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BRIDGES AND NURSERIES  FOR MASISI PEOPLE, DRC In partnership with CARITAS  Goma, CAFOD will be implementing a WASH project since July 2016 in the Matching Fund-4 programme. The programme is planned to last 3 years and includes 4 partners. CARITAS Goma will partner for the Masisi territory to serve 28500 persons with clean drinkable water and over 7000 persons with good sanitation. In order to prevent bad consequences of the rainy season which generally destroys roads complicating the supply of material on field, CAFOD intended to anticipate certain activities: 1) Early rehabilitating the bridges will let them get time to harden and be usable on normal project starting (July), 2) setting up nurseries will enable young trees take advantage of remaining rains before the dry season, 3) training women in masonry will enable them be eligible at the project starting date creating a chance for gender balance during the on-field recruitment.
In brief, the present PSGA concerns a set of activities anticipating the rainy season and preparing a smooth starting for the Match fund project with significant savings in time and money.
Protection and community recovery of populations affected by the conflict in the South Kivu Province Sexual violence is a weapon that negative forces use to humiliate and subjugate an entire community by destroying all its socio-cultural values. The current situation in the conflict phase in which territories are characterized by an advanced impoverishment in which a population lives still traumatized by all the atrocities it has experienced in times of armed conflict. This situation deserves special attention because it is the basis of the proliferation of many problems that cause underdevelopment.
Note that the scale of rape and sexual violence committed by all sides has provoked international outrage and prompted the UN Security Council to adopt several resolutions, the most recent (1820) adopted in June 2008, which recognizes rape as a weapon of war. security efforts have unfortunately not been able to end a phenomenon that affects mostly women and children; and unfortunately that civilians as also are the main perpetrators of rape against minors.
The rehabilitation of survivors in all aspects (medical, psychosocial, economic and legal) and the involvement of the authorities in the search for peace are situations or significant aspects on which the project will focus its attention.
Indeed, the current situation of victims of conflict and violence in Eastern DRC calls every social actor. It is important to stimulate the participation of the victims to the development of the community in particular and the nation in general. Also suggest ways to end these scourges has their villages.

Through this project, our overall objective is to contribute to the recovery of human dignity by the relaunch of self-management of 300 survivors of armed conflict activities in the Archdiocese of Bukavu and Shabunda in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo.

specific objectives are:
- To prevent and minimize the effects of violence on vulnerable populations in Kalehe, Walungu and Kabare per 1000 population, including IDPs, survivors and their families by March 2017.
- Improve the quality of holistic care for 300 survivors of sexual violence in Kalehe, Walungu and Kabare areas , most affected by the war in eastern DRC by March 2017.
- Bringing communities of victims to be aware of their vulnerable situation, identify their strengths and mount protection strategies.
Peace Education and Socio-Economic Reintegration of children affected by armed conflict in North Kiv This project is the continuation of DRC471  project funded by Porticus with a matching fund of CAFOD. 
The project takes into account, firstly, the transitional care of children and young people affected by armed conflicts, especially those associated with the Armed Forces and Groups (EAFGA), children in family breakdown and unaccompanied in Transitory Host families (FAT) in Goma and Masisi Nord; as well as  family reunification (FR), post-reunification follow-up. Transitional foster families will also receive support in income-generating activities to ensure the care of children who will be placed under their care and responsibility.

Secondly, this project aims to contribute to the education of schoolchildren and pupils through a school reintegration program as well as vocational training of young people who have interrupted their school curriculum for their empowerment in the micro enterprise after training.

Ultimately, this project will contribute to peace education and peaceful coexistence through community awareness and training of community participation structures and leaders on peace building in general and on children protection in particular.

With these different focuses, this project has great potential to contribute to the objectives of the CAFOD DRC protection program. Reason why CAFOD will continue to partner with CAJED and APROFIM and provide financial and technical support to implement this project for 12 months (April 2018 to March 2019). note that CAJED (implemnting partner) and APROFIM (sub-implementing partner) are part of our ongoing programme of protecting and supporting the needs of children in DRC. They have very long experience in this sector.
Disaster preparedness & response to urgent needs of conflict and climatic events victims at Kasongo The disaster preparedness and multisectoral response to the urgent humanitarian needs of the most vulnerable households, victims of armed conflict or extreme climatic events in the provinces of South Kivu and Maniema was carried out by the consortium (Caritas Belgium, CAFOD, Caritas Bukavu and Caritas-Kasongo) under the lead of Caritas Belgium (CIbe) and with funding from DG ECHO; this project was completed at the end of May 2023. In Maniema and Fizi (South Kivu), the project was carried out by CAFOD and its partner Caritas-Kasongo in 4 groups: Ulimba, Nsange, Kanyengele and Basimimbi, with the possibility of extending to other localities/groups experiencing humanitarian crises.
Ranging from disaster preparedness to early recovery and rapid response for the victims of several humanitarian crises, a number of activities were carried out, including participatory vulnerability and capacity assessments, the development and support of plans, the establishment and capacity-building of facilitators and other stakeholders, multi-purpose cash transfer assistance for crisis victims, the organisation of market fairs for vulnerable households whose livelihoods have been most affected, the organisation of post-distribution evaluation and monitoring, etc. All the activities carried out were crowned with success.
Gender and governance in Uvira Diocese The Democratic Republic of Congo is widely recognised as one of the fragile states in the world because of the incapacity of the state to deliver basic services to its population.  Fundamental elements of good governance such as human rights and democracy are not respected.  CAFOD has been working in partnership with CDJP Uvira for the past five years to implement a programme known as Action for Better Governance (ABG). This First phase of the programme was built on community structures to lead reforms on various governance issues from the community level and ended in 2013. In the effort to sustain achievements of the first phase, CAFOD has committed to work with CDJP Uvira on the phase 2 of ABG for the next two year in order to effectively empower the Church Justice and Peace Network to support poor men and women to meaningfully participate in decision making and hold duty bearers to account to achieve better governance in DRC. ABG2 focuses on three key including women participation in decision making, decentralisation and elections. This second phase pays greater attention to the quality of participation as well as ensures that women and other marginalised groups take on more active leadership roles. To achieve that, Cafod continues to work with CDJP Uvira to support development and implementation of gender policies as well as encourage downward accountability principles and practices. The programme is going to help communities to understand how decentralisation works and to get in touch with constitutional mechanisms in place to help them get involved in the governance process. It will also follow on the security management training provided to partners to help ensure partners are designing conflicts sensitive projects that ensure security of staff and community level animators working in areas prone to conflicts. CDJP Uvira will also focus on addressing land rights and calling for greater transparency and accountability in the management of natural and fiscal resources. There will be a greater emphasis on building strong evidence base for engagement and advocacy actions as well as creating and strengthening existing mechanisms and formal opportunities to engage duty bearers and decision-makers.
Annual planning and evaluation workshop CAFOD works in DRC and other countries of the Great - Lakes to support partners to deliver emergency and long-term responses to several challenges affecting the populations in these areas – WASH, Early recovery, good governance and peace building etc
CAFOD aims at improving the living standards of the most vulnerable. I the DRC context CAFOD works for the betterment of the victims of natural disasters and armed conflicts, to increase the income of rural and urban populations, reduce their vulnerability, improve their access to infrastructure and quality services, develop their human, physical capacity, financial and enable them able to make their voices heard in order to achieve the most appropriate and effective solutions that allow them to be able to fully support. 
To work more closely with partners and beneficiaries, CAFOD opened a country office in Kinshasa since 2004. This is seconded by a sub-office in Goma which is overseen by a Program Manager.
For planning purposes, CAFOD DRC has projected a two days workshop that will be taking place in early March. This workshop will package a series of activities that will primarily focus on the annual planning for the year ahead (2015/2016). In addition to the main objective set around the annual planning, this will as well serve the purpose of team building and get together time for both CAFOD staff and some CAFOD operational partners and set the ground for self evaluation of our program weaknesses and strengths.
The workshop will be scaled on two days and will have an average of at least 20 participants including some CAFOD staff from the Kinshasa office and some of our partners. The budget requested will facilitate to cover the cost of the workshop in order to ensure its effectiveness and CAFOD has the full responsibility to materialize this workshop.
Support on emergency food security and shelter needs to 4335 IDP households in Ngilima, Dungu Dioces Dungu Diocese is situated in Ituri District and is one of the 47 that constitutes the Catholic Church in DRC. Dungu borders Yambio Diocese (Sudan) in the North; Mahagi in North-East, Isiro Nyangara in South-East, Bondo and Buta in the West. The diocese is within the Garamba National Park where the LRAs have been living until very recently when the DRCongo, Uganda and the South Sudan armies have attacked and dispersed them. The LRAs had set up several camps in the bush where they from time to time attack the local population in order to loot, kill and take people hostage. The first such attacks took place in September 08 and since then Dungu has not been at peace. 

In the beginning attacks occurred mainly in villages somehow situated within the vicinity of the Garamba National Park. But since joint military operations between the Uganda, Sudan and DR Congo aimed at dislodging the LRAs Dungu diocese has seen the increase in the number of LRA attacks as the operation did not manage to stamp out LRA’s activities but scattered them throughout the Diocese. On April 30th, the LRA brutally killed 6 innocent people (4 belonging to one family and 2 others to another) a few kilometres away from Ngilima. On the night of the 13th and 14th of May, the LRA made an incursion on Bamokandi, a locality situated 5 kilometres from Dungu town centre. A woman and a child were killed as the result of the fire exchange between the FARDC and the assailants. This latest attack confirms the thesis that LRA’s threats and attacks remain quite imminent in Dungu territory. 

Ngilima where this project will be implemented is currently home to 40,000 inhabitants, of which 30,000 are internally displaced people following multiple attacks perpetrated by the LRA both in villages immediately surrounding Ngilima and those situated a bit further away. There is peace in Ngilima town because of the deployment of FARDC soldiers and also because of the presence of the local self defence groups. These groups work hand in hand with the FARDC. This is the reason why many IDPs sought refuge in Ngilima where some have been living with host families while others have been illegally occupying public buildings such as schools and churches.  

The project aims at assuring IDPs’ food security especially due to the fact that host families’ capacity to provide support to IDPs has been reduced close to nothing. The project will also provide temporary shelter to protect IDPs against bad weather etc.
Improvement of the security system of Caritas Goma in house and in the field For over 20 years, North Kivu has continued to experience sporadic clashes between rival armed groups, making the work of humanitarian organizations difficult. Groups like FDLR, Raia Mutomboki, Mai Mai Mazembe, APCLS, Mai Mai Nyatura, … just to name a few, have remained operational in many areas of the North Kivu province. Currently, International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs), including CAFOD and Caritas Australia, have been implementing various humanitarian and development programmes through local organizations, including Diocesan Caritas. While INGO staff go through rigorous security training and have solid protocols, local organizations that remain on the front line in the field are left to struggle and only with survival mechanisms to maintain their security. Since 2016, Caritas Goma has experienced many forms of security incidences ie compound vandalised, armed robbery at the office, ambushes on the way to the field and recently their staff were kidnaped. Moreover, recently the clashes between armed groups during a food distribution in Mungote left two beneficiaries severely injured. In some other cases, beneficiaries of the humanitarian aids have seen their items taken by force by some unidentified armed men as they return from the distribution sites. All these have occurred due to inappropriate security assessment of zones of humanitarian intervention. Although Caritas Goma has made efforts to develop various security protocols, the implementation of the same remains a problem due to lack of proper equipment, training, analysis, and implementation of the security measures, the current project aims to support Caritas Goma to correct this.
Caritas Goma has now recruited a trained security officer who has been tasked to provide timely security briefings to staff prior to their deployment in the field. The later participates in various platforms and meetings and has the possibility to liaise and triangulate with other organizations.
Complement of the project  DRC245 CAFOD and its partner, Caritas Bukavu and APROFIME, initiated a programme to support and reintegrated former child soldier and ex combatants socio-economically in South Kivu and North Kivu in April. The programme is multispectral and giving returning youth an accelerated skills training and livelihoods assistance and preventing many from joining rebel groups (see DRC 245). The overall budget for the project was 241,671.02 USD and CAFOD covered 161,671.02 USD from its core funds. Caritas Australia liked the project and added 80,000.00USD to the overall budget. Because the two funding come at different times – the Australian portion come after the programme have started and things needed to
be readjusted – few elements were missing in the programming. This included: ·     
Training on conflicts analysis (causes, nature, dynamics) and the method of conflicts transformation with ex combatents. 
Training ex combatants on the right, citizenry, including protection, respect of institutions, contribution to development and taxes. The non violence and the respect of public good. 
Functioning of the judiciary system and the government institutions (territories, states, ect.)
These programmes were very important and they were also requested by the local government. The investment is important for the country programme and we needed to be successful. For this reason, we decided to provide another 18,240.00USD to Caritas Bukavu to cover the remaining activities.
In Eastern DRC, preventing child participation in armed conflicts must transcend from stopping these children to carry firearms and fight, to promoting and developing adequate livelihood and other income generating activities, thus creating employment.
Supporting the completion of the CERN project on improving the management of natural resources in DR "Improving the management of natural resources by integrating Civil Society Organisation" (DRC194) was 3 year project co-financed by CAFOD (30%) and EC (70%) for a period starting from March 2011 to February 2014. This project aimed three main objectives:
-	Civil society, established and strengthened with regards to the issue of natural resources issue, can interact with state actors and the private sector
-	Local people have a better understanding of issues related to the management of natural resources and their rights in this regard.
-	Beneficiaries and civil society Organisation at local and national levels are truly involved in the decision making and can influence policy.

This project was implemented by the partner CERN (Episcopal Commission for Natural Resources) and has put in place 6 ORN (Observatories Natural Resources) and 6 Consultation Framework established for an ongoing dialogue with extractive companies and local authorities.

Given that all project activities were completed in February 2014 and according to EC standard procedures, the Audit, the final evaluation and the final narrative report of the project should be submitted to EC no later than August 2014, six months later. Agreeing with the partner on the continuation of the project, CAFOD has proposed to allocate a fund for the following reasons:

1.	Ensure the transition by expecting a continuation of funding from EC;
2.	That said, ensure the completion of the Audit, the final evaluation and final narrative report smoothly ;
3.	Facilitate accompaniment for monitoring activities on the ground if needed.

The expected amount is £ 20,000 (from CAFOD’s CGF FY 2014-2015) which will cover the period from May to September 2014. CAFOD’s Advocacy Support Programme Officer will be responsible for daily monitoring activities, providing his support and carrying out all activities related to this budget in close collaboration with the partner CERN.
Sensitising and building the capacity of Churches and Community Leaders for consolidating peace This proposed project seeks to capitalize lessons learnt from the initial project, and to reinforce the advocacy role and engagement of Anglican Church in improving peace and reconciliation among communities in DRC. 
The Anglican Church in DRC was one of main implementers of peace in the great lakes campaign along with the Catholic Church. They had been involved in advocacy work for lasting peace since December 2013. The peace in great lakes campaign is an oecumenical initiative dedicated to advocate and support enabling peace in DRC, Rwanda and Burundi. The Anglican Church got institutional support from CAFOD to enhance her capacities on project management, on strategic advocacy and for reinforcing her presence at parish level to nourish advocacy information database. 

The Anglican Church’s project also aims to contribute to the promoting of peace’ dialogue.  DRC’s context and a SWOT analysis done by the Anglican Church underlined the lack of monitoring in sensitising the spread of small weapons and arms in some eastern communities; lack of capacities for communities and church leaders; existing of land conflict as well as lack of data information to be incorporated in the white paper for advocacy targets.
Supporting Church Bishops in DRC in implementation of 2023 electoral roadmap Agenda 2023 This project seeks to contribute to the ongoing implementation of the National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO) Bishops' electoral roadmap called "Agenda 2023". In their roadmap, the Bishops state: "The successful outcome of an electoral process depends on the more responsible participation of all the parties involved, each according to their prerogatives. As far as the Bishops are concerned, faithful to their mission of solidarity with the aspirations of the people, they strongly reaffirm, through this small demonstration, their commitment to prepare the Congolese people and to accompany their leaders during this period which precedes the holding of the 2023 elections. This is why we are launching today the CENCO electoral roadmap entitled "AGENDA 2023".
Agenda 2023 sets out a series of activities planned to be carried out by February 2024, in accordance with the stages of an electoral cycle. The roadmap has three components, namely: Advocacy and Mediation; Electoral Observation and Civic and Electoral Education. The first component includes identification of relevant reforms, training in legislative drafting, popularisation of relevant reforms, assessment and organisation of citizens' forums. The second component is devoted to the evaluation of the JPC/CENCO EOM, observation of electoral operations, capacity building, planning and development of modules. The third, there is the perception survey, voter information, the citizen electoral calendar, civic and electoral education.
Economic Resilience Support Project for community members of Cibanda II/Chiefdom of Luhwinja This project is to implement in Cibanda II groupings within the Chiefdom of Luhwindja, Territory of Mwenga, in South Kivu Province of DRC, with a focus on the Beekeeping sector and rehabilitation of Mululi water source.
The goal of this Project is to spur socio-economic growth by improving the health and livelihoods of the marginalised rural population through the provision of water and the improvement of beekeeping sectors for the benefice of more than 1441 families (8626 people)

The beekeeping represents an important pillar of the agricultural economy sector in South-Kivu Province and will constitute a source of income for a good part of the local population.
This sector has been the subject of some interventions in the province. However, the efforts undertaken have not led to sustainable development in the beekeeping sector because it was not very well organized in South Kivu Province. 
This sector was the subject of particular attention in the province leading to project proposals aimed at improving the productivity of the hives (case of the Kenyan hives which were introduced by certain NGOs in the province.
So, to promote the beekeeping sector with a view to making it one of the levers of sustainable development in Luhwinja chiefdom, CAFOD plans to support the promotion of beekeeping hives for the beekeepers to improve their production and increase honey yield. 

Regarding water sector, in Mululi, people especially women and girls used to walk 3 km to reach the non-capped spring for drinking water. In 2020, CAFOD carried out a water supply project in Mululi to serve the population in potable drinking water. Currently,  this water supply damaged and needs to be rehabilitated. 
The intervention will consist to rehabilitate the water catchment construct in April 2020 and organise refresh training for local technicians on how to continue maintaining the system. Necessary materials and tools to help community to properly maintain the water system are also needed.