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Parent Awareness & Communication Training (PACT) Having a sensory disability can be isolating, and is invariably coupled with the hardships of extreme poverty. Disabled people with sensory impairments often find themselves living life of dependency and segregation. In Northern Malawi, there are few resources available to deaf children and their parents; for example there is only one school for the deaf in the region. Building on a successful pilot project, this project aims to extend services to families with deaf children unable to access education. Developing parents’ communication skills, awareness and confidence in supporting their children with hearing impairments is seen as the most crucial advance needed to help improve the lives of the children and transform the attitude of their families towards having a deaf child. Facilitators will travel throughout the region, providing educational resources and training for parents and teachers, and encouraging deaf children to participate fully in mainstream school life. Teachers, community leaders and parents will be targeted to improve interaction and inclusion for deaf children inside and outside formal education.
Promoting Innovation in Education Project (PIE-P) for improved education opportu This grant should be viewed as support to the new 5 year strategy of HakiElimu. HakiElimu (HE), as a Tanzanian research, advocacy & campaigning organisation is proactive in reviewing & securing policy reform & change in education practice.   Work with 127 primary & secondary schools across 22 districts in Tanzania will provide key information on how schools can be changed to improve 1) girl attendance & performance,  2) inclusions of all children including those with disabilities and 3) ensure violence against children in school is ended. Work with communities is planned to ensure they play a role in the development & management of their schools & proactively call the govt to account.
Swaziland Crafts Industry Development Programme Ongoing drought in Swaziland has led to 40% of the population receiving food aid in recent years with agriculture alone no longer providing families with an adequate income. The situation is exacerbated by the highest HIV/AIDS prevalence rate in the world. Growing demand from the tourist sector and regional markets for high quality, fair trade handcrafts offers a unique opportunity to improve poor people’s incomes, particularly for the most vulnerable (85% of whom are women). However, the sector has relatively few sustainable handcraft organisations and the majority are not Swazi-led, even though the businesses run on fair trade principles. This project will work with Swaziland’s most promising handcraft groups to develop a network of genuinely local fair trade businesses. By building the capacity of handcraft producer groups, creating a national network of these groups, and establishing access to international markets, it will improve the livelihoods of producers and their families, in particular women. The majority of the businesses will be Swazi-led to change the racial profile of the existing business model. The creation of a strong handcraft sector will support a future generation of children which will lose many of its parents to HIV/AIDS. Workplace training on HIV/AIDS will raise awareness and provide education to handcraft producers and workers.
Developing the FTO cashew supply chain in West Africa for producers, workers, SM Certified fruits and nuts are an important source of income for thousands of farmers in Burkina Faso and neighbouring countries, also creating steady jobs in transport, distribution, and processing for hundreds of workers, mostly women, in small enterprises and cooperatives.    Fullwell Mill and Gebana are two social enterprises with a vision of helping more than 2,000 of these farmers and entrepreneurs to move up the value chain. The project will help them to plant more cashew trees, improve farming and yields, do more primary processing, reduce costs and earn more, whatever their role.    The project will also test alternative cashew products and how to make safe energy from cashew nut waste.
Improving Diaspora Organisation Services Since 2000 Africa Foundation Stone (AFS) has provided educational support for young people from ethnic minority and disadvantaged backgrounds in North London. It has an impressive record of achievement, attaining a 96% pass rate in GCSEs and A levels. In 2005 AFS began working in the Cameroon with 10 local organisations to support access for street children to primary education and vocational training and improve child protection and policies. AFS has found that success in the Cameroon and demand for their services from the Cameroon Government and local partners has stretched their organisational capacity to respond to its limits of effectiveness. While they have been successful in securing grants from Comic Relief (CR) and DFID, they have not effectively secured funds to build their organisational capacity. In 2010 AFS undertook strategic partnership reviews with its Cameroonian partners and a VSO consultant undertook an OD assessment. The findings emphasised that project M&E and associated IT systems must be improved to ensure effective tracking of impact, quality reporting and learning. AFS believe a strategic visioning exercise and upgrading of UK staff, volunteer and trustee skills in fundraising and project management is required to underpin and sustain these improvements.
Improving the quality of pre-primary education in Ghana through a network Model The Fast-track Transformational Teacher Training (FTTT) programme is a direct recommendation of the Ghana Education Services (GES). The programme links in-service teachers with pre-service student teachers, & places them together for 1 year in a model classroom environment. The training approach is intensive & combines practical workshops with in-classroom coaching. The FTTT is recognised as the highest priority activity being undertaken by GES to implement the Kindergarten Operational Plan. Sabre Charitable Trust (SCT) is GES’ lead implementing partner for the FTTT, providing funding & programme management expertise to GES & the College of Education in delivering the FTTT. This works to find a scalable solution.
Examining barriers to accessing primary education in the sector of Ganaketi, Ban This research proposal will explore the reasons which prevent children from poor backgrounds starting or completing their primary and secondary education in the Ganaketi region of DRC. Recent research suggest that more than 2500 children in the target area are prevented from enrolling in primary school, or drop out before completing their primary education. The special problems facing girls will be a highlight of the study.  The research will draw on the local knowledge and contacts of the two partners. They are Entraide, a UK based Diaspora organisation, and ADEMA, a rural grass roots group in the Congo. The aim is to build up a complete picture of the problem and to seek solutions. Close links with civic leaders, teachers and parents will form the basis for a highly participatory project.  All learning will then be shared widely, and will feed into future plans to help more children into school, and then stay to complete their studies.
Strengthening producer leadership of Cafedirect producers The Cafedirect Producers’ Foundation (CPF) is a UK-registered charity that works with smallholder tea, coffee and cocoa farmer organisations in Africa, Latin America and Asia. CPF focuses on strengthening smallholder farmers’ access to the training, education and information services they need to improve their farming practices and livelihoods.  CPF is the result of an evolutionary process that started with producer support through Cafedirect plc’s Producer Partnership Programme (PPP). To give a greater voice to producer partners, Cafedirect offered producer partners the opportunity to purchase shares in Cafedirect plc and established Cafedirect Partners Limited (CPL) to hold all individual sets of shares together. In consultation with producer partners, the ownership of the PPP was transferred from Cafedirect plc to the producers themselves. It became clear that a charitable foundation would be best placed to fill this role and so CPF was formed in December 2009 and is wholly owned by CPL.      CPF now wishes to ensure that it is genuinely producer-led; that male and female smallholder representatives are in a position to take leadership roles in governance and operations; and that all constituents are aware of and understand CPF and its activities. This will ensure that activities are relevant and responsive to the needs of producers, funds can be managed locally (rather than in the UK) and that producer partners will be able to connect directly with fundraising, networking and partnership development opportunities in their regions.
The Ghana Essential Health Intervention Programme (GEHIP) In Ghana, levels of sickness and death among women and children under five remain unacceptably high. 450 per 100,000 women die every year, compared with 12 per 100,000 in the UK. Almost 1 in 10 children in Ghana die before their fifth birthday, mainly from diseases which are preventable or could be treated if care was given in time. In 1994 the “Navrongo Experiment” in Northern Ghana halved child deaths in the area in three years by posting community nurses to provide “doorstep services” in rural communities. This Community Health Planning and Services programme placed a focus on preventing ill health and treating common illnesses. Although Ghana built this approach into its national strategies in 2000, the pace of scale up has been slow, due to weaknesses in the health system. This project will build on an existing programme, helping to develop a sustainable ambulance service which is suited to local conditions, and adapting the Community Health Planning and Services model to suit urban areas.
Freetown Urban Slums Initiative Freetown slums are in a deplorable state with many areas devoid of piped water and any form of improved sanitation. Most houses are made of temporary building materials and settlements are vulnerable to flooding. Cholera is a recurrent hazard. Comic Relief funded a previous slum project (2008 – 2012) supporting communities in three slums to improve their quality of life. However, the need to make additional improvements within these settlements and to help others, still exists. This follow-on project intends to support young people, petty traders (particularly women) and other disadvantaged people living in 8 slums in Freetown. The project will provide vocational training and apprenticeships, affordable micro-credit loans and improvement of literacy, business and money management skills. It will also improve access to basic services, including water and improved drainage and provide hygiene training. The capacity of local community based organisations (CBOs) will be strengthened and support provided to improve advocacy skills, enhancing their ability to hold government to account. As a result there will be a healthier environment and increased incomes, especially for women, young people and other marginalised groups, leading to a better quality of life in the slums. In addition the project will promote advocacy relating to streamlining of land tenure systems and seek to influence planning and national housing policy.
Small scale business development and community mobilisation for healthy and clea In the crowded slums of Malawi's two major cities, Lilongwe and Blantyre, water has to be stored in people's homes and easily gets contaminated. Few people have access to toilets and many of these overflow as there is no emptying system in place. Also solid waste is rarely collected.  This project will enable local community groups to take on contracts to empty toilets. They will also run publicity campaigns to make people more aware of the health risks of contaminated water. Water filters and latrines will be sold at low prices, and local people will be assisted to start up their own businesses to collect, recycle, and sell waste: the compost will then be used for producing flowers and vegetables.
Fair trade for African Blackwood: achieving self-sufficiency - phase 1 The project will reduce poverty amongst forest dependent communities in SE Tanzania, through developing fair trade for African Blackwood from community-owned forests. Communities previously received ~0.01% of export value of the world’s most valuable timber (used in musical instruments such as clarinets, oboes and bagpipes). Communities who collectively and sustainably manage their forests can retain licence fees ~400 times greater. However, illegal logging is rife; communities need to be able to securely label timber coming from their forests; forest certification is a mechanism to do this. At the supply end the project will continue to invest in supporting rural communities in Tanzania to set aside and manage their forests sustainably, and to meet the standards of forest certification. At the demand end, this project is engaging directly with the market in woodwind instruments, which is worth an estimated £35m in UK alone, by creating demand for a new product variant, made from certified blackwood from community-managed forests. Under this continuation project marketing of African Blackwood and other timbers from community-managed forests to instrument manufacturers and consumers through the Sound & Fair campaign will intensify. The project will continue to engage with manufacturers of musical instruments made from African Blackwood, beginning with classical woodwind. Rising consumer awareness and new legislation in the US and EU, requiring greater transparency over the supply source and guarantees of legality, will dramatically increase demand for FSC-certified timber. The project partners estimate that by the end of the project at least 3,000 musical instruments made from timber from community managed forests will either be under manufacture or already sold. In revenue terms, this amounts to sales of between £2.5m and £5m, with a further £5m to £10m in the pipeline, though it is likely to be higher still. The increase in awareness these sales will provide, supported by a marketing campaign, is expected to further boost demand for this product. Increasing penetration of this product into the UK woodwind market should lead to greater international interest and support later diversification of both products and species. Higher demand will allow communities in Tanzania to increase prices further; communities could potentially earn up to £50,000 per year from their forests. The project assists communities in managing this revenue in a fair and equitable manner. This next phase of the project will begin the transition to financial sustainability and self-sufficiency by commencing charging forest communities token fees for services they receive in support of PFM and for the administration of the FSC group certificate. The resulting conservation of forest cover will help the global fight against and increase communities’ resilience to climate change.
Design4Jobs Levels of poverty are especially high for young, black South Africans with six out of ten facing unemployment. A lack of basic skills in this group makes it even more difficult to move from long term unemployment to employment. Job creating enterprises within South Africa have been established manufacturing products under the fair trade model and distributing predominately to a domestic market. However, with limited access to wider international retailers, the market is limited. A pilot project conducted in 2010 has developed a plan to address this problem. This project aims to scale up the pilot project by: engaging with the expertise of high value retail brands to provide a robust distribution channel and communicate consumer needs to the South African manufacturers; building the capacity of local enterprise, design, manufacturing and marketing organisations to support craft businesses and producers to meet the requirements of the international and local markets; and providing basic skills and enterprise training to unemployed young people seeking to enter the sector. This will increase the knowledge and sales volumes of the micro enterprises, creating more jobs and moving more people out of poverty.
Support to Baobab Producers in Southern Africa One of the most iconic African trees the baobab, grows in inhospitable and arid areas. It offers a vital source of income for households who use a range of its products for consumption and sale. Phytotrade Africa, based in Zimbabwe, is a trade association with nearly 60 members across Southern Africa. They are involved in the collection, processing and marketing of natural products made from indigenous plants. Alongside two of its members, Tree Crops Malawi and Specialty Foods Africa, Phytotrade has invested in the development of collection, production and marketing of baobab products against a backdrop of growing regional and international demand for these products. Project activities will support all parts of the emerging supply chain. The collectors, 80% of whom are women, will learn more about quality control and how to organise together. The processors will achieve international hygiene and safety standards and become more efficient. Marketing activities will start to establish certified or ‘ethical baobab' with consumers and secure contracts for baobab powder, increasing volumes sold from 5 to 200 tonnes in the lifetime of the project. Trading to the targeted projections would make a significant addition to each producer's annual income.
Developing rights-based and empowering approaches to mobilise (DREAM) ACTION TO The majority of women in Gambia (76%) and Sierra Leone (88%) are affected by FGM. The project will address this using a community based approach working directly with young women and their communities to provide services and protection and help young women take action together as well as seek attitude change in communities. At the same time it will work in both countries to seek more widespread change by advocating for the creation and implementation of legal frameworks that ensure that girls and young women are protected from FGM. This approach will work with four different partners and draw upon their range of expertise to tackle this complex issue.
Harnessing the Power of Sport to Prevent Adolescent HIV and Gender Based Violenc HIV and AIDS continue to be one of the biggest challenges in South Africa. Nearly 40% of all new adult HIV infections are among young people. This is because of a lack of knowledge, harmful gender norms, gender- based violence, harmful use of drugs and alcohol and a lack of access to youth-friendly health services. Grassroot Soccer addresses these issues by using football-based activity to engage young people in HIV education and support programmes. Participants receive HIV and life skills education, support for health referrals, HIV counselling and testing and follow-up support. This grant will build on this work and provide Grassroot Soccer with funding that will support improved curricula, coach development and strengthened partnerships.
Renewed Commitment to Ending all forms Violence Against Women in Africa UAF-Africa is requesting funds for onward grant making to support feminist and women’s rights initiatives that respond to GBV as well as bolstering women’s leadership as explained below.
Building fundraising capacity The ICT is an International Development organisation dedicated towards improving the lives of vulnerable children in developing countries. The ICT supports the development of the capacity of overseas partners in improving the lives of marginalized and vulnerable children that are unable to access their rights to education, health and a life free of violence and abuse. Partner target groups include children in child labour (including domestic work) or at risk thereof, and streetworking and living children. Our partners work with those children that are most vulnerable and have fallen through government safety nets and often are also out of reach of other NGO activities due to their challenging behaviour and/or circumstances.Consultations in the past have highlighted the need for a focus on fundraising, and while recommendations were followed up and some achievements have been made, the current economic crisis has produced new setbacks. It is clear that the organisation needs support to adapt its fundraising strategies to the current economic climate so it can continue to address the needs of our partners.
Camel Milk in Kenya: a Key Resource for Vulnerable People Camel milk is a source of food and income for the camel herders in dry, remote Garissa Kenya. Milk is not regularly available to consumers, especially when there are droughts, when camels have less to eat and lactate less. The safety and quality is not guaranteed either which puts people off. Hygiene standards practiced by the women traders and their processing centres are very rudimentary. The collection and delivery is not organised adding to waste and losses. The project helps all these players to make step-changes in their basic practices, leading to more milk being produced year round, more income, safety guarantees for consumers, better fed, healthier herder children and camels.
Creating a women's and girls movement in Malawi that challenge GBV and promotes Using learning generated through a Comic Relief All In, All Learning grant, GENET (in partnership with CAVWOC and Oxfam Malawi) aim to support 3000 girls & young women to understand their rights and to work with their communities to ensure these rights are upheld. Existing girls & women’s groups in Phalombe & Dowa will be connected to work collectively into the long-term and will raise awareness of gender-related laws and policies, track (and lobby for) resource allocation from district to national level for policy implementation, strengthen community and district structures & processes to uphold girls’ rights and improve access to justice for survivors of gender-based violence & abuse.
Quality Education Programme (QEP) in the Republic of Congo Phase 2 Girls and boys in the Republic of Congo drop out of school at an early age. Their families are very poor and need them to work in the home, fields or forests. Most of their teachers are unpaid and unmotivated. Many are not qualified. This project runs workshops for parents about the importance of education and teaches them to read. It sets up school management boards; trains teachers and education officials; and involves children in decisions about their schools. As a result, more children will enrol in school, stay longer and do better in their exams. Parents and community members will support them. Schools will run more efficiently with improved learning and resources.
Research and Planning for a Secondary Education Project Pastoralist societies are patriarchal and women face inequalities at every level. Education is at the heart of transforming women's lives but girls face many problems in attending school. Nationally, girls’ enrolment in secondary school is lower than boys, drop-out rates higher and their performance worse. Girls' gross enrolment rate is 32% (boys - 40%, 2008). In pastoralist areas, this is far lower. Factors affecting girls include: teenage pregnancies; HIV/AIDS exposure; distance between school and home; and sexual violence perpetrated against girls in school and communities. Pastoralist girls experience further problems. Early and forced marriage means girls are taken out of school, often at primary level. It is not considered worthwhile educating girls; upon marriage they transfer to their in-laws homestead and her economic worth is lost to the birth family. This application seeks to establish the depth and scale of problems faced by pastoralist girls, including disabled girls and those affected by HIV/AIDS, and to seek key stakeholder’s views and consensus on actions that can assist in increasing the educational attainment of girls. This application will result in new work that seeks to increase the enrolment, retention and performance of pastoralist girls in secondary education, targeting the most vulnerable.