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KALONGE WATER PROJECT KALONGE village is located in MASISI territory, 70km west from Goma. Its population is estimated 10,000 inhabitants (approx. 5,500 female and 4,500 male). There is no safe drinking water in the vicinity and the water they drink is from a rough non-capped spring situated at 3,000m from the nearest household which provides 0.3L/second. This flow would provide an adequate water supply to only 576 persons (6% of the population) on 8hours/day basis. This forces women and girls to spend many hours waiting on long queues without having occasion to get water. Thus, they now manage to go to this spring in the night to increase their chance of collecting water. The spring is in a deep bushy valley exposing women and children to a danger and risk of rape. Given this situation, households prefer to let the spring run towards them for 3 to 5km, then they fetch even dirtier water from a creek which also carries all human waste from upstream. The area is known to bear endemic diarrhoea and some cases of cholera occur every year. 
This project is the appropriate response as it will promote hygiene by providing both safe water through a gravity piped system feeding 10 bi-taps stand posts, alongside good sanitation in a primary school and hygiene knowledge. The project was funded by Isle of Man for £61,000 to run one year starting on 1rst March 2016.
Technical evaluation of the micro credit scheme This project will assess the impact of the Micro credit project over the 3 years and go further to run a situational analysis of the current status of the beneficiaries and shed light on the next phase and future direction of the project.
The ending project seeked to improve the socio-economic status of women and their families within and around the city of Goma in North Kivu Province, empowering them to earn a secure and sustainable living. Our partner, Caritas Goma, supported vulnerable women to form Saving and Internal Lending Committees and to establish their own small businesses. This included selling different goods in order to establish a sustainable livelihood around the beneficiaries lives. Most of the women targeted by this project had particular sort of vulnerability ie displaced or widows etcs in need to re-establish themselves and their lives but unable to access loans from banks and face extreme poverty.
Our partner reports an extremely high demand from women in the Goma area to join the project – the women have witnessed the success of SILC and wish to liberate themselves from poverty. However, in order to be able to draw clear lines from past experience and next phase, this evaluation will help to clarify the impact over the past experience with its strenth and weakness and will shed direction on steps to take.
Supporting peace consolidation initiatives in the Archdiocese of Bukavu in eastern DR Congo The proposed project aims to consolidate peace within Bukavu Archdiocese and across the border with Cyangugu (Rwanda). Its main objective is to make communities more sensitive to conflict factors in order to prevent potential conflicts and to positively transform and manage active conflicts. To this end, the capacity of grass roots peace actors will be strengthened to allow a more effective prevention and management of conflicts at community level; mediation activities will be supported to ensure rights of the poor and marginalized are protected. 
Across borders, this project   aims to make Church Justice and Peace agents more sensitive to cross-border aspects of conflicts in the region and increase the actions that bring communities together. Special focus will be put on the management of land conflicts, awareness raising on land law, women and youth’s role in conflict prevention & conflict
resolution, and cross border reflections on Africae Munus.
Conferences, focus group discussions, workshops, radio broadcasting and a bi-monthly peace bulletin will benefit an estimated 2 million beneficiaries in the project areas (Bukavu, Kabare, Kalehe, Idjwi, Mwenga and Walungu).
Start Learning Grant: Collaborative Approach to Targeting To be most effective, targeting should engage communities throughout the targeting cycle, ensuring the views of affected communities – and particularly those of potentially marginalized and most vulnerable groups – can influence the targeting process . Often, vulnerable groups or those with special needs are overlooked in society, and in the community committees (for example, internally displaced committee) it is not often, for example, you would find a person living with disabilities as part of this committee – which means that those with specific needs do not always get a voice and are not always seen. When committees are being organized, it is important that targeting also takes place at this stage, incorporating members who are marginalized or are people with specific needs.   

Because of diversity of needs of different communities, targeting ensures that the specific needs, vulnerabilities and capacities of communities and people affected by crisis are identified and assistance is provided accordingly, taking account of the diversity within communities including those who may be marginalized or disadvantaged. However, after consulting and going through the literature of targeting guidelines from different START Network Members in DRC it is clear that they are using different frameworks and thus there is an interest in harmonization and standardizing this approach so that all agencies are collecting consistent data. Agencies who respond to an alert together could also be using different means of targeting which then raises issues of consistency in implementation and reporting for the same project.
As agencies use different targeting approaches and data collection methods, there could potentially be gaps in targeting and some people who need support, may be missed. With a standardized framework, all agencies in DRC could use the same methods for data collection and targeting, this would ensure a better approach and would significantly lessen the opportunity for people who should be targeted to be missed. It will also make sure that the Start Fund’s statistics for DRC are more accurate, as all members will be working from the same framework.
CAFOD will work with other Start member agencies based in Goma to try to build a framework to enable consistent targeting, data collection and beneficiary identification, including people with specific needs.
NFI Humanitarian assistance to 12000 IDP households in Dongo DRC and Impfondo in Congo Brazzaville An interethnic conflict broke out in Budjala Diocese in Equateur Province between the Enyele Tanda and Muzaya in November 2009. This conflict caused both internal and external movements of civilian populations. Internally people fled their homes into other safe areas within Budjala and Molegbe Dioceses such as Bokonzi, Bomboma, Makengo and Gosuma. At the time the assessment was carried out there were 4341 IDP households in Budjala Diocese alone. Externally the civilian populations crossed River Oubangi into Congo Brazzaville where they are estimated to be as many as 83000 households. The evaluation missions in Budjala (carried out by Caritas Budjala) and in Congo Brazzaville carried out jointly between Caritas Congo Brazzaville and Congo Kinshasa found the following problems: food insecurity, education of children, lack of access to health facilities, loss of household items, trauma, etc.Due to the magnitude of the emergency, Caritas Congo requested Caritas Internationalis to launch an Emergency Appeal in order to support both the refugees and the internally displaced people. Each household will benefit an NFI/shelter kit composed of blankets, clothes, plates, drinking mugs, bathing and laundry soap, buckets, cooking pots, hygiene kits, etc.
Support to ACEAC initiatives on better governance and peace within the region The coalition of Justice and Peace Commission otherwise known as ACEAC intends to organize the meeting of the Justice and Peace Commissions in Bukavu. This worksop will have the participation of DRC, Rwanda and Burundi Justice and peace delegates. 
The four days’ workshop will mainly focus on the analysis of socio-political context of the region. It will as well focus on sharing experiences (successes and failures) that have come on the journey of the three justice and peace commissions over the past years, a sort of an assessment of the numerous efforts made since 2013; it will culminate in re-defining new strategies (if necessary) of a joint pastoral message on electoral matters for the on-going political processes within the ACEAC region. 
Following this activity, CEJP-ACEAC will have a (new) strategy with a roadmap for its overall pastoral in favor of peace and justice in the region through credible electoral processes which is a pre-requisite to securing peace in the countries covered by ACEAC.
Leads and church decision makers will attend this important meeting from all three countries and in addition to this, each country will send three delegates from the National Episcopal Commissions for Justice and 2 other key leaders from near-by and bordering Diocesan Justice and Peace Commissions and a delegate from CAFOD.

This project will as well cover another important ACEAC workshop that will focus on migration challenges within the ACEAC region. Unlike the previous workshop, this will take place in Kinshasa. It is a matter of fact that very little is known about migration in Central Africa as compared to other African region ie in West Africa. No precise research and studies have been done on this, related policies are not appropriately analyzed and updated to meet the context of the age. With all these, migration a critical and a marginal phenomenon in this part of Africa that is calling for more attention and the church cannot afford not to have a close look up on this situation considering the biblical teachings on migration. We are all aware of the wars and other political disturbances that have taken place have caused many people to displaced and/or leave their original home and/or countries as they search for security and safety. In the Great Lakes region, the experiences of the migrants have not so far been a smooth one. Some have argued that this has contributed accentuating insecurity in the region. Others say that it is rather their life survival that lead them to engage in such conducts; others put forward arguments to the recovery of some politicians who have taken advantage to use them for their favoring reasons that are better known by themselves. Ultimately, the debate over the meaning of refugees in the Great Lakes region may be endless. This is why, in the framework of this project, we would like to bring another debate: the evangelization of migrants to advocate for their rights.
In order to do this appropriately, we have to secure the ownership of all ACEAC bishops; and this one of the key essence of this project.
Monitoring of the project "Protection and re-integration of ex-combatants -Phase II" Caritas Bukavu will implement a programme that is a continuation of a last 3-Years phase and that aim to strengthen peace dynamics by supporting associations of ex-combatants engaged in income-generating activities to ensure their holistic community reintegration. The goal of the next 3-years program (2018-2021) will be for ex-combatants and host communities to build sustainable and inclusive livelihoods and community development in 23 villages in the diocese of Bukavu through i) Agricultural development, ii) Promotion of small enterprises and income generating activities and iii) A community driven development.
A general improvement of the livelihood will be realistic for the three next years, but to achieve sustainability for the small enterprises more time is needed. The intervention area should continue : Kabare, Kalehe, Walungu and Idjwi and Bukavu district as being part of a larger long-term programme. 
 
This project will be monitored by CAFOD DRC whose staffs are based both in Goma, so implying important monitoring trips. The present project enclosures project baseline, launch workshop, monitoring costs, project visibility and an external audit which will happen at the project end.
Multisector emergency assistance to the most vulnerable households affected by armed conflict in DRC Continued armed conflicts in Fizi and Shabunda in South Kivu in 2015, have led to several displacement of the populations in the neighbouring territories of Kabambare and Pangi in Maniema. These populations have suddenly fled the outbreak of violent clashes in their villages with little or no essential goods; they lost their agricultural livelihoods and have no food stocks. In the same period, similar movements of populations were also registered in the territory of Shabunda and Pangi resulting in violent armed conflict and land disputes between ethnic groups. 
Both, IDPs and returnees in these territories are living in very precarious conditions and persistent tensions have been reported between the displaced and host communities.
Needs assessments conducted by CAFOD and its partner BDD Kasongo in October 2015 in the targeted areas in Pangi (North Ulindi and Kama-Kyelu-Bukama axis), and also by Christian Aid in collaboration with BDD Kasongo in Shabunda in December 2015, have demonstrated very high needs in food, essential household items (NFI) and agricultural seeds and tools for both displaced, returnees and their host families.
With funds obtained from ECHO, the proposed project aims to contribute to improve the living conditions and strengthen the food security of households affected by violence and armed conflicts the mentioned above through the assistance of food and non-food items. In the same time, the project will help strengthen the resilience of beneficiaries by supporting early recovery activities through the provision of agricultural tools and seeds to boost their livelihoods. 
The intervention targets 1.880 displaced and returned households (approx. 9,400 people) for food and non-food items assistance using fairs approach and direct distribution of agriculture tools and seeds to 1,110 households (approx. 5,550 persons) including displaced, returnees who have access to land and their host families in  Pangi and Shabunda territories allowing them to recover agricultural activities.
Emergency aid Project in Kongolo Territory, Tanganyika Province of DR Congo The objective of this project is to contribute to the improvement of food security and living conditions of displaced persons, returnees and vulnerable host families who are victims of the activism of militias and armed groups in 24 villages in the health areas of Katele and Masaubi, Kongolo health zone in the Territory of Kongolo, in Tanganyika Province.
The decision to provide food and essential household items to these households was greatly motivated by various assessments that mentioned serious humanitarian crisis among both the displaced and returnee populations who fled armed conflicts and community violence and among host families.  Focus has been made on food security and essential household items in the reports of multi-sectoral rapid assessments conducted in the area. Food allows people to meet their primary need for nourishment, while clothing, blankets and other sleeping materials meet the most personal human needs for protection against the harsh climate, preservation of health and privacy, and respect for dignity. The response is urgent to save lives and restore the dignity of victims.
Indeed, the majority of households report eating only one meal per day. Many children show signs of malnutrition, and on the other hand, children are half dressed. The lack or inadequacy of water storage and collection containers in displaced households means that women and girls have to make several trips each day to collect water. Many households spend the night on the ground on twigs without blankets or sheets. 
In order to guarantee the effectiveness of the intervention, several awareness sessions will be organized on different themes before, during and after each assistance. Topics of the sensitization sessions are: individual and community hygiene, good eating habits, barrier actions to fight against COVID-19, STI/AIDS prevention, family planning, culture of peace, maintaining a healthy environment, sexual exploitation and abuse, etc.
Train Human Rights Defenders on security issues ahead of local and presidential election. The situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) remains volatile and human rights defenders are increasingly becoming at risk. In the post-conflict context in DRC, human rights defenders (HRD) continue to operate at extreme personal risk, in atmosphere of violence, hostility and instability. The absence of the rule of law and a climate of impunity prevails. Consequently, carrying out activities such as investigating and denouncing atrocities, fight against sexual violence, advocacy with respect to the elections and political processes as well as independent journalism, many human rights defenders have been subject to threats and attacks. Congolese human rights defenders are frequent targets of intimidation, judicial proceedings, stigmatisation, death threats, detentions, arbitrary arrest, gender based violence, poor treatment in prison including denying them the right have access to lawyers and medical care, physical assault and in some cases torture or even killing in some worst cases. As a result of this, many defenders have been forced into hiding and/or exile as they fear for their own security and that of their families.
As the election draw closer, president Kabila and his ruling party are attempting to change the constitution so that he can force his way to run for the third term. With this, human right defenders are even more at risk since they are trying to campaign against this and to denounce abuses related to the same. Recently, the Church issued an open letter on September 14th calling upon the country’s politicians to respect the 2006 constitution. This was in response to the attempts to amend article 220 of the constitution which bans the amendment of certain key provisions, including the presidential terms in office. Earlier on pro-government politicians and members of parliament used the media and toured different parts of the country to convince Congolese people of the necessity to amend the constitution, and particularly article 220, in order to suit the interests of the ruling party and allow President Joseph Kabila, whose second and last term of office ends in 2016, to run for a third term. 

In response to continue to promote the fundamental values of human right, this project will be implemented in the effort to reverse this tendency. Human right actors being at risk, the project will seek expertise from recognized organizations to train Human Right Defenders on personal and organizational security in Kinshasa and North Kivu.  The workshop for at risk  human rights defenders will cover the risk assessment, threat analysis, reaction to security incidents, dealing with stress, the production of practical security plans geared towards each HRD's unique situation, and how to produce organisational security plans. Two trainings sessions will be organized in the first round of the project and will involve at least 20 participants per session.
Support for livelihood recovery of Simama Groups in the Shabunda territory, South Kivu Shabunda territory covers 40% of South Kivu province. This territory is very isolated and continues to experience violence from armed groups named Raia Mutomboki. Human rights violations remain high, especially sexual violence and other gender based violence. From April 26 to 3 May 2015 (one week only), 822 protection incidents have been recorded in south Kivu within 24 sexual violence and 122 injuries (Protection Monitoring report May 2015).  

CAFOD works with BDD Shabunda since 2012, on the Simama Project and together we have reached almost 1600 women and girls victims of sexual violence with livelihood and protection related services. As for the previous project (DRC361), this project with BDD Shabunda will continue to scale up their reach and help 240 victims to recovering from violence. 
Through this project, the overall objective is to contribute to the recovery of human dignity through economic empowerment of 320 survivors of armed conflict through self-care activities (IGA) in the Diocese of Kasongo in Shabunda territory, Democratic Republic of Congo by:
-	Preventing and minimizing the effects of violence on vulnerable populations (IDPs, returnees and their host families) in the territory of Shabunda through awareness meetings, discussions with stakeholders (police and other traditional authorities and political and administrative);
-	Improving the quality of the holistic care of the 320 survivors of sexual violence in Shabunda territory through strengthening their income-generating activities;
-	Bringing communities of victims to be aware of their vulnerable situation, identify their strengths and mount protection strategies.
Acts of sexual violence make women and children stigmatized and despised in the community. This is why this project will fight against the marginalization and stigmatization of women victims of sexual violence through assistance (Psychosocial care and support in AGR) to promote their placement in a protective environment within the community and reduce their vulnerability.
In such tottering background, the role of the people is proving decisive. We must therefore help the targeted community to realize their level of vulnerability and to be well organized for getting out of this situation.
Support to vocational training of street youth in Kinshasa The city of Kinshasa (DRC) have more than 10 million inhabitants. The population growth is very fast these recent
years; social services and infrastructure don’t follow as well. There are many challenges, poor city management and
political tensions did not encourage foreign investments, so many residents are jobless, and fend in informal economy. It is noticed a important povery exposing families and children at risk of being abandoned and becoming “street children”. 
The NGO platform REEJER which leading fifty organizations estimated 25,000 street childre in Kinshasa, in 2015. Those children can be found living on the streets for many reasons: they may be - orphaned or abandoned, - abused and ran away, - neglected or felt unwanted by their families. They have to survive day-by-day, lacking of parents’ care, appropriate healthcare and needed support. So many of them faced trauma experience.
Without the basic skills and emotional stability that come from a normal childhood, it become difficult when adult to
find and keep viable job. So, it is very important to give them a chance, through professional training and providing of material for income generative activity.
Since 2004, the Communauté du Chemin Neuf (CCN), which is a Catholic community with ecumenical vocation, started to work for street children through their owner organisation “Ndako Ya Biso” (NYB) which is a Listening Center especially for this kind of children and adults who experienced street. Children are followed in the Listening Center, supported in food and healthcare and education, after that they are reunified with their biological family. 
The project aims to support 25 young people over 15 years old, reunited in their family in apprenticeship, to regain their dignity and autonomy through vocational training.

Linked to the past phase (DRC459, September 2016 - August 2017), CAFOD will provide funding support to CCN to finalize the vocational training of these 25 youth in 2018.