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Support to advocacy for people affected by armed conflict in Eastern Congo Despite the military defeat of the M23 in November 2013 and the military pressure on the ADF / NALU and APCLS in North Kivu, dozens of armed groups continue to commit abuses in the provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu and Orientale. At the end of 2013, the DRC continued to count 2.9 million internally displaced persons (UNOCHA snapshot DRC, December 2013). Approximately 2,900 children continue to suffer directly because of the conflict, either by being forced to commit hostilities or by various types of physical violence including sexual violence.
The Catholic Church continues to urge the parties involved in conflict to respect the integrity and dignity of people. Aspects related to violence including sexual violence were identified by the CDJP (diocesan commissions for Peace and Justice) through the SIMAMA programme, which has been implemented by church partners since 2012.
The main expected outcome of the SIMAMA programme is that “The partner is able to advocate for a decrease in the number of violent incidents in the targeted areas, in particular cases of rape and gender based violence in the eastern part of the DRC. This is to be done through an increased awareness by authorities and applications of laws against abusers of civilians’ rights”.
 
This project therefore will influence decision makers at national and provincial level to develop and implement mechanisms for protection of populations against violence by March 2015. The project will: 
? Developing a clear advocacy strategy 
? Strengthen the framework for dialogue on issues relating to the violence against civilians 
? Awareness raising on issues of violence among stakeholders
The project will work with CEJP to oorganize workshops on advocacy strategy with three decentralized CDJPs from eastern DRC, namely Bukavu, Beni-Butembo, and Bunia. These partners will be trained on how to gather information that will be used for advocacy by Bishops at the national and international level. Partners will also advocate for peace and the end to hostilities in the communities at the local level. 
The project will collect information from Eastern DRC on root causes of violence and wars and feed this to CENCO for advocacy. The CEJP management will prepare briefing materials for DRC bishops participating in regional peace and reconciliation forums. The project budget is 31,664 $ or equivalent to £18,847.62. the project will impact  2,000 persons directly.
Promoting citizen participation  in preparation to  the election The on-going political situation in DRC is likely to tear up much troubles than expected. Despite the agreement signed on December 31st, 2016, under the leadership of the Catholic Church and the negotiation to hold the election on December 2018, climate of disagreements (on the use of machine to vote and the candidacy of the current president in the ruling party) tend to raise violence from unsatisfied population, especially youth. For the Anglican Diocese in DRC, It’s wise to anticipate this situation by implementing it in three main activities as follow: 
-	 Raising awareness on the political process and  election, populate the election calendar, sensitize communities about their roles and responsibility in the effort to increase the people’s participation in the forth-coming election. 
-	Training of authorities and political actors (Youth & women will be trained according to gender equality, rights and obligation of voters and candidates.
-	Anglican staff of Diocese will reinforce their capacities in monitoring issues related to the project.
The project will be implemented in the city of Goma, Bunia, Kinshasa and 23 suburbs neighbouring the three cities, from 2nd July2018 to 27th February 2019.
This project will ensure the promotion of women and youth as well as inclusive participation of all stakeholders involved in exercising citizen basic rights and obligations. 
The main aim is to consolidate the process of democratization and political governance by supporting process of peaceful elections, through information sharing on the legal framework and the challenges of the on-going electoral process.
For instance, 225 actors (local authorities, community leaders) including 30 local authorities, 110 women, 40 men, 75 young people (boys and girls) will be involved in awareness raising and 5 staff of the Diocesan Offices will strengthen their capacity on civic education and election. 200 house holds,  which is 45000 people will benefit from this Project indirectly.
Support needs assesments and quality proposal development Preparing for joint assessment is one of the elements of Minimum preparedness actions for an Emergency Response Preparedness. This require planning for it ahead of time and avail resource for it. In the revised CAFOD HCD framework (2016), one of the indicators of preparedness is the availability of necessary organisational resources to activate and implement its emergency preparedness plan if an emergency occurs.
Effective disaster response planning leads to timely and effective disaster relief operations. It also helps in building realistic expectations.
In fact, when disaster strikes local actors are often the first to respond. Government and national or local organisations can rapidly mobilise their resources to respond to a disaster. Donors should first and foremost ensure that local actors are equipped with a proper emergency preparedness capacity because they will save most of the lives and assets after a disaster.
In strengthening local and national capacities to respond to shocks and minimise loss of lives and livelihood, preparedness also enables a quicker recovery.

In fact, since more than 20 years, DRC has faced various humanitarian crises, mainly due to the activism of both national and foreign armed groups, who continue to operate in several provinces of the country on the one hand and, on the other hand, resulting of natural disasters such as floods, volcanic eruptions, epidemics and bush fires. 
Responding to the emergency caused by these hazards required having evidence by organising field visit, collating both primary and secondary data.  

This project aims to support partners to carry out timely needs assessment and conduct planning session for proposal development.
Emergency Food assistance to 7440 household of new IDP in Minova-Rutshru-Kitschanga, North Kivu DRC Since Mid-April 2012, DRC army forces are fighting with a new rebellion called M23, led by Bosco Ntanganda, a rebel searched by the international criminal court. More than 100,000 people are displaced in Goma, Masisi, Rutshuru and some fled to the neighbour country in Rwanda and Uganda. An Ea was launched by CI on 16 May 2012, but includes NFI only. Caritas Goma and Cafod team had a rapid need assessment from 15-19 May. As main outcome, we found that people are exposed to die by hunger especially breastfeeding women and children under 5 year old. With Colleague from sister agencies and we decide to raise funds as to provide Food aid to 7440 household most affected in Minova, Kitchanga and Rutchuru.
The Aim of the current intervention is to provide rapid Food assistance to IDP, so that they can survive when they will be waiting for other Aid agencies and the EA outcome.
7440 Household (37,200 people) will be assisted by 25 kgs of cornflour, 1kgs of vegetable groundnut oil; 10 kgs of beans and 500 gr of salt which represent a stock of food for 2 weeks for  IDP in these period when they spent over 3 weeks without nothing to eat.
The project will be implemented by caritas Goma within 2 weeks with cafod-caritas Belgium staff support in Goma. All the procurement guideline will be respected and monitoring will be on daily basis with local staff. This intervention is most supported by other aid agencies in place and UN agencies as well including WFP who is limited now in terms of intervention in Food sector.
Annual Partner Meeting and Country Strategic Paper review CAFOD DRC is in the process of preparing its annual meeting. This meeting willl pull together all the partner from different parts f the country. This will serve the opportunity to as well revisit and assess what has been done so far in regards to different programs. At the same time this will be the opportunity to as well assess our strengths and weaknesses as a country team, browse through the opportunities and threats that could potentially affect our work in either way. 
In addition to the above. this gathering of about two weeks will as well be the time to review the country that will road-map the work of cafod for the next five years taking effect already by next year. 
The funds being sought under this project will serve the purpose of organizing this two weeks meeting. Covering the charges of all the partners and CAFOD staff who are to gather for the purpose explained above. There are huge logistical cost that will be impended to cover all the travel expenses of the staff and partners coming from Kinshasa, London, Bunia, Dungu, Bukavu and Dungu just to name a few. The workshop and meeting will take place at CARITAS Guest-house where most of the participants will as well be lodged.
As a result of this long meeting, CAFOD DRC aims to have a newly reviewed CSP that will set the base for our work in regards to humanitarian and development needs for the next five year.
Protection and re-integration of ex-combatants in the diocese of Bukavu-Year 3 The project aims to support socio-economic reintegration of 700 ex-combatants and work with 75 saving and lending groups comprised of community members in Bukavu town and territoiries (Kabare, Kalehe, Walungu and Idjwi)  to improve agricultural production and development of small businesses to contribute to local economic growth
This project intends to change and impact on the lives of target ex-combatants and host communities in 23 villages in the diocese of Bukavu by enabling the development of sustainable and inclusive livelihoods and community driven development. Ex-combatants and host communities will also increase income through development of small enterprises and income generating activities and improve access to services such as technical advice and credit.

The implementing partner is Caritas Bukavu that has the mandate to carry out humanitarian and sustainable development programs throughout the Archdiocese of Bukavu. 
This project will have an extended impact on the protection issues (especially those based on gender), the protection of victims of sexual violence and peace building implemented by the Diocesan Justice and Peace Commission Bukavu.
This project resonates with CAFOD’s DRC CSP and will contributes to CAFOD's goal and mission of promoting the development of the marginalized persons.
The role of the church in promoting Participatory Democracy and good governrance for peace For the two past decades the Eastern part of The DRC has under gone  several political unrest. Such tensed situation has left new generation without inspiration. Clashes between different groups has characterised the mind-set of the population, which is dictating the attitude of the population; Local structures such as intercommunity ‘Barza’ and youth clubs have been politicized .  Many youth have lost their lives due to some selfish political manipulation that feed their interest. As we approach the election, the Commission of Justice and Peace in Goma ‘CDJP’ intends to inform youth of their rights and obligation. J P Commission will target these structures and will strengthen sensitisation with all possible media, recreation activities, training, open dialogues and conferences and debates  with pretended candidates, voters and intercommunity groups of youth and influential leaders in Goma, Sake and Rutshuru in the effort to prevent the escalation of violence.  
The Catholic Church that raised voice for peace and respect of the Constitution remains credible for presidential and opposition political parties. Through this project , Justice and Peace Commission’s at the national will seek to tackle this unstable context by preparing youths, marginalized and women to avoid tensions, manipulations in the upcoming challenging elections. People need fairly-elected leaders to deliver basic services, and improve security issues around the country. This project aims to improve knowledge about the election process by disseminating programs of voter and civic education, starting now before the local elections and continuing throughout the election process and ensure that the material used is accurate and politically neutral. The Project plans to use sport and music to bring youth together and help them understand the importance of peaceful elections process and how to peacefully claim its rights. SMS messaging  will also be used for democratization process within the church.
Multi-sectoral emergency assistance to displaced households victims of AD attacks in Beni territory Since the weekend of August 13, 2016 over 50 people have been hacked to death with machetes and axes creating fear and displacement in the Beni City and surroundings. The killings have been blamed on the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF - Nalu) of Uganda - a group that have been linked to Islamic radicalists – and have forced large numbers of people to flee.
The OCHA meeting of 19 August has reported displacement of over 2000 households toward towards Butembo, Bulongo and Alungupa/Mutwanga in the Sector of Rwenzori where they are living in precarious conditions in schools, churches, public places and other in host families.
CAFOD has been granted fund from START Fund to quickly respond to this crisis. The project will be implemented by SOCOAC and will focus on serving 1,143 households (including 879 displaced households and 264 host families) in the rural communes of Bulongo and Alungupa in Rwenzori Sector (Beni territory) with food and NFI through the Fairs approach. Each beneficiary household (both displaced and host families) will receive vouchers worth $40 to purchase half ration in the fair as per cluster recommendation and vouchers worth $75 to purchase essential non-food items through NFI fairs (for a standard kit as recommended to SOCOAC by OCHA and RRMP during the meeting held on 25th August 2016).   
CAFOD and its partner SOCOAC have experience of running multiple food and NFI distribution fairs in the target area using this methodology.
Participatory governance and civic education for peace in DRC This project will mainly target the youth in Bukavu and Goma Dioceses 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 Goma diocese by the Justice and Peace Commission.
Emergency support to IDP victims of ADF-NALU attacks in Beni town, North Kivu province, DRC In this planned project CAFOD and SOCOAC aim to provide emergency support to the most vulnerable households through a closed fair approach for food and NFIs. People will be selected in function of their vulnerability score (both for food and NFI) and their vulnerability status with the participation of the community. All fairs will involve local traders and two different sessions will be organised: one for food and one for NFIs. For food, each selected household will receive a voucher worth 50 USD (standard of the food security cluster) and will cover one month of food. For NFIs, the voucher will have a value of 70 USD. In both cases, the household will be able to decide what its priority is and bu items accordingly. Local traders are paid later in exchange of the vouchers they collected during the fair. 

The choice of this methodology is based on the people and community's preference as per the needs assesssment (28-29 of November) and also on experience. Similar activities in approach and scale have delivered in Beni territory for the last four years by SOCOAC, including twice thanks to START Fund allocations (in 2014 and 2016). In the Beni context, the fair approach represents the most viable and best option to ensure sufficient diversity and quality of supplies, to respond to beneficiaries choices, to meet diverse needs, to limit risks associated with distributing and transporting cash for both SOCOAC staff and beneficiaries and to stimulate the local economy as well.
Transforming relations between extractive companies and indigenous peoples in Mungbwalu by monitorin The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is immensely rich in natural resources but years of bad governance and civil war have seen it sink close to the bottom of the UN’s Human Development Index. In 2011, at least twenty-five international mining companies were active in various provinces of D.R. Congo according to Datamonitor. In 2009 and 2010, the Congolese operations of larger international companies, including the Anglo Goldfield Kilo (AGK), were all in the exploration and development phase. 

Anglo Goldfield Kilo (AGK) has operations in Mongbwalu in the Ituri district of the Orientale Province in the DRC. As in all other areas in the DRC where mining is the major activity, people in Mungbwalu and its surroundings have not benefited from the industry’s activities. People in Mongbwalu still live in very poor conditions; they are exposed to negative impacts, including cultural destabilization and negative changes in environmental diversity. 

In 2009, Civil Society Organizations in the Ituri district started a platform called "Cadre de Concertation des forces vives de l’Ituri" CdC to bring extractive industries in the area to account and contribute to the community development and help the population understand their rights. CAFOD was among the first organizations to support the CdC since 2009. 

The CdC have worked closely with AGK on proper tailings and their mine dumps. Two filed visits were undertaken by CdC and partners in Mungbwalu in July and September 2012 and a tripartite meeting was organized between AGK, civil society organizations, the community, and the government. CdC has also launched a project to monitoring mining activities and conduct advocacy activities that will help communities overcome the pressure. 

 In October 2012, CdC approached CAFOD to request additional capacity building focused on institutional/organizational and operational strengthening so that they can improve their capacity to effectively follow AGK’s activities in Mungbwalu. Besides that, the partner intends to make advocacy at a local level through CdC and at national level through CERN/CENCO in their advocacy activities so that their voice can be heard at the national level as opposed to the district level. 

This project alighs well with CAFOD mission and will be a continuation of partnership with a platform of various Civil Societies in Ituri, including the CdC.  The project duration will be one year and will reach around 80,000 household or 400,000 persons living in Mungbwalu as well as five other surrounding communities. The project will also serve 960 other artisanal miners by strengthening their skills and help them become self sustaining.  

Our long time partner, Caritas Bunia is the implementing partner and will work closely with CDJP and CdC Bunia. Both organizations have over 10 years of experience in advocacy and project management. They have a presence in Mungbwalu and they are both accepted in the community.
Strengthening of the Anglican Church's institutional capacity in relation to the joint bishops' peac Since December 2013, the Anglican Church has run, in collaboration with the Catholic Church, a project called "Peace in the Great Lakes Campaign". However, the Anglican Church in DR Congo, as well as in Rwanda and Burundi lacks the experience and capacity to implement effective advocacy work that the Catholic Church has in these three countries, due to lack of experience on project management and limited staff able to develop and implement project linked to advocacy work. In addition, the Anglican Church has a very limited presence at parish and diocesan level across the country for gathering information to nourish advocacy work in comparing with the Catholic Church. 

Faced with this situation as well as considering the accompanying request made by Congolese Anglican leaders to CAFOD early in May 2014; CAFOD decided to support them by making available funds in order to reduce gaps on competency and experience, as well as create a balance between these two churches.   

This project is based on a strengthening of institutional capacity of the Anglican Church in the DRC to enable them to play a great role regarding advocacy related work in conjunction with the Great Lakes Peace Campaign. Indeed, at two meetings held in May and July 2014 in Kinshasa between CAFOD and an Anglican representative, they openly requested technical support from CAFOD enabling them to better engaging into the joint project.

Thus, CAFOD has made available an amount of £10,000 (from CAFOD’s CGF 2014-2015) starting from September to December 2014 to support institutional related issues and some very limited activities necessitating technical support. CAFOD’s Advocacy Officer will be responsible for regular monitoring of the project and providing technical support.
Support to Mululi Water Project (South Kivu - DRC) The Mululi water project aims to support socio-economic growth by improving the health and livelihoods of the marginalised rural population through the provision of water to more than 500 families through a gravity-fed system. This project will finalise the WASH programme funded by CAFOD (USD 30,000) which needed USD 50,000 for its completion. Local population have contributed through labour supply in digging canals and supplying some tank construction materials. CAFOD and its partner Caritas Bukavu sampled water at one potential source spring and found water to be potable and with sufficient flow to supply the entire village by gravitation. Located 3 km upstream from the village near the mountain peak in a bush field, the flow of the spring is adequate to supply water to the village on 12 hours per day basis.  
The intervention will consist to construct the water catchment and set tanks at the spring area, construct 1 tank of 20 m3 and 5 water stand posts of 3 taps each and train local technicians on how to maintain the system. It will also provide necessary materials and tools to help community to properly maintain the water system and build 2 public latrines (in a school and at the market).
It will be implemented by Centre Olame which works in close collaboration with Caritas Bukavu.