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Humanitarian Aid in Nigeria through Dutch Relief Alliance Dutch Relief Alliance Joint Response  Phase II in Adamawa Gombe and Borno The ongoing human insecurity in North East Nigeria has escalated since 2013. The increasing attack by insurgencies continues to create an urgent humanitarian situation in the country. Concerns about food are the number one priority need. A majority of the 2.1 million internally displaced persons (IDP) are women and children, of which half are under the age of 5 in the states of Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Taraba, Yobe, Nasarawa, and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The situation has a negative impact on household’s food and nutrition and security as many households have lost productive assets and regular sources of livelihood which leave many of them destitute.
 
Shortage of food
Food is the number one need, regardless of household status. This is evident both through quantitative data on households consumption and expenditure, as well as in priorities discussed in community discussions. Food Security and Households data confirm that the situation is currently most urgent in Yobe, Gombe and Adamawa, where over 90% of both IDP (92%) and host households (96%) experience either moderate or severe hunger.
 
Water, sanitation, and hygiene
Over a million people is in need of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH). Major causes are population displacement and local distortions such as poisoning, vandalising or lack of repair and/or maintenance systems, including poor supply chain for spare parts of water points. Open defecation is also common practice around the IDP camps and host communities, with limited access to latrine. All this constitutes a heightened risk for diarrhoea disease including cholera, while some host community members have discriminated against IDPs in accessing WASH facilities.
 
Partnership
Christian Aid Nigeria in collaboration with ICCO Cooperation Netherlands, two local partners (JPRM and JDF), as well as the Nigerian Red Cross and the State Emergency Management Authority (SEMA) proposes to implement an Integrated Food Security, Non-Food Items and WASH Relief Assistance for 10,000 IDPs/host communities in Adamawa and Gombe States in Nigeria.
Land Rights and Forest Governance of Communities in Honduras Food Security and Sustainability ICCO Cooperation, with the Mesoamerican Alliance of Peoples and Forests (AMPB), and the Federation of Honduran Agro Forest Producers (FEPROAH), works to strengthen land rights and forest governace of communities in Honduras, as means to achieve food security and sustainability. The AMPB evolved as a platform of indigenous territorial governments and community forestry organizations; its members represent many of the communities that live on the most densely-forested lands in Mesoamerica. 

Federacion de Productores Agroforestales de Honduras (FEPROAH) is a second level institution made up of 52 community organizations that perform community forestry in 400,000 hectares of forest in Honduras;  all those local organizations bring together more that 15,000 people.

This project supports internal strengthening of these grassroots organizations, which work in a highly unstable and threatening environment characterized by low political support to community forest management, institutional weakness and consequently low capacity of territorial control.
DRA SSJR 3 WASH NILE HOPE The planned ICCO / Nile Hope: WASH and Protection mainstreaming intervention will be implemented for IDPs and host communities in Fangak County targeting Juabor, Manajang and Pulita Payams. The HRP 2017 refers to the selected sectors as priority sectors, as well as recognizes that the crisis is a protection crisis.  This funding falls within the Dutch NGOs joint response phase III. The large influx of IDPs has increased pressure on the already few available WASH facilities. Surveys from the Wash cluster in Fangak lead by Nile Hope, show: - 70% of HHs rely on rivers or streams for drinking - 5% of HHs practice any form of water treatment - 90% HHs do not own latrines (90%); as a result open defecation is a common practice in the area. - Hygiene awareness is low - Access to potable water is an issue and possible ingredient for conflicts. This poses high health risks to population of Fangak County, particularly being exposed to the potential for acute watery diarrhea and cholera outbreaks. Protection needs in Fangak are high. Women and girls are continuing to be the ones most affected by protection issues. Gender based violence occurs frequently due to insufficient and unsafe water and sanitation facilities. WASH activities prioritize the specific needs of (pregnant) woman and girls, e.g. through provision of sanitary pads and having 60% representation of women in water management committees. Also 60% of total targeted beneficiaries will be women and girls.

Nile Hope will be implementing WASH activities together with protection activities mainstreamed. This will lead to:
Improved access to quality safe water, Safe Sanitation and hygiene to be achieved through: - borehole rehabilitation, construction of emergency communal latrines, and hygiene promotion through training of community based hygiene promoters and training of water user committees, providing point-of-use household water treatment and storage, and organizing hygiene promotion campaigns. Protection will be mainstreamed within the WASH activities to ensure Quality protection response services to the target population. 
Improved Protection of vulnerable and at risk children and adults among IDP/host communities in Fangak County Protection mainstreaming activities include training, awareness raising, provision of sanitary pads and psychosocial services and support. These will all be linked to ICCO's WASH and ZOA's nutrition activities for complementarity.
DRA Nigeria JR 6 - JDPH 2020 DRA - Nigeria Joint Response 2020 (JR) The Nigeria Joint Response 2020 supports lifesaving activities and alleviates suffering of Host communities, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons in Borno State, Nigeria. This will be done through integrated and coordinated humanitarian responses, focusing on the most vulnerable people and enhance access to humanitarian assistance and protection services through principles humanitarian action. Nigeria has been confronted with multiple security challenges and has been suffering greatly since the Boko Haram insurgency began in 2009. The violence, particularly by the Boko Haram insurgency, has displaced more than two million people, an estimated 1.8 million of whom are currently internally displaced. The vast majority - an estimated 80 per cent - of these internally displaced persons take shelter among local host communities. The conflict between Boko Haram and military forces in the northeast of Nigeria has escalated to directly affect some 15 million people. More than 20,000 people have been killed and an estimated 4,000 women and girls have been abducted since the conflict began eight years ago.

Through this project, JDPH will support crisis-affected communities in Nigeria through an integrated program including Food security and Livelihood support, WASH, and Protection activities. JDPH is a local Nigerian partner of ICCO/ Christian Aid and has been involved in NJR since phase 3 in 2017. In the Nigeria Joint Response 5, Christian Aid and JDPH responded to the humanitarian crisis in Borno State, mainly on Food Security and Livelihoods and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH). The main focus of JDPH ́s efforts in NJR6 is in WASH and Protection activities in Dikwa in Borno State. In Dikwa, JDPH will implement activities together with other Dutch Relief Alliance (DRA) members Terre des Hommes, ZoA and Tearfund. JDPH will focus its implementation on both Nigerian host and refugee communities.
Famine response SHO GASS - Eastern Equatoria Famine response SHO GASS Eastern Equatoria GASS aims to alleviate the food insecure situation by providing staple foods (maize, beans, sugar) and nutritional supplements. In addition, GASS will provide agricultural tools and early maturing seeds to farmers. Also, existing water points will be repaired and hygiene promotors will be trained. Across South Sudan, the number of people in need of humanitarian assistance has risen to an estimated 5.5 million people (nearly half of the total population), out of which a 100,000 are facing famine conditions. The current crisis is most severe in Northern Bahr El Ghazal and Unity States, while the most affected people are IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons) who are dispersed and the host communities affected by the on-going conflict. Until recently, the Eastern Equatoria region was relatively secure but this has changed over the last months, seriously affecting food production as this region was known to be the food basket of South Sudan. As a consequence, access of the population to food, water and other services has decreased substantially.
Global Aim (GASS) has assessed the situation and noted serious gaps in service delivery and an urgent need for food, nutrition and WASH intervention to avoid starvation and acute malnutrition, especially among children and breast feeding mothers.
Strategic Partnership C&C - Ethiopia 2016-2020 Civic Engagement Alliance (CEA) Ethiopia Not available
Addressing the root causes of conflicts and violence in Mali Adressing The  Root Causes of conflicts and violence in Mali Not available
DRA - SSJR4 - Global Aim South Sudan Joint Response Phase IV Global Aim South Sudan (GASS) The program will create a conducive social environment by ensuring that affected population have immediate access to safe water, improved sanitation and hygiene, access to seeds and tools for immediate recovery, increased awareness on children and women rights and improved capacities of community based committees. Global Aim will be implementing WASH in Lainya County (Bereka and Lainya Payams), WASH, Cash component under FSL and Protection in Torit County (Nyong and Himodonge Payams). This integrated intervention will lead to improved access to quality safe water through rehabilitation of existing boreholes, Safe Sanitation and hygiene to be achieved through construction of household latrines, latrines at CFSs, Sensitization for household latrines through CLTS, hygiene promotion and training of community based hygiene promoters and training of water user committees and organizing hygiene promotion campaigns. Under the FSL component, the project will provide cash for 500 hundred most vulnerable IDPs to enable then purchase food to improve their food and nutrition needs. Under the protection component, the project will lead to improved Protection of vulnerable and at risk children and adults among IDP/host communities through increasing awareness of children���s rights, women���s rights, menstrual hygiene to girls and women, psychosocial support and children���s recreational activities
Food Security Component (Cash Assistance):
Identification and verification of vulnerable beneficiaries 
Provision of unconditional cash assistance to 500 HH for 3 months
Conduct training for staff on Cash Assistance management
Conduct follow-up visits and documentation of  outcomes
Protection:
Improved Protection of vulnerable and at risk children and adults among IDP/host communities in Torit and Lainya through increasing awareness of child rights, women rights, prevention of SGBV, provision of sanitary kits to girls and women, psychosocial support, children���s recreational activities and hygiene. These will also be linked to Plan and CARE FSL and Protection activities in both Torit and Lainya for complementarity and collaboration.
DRA Nigeria JR7 - JDF2021 DRA - Nigeria Joint Response 2021 (JR7) The Nigeria Joint Response 2021 supports lifesaving activities and alleviates suffering of Host Communities, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons in the Borno State, Nigeria. This will be done through integrated and coordinated humanitarian responses, focusing on the most vulnerable people and enhance access to humanitarian assistance and protection services through principled humanitarian action. Nigeria has been confronted with multiple security challenges and has been suffering greatly since the Boko Haram insurgency began in 2009. The violence, particularly by the Boko Haram insurgency, has displaced more than two million people, an estimated 1.8 million of whom are currently internally displaced. The vast majority - an estimated 80 per cent - of these internally displaced persons take shelter among local host communities. The conflict between Boko Haram and military forces in the northeast of Nigeria has escalated to directly affect some 15 million people. More than 20,000 people have been killed and an estimated 4,000 women and girls have been abducted since the conflict began eight years ago. 

Through this project, Jireh Doo Foundation (JDF) will support crisis-affected communities in Nigeria through an integrated program including Food security and Livelihood support, WASH, and Protection activities. JDF is a local Nigerian partner and has been involved in NJR since phase 3 in 2017. The main focus of JDF ́s efforts in NJR7 is in WASH and Protection activities in Dikwa in Borno State. In Dikwa,
HAMRO COFFEE Expanding Opportunities for Nepalese Coffee Farmers and Traders Not available
Unlocking the Mali's Shea Potential PPP for the Women working in the Shea Value Chain in M Not available
Pulses, People, Planet and Profit - NAG farmer strengthening Pulses, People, Planet and Profit - collaboration NAG-ICCO ICCO Cooperation and the DaNa Facility, in collaboration with East West Seed (EWS) and Network Activities Group (NAG), have launched a 30-month UK Department for International Development (DFID)-funded project to increase the incomes of 10,000 smallholder mungbean farmers, 20% of whom are landless female farm labourers.

The indicators and targets under this project number refer to our collaboration with NAG. The Pulses, People, Planet and Profit (P4) project will work with smallholder farmers and labourers in four townships in Yangon and Magway Regions (Thongwa, Kayan, Magway and Min Bu).

The project, started in September 2017, will increase the incomes of 10,000 smallholder mungbean farmers, 20% of whom are landless female farm labourers. Pulses value chains, specifically for mungbeans, offer great potential to lift many Myanmar farmers and labourers out of poverty. 

The key objectives of the P4 project are to improve the enabling environment for the mungbean value chain in Myanmar by proposing policy and regulatory reforms; to increase the volume of mungbeans purchased by premium market buyers from farmers groups by enhancing access to support services on Good Agricultural Practices, Climate Smart Agriculture and collective marketing; and to increase the mungbean farmers productivity and quality of produce by enhancing access to support services and good quality mungbean seeds. 

ICCO Cooperation and the DaNa Facility, in collaboration with East West Seed (EWS) and Network Activities Group (NAG), have launched a 30-month UK Department for International Development (DFID)-funded project.
Forest Governance Project: Mayan communities, Guatemala Our Land, Our Forest The Forest Governance Project, financed by the European Union, is developed in Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, by a consortium of indigenous and community based organizations led by ICCO. In the Guatemalan regions of  Huehuetenango, Quetzaltenango, Totonicapán, Verapaces, San Marcos and Jutiapa,  it is implemented by UTZ CHE,  to strengthen operational capacities of agroforestry communities and their effective involvement in forest governance and sustainable management. Utz Che is a Guatemalan Community Forestry Association representing around 40 community based organizations.  Its affiliates have approximately 32,500 members including indigenous and peasant from all over Guatemala,  dedicated to sustainable management of their forests, forest plantations, mangrove, biodiversity and other natural resources.  

Utz Che was formed with the objective of  speaking  with one voice on rights and  forestry incentive programs,   build  capacities of its members and exchange information.  Utz Che also belongs to the National Association of Community Forestry Organizations (ANOFCG), made up of 300 community-based organizations with more than 77,000 associates, 400,000 beneficiaries and more than 400,000 hectares of FSC-certified forests.

In the framework of this project, Utz Che will strengthen  alliances with the networks and platforms of users of the Forest Incentive Programs (PINPEP and PROBOSQUE) auditing  the responsible and equitable distribution of public resources. Through the systematization of cases of Indigenous Community Forestry, alliances with universities and environmental NGOs will be increased.
Own implementation HF-Argidius funding Agri-business development support to young agripreneurs With funding from Argidius Foundation, ICCO Cooperation supports 1,000 youth (18-35 years) with an agribusiness in Nebbi district or Lango sub region in Northern Uganda. We provide different services to them, including trainings, coaching, mentoring and access to finance support. With the average rate for waged employment at only 3.2%, a growing youth population, and extremely high rates of youth in the informal sector (90.9%), entrepreneurship/self-employment is an attractive option for Ugandan youth. Uganda has a mixed picture of entrepreneurship, with the country regularly ranked among the top three most enterprising nations in the world. This ranking is based on the enterprise start-up rate and needs to be considered with the contrasting picture of enterprise failure rate. 
The Small Enterprise Performance Report (2015) indicates a failure rate of 50% within the first three years across economic sectors. This is due to multiple factors, including: inadequate financial management, poor records and the failure to collect overdue debtors, poor staff management, limited access to lucrative markets and a lack of access to finance to grow the business and improve technologies.

 There are increasing number of programmes to support start-ups in East Africa, but the businesses created are often
unsustainable and do not create a significant number of incremental jobs;
 There are fewer initiatives targeted at high-growth potential businesses;
 More than 12 million opportunity-driven early stage entrepreneurs in East Africa are capital hungry and less than 20% are able to access equity or debt capital;
 Mentoring support is regarded as one of the most valuable services for young entrepreneurs, but less than 10% of
entrepreneurs have easy access to business mentoring in East Africa;
 Demand for services significantly outstrips supply - on average, business plan competitions and pre-incubation service providers in East Africa are only able to accept 15% - 20% of the applications they receive.

For all these reasons, ICCO will support the young entrepreneurs with an existing agri-business with a comprehensive package of Business Development Services, including training, coaching, long-term mentorship and financial linkage support.

ICCO is a member of Youth Business International, and implements the programme in cooperation with them. Youth Business International’s mission is to support under-served young entrepreneurs to start their own sustainable businesses, to promote sustainable economic development, including job creation. YBI (est. 2000) is a global network of accredited organisations dedicated to helping young people start and grow their own business and create employment.

Nebbi district and Lango sub region have a  high rate of youth unemployment and rural-urban migration. We aim to encourage young people from these areas to start an agribusiness and create more jobs for fellow youth from their communities.
Forest Governance Project:  Miskitu People, Nicaragua Our Land, Our Forest -  Nicaragua The Forest Governance Project, financed by the European Union, is developed in Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, by a consortium of indigenous and community based organizations led by ICCO. In the Nicaraguan North Caribbean,  it is implemented in alliance with the Indigenous Territorial Government Twi Yahbra,  to strengthen operational capacities of Miskitu forest communities and their effective involvement in forest governance and sustainable management. The Territorial Indigenous Governments  (GTI, for its Spanish acronym), are the base unit of the administrative political division of indigenous territories in Nicaragua. They function according to their customs and traditions under the principle of self-determination through a regime of self-government, with the elements of: territory, language and community.

One of the  competencies of the Territorial Indigenous Governments is to develop and administrate plans for the use and management of forests and natural resources,  in coordination with the competent regional or national institutions.

In the framework of this project, GTI Twi Yahbra works with 13 Miskitu communities coordinating capacity building processes, to promote knowledge on sustainable forest management, leadership and participation.
FCA Humanitarian aid to crisis-affected communities in CAR Dutch Relief Alliance Joint Response Central African Republic Phase 4 FCA In this humanitarian response in the Central African Republic ICCO&Kerk in Actie collaborate with ACT Alliance member Finn Church Aid (FCA). This program contributes to building stronger and more resilient communities through the income generating activities for families, improving access to water and latrines, as well as enhancing social cohesion in Ouham Pendé province. Through this project ACT Alliance member Finn Church Aid (FCA) will support crisis-affected communities in Central African Republic (CAR) through an program with Food Security, Wash, and Protection activities. The program activities will be implemented in priority area Ouham-Pende province. 
The activities will include: 
Food Security: income generating activities for 7 Parent Teacher Associations (PTAs): 84 PTA-members 
Wash: construction of water sources, latrine construction, training of water management committees, and awareness raising in 3 World Vision sites and 7 FCA sites, reaching 5000 people through 10 water sources/boreholes and 1000 through latrines.  
Protection: train 14 teachers and 42 PTAs in peace education and organize awareness raising activities in 7 schools reaching 520 people in total
The children in schools and Child Friendly Spaces (3 of them run by World Vision) are the first entry point for implementation of the program, and through the involvement of PTAs the whole community will be involved. 
The program contributes to building stronger and more resilient communities through the reduction of food insecurity for school-attending children, improving access to water and latrines, as well as enhancing social cohesion through peace education in Ouham Pendé provinces. 
Short background: Central African Republic (CAR) suffers from a complex crisis. The crisis started in December 2012 when fighting broke out between armed factions leading to overthrowing of the government in May 2013. Currently, after more than five years of conflict, an estimated 2,7 million people or more than half of the population are in need of humanitarian assistance.
This program is funded by a contribution from Ministry of Foreign Affairs through the Dutch Relief Alliance (DRA), as well as by a contribution from our own Kerk in Actie funds.