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Strengthening the youth capacity for their integral reintegration 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 safe reintegration such as lack of access to education, to vocational training, and to food and shelter. Limited funding for reintegration projects has also restricted real safe reintegration and sustainable support for children and youth.
This project in North Kivu (Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo), aims to promote sustainable reintegration of youth at risk including ex-combatants in Masisi, Rutshuru, Nyiragongo and Goma Town. The specific objective is to equip these youth with the needed social and livelihoods skills for sustainable reintegration into society and help to enhance government’s capacity for tackling youth unemployment. The expected outcomes are sustainable reintegration of youth at risk including ex-combatants and train teachers, parents and community leaders about the effects of violence and conflict resolution skills.
Emergency Assistance to 400 households affected by a violent storm in Kasongo, Maniema,  DR Congo Based on the assessment done by our partner Caritas Kasongo, need of NFI-Shelter, food and Wash were identified as top priorites by those affected. Support with NFIs and shelter were their first and mosty urgent needs as we are now starting the rainy season.  This rapid response will be given in timeline less than 45 days usign using a fair approach - 2 fairs will be implemented.
Supporting CdC activities/ Additional fund to Bunia Justice and Peace activities in Mongbwalu 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
Monitor the implementation of recommendations related to the impact of extractive industries on local  comunity
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
Advocacy trainings: Making the case on the role of the women as key players in sustainable WASH Over the last two and half years, CAFOD and partners have been implementing the MF4 wash program in DRC. The primary outcome being that Communities, civil society organisations and local authorities have improved capacity to identify, plan, engage with, deliver and adopt sustainable WASH services. 
Tremendous work has been done on the field. In the DRC context, has worked with CARITAS Bukavu, Caritas Goma, Beni-Butembo and Kasongo responding to abject WASH needs in hard to reach communities. In the communities, the program targeted the many community frameworks Based made up of interfaith women leaders, women and men from locally based civil society, and politico-administrative representatives.  These Community based Frameworks have been given basic knowledge on he governance and the sustainability of the services within the community beyond the project life period. They were also trained and sensitized on the role of the women in water service management and how to enhance women's participation in water service management, improved access to safe drinking water and community development including the participation of women and men in WASH projects.   The Framework s have so far performed well and made many cases of advocacy towards the local authorities to improve the participation of women in Wash programs; they have raised community awareness on hygiene and sanitation, protection of water sources in schools, health centres, made campaign on how to wash hands especially now with the occurrence of EBOLA in the region.
Strengthening the capacity of partner on current context Monitoring is a primarily responsibility of Partners as they are the one responsible for the implementing and monitoring  projects on ground. In the current context, it is important to re-visit partners' ways of working in consideration of the current context. Partners need to remain keen about important aspects that are related to safeguarding and how to remain sensitive while implementing various interventions in the COVID context.
This will also help to train partner on quality targeting and the use of IT as we adjust into the current ways of working.
This will also facilitate the process of revising key aspects related to safeguarding of which, now need to be revisited with each partners and assess their implementation in how this is being applied  and reflected in their day to day ways of working.
Emergency assistance for most vulnerable Households affected by Ituri crisis in Eringeti This intervention is meant to reduce the suffering of the affected population. The assistance will improve the living conditions of the beneficiaries and enable them to have access to NFI, shelter, health, etc., as per their individual household specific needs. The cash that beneficiaries will receive will allow them to buy essential household items/or pay rent etc as per their most pressing need. This will allow them to be sheltered from the weather and thus less likely to become sick. The project will restore dignity while encouraging autonomy of the most affected people within the 45 days period during what is foreseen to be a limited displacement.
COVID-19 related messages will accompany the intervention to help these communities to integrate good practices and consequently reduce risk and further strengthen prevention against this pandemic.
Protection and re-integration of ex-combatants in the diocese of Bukavu, DRC The project aims to support, since July 2015 under DRC321 in webpromise, post-conflict recovery through socio-economic reintegration of ex-combatants, including children, in the territories of Kabare, Kalehe, Walungu and Idjwi. 32 ex-combatant associations with around 900 members have been provided with long lasting employment and income generating opportunities through the project income generating activities and training. For most of these ex-combatants, including former child soldiers, demobilization often entails immediate loss of income and social status. Rapidly providing assistance to support the transition from military to civilian life is a central component of this project and will facilitate DDR processes in post-conflict situations and enables ex-combatants and host communities to find alternative livelihoods and to rebuild their communities. The employment opportunities has been key to preventing recruitment of ex combatant and use in armed conflict. This has also proven to be essential to ensure sustainable reintegration of ex-combatants, as the ability to work is a crucial element of peace building and development in the target communities. 
Through this project: a) 32 associations of ex – combatants will be strengthened in advocacy, protection, conflict resolution, protection, citizenship and income-generating activities for sustainable livelihoods to avoid ex-combatants returning to armed groups; b) a networking will be facilitating between local existing associations and the local and national government level, and a linking will be set up with the market; c) the peacebuilding process will be strengthened through the peace promotion and education, and the sensitisation of 700 ex combatant with their host communities 
Innovation for this FY has included:
-	Actively involve the participants in the project activities for example as “trainers of trainers”, and identification of potential leaders to support in the strengthening of associations 
-	Peacebuilding training will comprise not only the ex-combatants but the whole community 
-	This year the project will support 15 new groups that the population had formed on their own initiative.
Impact assessment of education activities of the  anticipation of volcanic eruption CAFOD and involved agencies are proposing to conduct an impact assessment of the education and sensitization activities that the project provided on how communities can live with the volcanic hazard and how to react if it erupts; 
These activities included:  distributing the HAZAGORA game in 30 secondary schools, designing contingency plans and emergency simulations in 60 schools and 3 public institutions, and the production and dissemination of hazard maps in regard to future lava flow in Goma town. 
While we distributed the game to the schools, a lesson learned was that we were not measuring the impact this game was having on the teachers, pupils and their families. It was noted as well for the contingency plan that schools and other institutions would be revising their plans each year in order to adapt them to the actual context. At the end of the project, there was a feeling from beneficiaries that if the crisis happens today then the activities will have helped.  The impact assessment aim to assess whether the project contributed to that end by assessing the impact of hazagora game, and other education activities.
Supporting the CENCO Boshop's Extraordinary meeting about the current political context In the effort to deliver and achieve the social mission of the universal church, the catholic church through the Bishop conference otherwise known as CENO has remained very active to monitor the actual situation throughout the political process in the country in the effort to promote peace and justice for all people. As said, the country is not doing well at; the democratic space has been reduced with limited freedom of expression. Human right defenders are silenced, corruption has gone high and the cost of living has seriously deteriorated due to governance failure. In response to all these ills, the catholic church has chosen not to stand-by idly, but to take concrete actions that could lead to some change. Some of the action include the civic education program lead by the CEJP, several bishop’s letters that condemn acts of injustice and poor governance, the church effort to disseminate legal texts such as the constitution in local language in the effort to educate the people about their duties and right just to mention a few. In addition to these, one of the CENCO’s move that marked the news head lines was about the Global and inclusive political agreement that sanctioned the end of the negotiation among different political stakeholders which was under the lead of CENCO. Some items that were blocked under this agreement included the appointment of the prime minister, the operationalization of the National Monitoring Council of the Agreement and the Electoral Process (CNSA) just to mention a few. However, so far there has not been a manifest of any good will whatsoever from the power in place to implement this agreement that was altered to lead toward a peaceful power transition. 
This initiative will support the implementation of the extraordinary meeting which is an opportunity for the bishops to revisit and evaluate the current situation. This should also result in defining the strategies on how to disseminate the content of the “Saint-Silvestre Agreement” in all the national language to allow the citizen to meaningfully play their role in the current context. 
In addition to the above, this project will also support the purchase of a power generator for the Catholic University of Congo which is one educational and youth empowerment project under the management of CENCO. The University functions to empower the Congolese youth and prepare responsible and better qualified leaders for an emerging society. This project initiative aims to strengthen the capacity of the Catholic University by facilitating the acquisition of a power generator in order to respond to the challenge of power shortage from SNEL, the national power provider that unfortunately is unable to supply power as needed by the population. The acquisition of the generator will seriously improve the operational capacity of the university and will improve on the performance of the student thus limit other potential risks.
Support to food security of 120 distressed families in Tubimbi South Kivu and 50 in Maluku Kinshasa Clashes between armed groups and FARDC in Walungu in South Kivu in 2012 and the first quarter of 2013 have caused displacement of people in Tubimbi, Mulamba and Kaniola areas , the first being the most affected . This displacement was
accompanied by looting of food , even in the field, and essential household items. With FARDC operations supported by MONUSCO in the area who have hunted armed groups away from the area, a lull is observed and displaced people have
started returning to their areas of origin. Of the 50,000 displaced people in this area, various humanitarian reports have indicated the return of more than 80% of the population. Humanitarian present in the area have provided emergency
assistance in terms of food and essential household items during the displacement.
However, these households are unable to recover because what they had as livelihoods have been looted, namely food, field products, essential household items ... The assessments made ??in August 2013 by FAAFAD indicates a high
vulnerability in food security. The same report indicates that in previous clashes, many people have lost their lives which cause a large number of orphans. The latter have difficulties to return back to school because they have no one to take
care of. The report of the partner FAAFAD indicates that some of these orphans had manifested great interest to do a small business breeding of guinea-pigs that allow them to earn some money that can support their studies. It is in
this context that this project has been developed with the overall objective of ensuring food security for the recovery of 120 families in distress and 50 orphans. FAAFAD needs 16243.5 U.S to support the rehabilitation of these families and orphans in food security.
At the same time, the same precarious food security was observed in Kinshasa, in the fishing zone of Maluku. FAAFAD being in collaborative relationship with a local NGO called APAM, he presented the need to support these families in distress in Maluku as well as those of Tubimbi, this time by allowing them access to fishing equipment. 50 families in distress have been identified in Maluku and need 13722.80 dollars U.S. to ensure their food security recovery.
We preferred to have a single project  of 29966.3 U.S. dollar (18 £ 593.21 ) with these two issues in regards to the small
amounts required since it is the same theme of food security operated by two local organizations working closely together. Such an operation would strengthen the local partnership in the field of food security
Strengthening citizen engagement and participation within Goma city. This project aims to strengthen a grassroots culture of participatory democracy and raise citizens' awareness about environmental protection, particularly by planting trees and ensuring responsible clean-up of their living environment. 
The project will be implemented through the animators of development structures such as the Urban Council for Peace and Development (CUPD), the Communal Council for Peace and Development (CCPD), and the Neighbourhood Peace and Development Unit (CPDQ), taking into account the SADI approach and child protection mechanisms.
The project will raise the beneficiaries' permanent concern for maintaining the ecological balance, respect and protection of the environment. This includes a collective commitment to planting trees. The slogan "one plot, at least one tree" is a commitment that will help regenerate the environment. 
Through the strengthening of the CCPCs, the project will enable the leaders of these citizen structures to be able to interact constructively with governments in order to promote the culture of citizen participation and government accountability to citizens. To the extent that community leaders are fully engaged, they will be able to bring about change at the local level to promote good governance and environmental protection.
Empowering the Psycho-Social Assistants/APS SIMAMA project is one of its own kind of project that has so far been operational for over five years. The particularity of this project is that it has a holistic approach in addressing the SGB question in the Diocese of Bukavu. In its approach to respond to the gender based violence crisis, Simama Project initiated so far more than 16 listening houses, a way to come closer to the victims and reach out to them with some assistance and giving them a safe and trusting environment for them to tell their painful story and experience one hand and have the chance to be listened to and thus have the chance to discharge their stress and trauma. These listening centers have got each a minimum of three social agents who work together hand in hand in the effort to provide some sort of relief to the victims of sexual violence.
The later have done a tremendous job in offering support to the victims. However, we have realized that in the process the later have as well been affected and traumatized in a way by the painful story of the people they support each and every day and this over the years. It therefore came to JPC attention, the pressing need to come up with supporting psycho-social mechanism that helps them to be trained on how to provide psycho-social assistance to the victims and not carry the burden of the victims. 
One of the recent experiences are for instance the increasing number of the cases of children born of rape and child abuse by adults or victims of sexual abuse. These children are registered in our counseling offices and are most of the times accompanied by their parents. APS have been experienced a difficulty to support these children and implement activities that help their social integration and their de-traumatization. It is in this sense that the sexual violence program came up with this initiative as a way to empower the APS to effectively respond to such cases.
Strengthening the regional communion between ACEAC Justice and Peace Commissions In line with the conclusions of workshop on peace in the sub region held in Kigali in February 2013, ACEAC (currently
piloted by CEJP DRC) had to take an overall leadership in peace efforts in the sub region, for a more coordinated and concerted church action. To launch the sub regional peace project, it has proven necessary to convene an ACEAC
workshop regrouping justice and peace commissions of Rwanda, Burundi and DRC in order to further exchange on peace initiatives following the signing of a peace agreement in Addis Abeba and the adoption of resolution 2098 by the UN security council. In addition to developing ACEAC tri-annual plan, this workshop will analyse current challenges to peace, the likely impact of the peace accord & UNSC Resolution and inform the sub regional peace building program implementation and advocacy strategy.    


This project will be implemented by CEJP DRC
with support from CAFOD peace building program Officer in close
collaboration/coordination with Governance and Peace building PM.
Shifting the Power: strengthening the humanitarian capacity of HEAL AFRICA 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 Heal Africa, the organisation has elaborated a one year capacity strengthening plan with 5 objectives and 13 activities focus on leadership, influence and preparedness and response
Emergency assistance and protection to 5,000 IDP households in Kitchanga and Mweso areas, North Kivu Masisi territory (North Kivu) is currently in a critical situation with ethnic tensions, leading to waves of internal displacement. In November 2012, some IDPs managed to reach Mugunga camps in Goma, other stopped in Kitchanga-Mweso where there were already more than 100,000 IDPs. With the last movement of IDPs, there are more than 300,000 people without assistance. However, many NGOs are focusing their response interventions in Goma town because of easier access. Masisi territory is a former stronghold of the National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP) from which the M23 originated. In Masisi, violent attacks against civilians and lootings have led to massive population displacements of up to 60,000 households (est. 30,000 households along the axis Sake-Masisi centre; and 30,000 households along the axis Sake-Kitchanga-Mweso).

A follow-up assessment conducted by Caritas Goma emergency team from 14th to 17th of December 2012 to Kitchanga-Mweso axis showed, among others, a high score card for IDPs and host families (which confirms the need for emergency assistance); 60% of families visited had poor food consumption, eating low-nutrition food once a day or not at all (certain IDPs in camp have not received NFI assistance since 2010, and received food assistance from WFP most recently in July 2012); 16 cases of rape have been reported, 32 children recruited by armed groups, with 7 armed robberies incidents reported. 70% of IDPs fear for their own security both living in the camps or with host families. FARDC, militia groups and unknown armed groups were identified as the main perpetrators are. 

As the key priority for the newly displaced people in Masisi is food, NFI, and protection of civilians and unaccompanied children against violence, including gender based violence and forced enrolment in armed groups, which have been widespread, in close collaboration with Caritas, CAFOD submitted a project as a response to these priorities to DIFID who accepted to fund it.

This 4 months project will be implemented by Caritas Goma to assist 5,000 vulnerable households with foods and essential non food items according to standards defined by the clusters. The project will also have a protection component to collect and share information on protection incidents, to train and sensitize military personnel and rebel groups’ leaders in civil protection and relevant aspects of international humanitarian law.