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Citizen Agency for Transformed Food Systems in Zimbabwe. The project seeks to build and strengthen advocacy around food systems with particular emphasis on agro-ecology, food as a justice issues as well as strengthening voice and agency of the most vulnerable and most affected by the 'brokeness' of the food system in Zimbabwe. Although the project has a national focus, it also seeks to influence and benefit from the regional, continental and global food systems landscape in relation to policies and practices that would help the situation. This situation is characterized by the following problems; Currently in Zimbabwe few farmers can grow local seed varieties but there is a high cost of seed inputs. The agro-ecology landscape lacks financial support at both local and national level which thwarts the proliferation of agro-ecology. In essence, national policies do not fully support agro-ecology, food and seed sovereignty and large-scale agricultural production to local food systems. Moreover, information gaps exist in both urban and rural food systems of Zimbabwe which undermines meaningful policies. At community, district, provincial and national level, meaningful dialogue between the relevant stakeholders is also lacking hence triggering disjointed efforts to support agro-ecology and food systems. The voices of the vulnerable communities are not being amplified at national level to incorporate their opinions in policy formulation processes. Fundamentally, agricultural policies need to be shaped by community voices along with expert opinions gathered through a participatory approach from the ground up. Climate change has had negative impacts on the environment and agricultural practices. Most smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe are not resilient enough to adapt to the effects and severity of these changes in climate hence leading to reduced agricultural produce.
Zimbabwe START Ready Drought - Binga Zimbabwe is prone to hazards including extreme weather events such as droughts. Drought is the common hazard that affect a large population of Zimbabwean resulting in widespread food insecurity, loss of livelihoods assets and other negative social impacts. Currently Zimbabwe is experiencing a drought. Through funding from START Ready, to respond to the effects of drought,Caritas Hwange will target the most vulnerable households in Binga District through food distributions. This intervention will ensure that the affected population will receive early support to avoid disrupting copying mechanisms, protect livelihoods, reduce the cost of the intervention and ultimately save more lives.

Caritas Hwange will reach out to targeted 467 households (2333 individuals) per month with three food distribution cycles, over a three months period.The food basket will comprise of Cereals (10 kgs), pulses (1.5 kgs) and vegetable oil (0.7 kgs) per individual. Food ration sizes were calculated to meet the daily individual calorie requirement of 2100 kj. Food distribution was selected as the aid transfer option/method since markets are not functioning in the targeted areas hence other options such as cash and voucher transfers could not be taken on board.
CCJP Zimbabwe Bi-Elections Monitoring The grant will enable the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace in Zimbabwe (CCJPZ) to monitor bi-elections in 14 constituencies of Zimbabwe. The constituencies fell vacant when the Morgan Tsvangirai led Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) recalled 21 legislators from parliament. The bi-elections will be held on 10 June 2015.
CADEC Hwange Sustainable Livelihoods Programme The diocese of Hwange is one of the eight administrative areas of the Roman Catholic Church in Zimbabwe. The diocese comprises the civil districts of Hwange, Binga and Lupane (North of Shabula River) which all fall within the province of Matabeleland North. Owing to their proximity and sharing boundaries, the three districts resemble similarities in many aspects. The development arm of the church is CADEC (Catholic Development Commission) which operates under the auspices of the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference. CADEC intends to implement the sustainable livelihoods programme in two districts of Hwange and Lupane (North of Shabula River). The projects to be implemented are as follows:

     -Construction of 100 Latrine Toilets and training on PHHE at household level.

      -Rehabilitation of 12 Water Points. To include training of Water Point Committees and Pump    Mechanics.
     -Rehabilitation of 2 dams.
    -- Establishment of 4 Herbal and Nutrition Gardens, including Training of Farmers
    - Rehabilitation of 2 Irrigation Schemes including Training of Farmers.
     - Rehabilitation of 4 Dip tanks.
      -Care and Support by Procurement and Distribution of HBC Kits and Uniforms, etc.

-	Training of HBC Facilitators
-	Capacity strengthening of the Caritas Office and communities
Peri- Urban Gardens Phase 3: Gender sensitive Water Resource Management Programme The purpose of the project is to increase control over decisions and access to water resources for about 2,300 households in marginalised communities in the Sakubva River Basin of Dora rural wards and Mutare urban area by the year 2015 and beyond.

This will be achieved through the following outputs:
•	improved access to and control over water for productive purposes such as horticulture, fisheries and orchard production, through the establishment of a water reservoir, pumping and irrigation systems;
•	capacity strengthening for aquatic ecological health, integrated water resource management and climate change mitigation and adaptation measures, through the development of land-use plans, construction of conservation tools and systems, and appropriate awareness raising and training;
•	women's empowerment through the establishment and strengthening of ward-based water resources planning and management committees with at least 50% female representation;
•	gender and HIV & AIDS mainstreaming through a gender audit, gender and HIV awareness campaigns and training.
ZCBC Behaviour Change- Putting Children First in Zimbabwe ZCBC Behaviour Change Programme envissages a situation in which there will be an HIV and AIDS free generation.There have been a growing number of orphans and vulnerable children throughout the country, largely due to the HIV and AIDS Pandemic, hence the need to ensure that these orphans and vulnerable children have access to some essential services and resources. The recognition that children  need to live sustainably and with dignity.

 This prgramme is a pilot programme operational in Harare and Chinhoyi Dioceses. This is largely because Harare is one of the biggest cities in the country, likewise hosts the largest percentage of orphans and vulnerable children. In the long run ZCBC sees the programme aims to achieve gender balance within communities, especially those with orphans and vulnerable children.  The programme in the long-run hopes to groom confident and highly alert children, through workshops on Child Protection and Confidence Building. Alongside, livelihoods will go a long way in ensuring sustainability of families and communities after the programme has been conducted.

This programme will also ease pressure on community care givers, who seek on ways to assist orphans and vulnerable children, to live a sustainable life. The programme will largely focus on workshops carried out to children and immediate guardians within their different communities (such as teachers). The workshops will place emphasis on Child Protection/Participation, Confidence building and voice concerns on how BEAM is managed.  Peer Education and livelihoods will be part of the programme to ensure that children and communities have  improved household income and quality of life for OVC’s.   

 In putting Children First Programme ZCBC will:
Conduct confidence building workshops
Mobilise and conduct workshops as part of a network for teachers, leaders in communities and influential parents to look at education policies and advocate for change
Conduct workshops for Catholic anf leaders of other Faiths to tackle the link between, culture, religion and health care and even abuse
Together with other partners commemorate World events for children/youths and volunteers
Climate Resilient Agriculture: transforming livelihoods of poor people in Zimbabwe This project aims to achieve improved livelihoods security for poor women, men and children from hazard-prone or marginalised rural communities in Gokwe North through an integrated approach that: increases the productivity and resilience of agricultural systems; strengthens engagement in markets and diversified income generation; strengthens adaptation to climate change; and increases the ability of local, pro-poor farm and producer groups to access services and influence development practices. Interventions will include  a new irrigation scheme, Conservation Agriculture, Low Inputs Gardening, Disaster Risk reduction and Early Warning System, Livestock production latrines at the new irrigation scheme and gardens. all these activities will be done with adaptation to climate change in mind in order to achieve the objectives of the project.
CAFOD has been in involved in livelihoods projects most recently the ongoing Integrated Food, Nutrition and  Income and Security and the ended Protracted Relief Program. Both projects have had similar intervention activities and thus the experience is there. However, this project will be done in the face of climate change so there is an underlying base of climate change adaptation in all the interventions
Mashambanzou OVC Outreach Programme Mashambanzou OVC Outreach Programme will be contributing to the overall Programme on Putting Children First an OVC response for Zimbabwe. The overall aim of the programme is to ensure that children in Harare and Chinhoyi  have access to the essential services and resources they need to live sustainably and with dignity.
The Mashambanzou OVC Outreach Programme will seek to build confidence of 500 Orphans and vulnerable children living with HIV and AIDS and those affected by HIV and AIDS. They will conduct the following activities:
-Educational and awareness sessions on HIV and in which children will actively participate and organise a s well
-Support groups formed to foster communication amongst peers and these will be facilitated and monitored by the Mashambanzou Care Trust
-Information sharing and awareness sessions on Child Rights and Protection will be conducted.
-The children will also be included and consulted in the planning of activities that directly affect them
-Children will be given Home Based Care Kits, a number of children are care givers
-Purposeful Psychosocial support  and therapies will be conducted for children and be supervised activities will be carried out on a weekly basis
-The partner will conduct Home based care visits to supervise and  monitor progress being made and also identify issues that might be affecteng the well being of children.
-The OVCs will also receive Home based care kits especially those living with HIV and those children taking care of a sick relative, parent or guardian.
WASH for Dignity The project will increase access to potable water to women, men, boys and girls in ward 14. Availing clean and safe water at shorter distances will increase available productive time and productivity for women and girls. Increasing good health and hygiene knowledge, attitudes and practices will directly contribute to reducing morbidity and mortality from WASH related diseases. Good Health and hygiene knowledge, attitudes and practices directly impact positively on nutrition status for children under 5 years, pregnant and lactating women and the chronically ill. Appropriate and suitable sanitation facilities will improve the dignity of school girls and female Teachers. This should contribute to reducing school absenteeism by girls. The project will contribute to improving care and support for Infants, young children, elderly, the infirm and ill family members through health and hygiene messages provided in clubs and freeing time used in collecting water as well as improvements in water quality. The project will contribute to attainment of learning outcomes through availing water for practical subjects like agriculture and building and increasing retention of qualified teachers. 

The project components are as follows according to sub-objectives:
1. Increasing access to clean water through establishment of 10km solar piped water scheme in ward 14, Gokwe North 
2. Increasing access to suitable appropriate 6 sanitation facilities at learning institutions 
3. Increasing good health and hygiene knowledge, attitudes and practices by establishment and training 3 school and 4 community health and hygiene clubs
Zimbabwe Drought Response Programme [CAFOD CI EA 02/2020 Contribution ] The overall objective of the project is to contribute to improved access and availability of food in drought prone areas and promote productive planting for 2020/21 season in the six dioceses negatively affected by drought in Zimbabwe. These are the dioceses of Chinhoyi, Masvingo, Gweru, Hwange, Gokwe as well as the Archdiocese of Bulawayo. The project will reach out to 3400 households [ 17 000 individuals] at a total cost of Euro 1,017,915.00.

Caritas Zimbabwe expects any scale up of humanitarian assistance to focus on rural communities with high population density and/or who fall into IPC4, leaving potential gaps in other districts. 

Because of its local presence in many of these communities, Caritas is better placed to reach these communities than many other agencies.  This project will therefore not focus on the worst affected districts. Instead it will make use of existing Church structures and infrastructure to target those people who may otherwise receive little or no assistance. 
The primary issue facing rural communities in Zimbabwe is food insecurity. The appeal strategy is twofold: contribute to reduction in current urgent food needs and promote future food security. 

In normal circumstances, food assistance would only be required until the start of the harvest season (April- July). However, given the poor projections for 2019/2020 harvests and ongoing economic uncertainty, Caritas Zimbabwe is anticipating the traditional lean season will extend into Autumn 2020. Working on worst case scenario, this project will therefore provide 8 months of food assistance between February and September 2020. The strategy will then shift and focus on agricultural inputs to facilitate the 2020/21 planting season and promote more sustainable access to food. 

The project will work with the same target households throughout with the aim of increasing their resilience.
Supplementary feeding support to the health institutions in Zimbabwe- Caritas Harare 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 Harare. The targeted three 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.
IMBISA Institutional Strengthening Project The IMBISA Institutional strengthening Project is a organisational development intervention to strengthen the Institutional capacity of IMBISA through i. re-confirmation of IMBISA's mandate by national structures and ii. review of IMBISA's strategic plan. These interventions are expected to result in IMBISA assuming the role of a well capacitated  Regional organ effectively supporting the programmatic interventions of its 9 member national Episcopal Conferences and coordinating Regional level interventions on key priority issues. Precipitating this interventions is the progressive decline of IMBISA's Institutional capacities resulting in IMBISA's inability to fulfill its mandate and to generate sufficient resources to sustain operations. In spite of the existing Insititutional capacity gaps, IMBISA remains highly relevant as a possible anchor for Regional level programmes bringing together the 9 Episcopal Conferences. Numerous opportunities exist within the SADC Region for IMBISA to catalyse region wide interventions in response to multi-country crises and in support of the implementation of Regional policy frameworks such as the SADC Gender Protocol or SADC Electoral Guidelines as well as facilitating linkeages to regional structures such as the SADC Parliamentary Forum.
Sustainable Livelihoods Programme - Caritas Gokwe Project goal:Improved health, nutrition and food security status of the vulnerable households through sustainable agriculture, reduction of communicable diseases and economic empowerment of communities.
Expected outcomes:
•	Increased food production, processing and preservation to 2,500 vulnerable households by March 2014
•	Increased access to water for livestocks and individual nutrition gardens to 12,000 Households  by scooping 3 dams by March 2014
•	Improved community based management systems to 300 households in the targeted communities by March 2014


Specific activities include:

1.	Improved food security:
Construction of 3 grain banks in Gokwe North and provision of seeds to 2,500 households both in Gokwe North and South (200 in Gokwe and 300 in Gokwe South).
 
2.	Improved water harvesting for livestock and Individual nutrition gardens:
Scooping of 3 dams in the 2 districts (2 in Gokwe north and 1 in Gokwe south)
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3.	Improved community based management systems: 
Training of 200 households in food processing and preservation, training of 500 households in conservation farming, 200 households in cotton production and construction of 3 grain bank in two districts.
Emergency Preparedness in Catholic Health Institutions An emergency preparednes project jointly developed by both CAFOD and CRS in Zimbabwe that seeks to respond to the plight of victims of political violence to ensure that they have access to treatment, care, support and that they are free from intimidation from their assailants. The project will target the following hospitals: Luisa Guidotti and St Pauls Mission Hospital in Mashonaland East, St Alberts Mission Hospital, Marymount and Chitsungo in  Mashonaland Central, Regina Coeli in Manicaland, Mutora and Chireya in Gokwe North, St Michaels Mhondoro – Ngezi and Fr O’hea Memorial Hospital in Mashonaland West. These areas have been identified as “hot spots” from the 2008 presidential elections and currently incidents of violence have been reported. Each hospital will be equipped with emergency medical supplies that will be used to treat victims of political violence. Wherever appropriate these Mission Centres will also be equipped with emergency supplies and equipment to enable them to offer treatment and temporary shelter to survivors of violence, most of whom would not be able to return to their homes even after treatment. The project will therefore offer post violence support to an estimated 1,700 victims of political violence.
Humanitarian Capacity Strengthening Project Phase 2 (Apr 2016 - Mar 2018) Emergency Simulations Emergency simulations forms part of CAFOD’s Humanitarian Capacity Development programme. The purpose of the emergency simulation is to further help HCD partners to build their organisational and individual capacity to undertake an effective and efficient emergency response.  The exercise will ensure that;
•Partner staff have greater awareness of their organisation’s systems, processes, strengths and weaknesses in emergency preparedness and response.
•Their organisation has baseline information on how it deals with an emergency response as well as identification of clear actions for improving the emergency response capacity of individuals and the organisation.
Their participation will be based on a simulation-based training approach which is a very effective way of developing a range of humanitarian capacities, both at the organisational and the individual level.  The process provides for a safe space for partners to explore and try out ways in which they might best respond to an emergency situation.  
Three partner organisations taking part in the simulation are Caritas Hwange, Caritas Gokwe and Caritas Zimbabwe. The partners will ‘respond’ to a national emergency, focused on their own geographic area of operation.
The simulation will be run over the course of 4 days.  Each day will focus on a different phase of a response operation i.e. i) Preparedness and Assessment, ii) Response Design and Funding,  iii) Response Planning and Resourcing, iv) Response Implementation
Furthermore, the whole process will be carried out as a TOT for HCD Officers. Each HCDO will have a day that they will lead on the simulation. After the TOT, HCDOs will then run emergency simulations in their respective countries. The emergency simulations will be coordinated by a consultant who will guide the processes with the assistance of the Humanitarian Capacity Development Manager.
Humanitarian Capacity Development Programme - Caritas Gokwe Humanitarian capacity development is not a one off training or programme of capacity building activities, it is an approach, designed to effect sustainable organisational change over a longer period of time. The approach has the following characteristics:

Understanding of Humanitarian Capacity : A holistic understanding of humanitarian capacity, this captures leadership, programme skills and knowledge and systems and support sectors.

Organisational commitment and ownership: The programme works with organisation’s who are committed to strengthening their emergency capacity as only the organisation can change itself. Required is commitment from and involvement with the highest levels of leadership such as the Bishop or Board. The organisation must be open to reflecting on their strengths and weaknesses and creating space for organisational change.

CAFOD’s role :A Humanitarian capacity development officer will work closely with Caritas Gokwe. The HCD Officer will support the organisations to identify and prioritise their capacity development needs in relation to their emergency context and their existing capacities. The HCD Officer will support the partner to identify their priorities, to inspire, motivate, advise and encourage them to create the change. 

Capacity Development Journey :The capacity development journey is characterised by trust, collaboration, self-reflection and peer support. The path Caritas Gokwe takes will have 5 key stages.

Variety of Methods: Encouraged is for Caritas Gokwe to look beyond training to ensure learning is incorporated into their organisation’s culture and systems. The methods include accompaniment, peer support, self-assessment, strategy, policy and systems development, emergency simulations and on the job training.