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WaterAid Kampala Slums Transformation Initiative As many as two million people live in informal settlements in Kampala, with the slums of Central, Nakawa, and Kawempe Divisions regarded as the most vulnerable in terms of flood risk and levels of poverty. Although access to clean water and public latrines has been improving in some areas through government and NGO efforts, the majority of residents still lack access to decent affordable water supply and sanitation services. Three in every four illnesses are water borne or preventable, accounting for 17% of deaths in children under-five. Many schools lack even basic facilities let alone separate latrines allowing privacy and appropriate segregation for girls and boys. Building on a project already underway with funding from Comic Relief in Kawempe, WaterAid now plans to replicate this work in Central and Nakawa Divisions. The extension project will see construction of water catchment tanks and separate latrine facilities in 30 schools, benefiting a total of 24,000 children, especially girls. At the same time, public information and training programmes will increase hygiene understanding amongst school children and wider communities, promote the construction of household latrines and give a voice to slum dwellers as they hold local authorities to account and work to further improve living conditions. An extension of the current project for two more years in Kawempe will help ensure a legacy of improved health, living conditions and water and sanitation services across slums in three Divisions of Kampala.
Horticulture Markets in Ethiopia for Women and Youth Women practising small-scale horticulture in Ethiopia do not often benefit significantly due to low levels of production and productivity, gender inequity, limited access to inputs and sparse marketing channels. Youth are leaving farming & migrating to urban centres as they do not see a future for themselves. The project will facilitate women’s and youth integration into profitable horticulture value chains through a structured support programme. Horticulture can provide income in 3-4 months, requiring relatively limited investment, & offers long-term income generation opportunities. Young people will be supported to run on- and off-farm collective enterprise, including mobile input supply, pump rental & collective farming.
African Population And Health Research Center Kenya is urbanising quickly, with the fastest growth in informal settlements or slums. Nearly one in five Kenyans lives in a slum. Yet there are hardly any public health facilities in slums – because the settlements are usually illegal and informal. It is no surprise that the country's urban poor use fewer health services and have poorer health when compared to other Kenyans. The gap left by the absence of the public health sector in slums has been filled by a vibrant but largely unregulated private sector (both not-for-profit and for-profit), which provide services of variable quality and cost. The project will strengthen six private not-for-profit health centres, making them ‘one-stop primary level centres'. Staff will be trained to provide high quality maternal and child health services. District health teams will supervise private health providers, and facilities will be helped to access the highest level of support from the public sector. A network of community health workers will visit homes to identify people in need of health services and refer them to health facilities. A security service run by youth groups will be set up to safely escort women or families to health facilities if they need medical help during the night. An ambulance service will be set up for emergencies. As a result, the health of women, newborns and children will be improved. More broadly, the project seeks to show how the public, private and community sectors can work together to improve the health of people living in two Nairobi slums. The project will engage in policy dialogue to influence health provision in slums in Kenya and beyond.
Achieving and sustaining greater access to education in Beaufort West Beaufort West in South Africa experiences high levels of poverty, violence, substance abuse and HIV/Aids. Many children have experienced neglect or abuse at home, school or on the street. Without the ability to cope and without appropriate support from parents, teachers and community members, many children drop out of school, unable to return. This project will help 154 children back into mainstream education and prevent school dropout for 300 at-risk children. It will support children and parents through befriending street-involved children, family liaison, and developing children and parents’ coping skills and self-esteem. Literacy and numeracy needs and reinsertion into mainstream school will be supported through eight community-based informal home-schools. Workshops will be held for parents and children on HIV/Aids, drug prevention and parenting skills and ten families in most need will receive therapeutic support. 100 teachers will receive training on effectively addressing children’s needs ensuring sustained attendance for those that have returned to school and reduced drop-out for those at risk. Sustainability will be enhanced by dialogue with regional representations of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Social Development, to ensure that existing policy is implemented in line with community needs.
Civil Society Strengthening Programme-Ghana The Civil Society Strengthening Programme (CSSP) aims to strengthen civil society to become more resilient, responsive and effective in delivering the priorities of its constituents. CSSP will strengthen the effectiveness of civil society actors and their advocacy for inclusive participation and access to public services by underserved communities.
Interactive and Legislative Theatre for Sex Workers & their Clients In Malawi, sex workers have an HIV prevalence of more than 70%. They are also a critical avenue through with HIV transmission occurs. They are neither organised nor represented in society. They are regarded as outcasts and few organisations work with them. They face abuse and are often denied basic health services. There is an urgent need for a successful programme that aims to protect sex workers, their clients and their clients' partners. This project is led by a group of former sex workers (known as ABC) who organise ‘behaviour change’ workshops in safe environments for teenage girls and boys involved in sex work. They teach them skills to negotiate condom use, and provide access to condoms, HIV tests and treatment for all who need them at each performance. These services are provided through partnerships with local service providers. In the later stages of the project, a range of skills training is provided to workshop participants who are also given small loans to enable them to establish small businesses. The project will achieve an increase in safer sex among sex workers, opportunities for them to get out of sex work, and better understanding of and attitudes towards sex workers among the police and others.
The AfriKids Street and Working Child Programme In northern Ghana life is balanced on a knife edge. The country is stable and developing, for every child a good education and safe, comfortable life is within reach. But for those on the wrong side of that knife edge life can quickly spiral out of control; life on the streets or in child labour is tough and addictive, and mainstream education can be difficult to access and reintegrate with. The AfriKids Street and Working Children Programme will target children who are out of education because they either live on the streets or work in illegal forms of labour. It will work with the children, their carers and the government to get them back into education and to address the root causes of their problems so that once the course of their life is changed, it is changed for good.
Increasing the Economic and Political Empowerment of Women in the Sava There is severe under-representation of women at all levels of government and decision-making in the three provinces which form the deprived Northern Region of Ghana. This is a significant factor preventing the economic, cultural and political advancement of women in the region. For instance, only 11% of women have any formal education. This project will provide training and support to women so they have the skills, confidence and abilities to stand for public office in local, district and parliamentary elections. There will also be a mentoring programme for those who secure public office, so that newly-elected officials can receive advice and guidance from more experienced peers. Women will also be linked up into networks and coalitions so that they can be effectively organised and get their voices heard on issues of policy. The project will actively involve community leaders including traditional chiefs as well as all the political parties (on a non-partisan basis), to garner their support for this initiative. As a result, and fitting in with the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), women's representation at all levels will increase and women's interests and rights, including to natural resources, services (including education), and participation in decision-making will have increased.
Strengthening Integrated SGBV Response and Preventions Services for Women and Gi Much has changed in South Africa since 1994, including a number of new laws to protect victims of violence. However, these laws are poorly enforced and levels of violence remain high. In South Africa, it is estimated that a rape happens every eight seconds and that one in every two women will be raped in their life. Yet only one in 36 rape cases will be reported, of which only 15% result in successful convictions. Masisikumeni is the only non-state provider of sexual and gender based violence (SGBV) services in Nkomazi in Mpumalanga province, a predominantly rural farming area. In Nkomazi, traditional beliefs and negative cultural attitudes about the roles of and relationships between women and men sustain unequal power relations. Violence and abuse are frequent experiences for women and girls. In August 2012 alone, 46 rape cases were reported at one of the police stations Masisikumeni works with. Even after reporting to police stations, women and girls struggle to access quality support and services from the police, health and judicial services. The changes to be bought about through this grant include: increased confidence and empowerment of survivors through counselling, medical and legal support; improved cultural attitudes and practices; and a justice system that is more responsive to survivors. Finally, Masisikumeni's own capacity and systems will be strengthened so it can become an even more effective organisation which successfully reduces the prevalence and impact of SGBV in Mpumalanga and is recognised as a leader in its field.
Scaling innovative rural distribution for farmer inputs: Farm Shop's retail micr Kenya's smallholder farmers are under-served by a market for seeds, agrochemicals and veterinary products that fails to deliver those with reliable consistency and quality and at an affordable price. The project will establish a social enterprise to set up a network of franchised retail outlets, supply them with products demanded by farmers, and support them with business management training and systems and market outreach in their client communities. The grant will take the enterprise from its present start-up stage to proof of concept, when it will graduate to impact investment. The project will benefit farming families through increased farm productivity and resulting increased income.
Using renewable energy to improve livelihoods for Kenya''s fisherfolk The Kenyan communities on the shore of Lake Victoria are amongst the poorest in East Africa. About 70% of their members live below the poverty line and are heavily reliant on fishing for subsistence and income. Without electricity for chilling or freezing, fish is highly perishable and must be sold or consumed soon after landing. This leaves local fisher-folk with no bargaining power to secure a fair price for their catch. The communities also urgently need to diversify their economic activities in order to reduce business risks and improve nutritional levels. This project will test and disseminate affordable small-scale solutions for renewable energy from wind and solar sources. It will facilitate access to appropriate technology and equipment needed for the fish cold chain and irrigation, and will provide relevant information and training to fishermen, women traders and farmers. It will support community-based structures to manage and maintain joint facilities, and will encourage entrepreneurs to switch to ‘greener' products: for example, kerosene sellers will become suppliers of solar-powered lamps for night fishing and households. As a result, the local population will have more sustainable access to renewable energy. This will significantly enhance income levels and improve nutrition and health.
Care and protection of highly vulnerable children, young people and families in There are an estimated 10,000 boys and girls surviving on Uganda's streets, neglected and exploited. Many thousands more are in fragile families and in danger of turning to a precarious street existence. This proposal will continue to build on earlier Comic Relief funded work and apply tried and tested methods to support children in moving away from the street back into nurturing families and safer communities.   In addition the proposal will help to build stronger families and communities in known hotspot areas to prevent children from leaving home for a life on the street risking their safety and health.  Parallel to this two pronged approach the project will also work with local authorities supporting and when appropriate pressuring them to better coordinate their own efforts to protect these vulnerable children and their families with the aim to sustain the impact of this work.
Improving effectiveness through communications Feed the Minds works with partners in Africa and Asia to promote literacy through grass-roots development programmes covering a range of themes including education, health, vocational training and peace-building. They work to build the capacity of partners, helping to assess need and share experience and good practice through workshops and publications. This project will equip Feed the Minds and their growing number of partners with an upgraded web-based platform through which this dialogue can be significantly extended and improved. This will enable new opportunities for partners to share and learn, through appropriate and accessible technology suited to a range of literacy levels such as webinars, videos, shared databases, documentation and discussion forums. Reporting, monitoring and evaluation will also be strengthened as a result of the improved systems. At the same time, the new website will enable more efficient and effective communications with UK donors and supporters – increasing their profile and fundraising revenues to sustain and build programmes.
Transforming Urban Slums in Lusaka Most people living in the peri-urban areas of Lusaka use a latrine for sanitation, often a covered pit latrine shared with a number of households. Many of these latrines are full because they cannot easily be emptied or relocated.  When annual flooding occurs pits overflow leading to highly unsanitary conditions and a high incidence of disease and illness. This project has identified an innovative approach to faecal sludge management which addresses critical barriers in the sanitation chain – the capture, transport, treatment and potential re-use of waste from pit latrines in a safe and sustainable way. As part of this pilot project, teams of pit latrine emptiers will be trained to ensure that waste is being safely transported and treated and awareness raising campaigns will take place in the communities to ensure there is an uptake of these improved services. The proposed project will seek to scale up the outreach and efficiency of the service being provided, further develop and test the way in which the service can be delivered better, and establish a basis for larger scale replication across informal settlements in Lusaka and other cities. This is an ambitious but exciting project which provides an opportunity to support the development and delivery of an important and basic service that could impact on many thousands of households living in Lusaka's peri urban settlements. Learning from the project could also have relevance for interventions in other cities.
Maanda: Using the law and legal mechanisms to address HTPs in West Africa Though some African governments have introduced legislation to protect women and girls from harmful traditional practices implementation is often weak. Equality Now will seek to use legal advocacy to hold governments to account. Working specifically in Mali and Mauritania where rates of FGM are 89% and 69% respectively and there is currently no legal protection for the girls from the practice, they will work to identify cases of abuse which can be brought to legal proceedings locally, nationally, regionally or internationally in an attempt to force faster more widespread change in attitudes in both countries and across the region. Community activities will supplement the legal actions.
Research and consultation to identify and measure need, and to determine priorit This Generating Ideas grant will be used to conduct research among five districts within Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. These have been identified as the five most deprived areas in the state, where there are many educationally and emotionally vulnerable disadvantaged children. There is extremely low educational attainment, family breakdown and poverty related health and social problems, The research will chart more accurately than before the number of children at risk, and assess how effective various inputs and activities are at helping them overcome challenges. It builds on previous fact finding, but will take a more in-depth approach to analysing the issues and ways to resolve them.
Improving pastoralist girls'' educational aspirations and attainment (Tanzania) Pastoralist communities in Tanzania are amongst the most marginalised in the country, and face widespread discrimination because their land management system is not recognised as viable by the government. Primary education is compulsory in the country, but pastoralists, especially girls, have little access to quality education. 95% of girls attend primary school nationally, but only 44% of girls are in primary school in the Ngorogoro district of Tanzania. Girls' enrolment is lower than boys, drop-out rates higher and they do not perform as well academically. Education quality is poor, many children are not taught by qualified teachers. There are few female role models that equip girls to face the challenge of staying in school and thriving there. This application is part of a wider education programme that aims to increase enrolment, retention and performance of pastoralist girls in school. By project end, there will be more girls attending school than ever before, affecting the lives of 6,455 girls.
School Related Gender Based Violence Community Action Research This project will address the prevalence of school related gender based violence (SRGBV) in a rural township in Western Kenya. The aim is to gain thorough reliable base-line information on its causes and extent, of which there is little current proven data, but much informal awareness. The research findings will then be used to help change public perceptions and eliminate SRGBV in this community. It will also support the existing small network of community leaders who are fighting SRGBV.  The long term aim is to achieve an effective long term solution to the problem which is a core reason why girls fail to complete secondary or even primary education and remain trapped in poverty.
Climate Change Supplementary Grant to GR002-03337-NUMR Current tourism activity often impacts badly on the environment – for example collection of shells which are predators of sea urchin and starfish is leading to extensive reef destruction.  Hotel water use is destroying plants and animals tourists come to see. This new funding will significantly develop and expand the existing environmental and climate change focus of the project.  The additional climate elements will provide alternative sources of income, for example through crab and shrimp farms in mangrove swamps; beekeeping; and work in environmental protection.  Training and equipment will be provided to demonstrate these activities, with loans from the main programme available to others who wish to replicate the initiatives. Solar panels, fuel efficient stoves and other technologies will be provided (through funding from the Welsh Government).  This will be underpinned by practical work in all schools, with extensive teacher training, which will develop an understanding and ownership of the value of the children’s own environment, leading to long term stewardship.  The project has an existing link between 40 schools in Zanzibar and Wales, which will be greatly enhanced by adding a climate change focus. The project will work with local government, decision makers, and tourist industry to build greater awareness of the necessity to build policy at all levels.
Improving Life Chances&Household Income of People with Disabilities in 8 Subcoun There are about 16,000 people with disabilities in Moyo District, N. Uganda needing specific assistance to have a chance of getting a job or setting up a new enterprise in a rural area recovering from a long period of armed conflict.  This project will start to work with 1,000 people with disabilities to provide rehabilitation support, training, career counselling, and acquire locally relevant vocational skills. Some 600 will get group support, loans, or intensive training to take up formal jobs or set up new businesses for themselves. Traditional attitudes to disability are harsh however, so there will be outreach and awareness raising to reduce barriers and social stigma and find partners.
Addressing Gender Inequalities to Improve Sexual and Reproductive Health Outcome Narok County has a high level of maternal deaths and a low level of reproductive health service use compared to other parts of Kenya. Access to health facilities is poor. Many women don’t have the power to make decisions related to their health. Female circumcision and marriage and childbearing at an early age, common in Narok, increase the risk of birth complications. This project will bring health services closer to communities by training and supporting community health workers. Community activities will be carried out to challenge gender and power dynamics that compromise women’s health. As a result, more women will use reproductive services and their health will improve.