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Guaranteeing the right to a sustainable and dignified city for favela communities in São Paulo Over 2 million people in São Paulo metropolitan area live in inadequate and unsafe housing on the furthest edges of the city in favelas (slums), far from jobs, services and without basic infrastructure, despite it being the richest city in L. America. High rents leave little for daily sustenance, whilst work travel of 4-5 hours/day leaves no time for family life. Historic legacies of slavery, internal displacement and contemporary discrimination mean black and mixed-race people are most affected by urban inequality. Violent disputes for territorial control between drug gangs and/or police and increasing impacts of climate change and environmental degradation leave communities vulnerable to tragedy. Nevertheless, Brazil has a strong policy-framework and  technical capacity, which if applied and adequately resourced could turn cities like São Paulo into engines of socioeconomic inclusion, environmental transformation and equality. Strengthening the organisation, know-how and networks of communities to claim their rights is essential to bringing this about.

This project will enable greater accountability and responsiveness of public authorities at municipal and subnational level for the delivery of safe, secure and sustainable housing and urban services and reduction of environmental risks. This will be done through strengthening and consolidating the voice, influence and organisation of informal urban communities in 33 favelas on the periphery of eastern São Paulo. The project will benefit women, youth and older people from black and mixed-race communities with improved access to safe and permanent housing, land title, reductions in environmental risks, access to urban services, including sanitation, electricity, recycling and sustainable transport. Communities affected by insecure land tenure, eviction threat, inadequate and unsafe housing and neighbourhoods, lack of geographical mobility, violence and elevated exposure to environmental risks will be prioritised.
HAY - Influencing and Strengthening the participation of Yanomami Woman During the period of 2002-2006 the Yanomami women from the Catrimani Mission region, participated in the meetings of the Organization of Indigenous Women of Roraima. During the meeting the participant women felt the need to promote these discussions closer to their communities, thus organizing annual meetings with women from the 24 communities in the Catrimani Mission region.  These meetings started in 2008 and were the only space where the Yanomami women could share experiences between them. Hutukara supported this activity in 2014, enabling the participation of Yanomami women from other regions of the Yanomami land. In 2015, the project will bring together two groups of Yanomami women that will develop research and alternative income. 

The objective of this project is to strengthen the organisation and political participation of Yanomami women, enabling them to access their rights and share experiences among them.
Indigenous People Participatory Video Training Pilot Project- Partner Grant CIMI Tefe and Hutakara are both key partners in the Indigenous Support Programme. In order to support these indigenous peoples organisations fulfil their advocacy aims, CAFOD has proposed a pilot participatory video 'training for trainers' workshop with the partner staff, which will involve working within two indigenous communities. The indigenous communities will be trained in how to use video as a tool to advocate for change to public policy, increase public awareness of the issues faced by indigenous people and show national and international audiences the sustainability of indigenous peoples' livelihoods. The training will enable the partner staff to go on to train other indigenous communities in using participatory video as an advocacy tool. If successful this training may be rolled out to other partners in the indigenous support programme. This is a joint ID and CCS project which has come about as a result of a recent successful participatory video 'training for trainers' project in Sierra Leone which produced significant learning that CAFOD is keen to utilize and build upon.
New technologies and new generations for forest protection against illegal mining in Yanomami land This project aims to promote the exchange of strategies and technologies to tackle illegal mining in indigenous lands, and thereby the deforestation it produces, between the Yanomami, Ye'kuana and Munduruku peoples.  It will ensure a qualified group of Munduruku indigenous young leaders will train Yanomami and Ye’kuana young leaders on the use of drones and tablets to capture high resolution imagery of the deforestation caused in the Uraricoera macro-region. These images will then be used to inform advocacy reports and official public denouncements to local, state and national authorities to immediately remove these illegal invaders, and enforce the monitoring and protection of TIY, raising public awareness and advocating for action in the judiciary.

It intends to tackle two problems simultaneously: 1) the lack of qualified information to publicly report illegal mining, put pressure on the relevant authorities to remove these invaders and monitor Yanomami Indigenous Territory (TIY), and raise public awareness; and 2) the lack of alternative activities beyond the lure of being co-opted into illegal gold mining for young Yanomami and Ye’kuana people, with the aim of bringing them closer to the political struggle to protect TIY and its forests for future generations.  

This project aims to address the main drivers of deforestation by tackling its root cause in TIY: illegal gold mining. Illegal wildcat gold mining is the main threat to the physical and cultural integrity of the Yanomami and Ye'kuana indigenous people, and the tropical forest that they protect, located in Yanomami Indigenous Territory (TIY) in the state of Roraima, Brazil. By 2021 the total cumulative area destroyed by illegal gold mining in TIY exceeded 3,000 hectares. It is estimated that there are currently about 20,000 goldminers operating in TIY.
Urban Programme Climate Justice and a Fair City - 2016 bridge project (MDF) This one-year bridge project seeks to extend the current phase of programme work on decent housing and climate change with CAFOD partners MDF and APOIO, continuing work on programmatic priority areas, incorporating a renewed focus on land tenure and use advocacy and dissemination of the pilot project on sustainable housing and urbanisation developed in 2015. This project will also incorporate lessons and recommendations from the 2013-2015 EU project external evaluation and findings, consolidating existing results in the current political and economic context and developing new areas of work to guide the next urban programme priorities from 2017 onwards. Using their past experience, participatory approaches and successful methodology of popular education, community organisation, women's participation and advocacy work, local partners APOIO and MDF will seek to influence the implementation and coordination of housing, climate change other and pro-poor urban policies. 
In spite of being one of the most affluent regions in Brazil, São Paulo has seen an increase in pockets of poverty and extreme poverty in the last decade, with many of the region's poorest citizens, around 30% of the population, living in favelas, informal occupations and precarious housing. The dynamic of land valorisation in the region is forcing the poorest population to live in degraded areas far away from jobs, basic services or in watershed areas and areas of environmental risk, vulnerable to flashfloods, landslides and climate impacts, aggravating existing socioeconomic vulnerabilities. The recent water supply crisis faced by São Paulo has impacted disproportionately on the poorest population, who are suffering ongoing water rationing, and higher costs of water and energy bills. Since 2011, São Paulo has seen a growth of 264% in urban occupations as a result of a housing deficit of 230,000 homes and the hike in land and rent prices which make housing unaffordable to the poor. 56% of the population living in these informal settlements lack access to water and sanitation services, which are restricted in areas that have no formal land titles. 
This project will tackle three inter-related problems to guarantee more effective social inclusion and urbanization: a) the lack of implementation of legal frameworks for land tenure regularization in the cities informal settlements and favelas, to reduce violent evictions, and improve land security and access to public services, such as water, sanitation and housing; b) The need for housing and social inclusion urban policies to take into account environmental factors and climate change adaptation and vice versa; c) building the awareness and capacity of women and men in the favelas, informal settlements and occupations and the housing movement leaders to know their rights and influence the above policies.
Caritas Brasileira Floods response - Bahia and Minas Gerais An extratropical cyclone that formed in the Atlantic Ocean, caused by low pressure on the southern coast of Brazil has led to torrential rains and extreme floods in the south of Bahia and the Jequitinhonha valley of Minas Gerais. An estimated total of 247,000 people have been impacted so far in the states of Bahia and Minas Gerais, with nearly 25,000 forced to leave their homes to live with friends/family, and over 8,000 people losing their homes and sheltered in public facilities. The most urgent needs of affected communities are drinking water, food, clothes, mattresses, nappies for children and sanitary items for women. Medicines and hygiene items are also paramount as people are increasingly exposed to dirty and contaminated water, and the mass movement and gathering of people increases their risks to COVID-19. There is also a great need for construction materials to rebuild homes after the most critical period of flooding subsides. 

This project aims to support 102 most vulnerable families with cash transfer payments of BRL400 per family per month, over three months, to support their recovery and meet their short-term basic needs (food and non-food items) in the immediate aftermath of the floods. The project will focus on assisting female-headed households in the cities of Itamaraju and Jucuruçu (state of Bahia), and the indigenous population of Maxacalis in the rural municipalities of Teófilo Ontoni and Machacalis (state of Minas Gerais).

The rains began on 6/12/21 and are continuing, with rainfall exceeding 60 mm/h or 100 mm/day and winds above 100 km/h. In Bahia, 38 of the state's 417 municipalities have registered flood damage and declared a state of emergency. Landslides killed at least six people in the municipalities of Itamaraju and Teixeira de Freitas (Bahia), and more than 7,000 people were forced from their homes. In Minas Gerais, the state government declared a state of emergency in 31 cities on 11/12/21, as 9,500 people had to seek shelter with friends and relatives, while 2,000 families needed to seek refuge in community centres. 6 municipalities are severely affected: Machacalis, Joaíma, Bertópolis, Palmopólis, Fronteira do Vale and Monte Formoso. 1,000 people left their homes due to the risk of landslides, many had to wait to be rescued on rooftops, bridges have collapsed and roads have been damaged, affecting logistics.
Shanty Town Support Programme This EC funded Urban Community Development programme aims to improve the quality of housing and basic services for low-income families, (in particular female and youth headed households) living in the shanty towns and tenement blocks of Sao Paulo, Brazil’s largest city.   
To do this, it will use three strategies: advocacy, campaigning and capacity building at the grassroots. The three programmatic lines of the programme are as follows:
a)	Guarantee urban public policy for housing that will benefit low income families. This will be done through the monitoring of public housing policy and programmes, raising awareness of the situation of low income populations in Sao Paulo and strengthening local community networks, as well as civil society networks at the national and international level. 
b)	Increase the participation of women and young people( who live in the Favelas and poor areas of the city) in community groups and in spaces of consultation and decision making forums on urban issues ( associations etc).
c)	Increase the capacity and impact of local organisations in the defence of the right to housing. This includes training the 3 partner organisations in various areas, such as financial management and programme planning and monitoring, so that they are better able to carry out their work, increase their impact and promote a more democratic, just and participatory city.
Defending the access of vulnerable groups to the Brazilian social security system This project will contribute to tackling inequality in Brazil by improving access to the Brazilian health and social security system of the most vulnerable. This will be done by building the interest and capacity of existing and new allies in local network organisations to monitor the implementation and resourcing of local health and social assistance policies. These organisations will be selected for their reach nationally and locally, and will include church pastoral networks and other groups with close contact with the poorest users of the health and social assistance systems. The project will bring national representatives of these networks together to influence debate about the social security system at national level, defending the rights of all citizens, especially the poorest, to health and social assistance policies that guarantee basic social rights. Spaces for social accountability of social security policies, particularly social assistance,  will be strengthened, so that the voices of service users and those representing their interests are present and  influence decision-making at local level.  

The project will also consolidate the resource mobilisation and financial management capacity of the partner, preparing Grito to apply for and potentially manage institutional funding to ensure future financial sustainability.
Audited financial verification of CIR's expenses from 2014 to 2015 In 2015, an external financial verification of CIR's expenses from 2014 to 2015 and financial capacity within CIR's coordination team was carried out by an external accountant. 
This piece of work revealed serious concerns on financial mismanagement of 2014-2015 funds and together with CIR it was decided to carry on an audited verification of CIR's expenses and balances.
Strengthening the campaign for the autonomy of the indigenous people of Roraima CIR is an organisation that was created to campaign for the demarcation of Indigenous territories in Roraima.  This demarcation was approved in 2005 but there still remain many challenges in ensuring that Indigenous communities in this area are able to live sustainably, including food security, ethno-development and health, in addition to ensuring that the demarcation of territory is respected. CIR helps organisations to fight against invasion of their land and protect their territory, helps with community projects, judicial accompaniment and communications and awareness raising among other work.  CIR works with 224 communites from different tribes (Makuxi, Wapichana, Ingarikó, Taurepang, Patamona e Wai Wai) which amounts to around 30,000 indigenous people in 8 regions.  Our support aims to help CIR strengthen its capacity as an organisation so that it is better able to support the work of the communities through:
1) Increase the capacity of CIR to produce project proposals
2) Strengthen the relationship and communication between CIR and indigenous movements at the local level.
CAFOD support for BRA-06-02 (EC funded) programme This EC funded Urban Community Development programme aims to improve the quality of housing and basic services for low-income families, (in particular female and youth headed households) living in the shanty towns and tenement blocks of Sao Paulo, Brazil’s largest city.   
To do this, it will use three strategies: advocacy, campaigning and capacity building at the grassroots. The three programmatic lines of the programme are as follows:
a)	Guarantee urban public policy for housing that will benefit low income families. This will be done through the monitoring of public housing policy and programmes, raising awareness of the situation of low income populations in Sao Paulo and strengthening local community networks, as well as civil society networks at the national and international level. 
b)	Increase the participation of women and young people( who live in the Favelas and poor areas of the city) in community groups and in spaces of consultation and decision making forums on urban issues ( associations etc).
c)	Increase the capacity and impact of local organisations in the defence of the right to housing. This includes training the 3 partner organisations in various areas, such as financial management and programme planning and monitoring, so that they are better able to carry out their work, increase their impact and promote a more democratic, just and participatory city.
COVID-19 Emergency Response: health accompaniment to vulnerably housed people in São Paulo By the end of July 2020 Brazil had over 2.4 million confirmed Coronavirus cases and near 90,000 deaths, with 0.5 million in São Paulo (SP) alone and 21,000 deaths. Cases continued to rise as the country reopens. Health services were reportedly near to collapse and 58% of recorded deaths occurring at home. The 2 million people living in favelas and poor peri-urban communities, have been disproportionately affected with research showing that residents of the poorest districts of São Paulo are 10 times more likely to die of COVID than those in wealthier neighbourhoods. Lack of economic options, crowded conditions, poor ventilation and lack of basic sanitation have made it difficult to follow guidelines. Poorer access to and quality of health care, higher pre-existing risk factors, and lack of reliable information have contributed to poorer outcomes. Low paid workers have lost their jobs and many have no money to buy food. Government emergency benefits (about half a minimum salary) have been difficult to access for many of the poorest.
This project will provide life-saving support with health, nutrition, information and protection needs to 24,978 people living in 26 informal occupations of land and buildings through the following interventions: provision of health accompaniment to 3,300 families to reduce their vulnerability to COVID-19 and ensure appropriate signposting to health services and treatment; provision of accurate information about the virus; accompaniment to access social protection policies; strengthening of 43 local solidarity committees involved in distribution of donations of food and hygiene to 6,600 families; prevention, referrals and emergency support for survivors of gender-based violence; advocacy to prevent evictions and ensure vulnerable people are not left without shelter; information sharing with duty-bearers about the needs of vulnerable groups during the crisis.
Mapping of the Catholic Church' s socio-environmental initiatives in the Brazilian Amazon region The purpose of this project is to produce a socio-environmental analysis to guide specific activities to defend human rights and protect the common good, as set out in the encyclical, “Laudato Sí”, within Catholic dioceses, parishes and social pastoral groups and communities in the Amazon region of Brazil. This project will work with the Brazilian Bishop’s Conference (CNBB) National committee of the Pan-Amazonian Church Network to collect and disseminate information on the Catholic church’s social initiatives and challenges of protecting the Amazon environment. Research will be conducted at parish and diocesan level and also in collaboration with other secular bodies in the states that make up the Amazon region of Brazil. The final mapping, which will be made available in hard copies and electronic versions, will help inform and improve the Catholic Church’s strategy and action in areas where it is already engaged and, where this is not the case, it will help strengthen and guide a more strategic intervention for its social pastoral work.
Energy for Life: in defence of municipal policies that promote renewable and efficient energy This project aims to support low income rural farming communities in the state of Piaui, north east Brazil, to access sustainable energy systems, and thus improve their income generation and food sovereignty. Having solar panels will allow them to sell back surplus energy to the grid through an energy compensation policy. Additionally, they will have access to a rotating fund for equipment maintenance and investment in their productive activities. They will also have increased their technical knowledge on equipment maintenance, and be actively advocating for the rollout of pro-climate energy generation policies across their municipalities. 

This will be achieved via three key strategies and activities: solar panel installation adequate to communities’ energy needs for farming; community training on system use and maintenance and energy policies; and municipal-level advocacy to promote bills and policies that promote low income communities’ access to sustainable energy. 

The state of Piaui in the north east of Brazil is part of the semi-arid region of Brazil – the largest of its kind in the world, with high rates of water shortages and droughts – and is the poorest state in Brazil. Piaui has one of the biggest solar power generators in Brazil, which is exploited by large businesses, but small farmers and enterprises are excluded from using this energy, and the access that they do have is environmentally harmful, onerous and unviable for their activities (i.e. irrigation and food production). This project aims to support the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor through environmentally sustainable energy generation initiatives that will serve as a precedent for other similar communities throughout the north east.