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CADEC Hwange Sustainable Livelihoods Programme The diocese of Hwange is one of the eight administrative areas of the Roman Catholic Church in Zimbabwe. The diocese comprises the civil districts of Hwange, Binga and Lupane (North of Shabula River) which all fall within the province of Matabeleland North. Owing to their proximity and sharing boundaries, the three districts resemble similarities in many aspects. The development arm of the church is CADEC (Catholic Development Commission) which operates under the auspices of the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference. CADEC intends to implement the sustainable livelihoods programme in two districts of Hwange and Lupane (North of Shabula River). The projects to be implemented are as follows:
-Construction of 100 Latrine Toilets and training on PHHE at household level.
-Rehabilitation of 12 Water Points. To include training of Water Point Committees and Pump Mechanics.
-Rehabilitation of 2 dams.
-- Establishment of 4 Herbal and Nutrition Gardens, including Training of Farmers
- Rehabilitation of 2 Irrigation Schemes including Training of Farmers.
- Rehabilitation of 4 Dip tanks.
-Care and Support by Procurement and Distribution of HBC Kits and Uniforms, etc.
- Training of HBC Facilitators
- Capacity strengthening of the Caritas Office and communities |
Peri- Urban Gardens Phase 3: Gender sensitive Water Resource Management Programme The purpose of the project is to increase control over decisions and access to water resources for about 2,300 households in marginalised communities in the Sakubva River Basin of Dora rural wards and Mutare urban area by the year 2015 and beyond.
This will be achieved through the following outputs:
• improved access to and control over water for productive purposes such as horticulture, fisheries and orchard production, through the establishment of a water reservoir, pumping and irrigation systems;
• capacity strengthening for aquatic ecological health, integrated water resource management and climate change mitigation and adaptation measures, through the development of land-use plans, construction of conservation tools and systems, and appropriate awareness raising and training;
• women's empowerment through the establishment and strengthening of ward-based water resources planning and management committees with at least 50% female representation;
• gender and HIV & AIDS mainstreaming through a gender audit, gender and HIV awareness campaigns and training. |
ZCBC Behaviour Change- Putting Children First in Zimbabwe ZCBC Behaviour Change Programme envissages a situation in which there will be an HIV and AIDS free generation.There have been a growing number of orphans and vulnerable children throughout the country, largely due to the HIV and AIDS Pandemic, hence the need to ensure that these orphans and vulnerable children have access to some essential services and resources. The recognition that children need to live sustainably and with dignity.
This prgramme is a pilot programme operational in Harare and Chinhoyi Dioceses. This is largely because Harare is one of the biggest cities in the country, likewise hosts the largest percentage of orphans and vulnerable children. In the long run ZCBC sees the programme aims to achieve gender balance within communities, especially those with orphans and vulnerable children. The programme in the long-run hopes to groom confident and highly alert children, through workshops on Child Protection and Confidence Building. Alongside, livelihoods will go a long way in ensuring sustainability of families and communities after the programme has been conducted.
This programme will also ease pressure on community care givers, who seek on ways to assist orphans and vulnerable children, to live a sustainable life. The programme will largely focus on workshops carried out to children and immediate guardians within their different communities (such as teachers). The workshops will place emphasis on Child Protection/Participation, Confidence building and voice concerns on how BEAM is managed. Peer Education and livelihoods will be part of the programme to ensure that children and communities have improved household income and quality of life for OVC’s.
In putting Children First Programme ZCBC will:
Conduct confidence building workshops
Mobilise and conduct workshops as part of a network for teachers, leaders in communities and influential parents to look at education policies and advocate for change
Conduct workshops for Catholic anf leaders of other Faiths to tackle the link between, culture, religion and health care and even abuse
Together with other partners commemorate World events for children/youths and volunteers |
Climate Resilient Agriculture: transforming livelihoods of poor people in Zimbabwe This project aims to achieve improved livelihoods security for poor women, men and children from hazard-prone or marginalised rural communities in Gokwe North through an integrated approach that: increases the productivity and resilience of agricultural systems; strengthens engagement in markets and diversified income generation; strengthens adaptation to climate change; and increases the ability of local, pro-poor farm and producer groups to access services and influence development practices. Interventions will include a new irrigation scheme, Conservation Agriculture, Low Inputs Gardening, Disaster Risk reduction and Early Warning System, Livestock production latrines at the new irrigation scheme and gardens. all these activities will be done with adaptation to climate change in mind in order to achieve the objectives of the project.
CAFOD has been in involved in livelihoods projects most recently the ongoing Integrated Food, Nutrition and Income and Security and the ended Protracted Relief Program. Both projects have had similar intervention activities and thus the experience is there. However, this project will be done in the face of climate change so there is an underlying base of climate change adaptation in all the interventions |
Mashambanzou OVC Outreach Programme Mashambanzou OVC Outreach Programme will be contributing to the overall Programme on Putting Children First an OVC response for Zimbabwe. The overall aim of the programme is to ensure that children in Harare and Chinhoyi have access to the essential services and resources they need to live sustainably and with dignity.
The Mashambanzou OVC Outreach Programme will seek to build confidence of 500 Orphans and vulnerable children living with HIV and AIDS and those affected by HIV and AIDS. They will conduct the following activities:
-Educational and awareness sessions on HIV and in which children will actively participate and organise a s well
-Support groups formed to foster communication amongst peers and these will be facilitated and monitored by the Mashambanzou Care Trust
-Information sharing and awareness sessions on Child Rights and Protection will be conducted.
-The children will also be included and consulted in the planning of activities that directly affect them
-Children will be given Home Based Care Kits, a number of children are care givers
-Purposeful Psychosocial support and therapies will be conducted for children and be supervised activities will be carried out on a weekly basis
-The partner will conduct Home based care visits to supervise and monitor progress being made and also identify issues that might be affecteng the well being of children.
-The OVCs will also receive Home based care kits especially those living with HIV and those children taking care of a sick relative, parent or guardian. |
WASH for Dignity The project will increase access to potable water to women, men, boys and girls in ward 14. Availing clean and safe water at shorter distances will increase available productive time and productivity for women and girls. Increasing good health and hygiene knowledge, attitudes and practices will directly contribute to reducing morbidity and mortality from WASH related diseases. Good Health and hygiene knowledge, attitudes and practices directly impact positively on nutrition status for children under 5 years, pregnant and lactating women and the chronically ill. Appropriate and suitable sanitation facilities will improve the dignity of school girls and female Teachers. This should contribute to reducing school absenteeism by girls. The project will contribute to improving care and support for Infants, young children, elderly, the infirm and ill family members through health and hygiene messages provided in clubs and freeing time used in collecting water as well as improvements in water quality. The project will contribute to attainment of learning outcomes through availing water for practical subjects like agriculture and building and increasing retention of qualified teachers.
The project components are as follows according to sub-objectives:
1. Increasing access to clean water through establishment of 10km solar piped water scheme in ward 14, Gokwe North
2. Increasing access to suitable appropriate 6 sanitation facilities at learning institutions
3. Increasing good health and hygiene knowledge, attitudes and practices by establishment and training 3 school and 4 community health and hygiene clubs |
Zimbabwe Drought Response Programme [CAFOD CI EA 02/2020 Contribution ] The overall objective of the project is to contribute to improved access and availability of food in drought prone areas and promote productive planting for 2020/21 season in the six dioceses negatively affected by drought in Zimbabwe. These are the dioceses of Chinhoyi, Masvingo, Gweru, Hwange, Gokwe as well as the Archdiocese of Bulawayo. The project will reach out to 3400 households [ 17 000 individuals] at a total cost of Euro 1,017,915.00.
Caritas Zimbabwe expects any scale up of humanitarian assistance to focus on rural communities with high population density and/or who fall into IPC4, leaving potential gaps in other districts.
Because of its local presence in many of these communities, Caritas is better placed to reach these communities than many other agencies. This project will therefore not focus on the worst affected districts. Instead it will make use of existing Church structures and infrastructure to target those people who may otherwise receive little or no assistance.
The primary issue facing rural communities in Zimbabwe is food insecurity. The appeal strategy is twofold: contribute to reduction in current urgent food needs and promote future food security.
In normal circumstances, food assistance would only be required until the start of the harvest season (April- July). However, given the poor projections for 2019/2020 harvests and ongoing economic uncertainty, Caritas Zimbabwe is anticipating the traditional lean season will extend into Autumn 2020. Working on worst case scenario, this project will therefore provide 8 months of food assistance between February and September 2020. The strategy will then shift and focus on agricultural inputs to facilitate the 2020/21 planting season and promote more sustainable access to food.
The project will work with the same target households throughout with the aim of increasing their resilience. |
Supplementary feeding support to the health institutions in Zimbabwe- Caritas Harare The overall purpose of this project is to provide emergency food supplements to save and support the lives of the most poor and vulnerable chronically ill patients during the period July to December 2011, in three hospitals in the Archdiocese of Harare. The targeted three participating hospitals under this programme will also receive seeds and support to revive their nutrition gardens and cereal and legume cultivation to sustain food production beyond project duration.
The project beneficiaries are extremely vulnerable as a result of the ongoing protracted emergency situation in the country and most recently due to the anticipated cereal deficit in the targeted areas. With such a high HIV prevalence in the country it is envisaged that the target groups will be affected, as such appropriate nutrition becomes an even greater need to ensure that the default rate is lowered and that the treatment is effective.
Regular feedback received from the previous Caritas International appeal programme determined that patients on ARV’s are unable to feed themselves and were unable to walk the distance to the hospitals to receive their treatment thus increasing the default rate and undermining adherence. |
IMBISA Institutional Strengthening Project The IMBISA Institutional strengthening Project is a organisational development intervention to strengthen the Institutional capacity of IMBISA through i. re-confirmation of IMBISA's mandate by national structures and ii. review of IMBISA's strategic plan. These interventions are expected to result in IMBISA assuming the role of a well capacitated Regional organ effectively supporting the programmatic interventions of its 9 member national Episcopal Conferences and coordinating Regional level interventions on key priority issues. Precipitating this interventions is the progressive decline of IMBISA's Institutional capacities resulting in IMBISA's inability to fulfill its mandate and to generate sufficient resources to sustain operations. In spite of the existing Insititutional capacity gaps, IMBISA remains highly relevant as a possible anchor for Regional level programmes bringing together the 9 Episcopal Conferences. Numerous opportunities exist within the SADC Region for IMBISA to catalyse region wide interventions in response to multi-country crises and in support of the implementation of Regional policy frameworks such as the SADC Gender Protocol or SADC Electoral Guidelines as well as facilitating linkeages to regional structures such as the SADC Parliamentary Forum. |
Sustainable Livelihoods Programme - Caritas Gokwe Project goal:Improved health, nutrition and food security status of the vulnerable households through sustainable agriculture, reduction of communicable diseases and economic empowerment of communities.
Expected outcomes:
• Increased food production, processing and preservation to 2,500 vulnerable households by March 2014
• Increased access to water for livestocks and individual nutrition gardens to 12,000 Households by scooping 3 dams by March 2014
• Improved community based management systems to 300 households in the targeted communities by March 2014
Specific activities include:
1. Improved food security:
Construction of 3 grain banks in Gokwe North and provision of seeds to 2,500 households both in Gokwe North and South (200 in Gokwe and 300 in Gokwe South).
2. Improved water harvesting for livestock and Individual nutrition gardens:
Scooping of 3 dams in the 2 districts (2 in Gokwe north and 1 in Gokwe south)
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3. Improved community based management systems:
Training of 200 households in food processing and preservation, training of 500 households in conservation farming, 200 households in cotton production and construction of 3 grain bank in two districts. |
Emergency Preparedness in Catholic Health Institutions An emergency preparednes project jointly developed by both CAFOD and CRS in Zimbabwe that seeks to respond to the plight of victims of political violence to ensure that they have access to treatment, care, support and that they are free from intimidation from their assailants. The project will target the following hospitals: Luisa Guidotti and St Pauls Mission Hospital in Mashonaland East, St Alberts Mission Hospital, Marymount and Chitsungo in Mashonaland Central, Regina Coeli in Manicaland, Mutora and Chireya in Gokwe North, St Michaels Mhondoro – Ngezi and Fr O’hea Memorial Hospital in Mashonaland West. These areas have been identified as “hot spots” from the 2008 presidential elections and currently incidents of violence have been reported. Each hospital will be equipped with emergency medical supplies that will be used to treat victims of political violence. Wherever appropriate these Mission Centres will also be equipped with emergency supplies and equipment to enable them to offer treatment and temporary shelter to survivors of violence, most of whom would not be able to return to their homes even after treatment. The project will therefore offer post violence support to an estimated 1,700 victims of political violence. |
Humanitarian Capacity Strengthening Project Phase 2 (Apr 2016 - Mar 2018) Emergency Simulations Emergency simulations forms part of CAFOD’s Humanitarian Capacity Development programme. The purpose of the emergency simulation is to further help HCD partners to build their organisational and individual capacity to undertake an effective and efficient emergency response. The exercise will ensure that;
•Partner staff have greater awareness of their organisation’s systems, processes, strengths and weaknesses in emergency preparedness and response.
•Their organisation has baseline information on how it deals with an emergency response as well as identification of clear actions for improving the emergency response capacity of individuals and the organisation.
Their participation will be based on a simulation-based training approach which is a very effective way of developing a range of humanitarian capacities, both at the organisational and the individual level. The process provides for a safe space for partners to explore and try out ways in which they might best respond to an emergency situation.
Three partner organisations taking part in the simulation are Caritas Hwange, Caritas Gokwe and Caritas Zimbabwe. The partners will ‘respond’ to a national emergency, focused on their own geographic area of operation.
The simulation will be run over the course of 4 days. Each day will focus on a different phase of a response operation i.e. i) Preparedness and Assessment, ii) Response Design and Funding, iii) Response Planning and Resourcing, iv) Response Implementation
Furthermore, the whole process will be carried out as a TOT for HCD Officers. Each HCDO will have a day that they will lead on the simulation. After the TOT, HCDOs will then run emergency simulations in their respective countries. The emergency simulations will be coordinated by a consultant who will guide the processes with the assistance of the Humanitarian Capacity Development Manager. |
Humanitarian Capacity Development Programme - Caritas Gokwe Humanitarian capacity development is not a one off training or programme of capacity building activities, it is an approach, designed to effect sustainable organisational change over a longer period of time. The approach has the following characteristics:
Understanding of Humanitarian Capacity : A holistic understanding of humanitarian capacity, this captures leadership, programme skills and knowledge and systems and support sectors.
Organisational commitment and ownership: The programme works with organisation’s who are committed to strengthening their emergency capacity as only the organisation can change itself. Required is commitment from and involvement with the highest levels of leadership such as the Bishop or Board. The organisation must be open to reflecting on their strengths and weaknesses and creating space for organisational change.
CAFOD’s role :A Humanitarian capacity development officer will work closely with Caritas Gokwe. The HCD Officer will support the organisations to identify and prioritise their capacity development needs in relation to their emergency context and their existing capacities. The HCD Officer will support the partner to identify their priorities, to inspire, motivate, advise and encourage them to create the change.
Capacity Development Journey :The capacity development journey is characterised by trust, collaboration, self-reflection and peer support. The path Caritas Gokwe takes will have 5 key stages.
Variety of Methods: Encouraged is for Caritas Gokwe to look beyond training to ensure learning is incorporated into their organisation’s culture and systems. The methods include accompaniment, peer support, self-assessment, strategy, policy and systems development, emergency simulations and on the job training. |
IMBISA Institutional Support:Empowering the Laity for effective engagement and uptake of Laudato Si. With the increase in enviromental problems, natural resource depletion that strain liveihoods, CAFOD has been supporting IMBISA to coodinate regional and international conferences, agencies and players both within the government and outside to tackle the issue of enviromental problems facing Southern Africa.In light of this Catholic Bishops of Southern Africa adopted the theme “Empowering the Laity for effective engagement in socio-political and environmental issues: Laudato Si as point of reference”; in order to promote good environmental practices in the region. After adoption of the theme during the 2016 Plenary, a survey was conducted with the aim of having a general overview of Laudato Si interventions being implemented by member conferences. One of the recommendation from the survey was the need to have a deeper understating/ reflection of the encyclical by focal persons from various Church institutions with the aim of influences policies at local and regional level.
Funding is therefore required to enable the IMBISA secretariat to effectively coordinate the Conferences so that they come up with clear action plans and a training Manual on Laudato SI for the region. There are inconsistencies in the presentation of the encyclical Laudato SI, developing a regional manual on Laudato Si will ensure that there is uniformity in training information on skills, processes, and other information. The manual will be used beyond this project to engage key stakeholders that include Seminary Rectors, young people and the Church with the aim of influencing policies at regional and local level. These target groups will form regional working groups that would meet from time to time to deliberate and make statements on environmental and other issues of concern. The Project goal is IMBISA becoming a prophetic voice in the promotion of care for the environment. |
Humanitarian Capacity Strengthening 2021 - Caritas Gokwe The main purpose of the HCS Transition project is to enable local and national organisations such as Caritas Gokwe to improve the quality and effectiveness of their humanitarian preparedness and response capacity. 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 staff will provide support throughout this process.
The proposed objectives are:
• Uphold agreed partner commitments for a further 1 year of support in Zimbabwe.
• Support Caritas Gokwe to continue to embed learning, policies and processes developed during PEOPLE project.
• Capture learning on the longer-term impact of capacity strengthening support .
• Involve Caritas Gokwe and the CS team in piloting new approaches and developing CS tools.
• Facilitate peer exchange between HCS and CAFOD staff and partners from other countries to share expertise and promote different CS approaches.
• Learning from the transition phase and HCS experiences to date will feed into the development of a CS strategy and approach for the international programme. |
Justice for Children Trust- Putting Chldren First Legal Support ( PCF111 ) The putting children first project is being implemented in Centenary and Muzarabani Didstrict , Mabvuku, Tafara and Hopley and Hopley , Mbare and GlenNora by 3 partners, namely St Alberts Missin Hospital, Mavambo Orphan Care Trust and Mashambanzou Care Trust. Putting Children First - ( PCF111) is a project where CAFOD and its implementing partners, have been working to enhance child protection in the targeted areas since 2013. In spite of the many successes accomplished in the previous phases of PCF , access to essential child protection services in Zimbabwe remains limited for many children, especially within the most vulnerable community groups of the six wards in Centenary /Muzarabani District, Hopley, Mbare Mabvuku , Tafara and Caledonia catchment areas of St Alberts Mission Hospital , Mashambanzou Care Trust and Mavambo Trust . The end of project evaluation of PCF2 , together with extensive internal discussions between CAFOD and its partners, highlighted that increased cross partner support and CAFOD support focusing on three main objectives which are :
1. Improved access to and increased utilization of essential child protection services for 7,350 children and 7,650 adults through strengthened child protection structures in targeted communities of Mbare, Hopley Glen Norah, Mabvuku, Tafara, Caledonia and the 6 wards of Centenary and Muzarabani
2. Improved knowledge, attitude and practices for 45,000 people in the selected communities of Mbare Hopley Glen Norah, Mabvuku, Tafara, Caledonia and the 6 wards of Centenary and Muzarabani on gender based violence through increased awareness.
3. Increased income of vulnerable households through training in entrepreneurship that will result in the establishment of small businesses
This project will ensure that there is coordination and learning amongst partners and a robust monitoring of activities and impact assessment aimed at promoting a higher project effectiveness. The approach will emphasize close partner collaboration and coordination to facilitate sharing of recommendations, lessons learnt and best practices. There is also incorporated in the project the coming together of partners and their communities and beneficiaries in taking up some issues for lobbying and advocacy.
In bringing on board Justice for Children Trust, the project seeks to address the legal requirements of the children and give support to the partners in terms of advocating for changes in policies and laws in place to support and safe guard children. In addition JCT will support the children directly where there is need for legal intervention. |
Training for Transformation The Training for Transformation (TfT) for CCJPZ Coordinators and Spiritual Advisers Project seeks to enhance the capacity of Catholic church structures to provide “Civic/Public Education on Social Teachings of the Church, Peace Building, Conflict Mitigation and Management, Human Rights, Justice, Voting, Election Observation/Monitoring and other relevant justice and peace issues. This follows the strategic decision by CCJPZ to adopt TfT and use it as a tool to facilitate civic education and reflection on justice and peace. In and of itself TfT is founded on the realization of the need for a new generation of leaders in development who are self-motivated and whose thinking and practice is grounded in communities’ realities. It provides teams of leaders with skills and abilities to enhance communities to actively participate in development programmes that impact their lives. In particular, TfT is highly relevant to CCJPZ’s because of:(i) Freirean approach: The programme does not only focus on issues of social justice that CCJPZ is involved in, but it is largely Freirean because it sees the learner as an expert and the teacher as a facilitator. It is problem-posing rather than solution-teaching and it follows the energy of participants. (ii) Variety: The process draws on a variety of learning methods, theoretical inputs, large and small group discussion, creative expression such as sculpting, writing, art, movement, and simulations. It draws on real life dynamics, role plays and time for personal reflection. (iii) Learning by doing: The programme explores the development of community by creating a temporary learning community in the group itself. This affords participants a real-time experience of community building, informed by pieces of theory and opportunities to apply the workshop learning to real life. (iv) Relevance: The programme keeps the real-life struggles of creating social transformation in the room. It offers the opportunity to tease out real life situations in the group. Participants in the TfT are expected to be redeployed within various Parishes and CCJP structures to scale up civic education activities during the pre and post election period. |
Improving Participation of Women and Youth in Decision Making Structures through Livelihoods Through research, Masakhaneni has identified poverty as a key driving factor of conflict and discrimination with unresolved past injustices fueling conflict as well. The lack of livelihood options has left people fighting over the little resources that are there. Divisions in the community have occurred based on religious, ethical and political inclination. The project will therefore seek to address the issues of conflict, discrimination and violence by mobilizing communities around livelihood projects.
The overall objective of the project will be to contribute to conflict transformation, gender equality and good governance through improved livelihoods. This will be done through actions that seek to improve household income, reduce the politicization of leadership structures, improve women and youth’s access to resources and increase women participation in leadership structures.
The specific objective will be to promote sustainable peace through improved participation and resilience of communities in Enyandeni Resettlement Scheme of Gwanda District. |
District Lead Agency for Start Network Drought Early Action Systems – ZIMBABWE The Lead Start member Agency for each district is receiving funds from an ARC Replica pay-out or contingency fund disbursement from Start Network and would be accountable for implementing the Early Action interventions in the specific district along with their local partners (where applicable) and in complementarity with Start Network members and other humanitarian actors. Africa Risk Capacity [ARC] Replica is an insurance product offered by ARC Ltd to WFP and other humanitarian partners as an innovative approach to expand climate risk insurance coverage to more people and improve the effectiveness of emergency humanitarian response in vulnerable African countries prone to climate risks. Under the proposed START Network intervention, CAFOD based on the organizational profiles has been allocated Gokwe North & Binga districts to contribute to increasing early response capacity to drought. This proposed action from CAFOD, implemented through Caritas Hwange will ensure that affected vulnerable populations receive early support to avoid disrupting coping mechanisms, protect livelihoods, reduce the cost of the intervention and ultimately save more lives. |
Integrated Community Home Based Care -St Alberts Mission Hospital St Alberts Mission Hospital is a catholic Mission Hospital based in Chinhoyi Diocese. The hospital is particularly based in a vulnerable district of Centenary. It serves as District hospital but also as a referral hospital.It is a political hot spot and home to many commercial and small scale farms.This largely rural communal farming area sees a considerable amount of movements within the District and also people from other districts in search of employment. Children get abused as farm laborers , get abused as they search for livelihoods and are married off early, women engage in risky sexual behaviors in order to get money. Clients who are ambulant forget to adher to treatment and suffer from side effects of ARVs. Some generally become defaulters.
Thus wihin this context,
The Community Home Based Care programme of St Alberts Mission Hospital started off with an goal of sharing the burden of care of chronically ill patients with the community.
The programme is continuing with this goal and with the support of a strong network of people living with HIV and vibrant care givers..
The objectives of ths programme are as follows:
to have a close follow-up of all chronically discharged patients and provide with care and support
Bringing HIV and AIDS awareness to the communities through community networks
Promote prevention of HIV and other STIs and Opportunistic infections and re-infections amongst clients
Provide counselling to the patients and their families
Provide technical support and moral support to the volunteers
Promote food security amongst communities members, through agricultural initiatives and other income generating activities. |
Improved Access to and Control over Water and Sanitation Facilities for Marginalized Women in Mutare The WATSAN facilities in the peri-urban areas of Mutare are overwhelmed as a result of unplanned ‘operation restore order’ carried out by the government in 2006, which resulted in an abrupt drift of large numbers of people from urban to already over populated peri-urban areas that have a rural set-up, due to loss of shelter and sources of livelihood. The operation demolished illegal squatters’ homesteads with no planned alternative homestead destination for the forced emigrates from Mutare town. The majority of former squatters resolved to inhabit the peri-urban area of Mutare town resulting in an abrupt population boom in the peri-urban (-40km from the town boundary) of Mutare town. (Mutare urban population size + 150 000 people and Mutare peri-urban is population size is now +184 205 people). Improving sanitation services and water supply systems to the peri-urban poor of Mutare is an urgent priority that can have major positive impacts on gender, healthy, human dignity, economic productivity and the environment. This requires investment in local capacity development, improved operation and maintenance, establishment of new infrastructure, rehabilitation of existing infrastructures while mainstreaming cross cutting issues such as gender, HIV and AIDS, and livelihoods in all these interventions.
The overall purpose of the programme is to increase access to potable water and appropriate sanitation facilities for marginalised women, men and children of Gombakomba and Chishakwe peri urban wards of Mutare. The target number of households is 3,500 (over 11,000 females, 10,000 males).
Specifically the programme will have the following outputs:
•Water infrastructure improved
1.Protection of 5 natural spring for improved access to portable water for 390 households (1217 women and girls, 1123 men and boys) and livestock, where each spring would serve about 400 people in line with government standards. Water will be abstracted from the spring through gravity flow into a collector tank where beneficiaries will fetch water using their containers, system which is not new to all stakeholders.
2.Drilling and installation of 2 new boreholes: One bush pump borehole to improve access to clean and safe water for human consumption by reducing distances travelled from 1.5km to less than 500meters to the water point for 200 households (625 women and girls, 575 men and boys) in Chitakatira village. An electric powered borehole to be drilled and installed at Chishakwe Primary school to serve also the secondary school as well, thus, a total of 1360 school children (755 girls and 605 boys) and 41 teachers households (28 males and 13 females) would benefit.
3.Rehabilitation of 10 existing dysfunctional boreholes for improved access to safe water for 1053 households (3285 women and girls, 3033 men and boys). These water points were pre-determined and are government standards where less than 500 people utilize a borehole pump as the water point.
4.Establishment of water tanks at 2 schools as reservoirs for hand washing and drinking for 2,400 children (1,250 girls, 1,150 boys) and resident 60 teachers’ families (182 women and girls, 178 men and boys) during load shedding when piped water is not running. Establishment of a water tank at Chishakwe Clinic for clients water use, the health centre has a catchment of over 10000 people (about 6000 females and 4000 males) in Chishakwe ward 15 and Gombakomba ward 06.
5.Sanitation infrastructure improved through construction of a total of 25 multi-compartment government approved Blair Ventilated Improved Pit Latrines (BVIPs) for 2 schools without adequate facilities (1150 girls, 1400 boys), Chishakwe Clinic and assisting a total of 25 ultra poor households (80 women and girls, 70 men and boys) who defecate on the open to construct BVIPs.
6.Public Health and Hygiene education to 500 Lead Household heads ( 300 women and 200 men) for communities through training of 28 Village Health Workers (50% women) who will facilitate the formation of 14 community health clubs for spearheading the dissemination of health and hygiene information across the community (12,067 women and girls, 9,029 men and boys). 9 teachers (6 female, 3 male) will also be trained in Children’s Health and Sanitation Training (CHAST) so that they take the lead as school health masters facilitating the formation of 9 school health and hygiene clubs (100 girls, 80 boys).
7.Empowerment of women and revival of community management systems through establishment of 25 water point committees (200 women, 120 men), training of 52 village pump minders (28 women, 24 men) and 52 latrine builders training (28 women, 24 men). Women and men will also be trained in entrepreneurship and participate in self IGAs to boost own household incomes.
8.Gender mainstreaming in all institutional arrangements will be informed by a gender audit. Gender awareness campaigns and trainings will be facilitated among all stakeholders to impart knowledge and skills to mainstream gender in their work. Through the provision of access and adequate water closer to women’s homestead, the project will also reduces women and girl child’s risk to being sexually attacked as they would not fetch water during the night and more water would be available throughout the day time.
9.HIV and AIDS considerations: The programme will take into consideration the needs and requirements of people living with HIV and other affected groups, such as children, the elderly, and those with disabilities or chronic illnesses.150 households (425 females, 400 males) affected by HIV/AIDS derived from a register of the public health centre would be availed with the provision of horticultural inputs for the establishment of nutritional gardens for health harvest. Seed, fertiliser, and pesticides input voucher of US$15.00 would be availed by the programme and the beneficiaries would ought to top it up to US$30.00 as cash share own contribution. Producers of horticultural produce are asked for more than a 10% contribution as they will benefit significantly from crop sales expected to attain a monthly income of US$60/household on a 500m2 plot.
10.Knowledge management / Learning: the programme will focus on learning to ensure technologies piloted and good practices are documented and shared through photography, published journal paper review, reports and discussion at all levels (from communities to authorities at national/international audiences). Photovoice will be engaged to pilot use of photography and digital media. Households would benefit on the provision of safe water and equity access to water, through improved public health & hygiene education, consolidated by adopted good practises of freshwater & wetlands ecosystem protection and periodic water quality monitoring beyond the programme. Community based management systems will be relevant in ensuring protection and sustainable utilisation of water resources/sources with continuous monitoring of the catchment and water quality at large and beyond.
The action will be implemented over 24 months for the period February 2013 to January 2015. |
St Albert's Mission Hospital HBC Programme - To provide medical care and support at home for terminally ill clients referred from the mission hospital.
- To provide training in home-based care (HBC), counselling, and communication, to volunteer care givers.
- To increase food security through the provision of agricultural inputs to widows and orphan- headed families.
- To enable orphans to continue with their education through payment of school fees and purchasing of school uniforms.
- To disseminate information on HIV/AIDS, its roots of transmission, prevention and impacts on youths in and out of school as well as the general public for positive behaviour change.
- To conduct refresher courses for care givers and other health professionals in the health delivery system.
- To supervise and offer technical support to programme activities.
- To sensitise and raise awareness on the existence and benefits of voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) to the surrounding communities and general public.
- To support the establishment of more effective social support systems for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWA), orphans and vulnerable children, and further strengthen the already existing systems and structures.
- To provide training in basic financial management, book keeping and record keeping for project beneficiaries.
- To train and share experiences with the local traditional healers on the best integrated best practices on HIV/AIDS care, support, treatment and prevention.
- To train caregivers and people living with HIV/AIDS in the establishment of nutrition and herbal gardens within their community gardens. |
Zimbabwe Emergency Food Security Programme, CADEC Gweru A humanitarian response is being proposed in collaboration between the Catholic Church represented by Catholic Development Commission (CADEC) and CAFOD to address the critically low levels of food security for a large number of people of Zimbabwe.
CADEC and CAFOD propose to:
1. Scale-up and extend the existing supplementary food supply under the Livelihoods Programme (implemented in Zimbabwe since 2004 by diocesan CADECs and managed by CAFOD) in the districts of Binga, Matobo, Bulilima, Mangwe, Nyanga, and Seke to provide sufficient food per household to enable them to sustain their well-being through the following six months until the next harvest in April/May 2008.
2. Provide food through diocesan CADECs in Gokwe and Gweru Dioceses (non-Livelihoods Programme areas) where gaps in the present national response for emergency food aid have already been identified.
3. Provide seeds, fertiliser, associated technical support and a limited number of boreholes to the households in the areas receiving food (points 1 and 2 above). |
Access to water Chivi district This project will drill a total of 10 new boreholes and rehabilitate 10 boreholes in Chivi district to improve access to clean and safe water for human consumption by reducing distances travelled by women and children from up to 2km to less than 500 meters to the water point.
In order to establish community ownership, pre-borehole rehabilitation community consultations will be conducted with all stakeholders. These consultations will address the safety of proposed sites and protection risks, especially for women and children, the importance of accompanying hand-washing facilities and needs for persons with disabilities. Community-based pump minders (one per village) will be trained or re-trained in borehole maintenance and repair, not only to ensure quality, sustainable outputs for the project, but also to ensure community participation and support to maintain water infrastructure. Pump minders will be linked to Water Point Management Committees, where committees will be responsible for coordinating repairs with pump minders and assisting in fee acquisition from community members to maintain boreholes. Committee members will be trained in leadership functions and decision-making processes for water-point maintenance & operation. CAFOD will facilitate regular community planning and review meetings aimed at empowering communities to constantly review the programme. This feedback will assist CAFOD to adjust the programme if necessary, to ensure that it is driven by community aspirations and is relevant to the local context.
Health and Hygiene education for communities through training of 10 Village Health Workers (70% women) who will facilitate the formation of 10 community health clubs for spearheading the dissemination of health and hygiene information across the community (2,500 females and 1,500 males).
Empowerment of women and revival of community management systems through establishment of 20 water point committees (120 women, 80 men), training of village pump minders (24 women, 16 men). Village pump minders, who were all men due to negative cultural beliefs and practices that hinder participation of women, are no longer active because they are very old and no longer have equipment and capacity to repair the boreholes. The community-based management systems have since collapsed due to the decline in macro-economic environment which left communities unable to pay for basic services including maintenance of infrastructure. The project will also include promotion of vegetable gardens on high yielding water points in order to lessen the burden of looking for vegetable relish by women. Income Generation Activities (IGAs), Internal Savings and Landings (ISALs) and training in entrepreneurship will be introduced to Participatory Health and Hygiene Education (PHHE) clubs for income generation and enhance economic empowerment of women
Gender mainstreaming in all institutional arrangements will be informed by a gender audit to be carried out under the Match Fund WASH project. Gender awareness campaigns and trainings will be facilitated among all stakeholders to impart knowledge and skills to mainstream gender in their work (1 partner and 20 community-based committees).
Knowledge management / Learning: the programme will focus on learning to ensure that good practices and lessons are documented and shared through photography, reports and discussion at all levels (from communities to authorities to national/international audiences). |
Realising the Faith Potential This project intends to assist five Parishes from the Diocese of Chinhoyi to dialogue and communicate with their leaders as a method of negotiating for accountability, transparency and inclusiveness. The primary targets of the project would be community based justice and peace committees, traditional and political leaders. Participatory civic education – focusing on leadership skills, human rights, principles of good governance, research and advocacy and lobby – would be used as the main strategy. However, face to face meetings, public meetings and letter writing would also be used as ways of asking for accountability, transparency and inclusiveness. The program will start with a pre-implementation meeting or inception with the participating Diocese to share project information. This will be followed by Diocesan Training of Trainers where representatives from the five participating Parishes would be trained in order to share skills with others in their Parishes. Consequently, the participating communities will engage in research on pertinent governance issues and use the information to back up their advocacy positions. Finally, the program will end with a self-introspection exercise to assess the impact, best practices, challenges and lessons learnt for future programming |
Caritas Mutare Short Term Food Security Project Caritas Zimbabwe Mutare is seeking to extend the project which had been running from November 2009 to December 2010. Implementation of the project was preceded by a needs assessment which was conducted from the 24th to the 28th of August 2009. This was done in the Urban and peri-Urban areas of Mutare district. The result of the survey showed that the majority of the food insecure population groups were young widows, grandmothers headed households, child headed households and households with members affected or infected by HIV and AIDS. Food insecure households were those with food consumption score of =35.
The programme period was too short this should be a developmental rather than a relief programme. Hence we need at least one to two years to complete the project and also measure impact. The projects in the urban are very backward since after 9 months they are still at land preparation and provision of water stage while in the peri-urban the communities have sold more than three crops now.
For the second phase CARITAS MUTARE proposes the
At Mai Maria and Kentucky irrigation land preparation and demarcation, water and canal and tank construction and electricity fixing is still in progress. This means that the projects or beneficiaries will start to do meaning full farming by end of December 2010. These two schemes have a total of 401 beneficiaries each with 500 square metres arable land.
The number of beneficiaries for the project phase 2 would be 1500 from 2500 after dropping phase 1 beneficiaries based on project impact monitoring and evaluation analysis.Careful selection of farmers in potential areas of Chishakwe, Gombakomba and Dora in the communal and individuals is going to be carried out. A comprehensive analysis will be done for each farmer performance in the said areas. Beneficiary selection for project phase 2 is based on the state of food insecurity of beneficiaries as at close of project phase 1. The targeted number of beneficiary is 1500 beneficiaries and only 1053 beneficiaries would be eligible for the provision of inputs based on their state of food security as project phase 1 ends. From project phase 1, only 1500 beneficiaries qualifed for project phase 2, about 1000 beneficiaries were dropped as they were found to be ineligible for project phase 2, based on project phase 1 impact assessment. Of the dropped 1000 beneficiaries, 183 beneficiaries dropped out of the project for reasons that cannot be corrected (lack of interest/land/capacity or personal circumstances) and 817 beneficiaries were dropped out of project phase 2 as they have already achieved the project goals of food security (income/FCS) by end of October 2010. 1500 beneficiaries are targeted for project phase 2 as they did not yet achieve the project goal of food security (income/FCS) by end of October 2010.
Based on the project phase 1 impact assessment, of the targeted 1500 beneficiaries, 1053 benficiaries would be mobilised for the provision of inputs of US$20.00 per beneficiary, as project phase 2 activities are informed by project phase 1 impact analysis. Caritas Zimbabwe Mutare will mobilise those beneficiaries not eligible for inputs to buy their own inputs from their improved income. The programme will prioritise mainstreaming gender, disability, child protection, HIV/AIDS, and Environmental management. The project will drop the e-voucher for work component since most of the work for farmers to be given the vouchers has been done and the objectives of this component have been met. The communities were supposed to work and be given food for three months before their produces are a sold or consumed and this was done already in the previous phase.
Horticultural demonstration plots would be set as look and learn field plots. A total of 5 demonstration plots would be set, each in Chishakwe, Gombakomba, Dora, Amai Maria and Kentucky irrigation scheme. Income from the demonstration plots would contribute towards the service and maintenance of communities’ common resource properties like boreholes, rehabilitation of canals and irrigation pumps.
Intensification of efforts on the water component, the establishment of irrigation management systems and capacity building of beneficiaries in critical areas such as group dynamics, marketing, management skills, advocacy and lobbying will be made one of the top priorities of phase 2 of the programme. A farm shed would be established on both Kentucky and Amai Maria irrigation schemes. Additional one electric irrigation water supply borehole pumps is to be installed, each at Kentucky and Amai Maria irrigation schemes. |
Match Fund 3 Participatory Budgeting Program for Caritas Hwange The advent of Match-Fund 3 has seen Caritas Hwange adopting an issue on increasing citizen involvement in budget making processes with a view to solicit for increased state-funding for the maintenance and sustenance of water sources being rehabilitated by Match-Fund 3. MF3 sought to increase resilience from climate induced shocks and stresses with a view of increasing sustainable and climate resilient agricultural practices.
Binga, is located in the agro-regions four and five in Zimbabwe, which are heavily characterized by low rainfall patterns and incessant droughts. It is listed as one of the poorest and underdeveloped communities in Zimbabwe often neglected and falling out of the priority zone at both local and central planning paradigms. Despite years of sustained state led and non-state development interventions, underdevelopment has continued unabated in Binga communities with very little imprints of positive strides ; with the later (NGOs) being the main driver of development, an indicator of [local] state neglect.
The current development planning has been centralized albeit at local level, with authorities planning, implementing and evaluating themselves without the Involvement of the local communities in decision making; a move which has been partly attributed to the current underdevelopment and failed state interventions.
It is against this background that C/H wishes to implement a comprehensive Participatory Budgeting advocacy exercise. The exercise will be done in a two-pronged approach; that is capacitating the demand side of development and the supply side. The basic idea behind the demand side is to increase knowledge, awareness and skills of engaging with authorities by rights holders through participating in the budget making process and tracking it there after and evaluating it at the end of the financial year. The other side of the equation will involve training and lobbying the duty bears to increase transparency which is seen as the avenue to accountability with the sole objective of increasing efficiency. The end game is basically to in-calculate a culture of participatory state-led development which responds to the local needs of the community including the poor, marginalized and those living with inability- in short our goal is to have development that puts the poor people first as an add on to our resilience thinking.
With council and the local communities engaging each other, there is a sense in which possible sustainability will be reached in terms of the project objects. The initiative endeavor's that rights holders begin to use public water resources with probity based on our theory of change pinned on the thinking that when communities are engaged, they will own the agenda and pay for it hence they will not destroy-guarding against a potential tragedy of the commons. |
Zimbabwe Relief and Early Recovery Programme 2010 - CAFOD Harare CAFOD Harare provides technical support to CI Implementing partners including Caritas Masvingo, Caritas Chinhoyi, Caritas Gokwe and Caritas Gweru. The action responds to food security needs of the most vulnerable households including People living with HIV and AIDS, orphans and vulnerable children, and households headed by people with disabilities, by children or by women.
The programme components are food aid, water and sanitation and Internal saving and lending schemes. Targeted Vulnerable Group Feeding activities provide monthly rations for 6 months to 750 households and for a total of 3,750 individuals (calculated at 5 people per household) – three partners’ including Caritas Masvingo, Caritas Chinhoyi and Caritas Gweru. Caritas Gokwe prioritised water and sanitation interventions. The rations for the VGF was of 50kg of maize meal, 3.75 ml of cooking oil and 7.5 Kg of sugar beans per household per month. These rations meet the international required standards. The use of internal savings and lending schemes aimed to increase the capacity of the local communities in providing flexible, innovative and alternative activities for their livelihoods geared towards community sustainability have been piloted by Caritas Gweru and Caritas Masvingo. |
Increase public awareness and understanding of the year of mercy through sustained media engagement This Project seeks to develop newspaper and social media platforms as a means to enhance the advocacy work of the church and its stakeholders, to communicate the message of the church to society and to help propagate human rights and call for government accountability to the citizens of Zimbabwe.
As the political and economic situation in Zimbabwe becomes increasingly unbearable a more robust intervention is needed by the church before political intolerance and poor governance results in an unmanageable crisis. The church has to encourage people and to direct them in times of crisis. The position of the Church need to be made known and media tools are channels through which the voice of the church can be heard. Social media tools and publications have been identified as useful means to give a voice to the voiceless and to give a platform where the poor can express their views without fear or favour. In this regard the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops’ Conference, Social Communications Commission has started a newspaper that is meant to spearhead advocacy for political tolerance, good governance, peace and reconciliation with special attention to the Year of Mercy. This newspaper needs to be complimented by other media platforms and social media in advancing the process of peace and reconciliation. The Church feels that there would be an information gap as a result of non availability of information mediums and thus the Catholic newspaper was founded to compliment other information platforms. It will be an important tool of engagement, challenging the accountability of government and those in leadership positions. With climate change affecting many people especially in this country, the newspaper and other media tools like websites and social media will be important in raising awareness on the effects of this new phenomenon. People especially those in rural areas need to be prepared and alerted about impending disasters. The newspaper will be a national project since it will cover all dioceses which means the whole country while social media messages will be directed to all those who possess modern media technologies in form of watsapp and text messages.
Raising awareness is on the major issues of the day such as climate change, inequality and poverty which are the concerns of the year of Mercy is pertinent. The government also needs to know how the situation is like in different parts of the country without bias as in government papers. With the vast work the church is doing in Zimbabwe, it is important to have media tools that support its activities by highlighting its contribution to the underprivileged. The Church is a major stakeholder in this country, hence its voice should be heard loud and clear through public media such as a newspaper, websites and social media that will represent those who are often neglected and marginalized. More and more information is going unrecorded in the Church while awareness is still lacking in many parts of the country that many people are ignorant about what affects them. Because of lack of informative and educative information, there is a widening gap between the rich and the poor with the ideology of the rich becoming dominant in all circles. Different arms of the church support the livelihoods of the Zimbabwean population while the church fights for justice and peace for the poor majority. With Climate Change affecting the country people want to be made aware and warned about impending disasters. |
WASH In Schools Gokwe North and South CAFOD in partnership with UNICEF will strengthen WASH in Schools in Gokwe North and Gokwe South, both in ensuring quality control in recent and current programs, capacity building of district authorities and upgrading WASH facilities. UNICEF will do this through a partnership with CAFOD which will also work in partnership with Caritas. In 2020-21 in Gokwe North and Gokwe South districts of Midlands Province, UNICEF implemented a WinS programme in 69 school with objective of contributing to improving learning outcomes through provision of safe and suitable WASH to learners and teachers.
Quality issues were found in 59 of the 69 schools upon completion of the works. This left outstanding works in 59 schools as well as overall concerns about district authority engagement, ownership and oversight. As such, under this PD, CAFOD will ensure all works in the 59 schools are completed to agreed standards. Further, CAFOD will 1) strengthen engagement and capacity of the district authorities, namely District Education Officer, District Education Inspector and the District Water and Sanitation Sub-Committee members and 2) periodically visit the 69 schools and ensure adequate feedback is obtained to ensure no further repercussions are found due to inadequate quality control in the 2020-21 program.
Additionally, 20 new schools will be improved under this PD. In partnership with UNICEF, CAFOD will rehabilitate water supplies, construct group hand washing facilities and latrines, revive the school health clubs and build capacity for the operation and maintenance of the provided infrastructure. This will bring the total to 79 schools that will be implemented by CAFOD in the two districts, Gokwe North and South. |
Food Aid Support for Vulnerable Households - Caritas Chinhoyi Caritas Chinhoyi is located in Mashonaland Central province. The province falls under agro-ecological region 5 of Zimbabwe characterized by low and poorly distributed rainfall. Average summer temperatures are around 30oC with a mean annual rainfall of around 300mm. The proposed project will be implemented in Mbire district in Chinhoyi Diocese. The district traditionally grows sorghum though some farmers still try to plant maize which perennially disappoints due to unfavourable soil and climatic conditions.
Project beneficiaries are the most vulnerable households comprising of child headed, elderly headed, women headed, home base care patients and households with chronically ill dependents. A total of 1,000 most vulnerable households will be targeted which equates to 5,000 people. Angwa ward 3 and 11 were prioritized as the most food insecure wards in the district for this intervention in consultation with the district authorities. Beneficiary identification and registration was conducted using the Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) method whereby households participated in the identification of households to benefit using local vulnerability and poverty indicators.
The project aims to reduce the proportion of people who suffer from hunger and extreme poverty. It is expected that the project will increase the quality and quantity of meals consumed and also increase in the availability and access of food commodities at household level. A total of 365.46 mt of maize meal (300 mt), sugar beans (45 mt) and vegetable oil (20.46) will be procured, delivered to partner warehouses and distributed to targeted households. This project will give 10kgs of maize meal, 1.5kgs of sugar beans and 0.682kgs of vegetable oil per person per month to a maximum of 5 people per household. A total of 1,000 households are targeted translating to 5,000 beneficiaries who will receive food for 6 months. It is anticipated that adequate food supplies will be distributed to the targeted households hence beneficiaries will be food secure for six months in the hungriest period.
The extent of food insecurity and its impact on basic services is significant. Many households including the disabled, elderly, people affected by HIV and AIDS, and orphans and vulnerable children in particular are most vulnerable to the impact of economic and political instability and the resultant food insecurity. They are struggling to meet their basic needs. Despite some marginal improvement in national cereal production (0.7t/ha), many of these most vulnerable households in Mbire district remain chronically food insecure.
Food insecurity amongst poor and vulnerable households is further compounded by the fact that many health centres now require patients to bring their own food and medication to the health centres. Many people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA) have insufficient food to support their ARV and medication regimes leading to poor drug adherence. Malnourishment of PLWHA further reduces the effectiveness of their medication. As many extremely vulnerable households are affected by HIV and other illnesses, the provision of food rations in the particularly hungry months are needed to complement long term livelihoods and food security support. This project will support the short term provision of food rations for extremely vulnerable populations. |
Cross Partner Learning The grant is for facilitating cross learning among HIV and CP partners. The project will focus specifically on HIV , gender and child protection work.
Partners will do a reflection of work that has been done on these thematic areas with support from CAFOD. The reflection seeks to identify successes, challenges encountered during implementation. coupled with this reflection, a context analysis will inform of current trends and well as location specific issues in the area of HIV and CP. Reflections and context analysis will be both internal and external with key stakeholders.
Key activities to be undertaken include
i. Context analysis of gender, HIV and child protection in the different areas where CAFOD and partners operate
ii. Reflection and review of work already done - A partners’ meeting to facilitate sharing of reflection and context analysis findings
iii. Identification of gaps and opportunities for collaboration and further work
The partners meeting will include current CAFOD partners working in the identified areas, other agencies, potential partners as well as key stakeholders such as The Ministry of Health and Child Care, Ministry of Education, inclusion of those responsible for livelihoods as well as Min of Youth, Gender and even small enterprises and CAFOD sister agencies |
Zimbabwe Emergency Food Security Programme, CADEC Mutare A humanitarian response is being proposed in collaboration between the Catholic Church represented by Catholic Development Commission (CADEC) and CAFOD to address the critically low levels of food security for a large number of people in Zimbabwe.
CADEC and CAFOD propose to:
1. Scale-up and extend the existing supplementary food supply under the Livelihoods Programme (implemented in Zimbabwe since 2004 by diocesan CADECs and managed by CAFOD) in the districts of Binga, Matobo, Bulilima, Mangwe, Nyanga, and Seke to provide sufficient food per household to enable them to sustain their well-being through the following six months until the next harvest in April/May 2008.
2. Provide food through diocesan CADECs in Gokwe and Gweru Dioceses (non-Livelihoods Programme areas) where gaps in the present national response for emergency food aid have already been identified.
3. Provide seeds, fertiliser, associated technical support and a limited number of boreholes to the households in the areas receiving food (points 1 and 2 above). |
Supporting Food Assistance in Prison Settings in Zimbabwe - Caritas Gweru This is a collaborative project between CAFOD and Tearfund (TF). CAFOD is acting as the lead agency while Tearfund is acting as a consortium member.
The programme aims to improve food assistance in prisons in Zimbabwe, specifically to improve the quantity and variety of legumes and vegetables produced for inmates at prisons. The programme will be implemented by Caritas Gweru and Caritas Harare (CAFOD partner) and Churches in Bulawayo (Tearfund partner), in five prisons (feeding 14 prisons) in three provinces of Matabeleland, Mashonaland and Manicaland as a response to improving the health conditions of prisoners.
Primary programme beneficiaries are prisoners, also considered as vulnerable. A total of 4,627 prisoners from 14 prisons will benefit from increased and varied food production and assistance from the five prison farms. Over 95% of total beneficiaries are male and 5% are female prisoners. 325 prisoners will benefit from training in farming management and horticulture that will improve their livelihoods skills both in prison and upon release. 10 farm prison staff will benefit from training in all aspects of farm management.
Approximately 2,000 staff at 14 prisons in the three regions will benefit indirectly from improved working conditions and reduced stress from the conditions previously common in prisons. Families of the 4,627 prisoners will also benefit indirectly as they will no longer be obliged to travel long distances to prisons to provide food for their relatives. It is anticipated that 325 prisoners who will receive training while in prison will carry on their skills and knowledge with them when they are released potentially supporting their families in the future. |
START Fund Response to Floods in Zimbabwe [Binga District] Binga district received heavy rains that started on the 8th February 2020 which continued uninterrupted for more than 2 days. These rains resulted in flooding in some parts of Binga district [ Sinakoma Ward 5]. A total of 13 villages were affected severely by the floods. The floods have left at least 400 households without basic shelter, food, basic sanitation facilities, clothing, blankets and safe and clean water. Nsungwale primary school and Sinakoma clinic that service these communities have been affected by the floods. Reports from DCPU are indicating that at least one life has been lost since the floods began.
The proposed project aims to address the immediate short-term needs of affected people, to reduce further damage of life and property, whilst alleviating suffering among affected people.
The project intends to:
1. Increase access to clean and safe water (since all water points have been washed away by the floods). This will involve provision of water treatment tablets (provided as a gift in kind from UNICEF approx. value £2000.00), training of communities on water treatment through Participatory Health and Hygiene Promotion (PHHP); and drilling two boreholes to improve access to clean and safe water
2. Improve access to basic sanitation services at the school, clinic and community through rehabilitation of public latrines.
3. Provide non-food items required for daily livelihoods activities and dignity of people, especially women and girls, including buckets, soap, aqua tabs, kitchen utensils, dignity kits. |
Putting Children First in Zimbabwe - Restless Development This project, to be implemented with in partnership with 9 Children Centred Partners in select areas in Zimbabwe, aims to respond to the needs of children identified during the partners work with vulnerable communities.
Programme Goal: To ensure vulnerable children in Harare and Chinhoyi have access to the essential services and resources they need to live sustainably, with dignity.
The expected outcomes are:
1. 180 Households (with vulnerable children) have increased their purchasing power and access to basic items.
2. A dynamic network of partners is established and the project is implemented based on the real and current needs and interests of the target populations.
3. Partners will have an increased capacity to deliver positive change through effective programmes and services prioritised by them and the communities they serve.
Specific activities include:
? Support 30 IGA groups (with 5 older children in each) to form, and monitor their progress
? Training for transformation (5 day course) for 30 people (1 rep from each of the IGA groups)
? IGA representatives to cascade the training to their local peers (during their group meetings)
? Train 30 IGA groups in business management, financial literacy, marketing etc so they can produce a business plan
? Make 30 IGA start-up grants of $800 each (for equipment / tools / materials etc) according to the needs expressed in business plans.
? Support 30 young people for vocational training courses, and follow up in communities to ensure they can put their new skills into practice.
? Participate and attend the Project start up / launch meeting with all other partners to confirm activities/roles/responsibilities and develop baseline methodology
? Conduct a participatory baseline survey examining the needs and interests of children and young people in the target communities in Harare and Chinoyi
? Conduct sensitisation meetings with the respective communities to launch the project and ensure local authorities, community leaders etc are supportive
? Attend quarterly meetings of all the participating partners to share ideas, best practices and to govern the direction of the project
? Participate in child protection training
? Participate in child participation training |
Justice for Children Trust -Putting Children First in Zimbabwe Justice for Children Trust (JCT)’s experience in Harare and Chinhoyi has revealed the need for comprehensive services which include legal interventions to enhance a safe, secure and supportive environment that is conducive to child growth and development. Lack of a proper referral directory and follow up mechanism among partners working with children has seen children failing to properly access and benefit from the justice delivery system. JCT will capitalise on the collaboration that this project presents to use the available resources to avail free legal support to children seeking recourse and protection through the legal system and more particularly, to strengthen the capacity of the children to demand for accountability from duty bearers.
JCT’s project focuses on building the confidence of children to express their needs and interests as well as ensuring that children are included in decision making regarding policies and practices that affect them. This will be achieved through the following activities.
• 30 Child Protection Committee representatives and 30 Chiefs and local leadership will be trained.
• 70 child peer educators and child parliamentarians will be consulted on issues that affect children which will then be discussed with members of the senior Parliament.
• Two Dialogue meetings will be held with 20 participants who include the children to create a platform for children to engage law and policy makers on issues that affect them.
• The organisation will also produce pamphlets simplifying the law and the rights of children which will be distributed in schools and participants during other activities.
JCT primarily targets boys and girls below the age of 18 years who are in difficult circumstances. The organisation encourages equal participation in all its activities. It however realises that girls are more vulnerable to abuse particularly sexual abuse and that faced with social and economic challenges families usually start by sacrificing the rights of the girl child who may be forced to drop from school and into early marriage. Girls are also more affected by the HIV and AIDS pandemic as they are the first to look after siblings when orphaned and their sick parents. This again deprives them of their fundamental rights.
The project is anchored on child participation hence JCT will work with children in its Child Law Forum Project and the child parliamentarians and councilors to reach to other children and communities. JCT has been partnering with the Ministry of Education, Sports, Arts and Culture in schools in Harare and Chinhoyi where children have formed Child Law Forum Clubs. The children will also be involved in lobbying and advocacy activities. |
Putting Children First-Mashambanzou Care Trust The proposed project builds on a consortium programme entitled “Putting Children First” (PCF) that CAFOD has been implementing in collaboration with 8 partners in Zimbabwe since April 2011. PCF works with community-based partners to run regular clubs/outreach services for vulnerable children and young people, and links them to technical expert partners for support with livelihoods activities, HIV counselling and trauma care, and access to legal services. Each partner contributes a unique specialism to the network, and all are able to learn from the experiences and best practices of the members as well as refer cases to each other when necessary. The issues of violence against children outlined above have been emerging from all consortium partners as key problems from their respective constituencies, which they wish to tackle in more depth. On this basis, three of the PCF partners – Mavambo Trust, Mashambanzou Care Trust and St Albert’s Mission Hospital - will work with CAFOD to build upon and expand their activities to combat violence against children. A final evaluation of PCF will be conducted in July 2013 and key lessons and recommendations will be integrated into this action. The consortium members who are not partners for the purposes of this action will be engaged in order to maintain the strengths of the consortium in terms of linkages, referrals, and speaking with one voice on key advocacy issues.
The Goal: Improved children’s access to essential protection services in Zimbabwe
Outcomes:
1. Established community-level volunteer systems to provide immediate support and services to children
2. Improved children’s access to existing education, health and social services
3. Improved children’s access to birth registration/legal identity documents |
Citizens Participation for Increased Democratisation in Zimbabwe In year 4 and 5 of the programme, CCJP Zimbabwe will be concentrating their work on the following:
Output 1.Church leaders are better able to propose actionable pro-poor recommendations to government
Activities for Output 1
-Pre-implementation meetings to plan project activities and strategies; dates, venues, stakeholders etc.
-Publication of Pastoral Letters by Catholic Church leaders on injustices in the production, pricing and marketing of agricultural products s
-Quarterly CCJPZ information sharing with the CCJPZ Bishop Chair and Chairpersons from other Heads of Christian Denominations (EFZ, UDACIZA and ZCC)
-Presentation of the named governance issue by CCJPZ to ZCBC meeting to solicit their support of the programme
-One day meetings with individual Parish Priests in the 3 participating parishes in the dioceses to brief them on the prioritised governance issue(s) for their support
Output Two: Justice and Peace Commissions effectively utilise and enlarge opportunities for civic engagement, support citizens to articulate their rights and collaborate for accountable and responsive governance.
Activities for Output 2:
-One day National information sharing meetings with other 7 dioceses to understand the situation on pricing, production and marketing of agricultural products and the relevant engagements with leaders to nationalise the governance issues
-Drafting 2 policy documents: one on the production, pricing and marketing of agricultural products and the necessary engagements between leaders and citizens.
-Four one day meetings with relevant parliamentary portfolio committees to present the policy documents
-Publishing quarterly ‘Governance Tracking’ press statements on pricing, production and marketing of agriculture products and the relevant engagements with leaders using information from the participating parishes and other dioceses
-Two one-day All Stakeholders Conference on Pricing, Production and Marketing of Agricultural Products
-National one-day meetings with the House of Assembly Members, Senators and Governor from the participating parishes
-Printing and disseminating 900 fliers (300 for each parish) and 900 t-shirts with messages on pricing, production and marketing of agricultural products and the relevant engagements with leaders
-Formulating and publishing a Good Governance Training Manual to be used by participating parishes to enhance skills and knowledge transfer on good governance (350 copies)
-Providing technical assistance to CCJPZ actors in the participating parishes and other dioceses as they carry out continuous gender sensitive information gathering on production, pricing and marketing of agricultural products and the relevant engagements with local and national leaders
Output Three: More citizens, including/especially women and members of marginalised groups, confidently and effectively network, communicate, negotiate and engage with the state.
Activities for Output 3
-Two-day meeting to discuss and strategise information gathering and advocacy and lobby initiatives on pricing, production and marketing of agricultural products and the relevant engagements with leaders (for 5 men and women from each participating parish)
-Gender sensitive information gathering on pricing, production and marketing of agricultural products and the relevant engagements with leaders. The task will be carried out in 4 days by 5 men and women from each participating parish)
-1 day commitment meetings to share information and advocacy and lobby with local agricultural institutions and local leaders. Each Parish would organise its own information sharing, advocacy and lobby meeting at parish level.
-1 day engagement meetings for 20 men and women (including local councillor) to local agricultural institutions in order to understand how they operate to advocate and lobby for improvements (x 3 meetings).
-1 day engagement meetings for 20 men and women(including local MP and Senator) with the national agricultural institutions – Tobacco Marketing Board, Grain Marketing Board and other related institutions to understand how they operate in order to advocate and lobby for improvements. |
Drought Response 2020 in Zimbabwe in Gokwe Districts The extremely high temperatures and low rains experienced during the early part of the 2019 to 2020 season affected plant germination and resulted in the permanent wilting of crops in UMP and Gokwe which are the operational areas for MF6. Some smallholder farmers replanted twice with crops failing to withstand the dry spells. This has exacerbated nutrition risks resulting in an increase in moderate and acute malnutrition cases as reported by the District Nutritionists. The rivers, underground water table and dam levels are low thereby affecting irrigation and availability of water for livestock watering. The low dam and river water levels also affect post rainfall season agricultural activities including pastures for livestock which play significant roles in food production and contribute towards household food and nutrition Security. This has a high likelihood of affecting the project results of the Match fund 6 Project being implemented in UMP and Gokwe Districts .
To mitigate against the mentioned impact of the current situation of MF6 beneficiaries, the crises modifier would like to implement the following activities:
(i) improve access to safe and clean [and productive] water
(ii) increase access to and consumption of protein rich foods
(iii) fodder production and
(iv) catchment area protection |
Jesuit Youth AIDS Programme - To increase the level of HIV and AIDS and STIs information and knowledge among young people in schools and youth clubs in colleges and communities/churches
- To influence positive behaviour practices relevant to preventing the spread of HIV among young people through behavioral change/maintanance and Peer Education programmes
- To enable young people to conduct focus discussion groups with their peers and develop activities that assist people infected and affected by HIV and AIDS
- To enable young people to prevent themselves from HIV and STIs infection by giving them accurate information about the diseases through peer education
- To contribute to the reduction in stigma attached to HIV and AIDS by imparting knowledge on positive, healthy relationships, life skills( such as negotiating skills, assertiveness, self awareness, communication) and gender sensitivity among young people
- To increase the level of community institutional support for young people to effectively participate in their own HIV and AIDS and STIs prevention programmes and care initiatives.
- To build the organisation's capacity to deliver quality service. |
CRS START Fund ( Civil Unrest Response ) This project responds to the Zimbabwe Civil unrest in Zimbabwe which was as a result of a fuel price increase of over 150% announced on January 12th. Responding to the immediate increase, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Union (ZCTU) and several civil society organisations called for a total national shutdown which people took heed of. All services were shut off and in order to control social media interactions which were regarded as the main medium of calling for the shutdown, there was total internet shutdown by the Government of Zimbabwe. While it is a constitutional right to demonstrate in a peaceful way, the demonstrations turned violent with barricades, roadblocks, and looting. In response, police and military moved to break up the demonstrations employing disproportionate physical force, followed by a campaign of house to house searches. As part of the searches, indiscriminate and targeted assaults and arrests have been widely reported. There are many reports of temporary displacement as residents fled or sought to hide. Numbers are likely to significantly exceed documented cases. For example, the Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) and Catholic Commission of Justice and Peace (CCJP), both with a national reach in the country’s 10 provinces and with direct contact with the affected, confirmed 600 people have been affected by violent assaults (including rape which is presumed to be under reported given anecdotal accounts). Many of those detained were denied access to medical treatment. Medical facilities were overwhelmed in the immediate aftermath and only those with the worst wounds were treated. As a result, many who are in urgent need of medical care, remain without it. |
Humanitarian Capacity Strengthening Project, Caritas Zimbabwe (PEOPLE Project HR CAFOD contribution) This project is a salary top up contribution to the EU AID Volunteers funded PEOPLE project. This project complements ZIM 583 [PEOPLE EU Volunteers capacity strengthening project - Caritas Zimbabwe (Nat Office, Harare, Gokwe )] which is part of the wider EU Aid Volunteers funded PEOPLE project, working with 10 organisations across Africa. The main purpose of the PEOPLE project is to enable local and national organisations such as the Caritas Zimbabwe 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 staff will provide support throughout this process.
The project objectives are to:
1. Strengthen humanitarian preparedness & response capacity of Caritas Zimbabwe to design and deliver needs based humanitarian aid.
2. Strengthen volunteer management capacity of Caritas Zimbabwe to facilitate integration & active participation of volunteers in humanitarian action.
3. Strengthen collective dialogue, knowledge sharing, learning and peer- to-peer support between Caritas Zimbabwe on emergency response and volunteers. |
Zimbabwe Emergency Food Security Programme, CADEC National Office A humanitarian response is being proposed in collaboration between the Catholic Church represented by Catholic Development Commission (CADEC) and CAFOD to address the critically low levels of food security for a large number of people in Zimbabwe.
CADEC and CAFOD propose to:
1. Scale-up and extend the existing supplementary food supply under the Livelihoods Programme (implemented in Zimbabwe since 2004 by diocesan CADECs and managed by CAFOD) in the districts of Binga, Matobo, Bulilima, Mangwe, Nyanga, and Seke to provide sufficient food per household to enable them to sustain their well-being through the following six months until the next harvest in April/May 2008.
2. Provide food through diocesan CADECs in Gokwe and Gweru Dioceses (non-Livelihoods Programme areas) where gaps in the present national response for emergency food aid have already been identified.
3. Provide seeds, fertiliser, associated technical support and a limited number of boreholes to the households in the areas receiving food (points 1 and 2 above). |
Hospital feeding project in the Archdiocese of Bulawayo Caritas Germany has been supporting various catholic institutions in the Archdiocese of Bulawayo by provision of food supplies specially to those who are admitted in catholic hospitals and who require nutritional support due to regular intake of medication. Government of Germany extended their financial assistance for another term and CG appraoched CAFOD to facilitate these projects through diocesan Caritas otherwise known as CADEC Harare.
Men, women and children who seek medical assistance in Catholic hospitals have no other place to turn for support. As health system has completely broken down in many cases the catholic church institutions are the only hope for poor people who can not afford to travel to South Africa or Botswana to get medical assistance. All hospitals record substantial number of people attend for regular check ups mostly are chronically ill. Some of them may recieve drugs from state sources but will have no support for food intake which is all the more needed when such drugs are administered.
The inpatients and nursing students who support clinics and hospital during their training period will recive feeding at their premises. Out patients who are chronicall ill and malnourished will receive dry ration which can be cooked and consumed at their homes. The respective hospital will keep seperate register for food supplies used for wet feeding as well as dry food distribution. The selected hospital staff also will receive dry ration as agreed.
CADEC Bulawayo assume the responsibility of monitoring and field level reporting of this project. Caritas Germany will lead procurement of food supplies and ensure its delivery by mid November. The food distribution will takesplace from third week of November and will continue till February 2010. CAFOD will hold the contract with Caritas Germany and facilitate the process of identifying actual needs, orient staff, developing MoUs with coordinating CADEC, support to develop ToRs between CADEC and hospitals to ensure the project delivers what is intended. |
Tapping Into Renewable Energy Resources The objective of the innovation is to learn about the feasibility of using renewable supply of cheap electric energy to power other essential facilities such as night lights and the existing irrigation farm shade and reduce risk of crop and equipment theft. The project will also evaluate the capacity of the beneficiaries to operate and maintain such systems.
Electrified farm shed would avail the provision of installing computers, printers and overhead projectors for farmers’ record keeping and learning. Farm tower lights will be installed to secure the irrigation scheme infrastructure where cases of theft in the form of crops and fence have been reported despite guarding in the thickness of the night.
CAFOD, working with Caritas Mutare and the irrigation scheme beneficiaries, propose to develop a Micro Hydro Power scheme at Mai Maria irrigation scheme in Mutare on the existing gravity fed water pipeline which discharges (4l/s) water into the main reservoir (200m3) for the purpose of generating electricity to power the existing farm shade and for night security lighting of the irrigation scheme. The innovation will be done in a participatory way. Other stakeholders at both district level will be brought on board so that as the innovations are done, learning will also be taking place. Ideas on how to do it will be solicited from people with different expertise. Technicians from government departments such as District Development Fund (DDF), Public Works and Engineers from the Department of Irrigation who are already providing technical back-up to irrigation scheme, will take a lead during the installation and performance evaluation of the system. They will train the beneficiary committees on operation and maintenance of the system and continue to provide technical support to the beneficiaries beyond the life span of the project like they are doing to other donor funded projects managed by communities. Although no major regular maintenance is anticipated given that the the system is simple and its lifespan is measured in dacades, beneficiaries will also be linked to local Hardware shops which stock relevant accessories to avoid prolonged downtime in case of technical faults. |
Strengthening Zimbabwe – Swaziland solidarity in the context of the SADC Summit The goal of the Project is to advance common advocacy positions for Swaziland and Zimbabwean Civil Society on democratization, human rights and socio-economic justice during the 36th SADC Summit to be held in Swaziland in August 2016. Against the backdrop of the SADC Heads of State Summit and the SADC People's Summit representatives from Swaziland and Zimbabwe shall also conduct a solidarity meeting to enhance regional level lobby and advocacy for stronger SADC efforts to adress ongoing democracy, human rights and governance challenges in both countries. In preparation for the SADC processes consultative meetings shall be held in Zimbabwe and Swaziland to come up with CSO positions to SADC. Key activities to be undertaken as part of the Project are: i. Convening of a National People’s Summit in Zimbabwe through which various CSOs will gather to develop a position on the SADC Summit; ii. support for a Zimbabwe CSO delegation to travel to meet with Swaziland Civil Society; iii. hosting of a solidarity meeting for Zimbabwean and Swaziland CSOs and iv. presentation of common positions to SADC leaders gathered at the Summit. |
Youth Voices Forums taking the Voice of the Church Louder CCJP is elevating the work on social accountability spearheaded by youth structures (dubbed Youth Voices Forums) that CCJP established, trained and moulded over the past years. In the past phase, the project enhanced youth participation in decision making and meaningful dialogue between youth and respective powerholders/duty bearers in Chinhoyi Dioceses targets 4 communities. There is evidence of youth agency in influencing accountability by powerholders at varying levels, including at traditional governance. The current phase (April 2023- March 2024) learns from the past phase and adapts to emerging issues within the Covid context, aims at contributing to building of resilient communities in Chinhoyi Diocese. The project realises the role of peace building as an entry point to governance programming with lessons from the social accountability approach and explores integrating a livelihoods component in realisation of the interconnectedness of the political and social issues. |
Putting Children First in Zimbabwe - Island Hospice This project, to be implemented with in partnership with 9 Children Centred Partners in select areas in Zimbabwe, aims to respond to the needs of children identified during the partners work with vulnerable communities.
Programme Goal: To ensure vulnerable children in Harare and Chinhoyi have access to the essential services and resources they need to live sustainably, with dignity.
The expected outcomes are:
1. A dynamic network of partners is established and the project is implemented based on the real and current needs and interests of the target populations.
2. Partners will have an increased capacity to deliver positive change through effective programmes and services prioritised by them and the communities they serve.
3. Improved access to health care (including psychosocial support services) to children.
Specific activities include:
• Train 150 children from 3 sites in 5 groups (30 children per group) in home based care (providing manuals/kits/and ongoing support)
• Support 150 children through interactive therapy workshops
Participate and attend the Project start up / launch meeting with all other partners to confirm activities/roles/responsibilities and develop baseline methodology
Conduct a participatory baseline survey examining the needs and interests of children and young people in the target communities in Harare and Chinhoyi
Conduct sensitisation meetings with the respective communities to launch the project and ensure local authorities, community leaders etc are supportive
Attend quarterly meetings of all the participating partners to share ideas, best practices and to govern the direction of the project
Participate in child protection training
Participate in child participation training |
Food Aid Support for Vulnerable Households - Caritas Masvingo Caritas Masvingo is located in Masvingo province. The province falls under agro-ecological region 5 of Zimbabwe characterized by low and poorly distributed rainfall. Average summer temperatures are around 30oC with a mean annual rainfall of around 300mm. The proposed project will be implemented in Chivi district in Masvingo Diocese. The district traditionally grows sorghum though some farmers still try to plant maize which perennially disappoints due to unfavourable soil and climatic conditions.
Project beneficiaries are the most vulnerable households comprising of child headed, elderly headed, women headed, home base care patients and households with chronically ill dependents. A total of 1,000 most vulnerable households will be targeted which equates to 5,000 people. Ward….. were prioritized as the most food insecure wards in the district for this intervention in consultation with the district authorities. Beneficiary identification and registration was conducted using the Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) method whereby households participated in the identification of households to benefit using local vulnerability and poverty indicators. It is anticipated that through these food distributions beneficiaries will be food secure for six months in the hungriest period.
The project aims to reduce the proportion of people who suffer from hunger and extreme poverty. It is expected that the project will increase the quality and quantity of meals consumed and also increase in the availability and access of food commodities at household level. A total of 365.46 mt of maize meal (300 mt), sugar beans (45 mt) and vegetable oil (20.46 mt) will be procured, delivered to partner warehouses and distributed to targeted households. This project will give 10kgs of maize meal, 1.5kgs of sugar beans and 0.682kgs of vegetable oil per person per month to a maximum of 5 people per household. A total of 1,000 households are targeted translating to 5,000 beneficiaries who will receive food for 6 months. It is anticipated that adequate food supplies will be distributed to the targeted households hence beneficiaries will be food secure for six months in the hungriest period. |
Zimbabwe HIV&AIDS Programme The programme will build on the experience working with partners and stakeholders in Zimbabwe, working alongside with partners to increase understanding of the comprehensive response to HIV & AIDS and causes of poverty and injustice. Using evidence from our work on HIV and AIDS, CAFOD will support partners and communities to challenge their government at provincial and national level to adopt and implement HIV & AIDS and other policies that promote social justice and end poverty.
The development of the new programme for Zimbabwe will include:
1. A consultative meeting with Zimbabwe partners and stakeholders, and roll out of PCM
2. Review and lessons learning from existing programmes and projects
3. Design and development of new programme framework for Zimbabwe that will include activities such as:
• Capacity strengthening of partners and communities in various issues
• HIV and AIDS (prevention, mitigation, treatment, care and support)
• Advocacy
• Gender –based violence, to be addressed as it cannot be ignored within the context of Zimbabwe, both from an HIV and AIDS perspective and gender equality as an issue of social justice
• Food security –livelihoods within the context of HIV and AIDS
While the main focus of the programme will be on HIV and AIDS and socio-economic justice, the emphasis will be on:
- Capacity strengthening of communities and partners in programming as well as engaging in governance issues, budget monitoring, policy formulation and monitoring of policy implementation.
- Reduce focus on service delivery as an end in itself, but use experiences of partners to identify gaps, challenges, loopholes to use in monitoring policy implementation and advocacy.
- Use experiences of partners at community level to influence policies at provincial government level.
- Capitalise on capacity available within other CAFOD partners in Zimbabwe to support programme work in Zimbabwe.
- Create linkages from local-provincial-national-regional levels in our work with partners
- Create opportunities for intra country as well as cross-regional learning, to maximise on capacity within partners. |
Integrated food income and nutrition security for Binga and Hwange districts- CAFOD The EC called for proposal that would address food, nutrition and income security for marginalised communities in a sustainable manner. Therefore the Integrated Food, Income and Nutrition security programme was developed as a response to the call for proposal by the EC, Zimbabwe office. This programme will target vulnerable farmers with access to labour and land in the Binga and Hwange districts of Matabeleland North Province of Zimbabwe. Binga and Hwange are two of the most marginalised districts in Zimbabwe, with generalised poverty compounded by external shocks such as droughts. According to the 2010 Nutrition Survey, less than 5% of children in Binga and Hwange between the ages of 6-23 months receive the minimum acceptable diet and 30%-34.9% of children between 6 and 59 months are stunted. The 2012/11 Zimbabwe Demographic Health Survey reported that Matebeleland North has the highest percentage of children that are wasted (at 6%) and underweight (at 14%).The overall objective of this programme is to improve smallholder farmer productivity for food, nutrition and income security. The specific objectives are: 1: to develop and implement diversified and appropriate value chains for small holder farmers; and 2: to increase production and consumption of nutritious foods. This will be achieved through development and implementation of private sector led value chains for income and food security. Value chains will concentrate on dryland and irrigated agriculture focusing on small grains and oil seeds (sorghum and sesame), horticulture (through irrigation schemes and household gardens) and small livestock (fish, goats and poultry). The action’s theory of change is anchored on the fact that facilitating sustainable (private-sector led) access to agricultural inputs and output markets coupled with appropriate extension services will lead to increased production and diversification hence reducing food insecurity and improving nutrition security of the targeted beneficiaries. SNV will be leading the consortium with CAFOD, Environment Africa and Caritas Hwange as co applicants. SNV will lead on activities relating to specific objective 1 whilst CAFOD will lead on activities relating to specific objective 2. Caritas Hwange and Environment Africa will lead activities in Binga and Hwange district respectively. |
Zimbabwe Relief and Early Recovery Programme 2010 - CADEC Chinhoyi During this reporting period Caritas Chinhoyi responded to food security needs of the most vulnerable households including those living with HIV and AIDS, orphans and vulnerable children, and households headed by people with disabilities, by children or by women. The project supported food security activities for the most vulnerable households in Angwa ward 32 in Mbire district that allowed them to increase their daily food consumption. Beneficiary selection and registration had adopted the Participatory Rural Appraisal technique in which households participated in the identification of beneficiary households with their understanding of poverty, vulnerability and the relationship between gender and HIV and AIDS. All the project activities focused on households that were identified by their communities as the most vulnerable.
Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF) activities provided monthly rations for 3 months to 896 households for a total of 3,750 individuals (calculated at 5 people per household). This exceeded the targeted 750 households for a total of 3,500 beneficiaries. The rations for the VGF were of 50kg of maize meal, 3.75 ml of cooking oil and 7.5 Kg of sugar beans per household. These rations met the international required standards. |
Humanitarian Capacity Development Programme - Caritas Masvingo _ Zimbabwe The quality and speed of CAFOD’s humanitarian work depends on the strength of its partners. The management of large-scale emergency programmes by these local organisations such as Caritas Masvingo place a great strain on their staff and systems. Caritas Masvingo does have much wider remit than emergency work and many of its staff and volunteers have little or no humanitarian experience. There is therefore need for much greater investment to develop and reinforce permanent local capacity to prepare for and respond to emergencies.
The aim of the Humanitarian Capacity Development Programme is for Caritas Masvingo to be able to prepare, plan and deliver effective humanitarian programmes. This is guided by the vision that “communities affected by disasters have access to faster, better quality assistance so as to save lives and reduce suffering”.
This Capacity Development Project takes a distinctly holistic approach in identifying areas needing development and tailoring ways to tackle them. The three core areas of capacity that Caritas Masvingo will be assessed against and supported are: Leadership, Skills & Knowledge, as well as Systems & Support Sectors. Caritas Masvingo has prioritised, Emergency Preparedness, Management, Assessment, Design & Response and Monitoring & Evaluation, as areas of high priority in having their capacity developed/enhanced.
The capacity development approach that will be used is rooted in CAFODs niche of partnership. This is rooted in local ownership, choice and commitment (by the partner). The project aims at facilitating, empowering and enabling hence desisting from imposition or partner manipulation. It will not try to substitute the work of CAFOD’s partners, or undermine their roles and responsibilities. |
Demystifying myths and misconceptions about Covid-19 As of the 4th of March 2021, Zimbabwe had 36 223 COVID-19 confirmed cases, 33 632 recoveries and 1483 deaths and as of the 3rd of March there were 146 hospitalised cases. People continue to be infected and affected by COVID-19 on a daily basis. The project therefore seeks to raise awareness to all citizens through different media platforms, national papers, and radio stations.
SOCCOM would like to raise awareness on prevention, stigma and the vaccines and their processes. Working with the Ministry of Health and Child Care, the Health Commission, Caritas and the Education Commission, and also basing on information coming from the United Nations and the World Health Organisation, SOCCOM has discovered that there is need for continuous information on prevention according to the WHO standards, especially the issue of masking up, washing of hands, sanitisation and social distancing. The issue of vaccination is still a bone of contention among many people especially health workers according to the information obtained from hospitals. SOCCOM would therefore like to participate in the promotion of the vaccine. SOCCOM has found out that Coronavirus does not discriminate and everyone needs to be educated and informed about the Covid-19 and its side effects.
Covid-19 does not select and all people need to be equipped with education and information. The role of this project is to protect all people through provision of relevant information at all levels and for all age groups. All people are included in information dissemination through the use of the media available to them. The project is tailor made to include all citizens through the use of different media platforms. |
Promoting Gender Equality with Church Partners - Caritas Zimbabwe National Office This project implemented by Caritas Zimbabwe is part of a Multi-Country Gender Programme being implemented in Zambia, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Philippines.
the Programme Goal is: Reduction of gender disparities in parishes of participating partners through increased ownership of church leaders and capacity of churches in promoting gender.
The Project Goal is:
Enhanced capacity of the Caritas Zimbabwe Network in promoting gender equality in programming within the church by 2014
Outcomes:
1, Gender audit of Caritas Zimbabwe National Office and other Commissions; documentation of audit results and recommendations
2, Improved understanding of gender inequalities in programming and practices among staff, communities and within the church
3, Strengthened capacity of Caritas National Level in gender sensitive programming and practices
4, Transformational change in attitudes and practices of key community and church leaders towards gender inequalities
5, Reduced vulnerabilities of church members and communities in particular, women, girls of socio-economic factors through strategies that address gender inequalities and gender related drivers of poverty in select Caritas Zimbabwe network targeted communities.
The major activities include:
Conducting gender audit for the National Office and other Commissions
Gender sensitisation of the National Catholic Church Leadership
Awareness sessions on gender and the CST
TOT workshops on gender for select Church and Laity leaders
Training of Gender focal point persons and staff on gender and mainstreaming
Workshps for women leadership in church
Establishing networks with other stakeholders and participate in various gender forums for learning
Documentation of interesting stories/case studies for shared learning
Learning visits.
The partner will work closely and in collaboration with Caritas Gweru and provide support in implementing the Gender project in Zimbabwe |
Binga Zambezi Valley Water Supply The overall purpose of the programme will be to increase access to potable water for marginalised women, men, boys and girls of Sianzyundu and Simatelele wards in Binga district. The availability of water will have other benefits to the whole household such as improved health, increased time for other productive and recreational activities and more time for learning for school children. In the home, since women are currently burdened with the task of fetching water, the programme will work to lessen this burden through making water more accessible and working with both men and women to get men to be more involved in the provision and management of clean water.
As a result of the proposed interventions, the following changes are expected:
• One piped water project will be installed in Sianzyundu that will enable 2576 women and 2008 men to access potable water. This project will also cover 4 schools that will see 500 boys and 498 girls, and 28 teachers (17 men and 11 women) accessing potable water at school.
• A second piped water scheme in Siamuloba will enable 970 women and 480 men (290hhs) to access potable water. This project will also cover 1 school that will see 131 boys and 137 girls benefitting and 12 teachers (2 women and 10 men)
• Four boreholes will be drilled and equipped with either bush pumps or solar powered pumps and will enable 546 women and 494 men (300hhs) to access potable water.
• 32 village health workers (17 women and 15 men) will receive participatory health and hygiene training of trainers for them to facilitate training of 600 men and 600 women, and facilitate formation of 20 health clubs across the two wards.
18 teachers will also be trained in Children’s Health and Sanitation Training (CHAST) so that they take the lead as school health masters in ensuring that 90 boys and 90 girls are trained in health and hygiene, and in facilitating the formation of 9 school health and hygiene clubs. |
CAFOD EC Urban LPPZ Operating Costs The project is mainly to provide management support to the three implementing that are working on the EC Urban Livelihoods Protection and Promotion. On this programme CAFOD is responsible for reporting to the donors (EC via GRM). CAFOD will work with the partners to implement this programme and providing technical advice and backstopping the implementing partners as deemed necessary. CAFOD will facilitate cross learning between the implementing partners through coordination meetings (review and planning meetings and peer hreview sessions).
The overall goal of the programme is to prevent destitution and protect and promote the livelihoods of the poorest and most vulnerable. The purpose of the programme is given as to "Improve quality of life, livelihood security and reduce water borne diseases for at least 7000 poor and vulnerable urban households in Nyanga,Plumtree and Bulawayo". CAFOD wll be leading a consortium of 3 partners who will be implementing this programme, namely Caritas Bulawayo; Caritas Mautrae and National Council of the Disabled Persons of Zimbabwe. |
Drought Response Project in Binga District Zimbabwe is facing a national food security emergency for the current agricultural season (2019), caused by extensive drought and an escalating economic crisis – meaning low food availability, rising market prices, and a lack of both cash and bartering power. During the current 2018/19 agriculture season, Binga district, which is in Matebeleland North province of Zimbabwe, received a mean total of 221mm of rainfall against a mean annual average of 500mm. The district is facing a drought which has affected the crop and water for both domestic and productive purposes. The effect of the current drought has also affected access to safe and clean water. The majority of water sources, including the Zambezi river, are drying up at a faster rate.
The proposed project will address WASH challenges at local clinic, management of catchment areas and protection of springs through whilst meeting immediate food needs for vulnerable populations in Chuunga and Luunga wards of Binga district. The food needs will be met through conditional and non-conditional food distributions. The protection of catchment areas and springs protection will be done by members of households with labour at ward level. The WASH aspect will increase access to clean and safe water and sanitary facilities at a local clinic for the two wards. Water for the clinic will be done through extending a pipeline from Chuunga primary school that was completed during the MF4 project. The sanitation facilities will be constructed by communities with support of skilled builders resident in the area. These human resources were identified during development of ward plans. MF4 project worked with these builders in doing masonary works for the project. |
Humanitarian Capacity Strengthening Programme - Phase 2 (April 2016 - March 2018) Zimbabwe The quality and speed of CAFOD’s humanitarian work depends on the strength of its partners. The management of large-scale emergency programmes by these local organisations place a great strain on their staff and systems. There is therefore need for much greater investment to develop and reinforce permanent local capacity to prepare for and respond to emergencies. The aim of the Humanitarian Capacity Strengthening Programme is for HCD partners to be able to prepare, plan and deliver effective humanitarian programmes
Humanitarian capacity strengthening is not a one off training or programme of capacity strengthening activities, it is an approach, designed to effect sustainable organisational change over a longer period of time. This Capacity Strengthening Project takes a distinctly holistic approach in identifying areas needing development and tailoring ways to tackle them. The approach has the following characteristics:
Understanding of Humanitarian Capacity: A holistic understanding of humanitarian capacity, this captures leadership, programme skills and knowledge and systems and support sectors.
Organisational commitment and ownership: The programme works with organisation’s who are committed to strengthening their emergency capacity as only the organisation can change itself. Required is commitment from and involvement with the highest levels of leadership such as the Bishop or Board. The organisation must be open to reflecting on their strengths and weaknesses and creating space for organisational change.
CAFOD’s role: A Humanitarian capacity development officer will work closely with Caritas Zimbabwe National Office, Caritas Hwange, Caritas Gokwe, Caritas Masvingo as well as Caritas Harare. The Officer will support the organisations to identify and prioritise their capacity development needs in relation to their emergency context and their existing capacities. The HCD Officer will support the partner to identify their priorities, to inspire, motivate, advise and encourage them to create the change.
Variety of Methods: Encouraged is HCD partners to look beyond training to ensure learning is incorporated into their organisation’s culture and systems. The methods include accompaniment, peer support, self-assessment, strategy, policy and systems development, emergency simulations and on the job training.
The capacity strengthening approach that will be used is rooted in CAFODs niche of partnership. This is rooted in local ownership, choice and commitment (by the partner). The project aims at facilitating, empowering and enabling hence desisting from imposition or partner manipulation. It will not try to substitute the work of CAFOD’s partners, or undermine their roles and responsibilities. |
Zimbabwe Emergency Food Security Programme, CADEC Bulawayo A humanitarian response is being proposed in collaboration between the Catholic Church represented by Catholic Development Commission (CADEC) and CAFOD to address the critically low levels of food security for a large number of people in Zimbabwe.
CADEC and CAFOD propose to:
1. Scale-up and extend the existing supplementary food supply under the Livelihoods Programme (implemented in Zimbabwe since 2004 by diocesan CADECs and managed by CAFOD) in the districts of Binga, Matobo, Bulilima, Mangwe, Nyanga, and Seke to provide sufficient food per household to enable them to sustain their well-being through the following six months until the next harvest in April/May 2008.
2. Provide food through diocesan CADECs in Gokwe and Gweru Dioceses (non-Livelihoods Programme areas) where gaps in the present national response for emergency food aid have already been identified.
3. Provide seeds, fertiliser, associated technical support and a limited number of boreholes to the households in the areas receiving food (points 1 and 2 above). |
Feeding the sick and food insecure people in Harare, Bulawayo and Masvingo Diocese The proposed project for Caritas Bulawayo, Caritas Harare and Caritas Masvingo will cover the food assistance to the most vulnerable and needy inpatients and outpatients who are under medication due to HIV and AIDS, Tuberculosis and other chronic illnesses, and malnourished women and children. The project seeks to support two different target groups namely inpatients (people who are admitted in hospitals for treatment) and outpatients (patients receiving treatment from the hospital for conditions and/or illnesses) but not admitted. Project beneficiaries are extremely vulnerable as a result of the ongoing and anticipated cereal deficit in the targeted areas and across the country generally.
The direct beneficiaries of this project are six hospitals – St. Mary's , St Pauls, St Anne's, St Luke's , Musiso and Silveira. They will provide daily meals to their inpatients and provide food assistance to their most vulnerable outpatients’ including additional member of their immediate family or house hold who will receive take away monthly rations. A total of 4 212 direct beneficiaries, thus 802 inpatients and out 3 410 outpatients will be reached. The project targeted feeding will run for a period of six months from September 2010 to tide over the most critical hunger period. |
Cyclone Idai Disaster Recovery Cyclone IDAI hit Malawi, Zimbabwe and Mozambique leaving a trail of massive destruction and loss life after its landfall in Mozambique on 14 March, hitting eastern Zimbabwe on the 15th of March. Strong, high speed winds and heavy precipitation in Chimanimani and Chipinge districts caused riverine and flash floods which caused deaths, destruction of livelihoods and properties. Other affected district include Bohera, Mutare (urban), Zaka, Bikita, Gutu and Chikomba. At least 186 deaths and about 200 injuries have been reported, mainly in Chimanimani, and more than 500 people are reportedly missing. Overall, across all the areas affected more than 2,500 households (12,500 to 15,000 people) are estimated to be affected.
The cyclone has been declared a National Disaster in accordance with provisions of the Civil Protection Act.
The Phase I DEC programme will target 4500 people beginning with blanket emergency distributions for those affected by the disaster (household items (NFIs), dignity (hygiene) kits, and food) with a gradual shift towards cash-based assistance beginning in month three. Cash assistance will be unconditional cash for the estimated 20% not able to work and 80% cash for work. Determinations of vulnerability criteria will be in close coordination with the affected communities and cross-referenced to social welfare registers. Cash rates are agreed within the cluster and are meant to be complementary to other forms of assistance. Cash for work activities are agreed with local authorities and will focus on recovery of infrastructure such as road reconstruction and irrigation systems replacement. WASH early recovery of water systems (springs, piped systems, handpumps) will also feature in Phase 1 targeting 15,000 people, along with hygiene promotion (focusing on cholera prevention). The area of concentration for this project will be the worst hit districts of Mashonaland East (Chimanimani and Chipinge) and Mashonaland Central (Buhera). |
OVC-Putting Children First This is a pilot programme By CAFOD Southern Africa to respond to numerous calls by partners who were implementing the Home Based Care progarmmes on the needs of orphans as a result of HIV and AIDS and needs of children as a result of general poverty experienced by house holds and families in the region.
The programme will be implemented in Harare and Chinhoyi Dioceses by 9 partners including CAFOD. The programme has been designed to facilitate and ensure that vulnerable children in Harare and Chinhoyi Diocese have access to essential services and resources in order to live with dignity.
The programme aims also at drawing lessons amongst a team of dynamic parners both old and new on child centred approaches to responding to children's needs. Lessons will be drawn from reality on the ground and mechanisms put in place for continued sharing and networking with other agencies.
At least six outcomes are expected of this programme and these are:
1. A strong network of partners established and implemented and based on real current needs and intersts of children.
2. An increased capacity amongst partners to deliver positive change through effective and informed programming.
3. 2,220 children or more having confidence and space to express their needs and interests and more children included in decision making processes on policies and practices that affect their lives.
4. Partners with capacity to conduct action reserch on OVC issued.
5. At least 180 households with vulnerable children have inreased purchasing power and access to basic items.
6. Improved access to appropriate healthcare services and psychosocial support for at least 3,250 children in targetted communities.
Lessons learnt from this project will be shared and within the region amongst CAFOD partners and intra-regionally for replication or for improvingon the programme |
Food Aid Support for Vulnerable Households - Caritas National Office Caritas Zimbabwe or the National Caritas Office plays a designated coordination role to the dioceses. In this programme funded by Canadian Food Grain Bank (CFGB) Caritas Chinhoyi and Caritas Masvingo will be the implementers of the programme. The National Office will play its mandated diocesan coordination role.
CFGB programme aims to reduce the proportion of people who suffer from hunger and extreme poverty. It is expected that the project will increase the quality and quantity of meals consumed and also increase the availability and access of food commodities at household level. Beneficiaries are the most vulnerable households comprising of child headed, elderly headed, women headed, home base care patients and households with chronically ill dependents.
Mbire district in Chinhoyi, Mashonaland Central province and Chivi district in Masvingo province were prioritized as the most food insecure districts for this intervention. Prioritisation was done in consultation with the district authorities. Beneficiary identification and registration was conducted using the Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) method whereby households participated in the identification of households to benefit using local vulnerability and poverty indicators.
A total of 730.92 mt of maize meal, sugar beans and vegetable oil will be procured, delivered to partner warehouses and distributed to targeted households through this programme. It will give 10kgs of maize meal, 1.5kgs of sugar beans and 0.682kgs of vegetable oil per person per month to a maximum of 5 people per household. A total of 2,000 households are targeted translating to 5,000 beneficiaries who will receive food for 6 months. It is anticipated that adequate food supplies will be distributed to the targeted households hence beneficiaries will be food secure for six months in the hungriest period. |
Civil Society SDGs Popularization and Localization The Poverty Reduction Forum Trust (PRFT) has been implementing the Basic Needs Basket (BNB) project with the aim of generating independent regular and reliable statistical and qualitative information of the basic cost of living for ordinary residents in specific locations, and push for policies and programs that cushion vulnerable urban households. Through this project, PRFT worked with residents associations (RAs) and other civil society organizations to track the cost of basic day-to-day necessities required by an urban family with an average of five members to live an acceptably decent and healthy lifestyle. An evaluation of the BNB project recommended PRFT to buttress its mandate as a forum and to develop policy dialogue series and programmes on current poverty reduction efforts by the Government of Zimbabwe and civil society organizations on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs). PRFT therefore proposes to be a convener for the CSO Reference Group on SDGs in Zimbabwe which will ensure that the SDGs implementation process in Zimbabwe is informed from below and informed by the voices of the wider citizenry including the poor and marginalized.
The goal of the project is to contribute to ensuring a national SDG implementation plan that leads to effective reduction of poverty, leaving no one behind and with the participation of those most marginalized.
This will be achieved by, (a) increasing awareness, knowledge and critical engagement of the wider citizenry on SDGs; (b) enhancing the capacity of CSOs to participate and engage policy makers on SDGs implementation in Zimbabwe; and (c) providing platforms for CSOs to critically engage in dialogue and share knowledge and experiences with government and other development partners on SDGs implementation. |
Feeding the sick and food insecure people in Bulawayo diocese Caritas Bulawayo operates in Matebeleland North and Matebeleland South provinces, reaching out to +/- 10,000 households with an estimated population of 60,000 people. The numbers of people in the respective wards that they are operating keep on dwindling as a result of migration by men and youth leaving the wards to look for jobs in towns (especially Bulawayo) and neighbouring countries, mainly, Botswana and South Africa, whilst others succumb to the HIV and AIDS pandemic. The two provinces fall within the agricultural ecological regions iv and v which are characterised by low rainfall patterns (650mm-800mm and 450mm and 650 mm respectively - 'OCHA 2009'), hence compromising the production of cereal grain which the households heavily rely on for survival.
The proposed project for Caritas Bulawayo will cover the food assistance to the most vulnerable and needy inpatients and outpatients who are under medication due to HIV and AIDS, Tuberculosis and other chronic illnesses, and malnourished women and children. The project seeks to support two different target groups namely inpatients (people who are admitted in hospitals for treatment) and outpatients (patients receiving treatment from the hospital for conditions and/or illnesses) but not admitted. Project beneficiaries are extremely vulnerable as a result of the ongoing and anticipated cereal deficit in the targeted areas and across the country generally.
The direct beneficiaries of this project are 2 hospitals – St. Marks Hospital and ---. They will provide daily meals to their inpatients and provide food assistance to their most vulnerable outpatients’ including additional member of their immediate family or house hold who will receive take away monthly rations. A total of 1,850 direct beneficiaries, thus 310 inpatients and out 1 540 outpatients will be reached. The project targeted feeding will run for a period of six months from September 2010 to tide over the most critical hunger period. |
Enhancing Justice for Survivors of Gender Based Violence and Child Abuse This project will embark on an intensive process of tracking abandoned child protection and GBV cases and bringing these back into the national justice delivery system and help build confidence in the use of the referral pathway and justice systems by survivors of GBV. The project seeks to target an initial 12 abandoned cases per month and aims to connect these to child protection and justice delivery systems. Most of these cases are complex and involve a single child suffering multiple violations that include rape, pregnancy, abandonment, and lack of care. In some instances, these cases have stalled because there is lack of proof of age for the child, intimidation of witnesses or survivors by alleged perpetrators and in some cases bribing of authorities. This project will track the cases and provide safe shelter to the survivors whilst the cases are being followed up and worked on. Through this project St Alberts will also facilitate upgrading and refurbishing and furnishing of the safe house/GBV shelter to meet the minimum standards recommended by the Ministry of Social Development for child-survivors of GBV. St Alberts will also work with the established community structures in the district to track cases, follow-up and referral. In a bid to reduce the cases of GBC and child Abuse, St Alberts will conduct back to school campaigns in the district and advocate for the right to education for children in the Muzarabani District. The safe house, among other things, will facilitate and helps in survivor management, including provision of medical, accompaniment and psychosocial support. Community foster care mothers will also receive training on parenting, guidance and counselling before they refer cases. |
Community based food fortification programme in Binga An urgent need for action to correct the micronutrient deficiencies in Binga District was identified by the Micronutrient survey that was conducted in 2013.Community food fortification has the potential to reduce micronutrient deficiencies in the remote parts of Binga as it can cover areas that are not covered by other interventions such as commercial fortification strategies. Maize flour micronutrient fortification will be done by hammer millers. Small scale millers will be identified and trained on food fortification, they will be introduced to the innovative technology to do the fortification, along with the micronutrient premix powders. The technology will be installed and a three month trial period will start. During this period the millers will be given the premix for free and they will fortify the maize meal of their customers. After the three month trial period to get the premix the millers will have to contribute capital to get the premix until they are self sufficient. Behaviour change strategies as well as nutrition education will be introduced in the community to increase nutrition security. |
Supplementary feeding support to the health institutions in Zimbabwe - Caritas Masvingo The overall purpose of this project is to provide emergency food supplements to save and support the lives of the most poor and vulnerable chronically ill patients during the period July to December 2011, in two hospitals in the diocese of Masvingo. The targeted two participating hospitals under this programme will also receive seeds and support to revive their nutrition gardens and cereal and legume cultivation to sustain food production beyond project duration.
The project beneficiaries are extremely vulnerable as a result of the ongoing protracted emergency situation in the country and most recently due to the anticipated cereal deficit in the targeted areas. With such a high HIV prevalence in the country it is envisaged that the target groups will be affected, as such appropriate nutrition becomes an even greater need to ensure that the default rate is lowered and that the treatment is effective.
Regular feedback received from the previous Caritas International appeal programme determined that patients on ARV’s are unable to feed themselves and were unable to walk the distance to the hospitals to receive their treatment thus increasing the default rate and undermining adherence. |
Increased Production of Certified Free Range Chickens in Hurungwe District. This is a pilot project aimed at trying out ideas developed during MSD study carried out in July 2023. (Criteria C).
Hurungwe district is a livestock and crop production district, known for maize, sunflower, groundnuts, and cattle. Chicken production is also practised although at a smaller scale than in other districts. Of the 2 main types of chickens produced, Road Runners (the local breed) have been produced over generations, require little attention, are cheaper to produce and fetch a higher price on the market than Broilers. However, under the current production regime, Road Runners can take up to 6months to be ready for the market whereas Broilers take less than 2.5 months. Consumers are willing to pay a premium for Road Runners for health reasons and in most places, demand is largely unmet. However, the production protocols, including quality control and assurance, feed and other inputs, have not been standardised for Road Runners as is the case for Broilers. These challenges present an opportunity to work with farmers in Hurungwe to develop and roll out a free-range poultry production protocol with the overall goal being to increase supply of certified free-range chickens.
This will be achieved through supporting Agritex officers to train farmers on free range poultry production and disease management, supporting farmers to produce feed and procure other inputs, and facilitate the development of certification protocols managed by the Fre Range Producers.
The first year of the project will focus on ramping up production of free-range chickens and inculcating quality production and certification protocols. The second year of the project will focus on marketing ad rollout of the certification for enrolled producers. |
Caritas Hwange WASH support Binga In Matebeleland North province, an estimated 77% of households do not have access to improved toilet facilities and the province ranks highest in terms of poor hygiene practices (ZimVac 2010). Binga District, with a population of over 130,000 has one of the highest rankings for prevalence of diarrhea among under-fives . In 2004, one ward in the district was affected by an outbreak of cholera that affected 120 people out of a population of 1,321 and resulted in 22 deaths. During the 2008/9 cholera outbreak, the district had recorded a total of 1,063 cases and 51 deaths. Incidences of WASH related diseases have been on the increase in the district . Sanitation coverage in the district is less than 40% and less than 60% of the population have access to safe water, relying instead on seasonal shallow wells or water from the nearby river or pond.
These unsafe practices coupled with few households adopting safe hygiene practices exposes these vulnerable households to risks of water borne diseases, poor health and the impact this has on access to education, earning potential of the household, and worsening affects for those infected with HIV&AIDS. Improved hygiene practices and access to improved facilities are essential if transmission rates of water- and sanitation-related diseases are to be cut, particularly amongst those most vulnerable such as children, the elderly and chronically ill.
Objectives
In order to address these challenges CAFOD and its partner Caritas Hwange are proposing to intervene in three wards of Binga, namely Simatelele, Lubu and Binga Centre.
The goal of this intervention is to:
Reduce and prevent WASH related diseases and improve health in operational wards of Binga district
The purpose is: Improving access to clean and safe water, sanitation facilities and promote good hygiene in operational wards of Binga district.
Specifically, the project seeks to:
1. Improve access to safe water supply for 5,200 individuals at schools, clinics and market places in target wards by December 2012.
2. Increase access to improved sanitation facilities for 2,700 individuals at schools, clinics and market places in target wards by December 2012
3. Improve hygiene behaviour for 4,000 individuals in the targeted wards by December 2010 |
Supporting Food Assistance in Prison Settings in Zimbabwe - Caritas Harare This is a collaborative project between CAFOD and Tearfund (TF). CAFOD is acting as the lead agency while Tearfund is acting as a consortium member.
The programme aims to improve food assistance in prisons in Zimbabwe, specifically to improve the quantity and variety of legumes and vegetables produced for inmates at prisons. The programme will be implemented by Caritas Gweru and Caritas Harare (CAFOD partner) and Churches in Bulawayo (Tearfund partner), in five prisons (feeding 14 prisons) in three provinces of Matabeleland, Mashonaland and Manicaland as a response to improving the health conditions of prisoners.
Primary programme beneficiaries are prisoners, also considered as vulnerable. A total of 4,627 prisoners from 14 prisons will benefit from increased and varied food production and assistance from the five prison farms. Over 95% of total beneficiaries are male and 5% are female prisoners. 325 prisoners will benefit from training in farming management and horticulture that will improve their livelihoods skills both in prison and upon release. 10 farm prison staff will benefit from training in all aspects of farm management.
Approximately 2,000 staff at 14 prisons in the three regions will benefit indirectly from improved working conditions and reduced stress from the conditions previously common in prisons. Families of the 4,627 prisoners will also benefit indirectly as they will no longer be obliged to travel long distances to prisons to provide food for their relatives. It is anticipated that 325 prisoners who will receive training while in prison will carry on their skills and knowledge with them when they are released potentially supporting their families in the future. |
Caritas Hwange - Livelihoods Protection and Promotion Zimbabwe To improve food and income security of 3 000 poor and most vulnerable groups in 2 wards in Binga District by 2011. CADEC Hwange conducted PRAs in the district and consulted other stakeholders from the district and those from outside the district to identify the problems that affect the targeted wards of operation. Food insecurity was the major problem that affected the proposed wards of operation and the district in general. Some of the causes of food insecurity ranged from inadequate and unevenly distributed rains, poor soils, too much reliance on rain fed fields. Food insecurity affects all groups in the community but the most hit are the very poor and vulnerable and these include, households with high dependency ratios, the disabled, the terminally ill and the child headed households.
Through the PRAs and other studies conducted in the district, it has been observed that the sanitation coverage in the district is very low. The sanitation coverage for Simatelele ward stands at 1% whilst that of Lubu stands at 11% because of CADEC’s intervention. Water related diseases are also prevalent in the district. Lessons from the PRP 1 have shown that through the provision of safe water, proper sanitation facilities and through PHHE, the occurrence of such diseases could be minimized. One successful scenario is the Chunga cholera outbreak which claimed lives of people. However, when stakeholders put their heads together, sanitation facilities were constructed in Chunga, PHHE was intensified and clean water facilities were put in place, the ward has never experienced any cholera outbreaks.
Simatelele ward is a fishing camp area. There is an influx of people coming to buy fish and some of these people use other means so that they can access the fish from the local fishermen. One such means is through prostitution. The ward has seen a significant increase in the number HIV related deaths and the degree of orphanage has continued to increase. The other contributing factor for both wards is that the majority of the working class is based in Hwange or Victoria Falls. These areas are among the highest in HIV cases in the country. |
Aqua Trauma Counselling Aqua Trauma Counseling is a programme to help victims of physical and mental trauma (including the perpetrators of violence) to achieve healing, reconciliation and empowerment through a series of group counseling workshops facilitated by counselors/facilitators who are themselves survivors of similar trauma. The Project aims at helping poor urban and rural communities which have been affected by social collapse and the violence of the past two decades to address the roots and structural causes of cycles of violence through a sustainable and community driven approach. In this regard the Project envisages the achievement in Zimbabwe of health and prosperous communities in which citizens actively participate and contribute to community life without the fear of violence. Through this Project Aqua intends over the next two years to: 1. hold healing workshops for some 1,440 survivors of violence from at least 5 target communities; 2. train 20 Facilitators responsible for monitoring the subsequent progress of survivors and facilitating mutual support activities and 3. connect at least 60% of victims to the relevant resource streams to access additional legal and medical assistance on a case by case. Justifying this initiative in spite of the belief that Zimbabwe has become peaceful is the fact that many Zimbabweans are inured to the pervasive atmosphere of violence in the broader society and therefore caught up in a relentless cycle of violations including domestic violence, rape, bullying, intimidation etc. This thriving sub-culture of violence strips vulnerable people of their citizenship and keeps at ransom in situations of constant disempowerement. Since 2000, communities in Zimbabwe have been torn apart and countless people traumatized by factionalism and violence. It has been estimated that a million people have been affected by some form of torture or violence. Liberating those people from trauma is an essential prerequisite to empowering them to take part in activities aimed at liberating them from external oppression and taking control of their own development. |
Sustainable Livelihoods Project Phase 2 This project will build on the successes and lessons learnt and evaluation from the first phase of the sustainable Livelihoods programme. the project will focus on access to water, food security with economic empowerment, Livestock management, capacity strengthening of select communities, partner staff and stakeholders. a conscious effort will be made to ensure complementarity with other existing projects being implemented by the partner such as ER-WASH and PRP in Binga.
Projcet Goal:Enhanced quality of life of select communities in Hwange and Lupane through: improved access to water, food security, livestock management and strengthening the capacity of communities, stakeholders and staff by 2014.
Expected Outcomes:
1. Improved access to water for 2,500 people and improved knowledge, attitude and practices on hygiene for 500 households.
2. Improved capacity of 200 households to produce sufficient food through trainings and establishment of nutrition gardens and small scale irrigation schemes.
3. Improved quality of livestock through improved quality of dip-tanks and training in livestock management.
4. Improved capacity of the select communities, stakeholders and staff in effective programming for sustainability |
Basic Needs Basket Survey Project Goal: The overall goal of the project is to generate regular and reliable statistical information of the basic cost of living for ordinary citizens and to push for policies and programmes that cushion vulnerable urban households.
Specific Objectives:
-To continuously track the prices and behaviour of basic needs in the urban areas.
-To strengthen the capacity of civil society organisations and residents associations so that they are able to actively engage policy makers and advocate for pro-poor development policies,
-to raise awareness on the predisposing factors of poverty in the urban areas in order to inform policy and programme design and implementation.
Activities will include:
-monthly Basic Needs Basket Surveys in Harare and Mutare
-Quarterly stakeholder Basic Needs Basket Meetings
-Commission of research paper on urban poverty in Zimbabwe
-Participation in parliamentary portfolio committee meetings
-production of awareness raising materials and knowledge products,
Expected Results
-a reliable tool for continuously tracking the basic cost of living for urban families in Harare and Mutare developed and adopted,
-Improved capacity of civil society and residents associations to engage policy makers on pro-poor policies,
stakeholders aware of and informed on poverty in urban areas, |
Food Aid Support for Vulnerable Households - CAFOD Harare CAFOD provides technical and management oversight to the Caritas National Office and the dioceses. In this programme funded by Canadian Food Grain Bank (CFGB) Caritas Chinhoyi and Caritas Masvingo will be the implementers of the programme. CAFODOffice will play its mandated programme management role.
CFGB programme aims to reduce the proportion of people who suffer from hunger and extreme poverty. It is expected that the project will increase the quality and quantity of meals consumed and also increase the availability and access of food commodities at household level. Beneficiaries are the most vulnerable households comprising of child headed, elderly headed, women headed, home base care patients and households with chronically ill dependents.
Mbire district in Chinhoyi, Mashonaland Central province and Chivi district in Masvingo province were prioritized as the most food insecure districts for this intervention. Prioritisation was done in consultation with the district authorities. Beneficiary identification and registration was conducted using the Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) method whereby households participated in the identification of households to benefit using local vulnerability and poverty indicators.
A total of 730.92 mt of maize meal, sugar beans and vegetable oil will be procured, delivered to partner warehouses and distributed to targeted households through this programme. It will give 10kgs of maize meal, 1.5kgs of sugar beans and 0.682kgs of vegetable oil per person per month to a maximum of 5 people per household. A total of 2,000 households are targeted translating to 5,000 beneficiaries who will receive food for 6 months. It is anticipated that adequate food supplies will be distributed to the targeted households hence beneficiaries will be food secure for six months in the hungriest period. |
National Peace, Reconciliation and Mediation Program Peace, stability and good governance are pre-requisites for sustainable development and social cohesion. However, post-independent Zimbabwe inherited a culture of conflict and violence which to this day affect national peace and stability. Since electoral violence that began in intensity ahead of June 2008 Presidential run-off elections, it has become a trend in Zimbabwe to experience intimidation, coercion, threats, and even deaths caused by political intolerance. The unresolved past conflicts in Zimbabwe such as the civil war or Gukurahundi of 1980s, fast track land reform of 2000 and political and electoral conflict and violence which became more profound in 2008 have continued to haunt the nation resulting in compromised democratic processes. Politicisation of state institutions has made it difficult for one to distinguish between the state and the ruling party in the country. Since 2009, the government, with support from the international community has initiated national healing, peace and reconciliation processes which included the formation of the Government of National Unity (GNU), establishment of the Organ of National Healing and Reconciliation (ONHR) and the subsequent adoption of a new progressive Constitution in 2013. The constitution has an elaborate bill of rights I that provides for the establishment of independent Commissions to support and entrench human rights and democracy in the country. This includes the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) mandated with post-conflict justice, healing and reconciliation in the country. This project is therefore intended to strengthen the role of the church in facilitating an effective national peace and reconciliation process especially before, during and after the 2018 harmonized elections.
Project Goal: Zimbabwe society lives in peace, harmony and justice
Specific Objectives:
1. A national peace and reconciliation process in line with the country’s legal frameworks and Church’s / citizens’ expectation – a national peace and reconciliation process we want - is carried out
2. Electoral environment is more peaceful and citizens participate freely and independently
3. Church reduces potentials for violent conflict. |
Drought Relief- School Feeding for Chipawa Primary School This programme intends to kick start a targeted school feeding program at Chipawa primary school. School based feeding is only allowed at learning institutions with access to safe water hence the programme will include the drilling of a borehole to provide access to safe and clean water to learners whilst enabling school feeding. This has been necessitated by the successive drought that has taken toll on the community in question through a drastic and cumulative reduction of farm yield due to poor rainfall variability and distribution. Coupled to that, Chipawa primary school has no source of water present and children travel 5 kilometres to the next water point which has seasonal yields; drying up in summer. Pfungwe area is in UMP which is one of Caritas Harare’s operational areas.
The area is very rich in Gold hence artisanal mining as a coping economic activity is very common and unregulated. This has been a pull factor for local communities to cope with the crises of livelihood negotiation. Simultaneously, the same economic magnet has attracted school going kids who drop out of school opting for mining as a mechanism of averting hunger. UNESCO (2018) posits that more than a quarter of children below 15 years of age in Zimbabwe are underweight due to poor diet and malnutrition making them more vulnerable to disease and less able to concentrate at school. |
Drought Response 2020 in Zimbabwe UMP district The extremely high temperatures and low rains experienced during the early part of the 2019 to 2020 season affected plant germination and resulted in the permanent wilting of crops in UMP and Gokwe which are the operational areas for MF6. Some smallholder farmers replanted twice with crops failing to withstand the dry spells. This has exacerbated nutrition risks resulting in an increase in moderate and acute malnutrition cases as reported by the District Nutritionists. The rivers, underground water table and dam levels are low thereby affecting irrigation and availability of water for livestock watering. The low dam and river water levels also affect post rainfall season agricultural activities including pastures for livestock which play significant roles in food production and contribute towards household food and nutrition Security. This has a high likelihood of affecting the project results of the Match fund 6 Project being implemented in UMP and Gokwe Districts .
To mitigate against the mentioned impact of the current situation of MF6 beneficiaries, the crises modifier would like to implement the following activities:
(i) improve access to safe and clean [and productive] water
(ii) increase access to and consumption of protein rich foods
(iii) fodder production and
(iv) catchment area protection |
WASH in Schools Schools with quality WASH programmes can limit the spread of disease. The programme will support hand washing through construction of hand washing facilities in all institutions. Through interactive PHHE, supervised group hand washing with soap will be promoted at critical breaks before meals.
The programme will consider gender-specific WASH needs of learners and teachers. Girls who have reached puberty and female school staff who are menstruating need privacy. Raising Clean Hands(2010) point out that failure to provide gender related privacy may result in absenteeism rates that can reach 10–20 per cent of school time. The programme will ensure that toilets and washstands, for example, will be customized to fit children’s smaller size, and WASH facilities that are traditionally designed for the ‘average’ child must consider the fact that children have a wide range of abilities and needs. Through interactive PHHE, appropriate messages will be designed and shared with other learners using different platforms such as murals, dramas, dances, songs and games
The proposed programme will contribute towards addressing the identified WinS challenges through facilitation and resources to target schools in Binga and Nkayi districts to enable access to inclusive water and sanitation facilities. Technical and power analysis assessments and mapping institutional responsibilities will be initial steps towards addressing identified WinS challenges specific to each school. |
Improving Participation of Women and Youth in Decision making Structures through Livelihoods This project aims to contribute to conflict transformation, gender equality and good governance through improved livelihoods, in Zimbabwe.
Masakhaneni Projects Trust has been working on Peace Building and Conflict Transformation since 2008. Through this they have realised that poverty provides a fertile ground for conflict manifestation. In response, the Trust has designed an intervention that is aimed at bringing together communities to work on livelihoods project and then using the space thus created to discuss local conflict issues as well as beginning the process of conflict transformation.
Specifically, the project aims to achieve the promotion of sustainable peace through improved participation and resilience of communities in Enyandeni Resettlement Scheme of Gwanda District. Through providing activities such as resuscitating community gardens, setting up small irrigation systems, training on healthy harvest techniques the project aims to increase the target communities’ income by working together and promote female and child participation in decision-making. |
Integrated food income and nutrition security for Binga district The Integrated Food, Income and Nutrition security programme was developed as a response to the call for proposal by the EC, Zimbabwe office. This project will target vulnerable farmers with access to labour and land in the Binga district of Matabeleland North Province of Zimbabwe. Binga is one of the most marginalized districts in Zimbabwe, with generalised poverty compounded by external shocks such as droughts. According to the 2010 Nutrition Survey, less than 5% of children in Binga between the ages of 6-23 months receive the minimum acceptable diet and 30%-34.9% of children between 6 and 59 months are stunted. The 2012/11 Zimbabwe Demographic Health Survey reported that Matabeleland North has the highest percentage of children that are wasted (at 6%) and underweight (at 14%).The overall objective of this programme is to improve smallholder farmer productivity for food, nutrition and income security. The specific objectives are: 1: to develop and implement diversified and appropriate value chains for small holder farmers; and 2: to increase production and consumption of nutritious foods. This will be achieved through development and implementation of private sector led value chains for income and food security. Value chains will concentrate on dry land and irrigated agriculture focusing on small grains and oil seeds (sorghum and sesame), horticulture (through irrigation schemes and household gardens) and small livestock (fish, goats and poultry). The action’s theory of change is anchored on the fact that facilitating sustainable (private-sector led) access to agricultural inputs and output markets coupled with appropriate extension services will lead to increased production and diversification hence reducing food insecurity and improving nutrition security of the targeted beneficiaries. SNV will be leading the consortium with CAFOD, Environment Africa and CAFOD Hwange as co applicants. SNV will lead on activities relating to specific objective 1 whilst CAFOD will lead on activities relating to specific objective 2. CAFOD Hwange will lead activities in Binga district. |
Integrated WASH in Gweru This project, to be implemented in partnership with Caritas Gweru and Gokwe, aims to ensure access to improved water and sanitation facilities for vulnerable populations in Gokwe North and Gweru
Improved access to safe sanitation infrastructure and improved hygiene practices of targeted vulnerable communities in Diocese of Gweru.
The expected outcomes are:
1. Improved infrastructure through: construction of 120 squat holes in 12 schools July 2012
2. 4,800 households demonstrate improved hygiene practices and behaviour in targeted communities by July 2012
3. Improved community based management systems for sanitation infrastructure in targeted communities by July 2012
Specific activities include:
1. Improved sanitation facilities:
Construction of 120 institutional latrines with hand washing facilities.
2. Improved hygiene practices:
Training partner staff, local health authorities,school health masters and other key stakeholders on PHAST/CHAST; . Establish school health clubs and train them in CHAST who will then raise awareness on hygiene at community level: 4,800 Households reached with hygiene education messages including through school health competitions and events around world sanitation week and Child Health and Child Hygiene and Sanitation Transformation (CHAST) in schools. etc
3. Improved community based management systems:
Training of 30 latrine builders and Training of 24 school health coordinators.: sensitisation of SDCs on health and hygiene within the schools. |
Caritas Harare Short Term food Security Project Caritas Harare’s strategy is to assist the most vulnerable members of Harare and Chitungwiza urban and peri-urban with restoration of fundamental livelihood security strategies aiming at restoring community and household economic activities. The selected livelihood initiative will include the provision of agriculture inputs, intensive vegetable marketing training and extension services to 1500 food insecure and vulnerable households (av. 5 persons per household) for a period of 12 months. Seed and fertilizer organized in beneficiary area before the 15th of the 3rd month where beneficiaries will purchase at least 5 different types of seeds. Planting within 2 weeks after the input fair. Seed fairs will be organized on the basis of the farmers’ savings from the first phase of the project.
The farmers will have to be trained on saving clubs so as to ensure that they become more efficient in making investment decision for their production. Given that the first phase of the project emphasis was on the creation of saving to buy inputs Caritas will only organize inputs so that the farmers will purchase using their own cash as opposed to vouchers issued by Caritas. Record keeping training is top on the agenda as records are the ones that show the farmers if they are making profit margins in vegetable production.
Caritas will keep working with government structures to ensure that the process will continue as the project only runs for a year. The departments that the project will work with are Ministry of agriculture and the DA of the respective areas.
Demonstration plots that will be managed by Caritas extension staff will be established to ensure better interaction of technology with the farmer. Seeing is believing, therefore showing the potential of the vegetable production in the area will be enhance by demonstration plots. Caritas will have to negotiate with input suppliers to supply some of the inputs to ensure that this gives the companies to advertise their inputs and how they perform. Caritas will set up 4 demonstration plot in the following areas Bhobho, Seke ward 1, Seke ward 8 and Tafara. This will facilitate look and learn centers for the farmers. As noted above, seeing is believing.
Water conservation and harvesting techniques will need to be given to the farmers as it is a known fact that climate change is a thing that is occurring at a rapid rate in Zimbabwe. This will aid in ensuring that water is adequate for the production of vegetables.
Given the scarcity of water and difficulty of irrigation, it would be ideal to promote drip irrigation on a pilot start. Initially it would be good to train farmers on drip irrigation at the demo-plots this is in a bid to stimulate demand of the technology which will reduce labour costs to the farmer. Drip irrigation saves on the volume of water used to grow crop and at the same time improve water use efficiency by the crops.
Post harvest technology development will promote drying of produce for the dried vegetable market and this will aid on issues to do with over production and market gluts hence this will encourage farmer to focus on other markets this will then spread risk not only production risk but also marketing risk. And in turn get the best value for their sweat.
Markets and market linkages are areas the second phase of the project will strongly look at and promote strong links between the private sector and small scale producers so as to eliminate the dependency syndrome. This means farmers and the market will have a good interface for price negotiation to ensure that both parties will benefit. The overall objective being to create a smart partnership for the between producer and market.
Case studies will be carried out by Caritas Zimbabwe National Office in liaison with the Caritas Harare. Case studies aid profiling of the project and will tell a story of impact of the project. |
Humanitarian Capacity Development Project - Caritas Harare The quality and speed of CAFOD’s humanitarian work depends on the strength of its partners. The management of large-scale emergency programmes by these local organisations such as Caritas Harare place a great strain on their staff and systems. Caritas Harare, frequently has much wider remit than emergency work and many of its staff and volunteers have little or no humanitarian experience. There is therefore need for much greater investment to develop and reinforce permanent local capacity to prepare for and respond to emergencies.
The aim of the Humanitarian Capacity Development Programme is for Caritas Harare to be able to prepare, plan and deliver effective humanitarian programmes. This is guided by the vision that “communities affected by disasters have access to faster, better quality assistance so as to save lives and reduce suffering”.
This Capacity Development Project takes a distinctly holistic approach in identifying areas needing development and tailoring ways to tackle them. The three core areas of capacity that Caritas Harare will be assessed against and supported which are: Leadership, Skills & Knowledge, and Systems & Support Sectors. Caritas Harare has prioritised, Emergency Preparedness, Human Resources, Accountability, Coordination & Collaboration as well as Fundraising as areas of high priority in having their capacity developed/enhanced.
The capacity development approach that will be used is rooted in CAFODs niche of partnership. This is rooted in local ownership, choice and commitment (by the partner). The project aims at facilitating, empowering and enabling hence desisting from imposition or partner manipulation. It will not try to substitute the work of CAFOD’s partners, or undermine their roles and responsibilities. |
Caritas Zimbabwe National -Humanitarian Capacity Strengthening Project Phase 2 (Apr 2016 - Mar 2018) The quality and speed of CAFOD’s humanitarian work depends on the strength of its partners. The management of large-scale emergency programmes by these local organisations place a great strain on their staff and systems. There is therefore need for much greater investment to develop and reinforce permanent local capacity to prepare for and respond to emergencies. The aim of the Humanitarian Capacity Strengthening Programme is for Caritas Zimbabwe National Office to be able to prepare, plan and deliver effective humanitarian programmes
Humanitarian capacity strengthening is not a one off training or programme of capacity strengthening activities, it is an approach, designed to effect sustainable organisational change over a longer period of time. This Capacity Strengthening Project takes a distinctly holistic approach in identifying areas needing development and tailoring ways to tackle them. The approach has the following characteristics:
Understanding of Humanitarian Capacity: A holistic understanding of humanitarian capacity, this captures leadership, programme skills and knowledge and systems and support sectors.
Organisational commitment and ownership: The programme works with organisation’s who are committed to strengthening their emergency capacity as only the organisation can change itself. Required is commitment from and involvement with the highest levels of leadership such as the Bishop or Board. The organisation must be open to reflecting on their strengths and weaknesses and creating space for organisational change.
CAFOD’s role: A Humanitarian capacity development officer will work closely with Caritas Zimbabwe National Office. The Officer will support the organisations to identify and prioritise their capacity development needs in relation to their emergency context and their existing capacities. The HCD Officer will support the partner to identify their priorities, to inspire, motivate, advise and encourage them to create the change.
Capacity Development Journey: The capacity development journey is characterised by trust, collaboration, self-reflection and peer support. The path Caritas Zimbabwe National Office takes will have 5 key stages.
Variety of Methods: Encouraged is for Caritas Zimbabwe National Office to look beyond training to ensure learning is incorporated into their organisation’s culture and systems. The methods include accompaniment, peer support, self-assessment, strategy, policy and systems development, emergency simulations and on the job training.
The capacity strengthening approach that will be used is rooted in CAFODs niche of partnership. This is rooted in local ownership, choice and commitment (by the partner). The project aims at facilitating, empowering and enabling hence desisting from imposition or partner manipulation. It will not try to substitute the work of CAFOD’s partners, or undermine their roles and responsibilities. |
Putting Children First Phase IV - Justice for Children Trust (JCT) PCF IV goal is to have Children and youths in selected communities of Harare and peri-urban areas of Harare to realise their rights. Working with Justice for Children Trust, the project aims to improve access to rights by children in the targeted communities. The programme will work with children to improve their understanding of their rights, and work with the community at large to build their capacity to create and foster an enabling environment for children and women to see their rights fulfilled. Project staff will focus on capacity building communities on:
- improving communities' attitude and behaviors
- increasing Household incomes through income generating activities for improved financial capacity at household levels
- training and capacitating community activists on GBV awareness raising.
- improving the knowledge base of households on Child protection and positive parenting
The project work with service providers and ensure they provide a better-quality service through improved engagement with the community and improved accountability, with some duty bearers targeted with advocacy by community leaders to improve access to services for children (education, health and justice as well as reduce violation of children’s rights in the communities), capacity strengthening of trained community volunteers to diligently work with women and community leadership. |
2 Months Administration Budget for Caritas Gokwe MF6 ended in December 2021 and the Africa Fund Project in Gokwe will start in March 2022. Caritas Gokwe therefore requested for financial support to cover the January to February 2022 gap as regards the administrative and staff costs. This was necessary to retain experienced staff who are also familiar with Gokwe North and South districts, and Caritas Gokwe as an organisation. |
Economic Empowerment of Women and Adolescent Girls through Integrated Farming in Mashonaland The participation of women in apiculture is key in providing the families with honey for consumption and sale to improving household incomes whilst safeguarding the environment. As women are the pillar to enhance household food security it is very important to actively participate in this income generation activity. Women are also central in the management of the environment due to their central positioning in household livelihoods and community activities. Caritas Chinhoyi seeks to strengthen the participation of women and girls in this environmentally friendly value chain and enhance its development. The project will target mainly women in both existing groups and create new groups through savings and lending techniques (SILC). As such, Caritas Chinhoyi proposes to pilot and proof the concept of an ecological approach to the challenges of climate change affecting rural communities in Mt. Darwin district through integrating organic apiculture, marketing support and financial literacy targeting women, girls and youths.
The aim of the proposed action is to economically empower women and youths, especially girls to enhance their resilience to climate change. This will be achieved through:
i. Environmentally friendly apiculture
ii. Enhancing financial literacy and inclusion
iii. Increasing access to markets for small livestock and products |
Citizen Action for Debt Justice in Southern Africa ZIMCODD, maximising on the Southern African People’s Solidarity Network (a regional network that gathers development NGOs and institutions, civil society organisations such as trade unions, churches and community-based movements and currently chaired and hosted by ZIMCODD), will be implementing The Citizen Action for Debt Justice in Southern Africa project that intervenes to stimulate and strengthen citizen-led actions to address the ongoing sovereign debt crises in the SADC Region with a particular focus on Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The project will strengthen, diversify and grow the regional debt movement in Southern Africa, enabling it to amplify the voices of women, youth and other marginalised groups. This movement is expected to be capacitated to take great strides in increasing coordinated political pressure on bilateral, multilateral and private creditors, thus pushing these creditors to take concrete steps to: cancel debt payments; reform debt resolution mechanisms; reduce debts to sustainable levels and reign in irresponsible lending & ultimately contribute towards an economies built to respect human rights and achieve gender, climate and debt justice. |
Promoting popular awareness and critical engagement on SDGs The promoting popular awareness and critical engagement on SDGs Project seeks to contribute to efforts to hold the government of Zimbabwe accountable for the implementation of the SDGs by stimulating popular awareness and critical engagement on the SDGs. To achieve this goal the Project will achieve the following results: 1. Increased public access to information on SDGs for 100 000 Zimbabweans through 1.1. Creation of a searchable database of information on SDGs, 1.2. Development and dissemination of IEC materials on SDGs, 2.Strengthened capacity of 25 media practitioners on SDGs reporting through 2.1. Training of journalists on SDGs, 2.2. Creation of SDG Journalists network 3. Increased multi-stakeholder public dialogue and engagement on Zimbabwe’s progress in achieving SDGs through 3.1. Weekly interactive radio programme on SDGs; 3.2. Social media based dialogue, information sharing and networking on MDGs
Increasing citizens awareness of the SDGs, significantly enhances Zimbabwe's chances of achieving the goals. Listening to people’s stories and their goals and government being responsive to them will be the step towards making the SDGs meaningful to ordinary people. PRFT's work on MDGs provided valuable lessons on how states, Business and CSOs can work together to provide development practices and the detriment for not working together. While the primary responsibility for the implementation of the SDGs rests with the government, achieving the desired results requires concerted effort from a myriad of stakeholders. This is particularly important as realizing the promise of “ Leave No One Behind” requires that people themselves become active agents in the implementation process. CSOs are uniquely placed to act as the bridge between stakeholders and ensure that national sustainable development processes and outcomes are planned, implemented and monitored in a participatory, transparent and accountable manner. In order to achieve this, the people at the grass-root need to be reached and mobilized into action. PRFT is well-rooted at community level to carry out the awareness role on the SDGs since it has already done some participatory research work on MDGs and works with a number of Residence Associations . |
Putting Children First Phase IV- St Alberts Mission Hospital chbc Department PCF IV goal is to have Children and youths in selected communities of Centenary, Muzarabani and peri urban Harare realise their rights. Working with St Alberts Mission hospital, the project aim is to improve access to rights by children in the targeted communities. The programme will work with children to improve their understanding of their rights, and work with the community at large to build their capacity to create and foster an enabling environment for children and women to see their rights fulfilled. project staff will focus on capacity building communities on:
- improving communities' attitude and behaviours
- increasing Household incomes through income generating activities for improved financial capacity at household levels
- training and capacitating community activists on GBV awareness raising.
- improving the knowledge base of households on Child protection and positive parenting
The project will work with service providers and ensure they provide a better-quality service through improved engagement with the community and improved accountability, with some duty bearers targeted with advocacy by community leaders to improve access to services for children and women (education, health and justice as well as reduce violation of children’s rights in the communities).
Upon completion of a three year cycle the three partners working on this PCF IV should be project be able to reflect:
1. Improved capacity for 18,000 community members and household capacity (increased awareness of child rights and prioritisation of child education, knowledge of positive parenting methods and improved financial capacity) for prioritisation of child protection (through improved knowledge and attitudes on child protection and GBV and increased household income)
2. 3,000 Youths have improved knowledge of their rights and commitment to their responsibilities towards the community, the environment and themselves
3. Increased accessibility of services for children and women to fulfil their rights |
Raising awareness on the provisions of the ZCBC Child Protection Policy This project aims to create a child friendly, safe and supportive environment where children are protected within all Zimbabwean Catholic Institutions.
Despite the fact that the national constitution clearly states that every child in Zimbabwe has a right to protection, the media continues to show horrifying stories of child abuse in the country. The fact that there was no Child Protection Policy as well as child safeguarding mechanism in place within the Catholic institutions increased the vulnerability of children to various forms of abuses. Therefore the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference developed the Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy which is supposed to be implemented in all the Catholic Institutions so as to ensure that children are protected from all forms of abuse.
The Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference Education Commission intends to raise awareness on the provisions of the Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy in conjunction with the Jesuits Education Office to the Catholic institutions and assist the representatives of these institutions to come up with implementation strategies for this Child Protection policy.
The ZCBC Child Protection Policy will be distributed widely so as to ensure the protection of children in both Catholic and non-Catholic institutions. |
Putting Children First -St Alberts Mission Hospital HBC Programme The Putting Children First- St Alberts Mission Hospital HBC is a programme that has been working in Mashonaland Central Province and under the Diocese of Chinhoyi providing medical care and home based care to the vulnerable communities and families affected and infected by the HIV and AIDS pandemic. The partner is also working with the network of People Living positively and vulnerable children. In Putting children first programme St Alberts is bringing in the most vulnerable children of Centenary and Muzarabani on board in order to improve the quality of life of children by :
-Faccilitating access to health and welfare services for the most vulnerable children including psychosocial support.
-Facilitate children's access to education through engagement with local leaders, parents or guardians and Decision makers for possible review of of BEAM or make any other positive changes to structures and practices that affect children's lives
-Facilitate children's access to legal services for example disinheritance, birth certificates and death certificates.
The partner is also going to be working with a consortium of other NGOs and will all be contributing to advocating for child protection, child participation and policies that safe guard children from any potential harm. The partnres will create space for networking and cross learning. The partners will influence changes to policies of education for example BEAM and also in health in terms of children's access to treatment and especially ART. |
Mavambo Trust -Putting Children First - Three ( PCF111) Putting Children First - 3 is a project where CAFOD and its implementing partners, Mavambo, St Albert's and Mashambanzou have been working to enhance child protection in the targeted areas since 2013. In spite of the many successes accomplished in the previous phases of PCF , access to essential child protection services in Zimbabwe remains limited for many children, especially within the most vulnerable communities the project is working in, namely Mabvuku , Tafara and Caledonia catchment area for Mavambo Trust , six wards in Centenary /Muzarabani District, for St Alberts Mission Hospital and in Hopley, Mbare and Glen View for Mashambanzou Care Trust. The end of project evaluation of PCF2 , together with extensive internal discussions between CAFOD and the partners, highlighted that increased cross partner support and CAFOD support focuses on three main objectives which are :
1. Improved access to and increased utilization of essential child protection services for 7,350 children and 7,650 adults through strengthened child protection structures in targeted communities of Mbare, Hopley Glen Norah, Mabvuku, Tafara, Caledonia and the 6 wards of Centenary and Muzarabani
2. Improved knowledge, attitude and practices for 45,000 people in the selected communities of Mbare Hopley Glen Norah, Mabvuku, Tafara, Caledonia and the 6 wards of Centenary and Muzarabani on gender based violence through increased awareness.
3. Increased income of vulnerable households through training in entrepreneurship that will result in the establishment of small businesses
This project will ensure that there is coordination and learning amongst partners and a robust monitoring of activities and impact assessment aimed at promoting high project effectiveness. The approach will emphasize close partner collaboration and coordination to facilitate sharing of recommendations, lessons learnt and best practices. There is also incorporated in the project the coming together of partners and their communities and beneficiaries in taking up some issues for lobbying and advocacy |
Caritas National Office Operating Costs The short- term food security project was faced with a number of challenges which delayed implementation of certain components in the first phase. The second phase of the project aims at horticultural production and marketing, post harvest handling and technology. There are plenty of markets for horticultural products and these vary from formal and in formal markets. The formal markets are high on the quality demand while the informal markets a high on quantity demand. Farmer still have to learn how to balance the two market so as to get optimal results from both. Farmers have had difficulty in entering the formal markets and hence the drive as Caritas enters in to this follow up phase will be on market linkages so that farmers derive the best value out of the vegetables they produce.
Caritas Zimbabwe ntional office's role will be that of coordinating and collecting stories most significant change. Caritas National Office will avail an officer to work with the implemensting partners to develop a systematic monitoring and evaluation system. |
Putting Children First - Mavambo Orphan Care This project aims to improve children’s access to essential protection services in Zimbabwe. It builds on a consortium programme entitled “Putting Children First” (PCF) that CAFOD has been implementing in collaboration with 8 partners in Zimbabwe since April 2011. PCF works with community-based partners to run regular clubs/outreach services for vulnerable children and young people, and links them to technical expert partners for support with livelihoods activities, HIV counselling and trauma care, and access to legal services. Each partner contributes a unique specialism to the network, and all are able to learn from the experiences and best practices of the members as well as refer cases to each other when necessary.
The issues of violence against children outlined above have been emerging from all consortium partners as key problems from their respective constituencies, which they wish to tackle in more depth. On this basis, three of the PCF partners – Mavambo Trust, Mashambanzou Care Trust and St Albert’s Mission Hospital - will work with CAFOD to build upon and expand their activities to combat violence against children. A final evaluation of PCF will be conducted in July 2013 and key lessons and recommendations will be integrated into this action. The consortium members who are not partners for the purposes of this action will be engaged in order to maintain the strengths of the consortium in terms of linkages, referrals, and speaking with one voice on key advocacy issues. |
Transition from emergency hospital feeding into sustainable water harvesting, sanitation and food se The overall purpose of this action is to improve the water and sanitation situation at Silveira Mission through provision of adequate water all year round at Silveira Mission Hospital as well as enhancing the food security to the most vulnerable men and women who seek hospital support. This will be achieved through rehabilitation of Silveira Mission Dam through mechanised scooping, and protecting the dam’s catchment area so that siltation is reduced. These interventions will be supported with trainings for communities and lobbying for authorities to monitor and regulate agricultural activities in the catchment area.
The project will seek to expand on the options for supplying water to the hospital by harvesting rain water from roof run-off through installation of gutters and construction and or procurement of water collection tanks at strategic positions for onward gravity transmission of the water to nutrition gardens.
In addition to enhancing water supply, the project will also improve access to sanitation for staff and patients through the repair and rehabilitation of sanitary blocks and installation of incinerators for solid waste disposal that are women friendly in structure and design. Participatory health and hygiene education (PHHE) sessions will be conducted at various levels including out patients who attend the opportunistic infections (OI) clinic and general clinics periodically.
As a result of this project, the following changes are expected in and around the Silveira Mission Hospital:
Access to clean water to 4136 women and 6564 men will be assured round the year
4704 women and 4341 men with access to dignified sanitation as a result of project activities
2475.men and 2285 women will receive health and hygiene training over the project life
15 health clubs will be formed in the community and 4 at schools around the mission
Development of new hospital toilets ensuring disabled access is prioritised. |
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