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Support to home based care initiatives FRACODEP implements an HIV and AIDS home based care (HBC) project for people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA) in the three parishes; St. Paul, Rang’ala and Nyango’oma. This project focus on HIV prevention and home based care. It provides friendly Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT) services, capacity building for staff, PLWHA and community vounteers. Community mobilisation and sensitisation, production and dissemination of IEC materials and networking and collaboration are other key activities. 
Voluntary Counselling and Testing has a crucial role to play as the entry point to HIV prevention and home care. Availability and accessibility to VCTs enables early diagnosis and timely treatment while those who test positive will receive care and support and live positively, those who test negative are encouraged to retain their HIV negative status. Overly, the project reaches over 10,000 people including men, women and children infected with and affected by HIV and AIDS
Integrating VCT in HBC provides an opportunity for provision of holistic and meaningful benefits to PLWHA and OVCs. Nutrition plays key role in health of PLWHA especially those on treatment to ensure drug adherence. More people have appreciated and have adopted good practice in nutrition through the linkage between HBC and VCT for their improved health. Clients on the programme are getting better and living positively.

There is value addition to the project delivery in terms for knowledge of HIV status, behaviour change, improved physical status of clients, increased acceptance of HIV status, reduced stigma at individual, family and community level, disclosure, and positive living. Additionally, infected people seek early treatment, and awareness of what to do such as adopting good practices such as drug adherence, use of nutritious foods and sharing of personal experiences. 
To ensure change occurs, qualified and committed staff including project officers VCT counsellors, Clinical Officer, nutritionist and field officer are on board. National and international standards’ required in service delivery are complied with. The local community is a collaborator to the project.
Clean Drinking Water and Hygiene with a Gender focus The project aims to bring the following outcome:
 
More women and men in arid land communities of Kitui, Maralal and Marsabi influence the policies and practices that improve sustainable access, control, management and safe use of water resources assets and access to clean water and practice safe environmental sanitation and hygiene benefiting 22,550 individuals.

CAFOD Partners, The Catholic diocese of Kitui, Isiolo, Marsabit and Mararal have in the past initiated a number of projects funded by CAFOD and other partners.  A big portion of the projects have gone into provision of water for human and livestock consumption.  Most of the water facilities are provided through boreholes, water pans and rock catchments.  Whereas rock catchments and boreholes may provide clean drinking water if hygienically maintained, the earth dams provided have no facilities to provide clean drinking water for human consumption. Some of the boreholes provided are of high salinity especially in Kargi, Marsabit and there is speculation that they contain heavy metals that can cause diseases.  Most of the project beneficiaries are pastoralists.  The coverage of latrines is very low in the community and due to open defecation; there is likelihood of contamination of the water sources.  Due to low levels of education in the community, hygiene awareness is very low.    The project aims at  increasing accessibility of sufficient potable water to the community while at the same time addressing the need for safe defecation through Community Led total Sanitation programme which aims at sensitizing the community to construct their own latrines with no material support.  The project also aims at sensitizing the community in safe hygiene through simple messages on safe water (drinking only from safe water source or home treatment), safe defecation and hand washing at critical times.  The project further aims at carrying out a gender analysis and sensitizing the community leaders on gender roles and women participation with the aim of having active women leadership in the committees.  The project therefore aims to address the following mach fund outcome indicators:
 
-number of men and women reporting access to safe drinking water, 
-number of women and men reporting access to sanitation facilities, 
-number of women and men of targeted beneficiaries demonstrating good hygiene practice,  
-number of women engaged in WASH and environmental management committees reporting increased opportunity and confidence in decisions affecting access to and safe use of household and/or community resources such as water 
-CAFOD partners showing evidence of gender analysis throughout the project cycle and using sex disaggregated data in monitoring and reporting.
WFP BSFP Nutrition project. Marsabit is a semi-arid area located in a drought prone region of the country and which currently falls under the Integrated Phase Classification (IPC) of red. It has very poor annual rainfall characterized with limited pasture and crop failure. The recent rains have not been very reliable and this has resulted to high malnutrition rates of 22.7 and severe malnutrition rates of 5.0.

The whole of Marsabit District is food insecure, suffering from chronic food shortage for most of the year. Relief food is a major source of food as crop products are not sufficient to supply the entire district. Coupled with poverty, and the increase of food prices, households do not have sufficient funds to purchase the little food on the Market.

CAFOD in partnership with the Catholic Diocese of Marsabit expressed an interest to implement Blanket Supplementary Feeding Project (BSFP) in Laisamis and Loiyangallani Districts of Marsabit County. The proposed action is to provide immediate emergency support in nutrition to reach vulnerable households through strategies that prevent acute malnutrition through provision of supplementary Corn Soya Blend (CSB) and fortified vegetable oil. Target beneficiaries are all children less than 3 years, pregnant and lactating mothers. 

Beneficiaries will receive 200gm of CSB and 20 gm of vegetable oil per person per day for 5 months. This proposed project is complemented by other actions, including improving access to routine medication and boosting immunization and vitamin A coverage through providing routine medication to all beneficiaries of BSFP. The project will ensure that individual beneficiaries and communities can have a better and improved quality of life through this integrated approach.

The project is directly targeting 9,277 individual beneficiaries of whom 5,455 are female and 3,822 are male.
Integrated AIDS Project, Thika Integrated AIDS Programme (IAP) Thika continues to provide services aimed to prevent the spread of HIV and to provide quality care in order to improve the quality of life for people infected with and affected by HIV and AIDS. The programme has three pronged interventions of Home Based Care (HBC), Education for Life (EFL) and Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC). Specific programme activities include medical care, VCT services, on going counselling, psychosocial support, pastoral care, outreach clinics, AIDS and health education, material support and home visits. This project (KEN563) focuses provision of static and mobile VCT services, community mobilisation, HIV and AIDS and health education and home care including support to OVCs. These interventions are targeted to rural communities to ensure that these communities easily access HIV and AIDS and health services. 
This project complements the all programme components. It plays a critical role as the entry point to the care programme. HBC teams intensify home visits and provide back up support to Community Health Workers (CHWs) and family level caregivers. Comprehensive Care Centre (CCC) provides specialised care and treatment to clients. Referrals to Gatundu and/or Thika hospitals for further examinations and treatment are made as appropriate. EFL has refocused Behaviour Change Process (BCP) sessions within schools to link with VCT services to ensure that the youth have adequate information enable them make informed choices. 
OVC teams continue to build capacity at village level where guardians’ self help groups have started to provide basic care and support to OVCs. New initiatives on improving domestic incomes for both OVCs and guardians are providing useful lessons for future economic empowerment and programme sustainability. VCT services through this project have intensified to provide close to home services to the local communities making the entire programme a reality. VCT sites are fully operational. A combination of mobile VCTs with the door to door VCT approach is desirable for wider reach and has enabled couples to access HIV and AIDS services than before.
Decent & Green Jobs Work in the Agriculture, Agro-processing, & Food Security Sector in Kenya 2018- Economic development and job creation are key components of poverty alleviation. In fact, employment is a central priority for both people living in poverty, and for governments and donors attempting to have strong development impact. At this point in history, however, we face a dual challenge, both social and ecological, and there is just no are not the time nor the resources to respond to this challenge in a non-integrated way. 

Laudato Si highlights that our priority is therefore to respond to both the cry of the poor and the cry of the earth. When considering the unemployment and underemployment challenges that countries around the world are currently facing, our priority is, therefore, to call for decent, green jobs for all.

Jesuit Hakimani (JH) and CAFOD would like to explore what this means in the Kenyan context: What are decent, green jobs in Kenya… why are these important… and what do decision makers need to do to support the creation of decent and green jobs?

Research Objectives:

1.	Investigate the gaps about global contemporary concerns & considerations in the current policy framework on job creation that are decent, green & sustainable.
2.	Consolidate and provide relevant improvements at the county and at the national level in the policy and legal framework so as to create decent, green & sustainable jobs.
3.	Identify connection and to raise awareness amongst rural farmers and the general public of the connection between bad governance and persistent food insecurity in Kenya.
4.	To capture and solidify the public sentiments and awaken social thinking on issues of governance, decent, green jobs, & food security especially amongst the rural poor and urban working poor.
Humanitarian Capacity Development Kenya 2015 The project contributes to Horn and East Africa (HEA) annual operation plan 2014/15 - 'key partners capacity strengthened'
Humanitarian capacity development project (HCD) , Kenya programme, is a partnership project between CAFOD and 3 Northern Kenya strategic partners; Dioceses of Marsabit, Diocese of Isiolo and Diocese of Maralal,  aiming at strengthening its capacity to prepare for and respond to emergencies . 
The project targets to improve performance in the context of planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of humanitarian services.  The process hopes to provide in-depth support through trainings & peer learning to improve organisational effectiveness by considering actions that will strengthen leadership & management, levels of skills & knowledge in international humanitarian standards, Disaster Management, fundraising,  M&E framework and safety & security of partners in emergencies.   These targeted areas of trainings were identified and prioritised in the capacity needs assessment workshop.
The trainings will not only benefit the 3 northern Kenya partners but representatives of CAFOD Nairobi staff and representatives of partners & CAFOD staff from Southern Africa regions.
The identified training areas will in a profound and sustainable manner, improve effectiveness of partner organisations.
Peace Building, Reconciliation and Resettlement Response to Post Election Violence in Kenya. Kisii district is one of the twelve districts, situated in Nyanza Province in the Western Part of Kenya. The district is mostly hilly and lies on a highland equatorial climate and as such receives rain almost throughout the year. Kisii district is one of the most densely populated in Kenya with around 50 % of the population below the age of 20. Due to its high population density, land is put to maximum agricultural use with plots becoming ever smaller as it is subdivided within families. A result of this is that a large population of Kisii community members migrated to neighbouring districts in order to be able to support their families. 

The Kisii community was greatly affected by ethnic tensions and violence during the last post election violence which resulted in a country wide displacement of 250,000 people and an estimated 1,200 killed many of whom were from the Kisii community.    

The post election humanitarian situation within Kisii came about when Kisii community members were forcefully evicted from the Rift Valley by the Kalenjin community from business/ work or land they had possessed in Rift Valley making them resort to return to their ancestral home district. Many people from the Kisii community currently feel unable to return to the areas they have fled from due to fear of fresh attacks and are opting to remain in their ancestral home district in Kisii. 

This has posed a problem because host families often have limited resources on their own and are already overcrowded and their financial resources overstretched.

This project proposes to provide livelihood support to vulnerable returnee families who show the capacity to potentially re-establish their livelihoods which were lost during the post election violence. 

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.
Isiolo Food Security Project: Mitigating Impact of Economic downturn This project falls within the DFID funded Food Security Project which aims to mitigate the impact of economic downturn for poor and marginalised people in Kenya and Zimabwe through supporting interventions that increase agricultural production and access to food.  Kenya has been selected because the economic downturn and recurrent droughts has resulted in increasing cost of agricultural inputs and food stuffs which has in turn exacerbated an already fragile food security situation. In Kenya, the project will be implemented by two of CAFOD’s partners, the Diocese of Isiolo and Diocese of Kitui. 

In Isiolo, this additional funding will expand on and complement ongoing work under the East Africa Sustainable Livelihoods programme. This project will therefore support farmers in Isiolo Diocese through construction of water facilities and installation of irrigation pipelines as well as provision of drought tolerant seeds to farmers and capacity building for farmers on crop husbandry. Environmental conservation will be mainstreamed. It is hoped that this will increase agricultural productivity and availability of food during the drought period. Local communities will be mobilized to engage in these activities and will work in groups.

As the current programmes are funded directly by CAFOD, specific activities have been earmarked for these additional funds from DFID.
Integrated AIDS Programme, Thika This 2-year project continues the work of the Integrated AIDS Program in its efforts towards the prevention and control of the spread of HIV and AIDS and the provision of care and support services to people living with and affected by HIV, in the Gatundu North district of Kiambu county. It does this through community sensitisation on HIV prevention and on strategies of coping with the effects of HIV and AIDS through awareness campaigns, HIV Testing and Counselling (HTC) services, Education For Life (EFL) activities, care and support for infected and affected persons. In addition, the project focuses on the needs of Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVCs), through provision of school fees and other education support; apprenticeships and training on improved farming methods; promotion of income-generating activities; monitoring and supervision, and capacity-building. 

IAP plans to empower the community in better farming methods, economic sustainability and wealth creation strategies which will equip the community with the capacity to improve their skills on soil and water conservation and planting of drought resistant crops. These strategies will ensure that households in the community have sustainable food supply. The programme will also engage the community into poverty reduction through micro finance and agri-business as a way of promoting asset acquisition for the households, increased income and sustainable financial stability.
Post election violence - Mombasa The aftermath of the General Elections in Kenya on December 27th 2007 has been one of the most turbulent periods in post-independence Kenya. In particular the period just after the chaotic announcement of the winner of the election was one of intense violence in numerous parts of the country. Civilians have been beaten, homes burnt down, businesses destroyed and men, women and children killed. The Kenya Red Cross has reported that more than 500 people have been killed, and according to recent official figures released by the Government of Kenya (Jan 6th), there is officially an estimated 255,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) as a result of this violence.

A number of towns have been temporarily cut off and many major roads barricaded by various communities denying access to road users. This has affected the delivery of essential supplies to key markets and local communities. Among the most affected towns and cities are Kisumu, Eldoret, Nairobi, Nakuru, Kakamega, Busia, Kisumu, Mombasa, Kitale and Lugari. Most of the displaced groups have been camping at police stations, district administration camps, prison compounds, church compounds, local showgrounds and other public places where they feel some security and protection is available. People in these areas are homeless as they seek security in neighbouring districts and are in desperate need of shelter, food, water, medicine, personal hygiene items and clothing items particularly for children.

Alongside national government efforts to provide relief assistance, CAFOD is responding to this situation in the slums of Nairobi with food distributions, in Eldoret and Bungoma with food and non food items and in Kericho with non food items. CAFOD is also making efforts to reach some of the displaced groups in Mombasa at the Kenyan coast where it is estimated that over 3000 people have been displaced and 10 have so far died. This request to Jersey is for support to CAFOD’s response in Mombasa, in continued partnership with the Archdiocese of Mombasa, to reach 760 people (120 men, 217 females and 423 children) who have been camping in five Catholic Parishes compounds (Likoni, Cathedral, Bomu, Mikindani and Changamwe). 

The Archdiocese of Mombasa has been providing direct assistance to these displaced people since they arrived in the parishes but are now running out of their existing resources. Shelter has been provided using existing parish facilities including meeting halls. They have also provided food such as maizemeal, rice, porridge and beans, as well as water from their existing supplies. Some additional food was provided by the Kenya Red Cross though supplies have run low. Each parish has sought to provide some basic medicines for minor ailments and refer individuals to local clinics where those services have been available. The parishes have, however, been unable to meet the growing needs of these groups and are in need of additional supplies of both food and non-food items. The Archdiocese has therefore requested support from CAFOD help reach out to these people.
Marsabit Drought Emergency Response 2017 DEC supported This is a project that targets to reach people in Marsabit 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. Hundreds of livestock have died from starvation and people have been affected by hunger-related ailments while rates of child malnutrition has reached alarming levels.  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 support is planning to work with Caritas Marsabit to address issues of water shortage, food insecurity and retention of children in schools.  CAFOD and partners will work through existing humanitarian forums both at national & the County levels to maximise available support. 
The Key outcomes are;
- Improved access to safe and clean water for 400HHs 
- Improved access to life-saving food though Unconditional Cash Transfers (650HHs) and food distribution (740HHs)
- Increased household income for 500HHs through Cash for work
- Increased regular attendance of schools by 128 Children in 8 secondary schools
- Strengthened CSG coordination at 2 sub-county levels.