TROCAIRE- Peace through gender equitable and resilient communities in Ituri TROCAIRE- Fred genom jämställdhet och motståndskraftiga samhällen i Ituri Trócaire's proposed project will address issues of women’s participation in informal and formal decision-making processes including those where conflict dynamics are influenced and discussed and around protection from SGBV and equitable access to land. In order to create an enabling environment for this to take place, Trócaire aims to empower women economically, so that they can have the time and space to engage more meaningfully in the social empowerment work and protection from SGBV that the project will be supporting. 

Trócaire’s empowerment approach aims at strengthening individual and community capacities to engage with duty bearers and to influence plans and policies that directly affect their lives. 
A conflict sensitive approach will be applied throughout the project so that Trócaire's activities and partners will be enabled to promote peace and contribute to reduced levels of destructive and violent conflict in target zones.
 
The overall goal of the project is to contribute to peaceful and gender equitable communities in Mambasa and Djugu Territories, Ituri Province, DRC. 
3 long term outcomes have been identified which the project will aim to reach: 

1.	Women, particularly young women are socially and economically empowered to participate in both conflict and peace-related formal and informal decision-making processes at all levels;
2.	Women, girls and boys are free from violence and its associated risks ; 
3.	Civil Society Organisations working on gender equality and women’s rights are strengthened and deliver on their objectives. Det föreslagna projektet från Trocaire kommer att lyfta frågor om kvinnors deltagande i formella likväl informella beslutsfattande processer. Detta inkluderar processer där konflikt är en faktor samt kring frågor som rör skydd från könsbaserat våld och jämställd tillgång till land. För att skapa en miljö där detta ska kunna ske avser Trocaire att stödja kvinnor ekonomiskt. Syftet med ett ekonomiskt stöd är att kvinnor ska kunna frigöra tid och möjlighet att engagera sig mer i det sociala arbetet för att stärka kvinnans roll och minska dess utsatthet för könsbaserat våld.

Trociares mål om ökat kvinnligt deltagande syftar till att stärka individers och gruppers förmåga att engagera sig och att påverka planer och policys som har direkt inverkan på deras liv. 

Ett konfliktmedvetet tillvägagångssätt kommer att tillämpas för projektet så att Trocaires aktiviteter och dess partners kan främja fred och bidra till ett samhälle med mindre våld och konflikter.

Det övergripande målet för projektet är att bidra till fredliga och jämställda samhällen i områdena Mambasa och Djugu i Ituri-provinsen i DRK. Tre långsiktiga resultat har identifierats som projektet har som mål att uppnå:

1. Kvinnor, särskilt unga kvinnor, är socialt och ekonomiskt stärkta för att delta i konflikt- och fredsrelaterade beslutsprocesser på alla nivåer;
2. Kvinnor, flickor och pojkar är fria ifrån våld och våldsrelaterade risker;
3. Civilsamhällsorganisationer arbetar med jämställdhetsfrågor och kvinnors rättigheter stärks enligt uppsatta mål. Given the Ituri context of instability trough displacement, lack of women’s empowerment, SGBV and gender inequality, the project proposes to address issues of women’s participation in informal and formal decision-making. These processes include those where conflict dynamics are influenced and discussed and around protection from SGBV and equitable access to land. To create an enabling environment for this to take place in Mambasa and Djugu, Trócaire aims to empower women economically, so that they can have the time and space to engage more meaningfully in the social empowerment work and protection from SGBV that the project will be supporting.
Trócaire’s empowerment approach aims at strengthening individual and community capacities to engage with duty bearers and to influence plans and policies that directly affect their lives.
A conflict sensitive approach will be applied throughout the project so that Trócaire activities and partners will be enabled to promote peace and contribute to reduced levels of destructive and violent conflict in target zones.
The overall goal of the project is to contribute to peaceful and gender equitable communities in Mambasa and Djugu Territories, Ituri Province, DRC.
3 long term outcomes have been identified which the project will aim to reach:
Women, particularly young women are socially and economically empowered to participate in both conflict and peace-related formal and informal decision-making processes at all levels;Women, girls and boys are free from violence and its associated risks ;Civil Society Organisations working on gender equality and women’s rights are strengthened and deliver on their objectives.
A total of 16,000 people (11,200 women and 4,800 men) are being targeted by the proposed project. This figure is calculated based on 4,000 households benefiting from the proposed interventions within Djugu and Mambasa Territories.
This program will cover 27 villages including 13 in Djugu and 14 Mambasa. These villages have already been supported by Trócaire in humanitarian and livelihood, and this intervention will continue to build on and consolidate its work. In Mambasa, Trócaire has been working with IDPs and host communities in Mambasa territory through food, NFI and WASH interventions while in Djugu, it has worked since 2010 targeting vulnerable women in a context of recurrent ethnic conflicts and limited accessibility.