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Support to the 8th Provincial Peace Week in Gulu The Catholic Archdiocese of Gulu in Northern Uganda is a CAFOD livelihoods partner.  They have organised The “Peace Week” which  is meant to gather people from the various corners of our  Province, from West Nile to Lango sub-region, to reflect, share and pray together in order to bring about reconciliation and peace among people of different ethnic groups who in the past found themselves in conflicts, due to political, religious and tribal divisions. It is a learning experience through which participants learn to appreciate the cultural gifts of others and witness the beauty of living together as one family.  It is a step forward and a contribution to building up a peaceful Northern Uganda after the ravages of so many wars and conflicts, and a better society for the whole of our country. Though organized by the Catholic Church, it is open to the participation and contribution of people of all faiths and religious denominations.
LOYORO CHRISTIAN UNION CHURCH BOREHOLE KOTIDO This is a special grant from Stewardship to community served by Lokanayona Parish to facilitate  access to water,  improve water sanitation and hygiene. Key activities include;
- Mobilization of equipment, materials and personnel
- Hydrogeological investigations to identify the most suitable points for drilling
- Drilling (including installation of permanent casings and gravel packs, well development and installation of the sanitary seal)
- Test pumping, platform casting and hand pump installation including the water trough
- Compilation and submission of the completion drilling report
- Training of the water user committee
- Training of the community on sanitation and hygiene promotion
- Commissioning and hand over of the borehole
Socio-economic protection and empowerment of disadvantaged Women,Men and children in North Karamoja Uganda started experiencing the second wave of covid-19  in April 2021,which has  disrupted the socio-economic functioning of society with vulnerable households hit hardest due to the current global and nationwide lockdown. A combined outbreak of covid-19, drought and insecurity (interclan raids) in the region have compounded the health and socio-economic challenges already posed by Covid-19 due to the high health risks involved. The presence of a disease in the population will consequently decrease the productive capacity of economically productive people, contributing to food and nutrition insecurity. The porous borders between Uganda and South Sudan and between Kenya and Uganda, coupled with the ill-equipped health system in the sub region compromises effective prevention and control of Covid-19 pandemic.
This calls for cross sectoral collaboration, early identification and management of cases and risk communication to alleviate public panic, control the spread and mitigate the health impacts of the pandemic on the people living in marginalised and vulnerable societies like Karamoja.

The proposal seeks to address issues of risk communication for the communities safety and provide an economic boost of the most vulnerable communities who are mostly hit by the pandemic  building up on the previous efforts and conduct lobby and advocacy for improved, coordinated service delivery towards the fight against the worlds’ giant pandemic  as follows;
Support to Women/widow headed families, Child headed households, Older persons and people with special needs  persons, these categories depended on the youth for survival but now cannot be provided for due to lack of work to do in the centres due to the present lock down.
The project will be implemented in the sub counties of (Kacheri and Nakapelimoru Sub counties) in Kotido districts, (Lokori and Sangar) in Karenga and (Kamion and Kalapata) in Kaabong respectively.
Nsambya Home Care - Evidence responsive HIV stigma reduction project – Uganda In this project, CAFOD is proposing to partner with Nsambya Home Care, Kitovu Mobile and the National Forum of People Living with HIV Networks in Uganda (NAFOPHANU) to strengthen government-led initiatives to expand prevention and treatment services by integrating HIV stigma reduction responses in their programmes.

Uganda AIDS Commission (UAC) recognises that stigma and discrimination reduction is critical for HIV intervention and increases meaningful involvement of people living with HIV (PLHIV) in prevention endeavours; and the role of faith leaders in stigma reduction is also acknowledged. Accordingly, this project will:
• Undertake surveys to determine the level of HIV stigma and the discrimination experiences of 4,000 men and women living with and affected by HIV in Central and South-west of Uganda;
• Train and support 60 Faith Leaders as agents of stigma reduction; conduct advocacy sessions on HIV prevention and care with them; and facilitate their development of appropriate action plans;
• Monitor the HIV knowledge, attitudes and quality of life of PLHIV to inform the development of prevention services, individual response plans, and advocacy; 
• Train and equip 500 PLHIV with advocacy and lobbying skills, conduct an advocacy conference, and develop policy action papers as a result of the project findings.
Enhancing the capacity of the Catholic Dioceses in Karamoja to fulfil their mandate Community Development Resource Network (CDRN) is a capacity building organization that for the last 14 years has offered transformative organizational and institutional development programmes that enhance the internal effectiveness of organizations to deliver on their mandate. This expertise has been further enriched with programmes to enhance organisations’ ability to influence policies within which they operate through policy advocacy. 

CAFOD is currently working with CDRN providing linkage between the Civil Society Organisations and the Church in taking forward the Karimojong integrated programme work specifically towards enhancing the capacity of the Catholic Dioceses in Karamoja to fulfil their mandate. CDRN is in the process of documenting the experiences, lessons learnt, stories of change and challenges they have had in implementing the project in Karamoja.

From regular monitoring and mid-term financial and narrative reports, this project has been successfully implemented and the partner is working with SSD Moroto to ensure remaining activities are implemented by end of December 2009. After the end of this project, CAFOD relationship with the partner will be maintained through the Action for Better Governance (ABG) programme in which CDRN is a resource partner for Uganda. 

The nature of partner’s work (i.e. capacity building for other civil society organisations), especially Karamoja region for CAFOD partners, requires extensive road travel which requires a stable field vehicle to manage. The biggest challenge at the moment for the partner is lack of a project vehicle necessary to support the project’s transport requirements which involves long distance travel, majorly hampered by the poor state of roads in the project region. 

CAFOD discussions with the partner agreed that the allocations for the year 2009/10 of £10,000 be given to the partner as CAFOD’s restricted contribution towards the purchase of the project vehicle. The partner was also encouraged to approach others for the balance of the vehicle cost. Towards this end, the partner has approached Cordaid and MS-Uganda as well as has included half the cost in a proposal submitted to EU in Uganda. The partner would share any responses from these with CAFOD.
Enhancing the Reliability and Transparency of Uganda’s Electoral Process 2016 As Uganda prepares for the 2016 General Elections, there are efforts by different stakeholders to ensure the polls and entire electoral process are peaceful, free and fair. The National Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace in Uganda (NCCJP) as a key stakeholder in governance and accountability has an important role to contribute to peaceful, free and fair elections in Uganda.  In this project, NCCJP seeks to :
1.	To enhance citizens’ consciousness and participation in Uganda’s electoral process.
2.	To promote interaction, dialogue and engagement among national state and non-state electoral process stakeholders to foster implementation of  electoral laws and processes in Uganda
To achieve this objectives, NCCJP will employ the following strategies.
•	Conduct voter/civic education
NCCJP will undertake massive voter/civic education through a combination of strategies; mass media where Catholic radios and television will be utilized by both diocesan and national offices to disseminate information and educate voters on their rights and obligations during the electoral process.  
•	Election observation 
NCCJP will work with other agencies to observe elections at local level throughout the country. NCCJP has already requested to be part of the Civic Society Election Observation Network (CEON).
•	Political dialogues 
These dialogues are intended to build bridges among the various individuals and political groups at local level, and promote consensus on minimum ethical standards during the campaigns. It will target party officials at district and sub-county levels, and candidates fronted by the various political parties for the different political positions. NCCJP will also organize debates for candidates on Catholic radios and TVs in which they will present and discuss their manifestos. These debates will give opportunity for the voters to interact with the candidates on what they intend to do if elected, and for incumbents to provide accountability to the voters.
•	Post-Election engagement with elected leaders
NCCJP will diocesan forums with elected leaders to draw a road map of service delivery based on leaders manifestos. NCCJP will continue conducting civic education to enable citizens to hold elected leaders accountable on their pre-election promises
This is a one year project at a cost of £35,300.
''Home to Home'' Rural Development (HHD) ·	To improve food securty among 160 households in Ggombe, Vvumbe, Lwangiri and Kyabbanja /Budde villages, by improving availability, accessibility and use of nutritious food.
·	To achieve a measurable increase in income of at least 30%, and consequently an improved living standard in those same villages covered in the pilot phase.
·	To enhance the proper use and management of natural resources among the local communities for the protection of the environment.
·	To increase community awareness of HIV/AIDS transmission and prevention and to promote solidarity with people living with AIDS. 
·	To raise awareness of gender issues within local communities covered by the project.
INTEGRATED FOOD SECURITY PROJECT- CARITAS GULU This is the 2nd phase of IFSP project that seeks to support communities with the goal of ensuring, sustainable livelihoods and food security.  This project preceded another three year IFSP that was implemented from 2014 to 2016.   This new phase of the project has been developed based on the findings and the recommendations from the evaluation of the previous phase conducted in 2017. 
The project has 3 key outcomes that it will seek to deliver;
 1: Increased agricultural production and income.
2: Improved management and rational use of natural resources.
3: Increased access to safe clean water and improved Hygiene and sanitation.
The expected outputs are; 
 Increased agricultural production.
 Increased income.
 Reduced natural resource degradation.
 Increased access to safe clean water.
 Improved hygiene and sanitation.
Impact of Solar Motorized mini-schemes: Policy practice and community perspectives Background and Introduction.
Over the last two and half years, CAFOD and partners have been implementing the MF4 wash programme in Uganda. The primary outcome being that Communities, civil society organisations and local authorities have improved capacity to identify, plan, engage with, deliver and adopt sustainable WASH services in Uganda. 

The programme has used solar technology to improve access to safe and clean water for domestic use for communities in Kitgum, Kotido and Moroto district.  This has been done through solar motorization of 5 boreholes in Kitgum, 7 boreholes in Kotido and 7 boreholes in Moroto. This new technology has attracted the attention of the local government and ministry of water. In our conversation with the district officials, there have been indications that the district government are desirous of using the MF4 successes as a learning point as they endeavor to upscale the MF4 motorized water schemes as well as initiating similar initiates in other sub counties within the districts. Orom5, Kotido 7, Moroto.

Specifically, advocacy work under this project has been to change community attitudes and practices; influence district and sub county government’s policy and practice, strengthen district coordination and joint working with other CSO’s on WASH, engage local media and build partners advocacy capacities.

The WHAT.
This proposed research is intended to generate evidence for engaging with the local government, ministry of water through the umbrella organization and other civil society organization in the WASH sector.  It will also take stock of the projects influence on government policy and practice on motorized borehole.
Extractives and mining advocacy in Karamoja Dioceses and Wakiso Uganda The project will be implemented in Wakiso District ( Kampala Diocese) and Karamoja Dioceses  as the key  implementation areas, with five key component areas; 
a)	Capacity Building Training for Key Actors (J & P staff, JPC Committees, clergy, religious, local government officials and the community).
b)	Specific activities on monitoring the exploration and control of natural resources in Karamoja.
c)	Engagement with all Actors and Local Government Authorities in order to access information and establishing good working relationship especially in Karamoja. 
d)	Feed back and advocacy for information dissemination and sharing
e)	National level lobby and advocacy forums 
f)	Research and documentation.
Ebola Prevention in Northern and Karamoja Regions through awareness creation and WASH Activities The project is developed as a result of Ebola outbreak and the anticipatory impact in the Northen districts of Gulu,Amuru and Kitgum. The Task Forces have been constituted by District Leadership and the workplans developed in consultation with communities, and the understanding that IEC materials and radio messaging will be the most effective way of reaching all members of the community, including those most vulnerable, with accurate information on how to prevent the spread of EVD. It has also been considered that the rainy season is approaching. As the rain worsens, some IEC materials will be laminated to ensure that the messaging remains available. Laminated messaging will also be provided in the health centres and by the hand washing facilities where possible.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Create awareness on EVD:  
Provide Hand Washing Facilities to the most commonly visited public places such as health units, police stations, markets, places of worships, schools and water points in the project locations of Gulu, Amuru, Kitgum, so that people who come to those places frequently wash their hands to reduce the risk of spread of Ebola virus in the target districts and city.
Promoting Food Security in Uganda: Advocating for Community access, Utilization and security to land The Karamoja sub region has  experienced displacement of poor vulnerable households due to government leasing of public land to new extractive companies and gazettement of public land into forest reserves. This has led many poor and vulnerable households to be displaced.

The National Catholic Justice and Peace aims to promote access to food security through building capacity of local communities to advocate for access, use and security of land tenure and other natural resources in the Karamoja region and in Northern Uganda. The project will target 1,500 men, 1,300women, 250 girl's, 250 boys and 100PWDs.

NCCJP will identify and raise advocacy issue to national level targeting relevant line ministries and government institutions.  This increases project effectiveness and aligns project to national priorities. The national office increases efficiency through harmonization and simplification of programming processes and procedures. The national office will also ensure accountability to CAFOD and the partners at the lower level.

Key tasks of NCCJP at the lower level will include spearheading identification of beneficiaries, data collection and training of community based animators/ volunteers/ resource persons. The community groups will be empowered to  handle routine monitoring of activities, documentation and reporting to NCCJP.
Kitovu Mobile - Evidence-based stigma reduction in HIV programmes in Uganda This project aims to help in the reduction of enacted and internalised stigma around AIDS and HIV in Uganda.

Uganda’s success story of HIV response in comparison to other African states is slowly changing.  In 1990s, Uganda was internationally recognised for its reduction in HIV infection rates and extended access to life-saving treatment for people living with HIV (PLHIV).  Between 2006 and 2011, however, its earlier success fell by the way-side with new HIV infections on the rise. In summary, the results indicate that stigma is still prevalent, although its manifestation and continuum had changed from widespread social exclusion prior to antiretroviral therapy. Uganda AIDS Commission (UAC) recognises that stigma and discrimination reduction is among the minimum package for HIV intervention and increases meaningful involvement of PLHIV in prevention endeavours.  

Both CAFOD and Global Network of People living with HIV (GNP+) recognise the link between faith and stigma. CAFOD has a rich experience of 30 years working on HIV in a variety of faith-based settings.  GNP+ has an extensive rich experience of running networks of PLHIV. There are two types of HIV-related stigma: enacted stigma (stigma from others) and internalised stigma. While many existing interventions heavily focus on reducing enacted stigma the proposed evidenced responsive project will aim to reduce both.
Markets Systems development In line with CAFOD’s global strategy ‘Our Common Home’ call to adopt an integral ecology approach to our programming, CAFOD KU n integrating the Market Systems Development (MSD) approach in their development programs with an overall objective; To pre-position CAFOD to grow Programmes and tap into MSD funding opportunities in line with social inclusion, women and youth empowerment, food security, climate adaptation and risk mitigation in Kenya and Uganda. The Market Systems Development (MSD) approach works with economic or political actors to bring about lasting changes in incentives, rules, norms or supporting functions within markets, and so ultimately improve the terms of participation for poor women and men.
To achieve this CAFOD has hired a Fair and Sustainable to take lead in building the capacity of CAFOD and partner staff in Kenya and Uganda as well as developing an MSD strategy for CAFOD KU. Given the nature of the assignment and the short time frame CAFOD KU will take lead in some of the activities leading to development of the MSD strategy such as Value chain selection and analysis at country level. This will be done in collaboration with selected partners in this case Caritas Archdiocese of Gulu with technical support from a national consultant.
Hospice Africa Uganda Palliative Care for people living with HIV and AIDS This project continues the cancer and HIV & AIDS palliative care (PC) activities that Hospice Africa Uganda has been conducting since 1993, in its three project sites of Hospice Africa Kampala, Mobile Hospice Mbarara and Little Hospice Hoima. It aims to comprehensively reduce the impact of HIV in its three project sites by improving access to quality HIV prevention and care and support for direct beneficiaries and affected family members and communities. It will: 

•	Provide free essential drugs for pain relief and symptom control for adults and children living with HIV and HIV-related cancers;
•	Provide transport to enable PC provision in a range of settings and to support end of life care for programme beneficiaries;
•	Continue its national PC advocacy, to reposition pain and symptom management and end-of-life care within the overall health and HIV & AIDS care system;
•	Provide support for Orphans and Vulnerable Children living with and affected by HIV & AIDS and Cancer
Fort Portal - Environment and Sustainable Agriculture Programme Phase II · To enable approximately 185,990 people in three zones within the Diocese of Fort Portal to improve their quality of life and to protect their environment through the sustainable management of natural resources.
ABG: Realising Faith Potential The goal of the project is empowered grass root communities through the JPCs in the identified dioceses.While concentrating its activities in  Moroto diocese,the project will also focus in Gulu and Soroti JPC staff capacity building.
The  disoceses were identified and recommended to CDRN by the Justice and peace commission Uganda as the JPCs that require capacity building to stregthen the JPC Uganda national office governance activities.

CDRN is going to work with the JPC staff and partners who were trained to implement the skills to address the governance issues around monitoring service delivery. This project will rely on skills obtained from training in areas, such as Public Expenditure Tracking Systems (PETS), Advocacy and How to hold leaders accountable. 
In order to empower the communities through JPC,the project will do the following planned activities against outputs.
National Justice and Peace Commissions collaborates with CDRN to provide capacity building, technical advice and coordination support to diocesan and parish groups, enabling them to support citizens’ effective engagement with the state
Develop training modules on civic education, human rights, gender and good governance for the poor/marginalised groups
Capacity building and staff development – (Organisation development including  PME, budgeting, strategic planning, financial management, HIV/AIDS and Gender mainstreaming) 
Training of Trainers on Lobbying and advocacy skills for JPC members
Production of IEC materials for citizen Advocacy 

Institutional support to regional and national Bishops’ conferences and justice and Peace actors
Support grass root civic education programmes of the JPCs (training of additional voluntary Paralegals – ideally 2 per administrative Parish. A total of 62 paralegals in the Civic Education Programme of Gulu Archdiocese  and staff of Soroti JPC on human rights, conflict management and peace building tools, governance and democracy)

Citizens undertake research, analysis and make representation to the state on access to services
Training on participatory action research, poverty monitoring, Rights Based Approaches
Research, Documentation, sharing of best practices and case studies (research on access to services, participation and accountability. Examining how people are benefiting from the efforts and policies of the government, whether they take part in the management of their affairs/deciding their own destiny.)


Citizens, government officials and parliamentarians collaborate to strengthen responsive and accountable parliamentary representation
Capacity building for citizens to engage with government and hold it accountable. Develop monitoring tools (citizen score cards) and community action plans
Perspective building sessions that would bring the different categories mentioned above together