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Locally Driven Clean Energy Initiative in Binga District, Zimbabwe The project will focus on clean energy options for communities in Binga district in Zimbabwe who usually depend on fire wood as their main source of energy. This practice is continuously degrading the environment and natural resources are continually being depleted. Main outcomes of the project will be i) Increased adoption of clean energy technologies, ii) Empowered women, youths and people with disabilities drive the adoption of clean energy technologies, iii) Communities have strengthened by-laws for natural resource management (NRM). energy options that are not currently being used in the district and are going to be introduced by the project will be biogas at institutional and household level and solar for lighting.
Chimanimani WASH for Sustainable Development The project seeks to improve access to water for multiple uses for Tubanju and Nyamusundu rural Primary Schools and surrounding communities in Chimanimani districts of Zimbabwe through solar powered and gravity piped water scheme.  A mini-hydro electricity generator will be installed on the gravity scheme to supply the school with electricity primarily for lighting, computer powering as well as charging the phones. In addition, the project will construct six squathole toilet blocks per school with handwashing facilities to cater for teachers, people living with disability and mensural hygiene. School Health and Nutrition Clubs will be formed at each school primarily to influence good sanitation and hygiene practices and snack hygiene within the school. The larger community will benefit when pupils relate to their parents the on learned health and nutrition aspects.
Jesuit AIDS Project The project targets young people, aged between 12-19 years, in and around Harare, aiming by 2003:
1) To increase the level of HIV/AIDS information and knowledge among young people in schools and youth clubs at colleges and parishes.
2) To influence positive behaviour practices relevant to preventing the spread of HIV among young people in and out of schools, youth clubs, colleges and parishes.
3) To reduce stigma attached to HIV/AIDS, impart knowledge of right relationships, life skills (eg. negotiation skills, assertiveness, problem solving, self awareness, communication) and gender sensitivity among young people
4) 	To increase the level of community/institutional support for young people to effectively participate in their own HIV/AIDS/STI prevention and care initiatives.
Institutional Capacity Strengthening of Caritas Zimbabwe National Office Caritas Zimbabwe National Office commissioned an external assessment of its performance, relevance, and effectiveness since its re-opening in June 2006. The findings and recommendations contribute to, specifying the roles and mandate of the National Office and recommended strategy and structure to achieve this. This project is informed by the recommendations of the external assessment exercise that was conducted in Jan/Feb 2011.
In this project, it is acknowledged that, while Dioceses largely focus on implementing direct interventions to respond to the community development related challenges, at the other level the   Partner seeks to create, sustain and strengthen the capacity of a Caritas Zimbabwe network to be able to identify and implement appropriate responses that adequately address the challenges facing poor and vulnerable communities.
The project goal is: Strengthened capacity of the National Office and eight Diocesan Caritas to respond to the needs of the poor and vulnerable communities to improve their quality of life by February 2015. 
The project outcomes:
•	A functional National Office with staff equipped for quality service delivery/ support to Diocesan Caritas
•	Caritas Zimbabwe network working in union “as a family” developed
•	Efficient and effective program delivery by Diocesan Caritas provided
•	Established genuine partnerships for integral human development.
•	Voice of the Church heard on matters affecting communities served by Caritas Zimbabwe network

The goal and outcomes will be achieved through implementing components that include coordination, programme support to the Zimbabwe Caritas network, documentation of human interest stories and case studies for shared learning, facilitation of cooperation, development and initiating advocacy initiatives as well as developing and maintaining a fully-fledged functional National Office staffed and equipped to provide efficient and effective support to Diocesan Caritas.
Putting Children First-St Albert's Mission Hospital The proposed project builds on a consortium programme entitled “Putting Children First” (PCF) that CAFOD has been implementing in collaboration with 8 partners in Zimbabwe since April 2011. PCF works with community-based partners to run regular clubs/outreach services for vulnerable children and young people, and links them to technical expert partners for support with livelihoods activities, HIV counselling and trauma care, and access to legal services.  Each partner contributes a unique specialism to the network, and all are able to learn from the experiences and best practices of the members as well as refer cases to each other when necessary. The issues of violence against children outlined above have been emerging from all consortium partners as key problems from their respective constituencies, which they wish to tackle in more depth. On this basis, three of the PCF partners – Mavambo Trust, Mashambanzou Care Trust and St Albert’s Mission Hospital -  will work with CAFOD to build upon and expand their activities to combat violence against children. A final evaluation of PCF will be conducted in July 2013 and key lessons and recommendations will be integrated into this action. The consortium members who are not partners for the purposes of this action will be engaged in order to maintain the strengths of the consortium in terms of linkages, referrals, and speaking with one voice on key advocacy issues. 
The Goal: Improved children’s access to essential protection services in Zimbabwe
Outcomes:
1. Established community-level volunteer system to provide immediate support and services to children
2. Improved children’s access to existing education, health and social services 
3. Improved children’s access to birth registration/legal identity documents
Ecumenical Climate Action Project The Ecumenical Climate Action Project is an incubator Project to support the major church bodies in Zimbabwe to develop an unprecedented mega-consortium on Climate change, attract funding for it and develop the necessary coordination and implementation mechanisms to implement Climate Change initiatives building on the gains of the historic COP21 Agreement. With technical support from CAFOD the four Ecumenical Coordinating Organisations in Zimbabwe (EFZ, UDACIZA, ZCBC and ZCC) representing close to all of the recognised Churches in Zimbabwe and 75% of the population, have come together to collaboratively work on a common climate change agenda preliminary titled Ecumenical Climate Action. The aim of this coming together is to create a unifying platform for Ecumenical bodies to engage on climate change issues through a range of coordinated actions inclusive of mass mobilisation, lobby and advocacy, research, adaptation initiatives etc. Bearing in mind the fact that climate change is by far one of the most urgent crises confronting Zimbabwe today a robust intervention by Church bodies is vital to help ensure that millions of vulnerable Zimbabweans are able to adapt to the negative impacts of climate change and to hold the State accountable for the implementation of the National Climate Change Response Strategy and the fulfillment of its international obligations under various International treaties. In addition the Ecumenical consortium will play an important role to lobby the International community to fulfill longstanding demands by the faith community for the implementation of the Paris Agreement, Lima Work-plan on Gender, Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage etc; make drastic cuts to emissions; increase funding to help developing countries to take decisive climate action both in terms of mitigation and adaptation; establish clear fixed timelines for achieving gender-responsive climate policy and transfer sound mitigation and adaptation technologies and know-how to developing countries. In light of these challenges and opportunities the Ecumenical Climate Change Project will lay the groundwork for  Church bodies collaborative work on Climate Change by i. convening a high level meeting to review the outcomes of the COP21; ii. developing a fund-able Programme with clear deliverables and an implementation/coordinating structure; iii. mobilise resources through strategic engagements with major back-donors and responses to calls for proposals and iv. strengthen the Zimbabwe faith community's collaboration with other regional and global networks on Climate Change.
Promoting Gender Equality with Church Partners - Caritas Gweru This project being implemented by Caritas Gweru is part of a Multi-Country Gender Programme being implemented in Zambia, Zimbabwe, Kenya and the Philippines. The programme Goal is: Reduction of gender disparities in parishes of participating partners through increased ownership of church leaders and capacity of churches in promoting gender.
 The purpose of this project is: to work with church partner and church leaders to positively influence their thinking on gender equality and identify how they can best reduce existing gender discrimination in their own parishes and work towards developing inclusive practices within their communities. 
The project aims to strengthen capacities of the church leadership and Caritas Gweru in mainstreaming gender in programming and within the church, as well as responding to issues around gender inequalities by March 2014 in order to improve the quality of life of the vulnerable members of the communities.
Project Outcomes:
•	Improved understanding of gender inequalities in programming and practices among staff, communities and within the church
•	Strengthened capacity of Caritas Gweru in gender sensitive programming and practices
•	Transformational change in attitudes and practices of key community and church leaders towards gender inequalities 
•	Reduced vulnerabilities of community members, in particular women and girls, of socio-economic factors through strategies that address gender inequalities and gender related drivers of poverty in targeted communities 
•	Established forums for exchange for learning, enhanced documentation, participation, interaction and networking within and between the national and international Caritas family in Zimbabwe and Zambia to facilitate new information sharing.
 The partner will work closely and in collaboration with Caritas Zimbabwe National Office for support in implementing the gender project.in the Diocese of Gweru.
NCDPZ - EC Urban Livelihoods Protection and Promotion Programme The complex emergency that Zimbabwe is slowly emerging from has led to limited access to basic goods and services, high prevalence of disease, and collapse of basic infrastructure. High unemployment and the effects of HIV and AIDS have exacerbated poverty in urban areas. Political instability and tensions have also jeopardized livelihoods of the urban populace. For this action, CAFOD and NCDPZ protect and promote urban livelihoods of the vulnerable and poor people through focussing on the following key interventions;

1) Unconditional Cash transfers
2)Internal Savings and Lending Schemes
3)Micro-grants
4)WASH activities 
5)Community home based care
Enhanced Rural Water and Sanitation Project (ER-WASH) - Caritas Hwange Hwange has a rural population of 96,422 and with 21% sanitation coverage diarrhoeal cases are widespread. Many boreholes in Hwange need complete rehabilitation. Access to water has gender implications where women and girls spend time in pursuit of water, denying them opportunities of other meaningful engagements and attending school. People with disabilities have a greater challenge for accessing water for domestic from distant places and good sanitation facilities. 

The goal of the ER WASH project is that 2,000 households in Hwange Districts enjoy reduced risks to their health. To achieve this, ER WASH will improve hygiene behaviours, create and rehabilitate safe water and sanitation infrastructure, establish mechanisms for local management and maintenance of infrastructure, increase capacity of vulnerable community members to mobilize their own resources, and improve access to nutrition through institutional or community gardens.  

The expected outcomes are:
- Improved access to water and sanitation infrastructure among the targeted communities in Hwange.
- Decreased vulnerability to water related diseases among the Hwange selected communities
- Increased capacity to produce food at household level among the selected households in Hwange
- Increase capacity of targeted communities to manage the water and sanitation facilities/infrastructure
- Improved access to financial resources among the selected households in Hwange.
St Alberts Integrated Livelihoods, Child Protection and GBV project Sr Alberts Mission Hospital works in the remote part of Mashonaland Central and also under the Diocese of Chinhoyi under the Catholic Church ZCBC in Zimbabwe. In an effort to address the impact of poverty in the District St Alberts through the CHBC programme seeks to implement 2 complimentary projects namely the Integrated Livelihoods, Child Protection and Gender based Violence response project as well as responding to challenges young mothers encounter in accessing health delivery services especially for the prevention of cervical cancer, while ensuring that the teen mothers enjoy good mental health. The community based intervention seeks to build resilient and gender just communities in selected wards of Muzarabani District.
Behaviour Change Programme (The Faithful House) This projects aims to improve the quality of life of married couples and promote an HIV free generation in Zimbabwe. 

The Zimbabwe Catholic Bishop’s Conference (ZCBC) has been working on HIV and AIDS, with a policy of, prevention is better than cure and catch them young. Hence the focus has been on children in schools to curb a further spread of HIV and for young people to maintain an HIV-free generation. 

New evidence is challenging the conventional approach to HIV prevention through individual behavioural change. Epidemiological trends indicate that half of the new HIV infections in some sub-Saharan countries are among married and cohabitating couples. Secondly, studies conducted by the National Aids Council (NAC) in 2010 revealed the major drivers as being married couples, multiple concurrent partnerships, small houses, cross generational sex and low risk perceptions. Representative studies confirmed that fewer lifetime sexual partners and faithfulness to spousal partners is strongly associated with reduced risk of HIV infection. 

The faithful house programme (TFT) is a faith-based, family focused initiative that aims to strengthen the family through enhanced effective couple communication, respect, effective conflict management and faithfulness. This is achieved through skills building, positive peer mentoring, couple time and the provision of a safe environment for couples to dialogue around quality-of-relationship issues and other attitudes and behaviours that contribute to sexual risky behaviour. 

This pilot will be tried out in 4 Dioceses and depending on its success and roll out, it will be spread to other Dioceses.
Governance Programme Review, and Partners Reflection and Learning Process Through the Governance, Advocacy and Human Rights Programme, CAFOD seeks to enhance democratisation processes and civic participation through effective engagement and advocacy by the Catholic Church and civil society partners. The programme has five main strands:(1) Citizenship and Political Participation; (2) Fiscal and natural resource management; (3) Justice and Human Rights; (4) Church Capacity; and (5) international advocacy.

CAFOD is engaged in a reflection and review process with the aim of capturing lessons learnt through implementing the 2013-2018 country strategy, and informing programme priorities for the next five years. Process involves holding consultative meetings with CAFOD partners as well as hosting a partners reflection and learning workshop which would enable the partners to input into CAFOD's new Governance, Advocacy and Human Rights Programme theory of change, and helping to set up programme goals and objectives for the next 5 years.
Emergency Assistance to Vulnerable Rural Communities affected by El Niño drought in Zimbabwe Zimbabwe is currently experiencing the effects of one of its worst droughts in decades. The past rainy season was the driest on record in 35 years. The effect on Zimbabwe’s predominantly rural population, largely dependent on subsistence agriculture, has been devastating. Underway efforts by the government and other NGOs to feed the hungry population will not be able to cater to all the needs of the affected rural communities during the lean season or allow them to recover. 
CAFOD and Caritas Harare will complement these efforts by addressing livelihoods needs and access to WASH, mainstreaming nutrition interventions and accessing cash for non-food needs (such as school fees and medical care) for the most affected population. The response will target the most affected households of Mudzi district.
Hospital feeding project in the Archdiocese of Harare Caritas Germany has been supporting various catholic institutions in the Archdiocese of Harare by provision of food supplies specially to those who are admitted in catholic hospitals and who require nutritional support due to regular intake of medication. Government of Germany extended their financial assistance for another term and CG appraoched CAFOD to facilitate these projects through diocesan Caritas otherwise known as CADEC Harare.

Men, women and children who seek medical assistance in Catholic hospitals have no other place to turn for support. As health system has completely broken down in many cases the catholic church institutions are the only hope for poor people who can not afford to travel to South Africa and get medical assistance. All hospitals record substantial number of people attend for regular check ups mostly are chronically ill. Some of them may recieve drugs from state sources but will have no support for food intake which is all the more needed when such drugs are administered. 

The inpatients and nursing students who support clinics and hospital during their training period will recive feeding at their premises. Out patients who are chronicall ill and malnourished will receive dry ration which can be cooked and consumed at their homes. The respective hospital will keep seperate register for food supplies used for wet feeding as well as dry food distribution. The selected hospital staff also will receive dry ration as agreed. 

CADEC Harare assume the responsibility of monitoring and field level reporting of this project. Caritas Germany will lead procurement of food supplies and ensure its delivery by mid November. The food distribution will takesplace from third week of November and will continue till February 2010. CAFOD will hold the contract with Caritas Germany and facilitate the process of identifying actual needs, orient staff, developing MoUs with coordinating CADEC, support to develop ToRs between CADEC and hospitals to ensure the project delivers what is intended.
Zimbabwe and Zambia SADI training Zimbabwe and Zambia strategic partners (2 Zambia, 3 Zimbabwe) will benefit from the SADI training. It is expected that the training will develop and strengthen partner skills to implement safe programmes, improve access to programmes by all members of the community.  Selected strategic partners will be able to use and roll out the SADI framework in programme and projects and with other partners.
Supplementary feeding support to the health institutions in Zimbabwe- Archdiocese of Bulawayo The overall purpose of this project is to provide emergency food supplements to save and support the lives of the most poor and vulnerable chronically ill patients during the period July to December 2011, in three hospitals in the Archdiocese of Bulawayo. The targeted two participating hospitals under this programme will also receive seeds and support to revive their nutrition gardens and cereal and legume cultivation to sustain food production beyond project duration.  

The project beneficiaries are extremely vulnerable as a result of the ongoing protracted emergency situation in the country and most recently due to the anticipated cereal deficit in the targeted areas. With such a high HIV prevalence in the country it is envisaged that the target groups will be affected, as such appropriate nutrition becomes an even greater need to ensure that the default rate is lowered and that the treatment is effective. 

Regular feedback received from the previous Caritas International appeal programme determined that patients on ARV’s are unable to feed themselves and were unable to walk the distance to the hospitals to receive their treatment thus increasing the default rate and undermining adherence.
Fighting Gender Based Violence through Enhanced Women Participation in Decision Making This project aims to build on the gains of the other ongoing AfricaFund project titled; “Holistic Wetland Management for Women Empowerment in Gokwe District” that came to an end in February 2023. This proposed project is aimed at scaling up the women empowerment component communities not covered by the current intervention and deepen women’s household and community participation in decision-making on natural resource management supported by functional governance structures. The project will target low-income rural women and female youths, unable to fully exercise their rights, dependent on agriculture livelihoods, residing in areas of water scarcity and degraded land and at significant risk from climate change shocks. Desired impact will be a reduction in incidence of gender-based violence through empowering women to meaningfully and without fear participate in decision-making processes and structures to equitably access water and other natural resources as their communities adapt to climate change.
Zimbabwe Governance Programme The development of the new programme for Zimbabwe will include: 
1. Consultative meetings with governance Organisations.
2. Consultative meetings with identified funding agencies and donors
3. Facilitating a learning and peer review visit from CAFOD governance partners within the region.
4. Design and development of new programme framework for Zimbabwe.