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Mother Theresa Home Mother Theresa Home The activity does not have a description. You can contact Sida for more information. Call +46 8 698 50 00 or send an e-mail to sida@sida.se. Aktiviteten saknar beskrivning. Kontakta Sida för mer information. Ring +46 8 698 50 00 eller skicka e-post till sida@sida.se.
Env.econ.network L.A. Miljek,nätverk L.A.EENLAC The activity does not have a description. You can contact Sida for more information. Call +46 8 698 50 00 or send an e-mail to sida@sida.se. Aktiviteten saknar beskrivning. Kontakta Sida för mer information. Ring +46 8 698 50 00 eller skicka e-post till sida@sida.se.
Africa Economic Transformation Advocacy A 2-day round-table dialogue in Addis Ababa that brings together a group of around 15-20 Africa-based thought leaders (including researchers, activists, NGOS & farmer organisations) to discuss economic transformation in the context of the SDG’s. The aim of such an event would be (1) sharing CAFOD and partners’ current research & thinking with other thought-leaders & key institutions to contribute towards influencing in-country economic development processes (2) networking & building relationships with thought-leaders with the aim of developing joint messaging & influencing strategies (3) Strengthening CAFOD & partner expertise around economic development issues & explore the possibility of strategies for joint-influencing & work & (4) To consolidate CAFOD’s position on this topic through information sharing with our partners & other thought leaders. This event would be followed by an extra 2-3 days with CAFOD partners to develop further thinking & options for joint-work.
Advocacy capacity strengthening for national, inter-territorial and regional SGs of RECOWA The Secretary Generals (SGs) of RECOWA seek to strengthen their capacity in advocacy to enable them not only execute the decisions of the bishops on various problems especially, good governance, climate change and social justice but also to be in better position to take the right actions when needed. The training will seek to equip the SGs with knowledge and skills in advocacy and boost their confidence to engage with various stakeholders. Subsequently, the training aims to impact the life of men, women and children in RECOWA communities through the advocacy of the SGs and Bishops against injustices and bad governance.
Support for SECAM 19th Plenary Assembly, Accra 2022 SECAM holds its Plenary Assembly every three years. The 19th Plenary Assembly will take place from 25 July to 1 August 2022. CAFOD is committed to supporting SECAM and its Assembly.
Support to Caritas Africa Programme Costs 2014-2016 Caritas Africa's remit is widespread and varied.  It's members are present in 372 Dioceses in sub-Saharan Africa and the number of beneficiaries reached across 31 countries totals around 73 million.  However, Caritas member organisations lack financial resources and are seeking ways and means of developing fund raising capacity.  Other issues which impact on the work of member organisations include insecurity, inadequate professional skills, the impact of climate change, lack of capacity and reduced donor funding. Caritas Africa's major responsibilities in response to these needs is to ensure regional animation and representation and to facilitate and provide capacity and organisational development for member organisations. In order to do this, Caritas Africa has developed and begun to implement a strategic framework.   
 
This project will provide support to Caritas Africa core costs in order to support the effective implementation of the Strategic framework and the realisation of the  4 main strategic objectives  which are outlined in the Caritas Africa Regional Commission road map:

a. Strengthen the Caritas identity to build more effective, collaborative and sustainable social pastoral structures within the Church in Africa
b. Reduce the risk and impact of humanitarian crises in Africa in solidarity and compassion with affected communities
c. Eradicate extreme poverty and support social services
d. Transform inadequate and unjust systems and structures. 
 
CAFOD’s contribution will in particular be used by Caritas Africa for the employment of Desk Officers, Statutory meetings of the Regional Commission and Regional animation, representation, capacity building & organisational development for targeted member organisations.
Living the call of Pope Francis Laudato Si’ Encyclical  in the AMECEA Region This project is designed to advance the commitment of AMECEA and its pastoral agents in caring for the environment. AMECEA through its strategic plan for 2014-2024 prioritizes Integral Ecology as a concern for the entire region. Through this project, AMECEA shall have a series of activities and advocacy interventions, with an aim of positive formation of the youth, women, children, clergy, men, religious men and women at all levels and further inform the policy makers in the Church on what needs to be done to ensure sustainable care for our common home. 
The Knowledge acquired will empower the people within the AMECEA region to have skills to care for the environment. The National Conferences will use the AMECEA Laudato Si’ implementation guidelines to influence activities towards the care for mother earth. In its implementation, AMECEA will work through the National Conferences to reach dioceses, selected parishes and the faithful at the grassroots level. Through the SCCs, men, women, PWD and the youth will participate in the care for our common home and strengthen the governance for integral development of the people of God and people of good will in the AMECEA region.
African Realities on fraternal cooperation, local leadership and decolonisation of aid. A series of research activities that will feed into conversations, dialogue and reflections on fraternal cooperation, local leadership and decolonisation of aid in Africa. The outcome document is intended for use by partners of Caritas in Africa working on the localisation agenda.
Core support to Caritas Africa This grant will support Caritas Africa by contributing toward their core costs. The grant will help maintain their financial stability and organizational structures, and will raise CA's capacity to enable the implementation of their strategic plan and activities specified in their 2012 Roadmap.
Support to ACEAC Bishops' peace advocacy mission in the Great Lakes region The project will seek to support the ACEAC Bishop’s advocacy in the Great Lakes. The action will also aim to enable the ISPR/ACEAC to develop a strategic plan for the next five years (2023 - 2027) in order to map out the future through coherent programmes for more effective action in the service of peace and reconciliation in the African Great Lakes sub-region. All these actions will include :
1.	Conduct an update meeting between the delegate bishops of the Episcopal Conferences of Burundi, Congo and Rwanda; 
2.	Conduct joint advocacy targeting States and other key actors in the current crisis in the Great Lakes Region; 
3.	Organise an advocacy action in Burundi, whose Head of State is President of the EAC 
4.	Conducting advocacy with the Government of Kinshasa
5.	Identify and define the strategic axes of ISPR/ACEAC’ interventions; 
6.	Develop and validate the ISPR/ACEAC five-year strategic plan 2023-2027
Support to Caritas Africa Programme Costs This grant will support Caritas organizations in Africa in the implementation of their Strategic and Operational Plan 2008, specific to their programme work. It will enable Caritas Africa to enhance governance structures and increase self-reliance of their member organizations, in the aim for stronger impact in the area of advocacy and campaign for social and environmental justice, emergency response, rehabilitation and development.
Supporting consultancy costs CAFOD to pay for up to 10 consultancy days in August plus flight and accommodation in Lome for consultant to travel to Lome w/s 8 August for 3-5 days for work with Management team, the Finance Team  and the Treasurer. Further consultancy days to be discussed in preparation for partner meeting in late October, dependent on outcome of the meetings in Lome. 
The visit took place in August/September (10 days), and in October (12 days).
Additional approval for Capacity Strengthening coaching for a member of Caritas Africa staff.
Support to Caritas Africa Programme Costs Caritas Africa's remit is widespread and varied.  Its members are present in 372 Dioceses in sub-Saharan Africa and the number of beneficiaries reached across 31 countries totals around 73 million.  However, Caritas member organisations lack financial resources and are seeking ways and means of developing fund raising capacity.  Other issues which impact on the work of member organisations include insecurity, inadequate professional skills, the impact of climate change, lack of capacity and reduced donor funding. Caritas Africa's major responsibilities in response to these needs is to ensure regional animation and representation and to facilitate and provide capacity and organisational development for member organisations. In order to do this, Caritas Africa has developed and begun to implement a strategic framework.   
 
This project will provide support to Caritas Africa core costs in order to support the effective implementation of the Strategic framework and the realisation of the 4 main strategic objectives  which are outlined in the Caritas Africa Regional Commission road map:

a)	Strengthen the Caritas identity to build more effective, collaborative and sustainable social pastoral structures within the Church in Africa
b)	Reduce the risk and impact of humanitarian crises in Africa in solidarity and compassion with affected communities
c)	Eradicate extreme poverty and support social services
d)	Transform inadequate and unjust systems and structures. 
 
CAFOD’s contribution will in particular be used by Caritas Africa for the employment of Desk Officers, Statutory meetings of the Regional Commission and Regional animation, representation, capacity building & organisational development for targeted member organisations.
Living the call of Pope Francis Laudato Si’ Encyclical in the AMECEA Region This project is as a result of the 20th Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa (AMECEA) Plenary Assembly held in Tanzania from 9th to 18th July 2022, that focused on the central message of Pope Francis’ landmark encyclical, Laudato Si’ on care for our common home. During the AMECEA 20th Plenary assembly closing mass one of the documents launched was the AMECEA region Laudato Si’ implementations guidelines based on Laudato Si’ action platform seven goals. The AMECEA Laudato Si’ guidelines were development after a series of assessments, research and review of best practices with support of CAFOD funding in the year 2019/2020 and 2021/2022. Through the process of developing the guidelines major challenges and gaps were identified in implementing Pope Francis Laudato Si’ in the AMECEA region, hence the need to develop the guidelines that will help the implementation at all levels of the Catholic Church from the national conferences, dioceses up to the Small Christian Communities.
Action for Better Governance: Internal Grant This Internal Grant covers all CAFOD-managed activities to a) support and coordinate partners within the ABG Programme and b) to implement the Programme's M&E Framework.
CAFOD supports Caritas Africa with core costs Approval #1 of this project had been to contribute to the capacity strengthening of the Southern Africa Caritas Member Organisations and meet the needs of MOs in terms of professional standards and competencies in order to enable them to fully carry out their socio-pastoral mission by supporting a capacity strengthening officer and the development of new regional capacity strengthening initiatives.
Approval #2 of this project is to support an Advocacy and Policy Officer and a Resource Mobilization post.
Approval #4 includes an amount to support the recruitment and salary of a Humanitarian Officer for one year (June 2022 - May 2023) and for continued support for Advocacy Officer and Resource Mobilization Officer.
Approval #5 continues support for core costs, humanitarian advocacy programme officer, Resource Mobilization officer. #6 supports Caritas Africa's Organisational Plan.
IMBISA Institutional Support and Strengthening This project aims to strengthen the prophetic voice of IMBISA in advocating and lobbying for the most vulnerable in the IMBISA region. The project is part of CAFOD's commitment to ongoing capacity strengthening for the IMBISA standing Committee on Regional engagement, advocacy and lobbying particularly with SADC.
Support to peaceful transition period and elections in South Sudan. This project seeks to contribute to the realization of peaceful transition process in South Sudan. The project seeks to support the National Conference of Catholic Bishops of South Sudan and the South Sudan Council of Churches (SSCC)empower Church leaders, women, youth and PWDs to engage and contribute to peaceful electoral process toward conclusion of the transition agenda in South Sudan. It is anticipated that the identified activities including deepening understanding of the context through landscape analysis, capacity building, exchange and learning sessions, will lead to citizens capable of resisting violence and opting for dialogue and peaceful resolution of conflicts.
Capacity Strengthening of RECOWA on Advocacy for Ecological Conversion, Social and Economic Justice Based on the Resolutions of the 4th Plenary Assembly of RECOWA, a three years action plan (2022-2025) was developed to bring transformative change in systems and structures that limit ecological, social and economic justice to the people in the region. To enable RECOWA achieve part of this action plan, this project aims to strengthen the capacity of RECOWA to bring about the ecological, social and economic justice that is needed for men, women and children in the region. With the new knowledge and practical methods of carrying out advocacy, the National Directors for Justice, Peace and Development will cascade the training to various structures within each national Bishops conference and they will spearhead interventions to better preserve the environment and improve the situation of the people, communities and nations in the most effective, sensitive and efficient way.
Strengthening Agroecology for Sustainable Food Systems in Africa The "Strengthening Agroecology for Sustainable Food Systems in Africa" project is a collaborative effort between CAFOD and AFSA. It aims to address the challenges within the African food system by promoting agroecology and supporting smallholder food producers, particularly in the face of increasing concentration of power, exclusion, injustice, and a consolidated push for industrial farming in policies and investments. The project seeks to strengthen communities, empower farmers, advocate for policies that benefit smallholder food producers, and transition towards sustainable food systems. It will enhance collaboration between CAFOD and AFSA and promote coordinated advocacy efforts across countries, regions, and at the global level.
PEOPLE EU Volunteers capacity stengthening project - Caritas Africa This project is part of the wider EU Aid Volunteers funded PEOPLE project, working with 10 organisations across Africa over 2 years. The main purpose of the PEOPLE project is to enable local and national organisations to improve the quality and effectiveness of their humanitarian preparedness and response capacity, and their volunteer management systems. This will be done through a process of capacity self-assessment and capacity strengthening action planning, Training of Trainers and cascading of learning on key emergency response and volunteer topics, and peer learning between the 10 organisations involved in the programme. CAFOD and Caritas Africa staff will provide support throughout this process.
ABG (Phase Two) M&E and Learning Whilst the first phase of ABG successfully increased the participation of poor men and women in governance processes, we want to pay greater attention to the quality of participation in the second phase as well as ensure women and other marginalised groups take on more active leadership roles. Following the gender audits and training provided in the first phase, we will continue to work with partners to implement the gender audit recommendations and support development and implementation of gender policies as well as encourage accountability principles and practices. There will be a greater emphasis on building strong evidence base for engagement and advocacy actions as well as creating and strengthening existing mechanisms and formal opportunities  to engage duty bearers and decision makers. 

Activities/costs under this Type Two Project will support the ABG Programme's efforts to meet the following outputs (as agreed under DFID Match Fund). 
Output 2.2: ABG partners are more gender-sensitive and accountable to poor women and men.
Output 2.3: ABG Partners have increased security management capacity and aware of their environment in carrying out their governance work.
Amplifying the voice of the Catholic Church in democratic electoral processes in the IMBISA region The primary purpose is to contribute towards full participation of the Catholic Church through IMBISA in ensuring free, fair, peaceful and credible elections in Zimbabwe. The project will focus on principles and the applicable codes of conduct; the main stakeholders as well as the preparations for, the unfolding of and the follow-up on election 
observation.
SECAM strategic advocacy planning workshop The recently agreed Sustainable Development goals and the AU 2063 agenda will be significant in influencing African country and donor policies and spending over the next generation at national and local level. 

SECAM therefore will call together 30 leaders from across the continent, including representatives of National Justice and Peace and Caritas groups, regional conferences, and theologians to develop an advocacy strategy at continental level that will determine priority issues for engagement and will establish better coordination mechanisms at national, regional and continental level. 

The specific objectives for the design, running and follow up to the meeting
i.	To develop a clear advocacy strategy at AU and Nation and Regional levels for engaging with the implementation of the AU Agenda 2063, SDGs and Climate Change Agreement.
ii.	To create strong working relationships with National and Regional Conferences which will enable better information flow and advocacy to be rooted in experiences on the ground and to clarify the different roles and ways of working between continental, regional and national level conferences.
iii.	To identify any on-going needs for capacity strengthening in advocacy
No Climate Justice without Land Justice - SECAM campaign COP27 2022 Egypt The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (2021) indicates that it is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land. Africa is the driest continent and is warming at twice the global rate. Before 1999, a drought happened once every five to six years in East Africa. Since 1999, they have been occurring every two to three years.
Hunger already affects 240 million Africans daily. By 2050, warming of just 1.2 to 1.9- degrees, well within the range of current IPCC projections, is likely to increase the number of malnourished in Africa by 25 to 95 % – 25 % in central Africa, 50 % in east Africa, 85 % in southern Africa and 95 % in west Africa.
Extractive industries have seamlessly interfaced with African governments, leadership class, governmental trade agencies, banks and investment firms, increasing pressure on the land.
Africa's rangelands contain 36% of the world's total carbon and, if fully restored, can sequester carbon in amounts equal to that of the Amazon rainforest. But international interest in using African lands for carbon dioxide removal may present unique governance challenges concerning development trade-offs, land use rights, safeguarding of biodiversity and food security, and water resources. 
The Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar - Justice, Peace and Development Commission (SECAM-JPDC) and its partners have given great importance to both COP26 and COP27, especially since the publication of Laudato Si by Pope Francis in which he states that climate is a common good for humanity. As a leading actor within the Our Land Is Our Life advocacy platform, SECAM proposes to lead a multi-actor campaign titled “No climate justice without land justice.”
Support to CI Africa Desk Officer This grant will enable CI Africa Desk Officer to travel to regional meetings and conferences in order to enhance Caritas coordination in Africa, working alongside Bishop's Conference and networking with Caritas Africa Advisory groups in terms of climate change, migration and development, emergency preparedness, good governance and aid effectiveness.
Pamoja kwa amani/Together for peace project At the ACEAC bishops' general assembly held in Goma in January 2024, convened under the Peace in the Great Lakes initiative, multiple resolutions were passed to enhance unity and cooperation among the bishops as they strive to work together for peace. The bishops pledged to bolster their involvement in subregional peace efforts and to carry out strategic initiatives at both high and local levels, with a specific emphasis on promoting cross-border unity among the communities of border dioceses. This project therefore aims to support the bishops achieve the following: 
1. Hold high level extraordinary dialogue meetings on peace with the presidents of the three countries in the region. 
2. Strengthen cross-boarder cohesion by engaging women and youth to champion peace . 
3. Undertake research to generate evidence on governance and peace issues that the bishops could utilise in their advocacy.
OCIPE - Relational Peace Advocacy Networking To fund a post in OCIPE, Brussels, for Relational Peace Advocacy Networking and Europe.
Strengthening the capacity of Catholic Sisters in ACWECA for deeper evangelization and advocacy This project seeks to strengthen the leadership and institutional capacity of ACWECA. Specifically, this project seeks to achieve the following: 
1. To train regional safeguarding focal points in safeguarding and support these to roll-out plans to enhance safeguarding, including setting up complaints and feedback mechanisms for the National Conferences of Women Religious.
2. Train a team of regional Justice, Peace, and Integrity of Creation (JPIC) champions in peacebuilding, conflict resolution, climate change and human rights advocacy and spearhead a regional formation of the sisters on JPIC.
3. Develop and review existing polices and systems in place in order to strengthen the governance and operational performance of the ACWECA. 

By reviewing and developing policies, training safeguarding contacts and strengthening governance structures, ACWECA aims to empower Sisters for impactful, professional and ethically sound contributions in their diverse roles across the ten countries, fostering a stronger, safer, and more impactful regional association.