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Employment and entrepreneurship opportunities for young persons with disabilities in Lebanon Possibilités d’emploi et d’entrepreneuriat pour les jeunes personnes handicapées au Liban Improving employment opportunities for young people with disabilities has been identified as an important policy goal around the world, as evidenced by the 2006 UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities that was signed by 160 nations, including Lebanon. However, a 2017 study by the Lebanese Ministry of Social Affairs indicates that 70% of Lebanon’s disabled remain unemployed, despite laws compelling companies to hire people with disabilities in the workplace. There is also an absence of government laws and initiatives in support of entrepreneurship opportunities for people with disabilities.  

This project is being implemented in collaboration with shareQ, a non-governmental organization that designs and implements job integration programs for youth and women with disabilities. It aims to create knowledge about the needs, challenges, and opportunities for young Lebanese men and women with disabilities in order to inform interventions that can boost their employment and entrepreneurship opportunities and better facilitate their integration into the workplace. Through a survey of 1,000 youth with disabilities, the project will generate recommendations to policymakers and private sector employers that draw on success stories of young men and women with disabilities to promote their employment and entrepreneurship opportunities in Lebanon. L’amélioration des possibilités d’emploi pour les jeunes personnes handicapées a été identifiée comme un objectif politique important dans le monde entier, comme en témoigne la Convention des Nations Unies relative aux droits des personnes handicapées de 2006, signée par 160 pays, dont le Liban. Cependant, une étude réalisée en 2017 par le ministère libanais des Affaires sociales indique que 70 % des personnes handicapées du Liban restent sans-emploi, malgré les lois obligeant les entreprises à embaucher des personnes handicapées en milieu de travail. Il n’existe pas non plus de lois et d’initiatives gouvernementales à l’appui des possibilités d’entrepreneuriat pour les personnes handicapées. 

Ce projet est mis en place en collaboration avec ShareQ, une organisation non gouvernementale qui conçoit et met en œuvre des programmes d’intégration professionnelle pour les jeunes et les femmes handicapées. Il vise à créer des connaissances sur les besoins, les défis et les débouchés des jeunes Libanais et des jeunes Libanaises handicapés afin d’étayer les interventions qui peuvent stimuler leurs possibilités d’emploi et d’entrepreneuriat et faciliter davantage leur intégration au sein du marché du travail. Grâce à une enquête menée auprès de 1 000 jeunes handicapés, le projet permettra de formuler des recommandations à l’intention des décideurs et des employeurs du secteur privé qui s’inspireront des réussites de jeunes hommes et femmes handicapés pour promouvoir leurs possibilités d’emploi et d’entrepreneuriat au Liban.
Technical support for universal health coverage pilots in Karnataka and Kerala Soutien technique aux projets pilotes de couverture santé universelle au Karnataka et au Keral This project will provide evidence-based support to implement universal health coverage (UHC) pilot activities in two Indian states: Kerala and Karnataka. The project team will provide technical assistance to these early adopter states to assist with UHC intervention activities. 

The project aims to consolidate the Public Health Foundation of India's earlier achievements. The foundation responded to calls from Indian states to support the implementation of UHC, and spent three years engaging and collaborating with state and district officials. They provided technical assistance to help officials design and develop their universal health coverage action plans based on an extensive baseline assessment and top health priorities.

This project will help strengthen knowledge and skills at the state and district levels to implement universal health coverage program action plans in Kerala and Karnataka. The project is expected to: 
-support officials to take action on recommended interventions
-translate research and analysis into actionable knowledge 
-document intervention activities, timelines, responsibilities, and outcomes 
-deliver a universal health-coverage monitoring framework at the district level
-create a toolkit and a model to adapt and scale up the project's methodology to other development contexts Ce projet permettra d'appuyer sur des données probantes la mise en œuvre d'un projet pilote de couverture santé universelle au Kerala et au Karnataka. Ces premiers états à instaurer la couverture santé universelle recevront une assistance technique. 

Le projet vise à consolider les réalisations de la Public Health Foundation of India. Cette dernière a répondu à l'appel des états indiens qui souhaitaient obtenir de l'aide en vue de mettre en œuvre la couverture santé universelle. Pendant trois ans, elle a travaillé en ce sens avec les états et les représentants de district. Elle a fourni une assistance technique pour faciliter la conception et l'élaboration de plans de couverture santé universelle fondés sur une évaluation de référence poussée et sur les principales priorités en santé.

Ce projet vise à renforcer les connaissances et les habiletés en vue de mettre en œuvre des plans d'action pour la couverture santé universelle au Kerala et au Karnataka. 
Objectifs particuliers : 
- aider à mettre en oeuvre les interventions recommandées
- traduire les recherches et les analyses en connaissances applicables 
- documenter les activités, les échéanciers, les responsabilités, et les résultats des interventions 
- produire un cadre de surveillance de la couverture santé universelle à l'échelle du district
- créer une trousse d'outils et un modèle pour adapter la méthodologie du projet et l'étendre à d'autres contextes de développement
Support for a workshop on improving technology incubation in Africa Appuyer la tenue d’un atelier pour favoriser l’incubation technologique en Afrique Technology hubs have become a mainstay of Africa’s emerging innovation ecosystem. Over the last five years, Africa has seen its innovation spaces grow from a handful to hundreds. Now many of these innovation hubs are searching for sustainable operating models in the continent’s fast-evolving technology landscape.

The University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa is hosting a two-day workshop to increase understanding of the tech start-up sector in Africa and support its ecosystem. This will serve as an opportunity to disseminate an IDRC-commissioned report on tech start-ups in Africa, particularly focused on how they can support or empower women and youth. By bringing together entrepreneurs, policymakers, researchers, and investors, the workshop is contributing to designing an action agenda to improve the tech start-up ecosystem. The event also highlights collaboration around innovation between Canada and South Africa, with the Canadian High Commission taking an active role in the workshop. IDRC is providing support for logistics and operations, dissemination of the report, and development of an agenda for action. Les pôles technologiques font désormais partie intégrante du nouvel écosystème d’innovation de l’Afrique. Au cours des cinq dernières années, l’Afrique a vu ses espaces d’innovation passer de quelques-uns à plusieurs centaines. À présent, bon nombre de ces centres d’innovation sont à la recherche de modèles de fonctionnement durables sur un continent où le paysage technologique évolue rapidement.

L’Université du Witwatersrand, à Johannesburg en Afrique du Sud, organise un atelier de deux jours pour apporter un éclairage sur le secteur des jeunes entreprises technologiques en Afrique et soutenir son écosystème. Cet atelier sera aussi l’occasion de diffuser le rapport commandé par le CRDI sur les jeunes entreprises technologiques en Afrique, qui portait une attention particulière à la façon de soutenir les femmes et les jeunes et de renforcer leur autonomie. En rassemblant entrepreneurs, décideurs politiques, chercheurs et investisseurs, l’atelier vise à définir un programme d’action destiné à améliorer l’écosystème des jeunes entreprises technologiques. Dans le cadre de cet événement, l’accent sera également mis sur la collaboration entre le Canada et l’Afrique du Sud dans le secteur des innovations, étant donné que le Haut-Commissariat du Canada prendra part à l’atelier. Le CRDI apportera son soutien aux opérations et à la logistique, et contribuera à la diffusion du rapport et à la définition d’un plan d’action.
Supporting graduation programs through empirical evidence and leadership promotion Données probantes empiriques et promotion du leadership en appui aux programmes de mise à niveau This project will support the scaling up of locally-tested interventions aimed at improving the livelihoods of women and youth in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. It targets special interventions for people who have fallen through the cracks of traditional assistance — interventions that help them to “graduate” to mainstream development programs. The project will generate new evidence and build local capacity to use cutting-edge techniques to assess programs targeting the most vulnerable groups, including women and adolescent girls, migrant workers, and the ultra-poor (people who live on less than 60 cents a day). It will acquaint program managers with impact evaluation and foster a culture of evidence-based programming within BRAC International, the largest non-governmental organization in the world, which serves almost 140 million people in 12 countries. 

In addition to building the capacity of BRAC’s program managers to carry out rigorous impact evaluation of their key initiatives, this project will also promote the sharing of BRAC’s lessons more broadly within the development research community to inform up-scaling and graduation programs in the region. Ce projet appuiera le passage à grande échelle d’interventions mises à l’essai localement visant à améliorer les moyens de subsistance des femmes et des jeunes en Afrique subsaharienne et en Asie. Il cible des interventions spéciales visant des personnes qui sont passées entre les mailles du filet d’aide traditionnelle — autrement dit, des interventions pour les aider à progresser aux programmes de développement courants. Le projet générera de nouvelles preuves et renforcera les capacités locales afin d’utiliser des techniques de pointe pour évaluer les programmes ciblant les groupes les plus vulnérables, y compris les femmes et les adolescentes, les travailleurs migrants et les personnes extrêmement pauvres (celles qui subsistent avec moins de 60 cents par jour). Il permettra d’informer les gestionnaires de programme relativement à l’évaluation d’impact et favorisera une culture de programmes fondés sur des preuves au sein de BRAC International, la plus grande organisation non gouvernementale (ONG) au monde, qui dessert presque 140 millions de personnes dans 12 pays. 

En plus de renforcer la capacité des gestionnaires de programme de BRAC d’exécuter des évaluations d’impact rigoureuses pour leurs initiatives principales, ce projet encouragera le partage des leçons du BRAC à plus grande échelle au sein du milieu de la recherche sur le développement pour guider les passages à grande échelle et les programmes de mise à niveau dans la région.
Life Saving WASH Response to IDPs and vulnerable host communities in Guli, White Nile State The overall objective of this project is to provide an improved inclusive WASH, s, and Protection through enhancing the contribution of civil society, particularly women and youths in 2 localities Golli locality- Kosti twon  White Nile state.
In view of the ongoing conflict, the heightening needs of vulnerable people from refugees, IDPs and host communities, the capacity of humanitarian partners to respond is stretched, this being exacerbated by critical funding gaps and ongoing economic crisis. Affected communities in Guli locality are under extreme strain since they cannot access the minimum basic WASH services. Without funding from SHF, the basic needs of the most vulnerable women, men, boys, and girls will remain uncovered, putting their lives in a more traumatic situation. These vulnerable IDPs and host communities need integrated lifesaving WASH/Protection support to ensure minimum dignified living standards and enhance their disease prevention capacities
HIV/AIDS prevention, support and care initiatives in Juba, Central Equatoria State. This is a pilot HIV project targeting the older people in Juba County, Central Equatoria that will be implemented in close collaboration with State Ministry of Health, by working through the older people as a special interest group in the campaign against HIV. The project will contribute towards positive change in attitudes and reduction of stigmatization of people infected with the virus. The older people’s influence on the young people is another opportunity the project will aim at exploiting by using the older people to reach out to the youth and break some of the traditional stereotypes related to promoting the spread of the virus and stigmatizing of the affected people. 
The project will have four major areas of focus namely; conducting HIV awareness campaigns, strengthening VCT referrals and enable formation of support groups, promotion of treatment of opportunistic diseases by establishing links with health facilities, Improvement in quality of life of affected and infected people through promotion of income generation activities for the PLWHA and support for OVCs with school scholastic materials to mitigate the effects of HIV in the communities.
North Kordofan food security and livelihood recovery Project Objective: To provide food security and livelhood recovery for displaced and vulnerable women, men and their families in the Sheikan locality.

This intervention will target: 
•	21 villages  (11 villages are dependant on small scale farming and 10 villages on  livestock rearing)
•	2,000 men, women and their families that are dependant on small scale farming and livestock rearing. 
•	12,000 individuals (8,000 men and 4,000 women) will be reached indirectly. Another estimated 400 households will be reached via access to community-based animal health expertise provided by CAHWs.  

This intervention will restore livelihoods through the provision of appropriate skills and inputs to vulnerable agricultarists, agro-pastroalists and pastoralists. Vulnerable households dependant on small-scale farming will receive inputs, training and extension services to increase yields and satisfy their annual food needs. Households that depend on livestock will receive drug supplies, vaccines and extension support via trained Community Animal Health Workers (CAHWs). Livestock owners will also be provided with protein concentrates to imrpove yields. It is planned that these livestock interventions will enhance livestock performance and survival and that herd sizes will grow increasing livestock products for the targeted families.

CAFOD has been engaged in the implementation of education, WASH and FSL activities with communities in the Sheikan locality since 2012. CAFOD’s key national partner is Sub-Saharan International Development Organization (SIDO). SIDO is a national NGO registered with the Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC). SIDO has a field based office in El Obeid and has been operational in North Kordofan since 1991.
NCA Darfur Programme 2012 - EA30/2011 Darfur Appeal The project aims to improve the lives of IDPs and host communities in South and West Darfur and to build the capacity of the two national partner organisations.  This will prepare for an eventual transition to recovery and hand-over.   Activities are organised in the following  sectors: peace building, livelihoods, health and nutrition, education, water, sanitation and hygiene promotion (WASH) and  emergency programme response unit (EPRU). There will also be an emphasis on the mainstreaming of HIV, gender, environment protection and DO No Harm and beneficiary accountability.  The project will also support new, short-term increases in emergency response.  The headquarters of the operation are in Nyala but the field coordinators are given delegated levels of responsibility for the work implemented in their areas (Zalingei and Garsilla). The main activities of the NCA component (the bulk of the programme) are in Zalingei.  The support for the capacity building of the two partner organisations continues to be a crucial element of the programme, including training and accompaniment.  In 2012 we will enter the seventh year of continuous emergency response under NCA Darfur programme.
Rehabilitation of  Angola IDPs Basic School This project is for the rehabilitation of Angola IDPs basic school in Omdurman, Khartoum state.  The school which is originally constructed in local materials and was destroyed by 2009 floods, if a centre for 650 children all of whom are the children of people displaced by the civil war in the South, East and West of the country.  These are some of more Economically and socially marginalised areas in Sudan; they lack access to basic services such as education. The project which will provide education to 650 children in Angol, will be be implemented by the Catholic Archdiocese of Khartoum, Education secretariat with support from CAFOD and it will be coordinated with Ministry of Education and Guidance in Khartoum State as well as Education department of Omdurman/Angola localities.
Provision of integrated FSL and hygiene services for out of camps and vulnerable host communities of This project will provide FSL services to 1,080 (777 females, and 303 males), and for hygiene services for over 21,003 (6,427 girls, 5,598 boys, 4,285 women, and 4,117 men) Host Communities in 12 villages of WN state. The selected villages are 9 in El Jabalain locality include (1. Al-warad, 2. Dabat Bosin, 3. Alagaya, 4. Al-ghanaa, 5. Almagabi, 6. Klaikees, 7. Shandi Fough, 8. Al-aoudha, and 9. Almusamlmeiakaja), and 3 villages in Elsalam locality include (10. Umsangur Awlad Hassan, 11. Umsangur Awalad Jammaa, and 12. Umsangur Awalad Dakeen). The project will save lives of the most vulnerable people including children by contributing towards reduction of water and sanitation-borne diseases.  In close collaboration and partnership with community, State relevant authorities, CAFOD, and COR in the State, this project designed to respond to the situation by promoting long-term solutions to the needs of host communities. The project envisages to achieve this by contributing to the improve FSL and hygiene practices for vulnerable population and resilience of communities, and promote local economic development. The project will take into account gender specific needs as well as needs of other vulnerable groups while applying interventions. It will seek positive environmental footprint through the application of the best practices for natural resources management and conflict sensitivity. 
Due to the above needs/ gaps, HOPE is planning to deliver FSL and Hygiene Services among vulnerable host communities in 12 communities, 9 in El Jabalain and 3 in Alsalam localities of WN
Civic education in English and local languages through local FM radios. This is a 3 year radio civic education project aimed at the provision of information and enable participation in community radio programming to promote an understanding of government policies and systems, the consequences of the referendum result, and to encourage individuals to engage with civic and development processes. The project will be implemented by Sudan Catholic Radio Network (SCRN) in collaboration with Sudan Catholic Bishops Conference and Justice and Peace Commission through the diocesan radio networks, currently totalling to seven across the dioceses. The project aims at reaching an estimated local population of 2.2 million people especially the vulnerable groups through broadcasting in English, Arabic and at least one main local language of the area/diocese where each radio stations is located. The production of programmes will be done centrally by the SCRN production team in Juba and broadcast materials provided to the various radio stations. 
In terms of gender, the project aims to empower with information the rural women, youths and general grassroots to make informed decisions.
Emergency WASH response to South Sudanese refugees in WN state This project, a response to the South Sudanese civil war and the flight of refugees to Sudan, expands the provision of WASH services in refugee camps in White Nile state. CAFOD through its national partner SIDO are responsible for WASH services in Alagaya camp, Dabat Bosin camp, Um Sangor camp, Jory host community village and Dabat Bosin host community village. 

The following interventions are planned:
(1) Latrines will be constructed, and hygiene promotion packages provided, for 700 households in the new Alagaya extension site, complementing WASH services that CAFOD is providing through its national partner in the nearby Alagaya camp. Temporary water points will also be supplied using water trucking until the water station is finalized by UNICEF. 
(2) In Um Sangor camp, CAFOD will enhance the recently constructed (in partnership with UNHCR) latrines by providing sandbags for flooding protection, and introducing step ladders to make it easier for the old and disabled to access them.
WASH and Shelter Emergency Response Project for Elmegenis District conflict  (ALakaf, ALrawat and Ga Elmegnis villages lied in the edge of southern border of WNS in approximate distance 170 Km from Kosti and known as disputed border point with South Sudan according to the comprehensive peace agreement (CPA). 
On 7 Aug 2021, a violent conflict erupted at Elmegnis border point between South Sudanese two rebel groups affiliates to Shiluk and Nuer tribes who are resided in the area allegedly due to political disputes which involved use of heavy arms such as rifles, tanks, etc.  As a result the civilian population from both host community and South Sudanese who are caught in the battle field have fled into various locations within Sudan.  Hence, in light of the ongoing escalation and threats and serious impacts on cavillation population. 
Planning objectives: 
•	To assess impact of the erupted conflict at Elmegnis on resident’s civilian population from both sides Sudan and South Sudan population in term of immediate emergency needs and response capacities. 
•	To identify and targeting immediate emergency needs and response to conflict at Elmegnis on resident’s civilian population from both sides Sudan and South Sudan population
•	To assess the current situation and level of rendered services for affected population during the emergency period including NFI/ES, education, FSL, WASH, Health & Nutrition, and Protection needs.
•	To advocate for enhancing communities’ resilience during and post-emergency
WASH Response for South Sudanese Refugees in White Nile State. ‘WASH Response for South Sudanese Refugees in White Nile State’ is a twelve-month project, supported by UNHCR, that contributes to the implementation of the 2018 Regional Refugee Response Plan (RRRP) and Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP), with respect to South Sudanese Refugees in Sudan. The project is intended to meet WASH needs for the South Sudanese refugees in El Salam and El Jabalain localities in White Nile state, and project implementation collaborators include Ministry of Health (MOH), Commissioner for Refugees (CORs), Sudanese Red Cross Society (SRCS), Water Environmental Sanitation Project (WES), UNHCR, UNICEF and Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC). Proposed project activities are aligned to the 2018 RRRP, 2018 HRP, and WASH Cluster Objectives. Project design was informed by the November 2016 Joint Assessment Mission (JAM) recommendations, November 2017 Participatory Needs Assessment in Refugee Camps in Kosti Report, and Overview of Status of Latrines Report (carried out in September 2017).