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Alongside partners overseas

Joe Turay, CAFOD programme accompanier in Liberia [David Baines]

CAFOD programme staff work alongside many partner organisations to develop their capacity to carry out their work more effectively

This might mean bringing several partners together to exchange ideas and learn from each other.

Or it might involve helping them make their applications for funding more successful by providing training in financial management.

Mentoring and working together are key approaches to this work. Instead of writing a programme for partners, CAFOD staff sit alongside them and write then deliver the programme together.

To achieve these aims, CAFOD appoints staff to work overseas alongside partners on the ground. If opening a local office will help us support more effectively, CAFOD will consider doing so.

Experience from one to another

In the aftermath of a bloody civil war in Liberia, West Africa, Joe Turay became a programme accompanier for CAFOD.

He is working alongside local partner Don Bosco Homes, helping to rehabilitate and reintegrate thousands of children as young as nine and ten who were forced to become soldiers in the 15-year war.

Joe was previously deputy director of Caritas Makeni in Sierra Leone, a country that has faced many of the same challenges that Liberia faces today.

CAFOD's team leader Antonio Cabral says, "Joe is making sure that his experience from Sierra Leone isn't lost and that our partners in Liberia don't have to start from scratch.

"It's a way of bringing learning and experience from one organisation to another."

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