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The Itezhitezhi Rural  Livelihood Improvement Project People living in the Itezhitezhi district of Zambia face short periods of food surpluses followed by months of food shortages because they are unable to preserve the surplus food or sell it at a profit when it is available. Many depend on forest products such as wild mushrooms or roots and tubers during periods of shortage but these are being threatened by logging and woodland clearance for cultivation. In the neighbouring district of Choma a food processing and marketing project has increased household incomes, nutrition and self-confidence. This project aims to gather the information necessary to introduce a similar project in Itezhitezhi.
Mbekweni Development Programmes The problems arise from deprivation, unemployment and social neglect. The project will provide funding for the employment of local staff, centre operations and management, in addition to fund the induction programme initiatives. Programmes will focus on six pillars, health, welfare, education, life skills and leadership and sports development. With a further mechanism for income generation and business development. These areas will help to create and support existing partnerships with local schools, encourage a broader educational agenda, and support the financial management of the centre, in addition to providing loans and increasing entrepreneurial skills. Through a series of workshop children and youth will be exposed to sports skills, life and leadership skills and coach training courses. The centre will also encourage and support the development and training of local staff, community volunteers and create a forum through which on-going partnerships can flourish. These programming initiatives will include the following: the establishment of leagues; drop-in centre for use by the community; safe, secure environment within which activities can take place; increased female participation in sport; increased access for local community schools to sporting programmes not offered in the legislated curriculum; increased access to social welfare services, information and technology.
Supporting Children''s School Readiness and Retention (Uganda) Although the conflict in Northern Uganda conflict has ended and most people have returned from refugee camps to their communities, education provision is poor. Whilst the number of children going to primary school in northern Uganda has increased, many children are failing to learn and are dropping out of school. For children in remote rural areas, school is often far away, the quality of education is poor and there is limited support from parents at home, many of whom missed out on an education themselves because of many years of conflict. This project aims to break this cycle of low achievement and retention. It combines work in local communities, work in schools, and influencing government policy to achieve change. 800 new low cost home learning centres will be set up in villages in eight districts of northern Uganda. Each centre will be linked to a primary school. The centres will provide informal early childhood care and education for children under 6. At weekends and in the evenings (lit by solar lamps) children who are at school can study at the centres. Classes will be run in the community for adults in literacy and numeracy. Village health teams will visit the centres to ensure that children are healthy and well-nourished. The project will work with government to improve the quality of teaching in school, especially by promoting ‘mother tongue' education in the first three years of primary school and to strengthen home-school links. At a national level, the project will aim to influence implementation of government policy on early childhood and early primary education. As a result of the project, significantly more children from poor rural communities in northern Uganda will enrol in, stay in and achieve better in school.
Kwanele! Communities ensuring safe learning environments for girls. Soul City Institute (SCI) and Grassroots Soccer (GRS) SA will work in 20 different schools in the Western Cape combining the SCI approach centred on after school Soul Buddyz clubs for children combined with the GRS SA approach which utilises soccer for both girls and boys. The activities proposed through both clubs and sport will help girls to reject violence, boys to behave differently, parents to better support the process and schools and communities to be safer places for all children.
Our Children Our Future: Assessing Needs of Children in Domestic Labour Our project addresses the problem of domestic child labour in Borama District, Somalia. Years of civil unrest, displacement, loss of parents due to HIV/AIDS and war, poverty and the search for survival have compelled and continue to drive children as young as 5 years old into life of domestic servitude, exploitation and abuse. We are proposing to conduct a research on children involved domestic labour to obtain evidence of need, identify local assets and to cultivate opportunities for collaborative work with duty bearers in tackling the problem of domestic child labour. The research will inform strategies for the prevention of domestic child labour, exploitation and abuse; our planned community and family extension work to raise awareness about children at risk and to change the attitudes and practices to the use of domestic child labour; and our advocacy for vulnerable children. As a result we anticipate to that our work will help build capacity of duty bearers and other street-serving-organisations to meet the needs of children and protect them from harm; strengthen commitment by duty bearers to improve and uphold policies and practices that protect children at all levels; improve the capacity of children to be consulted, heard and be involved.
Esso Community Sport for Change Project - Research & Consultation This 6 month project will gather factual evidence which will shape future work in Arusha, Tanzania’s second largest city. It is designed to engage the most vulnerable and disadvantaged young people, aged between 15 and 24 years, who live in a slum community. The research will evaluate how sports activities can be used as a vehicle through which these young people can receive support, enabling them to gain access to housing, health and educational services.
Fair trade for African Blackwood: achieving self-sufficiency - phase 2 Rare hardwoods such as African blackwood are uniquely suited to making musical instruments.  However currently communities living in Tanzanian forests containing blackwood receive less than 1% of its value and average annual household incomes are below US$200. The real value is captured by sawmills and musical instrument manufacturers.  Since 2004 MCDI, a Tanzanian NGO, has been working with villages in southern Tanzania to collectively manage and certify the forests that surround them and sell their wood for fair prices.  This grant will support 8 villages to maintain their current certifications and expand activities to 12 new villages.   It will support these villages to increase their income from timber by up to 1000 times and to reinvest the revenue to ensure on going income from their forests.   The project will be co-funded by a new ethical trading company, Sound & Fair Ltd (S&F).   This trading company will ensure there is a sufficient supply of processed, certified wood to meet growing manufacturer demand and pass very high margins which are currently captured by sawmills down to villagers. This is as an exit grant within which the villages will increase their income to a level where they can purchase support needed from a service provider using their own income.
Building Resilient ASM Communities in East Africa This project helps to create a supply of Fairtrade gold through nine artisanal mining organisations in East Africa. The project will help the organisations to be better organised, more productive, and safer for the 2,800 workers and families nearby. More direct trading with international jewellery buyers will mean 20-30% more income each year from the gold they mine. At least three of the nine are expected to achieve full Fairtrade status bringing social premiums to invest in their communities.  Training will build Artisanal and Small-scale Mining Organisations’ capacity to access finance for the first time. An innovative "patient" fund to invest in safety and productivity will be created. Miners' networks will be helped to speak up on their needs, promote mercury-free mining, and more support for these vulnerable and neglected communities.
Improving equitable access for the urban poor to water and sanitation services i Uganda's urban population is growing fast.  By 2050 almost half of all Ugandans will live in towns and cities.  Yet urban amenities are not keeping up with this pace of growth and local authorities have limited capacity to address the challenges.  In Kampala, roughly two-thirds of the city's entire population live in slums, mostly located in flood-prone areas of the city.  Access to clean water and decent latrines is limited. Three in every four illnesses are water borne or preventable, accounting for 17% of deaths in children under-five. This project will work with residents of a slum area in Kampala to dramatically improve access to water and sanitation services, as well as increase understanding of the critical importance of hygiene. Latrines and water catchment tanks will be constructed in 25 schools. Hygiene education campaigns in the schools and wider community will complement a parallel initiative to build community-access latrines in the slum. Government workers will receive training in delivering improved water and sanitation services and community groups will be strengthened to hold local authorities to account. As a result, slum-dwellers, and particularly children, will access safe water and sanitation, improving school attendance and bringing measurably improved health and living conditions.
Tiyende Pamodzi Strengthening Sustainability through Collaboration This proposal has been developed across our partnership. We have focussed on ensuring that we maximise benefits for low-income residents living in Lusaka’s peri-urban areas, by embedding, making more sustainable and rolling out the most successful elements of our projects, and through sharing our joint learning, presenting a powerful influencing force to ensure that progress is sustained and built on citywide.
Wamba Girls' Education Project Consultation Half the girls in Samburu Kenya do not reach the end of primary school. Families live nomadic lives, dependent on livestock. Parents prioritise boys’ education so only a third of those who pass the final primary exams are girls.     This research enables girls, boys, families, communities and government to come together to analyse the barriers to girls’ education. They make video stories of the community history and plan for the future, making sure women’s and girls’ views are heard. They assess what gaps in the school system need tackling. As a result, they will design a project to help girls stay in and do better in education and that gives women more influence in school management.
Programme for OCV to access and receive quality education through systemic chang There are 4 million children of school going age in Zambia. Many of these children are unable to attend conventional schools due to high poverty levels, the impact of HIV on families, long distances (especially for girls and disabled children), lack of classroom space, and compulsory requirements for uniforms and learning materials. There has been a rapid and spontaneous development of community schools in Zambia where children are educated outside the formal school system. A community school is a community based, owned and managed learning institution that meets the basic education needs of students who cannot enter government schools. Embraced by the Zambian government, these local initiatives have grown into a national movement. Statistics show that community schools in Zambia account for the enrolment of at least 500,000 children - approximately 20% of the total basic education enrolment in the country. However, the quality of education is poor, retention rates are low, and learner achievement is weak. Many of these problems could be resolved if government legislation recognising community schools as a valid part of the education system, and thus eligible for proper government support, was fully implemented. The project will work to advocate for proper implementation of government policy with regard to community schools; to strengthen community capacity both to manage community schools and to monitor and mobilise government support for community schools; and to improve teaching and learning within community schools in three provinces of Zambia (Western, Southern and Lusaka). In addition, the project plans to strengthen the capacity of ZOCS itself both to implement the project and to participate in supporting community schools and advocating on their behalf over the long term.
Deepening understanding on MH & wellbeing among persons with intellectual disab This project seeks to raise awareness and strengthen knowledge on the high prevalence rates on mental health concerns of persons with intellectual disabilities which goes unnoticed and undetected due to limited knowledge, skills and understanding  on the comorbidity between intellectual disability and mental health conditions. Even in situations wh
Kanyenathi:  building an inclusive urban future Street vendors in South African cities face physical eviction and confiscation of their goods, a legacy of apartheid's practices of 'cleaning up' and dividing society. Urban planners and local politicians see street markets as a failure of the economy not as an important part of it, especially for the urban poor, the less educated and women micro-entrepreneurs. WIEGO, a global network of informal worker organisations and advocacy groups has linked up with NGO Asiye eTafuleni ("Let us Negotiate") in Durban to help vendors unite and lobby for their inclusion in urban planning, for investments to make it safer, cleaner and more efficient to do their business and consumer to come and shop.
#ShiftThePower Zambia - Local CSOs use the community-led development approach, act as change agents for the community they serve & are able to sustain their operations beyond external donor funding - Service providers support CSOs in line with #ShiftThePower principles  - ZGF is leading reference organisation supporting the transformation of CSOs into locally rooted CSO
Unlocking Talent Through Technology, Malawi This work aims to improve children's literacy and numeracy skills in Standard 1&2 - the infant years of primary school in Malawi. Using ipads and specially developed software children are taken through a number of topics, linked to the curriculum. They have regular access to the ipads every week, their teachers will be specially trained to support this work and adapt their own teaching practice in the classroom. Small Learning Centres (classrooms) will be built for each school which will enable small classes of 30 to spend time on the ipads and with their teacher. With average class sizes in excess of 1:80, this work has demonstrated 18 months gain in an 8 week period for some children.
Provision of healthcare in Heiban, South Kordofan This is a research project to identify the priority healthcare needs in Heiban and surrounding localities. Healthcare provision in this area of Sudan is vastly weakened due to the fact that this region was the scene of fighting and human rights violations during Sudan's 20-year civil war. Violent conflict and lack of investment from central government mean that the people living in Heiban locality need to travel for 3 days to get to the nearest health facility. In Heiban in general there is a shortage of midwives, no availability of basic drugs and medicines and no qualified doctors. People living in Heiban have no access to information about nutrition and hygiene. High numbers of women die during child birth and the infant mortality rate is one of the highest in Sudan. This research project will commence with a conference in which our baseline study of healthcare needs of Heiban will be shared with participants. Other service providers such as government, UN and NGOs working in Kordofan will share information on the level of service provision they provide. This will be done in order to ascertain what needs are currently being met and provide Justice Africa and all other participants with information on the priority areas in which healthcare needs are not being met. Any research we undertake will use this information to address basic provisions that are not being met by government and apply for funding. As a result, projects for healthcare in Sudan can be coordinated and targeted to priority areas.
Empowering Fishing Communities in Uganda to Fight HIV and itsd I(mpact This project centres on the islands of Kalangala District on Lake Victoria, Uganda, where HIV prevalence is 34%, compared to the national rate of 6.1%. General health and HIV support services are very limited and the islands can only be reached by powered canoes. Fishing is the main income source, done by men, which makes most women financially dependent on them. Although there is some knowledge of HIV, many people engage in multiple relationships and unprotected sex. Stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV is high and as a result many people are unwilling to be tested or disclose their HIV status. The project will increase knowledge and understanding of HIV and AIDS, fight stigma and discrimination, and help people to get voluntary counselling and testing, antiretroviral therapy, and home-based care.  Women will improve their incomes through small businesses.
Improving access and retention in inclusive education for refugee children with Persons with disabilities are among the most vulnerable refugees in Uganda, and their living conditions are made worse by displacement. Most have fled conflict, war and natural disasters, which also contribute to a higher disability burden among refugees. Among them children with disability are typically hidden, neglected and socially excluded. RLP will work with a range of parents, caregivers, teachers, refugee services and duty bearers to promote the rights of children with disability, and increase their access to education and other support in two zones – Nakivale, a large refugee settlement in the southwest of Uganda, and in Kampala.
African Women Innovators Network The African Women Innovators Network (AWIN) is a project that will seek to empower young women in Africa and the diaspora with innovation, entrepreneurship and leadership tools to create technology-based solutions that improve the lives of women and girls in their communities.  The project will target young, entrepreneurial African women aged 18-35 in four cities in Africa (Kampala, Nairobi, Accra and Lagos) and in the UK diaspora (London).  The problem that the project aims to address is the fact that currently most technology-based solutions are designed by men and often do not fully respond to the specific needs of women. An example of the impact of this was shown in a recent study by the J
Climate Change Supplementary Grant to Grant 2330484 (formerly GR002-01723-FLIS) The main programme focuses on establishing agro-ecological methods and organic marketing. The climate funding enhances the existing project, extending its remit from increasing incomes, into making a comprehensive case for agro-ecological methods. This will increase enable farmers to make the case that this is also sound practice in adapting to climate change. While much of the growing methodology is sound practice in the face of climate change, the current project does not extend this more widely into testing and replicating additional climate change adaptation methods. Nor is it able to demonstrate the mitigation advantages of biodiverse cropping. The climate grant will allow both of these to happen. Training will be carried out with the existing cadre of farmers, to increase their skills around traditional beekeeping; pest management; and marketing produce. In order to encourage biodiversity (which has organic and adaptation advantages - but can lose out in the push to meet market demands) two much needed photovoltaic water pumps will be awarded as prizes to grower groups. Existing subsidies for "conventional" large scale chemical based agriculture can be regarded as a tax on small scale conservation organic agriculture. The project partners will make this case to government, along with raising the profile of organic produce. The government of Zimbabwe are open to this approach - already purchasing organically for hospitals and recommending it for people with HIV/AIDS. GardenAfrica has close links with Kew garden which is researching plants for pest control, and will now also be involved in looking at crops better suited to a changing climate. Discussions will be held with farmers to support thinking on how their methodologies enhance adaptation, with the best solutions widely disseminated.
Way Forward Rakai district was the first to report HIV in Uganda in 1978. Following a period of stabilization, HIV prevalence is now resurgent. Awareness among young people about HIV is diminishing and stigma prevents people from finding out their status until they are already extremely ill. This project will provide social, health and nutritional care through a volunteer-led, home-based care programme. The local organisations will advocate for expanded testing services and promote the rights of people with HIV and their children to property ownership and education. Households will be supported through counseling, training and material support. Where necessary, foster families will be identified and supported to care for orphans and ensure continued access to education. The programme will include 'straight-talk' with families and communities about HIV, support for ARV treatment and adherence, and improve the livelihoods of positive people. The local organisations are a coalition of 25 community-based organisations mostly established as support groups by people living with HIV. This proposal will strengthen the capacity of the lead agency to support a wide range of community partners, volunteers and activists.
Deaf children's access to quality education in Kilimanjaro Region Signal and Childreach Tanzania have worked together, in Tanzania, since 2009. Signal has expertise in community based support for deaf adults and children. Childreach Tanzania has expertise in school improvement with strong links in the Ministry of Education. In the past 3 years, Childreach Tanzania has been developing its work to support Hearing Impaired/Deaf children. This proposal will allow both organisations to measure how many deaf children are in/out of primary school in the Kilimanjaro region. It will consult with parents, communities, teachers and government workers to better understand the barriers to schooling and work to identify opportunities for future joint programming.