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March 2015 - Ongoing conflict between Government and UN peacekeeping forces and a plethora of armed rebel groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has led to a widespread regional humanitarian crisis. Nearly 3 million people in the DRC have been displaced from their homes and a further 500,000 Congolese are living as refugees in neighbouring countries. An estimated 5.7 million people in the country are facing acute food insecurity and almost 3.9 million children under the age of five years old are malnourished. The level of sexual and gender-based violence, particularly in the eastern region of the country, is alarming. Overall, an estimated 7 million people in the DRC (roughly 9% of the total population) are expected to require humanitarian assistance in 2015. With DFATD’s support, Oxfam Québec is meeting the basic household, livelihood, and water and sanitation needs of up to 25,000 conflict-affected people in Beni territory, North Kivu. With this multi-sectoral approach, Oxfam Québec is targeting the most vulnerable, including children, pregnant women, the elderly, and the handicapped, for assistance. Project activities include: (1) providing essential household items to up to 3,500 people; (2) providing cash grants to 700 households without access to land or ability to work; (3) providing agricultural supplies and training to 2,300 households; (4) constructing or rehabilitating 24 community water points; (5) constructing 500 emergency latrines and 100 showers; (6) carrying out a community-based hygiene campaign, benefiting 25,000 people; and (7) carrying out a community-based protection campaign, increasing the capacity of 25,000 people to protect themselves from violence, discrimination, and HIV/AIDs.

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This project aims to strengthen partner municipalities and federations to improve the delivery of public services, better promote and regulate local development, and support economic and social development. It seeks to increase the transparency, efficiency and financial sustainability of local governance institutions, and enable them to be role models in municipal management and local service delivery for the rest of the country. The project also supports municipal initiatives that benefit citizens and small businesses, such as improved roads, electricity, water and sanitation and waste management, and stimulate local economic growth. The project builds on the results of the Haiti Earthquake - Haiti-Canada Municipal Cooperation Program - Phase 1 by continuing to build the institutional capacity of five Haitian local governments (the City of Port-au-Prince and the municipalities of Gressier, Leogane, Grand Goave and Petit Goave) and three national associations of elected officials (the National Federation of Mayors of Haiti, the National Federation of Boards of Communal Sections and the National Federation of Assemblies of Communal Sections). The project also supports the Ministry of the Interior and Local Authorities in its progress towards decentralization. Some project activities include: (1) providing technical support by Canadian municipal experts in administration (budgeting, budget monitoring and reporting), urban and land use planning, road repair, economic development and waste management services; (2) implementing a tax collection system, including issuance of tax accounts communications and monitoring of revenue collection; (3) developing and implementing regional urban plans and economic development plans; (4) providing technical support to the three national federations of locally elected officials to design and implement training programs for their members, improve their advocacy capacity and optimize the integration of common services; and (5) supporting the Ministry of Interior and Local Authorities to enhance its capacity to respond to municipal needs and to design and produce relevant municipal management and communication tools for nation-wide dissemination.

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The overall aim is to improve the livelihoods of rural communities in Western Uganda, by promoting and facilitating community-based forest management (UG1) and sustainable and climate-smart land use practices (agro-forestry) (UG2). We focus on two districts: Karabole and Hoima, in western Uganda. In both specific objectives the interventions focus on three aspects: (1) capacity building courses of community promotors and staff of farmers associations in community forestry and sustainable agriculture (including women and youth particularly) ; (2) field actions in terms of participatory forest management and agro-forestry (with special attention for water and soil conservation); (3) promotion of good practices by authorities and institutions. After five years, the farmers associations with which we work will be able to gain a triple win out of their natural capital: socio-economic advantages, climate and biodiversity. This way they can break the vicious circle of land degradation and poverty that threatens rural communities in Uganda and reduce their vulnerability for climate change

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EF’s outcome in the Philippines will increase the resilience of rural and coastal communities facing ecological and socio-economic challenges through the scaling up of agroecological practices and the adoption of public policies favourable to fair and sustainable food production systems. This will be achieved by enhancing agroecological production in a perspective of food sovereignty. Furthermore, the resilience of the communities will increase through improved natural resource management, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. Moreover, living conditions will be improved through the diversification of livelihood and the creation of viable social enterprises. Finally, rural movement capacity will be strengthened towards influencing political decisions that favour a sustainable agricultural production system (land tenure security, regional and national advocacy in towards agroecology and family farming, women’s rights, peace building). Small subsistence farmers and fisherfolks households who belong to the most vulnerable groups will be the target population of the outcome, with a special focus on women, youth, the elderly and IPs (indigenous people) to ensure that no one is left behind. The outcome will be reached in Mindanao region with 5 partner organizations. EF has chosen to work directly with local partner organizations, through local coordination, because development is mainly an endogenous process.

Objectives

The outcome in the Philippines is to develop and strengthen the resilience and sustainable living conditions of the farming and fishing households (especially women and youth) in Mindanao through continuous organizing/movement building of the rural population, widespread adoption of agroecological productive practices, the creation of diversified livelihood and viable SEs in a more favourable political, legal and institutional context within the overall framework of food sovereignty.

Target Groups

The outcome will be targeting 1,785 farming and fishing households 8,925 individuals. The households are organized as POs who will also be targeted by the program. This will include following categories : - rural youth - rural elderly - rural women - Lumads - Muslims - Christians The outcome will also target other stakeholders such as : - local and National Government Agencies - legislators - academic institutions - civil society organizations - social movements - social enterprises

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Support the coordination of land-use planning and allocation, monitoring, reporting, capacity development, and law enforcement efforts at the landscape scale