Municipal Partnerships for Violence Prevention in Central America and the

Quarterly Report XXXVI July-September 2018

Submission Date: October 2018

International City/County Management Association (ICMA) Cooperative Agreement Award No. AID-RLA-A-00-09-00050

Prepared for the U.S. Agency for International Development Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean Office of Regional and Sustainable Development

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Madeline Williams USAID/W/LAC/RSD/DHR USAID 1300 Pennsylvania Ave, NW Washington, DC 20523

Subject: Cooperative Agreement Award No. AID-RLA-A-00-09-00050 Municipal Partnerships for Violence Prevention in Central America and the Dominican Republic

Dear Mrs. Williams

In compliance with 22 CFR 226.51 (d), Monitoring and reporting program performance, ICMA is pleased to submit the following report for the subject cooperative agreement.

• Quarterly Report XXXVI – July-September 2018

If you have further questions about the technical content of these reports, please contact me directly. For administrative matters, please contact Cintya Renderos at (202) 962-3692. For contractual matters, please contact Ms. Irene Kaushansky (202) 962-3526.

Sincerely,

Isabelle Bully-Omictin, ICMA Regional Director, Latin America/Caribbean

Municipal Partnerships for Violence Prevention in Central America and the Dominican Republic (AMUPREV) Quarterly Report – July to September 2018

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acronyms and Abbreviations……………………………………………………………..4

I. Project Description/Introduction ...... 5 1.1 Major accomplishments/ progress towards results ...... 7 a. Summary of trips in current Reporting Period: July-September 2018 ...... 7 b. Accomplishments by Objective ...... 7 1. Strategic Objective 1: Promote comprehensive municipal-based violence prevention strategies and programs with key Central American stakeholders and foster development of regional peer knowledge networks ...... 7 a. Intermediate Result 1.1: Orientation and information provided to local government, law enforcement, and civil society representatives on municipal-based violence prevention ...... 8 b. Intermediate Result 1.2: Regional peer network(s) established and municipal coordination mechanisms strengthened...... 10 2. Strategic Objective 2: Support comprehensive municipal-based violence and crime prevention programs in select municipalities ...... 11 a. Intermediate Result 2: Training and technical assistance provided to pilot local governments and community groups, in coordination with national police efforts and other municipal-based programs ...... 11

II. implementation Challenges/ Remedial Actions Taken ...... 17

III. Proposed Activities and Expected Results for Next Quarter- July-September 2018 ...... 17

Iv. MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATIVE ...... 18

Table 1: Number of articles posted on AMUPREV Facebook page per month for FY2018 Table 2: Number of Visits to AMUPREV Website, FB followers and emails sent weekly. Table 3: Statistics on AMUPREV Website visits, Email and Facebook Contacts Table 4: Activities conducted in Sula Valley municipalities Table 5: List and location of municipal violence prevention plans Table 6: Total students trained in TIP by MINERD Region/Municipalities

Figure 1: Cinema-Forum in Santa Lucía, Honduras Figure 2: Training for students in mural painting Figure 3: First phase - Prosecutors from targeted municipalities attend TIP training Figure 4: Phase two - Prosecutors train municipal staff and counsellors on TIP prevention strategies Figure 5: August 28th TIP workshop attendees. Figure 6: Mrs. Odalis Marte, Prosecutor leads final workshop training in Sanchez

Municipal Partnerships for Violence Prevention in Central America and the Dominican Republic (AMUPREV) Quarterly Report – July to September 2018

ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

AGAAI Municipal Association of Indigenous Authorities and Mayors ANAM Guatemalan Municipal Association AMHON Municipal Association of Honduras AMUPA Association of Municipalities of Panama AMUPREV Municipal Partnerships for Violence Prevention in Central America and the Dominican Republic ASOMUREO Association of Municipalities of the Osama Region CAMCAYCA Confederation of Associations of Central America and the Caribbean CMPC Municipal Committee for Peace and Coexistence (Spanish acronym) COMUPREV Commission for the Prevention of Violence CPSVFLM Committee for the Prevention of Social Violence and Municipal Leadership Strengthening FEDOMU Federation of Municipalities of the Dominican Republic FUNADEH Foundation for the Development of Honduras GIZ German Cooperation Agency GRYD City of Los Angeles Gang Reduction and Youth Development ICMA International City/County Management Association MINED Ministry of Education (Dominican Republic) MVPC Municipal Violence Prevention Committee PETTP Special Solicitor for Trafficking in Persons PMIAJ – COMVIDA Municipal Infant, Adolescent and Youth Programs – Communications and Life POA Annual Operating Plan PREPAZ Salvadoran Ministry of Justice and Public Security’s Office on Social Violence Prevention and Peace Culture SESEG State Security Secretariat (Brazil) SICA Central American Integration System PREVJUVE Comprehensive security and prevention of violence affecting children, adolescents and youth in SICA countries SICA Integrated Central American System SVPC Social Violence Prevention Committee TIP Trafficking in Persons UNAH National Autonomous University of Honduras UNGL National Union of Local Governments of Costa Rica UPP Police Pacification Unit (Brazil) USAID U.S Agency for International Development VNG Dutch Cooperation Agency ZMVS Metropolitan Zone of the Sula Valley

Municipal Partnerships for Violence Prevention in Central America and the Dominican Republic (AMUPREV) Quarterly Report – July to September 2018

I. PROJECT DESCRIPTION/INTRODUCTION

ICMA has designed a program that began on October 1, 2009 which focuses on two key objectives: (1) to promote comprehensive municipal-based violence prevention strategies and programs with key Central American stakeholders and foster development of regional peer knowledge networks; and (2) to provide training and technical assistance to local governments and community groups, in coordination with national police efforts and other municipal-based programs.

ICMA has worked with key institutions in the region to promote the first objective and engage in outreach. We developed a Toolkit for municipalities to use to promote the creation of municipal-led mechanisms to provide leadership in bringing together key stakeholders to design and implement crime and violence prevention programs. We have facilitated the participation of experts in national, regional and international conferences and conducted workshops for municipal associations and municipal stakeholders. We have developed a website (www.amuprev.org) which showcases daily examples of municipalities throughout Latin America, which are taking the initiative to develop programs that are building the foundation for crime prevention in their communities. Furthermore, we have documented via video the experiences of 10 municipalities in Central America which have demonstrated a commitment to crime prevention through the leadership of their elected officials, the dedication of their police forces and the collaboration of representatives from all sectors of civil society, as well as national government agencies. We have shared these videos through our website and at events and workshops throughout the Region.

To accomplish Objective 2, ICMA has implemented the Toolkit in nineteen (19) municipalities to create and/or strengthen municipal violence prevention committees/commissions (MVPCs) and engaged in a series of municipal partnerships with cities in the US to share the model of community-oriented policing and governance with the following municipalities in Central America: Colón, San Miguelito, and Panama City, Panama; Nahuizalco, Sonsonate, Suchitoto, San José Guayabal and San Bartolomé Perulapía, El Salvador; Mixco, Palencia, Santa Catarina Pinula, Cobán, San Juan Chamelco and Tactic, Guatemala; Villanueva, San Manuel and Pimienta, Honduras and and , Dominican Republic.

Through these partnerships, police officers, municipal staff, community and private sector representatives from US cities have provided information, training and technical assistance to their counterparts to bring about a greater awareness of the need to prioritize and act upon violence and crime prevention programs in a coordinated and comprehensive fashion. The lessons-learned and knowledge gained from the municipal partnerships have been shared with the broader network through the AMUPREV website. ICMA has also provided support to municipal associations in each of the countries where we have had direct municipal interventions (the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Panama) as well as Costa Rica in order to promote the sharing of information and replication of the methodology.

In September 2012, USAID issued a six-month extension to ICMA through March 29, 2013. Subsequently, USAID issued a no-cost extension to ICMA through April 30, 2013 and another cost extension through September 30, 2013. ICMA applied the tools and methodologies tested throughout the first Phase of this Cooperative Agreement to new municipalities in Guatemala and El Salvador; provided continuing support to the Municipal Crime and Violence Prevention

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Committees of Mixco, Palencia and Santa Catarina Pinula, Guatemala and Nahuizalco and Sonsonate, El Salvador; continued to share information and practices with its established network of violence prevention and other interested practitioners in the Region; developed a sustainability plan to maintain the network after project end; and facilitated the sharing of the Youth Services Eligibility Tool developed by the City of Los Angeles Gang Reduction and Youth Development (GRYD) Office with stakeholders in Guatemala and Honduras. As part of the sustainability plan, ICMA facilitated the creation of the Municipal Association Network for Violence Prevention in Central America and the Dominican Republic (the “Red”).

In October 2013, USAID issued a two-year cost extension to ICMA to continue our work with supporting the creation and strengthening of Municipal Crime and Violence Prevention Committees in three new municipalities each in Guatemala (Cobán, San Juan Chamelco and Tactic) and El Salvador (Suchitoto, San José Guayabal and San Bartolomé Perulapía). During this period, ICMA documented and shared the experience in Brazil of the Unidades de Policía Pacificadora (UPPs) as a model for potential adaptation to and application in Central America. ICMA coordinated with USAID/Brazil and the Secretaria de Estado de Seguranca (SESEG) of Río de Janeiro to develop a Toolkit and Comprehensive Training Program on the UPP model and supported a series of exchanges with El Salvador to share lessons-learned and identify ways that the model can be adjusted and applied in the country. ICMA supported the creation of the Confederation of Associations of Central America and the Caribbean (CAMCAYCA), which was launched in June 2015 with resources from the Dutch Cooperation Agency, VNG and the DEMUCA Foundation (technical and financial arm of the Spanish Cooperation Agency). CAMCAYCA is comprised of all of the association members of the Red AMUPREV except for AGAAI and with the addition of Belize and Puerto Rico. In September 2015, USAID issued another two-year cost extension to expand the CityLinks Partnerships into new countries, build on the existing AMUPREV network of security practitioners and strengthen the relationship between the State of Río de Janeiro and/or the Federal Government of Brazil and El Salvador and/or other third countries. ICMA worked with three municipalities in Honduras (Villanueva, Pimienta and San Manuel) and two in the Dominican Republic (Boca Chica and Santo Domingo Este), continued to strengthen CAMCAYCA and engage with the municipal associations of the Red. In September 2017, USAID issued a final two-year cost extension to AMUPREV to expand its support to municipalities in Honduras; finalize its support to municipalities in the Dominican Republic; continue to bolster the sustainability of the Red AMUPREV through support to CAMCAYCA and its members municipal associations; reengage with USAID/Brazil to explore how to build on the trilateral cooperation activities in support of citizen security in line with the goals and scope of work of AMUPREV and implement an awareness-raising program in selected schools in the Dominican Republic to prevent victimization related to trafficking in persons in collaboration with the Special Solicitor for Trafficking in Persons (PETTP) within the Attorney General’s office.

This report summarizes activities and major accomplishments carried out during the period of July-September 2018.

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1.1 Major accomplishments/ progress towards results

a. Summary of trips in current Reporting Period: July-September 2018

Trip No. 171 DATES: 07/09/18 - 07/14/18 WHERE: San Pedro Sula, El Salvador PURPOSE: Provide technical assistance to MVPCs in Sula Valley and coordinate activities with mancomunidad ZMVS

Trip No. 172 DATES: 07/30/18 – 08/01/18 WHERE: San Jose, Costa Rica PURPOSE: Attend the CAMCAYCA communication and network workshop (5 travelers)

Trip No. 173 DATES: 08/06/18 – 08/11/18 WHERE: Morazan, Honduras PURPOSE: Provide technical assistance to MVPCs in Morazan

Trip No. 174 DATES: 08/20/18 – 08/25/18 WHERE: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic PURPOSE: Support to training sessions on TIP

Trip No. 175 DATES: 08/27/18 – 09/06/18 WHERE: San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa, Honduras PURPOSE: Provide technical assistance to MVPCs in Sula valley and Morazan department

Trip No. 176 DATES: 09/23/18 – 09/29/18 WHERE: Baltimore and Washington DC, United States of America PURPOSE: Support participation of CAMCAYCA members in ICMA Annual Conference in Baltimore; coordinate with AOR and with ICMA in Washington, DC.

b. Accomplishments by Objective

1. Strategic Objective 1: Promote comprehensive municipal-based violence prevention strategies and programs with key Central American

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stakeholders and foster development of regional peer knowledge networks

a. Intermediate Result 1.1: Orientation and information provided to local government, law enforcement, and civil society representatives on municipal-based violence prevention

• Integrated website and other ICT This quarter’s main focus was the transfer of AMPUREV’s RED webpage to CAMCAYCA’s official website, www.camcayca.org. Project Director Carlos Loría-Chaves met with CAMCAYA leadership to solidify the transfer of the webpage and agree upon the overall administration of the page, as well as process and procedures for transferring the information. This transfer has been the sustainability goal of AMUPREV and will ensure continuity of the platform, continued regional collaboration, communication and outward reporting of the progress municipalities in the region make towards violence prevention. Page migration is expected to be completed in March 30th, 2019. Due to this transfer process, the last two months saw a slight decrease in the overall number of municipal postings reported on Facebook and the site. This is in part due to the fact that associations started to manage directly what is shared through the network and the information includes all municipal activities, not just those related to crime prevention. Figure 1 illustrates a year’s worth of municipal Facebook contributions, an average of 42 postings per month.

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Table 2: Number of articles posted on AMUPREV Facebook page per month for FY2018

AMUPREV continued to update municipal violence prevention news on its news link (http://www.amuprev.org/noticias.php). Weekly news bulletins found on the AMUPREV website (www.amuprev.org) also known as “Noti AMUPREV” were sent to AMUPREV’s list serve members and posted on the project’s Facebook page. The project will continue to send weekly bulletins until the transfer is complete, at which time CAMCAYCA will take full

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responsibility for notification. Initial calls for news postings has been undertaken by CAMCAYCA.

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Table 2: Number of Visits to AMUPREV Website, FB followers and emails sent weekly.

AMUPREV Facebook and social media channels remain under the responsibility of the Project. The AMUPREV Team continuously identifies new individuals and municipalities to incorporate into the network. To date there are a total of 4,961 Facebook followers, an increase of 640 followers.

STATISTICS ON USAGE OF AMUPREV WEBSITE E-MAIL AND FACEBOOK CONTACTS July-September 2018 CONCEPT SUBTOTAL JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER Visits 3,116 3,719 3,841 Pages per visit 1,92 1,46 1,54 Time per visit 1:37 2:06 1:99 Pages visited 5,988 7,657 7,638 News 83.44% 75.29% 72.90% Home Page 4.43% 8.06% 5.26% Municipal 5.40% 5.48% 4.95% Experiences Various 3.43% 5.38% 5.18% Index 1.86% 2.29% 2.65% Publications 1.44% 3.50% 9.06%

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Visitor Origin Central America 54.40% 58.61% 52.98% United States 6.41% 8.07% 12.18% Other (Latin 33.18% 26.62% 31.84% America) Other 6.01% 6.70% 3.00%

Search Objectives General Search 64.81% 61.07% 58.66% Direct Search 18.13% 18.83% 22.31% Reference 9.88% 14.62% 15.23% Search Other 7.18% 5.48% 3.80%

Emails Confirmed 5,142 5,284 5,315

Facebook Contacts 4,593 4,842 4,961 Questions about 2 2 1 publications via Facebook and email Table 3: Statistics on AMUPREV Website visits, Email and Facebook Contacts

b. Intermediate Result 1.2: Regional peer network(s) established and municipal coordination mechanisms strengthened.

• Consolidation of Network of Municipal Associations to Prevent Violence in Central America and the Dominican Republic

Support to CAMCAYCA (Confederation of Associations of Central America and the Caribbean) With ICMA support, a workshop was held in Costa Rica on July 31st and August 1st, with the participation of communications directors of the municipal associations of Guatemala (ANAM), Honduras (AMHON), Costa Rica (UNGL), Panama (AMUPA) and Dominican Republic (FEDOMU), AMUPREV Communication Coordinator, Mr. Francisco Astacio, AMUPREV Communications Technical Advisor, Ms. Angie López Briceño, and Program Director, Mr. Loría-Chaves. During the workshop, a proposal enabling CAMCAYCA to manage the virtual network developed by AMUPREV was approved. Period of performance for the activity is August 1, 2018 to March 30, 2019.

In addition, CAMCAYCA created and began monitoring and managing its official Facebook account: www.facebook.com/Camcayca2018/, its Youtube channel and e-mail [email protected] to facilitate outward facing communications and presence on the Network to promote and share experiences of municipalities preventing violence.

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Ms. Angie López Briceño continues her role to strengthen the capacities of the Communications Department of UNGL in its role as Executive Secretariat of CAMCAYCA, to coordinate and promote the communication strategy of the Confederation. In addition, she has been working with UNGL on the design and completion of the information transfer from the AMUPREV website to the CAMCAYCA prevention page. She also developed CAMCAYCA’s Social Media strategy to increase total followers and page views. Recommendations include increase in multimedia postings, CAMCAYCA content contribution, addition of Facebook adds, direct friend requests and addition of platform enabling administrators limited access to post directly to the various social pages (upon completion of policies and guideline training.)

The CAMCAYCA webpage will be made public in January 2019. A Board Meeting has been scheduled for December 2019 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and it is expected that the Board will have reviewed and can approve the design at that Board Meeting.

The AMUPREV Director accompanied Enrique Carballo, Executive Director of the Belize Municipal Association, at ICMA’s Annual Conference held in Baltimore, Maryland from Sept. 23-26. Mr. Carballo was representing CAMCAYCA at the Conference, as CAMCAYCA is an Affiliate member of ICMA.

Support to Municipal Association members of the Red AMUPREV AMHON: In addition to coordination in the implementation of technical assistance (TA) to selected municipalities in the Morazán Department, the AMUPREV director met technical staff of the Association to evaluate the feasibility of producing and publishing the Guide to creating municipal violence prevention committees, in accordance with Government of Honduras (GOH) regulations and policies. A workshop will be held in October with members of Municipal Violence Prevention Committees (MVPCs) of 7 municipalities the Program is supporting, as well as local staff, to review the proposed Guide.

2. Strategic Objective 2: Support comprehensive municipal-based violence and crime prevention programs in select municipalities

a. Intermediate Result 2: Training and technical assistance provided to pilot local governments and community groups, in coordination with national police efforts and other municipal-based programs

1. Honduras

In Honduras, AMUPREV continues advising and supporting the MVPCs of Villanueva, Pimienta, San Manuel and Santa Rita, Yoro; each of which is a member municipality of the Mancomunidad of the Metropolitan Zone of the Valle de Sula (ZMVS). In addition, AMUPREV has expanded its support to an additional 10 municipalities, selected after a process of evaluation which took into consideration the political will of municipal authorities and the conditions necessary to implement TA and support the creation of new MVPCs. As a result of that process,

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AMUPREV started advising additional municipalities of the ZMVS located in the Department of Cortés (La Lima, San Antonio, Santa Cruz de Yojoa, San Francisco de Yojoa) and Santa Bárbara (Quimistán and Petoa). In addition, and in coordination with AMHON, AMUPREV began working with three municipalities of the Department of Francisco Morazán (Cantarranas, Santa Lucía and Valle de Ángeles).

Support to the Municipalities of the ZMVS

AMUPREV staff worked with all 6 municipalities in the Sula Valley, along with the municipalities of Morazán, to apply the final steps of the methodology for the creation of the work plans, including the review of plans of each subcommittee and the identification of funding sources for each activity proposed. Assistance was provided to those municipalities that had not identified strategic areas of focus and reviewed their Annual Operating Plans. Below is a chart with the activities conducted in each municipality.

La Petoa Quimistán San San Santa Lima Antonio Francisco Cruz de de Yojoa de Cortés Yojoa Approval of plans ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ by councils Events held to ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ present the plans to the communities Received training ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ and developed Facebook page Training by ✓ ✓ AMUPREV Communications Coordinator to strengthen communications sub-committees and use of social media/publication of news Review of ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ requests for in- kind grants to AMUPREV Table 4: Activities conducted in Sula Valley municipalities

Below is a table which provides links to eight municipal crime and violence prevention plans prepared by the municipalities which have received technical assistance from AMUPREV this past fiscal year (Includes two municipalities in Morazán, as described below). The plans are only for four months – September-December 2018. This provides the municipalities with an

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opportunity to review their plans in January and develop their 2019 plans for the full 12 months, using lessons-learned from the initial plans.

Municipal Crime and Date of AMUPREV.ORG Violence Prevention Facebook link Publication link Committee 1 Comité Municipal 05/09/18 http://bit.ly/2zmdVt3 http://bit.ly/2zqotaI Todos somos amor, Todos somos Quimistán. 2 Comité Municipal de 11/09/18 http://bit.ly/2zZ1wMa http://bit.ly/2IJP4Tb Prevención de la Violencia y Fomento a los Derechos Humanos de Cantarranas. 3 Comité Municipal 14/09/18 http://bit.ly/2OtKjPu http://bit.ly/2E77iPH Fortaleciendo la Paz de Petoa. 4 Comité Municipal Por 18/09/18 http://bit.ly/2Nkym2i http://bit.ly/2zZ4Wi3 la Paz de Santa Cruz de Yojoa. 5 Comité Municipal 19/09/18 http://bit.ly/2pw9iHf http://bit.ly/2ybf2e8 Unidos Por la Paz, San Antonio. 6 Comité Municipal por 26/09/18 http://bit.ly/2Qm11kL http://bit.ly/2NvSwBx un Futuro de Esperanza de San Francisco de Yojoa. 7 Comunidad Socio- 26/09/18 http://bit.ly/2NqS8o1 http://bit.ly/2OhAJUc Cultural por la Paz en Santa Lucía. 8 Comité Municipal 30/09/18 http://bit.ly/2DKFksV http://bit.ly/2ONXTkg Limeños por La Paz, La Lima.

Table 5: List and location of municipal violence prevention plans

Articles on each one of these municipalities can be found in the Honduras Noticias page of the AMUPREV website: http://www.amuprev.org/noticias/noticias.php?Show=Honduras&Pais=16

San Manuel, Pimienta, Villanueva and Santa Rita Yoro

The municipalities have continued to implement their 2018 plans and worked with the Project Team to provide quotes for the in-kind grants requests in support of key activities.

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Francisco Morazán Department

This Quarter the municipal crime and violence prevention committees of Santa Lucía and Cantarranas developed and socialized their violence prevention plans for September-December 2018. Both are also active in social media through their networks. Both plans are included on the AMUPREV website, at the following links:

Santa Lucía: http://www.amuprev.org/biblioteca/publicacion.php?id=177 Cantarranas: http://www.amuprev.org/biblioteca/publicacion.php?id=173

The municipality of Valle de Angeles is still working on its plan and the development of its Facebook page. Although the SWOT analysis was conducted last quarter, as well as the analysis of the departmental POAs, there is a need to conduct an analysis of the budgets and funding sources for the activities in the plan.

Other activities included meetings with the Secretariat of Justice and Human Rights of Honduras to plan for training of the three CMPVs in gender-based violence prevention and with the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH) for future trainings in promoting a culture of peace, conflict resolution and prevention; the development of logos and slogans for each committee to provide more visibility in the community for their work and function; and the selection of personnel in Santa Lucía and Cantarranas to form part of the monitoring and evaluation of the plans.

All three municipalities also began the process of putting together grant proposals for the in-kind grants provided by AMUPREV to each CMPV.

All activities conducted by the three municipalities can be found on the AMUPREV website http://www.amuprev.org/noticias/. Below are a few highlights from this last Quarter.

A Cinema-Forum was held at the facilities of the Carlos Bendek school of the El Túnel hamlet. The event was organized by the Figure 1: Cinema-Forum in Santa Lucía, Honduras Santa Lucía MVPC Sub-committee on Children, Youth, Art and Sport. A group of 30 students enjoyed a film and received a talk about domestic and intrafamily violence from representatives of the National Police and the Municipal Education Directorate.

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In the municipality of Cantarranas, Francisco Morazán, the Mayor, Mr. Francisco Gaitán, inaugurated the painting course "Qué pinta Cantarranas,” in which more than 40 young girls and boys will learn to paint and elaborate artistic murals over the course of 2 months. At the end of the instruction, participants will be able to paint their own murals. The course is an initiative contemplated in the 2018 Work Plan of the Municipal Committee for the Prevention of Violence and Promotion of Figure 2: Training for students in mural painting. Human Rights of Cantarranas.

2.B SUPPORT FOR A TRAINING PROGRAM IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC TO PREVENT TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS IN COLLABORATION WITH THE SPECIAL SOLICITOR FOR TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS OF THE DR ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OFFICE

In collaboration with FEDOMU, the Attorney General’s Office of the Dominican Republic, the National School of the Ministry of the Interior, Ministry of Women (MM) and the Ministry of Education (MINED), AMUPREV held a total of 6 Training of Trainers (TOT) workshops from the 23 to the 31st of August. The workshops were designed in phases to ensure greater outreach. The goal of the workshops was to train prosecutors, counselors and municipal staff via a TOT model to reach an estimated 3,000 students ages 14 to 18 with information on strategies for the Prevention of Trafficking in Persons (TIP). A total of 314 persons were trained, including 228 MINED counselors/ psychologists.

Workshop for National District, , Pedro Brand and The August 23rd workshop was held in the Figure 3: First phase - Prosecutors from targeted National District and was led by trainers Mrs. municipalities attend TIP training Sophia Brockmans and Madeline Nunez, both national prosecutors specialized in trafficking in persons prevention strategies. 41 attendees were trained (35 female and 6 male), including 31 prosecutors, 5 MINED staff, 2 municipal personnel and 3 FEDOMU staff.

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Workshop for Santo Domingo Este, Boca Chica, Special Prosecutor Mrs. Ginna Matias led the August 24th workshop held in Santo Domingo Este, where 50 people attended (40 female, 10 male) including 35 counselors, 2 regional MINED technical staff, and13 municipal staff.

Figure 4: Phase two - Prosecutors train municipal staff and counsellors on TIP prevention strategies.

Workshop for Santiago The August 28th workshop was held in Santiago and lead by Santiago’s prosecutor Mrs. Sumaya Rodriguez. A total of 52 attendants (46 female and 6 male) were trained, including 40 counselors, 9 municipal staff, 2 prosecutors, and 1 FEDOMU staff.

Workshop for Puerto Plata Puerto Plata’s August 29th workshop was led by its prosecutor Mr. Warlyn Tavarez. The workshop was attended by 35 counselors, 9 MINERD staff, Figure 5: August 28th TIP workshop attendees. 2 FEDOMU personnel, and 11 Municipal technical staff for a total of 57 attendees (46 female, 11 male).

Workshop for and Elías Piña The August 30 workshop held in Las Matas de Farfan was led by Mrs. Denia Rodriquez, San Juan Prosecutor and Dewilken Suero, Elias Piña Prosecutor. A total of 58 staff were trained (42 female, 16 male), comprising 40 counselors, 7 MINERD staff, 9 municipal staff and 2 FEDOMU personel.

Workshop for Samaná and Nagua The final workshop was held on August 31st and was held in Sanchez. The workshop was Figure 6: Mrs. Odalis Marte, Nagua Prosecutor leads final workshop training in Sanchez. led by Mrs. Odalis Marte, prosecutor from Nagua. A total of 56 staff were trained (43

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female and 13 male), including 45 counselors, 4 MINERD staff, 1 FEDOMU staff and 6 municipal technical staff.

Upon completion of phases one and two, third phase workshops to train students were initiated in September. ICMA, FEDOMU and MINERD leadership met to coordinate the delivery of the trainings. A total of 1,363 students were trained by TOT participants on TIP prevention strategies, with additional trainings expected to continue through October.

MINERD Municipalities Education Students Trained Region Centers in Sept I 15 , Santo Domingo Oeste, Pedro 3 151 Brand and Los Alcarrizos II 10 Santo Domingo Norte, Santo Domingo Este and 4 192 Boca Chica III 08 Santiago 4 219 IV 11 Puerto Plata 2 179 V 02 San Juan y Elías Piña 8 523 VI 14 Samaná and Nagua 1 99 TOTALS 22 1,363 Table 6: Total students trained in TIP by MINERD Region/Municipalities

II. IMPLEMENTATION CHALLENGES/ REMEDIAL ACTIONS TAKEN

While we were not able to provide the in-kind grants as anticipated during this Quarter because of procedural delays, the grants will be provided next Quarter. All requests have been received and municipalities are providing ICMA with the correct documentation in support of the grants.

The Municipality of Valle de Angeles did not work on their municipal violence prevention plan in the month of September. ICMA will schedule a meeting to ascertain their interest in continuing with the Program in October and to determine whether the delays are due to lack of political will or overextension of municipal staff. A decision will then be made as to whether or not to continue to support the Municipality.

III. PROPOSED ACTIVITIES AND EXPECTED RESULTS FOR NEXT QUARTER- JULY-SEPTEMBER 2018

1. Continue providing targeted support to all MVPCs to implement their work plans through December 2018 and conduct the auto-evaluation process which will be key to building the 2019 plans 2. Define with the Valle de Ángeles Committee and mayor if they are still interested in participating in the Program and if so, what support they need to finalize their plan. 3. Provide in-kind grants to municipalities to help them implement key activities in their work plans. 4. Continue to work on AMUPREV Red webpage migration to CAMCAYCA’s website and support the approval of the webpage by CAMCAYCA’s Board.

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5. Continue TIP student training though the end of October in the Dominican Republic. 6. Continue preparation and dissemination of weekly bulletins for the AMUPREV site. 7. Identify CityLinks Partner city for CityLinks exchanges. 8. Coordinate with FEDOMU to establish a work plan to support 5 municipalities selected by USAID DR Mission to create or improve development of violence prevention activities led by the “mesas locales de seguridad, ciudadanía y género”

IV. MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATIVE

Quarterly Financial Report for July-September 2018 is detailed below.

Quarterly Financial Report Total Federal Funds Authorized: $5,806,302.51 Federal Share of Expenditures: $5,409,497.68 Remaining Funds: $397,804.83 Cost-share Required: $141,569 Cost Share Reported: $288,672.38

Municipal Partnerships for Violence Prevention in Central America and the Dominican Republic (AMUPREV) Quarterly Report – July to September 2018