Our Three-Year Strategy (2025–2027)
An Integrated Approach
Our areas of intervention are closely interconnected and mutually reinforcing rather than operating in isolation. This integrated approach enables each intervention to address immediate needs while strengthening resilience and supporting sustainable transformation within communities.
This coherence positions La Floraison as an organization capable of accompanying communities throughout the continuum:
Crisis – Stabilization – Transformation.
La Floraison is implementing an ambitious strategy for the period 2025–2027.
Our priority remains unchanged: to protect the dignity and strengthen the resilience of the most vulnerable populations, with particular attention to women and children.
This strategy has been designed in response to two major drivers of vulnerability and change:
Conflicts and humanitarian crises;
Natural disasters and the impacts of climate change.
It is based on an integrated three-dimensional approach and structured around four key strategic pillars, enabling La Floraison to accompany communities throughout the crisis–resilience–transformation continuum.
Intervention Framework: A Three-Dimensional Approach
La Floraison structures its interventions around three complementary levels of support, enabling the organization to accompany communities throughout the crisis–resilience–transformation continuum.
1. Cope and Stabilize
A rapid and appropriate response to the vital needs of displaced people, returnees and host communities, including multisectoral humanitarian assistance.
This dimension aims to preserve life and human dignity from the onset of a crisis.
2. Strengthen Resilience
Strengthening the capacity of households and communities to absorb recurring shocks and reduce vulnerability through the development of resilient livelihoods, community-based protection and social cohesion.
3. Transform Sustainably
Promoting women’s leadership, civic participation and sustainable development so that communities become active agents of their own social and economic transformation.
Four Strategic Pillars
1. Humanitarian Emergency Response
Anchored in the “Cope and Stabilize” dimension, this pillar ensures a rapid multisectoral response.
Our goal is to alleviate immediate suffering while laying the foundations for sustainable recovery.
2. Gender and Empowerment
We build a protective barrier against Gender-Based Violence (GBV). This pillar promotes human rights, advances sexual and reproductive health and rights, and places women at the center of leadership for a more equitable society.
3. Peace and Governance
There can be no development without stability. We work to resolve conflicts and strengthen the accountability of local institutions.
Every citizen, particularly young people and women, should have a voice and meaningful participation in decisions affecting their communities.
4. Climate Resilience
As climate change increasingly reshapes the context of our crises, we integrate agroecology and sustainable natural resource management into our interventions.
The objective is to equip communities with the tools and capacities they need to adapt to climate-related shocks and build a viable and sustainable future despite climate uncertainties.
Networks and Coordination Mechanisms
a Floraison ASBL is affiliated with several civil society networks and participates in humanitarian and development coordination mechanisms at national, African, and international levels.
At the national level:
- Protection and Food Security Clusters;
- Working groups on gender-based violence (GBV), the Ebola response, and cash assistance (Cash Working Group — CWG);
- Network of national humanitarian and development NGOs;
- DRC Humanitarian Fund Advisory Board, of which La Floraison is a member.
At the African and international levels:
- AWID;
- GBV Prevention Network;
- Jeunesse et Non-Violence (Youth and Non-Violence);
- Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF);
- Réseau des Femmes Leaders pour le Développement (RFLD — Network of Women Leaders for Development).
Since 2022, La Floraison has been eligible for funding from the DRC Humanitarian Fund. It is also registered on the United Nations Partner Portal (UNPP).
Our Projects in 2026
In 2026, La Floraison continues to support crisis-affected populations in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Our projects combine emergency assistance, protection, peacebuilding, access to education, and strengthened livelihoods, with particular attention to women, children, and adolescents.
1. Multisectoral Emergency Assistance in South Kivu and Ituri
With support from the DRC Humanitarian Fund, La Floraison is implementing a multisectoral response in the Fizi and Nundu health zones in South Kivu, and the Rwampara and Nizi health zones in Ituri. The project aims to support 18,000 crisis-affected people through multipurpose cash transfers, food and nutrition assistance, child protection activities, and the prevention of and response to gender-based violence.
In Ituri, the project also includes risk communication and community engagement activities as part of the Ebola virus disease response. La Floraison’s accreditation by the National Institute of Public Health supports these efforts, carried out in collaboration with health authorities and communities.
Funding: DRC Humanitarian Fund
Duration: March 2026 – February 2027
Budget: USD 700,000
2. Integrated Emergency Child Protection Response in Minova and Kalehe
In Minova and Kalehe, South Kivu, La Floraison implemented a protection project targeting 6,000 crisis-affected children and adolescents. The intervention combined psychosocial support, child-friendly spaces, violence prevention, and referrals to specialized services.
The project drew on experience in sibling support for adolescent girls in emergencies to strengthen family support. It also encouraged adolescents to participate in community mechanisms so that their needs and perspectives could be better reflected in decisions affecting them.
Funding: DRC Humanitarian Fund
Duration: July 2025 – March 2026
Budget: USD 250,000
3. Reducing Community Violence and Strengthening Peace in Fizi and Uvira
In the territories of Fizi and Uvira, La Floraison contributes to preventing gender-based violence and strengthening social cohesion, with support from UNFPA, in partnership with ActionAid International, and with a contribution from the Organizational Development Fund (FDO).
The project directly targets 600 people and supports community mobilization, dialogue, and stronger local mechanisms for violence prevention and peacebuilding. It promotes the protection of women and girls and their participation in community decision-making. Monitoring data indicate that 2,600 people have been reached through awareness-raising and support activities.
Funding and partnership: UNFPA / ActionAid International and FDO
Duration: October 2025 – February 2027
Budget: USD 4,500
4. School Sponsorship and Construction of the La Floraison School Complex in Baraka
La Floraison supports access to education through a school sponsorship programme assisting 64 vulnerable children. This initiative supports the free education policy and aims to promote school enrolment and retention among children from families facing economic hardship.
The project also includes the construction of the La Floraison School Complex in Baraka, designed to accommodate 1,200 students, from preschool through secondary school. This infrastructure aims to sustainably expand local educational provision and offer children a learning environment suited to their needs.
Funding: Organizational Development Fund (FDO) and private sponsors
Duration: 2025 – 2027
Budget: USD 432,000
5. Strengthening the Katanga Women’s Empowerment Centre
Located in Katanga municipality, in the city of Baraka, Fizi territory, the Women’s Empowerment Centre (CAF) serves as a local platform for training, economic support, and the promotion of women’s leadership.
Funded by the Organizational Development Fund, the project strengthens the centre’s productive capacity through the installation of two community agricultural processing units powered by hybrid solar systems with diesel backup. These units aim to improve access to agricultural processing services for women in Katanga and surrounding communities, reduce physically demanding work, and expand their economic opportunities.
The project plans to train 150 women in entrepreneurship, financial management, the development of income-generating activities, safe equipment operation, and basic maintenance. It also includes awareness-raising for 300 people, comprising 150 women and 150 men, on gender equality, positive masculinity, women’s rights, social cohesion, and the equitable sharing of responsibilities.
The establishment of a community mechanism for managing equipment, generated income, and maintenance aims to ensure service continuity and the centre’s financial and institutional sustainability.
Funding: Organizational Development Fund (FDO)
Duration: June 2026 – May 2028
Budget: USD 120,000
6. Strengthening Social Cohesion and Employability among Young People and Women in Bunia
In the city of Bunia, Ituri, La Floraison and Umoja Initiative are implementing a project to strengthen social cohesion and economic opportunities for young people and women from displaced, host, and returnee populations.
The project targets 815 people, including 570 young people. Participants comprise 450 displaced people, 300 members of host communities, and 65 returnees. At least 2% of participants will be persons with disabilities.
The intervention combines sports and cultural activities, community dialogue, vocational and entrepreneurship training, and support for income-generating activities. It also supports young peace ambassadors to encourage dialogue, cooperation, and participation in community life.
Building on local capacities and community initiatives, the project aims to reduce social and economic barriers to the inclusion of young people and women, prevent tensions, and strengthen their autonomy.
Activities will take account of the security context and applicable Ebola virus disease prevention measures. Community engagement and gatherings will be adapted to reduce transmission risks.
Funding: FIL EST consortium, led by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)
Duration: October 2026 – September 2027
Budget: USD 71,330