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Capacity strengthening program for Caritas Diocesan Offices This concept note is in response to the Bishops request aimed at supporting a capacity strengthening program for Caritas Sierra Leone by providing the required support,  resources, and training opportunities to  CSL. 
It is within this framework that Caritas Sierra Leone and the CDA focal Persons produced this capacity strengthening program for CSL staff with the following training outcomes;
1.	A review and ‘follow up from BD Training and to receive accompaniment support’ from the CDAs in terms of developing BD Plans, donor mapping and approach.
2.	A reviewed ‘Organizational MEAL system’ for Caritas Sierra Leone.
3.	An “Improved understanding on the financial management principles and internal controls for sustainable and efficient financial management” for Caritas Sierra Leone.
4.	Staff trained in ‘Risk Management, safety and security Planning. 
5.	Staff trained in ‘Disaster Preparedness Plan and management’ for Caritas Sierra Leone. 
6.	Caritas Sierra Leone ‘Inventory management system and Procurement manual” produced.
7.	Updated organizational ‘Policies produced’ for Caritas Sierra Leone’
•	The target participants will constitute Caritas Sierra Leone staff in Programs and Operations units in the 4 Diocesan Caritas offices and the National Offices. 
The capacity-strengthening will be “participatory learning” using “tailor-made facilitation”.  We will tap on existing expertise from CDAs where possible or outsource where the expertise is not readily available. Training locations will be rotated among the four (4) diocesan Caritas Offices for experience sharing and learning. 
Program Outline:
A.	Capacity Strengthening
1.	Capacity strengthening in Business Development 
2.	MEAL Systems 
3.	Financial Management and Internal Control systems
4.	Procurement, logistics an Supply Chain Management
5.	Risk Management, Safety and Security
6.	Disaster Preparedness and Management
B.	National Office Operational Support 
C.	Organizational Policies Development and Review
Reducing Preventable Deaths Caused by Malnutrition and Infectious Diseases This Type 2 approval is for 1 photography visit. It is to collect good quality images that can complement the project reporting and M&E and be shared for the donor reporting.

For the main project SLN301:
The proposed initiative will focus on reducing preventable deaths caused by malnutrition and infectious diseases for vulnerable families (especially children under 5) in rural areas of Kailahun District, Sierra Leone. 
While the project will ultimately benefit vulnerable children, especially under 5, implementation will target their care givers, including young mothers, PLMs, single mothers, fathers, and other vulnerable caregivers, as the catalysts for improved nutrition and health practices in their households. Given the gender disparities described above, women are the primary target because they face greater socio-economic risks and are traditionally the primary caregivers for children. At the same time, it is critical to include men in the project because they play important roles in breastfeeding, health seeking and meal consumption practices. 
 The proposed initiative will directly benefit 1,890 people, including 375 vulnerable caregivers, including young mothers, PLMs, single mothers, fathers, and other vulnerable caregivers (300 F/75M), 1,500 community members (through sensitization) and 15 CHWs within 15 communities in three Chiefdoms in Kailahun District, Sierra Leone. Indirectly, the project will reach 11,340 people.
This project is a supplementary to the Reducing Preventable Deaths Caused by Malnutrition and Infectious Diseases project supported by Vastenactie. The project has been completed since April, 2023 and the donor requested CAFOD to utilize the remaining fund 981.87 Euro for communication related purposes-taking photos.
Accountability Alert Capacity Stregthen for staff The aim of this project is to develop adequate capacity organisational policies (Human Resource, separate HR and Admin) as well as assessing impact on project design outcomes and impact by; strengthening partner  staff capacity on IT knowledge as well as advocacy and lobby skills. As AASL focuses on good governance through downwards accountability in the work of NGOs and other service providers and promoting women's empowerment. This intervention will help improve  programme quality and deliverables.  Improve staff capacity and programme management within the organisation.
Sierra Leone Election Engagement Plan (RECOWA) The project will focus on supporting trainings, capacity building of national and local church and non-church partners in Sierra Leone based on the actions identified during the Abuja workshop (NGR374). The project's goal is to seek to expand the Catholic Church's role in protecting and promoting the integrity of electoral processes in Sierra Leone.
Increase community resilience to food insecurity & enterprise development CAFOD supports the Kambia District Development and Rehabilitation organisation-KADDRO to “increase community resilience to food insecurity and emergency preparedness”.  In the last few months the project has worked towards enhancing sustainable livelihood among farmers through diverse methods that promotes increased production, diversification and adaptive farming practices.  This project is further complemented with a recovery project that aims to develop sustainable and alternative livelihood opportunities for Ebola affected communities including; the provision of farming inputs, value addition on agricultural product, skills and knowledge building, sensitization, awareness raising and the promotion of food and nutrition security in 15 communities. 
CAFOD is seeking to scale up this project as it contributes to Sierra Leone presidential recovery priorities, which is a 24-month plan that includes Agriculture under the national Ebola response and recovery framework.  The project will also weigh in on CAFOD sierra Leone Country Strategy Paper 2016- 2021 objectives
Promoting political tolerance and non-violence among youths in Sierra Leone This project seeks to promote inclusive and peaceful democratic participation among youth, to improve the communication and linkages between youth engagement and to promote greater interaction between civil society and National Electoral Commission on youth issues.
The project will be undertaken in the context of long-term preparations for the2022 and 2023 elections and will aim to lay the foundations for intensive engagement of both National Electoral Commission and youth serving agencies throughout the electoral period and beyond. 

This programme design is based on Caritas Sierra Leone three-pronged programming approach to addressing issues of participation and outreach. This approach focus on three elements.
- Informing and inspiring targeted groups
- Pushing for greater participation opportunities
- Encouraging institutional outreach
Promoting Greater Civic Participation in Sierra Leone This project seeks to support the National Electoral Commission (NEC) of Sierra Leone to run a comprehensive voter and civic education campaign to improve Sierra Leoneans’ knowledge about the 2023 general elections as well as to encourage voters to register and participate in the 2023 general elections. The project will help to strengthen the Sierra Leone democratic process through raising awareness on the significance of electoral processes among Sierra Leone voters and increase their participation in the 2023 general elections.
This approach is seeking to utilise an independent but also much broad based system for the 2023 general election which include Paramount Chief Member of Parliament, Local Council, Parliamentarian and Presidential elections by promoting civic education, peace messages and in supporting the efforts of the EMB and other actors targeting vulnerable groups including women, people with disability, young people and first time voters in the country.
Procurement of key items for Kambia District Ebola Response Centre 'Operation Northern Push II' Whilst the number of confirmed cases of EVD in Sierra Leone is considerably lower than peak level, a small number of cases continue to prevail in the Northern districts of the country (most notably Kambia). 

In June 2015, the Government of Sierra Leone introduced Operation Northern Push which focusses national efforts on Kambia and Port Loko District. Operation Northern Push significantly improved the capacity of the Kambia District Ebola Response Centre (DERC) to pro-actively respond to confirmed EVD cases and better anticipate likely case clusters. However, it is recognised that the DERC needs the support of local communities if Kambia district is to reach (and stay) at zero. As such the DERC have introduced a 2nd phase of Operation Northern Push, which will focus on community engagement.

Operation Northern Push will establish Section Driven Surveillance and Social Mobilisation Teams (SDSSM) who will be responsible for improving community engagement in their own Sections (sub-sections of a Chiefdom).  

CAFOD was asked by UNOPS to facilitate the procurement of key items which will be provided to the SDSSM to facilitate Operation Northern Push II.
Sierra Leone post landslide burial management Heavy rains in Freetown on the 14th August 2017 have caused a mud/landslide in Regent, Western Rural district and, a suburb of Freetown. It is estimated that up to 1,000 people have been killed. The city mortuaries were overwhelmed and the demand for burials outweighed capacity, unfortunately resulting in bodies left unburied. This is a huge health risk to the surviving population. 

The Government of Sierra Leone recruited trained volunteers and staff to provide extra burial capacity. They approached CAFOD, CRS and WorldVision (as the SMART consortium responsible for Safe and Dignified burials during the ebola response) to support the cost of these activities. 

This 3 week support will cover (some backdated) the weekly stipend of key burial workers including burial teams, decontamination teams, grave diggers etc. and fuel for vehicles. It will also be used to purchase key grave digging items such as markers and plaques. CAFOD's contribution will be earmarked to backdated salaries of gravediggers, burial volunteers (who started activities on 15 August 2017) and grave digging materials.
Preparatory project for the Energy Facilitated Marketplace in West Africa The Energy Facilitated Marketplace (EFMP) has been designed to address the twin problems of energy deficient centres of local agri-business and poor supply chain infrastructures prevalent in African marketplaces. The initiative will remodel the Municipal Marketplace in Sub-Saharan Africa, testing the hypothesis that combining smart green mini grid and aquaponics farming techniques, powered by green technologies, reduces post-harvest waste and loss by up to 50%. This innovation has been thought through to stimulate investment into output markets and support market incentives for value addition, while encouraging third-party investment into modernizing marketplaces and value chain infrastructures.
The design of this initiative which has already been undertaken is expected to transform the local economy and contribute to wider social impacts. This includes creating local jobs, raising incomes of small-scale food producers and stall holders, increasing food production, improving public health and educational opportunities and realizing the productive use of energy for rural development. 
With this background, CAFOD & KADDRO are hiring the services of professional expertise of Community Development Specialist & Coordinator, Chief Technical Adviser and Mzuzu University in Malawi to undertake rigorous research to unearth current situational context and community dynamics in Sierra Leone & Liberia for appropriate adaptation of the EFMP in West Africa. The findings from the research will help to facilitate the development of the proposal with informed information and data evidence. The    entire contract period to undertake the said research will span from the 1st - 31st March, 2021. The hired professional expertise will contract the services of 8 Enumerators to roll out the structured questionnaires for 800 respondents in the two programme's countries. Data will be collected via KoboCollect and analysed through SPSS to generate both quantitative and qualitative data.
Community based wild fire management in  Bombali District. There is an alarming rate of bush fire in the Bombali District and this has had a negative impact on the environment and communities. Therefore, the need for an integrated approach to bush fire management is becoming increasingly apparent. The important function forests maintain in protecting communities from other forms of natural disaster such as wind storms and flooding is also a major issue related to bush fire
This project aims to pilot a community based approach in 3 communities in Sella Limba Chiefdom -Bombali District   to enable them actively participate in bush fire management planning.  It also integrates all activities related to fire management such as prevention, preparedness, suppression and restoration into one coordinated bush fire management approach. This initiative will also ensure that trees; especially economic trees are protected from wild fire destruction during the dry season so as to contribute towards environmental protection and sustainability.
Promoting Rural Women’s Participation in Good and inclusive local Governance General trends in the Sierra Leonean political and governance scene indicate that women continue to significantly lag behind in representation at all levels.
Political party leaders and strategists argue that very few women aspire for political or community leadership positions and the few that do so lack the requisite education, skill and the charisma to succeed. 
The project intends to educate communities so women are able to participate, transform systems to improve women’s right; and move beyond the traditional economic empowerment of women. Specifically the project will build the capacities of local women to participate in local governance systems: chiefdom and district levels.
Caritas Makeni response to  combating the recurrent of cholera outbreak in Sierra Leone This project seeks to commit CAFOD to join the Government of Sierra Leone, other development partners and health service providers, in fighting against the epidemic of cholera Port Loko and Kambia districts in the country. Strategies would include mobilizing market women and residents of urban/peri urban slum areas to improve hygiene and sanitation conditions in markets and crowded streets.  Focus will be particularly on food safety among food vendors in markets, public places and schools, as contaminated food is a major source of cholera transmission.
Women and Girls FIRST in Sierra Leone - Caritas Kenema The overall objective of the proposed initiative is to strengthen resilience and improve financial inclusion of rural communities, particularly women and girls in Sierra Leone. Specifically, the project will aim to achieve the following: 

1. Improved knowledge and understanding of financial skills and money management among rural communities, especially women;
2. Rural communities, especially women, able to access inclusive and needs-driven financial products and services and; 3. Financial empowerment of rural women and girls through improved leadership and job skills and strengthening of women-led enterprises.
NMJD Organisational Transformation Project To enhance the overall effectiveness of NMJD as a development organisation and build its capacity as a technical resource able to provide organisational transformation services to CAFOD and Christian Aid partner organisations in Sierra Leone and Liberia.

Specific objectives 

1. To support NMJD to carry out a Strategic Review exercise and develop a comprehensive and well-articulated five-year Strategic Plan. 
2. To support NMJD to enhance its fundraising capacity.
3. To support NMJD to go through a process of organisational transformation in the areas of leadership, gender equity, self-determination and organisational culture, in order to better manage change and improve its effectiveness. 
4. To enhance NMJD's consulting skills to enable it to better support other local organisations towards Organisational Transformation and overall effectiveness.
CARITAS Makeni - Bridging Grant The key objective of the institutional support bridging grant is to strengthen organisation’s management to bridge the transition gap between outgoing and incoming directorate leadership and to fit Caritas Makeni well within its strategic framework.
It is a period of stabilization and reflecting on where we are coming from, where we are; and where we are going. This requires a self-reflection approach through a learning event to capture lessons learnt and best practices.
Building Resilience of vulnerable groups through increased protection mechanism and enhanced livelih According to the WHO (16/03/2015) the outbreak of Ebola Haemorrhagic Fever in West Africa has recorded more than 24,000 confirmed and suspected cases to date, across West Africa including 10,144 deaths. 48% of all cases have occurred in Sierra Leone , the country hardest hit by the outbreak, but the true impact is far greater. The ACAPs Ebola situation update (09-16 March) demonstrates this greater impact on food security, nutrition, child protection and spread of disease.
The negative impact of EVD on the communities continues, In addition, schools were closed since July 2014 as many were transformed into Community Care Centres (CCC) and even though these have been re-open there are issues with parents allowing their children to attend school.  The poorest and most vulnerable members of the communities, including older people, people with disabilities, children, young girls and women, have been hit the hardest. For example, older men and women due to their traditional caring roles in the community; people with disabilities due to restricted mobility, loss of sight; young girls who have not been at school have been at risk of becoming pregnant and have heightened protection issues due to lack of schooling over long periods. 
CAFODs work on the ground has identified that orphans and widows, carers, often older aged women and young children as other specific vulnerable groups, especially in households where both parents, including the bread winner, has died due to EVD and grandparents or adolescent siblings have assumed a carers role.  
The project seek to achieve the following;
a) 1,325 vulnerable Ebola affected  individuals (focus on women and girls) demonstrate improved livelihoods and food security by end of month 12; 
b) By month 12 at least 2,250 vulnerable persons affected by EVD demonstrate improved wellbeing as a result of psychosocial support provided across 2 districts; 
c) At least 350 vulnerable children are reunited with family members by month 12 as a result of improved protection services being provided across two districts; 
d) At least 1,200 girls and boys return to school and their education is resumed by month 6, as a result of providing basic school support/equipment and materials in two districts; 
e) project partners demonstrate strengthened capacity to ensure improved coordination, accountability and that compliance to international standards are met.
Immediate life-saving support to people living with HIV/AIDS affected by flooding and mudslide in Fr From initial assessment conducted by NETHIPS, SWAASL and SLYDD, approximately 100 Households (HHs) of people living with HIV/AIDS from different communities in the greater Freetown area, are affected by both flooding and/or mudslide. Among those affected by the disaster, people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) are particularly vulnerable and require specific attention to consistent availability of food, hygiene and protection information, provision of dignity kits as well as eventual support through cash transfer. While being highly vulnerable, these identified households are not currently consistently supported by humanitarian actors. There is an urgent need to immediately address the needs of these households, as lack of nutrition, risk of waterborne/water-related diseases, protection concerns, and lack of hygiene information and materials are likely to have a severe impact on health and well-being of these households.
Safe and Dignified Burials in Sierra Leone (Kambia District) The Ministry of Health and Sanitation in Sierra Leone reported on 21th   October that there have been 3,345 confirmed cases of Ebola since May although the number of unreported cases is thought to be much higher.  The number of fatalities is 1,001 giving a death rate of 30%.  
As shown in the recent FOCUS 1000/CRS/ UNICEF KAP survey, 37% of people infected with Ebola attributed their infection to attendance at a funeral. This is due to the large number of people in attendance and traditional practices of preparing and burying the body.  This highlights the importance of safe burial practices. The strategy for this proposal is based on the priorities outlined in the GoSL Accelerated Ebola Outbreak Response Plan, and the WHO Ebola Response Plan.
CAPACITY STRENGTHENING PROJECT In 1981, the Catholic Bishops Conference of Sierra Leone, established “Caritas Sierra Leone’ non-governmental faith-based organization, as the relief and development wing of the Catholic Church in Sierra Leone, operating countrywide, through a National office, and four diocesan offices. Since the start of the war in 1991, the structures of Caritas Sierra Leone collapsed, and from then on, the national office closed down, whilst the diocesan offices remained operational. Due to mounting humanitarian emergencies created by the war, each diocesan office responded separately, outside a national framework. Hence, whilst individual parts of the organization survived, the organization in its entirety collapsed, including the breakdown of the national board, the national management team, the national office, and the various coordinating structures. 
At a recent meeting of the technical taskforce charged with responsibility to translate the reports of the Road Mapping Workshop into a fundable proposal, the problems highlighted above were subjected to further reflections, by doing a problem tree analysis as well as a stakeholder analysis. 
At a recent meeting of the technical taskforce charged with responsibility to translate the reports of the Road Mapping Workshop into a fundable proposal, the problems highlighted above were subjected to further reflections, by doing a problem tree analysis as well as a stakeholder analysis. Caritas Sierra Leone to have an improved Governance and Accountability structure, systems and processes in place
Anti-Retroviral treatment costing study in Sierra Leone CAFOD, UNAIDS and National AIDS Secretariat (NAS) are collaborating to conduct an extensive study on understanding the cost drivers for HIV/AIDS treatment in Sierra Leone. Prior to now, no such study has been conducted in HIV/AIDS landscape in Sierra Leone. The result of the study would further help the government, funders and other implementing partners in planning effectively for future expenditure requirements and also identifying strategies for improving the efficiency of HIV treatment programs.
Safety, Access, Dignifying and Inclusive (SADI) Training for staff and partners in S/L and Liberia The recent suspension of CAFOD CHS certification and the concern over safeguarding within the charity sector has occasioned CAFOD to develop the safety, access, dignity and inclusive programming framework. This training would be for key CAFOD staff and partners programme staff, so as to better equip them in implementing safe, accessible, dignified and inclusive programme within the emergency and long-term development programming.