To provide ongoing technical support, mentoring and training to AJWS grantee AJEDI-Ka on child protection and best practices in monitoring, reporting and responding to child rights violations in South Kivu, as part of a broader child protection initiative in eastern DRC.

To promote peaceful coexistence among IDPs, refugees and local residents through awareness raising on land and inheritance rights; and to support agropastoral livelihoods and community dialogues.

To prevent the recruitment of children into armed conflict through advocacy for the application of child protection laws; to reintegrate former child soldiers through family reunifications and vocational training activities; and to promote HIV testing and treatment for former child soldiers.

To support the socio-economic reintegration of 50 former child soldiers through training in running a pig-farming business; to monitor and respond to children's rights violation by airing 40 radio shows and holding two informational meetings with 60 local leaders; to support 8 staff members to receive training on using internet and acquire two laptops to equip two field offices; and to receive skills training in risk assessment and security management to enhance the protection and security of SOS Sida staff and beneficiaries.

To conduct 12 workshops on peacebuilding; to organize three exchange meetings between peace committees in three communities; to monitor the participation of women as voters during the upcoming elections; to build the capacity of two emerging groups to gradually become change agents in the peace building process in North and South Kivu; and to receive skills training in risk assessment and security management to enhance the protection and security of CAPI's grassroots partners in North and South Kivu.

To strengthen FDAPID's advocacy efforts and to seek to protect the land tenure of pygmy communities, by convening meetings with local and administrative authorities to discuss issues affecting the rights of ownership of land by pygmy people in two territories; identifying and mapping plots of land that traditionally belong to the pygmies; and advocating with local authorities to secure land titles for those who are displaced.

To continue to prevent HIV in South Kivu through free and voluntary HIV testing and psychosocial support for 2,500 people; to start a vegetable garden and enable 20 women survivors of gender-based violence and living with HIV/AIDS to improve their livelihoods by training them how to grow mushrooms; to use garden proceeds to support prescription costs of the most vulnerable women and people living with HIV/AIDS; and to receive skills training in risk assessment and security management to enhance the protection and security of SOS Sida staff and beneficiaries.

To provide medical and psychosocial care to 738 survivors of gender-based violence; to support the operations of a community-run HIV testing and counseling center; to distribute 500 publications and advocate with local authorities for the protection of women's rights; and to receive skills training in risk assessment and security management to enhance the protection and security of SOS Sida staff and beneficiaries.

To provide ongoing technical support, mentoring and training to AJWS grantee AJEDI-Ka on child protection and best practices in monitoring, reporting and responding to child rights violations in South Kivu, as part of a broader child protection initiative in eastern DRC.