IN THIS ISSUE: Stewardship in CAFOD

p2 ONE message - Chris Bain’s welcome letter • p3 ONE lesson - Sharing learning in

CAFOD • p4 ONE fact - ICT4D: A shift in development practice • p5 ONE global

campaign - ‘One Climate, One World’ • p6-8 ONE interview - From Nepal to Nairobi:

Stephen Lloyd’s ventures with the charity sector • p9 ONE partner - Sadaka Reut: Arab-

Jewish Youth Partnership • p10 ONE day out - a collection of some of the days out

organised by our colleagues • p11 ONE green building - Romero House: greener than you

think! • p12 ONE gallery - In pictures: Darfur refugees then and now

one Issue 47, September 2014

Our global newsletter for staff and volunteers

Produced by the Internal Communication Team with special thanks to: Chris Bain, Jacquie Heany, Jo Kitterick,

Stephen Lloyd, Panikos Efthimiou, Aidan Timlin, Becca Manning, Marta Krajnik, Sarah Wilson, Jennifer McCarthy,

Bryon Jackson, Beck Wallace, Matthew Sanderson, Marleen Hartkoorn, Sarah Croft and Campaigns, Nana Anto-

Awuakye and our World News Unit, the organisers of our Staff Days Out, Georgia Burford, Al Lewis. For internal

use only. Next edition: December 2014.

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Dear colleagues,

W elcome to CAFOD One’s second edition for 2014.

The next few months are going to be a challenging but exciting time for CAFOD

as we launch our campaign on Climate Change “One Climate, One World”. Over the next few years our efforts will be focused on securing commitment from political leaders that they will act on climate change, and will increase sustainable energy access for the

world’s poorest people.

As you know the period of reflection and feedback on the Strategic Review has drawn to an end. Many thanks to each one and every one of you for making time to express your ideas. The breadth and depth of your contribution is invaluable. Your insight will help to

guide the future direction and focus for our work as we continue to deliver the four aims of Just One World.

The Corporate Leadership team is analysing your contributions, discussing the trends and drawing out the conclusions. This will be presented and discussed with our Board of

Trustees at the Board Weekend between 10 and 12 October. I will update you on the outcome of the discussions and the next steps as soon as possible after the meeting.

Talking to colleagues involved in gathering your Strategic Review feedback, it is clear that you feel passionately about the importance of living out our value of Stewardship, both at

an organisational level and in day to day operations. And so as a follow up, this edition of CAFOD One explores some of the current practices we have in place to manage the

resources that have been entrusted to us. Through the good stewardship of all our resources we will better reflect our values, rooted in

our Catholic identity and more effectively mobilise communities to pray, act, give and commit to the transformational change required to overcome poverty and injustice in the

world.

Sincerely,

one message

Chris Bain, Director

On 13 October, Chris will be sleeping out at Wembley

Stadium. He will highlight the issue of poverty at home

and raise funds for the Cardinal Hume Centre's work

tackling poverty and homelessness. Last year over 1,700

people came to the Centre looking for help, advice and

support as times become tougher for them and their

families.

Please click here to sponsor this act of solidarity.

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Sharing is caring… building capacity beyond training CAFOD invests significantly in the development of its staff, targeting learning gaps

identified at both an individual and organisational level. Over the past six months, our Learning and Development Team has approved over 60 requests to attend conferences,

courses and workshops. Similarly, individual teams have invested their resources on sharing knowledge with colleagues globally.

R ooted in our Catholic identity and as part of our stewardship commitments, CAFOD staff are actively encouraging colleagues to use these learning

investments in the service of CAFOD’s vision, where learning is shared for the common good.

Beck Wallace, Lead

Analyst Extractive Industries and

Corruption.

Attended: ‘Rapid

Remedies for Writing’

course.

Delivering clear and

succinct written work is

a crucial skill for policy

analysts like Beck. She

attended this one day

course and replicated

the session with

colleagues in the Policy

Team.

Georgia Burford,

HIV Strategy Manager.

Attended: World HIV

Conference 2014.

After presenting the

work that we and our

partners are doing to

address issues relating

to HIV and AIDS,

Georgia shared her

learning with

colleagues in Romero

House and recorded a

video to share with

our colleagues in

national offices.

Matthew

Sanderson, Young Adults'

Coordinator. Attended: Strategy

and Business planning.

After attending this

course by the

Directory of Social

Change, Matthew

shared his learning by

running a briefing

session with the

Project Services Team.

His notes have also

been circulated.

Marleen Hartkoorn,

ID Programme Systems

Development Officer. Organises: ICT4D

meetings.

Interest around ICT4D

is growing, and donors

are increasingly keen to

fund these proposals.

Marleen coordinates

this group with

colleagues joining in

person or via Skype

from our national

offices. More here.

Get in touch with these colleagues if you are interested in receiving notes, materials or meeting with them.

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W ith the introduction of ICT

(Information and

Communication Technology)

such as mobile phones and the

internet in the developing world, citizens are

engaging directly with their governments and

holding them accountable.

ICT has broken down barriers between the

international community and remote rural

communities. This communication has also

improved the way interventions are designed

and implemented. Complaints mechanisms

are becoming more interactive and are

increasing the speed at which NGOs can

respond to communities’ needs, especially

within humanitarian responses.

Donors are able to communicate and interact

with citizens in developing countries directly

by setting up online platforms that

beneficiaries can access. Ordinary citizens

can post their ideas of what their needs are

and how interventions can solve these

problems. This marks a huge shift in

development practice by removing the filter

that until now was in place and held by

‘middle men’ such as organised groups like

CSOs, NGOs, INGOs, etc.

Even though these groups can post and

compete in these calls for proposals, a more

grassroots approach has arisen that includes

individuals such as creative entrepreneurs

and social activists from around the globe.

There is an appetite for this type of funding

and this way of proposal-writing will become

more popular in future.

Hopefully it will be more sustainable since

citizens will become increasingly empowered

in order to improve social, economic, and

political structures within their own countries.

Creating less dependence on foreign aid and

more responsibility on national governments

and their respective duty bears is a step in

the right direction.

“The more citizens become

informed and gain access to

information, the more

demand and pressure they

are able to make on their

local and national duty

bearers.”

Marta Krajnik

Programme Development

and Funding Officer

Making All Voices Count (MAVC) CAFOD was

successful in securing £100,000 in funding for

an innovative programme in Kenya and

Uganda. The programme begun in June 2014

and is using ICT to empower local advocacy

groups to monitor resource allocation.

ICT4D: A shift in development

practice

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global campaign one

One Climate, One World

“Creation is a gift; it is a wonderful gift that God

has given us, so that we care for it and we use it

for the benefit of all, always with great respect

and gratitude” - Pope Francis

This month CAFOD is launching a major campaign called One

Climate, One World.

E verywhere CAFOD works, in every country and

community, we hear the same thing: the changing

weather is making life harder. And it’s making it

harder for people who are already desperately

vulnerable, and have nothing left to start again when the

floods wash away their home, or the rain doesn’t come and

the crops fail. The situation on the ground is so serious that

climate change is now the number one threat to reducing

poverty that exists today.

That is why, over the next few years we want to secure commitment from political leaders

that they will act to tackle climate change. Our campaign will start by calling on all UK

party leaders to protect the most vulnerable people from dangerous climate change and to

improve access to sustainable energy.

Take our action today: cafod.org.uk/oneclimate

9 September 2014 Launch of

One Climate, One World

21 September 2014

Global day of action on climate change

More information

23 September 2014 Two day summit

of world leaders in New York to galvanise

action on climate change.

7 November 2014 CAFOD’s Pope Paul

VI lecture in London, on the theme of

climate change and poverty. Look out for

more information on how to attend and

volunteer.

February 2015 Expected Papal

Encyclical on the environment and care

for creation.

May 2015 The UK General Election

December 2015 UN Climate Change

Conference

Dates for your diary

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Do you think much has changed in the last

20 years?

I think it’s changed a great deal. We’ve developed

our own agenda and we work in a programmatic

way. We are much more active and have much

more professional expertise.

And what about partnership— what do you

think has changed in terms of the capacity

and capability of our partners?

I think many of our partners have developed a lot

more expertise themselves and have got many

more ways of working.

Also, there’s been a kind of professionalization of

the whole sector. When I first started working in

this area, which is when I was young –

How young?

Well, I went as a VSO volunteer when I was in my

early twenties to West Africa.

What did you do there as a volunteer?

I worked in a college, teaching accounting and

management issues and taxation, for about two

years.

I think at that stage the sector was very different.

There was a lot more reliance on volunteers, and

paid staff were paid much less then, I would say.

I worked for Save the Children in Nepal in the

1970s and a lot of the managers there were ex-

services people who were on services pensions

and I guess could afford to work for low salaries

and felt they were “doing their bit”.

Can you tell me a bit about the setup of the

Kenya office?

Yes. In about 1997 it was decided that we should

try opening offices in the regions where we had

major involvement. The decision was made to

open an office in Nairobi for East Africa and in

Harare for Southern Africa. Because these were

interview one

From Nepal to Nairobi

Stephen Lloyd shares with us his ventures with the

charity sector and his vision of stewardship

Our Head of Financial Assurance monitors

and protects us from any risks we might

face. But during his 22 years with

CAFOD, he has seen many different areas

of the organisation.

In 1992, Stephen joined CAFOD to lead an Africa team quite different to the one we know

now—just seven people based in London. With a huge amount of overseas experience with

VSO, Save the Children and Oxfam, Stephen was entrusted with the setup of our Nairobi

office in 1998. He spent six years in Nairobi and has since taken on the role of Head of

Financial Assurance.

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new ventures and a kind of outreach from CAFOD

in London, it was decided that preference would

be given to internal candidates to run the offices.

I threw my hat into the ring because I’d recently

worked in an Oxfam office overseas, and so had

some experience running such offices.

So when you got the job what happened next

and what were the challenges of setting up?

We’d negotiated a room in the Trócaire office and

so initially, it was me and my boxes and laptop, in

a room.

Oh, you were on your own? So there you

were in this room, with your boxes, alone.

How long did that go on?

Two or three months. And, you know, I needed

somebody to work with. Firstly, I needed to get

out and meet the partners. I needed to get on the

road. And it seemed important to have

somebody keeping the office running. I couldn’t

formally employ anybody because I was there on

a tourist visa and we had no legal status, so it had

to be a sort of unofficial temping. Somebody

recommended Lilian.

Oh, so Lilian was involved from the start?

She was the first person, and she’s been involved

ever since - Lilian is our current HR and Admin

Manager in Nairobi-

Can we come back to stewardship - are there

any lessons that you’ve learned over the

years that you would offer to people working

in this sector about how we look after money

and use it wisely?

That’s a very good question isn’t it? I mean, in the

old days when I started working for charities, the

big question from people donating money was

always, how much is going to be spent on

administration? How much is going to the ultimate

beneficiaries and how much is paying your

salaries? And a lot of people still have that

question. However, the stewardship we think

about nowadays is a much wider concept than

how much we’re spending on administration.

So how would you encapsulate that?

I think that we are looking at the way that we

steward all the resources that we have. So when

people support us and give money, they are also

endowing us with their wishes to help, their

commitment to justice - we are the instrument for

that. It isn’t just a simple measurement of value

for money that we’re talking about.

And we also have a lot of staff and other people

who provide our human resources and we need to

steward that resource and treat them properly.

Also we need to steward our partnerships with our

partners overseas – they are essential to our

work. Both we and our partners are really a

channel for transferring both financial and other

kinds of resources, from one set of people who

are providing them, to another who need them.

We have to do it effectively and efficiently, but we

also have to absorb as little as we can on the way.

I suppose that my tendency has been to try to

keep costs as low as possible, perhaps

unrealistically so in some cases; for instance the

first Nairobi office car was bought at the Sunday

second hand car market at the stadium!

Do you think it’s important to bear this in

mind when working in the area that we do?

Yes, and I think it’s recognising that we’re not in a

static world where there are people who are poor

and there are people who are rich and ‘that’s how

it is’. We’re in a world which is dynamic, in which

money and resources are extracted by some

people and other people are impoverished. And

“The stewardship we think about nowadays is a much wider

concept than how much we’re spending on administration (…)

when people support us and give money are also endowing us

with their wishes to help, their commitment to justice - we are

the instrument for that. It isn’t just a simple measurement for

money that we’re talking about.”

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unless you actually fight against the process,

you’re not going to get anywhere. If you just say,

‘oh this is how the world is’, which a lot of people

do, ‘and the poor are the poor and that’s how

they are.’ There is a process of being made poor

which goes on and depends on a whole lot of

things about politics and who’s doing what.

And is that how you would describe the work

you have done in your life – fighting against

that process?

Yes, I would say that even in the simplest forms

of transferring resources from one group to

another, that aspect is there. I think in a more

wide sense what we’re trying to do is to say: this

is unjust. And that you can’t just say people are

poor because they’re born poor or because they’re

feckless. They are in a dynamic process which

each day means they get poorer or richer for one

reason or another, and it depends on all the way

their government works, the attitudes of other

people, the extent of exploitation, the way the

international systems work… and so we need to

fight against processes of impoverishment where

we identify them.

Can I ask you one final question about

stewardship? If I was now a 20 year old

coming into the charity sector, what advice

would you give me, in terms of stewardship

of money in the modern world?

I’d say there’s an awful lot of pressure to spend

money on all kinds of sorts of quality control and

assurance things. There’s a whole lot of pressure

to build up expertise within the organisation and it

all absorbs money. It’s necessary these days

because you can’t run charities in the way that we

used to, in a kind of amateurish way.

But you do need to be quite clear that you’ve got

a good justification for taking the money out of

the pot that the donor has given you. Whether it’s

an individual donor who’s given you their £10 or

it’s a pot from the British government for a

project. I think we need to be quite rigorous and

really ask how much of this money do we need to

use ourselves.

What do you think about our latest move as

an organisation to be a lot more volunteer

focused?

I think it’s great but it is also about balance. I do

think it’s very good to involve volunteers as much

as possible, but you shouldn’t look at volunteers

as a cheap labour force. Volunteers need to

valued and well managed so that they get the

satisfaction they are after. Some people like to

engage in voluntary work for a while after they

retire, and there are young people who can’t get

paid work, but need experience.

I have been told that you practice yoga.

What else do you do to relax?

I like country walking. I like the combination of

the physical side, the natural environment you’re

moving through and having a group of people

together.

The nature interests you?

Oh, definitely. I’m very interested in the natural

world and I do a bit of bird-watching.

Do you think that you will stay involved in

the sector after you retire? We’re all going to

stop working one day! Somebody like you

with all your experience and skills, you

would have a lot to offer the charity sector,

rather than just stuff envelopes.

I think so, but I’m quite good at stuffing

envelopes really. I don’t see myself as a high

powered charity consultant who takes on lots of

treasurerships. I’d

rather go bird

watching!

“The argument for partnership

I think is undeniable because

what we’re talking about is

building up the sustainability

of anything that we do by

helping institutional

development in the countries

where we’re supporting

Do you have an idea for our next interview? Get in touch with the

internal communication team and we can set up a time with our roving

interviewer Panikos.

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partner one

Spotlight on

Sadaka Reut:

Arab-Jewish Youth

Partnership

Maya from Sadaka Reut recently

visited Romero House. She spoke

about growing up in Israel, rela-

tions between Jewish and Pales-

tinian citizens of Israel, and

bringing Jewish and Palestinian

youth together for social change

in a CAFOD-supported project.

Watch the lunchtime talk here. Maya Regev from Sadaka Reut,

and Jennifer McCarthy, our Middle

East Programme Officer

CAFOD has begun working with a new partner in Israel called Sadaka Reut. Sadaka Reut was founded

in 1983 by a group of Jewish and Palestinian Israeli university students who shared the vision of a

better future for both communities. They believe that bi-national partnership, solidarity, and a joint

struggle is the only way to secure real change and build a more just and egalitarian society.

We are supporting Sadaka Reut’s Community in Action project, which is a volunteering and leadership

development project targeting Jewish and Arab young adults from the mixed community of Jaffa and

surrounding neighbourhoods in and around Tel Aviv. The project aims to form and equip a small

group of young adults aged 18-25 - comprising a balanced mix of Arabs and Jews, women and men -

to be politically aware and have a belief in Palestinian-Jewish partnership, and be able to lead social

initiatives and campaigns.

The participants will undergo enrichment, leadership and campaign training, and will then themselves

work with youth centres to tutor and mentor over 200 disadvantaged youth. The aim is to share their

vision of peace and partnership with the city’s youth, uprooting preconceived perceptions, and to

create a new generation of young activists promoting a shared society based on equality, solidarity,

and justice.

Sadak Reut firmly believe that the only way to confront and overcome the antagonism between

Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel is

by promoting joint partnership models for

change. They work to educate and

empower Palestinian and Jewish youth to

pursue social political change

through bi-national

partnership. They believe that

youth and young adults have

the capacity to influence and

change the future of relations

between Jews and Palestinians

in Israel.

“We try to show them an example

of what we believe is a way, and a

solution to the conflict: bi-

national partnership. Everything

we do at Sadaka Reut, we do

jointly - Jewish and Palestinian.”

“I want to say how important it is for us to know that our partners in other

countries are standing by what we are doing, and voicing what we are trying to

say to others - in our words or in their own words - and standing in solidarity

with us. It means a lot to us.” - Maya Regev

Maya Regev, Learning and Development Coordinator at Sadaka Reut

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day out one

In July, over a period of a week or two, we are invited to

organise a day out with colleagues to come along and explore a

new area, try a new experience but, most importantly, get to know each other in a

relaxed environment. We have here a collection of the some of the days out

organised by our colleagues in London.

Dome to Dome walk - the O2 to

Greenwich Observatory

Chocolate making

Riding to Brighton

Eclectic walk through London

Family day at Hyde Park Punting in Cambridge

We are committed to being good stewards of all the resources

entrusted to us—this includes the natural environment and future

generations. Romero House embodies our ‘live simply’ philosophy

by minimising the impact on the environment in a number of ways

Rain water is harvested from the roof and stored in the basement.

green building one

Check out some of the clever ways Romero House earned its Excellent rating:

The kitchen cabinet

doors are made

from recycled

yoghurt pots and

the counter tops are

made from recycled

coffee cups.

Sixth form student Bethany recently volunteered at Romero

House and reported on her experience at “the most eco-friendly and self-

sustainable building I have ever encountered”.

ON a CAFOD blog, Bethany writes: “To my surprise, nearly everything I used, or

sat on, contributed towards a more self-sustainable building, and therefore an

environmentally friendly world.”

Read more about Bethany’s discoveries in the blog Did you know Romero House is green?

A natural green sedum roof increases biodiversity by encouraging plants

and insects to make it their home.

Solar water heating panels power a water heater.

This hot water is used for washing hands in the toilets and kitchens.

We have two types of

solar panels on our

roof.

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"A combination of eco-friendly and energy efficiency means that

Romero House takes care of the environment and our financial

resources at the same time" Al Lewis, Facilities Manager

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CAFOD’s photographs from Darfur featured on the

BBC website

gallery

Our World News Unit secured this photo

feature of people at three camps in central

Darfur in 2007 and again in 2014 to find

out how their lives have changed.

With only a few international aid agencies

still able to operate in Darfur, those that

do, like our partner Norwegian Church Aid,

are trying to support camp

communities to become more self-reliant.

Youth committees have

been set up to engage

younger camp residents -

football is popular with

young men and there is

growing interest in

volleyball among some

young women.

Complete gallery

available here.