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Securing decent work in tropical fruit export production Tropical fruit production is typically undertaken by workers with low wages and limited social benefits.  Working conditions are poor and health and safety conditions extremely hazardous with intensive use of agrochemicals and highly demanding physical work. Governments keen to secure foreign investment and generate employment opportunities are not always effective in enforcing national legislation on labour standards.  Women on plantations are often unaware of or unable to realise their rights.  Supermarkets have begun to recognise the flaws in a system where they pay very low prices yet demand high quality standards while espousing a message of corporate social responsibility. This project will increase the capacity of unions to educate their members and other workers about their rights and to negotiate effectively for living wages and improved conditions. Consumer awareness will be raised to keep the pressure on the industry to change its behaviour and respect workers' rights.
Improving Access to Justice for Victims of Gender Discrimination Despite legislation to the contrary, women and girls in Kenya do not experience equal rights, facing discrimination in many areas of life, including education, health, property rights, employment, violence, access to justice. The recent Constitution and Bill of Rights provides an opportunity to tackle the lack of awareness of what counts as discrimination and how women can access their rights to equal treatment under the law. This project will train local organisations across Kenya in how to recognise cases of gender discrimination, how to support and advise the women to get redress. Local lawyers will be trained in equal rights law, and will represent complex cases in the courts. The legal advice service will be publicised, so communities become aware of the issues and the solutions. Some cases will be identified as appropriate for strategic litigation, to be taken through the courts to establish precedents, to ensure that the commitments of the Bill of Rights are made real.  As a result, women's opportunities and lives will have improved, and local organisations and lawyers will be equipped to help other women in the future, while the issues will be more widely known. Women's rights will have been made more real.
Strengthening Leadership and Governance in African Women’s Rights Organisations Africa Women's Development Fund (AWDF) will continue their work from phase 1 of the Comic Relief grant, this will see 8 women's rights organisations in East and Southern Africa supported to strengthen their governance and organisational capacity and 16 women coached to further their leadership skills.  Initially set out as a grant maker, AWDF soon realised that grants cannot be given in isolation, as capacity and leadership building is invaluable in ensuring organisations are sustainable, and have the intended impact.  Through this investment, leaders and organisations supported will be more resilient, agile and strategic, and thus able to drive effective change in difficult environments.
The Right to Learn: supporting girls to achieve their right to education and to By working primarily with Standard 6-8 girls and boys in Primary schools, this work aims to build structures, processes for reporting School Gender Based Violence and a strong sense of accountability so that communities can hold the district government to account. It will train volunteers as paralegals, will train teachers how to create safer schools and run supportive after school rights & literacy/numeracy clubs. The main aim is to identify those girls most at risk of dropping out of school and to encourage those already out-of-school to re-enroll. Standard 6 students are a key target as this is when girls start to hit puberty.  Links to legal & judicial structures are included throughout.
Moving On Through Enterprise/Ukuqubekeka Phambili Ngeshishini The levels of poverty in South Africa are particularly high for the homeless and long term unemployed. A lack of basic skills makes it even more difficult for people to move from long term unemployment to employment. A solution to this problem has been developed by the applicant in partnership with its sister organisation in South Africa and the Big Issue South Africa. The proposal focuses on a programme which provides skills and sales training to Big Issue sellers. This has already resulted in increased sales for participating sellers and an increase to 50% of those moving onto other forms of permanent employment or self-run enterprises. This project seeks to build on a successful pilot in Cape Town and extend the training programmes to support more individuals into employment or self employment. One key area of growth will be the establishment of a Big Issue Cafe to promote and provide nutritious food, provide work experience for Big Issue vendors, small business development and a sustainable income for the project. Two similar Cafes have already been started by the applicant in South Africa to provide sustainability for core staff and programmes.
Ifakara Health Institute - Empower II Numbers of maternal and newborn deaths in Tanzania remain too high. Though child deaths have gone down in the last decade (Tanzania is on track to reach its Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target for child health), the rate of newborn deaths has hardly changed. Maternal death rates have also reduced but are nowhere near the MDG target. Given Tanzania has supportive policies on maternal, newborn and child health, why should this be? The reason lies with weak health systems. Ambitious policies and plans are held back by problems such as shortages of staff, lack of good data needed to plan health services and poor management. These problems result in poor quality health services, which put people off using them. This project (called Empower II) will refine and expand the experiences gathered in four districts during the Empower project (funded by Comic Relief) to six new districts. It is based on the belief that improving the quality of health services will increase the use of health services and lead to better health. Different combinations of activities will be tested in six districts. The project will assess the cost and cost-effectiveness of the different interventions, and inform policy makers on the best mix to improve the health of mothers, newborns and children. The project will also complete the work in the original four districts, and document how to include the interventions in district health systems, and share this learning.
Schools Choose - Follow on for Kadama Caring Community Project In the target community in Uganda, HIV/AIDS is stretching carers and severing generational ties on which societies depend for the transition of values and norms. Women and children are among the hardest hit. There is a constant risk of PLWHA and their children suffering neglect, abuse and deprivation that can be devastating. This application aoms to strengthen the ability of families of PLWHA to provide better and adequate protection, care and support to their children, and prevent the further spread of HIV. The project will provide psychosocial counselling, support to care givers, to children including financial, material, nutritional and family support delivered through home based care. Other activities will include training, mentoring volunteer carers, peer education with young people, outreach, home visits, income generating schemes and community partnership work for better child protection. The project will lead to more independent living for PLWHA, less dependence on children and better access to education for OVCs.
Making Universal Basic Education more inclusive to children with disabilities In Nigeria, despite the introduction of universal education (UBE), very few children with disabilities attend primary or junior secondary schools. This was especially noted by Nigerian Diaspora volunteers who took part in a teaching programme in Ipaja, Lagos State, in 2011. This research project will enable Ipaja Community Link (ICL) staff to work with the local government council to indentify children with disabilities who live in and around Ipaja. It will then ascertain the training needed for teachers to start adequate inclusive education in schools, with one school used as a pilot to test and develop good practice. Civil society groups which can assist in the project will be approached and coordinated. The outcome will be increased uptake of Universal Basic Education (UBE) in Ipaja by children with disabilities.
Hope for the African Village Child Pregnant mothers and children under five from isolated rural communities in Kaduna, northern Nigeria, are at risk of dying due to lack of primary health care. There are high levels of disease, dangerous delivery practices, and unacceptably high levels of infant and maternal mortality. This project will work with twenty rural communities to increase their access to primary health care. By supporting them to take responsibility for their own health needs and to prevent and treat illnesses themselves, we will save the lives of pregnant mothers and their children. We will: - Develop community health committees and support them to take responsibility for their primary health care needs through managing a drug revolving fund. - Train forty key community members as village health workers, able to give basic illness prevention, diagnosis, and treatment to pregnant mothers and children under five. - Work with forty traditional birth attendants to teach and promote safe delivery practices. - Partner with communities to advocate for increased government funding of rural health care. The result of this project will be twenty communities with improved access to primary health care. They will have better health, lower levels of disease, and fewer pregnant mothers and children will die from lack of access to health care.
Zanzibar Enterprise and Employability Training and Support(ZEETS) Zanzibar’s economy depends on tourism yet the majority of its people are poor.  Jobs go to workers from the mainland and neighbouring countries as local people lack the required training and education. A reliance on subsistence agriculture and small-scale trading is a world away from the luxury of the surrounding hotels. This project builds on a pilot that trained young people to access semi-skilled jobs in tourism, open up scholarships and train women producing handicrafts. Young people will be trained in the community for jobs in tourism and enterprise development. A tourism and producers’ network will provide a platform to shape policies for pro-poor tourism and enterprise development. Communities will be supported to develop enterprise and access credit on the basis of their business case and environmental impact.  An award to recognise environmental best practice will promote climate change adaptation and link enterprises with supporters of the scheme in Wales. Improved employment opportunities in tourism and enterprise for disaffected youth, relevant skills training in schools, communities and the national tourism institute, will increase school completion rates and further education opportunities as well as counter the negative social, economic and environmental impacts of tourism and climate change.
Mek Pull Slum Pan Pipul (PSPP) Timap Tranga Wan  (English: Strengthening Pull Sl This project builds on the success of PSPP interventions, combining consortium members’ collective expertise to deliver a joint initiative, aimed at strengthening and sustaining urban development structures/systems for improved living standards in Freetown’s informal settlements. The project has an advocacy, rather than service-delivery focus, for greater sustainability and impact and is aligned with the Freetown City Council’s (FCC) “Transform Freetown Framework”.
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Education & empowerment through community-run Play and Reading Schemes (Ghana) Working in rural villages in Northern Ghana Lively Minds follows an integrated approach to improving learning and health for young children. Working with volunteers drawn from the most disadvantaged women in the communities they work with, they establish ‘Play Schemes' that encourage early childhood learning for children aged 3-5. Through these schemes, the cognitive development of these children is supported in a measurable way, while growth in the status and self-esteem of the volunteers is also supported, with a view not only to their place in the programme, but also in their family and community life. Play Schemes are followed by ‘Reading Schemes', through which older children volunteers support reading practice for 5-8 year olds, thus improving reading skills for both groups of children. These Schemes help children develop essential skills - such as reasoning, numeracy and literacy - at a young age when this kind of creative education makes a big difference to future development. Across both schemes, there is a complementary focus on hygiene practices, which contribute to improving the health of young children and the community as a whole. Over the project lifespan, outcomes will include improved cognitive skills for 4500 children aged 3-5; increased language and comprehension skills for 4500 children aged 5-8 and 1500 children aged 11-13; improved school attainment for participants of Play and Reading Schemes; improved confidence and wellbeing of 900 Play Scheme Volunteers; and increased hand washing in project participants leading to reduction in diarrheal disease.
Children in Charge of Change (India) In some slum areas of Bhavnagar, India, over two-thirds of school age children miss out on an education which could lift them out of poverty and protect them from child labour. Of those who are in school, the majority never finish their education and are vulnerable to hazardous jobs such as working as gem polishers. The project aims to build on a successful local model of child and youth collectives comprising those who are in school, non-school going and working. These collectives help them to build their self-esteem and provide peer support that retains them in school and away from child labour. Weekly visits to their homes ensure a dialogue with families to deal with obstacles to children's progress. As a result more children will work for fewer hours, and receive a good quality education and the model may prove replicable across the state of Gujarat and beyond.
Investigating the effectiveness of peer support networks in strengthening rural Women and children in remote, arid lands of northern Kenya have very poor health and nutrition. Many women die during pregnancy and childbirth, and many children die from malnutrition or other preventable causes. Communities there, especially mobile pastoralists, have very limited access to proper state health services or trained doctors and midwives. This grant is for a community consultation about health and nutrition issues and for research into relevant interventions. They have done a similar planning exercise before for water and sanitation. The information collected will be used to design a community-led, ‘peer-support’ component of a wider maternal and child health project.
Building UK Capacity in BST to improve effectiveness in South Africa Bishop Simeon Trust (BST) supports the most disadvantaged South Africans who still suffer from the social and economic legacy of Apartheid. They focus on very marginal communities, building capacity to solve problems and meet the needs of very poor, the disabled and those suffering from HIV and associated illnesses. Their projects have been successful but the UK organisation has not advanced much. It has minimal staff and few unrestricted reserves which are not often used in a strategic way to build the capacity of BST but as ad hoc help to partners. BST needs to change. Its supporter base in the UK is aging and it cannot respond as dynamically as it would like to new priorities and opportunities. BST wants to make what they do more lasting, learn and share more with others, and have a greater impact. Both BST and its partners need to find a more sustainable model, new approaches to fundraising and less of a ‘hand to mouth' existence. BST has a new Chairman and several new Trustees, including the Treasurer, with the founders now gone or only occupying honorary positions. This represents an historic opportunity to rethink BST's future, its messages and communication strategy, and unite around this.
ABC for Quality Learning and Teaching  in Zanzibar Working with 51 lower secondary schools across Zanzibar, this project will provide training to teachers to improve the quality of teaching. Using a cascade method of training in schools & a Healthy Schools curriculum, developed under a previous Comic Relief grant, this approach aims to impact on the whole school, ensuring students develop their critical thinking, experience interactive classrooms, become active in developing a healthy school environment, reduce school drop out rates (67%) & improve the number of students passing into Higher Education (60% rural youth illiteracy). Working through existing Zanzibar Ministry of Education structures & staff, this approach will become sustainable
Mobilising Action to Safeguard Rights of Girls in Tanzania Female genital mutilation (FGM), child marriage and early pregnancies lead to health and other problems for girls in Tanzania. Girls are taken out of primary school and, as child brides, often experience high rates of domestic violence. As young widows, or divorced, their plight worsens, and they lose their property rights, as they struggle to care for their children when still children themselves. The voices, views and experiences of some of these young women have been movingly captured in a recent piece of action research. The girls have formed a self-help network, and with a little support have begun to find their confidence, had training, counselling and legal advice on their rights, and have started catering and sewing small businesses. Now, along with the local organisations that have been supporting them, they want to help form new networks so others like them can be helped.  The project will also prevent future abuse through schools-based clubs for younger girl children which will let them know of the dangers of FGM and child marriage, make them aware of their rights and how to exercise them to prevent abuse. Advocacy with government officials, communities and parents will spread the beneficial results more widely.
Needs and organisational assessment for supporting streetchildren in Burkina Fas Burkina Faso is one of the poorest countries in the world. Many children in the second city of Bobo-Dioulasso end up on the streets. They face violence and miss out on school. Girls suffer worse sexual abuse and are drawn into prostitution. This project will research the needs of boys and girls on the street and who else is already helping them. It will also assess the strengths and weaknesses of the local agency and fund a financial audit. As a result, the partners will plan how to extend their street children work from the capital city to Bobo, especially to help girls experiencing sexual violence. They will ensure they have the skills and systems to bring effective long-term change.
Uganda Deaf Awareness and Communication (U-DAC) Programme Deaf children and young people are often excluded from education because of their communication difficulties and because of a lack of belief in their abilities amongst their families and the wider community.  In Uganda, despite an enabling policy environment, scant resources are available for the inclusion of deaf children in ordinary schools, few teachers are equipped with positive attitudes towards deaf children or the skills to include them, and families and communities have generally assumed that deaf children cannot learn.  The project will work in three different districts in Uganda with an approach that has proved successful in Malawi where all three groups: community leaders; families and children; and teachers will receive training to help improve attitudes and develop local skills so that deaf children are able to go to school.  As a result many more deaf children and young people in these three districts will be able to achieve a good quality education.
Linking Pregnant Women to Maternal Health Services Large numbers of Nigerian women continue to die in childbirth, despite improvements in the last decade. In north eastern Nigeria, transport options for pregnant women to reach skilled health care are limited by distance, cost and lack of ambulances.  Only 11% of women in Adamawa state deliver in health facilities compared to 38% nationally.  This project will mobilise taxis to provide cheap and easy-to-reach emergency transport, with a priority for pregnant women with complications.  The project will sensitise and train drivers across Adamawa state, and enable the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) to supervise the activities. The project will build on previous success in several other states with a similar Emergency Transport Scheme.  As a result, there will be a greater uptake of maternal health services, which will reduce the number of maternal deaths.
Empowering women entrepreneurs through provision of intergraded business develop In spite of a favourable policy environment aimed at improving equality, only 4% of Tanzania’s female population is in formal employment. Women running small enterprises tend to be trapped in survivalist mode unable to access finance and business support services to move them up the ladder. This grant will enable Tanzania Gatsby Trust to provide business development services including small loans to female-led small enterprises to make their business stronger and bankable. The Business Development Services model will become stand-alone and self-funding by the end of the project guaranteeing such a service for poor female entrepreneurs for the future.
Empowering women in Kordofan through non-wood forest products for income and foo Women in central Sudan harvest forest products for income and food but stay poor, as men retain most of the income, and because collection and marketing are unorganized. This project will create 15 women-led associations to collect, store, process and market wild fruits, gum Arabica and honey, and to share learning with 36 other villages. Participatory community agreements on natural resource use will be made. A small grants fund will help individual micro-business to start- up. A revolving loan fund will promote alternatives to firewood and charcoal for cooking, reducing deforestation. Women will achieve 40% higher earnings. 2,242 association members, women taking loans and micro-businesses will benefit.
Organisational Progress for Bees for Development We provide information and capacity building to make beekeeping enterprises viable and sustainable. Our activities link beekeepers with published and unpublished information, experiential learning, and the practical resources needed to undertake training in remote places. The work is complex, multi-faceted and dependent on high levels of personal knowledge and skill among BfD staff and network members. Our network is international, focussed on disseminating vital information to beekeepers in poor and remote places, often with no intermediary, national associations. We recognise that expansion of our work demands attention to the strategic development of the organisation, to maximise impact and effectiveness. We want to develop our network strategy, information management and communications. We want to increase our skills in managing the diverse materials that make up the international knowledge base of sustainable beekeeping, and underpin this resource with appropriate, efficient and accessible technology. We need to publicise this knowledge more widely and demonstrate its impact. BfD provides a real and valued service to beekeepers. We believe that by developing our communications strategy we can create impact beyond the beekeeping world, to achieve wider recognition of the role of apiculture, to leverage better support for beekeepers in marginalised communities.