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Multisectoral emergency assistance to the most vulnerable people affected by storms in Kalole Through the distribution of unconditional cash, this project will empower the community as we will do a survey prior to the cash distribution to assess the power dynamic within HHs and carry out sensitisation around targeting, especially as it will be largely women who will be receiving the cash on behalf of the HHs. Priority will be given to the most vulnerable households affected by the storms and wind, including widowed women, children heads of households, elderly people, people with disabilities, chronically ill, and / or other people who are unable to buy food and goods of their choice that meet the need of their households. The targeting criteria will be included within the sensitisation to ensure the do no harm principle is adhered to. The targeting criteria will also be informed by a tool developed through a recent Start Fund Learning Grant (see section 2.3 below for more information).
We will organize the mobile banking  through which each household will receive £114.50. The head of the household will receive the cash for the HH. This amount has been advised by the NFI cluster group. Throughout the project, we will take into account the COVID-19 prevention measures as stated by the government and include COVID-19 sensitisation activities which will reach 10,932 people. The vulnerabilities of certain groups will be taken into consideration. For example, to avoid pregnant women, the elderly and people living with disabilities standing for too long, beneficiary lists will be categorised in order for them to quickly recognise their names. The cash will be done through mobile money which means people will not have to wait in long queues to receive their cash. Queues will also be socially distanced. 
CAFOD and Caritas Kasongo will target 972 households (5,832 individuals) with unconditional cash, among them: 850 of those affected directly by the storm and 122 of the host families affected by the current crisis, especially in the city of  Penekusu  and Kiloza, Mwamba, Nyalugungu, Nsamba, Wasezya, Ndenge, and Kalole villages in Kalole health zone. This represents respectively 70% of 1215 direct affected HH and 5% of 607 host families to ensure "Do No Harm" is taken into consideration.
Beneficiaries will be selected and targeted by the Caritas Development Kasongo team in collaboration with the disaster committee, the representative of the humanitarian affairs division, local authorities and members of the Basic Humanitarian Committees (CHB) on the basis of the vulnerability criteria mentioned above which will be validated by all stakeholders, including the community, during the evaluation.  In terms of coordination, we have already coordinated with Christian-Aid and we will continue to cooperate with the other local authorities throughout the implementation.
Shifting the Power: strengthening the humanitarian and leadership capacity of CODEVAH 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 Codevah, the organisation has elaborated a one year capacity strengthening plan with 5 objectives and 14 activities focus on increasing leadership, influence and improve emergency preparedness and response capacity.
Capacity strengthing for more accountable operations APROFIM is a female-lead organization that works to support disadvantaged children, specially young girls that have been affected in one way or another by some sort of crisis (ie rape, teenage mothers, street children, girls accused to be sorcerer)  to be reintegrated in their society. APROFIM is a sub grantee of the Poticus grant and the organization operates under the coverage of CAJED. However, recent comments from the funding agency that also came about in consideration of the current funding trends recommended that a comprehensive capacity strengthening plan to be put forward in order to position APROFIM in the forefront of not only CAFOD but more in the market to attract other funding agencies. Also as part of CAFOD requirements, APROFIM was also taken though the Mango Health Check, an exercise that is a must for all institutionally funded project. The report from this exercise confirmed the need to strengthen the organization's capacity in some areas although they were situated in low risk. In February 2019, AFROFIME participated to the PDMEAL workshop organised by CAFOD. Just like other partners, APROFIME made their self-capacity assessment regarding PDMEAL and safeguarding. As a result of this, they have developed a capacity strengthening plan.  
This grant aim to take materialize the action points and recommendations coming from these assessments including:
-	Support in establishing of feedback and complaint mechanism 
-	support the development of 5 years Strategic plan of the organisation  
-	Strengthen the advocacy plan of the organization that is evidence based ie Production of booklet of success stories of its beneficiaries, especially the one supported through CAFOD partnership
Multisectoral emergency assistance to people affected by flooding in Kowé, Punia territory On January 3, 2024, around 11:00 p.m., torrential rains fell in the City of Kowe in the three groupements (Kasera, Tubila and Ulindi) and its surroundings and caused the Congo River and the Ulindi River to overflow, the overflows destroying human settlements thereby causing material and human damage to household goods, household livelihoods (farm fields, food deposit stores), important infrastructure such as well as schools, markets, water and sanitation facilities and making some routes impassable.  Around 346 houses have been totally destroyed and 811 partially destroyed. 9,380 people (at least 1,876 households) are affected, 15 fishponds destroyed and around 270 cassava and rice fields are flooded (at the harvest stage), 5 water sources destroyed, 10 schools destroyed.
The affected households are: 1616 households in Kasera groupement, in the following villages: 630 in Kowe,203 in Kitoko II, 328 in Bakumba, 89 in Kituo, 54 in Lokele, 172 in Byakata fleuve and 140 in Tubila;147 in Tubila groupement, in the following villages: 60 in Kalole village and 87 in Kesengesenge village; and 113 in Ulindi groupement and in Kitoko I village. 
All disaster victims and homeless people were forced into displacement. They are currently living in severe inhumane and dire conditions highly vulnerable to food insecurity, water-borne diseases, and protection concerns.
This project intervention aims to reduce suffering by improving the living conditions of beneficiaries, who will be able to meet their food needs through cash transfer modality. The cash that beneficiaries will receive will enable them to buy foodstuffs of their choice, in line with their household dietary habits.
Mobilization of political actors (men and women) against corruption This project consists of waking up the attention of the political actors (parliamentary, ministers, heads of societies and public managers, senior officers of the army and the police force, high  magistrates, Secretaries and directors of publics services, directors of the ministerial cabinets) on the phenomenon of the corruption and leading them to firmly pledge to take concrete actions towards sensitizing and conscientisation in favour of the catholic political actors and the members of the council of the apostolate of the laic Catholics on the need for fighting indeed against the corruption, the creation of a network of catholic political actors against the corruption and the installation of a  committee of follow-up of the various resolutions.  Three training courses will be organized and will make it possible to the participants to make an analysis on corruption at the national level, to propose solutions and to adopt a calendar of action and by installing a mechanism of relay in the Provinces. The network of catholic political actors against the corruption will be reinforced.
Emergency assistance to 434 households displaced by tribal conflict in Kabalo In Kabalo territory, district of Tanganyika in Katanga, the Luba and the Pygmie (Batwa) ethnic groups have been fighting since 2012 to 2014, mainly in the northern areas of Manono, Nyunzu, and Kalemie, and displaced between 150,000 and 200,000 people. Pygmies in particular have been driven out of their homes creating a dire humanitarian situation. Pygmies are the most affected as they live in less social conditions than Bantu.
 (e.g. for the same daily work, pygmies are paid three times less than the Bantu, pygmies never go to hospitals when ill and their children never go to school)  
Pygmies are indigenous peoples, semi-nomadic hunter gatherers. It is generally accepted that these peoples were the first inhabitants of the region, they usually live in forest with less access to social benefits and are usually under consider by other ethnic groups.. 

The most recent conflict in Kabalo began around June 10th, 2014, following the forced disarmament of pygmies who fled Nyunzu after clashes with the Bantu to take refuge in the territory of Kabalo. Bantu in Kabalo found themselves in a precarious situation caused by the presence of a high number of pygmy communities. To address this situation (for themselves), the Bantu community began chasing pygmies out and depriving them of their civil rights, including land. They burnt all houses of pygmies in the villages of Myabi and Mwanga, Mbayo Bikukula, Kungulu in the Maloba group and Bilima in Nzoa area and pygmies moved in localities of Kasinge Kabula. From June 10th to July 15th, 434 pygmy households were reported as displaced to Kabalo territory.
The first displaced Pygmies arrived in Kabalo on 15th July 2014. It was reported that they started leaving their villages on June 15th, 2014, moving from one village to another, settling in each for a few days before fleeing new attacks. Currently, displaced Pygmies are in Kabalo centre, 369 households housed in one school and 65 households housed in host families under the protection of local authorities. Their living conditions are extremely poor: they have limited access to food or health facilities and are at high risk of water-borne disease due to poor sanitation and hygiene. Up to now, no humanitarian assistance has been offered to them because there is a less presence of humanitarian actors in the area. 
Given this situation, this project plans to assist 434 affected households by providing them with food and non-food items combined with a support to local initiatives  of peaceful coexistence between the two communities (Pygmies and Bantus) through trainings and awareness-raising on peace in Kabalo and some villages from where displaced households came during the implementation of the project.
CAFOD contribution to Caritas Congo's call for funds for an Emergency assistance in Uvira With the re-election of Mr. Pierre NKURUNZIZA as President of Burundi, this re-election caused a strong internal challenge, which also caused a socio-political crisis throughout the country. This crisis has caused massive displacements of Burundians to neighbour countries such as RWANDA, DR Congo, etc. Those who crossed to the DR Congo settled mainly in the province of South Kivu, precisely in the Uvira and Fizi Territories. Most these refugees are in the Lusenda site and others in host families, with multi-sectoral needs. Burundian refugees in Lusenda live in terrible precariousness, which explains their situation of acute vulnerability, lacking almost everything. Despite sporadic interventions by humanitarian actors, UNHCR has not been able to mobilize sufficient funds to help them. He appealed to humanitarian actors to mobilize sufficient funds to first build shelters and latrines for these refugees, although they have already benefited from emergency shelter assistance for more than one year. As a reminder, shelters built had a maximum duration of 6 months, hence their age, with all the possible consequences on the health of these refugees. It is therefore in response to this UNHCR request that Caritas Congo has made this call for funds. Per that Caritas Congo request, CAFOD has subscribed for support of an amount equivalent to £ 10,000.
Protection and Community Recovery of Conflict-Affected Populations in South Kivu Province The overall goal is to contribute to the recovery of human dignity by reviving the self-help activities of 300 armed conflict survivors in the Bukavu Archdiocese, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo. This is through the sensitization of 5,000 prople of the Kalehe, Walungu and Kabare territories, including IDPs, survivors and their families to prevent and minimize the consequences / effects of violence on vulnerable populations by March 2019.
This project also aims to bring victim’s communities to be aware of their vulnerability, identify their strengths and set up protection strategies.
In addition, the 300 beneficiaries will be sensitized on HIV / AIDS to help them and their communities to protect themselves.
Everything contributes to improving the life quality of 300 survivors of sexual violence, including 200 women and 100 men, as the main target.
Emergency assistance of non-food items to 509 households victims of fire in Bweremana IDP camp Following hostilities between the FARDC (government army) and various militia (such as Raiya Mutomboki, Nyantura, APCLS, FDLR, May-May, etc.), since July 2012, the security situation remains alarming in Masisi territory, especially in Karuba, Ngungu Ufamandu 1 and 2. Multiple killings, looting, burning houses, torture and other abuses caused by different armed groups that successively occupy these areas have forced many people to leave their villages and seek refuge in localities near the main road bordering the lake (axis Bukavu-Goma), considered more secure. Thus, they have created and settled in spontaneous camps in the localities of Bishange, Bitonga, Minova, Shasha, Kituva, Kiluku and Bweremana. These displaced families also are settled in schools, health centres and host families. 
The spontaneous IDP camp of Bweremana is located at approximately 45 km from Goma, on the main road Goma - Bukavu. It is made by shelters constructed with shrubs and straws or banana leaves covered, some places, by tarpaulins; and hosts actually about 613 households according to “Premiere Urgence” and IOM who manage this camp.
On Sunday 24th June, around 11 am, IDPs in this camp were surprised by a fire that consumed almost all their huts. The fire came out from the shelter of a resident who was cooking and subsequently, engulfed entire site, leaving only a few fortnights huts.
Some of the affected population, victims of that fire, took refuge in Nweremana Primary School, neighbouring the site, also half burned; another part of victims fled into the rooms of the '’Friend Space for Children" supported by World Vision, and another part was hosted by host families.
APROFIME made a quick on-site assessment and found that needs are great in all sectors, but there is extreme urgency for intervention in:
- Kits of essential household items (NFIs) including kitchen utensils, jerry cans, clothes, blankets, etc;
- Tarpaulins to help rebuild new shelters;
- Food (Caritas has given a partial ration of 15 days);
- Wash: NCA (Norwegian Church Aid) is organized to provide latrines and rehabilitate the safe water adduction line.
This one month intervention aims to provide NFI and tarpaulins to the 509 households most affected by this incident, combined with some preventive activities including measures to be considered during the reconstruction of new shelters, prevention practices, and will be implemented by APROFIME in close collaboration with other actors on the ground.
Shifting the Power: strengthening the humanitarian and leadership capacity of ECC MERU 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 and the finds of SWOT analysis with ECC MERU , the organisation has elaborated a second twelve months capacity strengthening plan with 7 objectives and 15 activities focus on leadership, influence and preparedness and response.
Shifting the Power: strengthening the humanitarian and leadership capacity of PPSSP 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 PPSSP, the organisation has elaborated a one year capacity strengthening plan with 6 objectives and 15 activities focus on leadership, influence and preparedness and response
Emergency assistance to conflict affected IDPs in Djugu territory (Ituri province, DRC) Caritas Bunia plans to  provide emergency support to the most vulnerable households and host communities  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 (equivalent to 6 people) will receive a voucher worth 50 USD (standard of the food security cluster) and household with more than 6 people will receive 70 USD which will cover one month of food. For NFIs, the voucher will have a value of 70 USD (for household equivalent to 6 people and 90 USD for household with more than 6 people. In both cases, the household will be able to decide what its priority is and buy items accordingly. Local traders are paid later in exchange of the vouchers they collected during the fair.  The response plan has been designed in coordination with Tearfund and Solidarités International in order to collectively target the most affected areas. Thus, CAFOD and Caritas Bunia will specifically target 774 households in Iga-barriere where no assistance has been given. The choice of this methodology is based on the people and community's preference as per the needs assessment (16-19 of February) and also on experience. In the Bunia 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 Caritas Bunia staff and beneficiaries and to stimulate the local economy as well. All foods and NFI will be found in Bunia using standard procedures. The prices of the items will be discussed and agreed to be adapted as much as possible to their vulnerability. Caritas Bunia, which relies on the transparency of the process, also plans to integrate the protection of the beneficiaries - before, during and after the distribution - in particular through the principles of do no harm and dignity for beneficiaries. Particular attention will be given to gender issues during the project implementation and especially to the needs of women and girls by including intimate hygiene items at the NFI fairs. During the distribution of foods and NFI kits, pregnant women will be separately lined up for quick service. Toilets for men and women will be available at distribution site and site cleaning (collection/sweeping or waste management) will be done after the distribution.