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A quality teacvher for every child in Mali This proposal will address the quality of teaching across the lower years of community secondary schools in the Segu region of Mali. These schools are run and paid for by communities and are extremely under-resourced, with few opportunities that support staff development. A first phase of this work was funded by Comic Relief; targeting teachers in community primary schools. It was hugely successful and resulted in the Government of Mali's adoption of the training modules developed and teacher competency profiles. On-going support to teachers will be provided through the use of ICT (mobile phone technology) to deliver training modules, model lessons and linking teachers/schools. This model has real potential for cross-country adoption at a larger scale.
Data Platform for Informal Settlements Based on the Cape Town Collaboration Framework, we intend improving Date management platforms, develop tools around tenure and socio economic data in informal settlements. The grant will provide a network of existing NGO's, civil society and researchers with the platforms and tools to prepare citywide and provincial scaling of data management systems. This includes advocacy on various levels, as well as training of public servants, practitioners and community members.
Reducing the Health Impacts of E-Waste Recycling in Accra, Ghana This project will conduct research to protect the health of residents of Accra, Ghana, by reducing their exposure to environmental toxins released by the improper burning and recycling of electric and electronic waste products. The burning and breaking of e-wastes (in order to salvage cooper and other valuable metals) exposes both workers and their communities to hazardous levels of lead, dioxins, and other poisons. Additionally, this project will research ways to protect livelihoods of those engaged in e-waste recycling. This project will contribute to poverty reduction, social inclusion, and social protection of informal e-waste workers by investigating initiatives that will reduce occupational exposures to toxins. Through research, this project seeks to develop and promote the adoption of best practices to increase the economic viability of e-waste recycling. Specific results will include: 1. An active stakeholder group that advocates for the interests of the community, with government health agencies and environmental regulators 2. A baseline assessment of toxic exposures amongst workers and their families 3. Raised awareness of the risks of improper techniques amongst workers 4. The research of best management practices to equip e-waste workers to safely handle and recycle e-waste
Haki ya Binti- Phase 2 This project seeks to address multiple forms of violence against women and girls living in rural areas in three districts in Tanzania (Mpwepwa, Tarime and llemela) by empowering and enabling them to lead social change and mobilising key community actors and local decision-makers to address gender equality, rights, social norms and barriers that face girls through improved local responses. CDF will take over from FORWARD as lead partner in the initiative building on a previous phase of the project in which FORWARD was the lead partner managing this work.
Improving maternal and newborn health in Malga Woreda, SNNPR, Ethiopia Ethiopia remains one of the poorest countries in the world, and their levels of maternal and infant mortality and morbidity are also amongst the highest in the world. Only 10% of births take place in health facilities. Women will learn about how to keep themselves and their babies safe and healthy in participatory women’s groups. It will strengthen the service quality in health posts and health centres. This will result in improved community care, care-seeking behaviour, and uptake of services.
Developing MIFUMI UK's advocacy, learning and governance MIFUMI UK works with and supports MIFUMI Uganda in its innovative and successful work to strengthen community-based responses to gender-based violence. Mifumi UK has been involved in a lengthy strategic planning process, supported by external mentors, to review how it can most effectively strengthen its support for Mifumi Uganda. This has identified the three areas of advocacy; learning and sharing; and strengthening governance and finance to work on. Mifumi UK now wants to intensify and strengthen its advocacy work to influence funders and peer organisations to address gender-based violence more effectively. It also wants to strengthen its new board to take on their role more effectively.
Signing Safe Futures South Africa! Deaf children in South Africa are particularly susceptible to abuse of all kinds; unable to communicate with the outside world, they cannot speak up against the ill-treatment they are suffering. The project aims to empower deaf children so that they can stand up for themselves. At the same time, it will build the knowledge and capacities of organisations who offer helplines and support to children facing abuse so that they can extend their services to deaf children. The result will be that deaf children are more aware of abuse, better able to report what is happening to them, and better able to receive help.
Developing communities of practice on informal settlement upgrading Over the last twenty years, living conditions for the majority of South Africa's poor have hardly improved – and for many have worsened.  There remains a massive task to provide even the most basic of facilities.  Comic Relief is proposing to support three organisations in Cape Town who are working to place the urban poor at the centre of changing their own lives.  This has huge potential, but real progress will only be made if these organisations and other key players – including the City of Cape Town, local businesses and the urban poor – work and learn together.  For these initial schemes to be scaled up, lessons and experiences gained from Cape Town need to be carefully recorded, analysed and shared.  This project aims to provide the skills and opportunities to enable the three organisations to work together and with others.  It will provide guidance as to where to focus, where and how to collect information.  It will support the analysis of this information and how to share it with others to best effect.  It will also identify where the work can influence policy and practice to scale up impact and significantly change large numbers of lives.
Feasibility Study Time Together Time Together project is a feasibility study to ascertain if a time-credit system would help to support enterprising activity, community projects and local exchange in Siavonga. The problem: SNG has worked for many years with Women's Clubs across the Siavonga region to address issues of malnutrition and poverty. One of the challenges that they face is for very poor women trying to develop new enterprises to support their families and communities there is very little access to cash which has resulted in a limited means of exchange. As a result there are skills, talents, experience and abilities that are under-utilised in the community. The project: The feasibility study will explore the use of time credits to support non-monetary exchange - ie. volunteer time, goods and services and expertise. The Result: The feasbility study will enable SNG and Spice to co-design a new model of time banking that is cultural appropriate and best able to achieve its aims. By the end of the process we will have developed a full business plan for developing the time credits project with the SNG women's groups.
Inclusive Education for Blind Children in Sierra Leone Children with disabilities are marginalised by both their parents and the state in Sierra Leone and the vast majority are excluded from school. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is not being implemented; schools are not equipped to deal with disabled children; mainstream teachers are not trained in working with CWD; and administrators and able-bodied children are often unsympathetic to their plight. Our project will determine the parameters for Inclusive Education in Sierra Leone. We will carry out studies to estimate the numbers of blind children in four chiefdoms in Southern Bombali, and investigate both the institutional and social barriers to educating BC in one indicative city, Makeni. We will engage in active research/consultation with local stakeholders (parents, teachers & school principals) as well as Inclusive Education specialists in the UK, and pilot initiatives in local schools that will explore how best these barriers can be reduced/overcome. The output of this project will be the development of a coherent proposal for a project that will both promote Inclusive Education in Makeni and serve as a blue print for initiatives in other centres of population in Sierra Leone.
Improving Child Health for the urban  poor in Freetown Siera Leone This project, through an innovative local partnership arrangement, will work closely with the Ministry of Health and the only government-run paediatric hospital in the country- the Ola During Children's Hospital.  It will work to transform the quality of care delivered at the hospital through targeted investments in training staff and strengthening the infrastructure of the hospital.  There will be a community component to the project, and they will work in the surrounding slum communities to address barriers to access and uptake of child health services.  The project aims to build on their initial success in lowering the infant death rate at the hospital.  It is the doctors, nurses, government officials, parents and community leaders who will identify solutions that can then be funded through an innovative fund. The end result will be hundreds of lives saved, and sustainable improvements in the quality of paediatric care in Sierra Leone.
Makerere University School of Public Health Each year in Uganda, nearly 46,000 newborns and 6,000 women die from problems during pregnancy and childbirth. Many of these deaths could be prevented if women used health services and if carers knew simple ways to keep newborns alive. This project will help families prepare for birth, provide better care to newborns, and know when to seek medical help. It is based on the lessons learned from two pilot projects that led to a big increase in the use of maternal health services and improved care of newborns. Men and community leaders will learn about the importance of maternal and newborn health. Pregnant women and their families will join savings groups to make sure they have the money they need during pregnancy and childbirth. Communities will find ways of getting affordable transport to the health centre for ante-natal care and childbirth. Community health workers will make home visits to pregnant women and those who have just given birth to check on the health of the mother and her baby. To improve the standard of health care, the project will train health workers, increase the number of midwives in project districts, buy equipment for maternal and newborn care, and provide incentives to improve health worker performance. As a result, the health of mothers and newborns in project areas will improve. Results will be shared to promote use of the approach in other districts.
Strengthening Sustainability and Amplifying Impact of FORWARD?s Work FORWARD is requesting £200,000 over three years’ for strengthen organisational capacity and long-term sustainability of the organisation. This will include improve organisational systems, fundraising capacity and develop our strategic plan, strengthen programme evidence, theory of change and documentation of our work in tackling violence against women and girls, gender equality,  leadership development and partnership support. The funding will further benefit FORWARD’s partner organisations that receive capacity building support from FORWARD.
Accessing Health Rights in Ghana In sexual and reproductive health matters, many women in Ghana are excluded from decision-making, even in relation to their own welfare. They often do not make decisions about contraception, child spacing or whether or not they deliver their babies with a skilled health provider who could help them in the event of complications during childbirth. They are the primary caregivers for children, but often do not control household income. This can prevent them from seeking health care for themselves and their children when ill. This project will promote Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), which gives people access to basic health care for an annual registration fee and covers most illnesses. A recent evaluation found better health outcomes for women registered in the NHIS when compared against those that were not enrolled. In the project areas, registration in this scheme is low. This project will combine ongoing work on women's rights specifically in the areas of sexual and reproductive health with activities to increase the percentage of people enrolled in the NHIS, particularly the most marginalised. As a result, women's participation in decision-making related to reproductive health will improve, as will the health of women and children.
Smallholder Market Access More than half of all Zambians rely on agriculture for income. Few small-scale farmers have a concrete basis on which to decide what to grow, when and who to sell to and what the prices are for the crops they know how to produce. IDE has tested a simple buyer-seller system which, with a basic telephone, gets information and trading contacts into the hands of farmers. The project will start a social enterprise to build up from 6,000 farmers registered so far to 40,000 in four regions, developing more of the services and products that farmers and traders say they need to make trading more efficient, less risky and ensure take-home earnings for both parties rise and household poverty is reduced
Changing Futures for Girls (CFG) (Kenya) At present girls in Kwale, a poor district near Mombasa in Kenya, are leaving school at a very young age and very few even complete their primary education. This is due to poor teaching, high levels of abuse of girls in schools, and strong pressures on them for early marriage. This project will work with teachers and girls in schools to improve girls' educational performance and with communities to improve girls' status and to help make them more aware of their rights. The aim is to get more girls to stay in school longer, to encourage them to wait till they are mature before marriage and childbirth, and to improve their chances of finding a job.
Comprehensive vocational training increasing economic activity (Sierra Leone) Youth unemployment is a major problem in Sierra Leone, not only does it have serious consequences for young people themselves who have no possibility of making their own living; it also risks destabilisation and renewed conflict. The project will address the problem of unemployment head on by providing vocational training and apprenticeships to some of the most vulnerable and marginalised young people in the area. The result of the project will be improved livelihoods for young people either through employment or self-employment. As a consequence, their families and dependents will benefit from an improved standard of living; local businesses and the local economy will thrive; and there will be a reduced likelihood of frustrations among unemployed youth leading to renewed violence.
Improved education service provision through policy engagement with government Zambian Open Community Schools will continue to support 665 community schools across four districts in Zambia. These schools offer education to the most vulnerable and marginalised communities and their children. They are run and owned by the communities and often supported by volunteer teachers. These schools, once seen as illegal, have been incredibly successful in supporting the Government's provision of education. Staff will work with government to continue to influence education policies to ensure a quality education is offered through more sustainable and resourced community schools in the longer term.
Quality Education Programme in DRC - Planning Phase To fund a consultation process in one district of the Bas-Congo to inform planning for an education programme addressing disadvantaged children living in rural areas. The programme will aim to address local barriers to education considering issues of economy, gender, disability, quality of teaching, school management and community involvement. Based on current experience, AFD and APICOM will investigate the opportunity to support small scale school/community owned IGPs to meet school financial needs - e.g. supporting School Development Plans or fees. A link with Local Education Authorities will plan towards sustainability.
Integrating cooperatives of orphaned farmers into commercial value chains in Rwa Rwanda has many young orphaned heads of households as a result of genocide and HIV/AIDS. World Jewish Relief and its local NGO partner, Uyisenga Ni Imanzi, began in 2012 to build the business skills and technical and organisational capacity of young orphaned men and women farming fruits and vegetables. The project will scale up to increase incomes by 60% of 1,487 people (60% women) in three districts, upgrade their associations to formal cooperatives, improve their agronomic techniques and product mix, based on business analysis from the pilot, and link them to markets. 60 registered cooperatives will graduate to viability and vulnerable individuals will gain confidence and a livelihood.
Needs Analysis of Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Porto Novo, Benin The main problem we want to address ultimately is the lack of access to education and integrated support for orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs) in Benin. Currently, we lack whole knowledge of various target groups’ priority needs and of all the possible root barriers to accessing education. YACI and EDEM’s members feel they need to strengthen their relationship and joint planning, and their credibility towards donors, through direct contact and monitoring on the field. The above problems will be addressed by conducting a field research and consultation with children, young people, families, teachers, local authorities, local influencers, other NGOs, entrepreneurs and businesses, micro-credit organisations, agricultural centres, etc. These activities will result in a research document gathering information regarding children’s needs, structural and immediate obstacles to education, and establishing a baseline survey to help track the progress of outcomes in the future. Based on the results, YACI and EDEM will design a 5 year plan. The results of this research will be shared with the people and organisations involved in the consultation. If organisations are interested to work with us, small pilot projects will be designed to work in partnership with them on concrete actions to support children more comprehensively.
Protecting Girls from Female Genital Mutilation in the African Region In Mali, Liberia and Kenya, girls are subjected to high rates of female genital mutilation (FGM). Rates amongst the Maasai in Kenya are as high as 95%, while in Mali 85% of girls and in Liberia 58% of girls undergo FGM. FGM can have a devastating impact on a girl's life, endangering her health and greatly increasing the chances of other violations of rights including early and forced marriage and low participation in education. Equality Now and its partners will work to enact national laws in Mali and Liberia to curb this practice and in Kenya, where such a law already exist, work closely with the Maasai communities to improve enforcement. The local partners will work closely with communities, including parents and girls themselves, to change attitudes and behaviours towards FGM. The partners have strong connections to the communities with whom they work, and Equality Now will support them to deliver practical and strategic support to build their capacity in responding to community needs and influencing policy change at local, national, regional and international movement to eliminate FGM. By working at the family, community and policy levels, the project will change acceptance of FGM in these three countries and across the region and, as such, contribute to protecting and improving the lives of many millions of girls.
Extension of the Betteh Tumara Freetown Vocational Training project 60% of young people in Sierra Leone are unemployed or underemployed. Many had their education disrupted by civil war. Lack of appropriate skills in the labour force slows the country's development. High quality, affordable vocational training in Freetown is not readily available.  The project will train young men and women in life skills and vocational courses matched to employer demand. It will offer business training and mentorship to young entrepreneurs, facilitate work placements and employment through outreach to companies, and raise revenue by charging firms for recruitment and in-house employee training. Of 990 people trained, 514 will secure a job, improve their jobs or establish a business.
Cameroon Street Children SOS Douala, Cameroon's largest city is home to hundreds of children and young people living on its streets. All are vulnerable to abuse and exploitation. Many thousands more are vulnerable to making a living from the streets. Widows' lack of inheritance rights is known to be a particular reason for destitution and a direct cause of children living on the street. This project will run a drop-in centre that will meet the immediate and longer term health, education and recreation needs of street children. Sport, including football, will feature as an important recreational activity.  Older children will be given vocational training, and apprenticeships with local businesses. Where necessary, the project will get birth certificates for children. This means they can get identity cards, and so have a right to health and education services, as well as broader citizenship rights. The project will get more children off the street, into education, and make sure the government does more to meet the needs of this very vulnerable group.
Renewing irrigation assets Poor farmers in northern Malawi live on what they can grow, bartering or selling any surplus food in local markets to buy clothes and essentials leaving no cash for healthcare or secondary education. Many farmers have a small amount of land available and MF and NFT are working with them to introduce suitable cash crops with a guaranteed market (e.g. paprika). Irrigated land can double the yields of these crops and protect staple foods. However, many past schemes to introduce irrigation have failed due to technical flaws, inappropriate design and lack of training. This project aims to identify schemes which can be rehabilitated, the support needs of farmers and a business case for investors.
Sustainable Livelihoods for Female Slum dwellers Some of the poorest people in Nairobi currently scratch a living from scavenging on one of the largest rubbish dumps in Africa. Women and children work long hours in highly hazardous conditions for minimal pay.  This proposal, which will be run by a local community group, aims to help some of these women make a fresh start, by offering them training in horticulture on land provided by a local school; and then linking them with markets for the produce. A share of the crops will go to the school and be used for feeding the children and providing the school with a small income.