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Facilitating the final evaluation and audit for the civic education and social reintegration project CAFOD has been working since last year on a civic education project aimed at promoting the participation of the population in the democratic process. This project was funded by Porticus and implemented in the dioceses of Kinshasa, Bukavu and Goma.
DRCongo faces political and human rights challenges in relation to the undelivered election. President Joseph Kabila, who was supposed to step at the end of his second and last term, did not do so, and as a result, the opposition has intensified the pressure to protest this tendency. The democratic space and human rights is seriously reduced.
The Catholic Church, through the Justice and Peace Commission at the national level (CEJP) and the diocesan (CDJP Goma and CDJP Bukavu) sought to address this unstable environment by preparing young women and men to swiftly play their civic role. The objective of this project was to improve the public's knowledge on the electoral process by disseminating civic and electoral education programs in preparation for the elections by ensuring that the materials and tools used are politically acceptable. The project also planned to use sport and music to bring young people together and help them understand the importance of a peaceful electoral process and, above all, how to peacefully claim their rights. In addition, the project also planned to use social media to inform the youth about the democratization process and the role of youth in the political process.
It is with this in mind that we plan to undertake a final evaluation and audit to assess and sanction the effectiveness and efficiency of this project so that we can better direct the rest of our interventions related to citizen participation in the political process in three dioceses. We seek to evaluate the impact and efficiency of our interventions for the benefit of the aforementioned dioceses, analyze the socio-political and security factors in this context in order to better guide our future programs.
This project will also facilitate the evaluation and audit of the social Integration project of the youth at risk and ex combatants that was also funded by Porticus over the past 3 years.
Joint initiative to consolidate justice and peace This project is a joint initiative to support responsible citizenry and peace in the Uvira territory. It is a matter of fact that Uvira as a territory receives very little attention in terms of humanitarian support as well as peace building programs. While it is in this area that there is a huge presence of armed gangs and groups who have excelled in the killings, all sorts of gender based violence, forced recruitment of children just to name a few. In the middle of the absence of the rule of law and almost an absence of governance structure, the local community has learned to survive and most have become internally displaced due to the recurrent undesirable security incidence in their community of origin.  
This project aims at strengthening the community capacity to effectively tackle the governance challenges in a participatory manner with the local leaders and promote peace and reconciliation amongst the local and neighbouring communities. 
This project will create an enabling environment to the communities of this area to rebuild their lives in their original communities and thus more hope for the future, more social cohesion.
Strengthening community engagement to fight against Ebola and COVID-19 in Beni After 42 days without the occurrence of any cases and three days before the country intended to declare the end of the outbreak, the Ministry of Health and WHO confirmed new cases in Beni on the 10th April 2020. One week after this, the Ebola coordination already recorded 7 confirmed cases with more than 500 contact persons scattered in the community. This situation occurred only one month after the confirmation of Covid-19 pandemic in the Democratic republic which was officially confirmed on March 10th, 2020 with Kinshasa as its epicentre.
This project will strengthen the community engagement to fight against Ebola & COVID19 by providing clear information that fight against rumours, misinformation and panics by training health personnel and community opinion leaders/Influencers  and mass communication practitioners whom in turn will significantly help to populate the right information in the community and consequently impact on behavioural change of the communities. The project will also strengthen the protection measures by providing 12500 masks to three health areas (Kasanga, Rwangoma and Mabolio).
Participatory governance and civic education for peace in Goma Diocese (DRC) This project will mainly target the youth in Goma Diocese that are easily manipulated and therefore vulnerable to fall into different kinds of violence. Now that the election has been carried out and the results have been published, it is time for the population to be engaged in the participatory governance process. The youth need to be equipped with the right knowledge to be able to participate meaningfully in the management of the public affairs, to exercise their civic rights, to demand what rightfully belongs to the people and meaningfully participate in the consolidation and construction of a stronger state.

However, it has been noticed that the results that have been published do not reflect the reality and the wishes of the people. Currently majority of the people are in some sort of suspense and observing whether the newly elected president will indeed challenge the Congolese people and fully rise to the expectations of the people to promote better governance and accountability in the management of the public affairs.
Otherwise there is the fear that there might be a sparkle of violence and the youth remain the main target for this. It is in this sense that this project will principally target the youth not to run into violence but to use their power to peaceful channel their expressions.
The use of new information and communication technologies will still be crucial component of this project as an effective tool to facilitate the collection and management of information on cases of abuses, monitoring human rights violations, as well as for advocacy purposes in preventing such cases. This project is implemented in Goma diocese by the Justice and Peace Commission.
Multisectoral emergency assistance to the people affected by storms in PuniaTerritory As of 6pm on 9th December 2021, the population of Punia and its surroundings experienced an unusualyl violent wind accompanied by torrential rain. The wind which blew for more than 3 hours damaged several family dwellings houses, health facilities, schools, churches. Several houses have completely collapsed, others have had their roofs blown away and others have sustained severe damage to their structure, with collapsed walls. After the wind, a heavy rain fell causing enormous damage to the affected population by means of a loss of means of subsistence (shelter, essential household items, stock of food, children's school supplies, etc.). Several fields were also reported which were devastated, family fish ponds whose dikes gave way, people who were injured by collapsing walls: 
At present: 
- 703 households (3,515 people) are directly affected, 576 host families, 53 households have moved into the houses whose owners are in the mining sites and in the surrounding churches while waiting for their houses to be repaired, others are living currently in the public spaces (churches, schools, etc.), and other are spend the night under the stars. 
- I032 houses have lost their roofs and collapsed walls, 
- Latrines washed away and filled with water with the risk of disease; 
- 10 schools including 7 Primary schools were destroyed; 
- 6 health centers including drugs and equipment were destroyed

This crisis comes when the attention of both the national and provincial government as well as the entire population of Maniema is focused on preventing and combating the new wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Victims and the host families live in overcrowding. There are also reports of some families living under the stars. This poses a huge risk for the rapid spread of the COVID-19 virus as preventive barrier measures against this pandemic require observing social distancing of at least 1m between people. In addition, this disaster occurs during the period when the harvest of the crop season A 2021 is expected in this area (In the DRC there are two growing seasons per year. The first season called season B which is the smaller of two, which starts from February in April and the second season called season A which is the larger of the two and starts from September in January of the following year). Several fields being devastated, causing an immediate shortage of harvested products in the households and consequently, at market.
Reinforcement of the process of good governance: ACEAC CEJP This project covers  the following actions: 
- Popularization of the law on the free administration of the provinces,
- Trainings of the responsables of the offices of the parliamentarian connection,        
- Training of the responsables of local committees for the participative governorship ,
- Popularization of the new type of contrat of natural ressources management,
- Implementing of the  diocesan observatories of natural resources
- Electoral observation and
- Media actions     
The popularization of the law on the free administration of the provinces will help to inform the populations on their rights and their duties and to promote a democracy of proximity. 
The offices responsables of the parliamentarian connection and the local committees for the participative governance will be reinforced on DSCRP and will instigate their participation and their engagement in peace, good governance and justice values. 
Mechanisms of regulation and of natural ressources management will be popularized through tools such as the standard contract and the Vade Me Cum of the citizen on the natural resources. 
The Episcopal commission of Christian education will conduct media actions on GTF 
The ROC will guarantee the installation of the democratic institutions and the respect of the constitutional texts by electoral observations.
All these interventions will advance the process of administrative decentralization, the election process and will build governance values and participative development.
Sub regional CAFOD’s Peace building program  revue and capacity building workshop, Goma, North Kivu, CAFOD has launched a great lakes sub regional peace building program in 2013 and funded seven churches partners, especially diocesan justice and peace commissions to implement it. Partner’s projects funded by CGF are four from DRC (DRC257, DRC259, DRC260 and DRC261), 2 from Rwanda (RWA152 and RWA153) and one from Burundi (BRN029). 
The proposed sub regional peace building program aim is to ensure that people, especially those from marginalized and vulnerable communities living in conflict and post conflict areas in Great Lakes region (DRC, Burundi, and Rwanda), are able to benefit from resources and opportunities, have their rights secured and pursue their legitimate aspirations without recourse to violence, ensuring that both governments and people meet their democratic responsibilities. 
In the peace building programme framework we plan to have mid terms revues with implementing partners. This project’s aim is to: (i) monitor and appreciate progress and achievements towards outcomes; (ii) to consolidate lessons learnt; (iii) to reflect on changes in the wider environment; (iv) to take in mind the unexpected outcomes to be  addressed and planning for next step. 

Planned to be implemented internally by CAFOD with strong participation of peace building program implementers, this revue and capacity building workshop will be attended by about 20 participants from Burundi, Rwanda and DRC. It’s planned for three days and will take place in Goma, North Kivu’s provincial capital.
Sustain Previous WASH projects and Enhance Access to assistance in the Kirotshe Health Zone In a Value for Money scope, the MF4 project has built a series of 5 bridges on the KIROLIRWE-KADIRISHA axis in order to reach the villages of KAGUSA, BURAMO, RUTONYA, CHANDARAMA, RUBARE and KADIRISHA more easily. Thus, the project was able to build a water supply in each of these villages and several schools were able to benefit from good latrines and others are still being built.
In addition, motivated by the access rendered possible by bridges, other NGOs have visited the zone and, creating an expectancy of new projects in this zone long-neglected by the Government and humanitarians under the pretext of accessibility.
With the bridges construction, CAFOD opened the door for assistance and restored the State’s authority. Markets reinvigorated, shops proliferated, and agricultural production improved thanks to the flow which became now possible.
However, there is a major challenge: 4 of these 5 bridges built by CAFOD are temporary and require a very difficult maintenance. Indeed, each bridge has an extra solid duct, but the embankments are only protected by plastic bags that tears to the slightest impact.
Yet the rivers plow large solid debris such as trunks of trees torn upstream which knock on these weak embankments. The bags are torn, and the ground is washed away. A very tight maintenance program is put in place, people conform to it, but we wonder until when because it looks like a yoke difficult to bear: it rains every day, so it must be repaired every day.
In this situation, the good results of the previous projects are under peril and may disappear definitively in a very near future, because sustainability depends on accessibility.
That's why the Development Committee of these villages has requested assistance from CAFOD to strengthen these bridges in order to save previous investments which include 7 gravity water systems. The budget is estimated at £24996 from donor and £5000 from local participation. 
The work will be performed by that Development Committee ender direct supervision and technical support from CAFOD' engineer and will run 3 months from 01/05/2018
Supporting the ACEAC-CENCO Bishops’ advocacy mission in Eastern DRC The ACEAC’ mission, as a socio-pastoral action platform of all Catholic Churches in the Great Lakes Sub-region, crosses the borders of nations, tribes, ethnicities and languages, and according to its Statutes,). It aims to be "a forum for exploring ways and means of promoting dialogue and concertation, mutual assistance and ecclesial cooperation among affiliated Episcopal Conferences for the in-depth evangelisation of people in Africa in their cultural, social and religious environment. 
In Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, recurrent insecurity is a feature of this region, with inter-ethnic and cross-border rebellion conflicts. Indeed, several people have died there in savage massacres. Since 2014, there are 4000 people reported killed in the Diocese of Beni-Butembo alone. And as misfortune never comes alone, the region has been shaken by the Ebola virus epidemic which has caused more than 2000 deaths, while the Covid-19 continues to spread. As a result, the population of eastern DRCongo complains of being abandoned by the international and even national community. Indeed, Mgr Melchisédech Sikuli, Bishop of Butembo-Beni echoed this in his interview with the newspaper Forum des As on 6 November 2020. He castigated the revolting indifference towards the massacres of the population (cf. Forum des As n° 6279 of Friday, November 6, 2020, p. 8). Mgr Melchisédech Sikuli had voiced the same cry of alarm during the CENCO Plenary Assembly (October 2020).
This project intends to advocate for enabling peace in eastern DRC on behalf of affected communities, to gather information on the ground to nourish advocacy action and to undertake and refresh relationship with various stakeholders.
Support to food security of 200 families of Tubimbi and 50 families in Kinkole Kinshasa This project is the continuation of the DRC276 designed in 2013  to support returnees in Tubimbi, South Kivu, for the recovery of their livelihoods and allow orphans return back to school by developing livelihoods skill that generate easily necessary funds. The project aims also to support the most vulnerables of Kinkole surrounding Kinshasa to recover and streghten their livelihoods means.The assessment made in August 2013 by FAAFAD indicates a high vulnerability in food security. The same report indicates that in previous clashes, many people have lost their lives which cause a large number of orphans. The latter have difficulties to return back to school because they have no one to take care of.
The report of the partner FAAFAD indicates that some of these orphans had manifested great interest to do a small business breeding of guinea-pigs that allow them to earn some money that can support their studies. 
The first phase of the project coded DRC276 supported the livelihood recovery of 120 families and 50 orphans in Tubimbi and 50 families in Maluku. 
This project which is the continuation of the DRC276 aims to support 200 families in Tubimbi and 40 families of fishermen in Kinkole.FAAFAD needs us$30,313.00 to support the rehabilitation of these families and orphans in food security.
The main objective of the project is to ensure food security for 200 families in distress in Tubimbi  South Kivu and 50 families of fishermen in Kinkole.
Sustainably improving the food security of small scale farmers in Ituri district DRC Conflict in DRC has led to the decimation of agricultural production and difficulties such that local populations have not been able to satisfy their nutritional needs even now with hostilities having ceased. This situation has been compounded by the fact that the conflict especially affected women, the breadwinners of the family. 
Following the return of peace and relative security, there is an essential need to use this window of opportunity to improve the food security of the local population. This makes up the global objective of the project, which aims to improve the food security and restore income levels of 5,760 vulnerable people in 16 communities (Djungu and Irumu territories).This will be achieved by increasing the agricultural production of beneficiaries, mainly women. It is expected that the quantity of subsistence crops produced will allow them to have access to enough quality food for their own consumption, as well as to increase their income by growing and selling cash crops on local markets.
Shifting the Power: strengthening the humanitarian and leadership capacity of ECC MERU The need to strengthening local capacities in humanitarian response in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is crucial as local NGOs are usually the first responders in a crisis. DRC has been beset by multiple security crises subjecting civilians to extremely high level of violence and prompting large-scale and frequent population displacements. Moreover, there is adequate civil society space in DRC but humanitarian response have been lead and managed by international organizations. On one hand this is due to the logistical difficulties of the country and on the other hand, local organizations have been labelled as having poor management, systems, corruption, etc. The consequence is that INGOs have, in many instance, undermine existing capacities. Shifting the power Project in Drc aims at strengthening the humanitarian and leadership capacities of 11 local actors and so to be able to play a crucial role within the current humanitarian architecture in DRC. From the capacity self-assessment undertaken with ECC MERU , the organisation has elaborated a one year capacity strengthening plan with 5 objectives and 14 activities focus on leadership, influence and preparedness and response
Support resettlement of returnee households in Makoka, Binza area, Rutshuru territory From mid august 08, the security situation worsened in Masisi and Rutshuru in particular because of frequent confrontations between FARDC and CNDP and also with the other armed groups such as the Mai Mai, PARECO, FDLRs, etc. There were then several attempts by the DRC government to try to bring peace and stability in the region through different initiatives such as AMANI programme which turned out to be less effective. In January 2009 following a joint military operation between Kigali and Kinshasa, Laurent Nkunda was arrested and CNDP allied itself with the government troops. This situation instilled hope for the return to peace and stability but IDPs remained in camps as they were not so sure whether peace had really returned. In September 2009 IDPs began voluntarily returning to their homes and villages and within 4 weeks or so all the major camps around Goma (Mugunga 1,2,3, Lac Vert, Buhimba) and elsewhere in Masisi and Rutshuru were emptied and officially closed send September early October 2009. Some of these returnees never went immediately to their homes but some stayed in Kiwanja, Mweso, etc. to observe the security situation in their areas. In July 2010, there was again another wave of voluntary return from Birambizo, Mweso and Kiwanja to localities such as Makoka. After years of displacement these returnees live in precarious conditions as they lost everything they had and are now returning to empty homes and empty farms/gardens. This project aims at providing the returnees with seeds and tools to allow them restart their lives.
Supporting Greatlakes peace campaign by sthrengthening Higher Institute for Peace andreconciliation This project aims to provide institutional support for the Higher Institute for Peace and reconciliation (ISPR), in Democratic Republic of Congo.
ISPR is an AECCA’s (Association of the Episcopal Conferences of the Central Africa) specialized institute dedicated to introduce students to the mechanisms of prevention and resolution of conflicts. ISPR’s mission is to document, promote and disseminate spiritual, ethical and professional benchmarks for a strong peace culture in order to root them gradually and methodically in the private and public working life. 

The proposal from the ISPR is supported and strengthened as it has a sub-regional scope and comes as a resultant of the Peacebuilding Program supported by CAFOD in the great lakes sub region including Burundi, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Facilitating the final  Audit for Centre Olame's project on councils house Since October 2018, Centre OLAME was implementing a project on emotional and economic rehabilitation of women and their families surviving of all kinds conflicts and help them develop a system of resilience through the approach of sociotherapy in counselling homes in 40 parishes covering the 5 territories plus the city of Bukavu, especially (Kabare, Walungu, Kalehe, Idjwi and Mwenga).
The project is ended and this grant will help to support the financial audit of this project.
Project management support Monitoring is a primarily responsibility of Partners as they are the one responsible for the implementation and monitoring of projects. Good monitoring is based on good designing and planning.  CAFOD DRC is supporting its partners to strengthen their PDMEAL. For the remaining period of the CSP, the Country Program has committed to pursuit this process in order to ensure that conditions of the beneficiaries have improved through a SADI Program.