interrupted their education. This, for their empowerment through Micro-Enterprise initiated and managed after training.

3) This project will also contribute to peace education and peaceful coexistence through :
- Community outreach and;
- Training of local leaders and community participation structures (groups) on peace consolidation (in General) and children protection (in particular).

This project is related to DRC620
Additional support  for Protection and re-integration of ex-combatants in the diocese of Bukavu This Project is an additional  support to DRC321 Project of Protection and re-integration of ex-combatants in the diocese of Bukavu, funded by Caritas Australia. The project is designed to strengthen the peace building process by promoting peace initiatives, through: community sensitization and education, training and support to ex combatant associations; income generating activities – support to sustainable livelihoods, animal husbandry, small businesses – that will contribute to the peaceful cohabitation between ex-combatants and their host communities. 
This four last months, several  monitoring trips were done in Bukavu and neighbouring to visit project’s beneficiaries. The last visit was done by Mme Lulu Mitshabu of Caritas Australia coming from Australia. Related to all visits, the progress of results were appreciated; beneficiaries are improving their living standard, a peaceful relationship is noticed between ex – combatants and host communities, the numbers of ex – combatants arrested for robbery, crime and other violence is reduced, a new hope of live is surrounding ex – combatants and their victims.
Related to the project’s achievements, the donor’s delegate was keen to save money for two next years, what is confirmed up – to – date, so support could continue for this fragile communities; and the donor requested a filming documentation of activities, and more technical support from CAFOD.
The aforementioned visits and team discussions, presented a need of further investment to develop and reinforce permanent Caritas Bukavu’s capacities assess of beneficiaries needs to prepare and ensure project quality and long term development, for a greater and more sustainable project next years.
Institutional support to ACEAC General Secretariat activities ACEAC (Association des Conférences Episcopales de l'Afrique Centrale) is an episcopal structure for consultation and ecclesial communion between the Churches of Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda. The three episcopal conferences of ACEAC seek, from a regional perspective, to act out the identity of their mission, share part of their history and are still experiencing more or less similar socio-political situations, including: "lack of respect for democratic principles, insecurity, injustice, lack of respect for the dignity of the human person, the persistent flow of refugees, the illegal exploitation of natural resources, the destruction of the environment, etc.".
The ACEAC Standing Committee has adopted a new strategic plan for 2022 - 2027, which covers 5 main areas: Advocacy and Strategic Partnerships for Development; Social and health monitoring, Environmental protection and natural resource management; Development of ACEAC's institutional programs; Promotion of social, inter-ethnic and inter-religious dialogue; Innovative and concerted pastoral work and new evangelisation. This project relates to ACEAC institutional strengthening as well as for ISPR which is the ACEAC's permanent training programme for justice, reconciliation and peace.
DRC Operational Costs for Humanitarian Capacity Development Project 2016/17 Phase 2 of the  Humanitarian Capacity Development programme (HCD) started in April 2016 involving 3 new partners and 3 existing from the phase 1 in the DRC. Most of them are dioceses structures, 1 national Caritas and 1 non faith organisation. This project is intended to support a number of actions aiming at bringing some or all partners to common learning events such as simulation exercises, training on Core Humanitarian Standards, security updates, meetings with bishops, etc. Self-assessment workshops to establish capacity baseline (and end line) for partners also fall under this project as well as HCD programme visibility.
Addressing Imbalances of Power and Information in the Collection of Tax in the DRC The purpose of this project is to increase the DRC's tax revenue by reducing informal taxation and improving the understanding of the officially recognized taxes at the provincial and ETD (territorial entities) levels, as well as the behavior change of citizens in regard to informal taxation. For 18 months, the project will build the capacity of 100 key multipliers-actors (MAs) (heads of household, micro-business leaders and business initiatives, civil society leaders) on tax nomenclature and tax procedures. The trained and connected MAs will sensitize 10,000 households, small businesses entrepreneurs and community associations to pay taxes. They will use light and handy agencies (mobile banking) and new technologies (FrontlineSMS and Smartphones) to pay taxes, monitor and report harassment and tax evasion. The MAs will act as a network within existing Participatory Local Governance Committees (PLGCs) and will be encouraged to initiate and innovative actions to fight informal taxation that will change the MAs themselves and the environment within which these actions will be implemented. An effective system of complaints and sanctions will be put in place with the involvement of provincial authorities and ETDs. There will be the emergence of a local dynamic of dialogue and consultations between citizens and local authorities around the issue of informal taxation that will strengthen social cohesion and the State-citizen contract. This project is part of the vision of the DFID program to fight against power imbalances and information reporting in tax collection in the DRC. The experience and contacts established by a series of previous projects implemented by CAFOD and its partners in the targeted areas will serve as a basis and catalyst for achieving success of this project.
Emergency Food Assistance to 713 displaced families This project will provide emergency food assistance to 713 households displaced by the recent conflict between FARDC and the forces of M23 in the communes of Karisimbi and Goma, Northern Kivu. Following a rapid assessment on the 21st November by Caritas Goma food needs were identified as a priority for the 713 families sheltering in the churches of Notre Dame d'Afrique and Christ Mon Rocher. These families received donated food the first few days but having fled their homes and means of production are now struggling to meet their nutritional needs. Other organisations are providing assistance to the large camps that have sprung up as the fighting intensified but Caritas Goma will focus its efforts on the spontaneous sites which have been established and which have not received assistance, including in the churches. 

The food assistance will comprise 25 kg of corn flower, 5 litres of vegetable oil, 5kgs of beans and 500g of salt - a ration to cover 15 days. 

The project will be implemented by Caritas Goma staff.
CAFOD Rwanda accompaniment costs to Sexual Violence Programme To provide technical support/advice on trauma counselling and psychosocial support to the three partners implementing the Integrated Rape Crisis, Trauma Counselling and Psychosocial Support for Communities in Eastern DRC project and participate in the steering committee.
Accompanying BDD Shabunda processing Mutuals of solidarity BDD Shabunda implements in partnership with CDJP Bukavu a Recovery Project of women victims of sexual violence in Shabunda territory since 2012. This project has managed to reintegrate into the communities 648 women and girls who had been victims of trauma and sexual violence in Shabunda territory. BDD has managed to organize six women's associations from the project goshawks food security activities (agriculture and livestock) as well as income generating activities. In April 2014 during the program assessment workshop Simama, outings strategy of actions had been recommended including the migration of women's associations in mutual of solidarity. Due to the lack of resources it has not been possible to organize this exercise. The partners propose that the training workshop being organized by CAFOD directly given the necessary expertise for such training.
The interest of this training is to stranghten the achievements of  Simama program improving its sustainability in the Shabunda territory.
Participatory governance and civic education for peace in Bukavu archdiocese (DRC) This project will mainly target the youth in Bukavu Archdiocese that are easily manipulated and therefore vulnerable to fall into different kinds of violence. Now that the election has been carried out and the results have been published, it is time for the population to be engaged in the participatory governance process. The youth need to be equipped with the right knowledge to be able to participate meaningfully in the management of the public affairs, to exercise their civic rights, to demand what rightfully belongs to the people and meaningfully participate in the consolidation and construction of a stronger state.

However, it has been noticed that the results that have been published do not reflect the reality and the wishes of the people. Currently majority of the people are in some sort of suspense and observing whether the newly elected president will indeed challenge the Congolese people and fully rise to the expectations of the people to promote better governance and accountability in the management of the public affairs.
Otherwise there is the fear that there might be a sparkle of violence and the youth remain the main target for this. It is in this sense that this project will principally target the youth not to run into violence but to use their power to peaceful channel their expressions.
The use of new information and communication technologies will still be crucial component of this project as an effective tool to facilitate the collection and management of information on cases of abuses, monitoring human rights violations, as well as for advocacy purposes in preventing such cases. This project is implemented in Bukavu Archdiocese by the Justice and Peace Commission.
Strengthening the church's role in promoting transparent electoral process This project aims to support the upcoming elections of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Local elections have been promised for many years in the DRC. The last local and municipal elections took place 30 years ago. The upcoming local and municipal elections are a crucial step in the DRC decentralization process.

Since the publication of the election calendar, DRC’s civil society has been gearing up and getting ready to prepare local populations for elections. Following the publication of the calendar, CEJP (Episcopal Justice and Peace Commission in DRC) organized a meeting in Kinshasa with all of the country’s CDJP’s (Diocesan Justice and Peace Commissions) to discuss elections, prepare the Church’s strategy on elections and to clarify and agree on the Church’s civic education programme over the next two years. 

The message of the church is on matters that relate to the elections; clearly calling for fair, transparent and democratic elections to be held and for the government and parliament to respect the constitution during this process.  In the process, this will pave the way to also prepare the populations for elections and to observe the elections.
Clean Water supply to households affected by the Nyiragongo volcano eruption On May 22, the Nyiragongo volcano near the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo erupted.  Report produced by OCHA states that electricity line from Virunga national park and water supplies were damaged leaving thousands of Nyiragongo, Goma and Karisimbi communes unserved.  
Three villages and a district of the city of Goma were destroyed by lava on the north eastern side. Thirteen civilians lost their lives on the night of May 22 due to incidences related to the evacuation. The Civil society in Nyiragongo health zone confirms that 24 people, including 10 women, were burnt by lava, and 40 adults are still missing. The report produced by Caritas Goma indicates that more than 3,629 houses were ravaged by lava, 23 house roofs were washed away, the Goma-Rutshuru road is cut (about 2 km invaded by lava), 3 health structures and 12 primary and secondary schools were destroyed.
People have lost their belongings either in the haste of displacement, or burnt by the lava flow, or even looted in some cases. UNICEF reported that 2 of the 3 water towers serving the villages were burnt down. The only one still operational has piping problems and is in Bushara, more than 150 children have been separated from their families and it is feared that more than 170 children have gone missing as the population fled the city of Goma as a result of the volcano eruption.
In the city of Goma and its outskirts, earthquakes are felt intermittently. These tremors have caused cracks in buildings and more stress for an already traumatized population. Authorities have warned the population to remain vigilant and not to approach the red zone as mapped by the local government. There is also an outstanding risk related to ash from the eruption that could cause respiratory problems.
An assessment carried out by the Wash cluster on May 25, 2021 highlighted limited capacity to intervene in emergency to supply the affected households on WASH components and this particularly on clean water servicing. Through this project, Caritas Goma intends to supply drinking water to the 100m3 reservoir belonging to REGIDESO to serve affected and displaced sites by gravitation the households coming to Munigi center, Kihisi and part of Buhene thanks to 3 public fountains of at least 6 taps each.