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Climate Resilient Agriculture: transforming livelihoods of poor communities in Hwange This project is co-funding the EC Integrated Food, Nutrition and Income security. It aims to achieve improved livelihoods security for poor women, men and children from hazard-prone or marginalised rural communities in Hwange district 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  rehabilitation of irrigation schemes, 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.
St Alberts Leaving NoOne Behind Chiwenga and Chadereka Project The project will be implemented by St Alberts in Chadereka and Chiwenga wards. The project focus is leave no one behind in resilient livelihoods, gender-based violence, drug, alcohol and substance abuse and child abuse mitigation. 
This project shall lead to the following outcomes:
I.	Community structures propel gender transformation and social accountability for positive behaviour towards child protection and gender justice.
II.	Women and youths are economically empowered through integrated livelihoods for improved socio-economic wellbeing of the most vulnerable groups.
III.	Communities prioritize mental health and responsible lifestyle through drug and substance abuse mitigation strategies. 
An MOU is in place covering 2023-2027 to guide operations in the district and working with traditional and religious leaders, through community-based structures. Livelihoods interventions will be guided by need and technical experts in the Province..
Caritas Mutare- Livelihoods Protection and Promotion Programme (Year 4) the purpose of theproject is to improve food and income security of 3 000 poor and most vulnerable groups in 3 wards in Nyanga District by 2012. The 3 wards chosen in Nyanga are located in natural region 4 and 5 with very sandy and poor soils in terms of fertility; these areas are in the semi-arid regions. Food insecurity was the major problem that affected the proposed wards of operation and the district in general. Some of the causes of food insecurity ranged from inadequate and unevenly distributed rains, poor soils, too much reliance on rain fed fields. Food insecurity affects all groups in the community but the most hit are the very poor and vulnerable and these include, households with high dependency ratios, the disabled, the terminally ill and the child headed households.

Output 1:  Improved food security through increased productivity and income generation.
Output 2: Improved access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene
Output 3:
OVC-Putting Children First This is  a pilot programme By CAFOD Southern Africa to respond to numerous calls by partners who were implementing the Home Based Care progarmmes on the needs of orphans as a result of HIV and AIDS and needs of children as a result of general poverty experienced by house holds and families in the region.

The programme will be implemented in Harare and Chinhoyi Dioceses by 9 partners including CAFOD. The programme has been designed to facilitate and ensure that vulnerable children in Harare and Chinhoyi Diocese have access to essential services and resources in order to live with dignity.

The programme aims also at drawing lessons amongst a team of dynamic parners both old and new on child centred approaches to responding to children's needs. Lessons will be drawn from reality on the ground and mechanisms put in place for continued sharing and networking with other agencies.
At least six outcomes are expected of this programme and these are:
1. A strong network of partners established and implemented and based on real current needs and intersts of children.
2. An increased capacity amongst partners to deliver positive change through effective and informed programming.
3. 2,220 children or more having confidence and space to express their needs and interests and more children included in decision making processes on policies and practices that affect their lives.
4. Partners with capacity to conduct action reserch on OVC issued.
5. At least 180 households with vulnerable children have inreased purchasing power and access to basic items.
6. Improved access to appropriate healthcare services  and psychosocial support for at least 3,250 children in targetted communities.

Lessons learnt from this project will be shared and within the region amongst CAFOD partners and intra-regionally for replication or for improvingon the programme
Livelihoods Programme Zimbabwe - CADEC Mutare 1. Improved capacity of 37,000 households to produce or acquire sufficient food through improved agricultural practices or where necessary, targeted household rations
2. Improved and sustained access to safe water and sanitation by 10,000 vulnerable households
3. Improved access to care and support for 10,000 HIV affected households through HBC and mainstreaming.
4. Enhanced information sharing and dissemination.
5. Programme impact assessed and documented
Food Aid Support for Vulnerable Households - Caritas National Office Caritas Zimbabwe or the National Caritas Office plays a designated coordination role to the dioceses. In this programme funded by Canadian Food Grain Bank (CFGB) Caritas Chinhoyi and Caritas Masvingo will be the implementers of the programme. The National Office will play its mandated diocesan coordination role.
CFGB programme aims to reduce the proportion of people who suffer from hunger and extreme poverty. It is expected that the project will increase the quality and quantity of meals consumed and also increase the availability and access of food commodities at household level. Beneficiaries are the most vulnerable households comprising of child headed, elderly headed, women headed, home base care patients and households with chronically ill dependents. 
Mbire district in Chinhoyi, Mashonaland Central province and Chivi district in Masvingo province were prioritized as the most food insecure districts for this intervention. Prioritisation was done in consultation with the district authorities. Beneficiary identification and registration was conducted using the Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) method whereby households participated in the identification of households to benefit using local vulnerability and poverty indicators.
A total of 730.92 mt of maize meal, sugar beans and vegetable oil will be procured, delivered to partner warehouses and distributed to targeted households through this programme. It will give 10kgs of maize meal, 1.5kgs of sugar beans and 0.682kgs of vegetable oil per person per month to a maximum of 5 people per household. A total of 2,000 households are targeted translating to 5,000 beneficiaries who will receive food for 6 months. It is anticipated that adequate food supplies will be distributed to the targeted households hence beneficiaries will be food secure for six months in the hungriest period.
Civil Society SDGs Popularization and Localization The Poverty Reduction Forum Trust (PRFT) has been implementing the Basic Needs Basket (BNB) project with the aim of generating independent regular and reliable statistical and qualitative information of the basic cost of living for ordinary residents in specific locations, and push for policies and programs that cushion vulnerable urban households. Through this project, PRFT worked with residents associations (RAs) and other civil society organizations to track the cost of basic day-to-day necessities required by an urban family with an average of five members to live an acceptably decent and healthy lifestyle. An evaluation of the BNB project recommended PRFT to buttress its mandate as a forum and to develop policy dialogue series and programmes on current poverty reduction efforts by the Government of Zimbabwe and civil society organizations on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs). PRFT therefore proposes to be a convener for the CSO Reference Group on SDGs in Zimbabwe which will ensure that the SDGs implementation process in Zimbabwe is informed from below and informed by the voices of the wider citizenry including the poor and marginalized. 

The goal of the project is to contribute to ensuring a national SDG implementation plan that leads to effective reduction of poverty, leaving no one behind and with the participation of those most marginalized.

This will be achieved by, (a) increasing  awareness, knowledge and critical engagement of the wider citizenry on  SDGs; (b) enhancing the capacity of CSOs to participate and engage policy makers on SDGs implementation in Zimbabwe; and (c) providing platforms for CSOs to critically engage in dialogue and share knowledge and experiences with government and other development partners on SDGs implementation.
Enhancing Livelihoods for vulnerable HH in St Albert's - A fishery and poultry pilot project Through this project St Alberts would like to support  clients who are no longer bed bound with Livelihood interventions to enable them attain self-sustainability and restore their dignity in society. Two livelihoods projects will be initiated with support groups of people living with HIV. These projects will be light in terms of labour requirements ensuring that people living with HIV are capable of managing them. The aim is to improve their diet as well as reduce their presentation of opportunistic infections at the hospital OI Clinic. The proposed livelihood activities are fish farming and Quill/ indigenous chickens farming depending on support group preference. The project will target a total of 4 support groups selected by St Alberts based on need.
Feeding the sick and food insecure people in Bulawayo diocese Caritas Bulawayo operates in Matebeleland North and Matebeleland South provinces, reaching out to +/- 10,000 households with an estimated population of 60,000 people.  The numbers of people in the respective wards that they are operating keep on dwindling as a result of migration by men and youth leaving the wards to look for jobs in towns (especially Bulawayo) and neighbouring countries, mainly, Botswana and South Africa, whilst others succumb to the HIV and AIDS pandemic. The two provinces fall within the agricultural ecological regions iv and v which are characterised by low rainfall patterns (650mm-800mm and 450mm and 650 mm respectively - 'OCHA 2009'), hence compromising the production of cereal grain which the households heavily rely on for survival. 

The proposed project for Caritas Bulawayo will cover the food assistance to the most vulnerable and needy inpatients and outpatients who are under medication due to HIV and AIDS, Tuberculosis and other chronic illnesses, and malnourished women and children. The project seeks to support two different target groups namely inpatients (people who are admitted in hospitals for treatment) and outpatients (patients receiving treatment from the hospital for conditions and/or illnesses) but not admitted. Project beneficiaries are extremely vulnerable as a result of the ongoing and anticipated cereal deficit in the targeted areas and across the country generally.

The direct beneficiaries of this project are 2 hospitals – St. Marks Hospital and ---. They will provide daily meals to their inpatients and provide food assistance to their most vulnerable outpatients’ including additional member of their immediate family or house hold who will receive take away monthly rations. A total of 1,850 direct beneficiaries, thus 310 inpatients and out 1 540 outpatients will be reached. The project targeted feeding will run for a period of six months from September 2010 to tide over the most critical hunger period.
Enhancing Justice for Survivors of Gender Based Violence and Child Abuse This project will embark on an intensive process of tracking abandoned child protection and GBV cases and bringing these back into the national justice delivery system and help build confidence in the use of the referral pathway and justice systems by survivors of GBV. The project seeks to target an initial 12 abandoned cases per month and aims to connect these to child protection and justice delivery systems. Most of these cases are complex and involve a single child suffering multiple violations that include rape, pregnancy, abandonment, and lack of care. In some instances, these cases have stalled because there is lack of proof of age for the child, intimidation of witnesses or survivors by alleged perpetrators and in some cases bribing of authorities.  This project will track the cases and provide safe shelter to the survivors whilst the cases are being followed up and worked on.  Through this project St Alberts will also facilitate upgrading and refurbishing and furnishing of the safe house/GBV shelter to meet the minimum standards recommended by the Ministry of Social Development for child-survivors of GBV.  St Alberts will also work with the established community structures in the district to track cases, follow-up and referral. In a bid to reduce the cases of GBC and child Abuse, St Alberts will conduct back to school campaigns in the district and advocate for the right to education for children in the Muzarabani District.   The safe house, among other things, will facilitate and helps in survivor management, including provision of medical, accompaniment and psychosocial support. Community foster care mothers will also receive training on parenting, guidance and counselling before they refer cases.
Community based food fortification programme in Binga An urgent need for action to correct the micronutrient deficiencies in Binga District was identified by the Micronutrient survey that was conducted in 2013.Community food fortification has the potential to reduce micronutrient deficiencies in the remote parts of Binga as it can cover areas that are not covered by other interventions such as commercial fortification strategies. Maize flour micronutrient fortification will be done by hammer millers. Small scale millers will be identified and trained on food fortification, they will be introduced to the innovative technology to do the fortification, along with the micronutrient premix powders. The technology will be installed and a three month trial period will start. During this period the millers will be given the premix for free and they will fortify the maize meal of their customers. After the three month trial period to get the premix the millers will have to contribute capital to get the premix until they are self sufficient. Behaviour change strategies as well as nutrition education will be introduced in the community to increase nutrition security.
Supplementary feeding support to the health institutions in Zimbabwe - Caritas Masvingo 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 two hospitals in the diocese of Masvingo. The targeted two 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.
Increased Production of Certified Free Range Chickens in Hurungwe District. This is a pilot project aimed at trying out ideas developed during MSD study carried out in July 2023. (Criteria C).
Hurungwe district is a livestock and crop production district, known for maize, sunflower, groundnuts, and cattle. Chicken production is also practised although at a smaller scale than in other districts. Of the 2 main types of chickens produced, Road Runners (the local breed) have been produced over generations, require little attention, are cheaper to produce and fetch a higher price on the market than Broilers. However, under the current production regime, Road Runners can take up to 6months to be ready for the market whereas Broilers take less than 2.5 months. Consumers are willing to pay a premium for Road Runners for health reasons and in most places, demand is largely unmet. However, the production protocols, including quality control and assurance, feed and other inputs, have not been standardised for Road Runners as is the case for Broilers. These challenges present an opportunity to work with farmers in Hurungwe to develop and roll out a free-range poultry production protocol with the overall goal being to increase supply of certified free-range chickens. 
This will be achieved through supporting Agritex officers to train farmers on free range poultry production and disease management, supporting farmers to produce feed and procure other inputs, and facilitate the development of certification protocols managed by the Fre Range Producers.
The first year of the project will focus on ramping up production of free-range chickens and inculcating quality production and certification protocols. The second year of the project will focus on marketing ad rollout of the certification for enrolled producers.
Caritas Hwange WASH support Binga In Matebeleland North province, an estimated 77% of households do not have access to improved toilet facilities and the province ranks highest in terms of poor hygiene practices (ZimVac 2010). Binga District, with a population of over 130,000 has one of the highest rankings for prevalence of diarrhea among under-fives . In 2004, one ward in the district was affected by an outbreak of cholera that affected 120 people out of a population of 1,321 and resulted in 22 deaths. During the 2008/9 cholera outbreak, the district had recorded a total of 1,063 cases and 51 deaths. Incidences of WASH related diseases have been on the increase in the district .  Sanitation coverage in the district is less than 40% and less than 60% of the population have access to safe water, relying instead on seasonal shallow wells or water from the nearby river or pond. 
	
These unsafe practices coupled with few households adopting safe hygiene practices exposes these vulnerable households to risks of water borne diseases, poor health and the impact this has on access to education, earning potential of the household, and worsening affects for those infected with HIV&AIDS. Improved hygiene practices and access to improved facilities are essential if transmission rates of water- and sanitation-related diseases are to be cut, particularly amongst those most vulnerable such as children, the elderly and chronically ill.  

Objectives
In order to address these challenges CAFOD and its partner Caritas Hwange are proposing to intervene in three wards of Binga, namely Simatelele, Lubu and Binga Centre.

The goal of this intervention is to: 
Reduce and prevent WASH related diseases and improve health in operational wards of Binga district 

The purpose is: Improving access to clean and safe water, sanitation facilities and promote good hygiene in operational wards of Binga district.

Specifically, the project seeks to:
1.	Improve access to safe water supply for 5,200 individuals at schools, clinics and market places in target wards by December 2012.

2.	Increase access to improved sanitation facilities for 2,700 individuals at schools, clinics and market places in target wards by December 2012

3.	Improve hygiene behaviour for 4,000 individuals in the targeted wards by December 2010
Gweru Additional Fertiliser Project - Livelihoods Promotion and Protection Zimbabwe The project aims at complimenting the Emergency Food Security programme in four wards of Chivundura communal areas, Gweru District in Midlands Province of Zimbabwe. The EFSP will be providing food support to the beneficiaries in the selected wards of the district and this project will ensure that the households that receive food will be able to produce enough food to feed themselves in 2009. Soil fertility being the most limiting factor to crop production besides water, it is important that fertiliser be distributed to the food beneficiaries so that they can improve food production at household level for the coming year.
National Council of Disabled Persons of Zimbabwe (NCDPZ) - Livelihoods Protection & Promotion Zim To protect and promote the livelihoods of approximately 400 disabled people and most vulnerable households with disabled children through a combination of interventions including provision of start up capital for IGAs, business skills training, empowerment programmes, provision of water and sanitation facilities and mitigation of the impact of HIV & AIDS
Resilient Livelihoods Strategy Development Process The project will cover all costs associated with the process of developing the strategy for resilient livelihoods
Supporting Food Assistance in Prison Settings in Zimbabwe - Caritas Harare This is a collaborative project between CAFOD and Tearfund (TF). CAFOD is acting as the lead agency while Tearfund is acting as a consortium member.
 
The programme aims to improve food assistance in prisons in Zimbabwe, specifically to improve the quantity and variety of legumes and vegetables produced for inmates at prisons. The programme will be implemented by Caritas Gweru and Caritas Harare (CAFOD partner) and Churches in Bulawayo (Tearfund partner), in five prisons (feeding 14 prisons) in three provinces of Matabeleland, Mashonaland and Manicaland as a response to improving the health conditions of prisoners.

Primary programme beneficiaries are prisoners, also considered as vulnerable. A total of 4,627 prisoners from 14 prisons will benefit from increased and varied food production and assistance from the five prison farms. Over 95% of total beneficiaries are male and 5% are female prisoners. 325 prisoners will benefit from training in farming management and horticulture that will improve their livelihoods skills both in prison and upon release. 10 farm prison staff will benefit from training in all aspects of farm management.

Approximately 2,000 staff at 14 prisons in the three regions will benefit indirectly from improved working conditions and reduced stress from the conditions previously common in prisons. Families of the 4,627 prisoners will also benefit indirectly as they will no longer be obliged to travel long distances to prisons to provide food for their relatives. It is anticipated that 325 prisoners who will receive training while in prison will carry on their skills and knowledge with them when they are released potentially supporting their families in the future.