Tag: Livelihood Development

FfF Soft Launch of Digital Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Device

Project Name FfF Soft Launch of Digital Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Device Project Location Zimbabwe Project Natures Livelihood Development Creation Care Project Objectives Improve training quality to encourage more farmers to adopt conservation farming methods and household financial management. Reduce the cost of outreach training. Beneficiaries Poor farmers in the communities of Shamva, Madziwa, and Chaminuka No. of Beneficiaries 1,200 Key Activities Provide mobile digital devices powered by solar energy to community trainers, equipped with uploaded training materials, videos, and images. Trainers use the mobile digital devices to deliver training on conservation farming methods and household financial management to farmers. Compared to using only books and printed images in the past, the use of replayable videos and images

Thriving communities through women’s economic empowerment, improved climate resilient livelihoods and the engagement of Civil Society Organisations in Ethiopia

Project Name Thriving communities through women’s economic empowerment, improved climate resilient livelihoods and the engagement of Civil Society Organisations in Ethiopia Project Location Ethiopia Project Natures Church and Community Mobilisation Livelihood Development Project Objectives Mobilise and enhance the outreach capacity of local churches to encourage believers to care for their neighbours and support vulnerable families in the community. Promote the adoption of conservation farming practices among local smallholder farming families, enabling sustainable agriculture and improving household food security. This will also help enhance their resilience in the face of natural disasters and the impacts of climate change. Beneficiaries Small farmers from impoverished families and local churches. No. of Beneficiaries Approx. 1,700 households and 12 churches. Key Activities Train

Community-based empowerment for Yangon’s most vulnerable families Second Phase

Project Name Community-based empowerment for Yangon’s most vulnerable families Second Phase Project Location Myanmar Project Natures Livelihood Development Anti-human Trafficking Project Objectives Enhance psychosocial support and interpersonal care by establishing affiliation groups Build up Christian leaders with entrepreneurship capabilities and business skills. Beneficiaries Families living in poverty in the city, including men, women, youth, and children. No. of Beneficiaries 660 Key Activities Vocational and business training: business training and startup fund, skills hub and business group. Psychosocial support through community group formation: children groups, youth groups, men groups, women groups, and family groups. Intensive Transformation Program: discipleship training and business mentorship. Emergency assistance: medical assistance, emergency assistance to vulnerable families and home visit. Project Period Apr 2023 to

HOPE Project Phase 2 – Community Development in Gogane, Nepal (HOPE II)

Project Name HOPE Project Phase 2 – Community Development in Gogane, Nepal (HOPE II) Project Location Nepal Project Natures Urban and Rural Development Livelihood Development Project Objectives To improve the standard of living of rural families (household income, food security, and women’s social participation) and to promote local community and economic development in Gogane, Nepal through community groups, women’s capacity building, and leadership training. Beneficiaries Farmers Young people Woman groups No. of Beneficiaries Approx. 1,367 Key Activities Establish and register women’s networks, women’s groups, farmers’ groups, farmers’ cooperatives, girls’ groups, and youth groups, and provide training to group members. Provide training, material inputs, and small-scale infrastructure (e.g., irrigation systems and storage depots) to farmers to improve their economic

From Sewing Sanitary Napkins to Three-Layer Face Masks

Banner image: Theit Theit Shwee sewing face masks made by cloth (Source: CEDAR’s partner) “Kacha…Kacha…” Theit Theit Shwee, a woman from the slum area of Myanmar, sat in front of a sewing machine and sewed the fabric. She carefully wrapped the two white bands and sewed them with the fabric and finished making a three-layer cloth mask. This has been her daily job, making cloth masks with other women in the community center of CEDAR’s partner. Due to the local outbreak of COVID-19, Theit Theit Shwee, who was already over 40, immediately lost her job. She had been working so hard to raise her child for many years, but the pandemic has made her lose all her income.

The Poor Amidst the Drought in Zimbabwe

This July, the world experienced perhaps the hottest month in over a century. It is true that the climate crisis can produce very divergent impacts on the rich and the poor. As UN expert pointed out recently, the rich have money to find ways to mitigate the threats of global warming, but the poor are powerless to protect themselves. They are left to bear the resulting heat, famine and diseases. CEDAR has had an insight into the great affliction that the poor in Zimbabwe in southern Africa have to endure. Recently, El Nino caused a drought in Zimbabwe. The World Food Programme warned that over 2.3 million farmers in the country are on the verge of starvation. Yield of maize, the