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Kenya & Uganda Program Strategy Launch and Partners Learning Workshop CAFOD Kenya & Uganda Core Programme (One Programme) recently developed and adopted a new Kenya & Uganda (KU) Programme Strategy titled Resilience Livelihoods Programme (2023 – 2030), underpinned by CAFOD’s Global Strategy – Our Common Home: 2020 - 2030. The Our Common Home is based on the Pope’s Encyclical Laudato Si, which encases CAFOD vision and values and delineates the links between the cry of the poor and the cry of the earth, and how they intertwine and how CAFOD’s priority is to respond to both in an integrated way.
Supporting gender interventions in East Africa Programmes Gender Environment and Sustainable Development (GESD) is a National NGO, whose main objective is to enhance and facilitate the socio-economic empowerment of local communities as well as enable them to realize their socio-economic potentials through sustainable use of their environment and increased food security while mainstreaming gender and health factors in all programs. 

CAFOD in partnership with GESD has supported Catholic Diocesan Gender Mainstreaming Programme (CDGP) for the past five years. This programme comes to an end by end of July 2017. 

Gender Environment and Sustainable Development (GESD) has built on key outcomes of gender audit and mentored CAFOD Implementing partners to mainstream gender in their projects. Key objectives was to analyse the level of gender awareness and inclusiveness in programmes for the Catholic Dioceses of Kitui,  Maralal, Isiolo and the Archdiocese of Mombasa.  Ways in which gender programmes and projects can be integrated in mainstream programmes at the diocesan level have since been documented; and studies conducted to recommend ways in which community mechanisms can tackle gender based violence and gender stereotypes with respect to specific social cultural circumstances in the dioceses.  The extent to which mainstreaming gender in programmes and ensuring vulnerable groups are protected with regard to gender based violence is now evidenced in projects of the supported Implementing partners. 

This final approval therefore seeks to support GESD to build a cohesive, comprehensive and sustainable  exit strategy that will support key gender mainstreaming activities at diocesan level and at GESD level as an organization. The wrap up will ensure GESD efficiently manages community based activities and plans for a responsible organisational programme closure prior to CAFOD phase out scheduled for October 2017
Integrated Food Security Project, Phase II - Caritas Mombasa This is phase 2 of the Integrated Food Security Project (IFSP 2), Arch Diocese of Mombasa, in Kwale and Mombasa Counties (KENYA)
In this second phase the IFSP targets to reach people and communities in three sub counties of Mombasa and Kwale namely: Lunga lunga and Kisauni Sub county.  

A total of 1,200 direct beneficiaries (500 males and 700 (female) will be reached over three years, by 2021. 

This project aims to sustain food security interventions through an integrated approach.  The integration strategy will promote food production, livestock rearing (gala goats and poultry), and income generation for target beneficiaries.  SILC group methodology will be used as an entry point for planned activities. In addition, participating community groups will be supported sustainably to manage their natural resources responsibly and to actively engage in Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS).

It is anticipated that this project will immensely contribute towards achieving food security for Mombasa and Kwale Counties.  Low crop and livestock productivity is mainly caused by: inadequate/erratic rainfall, Crop failure which is widespread in the mixed farming livelihood zones; and inadequate pasture in livestock farming zone. Project interventions are expected to contribute towards sustainable food security, diversified household incomes, and responsible use of natural resources amongst the communities living in Mwakirunge (Kisauni subcounty) and Lunga lunga Sub county by July 2021. 

Project Outcomes:
Outcome 1:  Households sustainably produce adequate food to meet their needs and generate surplus
Outcome 2:  Households have access to stable and diversified income (for dignified livelihoods)
Outcome 3:  Communities sustainably manage water and natural resources

Overall, Caritas Mombasa will contribute towards the overall programme goal of: Sustainable food security, Resilience and peaceful co-existence for poor and vulnerable communities in Kenya
A Pro-Small –scale Farmer Advocacy Campaign: “Fill My Basic Needs Basket” This project seeks to conduct research on small-scale farmers in view of the changing land use in Kenya and Uganda and advocate for favourable policies to enhance food production and increased access to land for all. 
The project aims to take stock of the emerging trends in massive land dealings involving government-to-government, government to multinationals and local land grabbing to lease or sell that are mostly not used for agricultural activities making countries susceptible to food insecurity. In Uganda, access to land and land ownership are critical concerns

It has three phases; first, research in Kenya and Uganda, second, a national conference in each country to extrapolate policy issues and disseminate the findings, and sensitize more people on the intensity of the problem, and thirdly, advocacy and lobby for policy formulation and change. 

As a result there will be close working relationship and collaboration with National Catholic Commission on Justice and Peace and Community Resource Network in Uganda, Catholic Justice and Peace Commission in Kenya.

Project Objectives: 

1. To increase public awareness on farm land grabbing and ownership in Kenya and Uganda;

2. To sensitize the religious institutions, government and nongovernmental organizations and the public in Kenya and Uganda on the latest trends and dynamics on land use and allocation and how it affects small scale farmers 

3. To build the capacity of faith-based organisations for policy analysis and advocacy on behalf of small-scale farmers

4. To conduct a systematic campaign to promote pro-small scale farmers
Diocese of Maralal - Vehicle support The Catholic Diocese of Maralal covers  the entire Samburu District's administrative boundaries. Samburu District is ranked among the poorest districts in Kenya. It is affected by unpredictable climatic conditions that results in prolonged droughts.Contributing to the rising levels of poverty are the inter-ethnic cattle raids and conflicts related to access to natural resources such as land and pasture. 
The Diocese has four development programmes; pastoral, human promotion, human health and justice and peace that mainly rely on one off funding and individual donations made to the Diocese. 

The project aims to work on improving food security among pastoralist communities in Samburu district through improving access to water for livestock and domestic use, through enhancing livestock production and marketing and mainstreaming HIV/AIDS and gender.
Homabay Capacity Development project 2016 CAFOD will support Caritas Homabay through provision of grant to develop a new Strategic Plan and facilitate fundraising training for staff.  The Diocese will engage a consultant who will facilitate a participatory process to involve all stakeholders capturing the realities of the Diocese and to ensure ownership of the documents.  It is expected that this process will not only strengthen the capacity of Caritas Homabay but to improve their relationship with the wider variety of stakeholders including the local government, it will also bring coherence to the different projects ensuring that they are pulling together.  Fundraing training will open funding opportunities and therefore increase outreach to more needy people in the Diocese.
Post election violence - Kakamega Kakamega district is one of the eight districts in Western Province, situated in the Western part of Kenya. The area contains the Kakamega forest and is mainly flat; receiving a very high amount of annual rain and. The local inhabitant’s main economic activity is subsistence farming and fishing on their own land or hired land. The population of the district is approximately 2.5 million people from different ethnic groups with the majority coming from the Luhya community. 

Tension started just before the post election results were announced whereby there was widespread suspicion and false allegations that the settlers had illegally occupied the land given to them when the white settlers left after independence in 1963.

What followed was much violence, destruction and displacement of people from ethnic communities other than the Luhya community and the formation of internally displaced camps in several sites in the district.

Most of the affected families were from Likuyani and Mautuma, which are settlement schemes where people from different communities bought land years ago from the white settlers and practice farming. 

To date, families at Likuyani and Mautuma have returned to their land/ places of displacement, but because they spent most of last year (2008) in displaced camps, approximately 65% of the displaced people have not cultivated their lands and currently lying fallow.

Business persons who were operating in Kakamega town and other smaller towns have lost their business capital and now living on relief support from families and relatives. Some business persons are engaged in petty trade as hawkers in Kakamega town. 

This project does not use funds from CAFOD, as it is funded by the Irish government through Trocaire and part of a Post Election Violence consortia between CAFOD and Trocaire.
Justice and Peace Actors as catalysts of change This 18-month project supports the the diocese of Marsabit, Kenya, in its 3-year implementation of a governance and advocacy project,  using Geo Information Systems (GIS) to produce real-time Geo maps of the conflict corridors and health sector facilities within Marsabit county.  

The project has formed and trained 16 Community Education and Leadership teams (CELTs) as a community resource group to provide information and facilitate engagement as public expenditure monitors and agents of peace.  These groups monitor service delivery in the water, education, health and security sector. A county liaison desk  links the community and the county assembly on policy and legislative matters. The project will:
- familiarise stakeholders with the concept of digital mapping;
- identify and train CELT members in GIS and manual data collection;
- conduct digital and manual data collection through the trained CELT members;
- analyse the data, and share it with local communities and county government to action;
- document and share case studies with other partners. 

The project output will then be used as a tool for CELTs, communities and other actors to seek action from the county government, particularly the departments of security and health.
Marsabit Drought Emergency Response 2017 - Phase 2 This is Phase 2 of DEC and CAFOD Appeal funded Drought Emergency Response project in the Diocese of Marsabit.  In this second phase, the project targets to reach people and communities devastated by the prolonged drought in Marsabit diocese which has resulted in food insecurity and water & pasture shortages.  The drought situation was declared a national disaster by the Government of Kenya in February 2017, and appealed for international support to save the lives of vulnerable people threatened by drought.  Phase 2 response strategy will involve building on DEC Phase 1.  The project will focusing on increasing access to clean and safe drinking water for water stressed remote communities, facilitating access to life saving food through cash transfer modalities, supporting secondary school children to continue attending school during the next six months through food for fees and reducing resource based conflicts  among communities in Marsabit County
Phase 2 key outcomes are:
•	Improved access to safe and clean water to 4156 drought affected persons in Marsabit county for domestic and productive use
•	Sustained school attendance of 100 emergency affected secondary school children in Marsabit county  
•	Increased access to food for 3360 drought stricken persons in 6 months
•	Decreased resource based conflict in target areas by end of 12 months
•	Enhanced accountability to 1080 drought affected individuals through advocacy, strengthened coordination mechanism in Marsabit county in 12 months

In Phase 1 of DEC funded project, Caritas Marsabit targeted vulnerable households including 4,440 persons with emergency food distribution, 3,042 persons with Cash for work, 3,300 persons with unconditional cash transfer and 1,200 persons with water trucking. The interventions alleviated the suffering of the vulnerable persons in hard-hit villages of Diocese of Marsabit
AMECEA Election observation project This project has been proposed with the underpinning that elections is a critical event for democracy and good governance for countries in the region when communities exercise their right to commit elect new leaders at local (ward), sub regional (county) and national parliament (senators, women representatives and members of parliament) and presidential). In the light of and being called to be agents of change, the election observation mission and activities are envisaged to promote local, agency, voice and leadership. AMECEA has planned to train and send short term and long-term observers in events leading towards August 2022 elections. 
In March/April the AMECEA Election Observer Mission will deploy 10 long-term observers (LTOs) to counties of Kenya in  teams of two, they will be  observing in approximately 10 of Kenya constituencies. Shortly before Election Day, the mission will be  reinforced by 20 short-term observers (STOs), who join to observe Election Day activities at the polling stations. LTOs and STOs will also be joined by the diplomats from AMECEA regional Member Conferences and residents in Kenya. This brings the total number of AMECEA Election observers over the Election Day period to approximately about 40 over a period of about 5-6 months.
This project will contribute £19,999  to this mission AMECEA will reach out to other CI agencies for additional resources.
Emergency Support for Drought affected Households in Isiolo County This is a project to improve the lives of vulnerable people in Isiolo County who have been devastated by recent severe drought.  Prolonged drought in Kenya has resulted in water & pasture shortages and food insecurity situation. The crisis was exacerbated by the failure of the October-December 2016 short rains.  In February 2017, the Government of Kenya declared the drought a national disaster and appealed for international support to save the lives of vulnerable people threatened by drought. 
CAFOD through DEC and CAFOD appeal is planning to work with Caritas Isiolo to address issues of water shortage, food insecurity, health & nutrition needs, livestock feeds, and convene peace meetings in critical locations.  CAFOD and partners will work through existing humanitarian forums both at national & the County levels to maximise available support.
Conflict resolution in Isiolo The aim of the envisaged project is to contribute towards peaceful co-existence among the communities and its environs through community capacity building on conflict resolution and management.  Over the years Isiolo has experienced many forms of conflict the year. From the years 1996 – 2002 Isiolo experienced serious forms of conflicts that prompted many actors to intervene with varying degree of success. Since the year 2002 up to 2009 Isiolo experienced a period of peace probably due to the change in the political climate. 

Given the Catholic Church position of non partisan, non political and being voice of the voiceless it is better placed to intervene and foster peace in the affected area. The church realizes that issues of peace can not be handled single – handedly. It is in this spirit that the diocese envisages to work with other likeminded people and institutions in this endeavor. The diocese of Isiolo and partners are ideally suited to support this initiative because of their interest in development, human rights and promotion of human dignity and peaceful society.

The project's two main aims include, to promote peaceful and harmonious co-existence among the Isiolo communities and the neighbors; and to enhance communities capacities on peace and conflict transformation.
Isiolo Community Based Green Energy Project (CB-GEP) As part of a 4 year programme, this project aims to increase access to modern, affordable and sustainable energy services for rural and peri-urban communities in Kenya. To do this, CAFOD, the Diocese of Kitui, the Diocese of Isiolo and Dupoto-e-Maa will work in partnership with CAFOD and Solar Works East Africa Limited, a private sector solar energy technology company. 

This project will target 73,628 households through 22 schools and health centres and 16 rural community based groups in the districts of Garbatulla and Isiolo.

Energy provision for schools and health centres will be enhanced through the installation of solar photovoltaic, water heating, refrigeration and purification systems. As a result school performance will be improved, as will drug storage in the health centres. 

Income generation of women and youth groups will be facilitated through the provision of ICT centres using solar-based computers and other office equipment, and commercial kiosks, all owned and managed by selected and trained youth groups.

Management of natural resources will be improved through the installation of solar water pumping systems at existing water structures, support for solar lighting systems for schools and health centres; by the use of energy saving stoves; and through community awareness raising on environmental protection.

Local partners and community groups will be trained to implement, maintain and manage the energy systems and on the benefits of sustainable environmental management, facilitating technology transfer and replication of the systems within the target areas.
CAFOD supporting Drought Emergency Response in Marsabit & Isiolo 2017 This is a project to support Caritas Isiolo and Caritas Marsabit who are implementing Drought Emergency Response Project to improve the lives of vulnerable people who have been devastated by recent severe drought.  The prolonged drought in this region resulted in water & pasture shortages, food insecurity situation and worsening health & nutrition status of vulnerable people. The crisis was exacerbated by the failure of the October-December 2016 short rains.  In February 2017, the Government of Kenya declared the drought a national disaster and appealed for international support to save the lives of vulnerable people threatened by drought. 
CAFOD will utilise funds from DEC and CAFOD appeal in executing this work. CAFOD and partners will work through existing humanitarian forums both at national & the County levels to maximise available support.  CAFOD shall also encourage partners to collaborate with other stakeholders (to avoid duplication, failure to reach people in need), encourage partners to work with existing village structures, local administration and community groups and church leaders in implementing the interventions.
Cafod will support partners to achieve the outcome below;
Caritas Isiolo;
-Increased access to food for 1000 households through cash grants (food vouchers)
-Improved access to life-saving food though Unconditional Cash Transfers (650HHs) and food distribution (740HHs)
- Increased household income for 500HHs through Cash for work
- Enabling environment for emergency responses is created in 4 locations through stakeholder coordination and peace building initiatives.
-Improved access to safe and clean water for 1500 households 
- Increased access to nutritional services for 400 households
- Increased regular attendance of schools by 128 Children in 8 secondary schools
- Strengthened CSG coordination at 2 sub-county levels in each County.
DEC East Africa Drought Appeal Project Diocese of Maralal 2011-2012 Current La Nina Induced drought  and high food prices has affected over 10 million people across Horn and East Africa. In Kenya, the government and UN   indicate that over 3.5 million people are affected and in dire need of humanitarian assistance . Samburu North and East Districts are Arid areas in Rift Valley province of Kenya with  110,801 inhabitants, over 80% of the population depend on livestock as a means of livelihood and primary source of food.  Following the failure of short ( October 2010) and Long rains (March to May 2011) most of the pastrolists have lost their livestock, Distance to water points has increased  from an average of 8km to  about 40kms, the few agropastrolists in the area experienced massive crop failure. Diocese of  Maralal which has been monitoring the effects of drought in the area conducted a rapid assessment between 23 and 30th of June 2010 to prioritize intervention areas. the assessment finding show that most households do not have food 90% of 300 interviewed households had only 1 meal in the last three days , distance to water points have dramatically increased  and resource based conflict have increased. In Conjuction with CAFOD the Diocese has designed an emergency drought response project targeting 5506 households  in Wamba, Nkaroni, Naimirimo Ngilai, Waso, baragoi, Nachola, Elbarata, Nyiro Parkati and Kawop divisions in Samburu North and East district. The project aims at mitigating the effects of the current drought in Samburu East and North by promoting access to food and water  in the first 6 months followed by 18 months recovery phase that will focusing on rebuilding community resilince and reducing the impact of future drought.  The 1st phase will ensure access to safe water  to 5506 HH through construction of a borehole, desilting of 7 water pans, provision of food aid to 669 HH to ensure poor and unproductive households have access to food assistance .Recovery activities will be identified within 4 months of the start of the six months of implementation of the 1st phase relief activities.
Isiolo Integrated Drought Response and Recovery Project (IIDRRP) The pastoral counties of Kenya are experiencing the 5th  consecutive failed/ below average rain season with Isiolo County amongst the hardest hit. According to Isiolo County Drought Early Warning Bulleting for May 2022 , the county is at an alarm phase with worsening trends. Pasture and browse regeneration are insufficient and their condition ranges from fair to poor and is expected to worsen as the drought condition persists. Food security situation continues to deteriorate, and more households are falling into the crisis phase of IPC classification.  The whole County is expected to remain generally dry during the months of June, July, August and September, 2022.   The impact of the drought is manifested in among others.
The ongoing project  directly target 400HHs (2,000 individuals) as beneficiaries. They will be drawn from Burat ward – Leparua village and Oldonyiro ward – Kawalash and Lengwenyi villages. 250HHs for cash transfer, 100HHs livestock feeds, 50HHs micro-irrigation. Additional GEF funds will target to save lives, restore livelihoods and build resilience of 600 drought-affected pastoral households in Isiolo County within a period of 6 months. This will include Unconditional cash transfer to 400 vulnerable households in – Atoti, Lotiki, Game and Huji Tante Villages of Isiolo County. Provision of livestock concentrated feeds (range cubes/pellets) to 200HHs in 2 villages of Burat Ward- Game (100HHs) and Lotiki (100HHs). Establishment of agro-ecology gardens in 4 villages – Huji Tante, Lotiki, Game, Atoti