Quarterly Results Report Emergency Food Security Program - EFSP Food for the Hungry DRC

Reporting Period FY 2020, Q2 (January – March, 2020) Awardee Name and Host Country Food for the Hungry DRC Host/ Implementation Country Democratic Republic of Congo Award Number 72DFFP19GR00073 Activity Name Emergency Food Security Program (EFSP) “Tanganyika Emergency Food Assistance (TEFA) Project” Activity Start Date 08/23/2019 Activity End Date 02/22/2021 Submission Date (mm/dd/yyyy) 04/30/2020 Awardee HQ Contact Name Anthony E. Koomson Senior Director, Public Resources 1001 Connecticut Ave NW Suite 1115, Washington, DC 20036 Tel: 202-480-2540 Email: [email protected] Host Country Office Contact Name Pascal R. BIMENYIMANA Emergency Response Manager Food for the Hungry RD Congo No 69 Av.Tanganyika/Nyalukemba/Bukavu Téléphone: +243 978 290 020 Email: [email protected]

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

OVERVIEW & CONTEXT 5 Background 5 1) Activity Summary 7 2) Activity Outputs 7 Purpose 1: Households have food and income security 8 Purpose 2: Improved consumption of high-quality nutritious foods by WRA, CU5 10 Purpose 3: Reduced incidence of SGBV 11 Collaboration 11 3) Programming Performance 11 4) Some Challenges 11 5) Market Analysis 12 The collected data is currently being processed and analyzed. 12 6) Planned Activities 12 7) Protection Concerns 12 8) Success Stories (as relevant) 12 9) Local and Regional Purchase Commodity (LRP) 12 10) Annex: Loss Reporting 12 11) Annex: Commodity Quality and Safety 13

2 Tanganyika Emergency Food Assistance (TEFA) Project, April 30, Food for the Hungry DRC LIST OF ACRONYMS CG: Care Group CTS/LMMS: Commodity Tracking System/ Last Mobile Millennium Solution DRC: Democratic Republic of Congo EVI: Extremely vulnerable individuals FDP: Food Distribution Point FGD: Focus Group Discussions FH: Food for the Hungry FSL: Food Security and Livelihoods HH: Household IDP: Internally displaced persons MOFI: Moderately Food Insecure MOU: Memorandum of understanding NFI: Non Food Items NGO: Non-Governmental Organisation OCC: Office Congolais de Contrôle OCHA: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs SGBV: Sexual and gender Based Violence TEFA: Tanganyika Emergency Food Assistance Project WPF: Word Food Programme

3 Tanganyika Emergency Food Assistance (TEFA) Project, April 30, Food for the Hungry DRC TABLES & FIGURES

Figure 1: TEFA staff orientation on activities in , ...... 7 Figure 2: Orientation session for local leaders of the Kashege village on the mechanisms of management of complaints and the signing of partnership agreement ...... 8 Figure 3: Handover of NFI Kit to a beneficiary in Tundwa ...... 10 Figure 4: Training of members of CG on preparation of seed beds ...... 10

Table 1: Challenges Table ...... 11

4 Tanganyika Emergency Food Assistance (TEFA) Project, April 30, Food for the Hungry DRC OVERVIEW & CONTEXT

Overall objective: The overall goal of the program is to support 19,727 households (HHs) affected by the prolonged insecurity in Tanganyika Province by rebuilding food security and self- resiliency through provision of tools and seeds for agricultural production as well as facilitating transition to traditional livelihoods activities. The program will also include conflict mitigation and protection (sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) theme because HHs that have been affected by displacement have high possibility of gender imbalances Specifically, the current interventions intend to: ● Support at least 17,273 vulnerable HHs (IDP, returnee and host community) with monthly unconditional food assistance for the initial four months, and 1,727 most vulnerable HHs with food to improve HH level food insecurity for six months besides of unconditional food transfer. ● Support 9,000 vulnerable HHs including returnees to relaunch agricultural production through provision of agricultural inputs (seeds and tools) and training; ● Promote renovation of community assets through food assistance for productive assets or Food for Work/Asset (FFW/A) programming that will target the 18,000 most vulnerable HHs in the communities; ● All HHs targeted receive health and nutrition training on improved HH and community case-management of maternal and child health conditions of diseases. ● All HHs are sensitized on conflict as well as SGBV mitigation in communities

Background

A) Security context During the reporting period, in Tanganyika province, the territories of Kalemie and Moba, was characterized by the resurgence of inter-ethnic conflicts; incursions and confrontations, particularly in the territory of Moba in the locality of Murilo. With the second week of March, there was an incursion of the Zambian army on Congolese soil which led to clashes and caused a movement of the population from the localities of Kibanga, Muliro, Kalubamba, Kileba towards the localities of Fube, Kajazo, Mwange and Lawi. Since then diplomatic talks between the two countries (DRC-Zambia) are going on, a calm is gradually returning, nevertheless a military deployment can be observed in this area, which shows that there is a potential risk of clashes outbreak at any time. This condition is creating mental health problems among the population, which remains displaced until now in the host villages. In Kalemie territory, the situation was characterized by several cases of road blockers. However, during the reporting period, the security situation remained volatile and 5 Tanganyika Emergency Food Assistance (TEFA) Project, April 30, Food for the Hungry DRC unpredictable throughout the area of intervention where Mai-Mai Mundusi, Apa na Pale and some Twa fighters carried out attacks against civilian road users; mainly motorcyclists but also vehicles. In addition, in February, the inter-ethnic conflict between the Bantu and Twa ethnic groups in Tanganyika continues; in Muyombo one of the health areas covered by the project; there are two chiefs (Pygmy and Bantu) competing for leadership. Currently local population movements have been reported from territory to Kalemie territory mainly in the areas of intervention of the TEFA project. B. Humanitarian context Since March 10, 2020; DRC has registered its first case of COVID-19 related patient in Kinshasa Capital. Measures to reduce the spread of the disease were taken at the national level suspending any gatherings of more than 20 people and movements between the provinces and the capital city Kinshasa. As a result, humanitarian activities were discontinued, while humanitarian actors are still working with communities and most interventions are mass community-based activities. Humanitarian coordination meetings are currently suspended and information is only shared through emails. Despite the current difficulties, considering the precariousness humanitarian situation and the fact that Tanganyika province has not registered COVID 19 cases yet, the Ministry of humanitarian affairs officially requested through UNOCHA all humanitarian actors to continue with their activities making sure they respect WHO COVID 19 guidelines such as social distancing, working with a smaller group of less than 10 beneficiaries and strengthening awareness on hygiene measures and prevention by washing hands frequently. With those facts, TEFA project continues its activities including food distribution and community sensitization to prevent the pandemic. It should be noted that to date the case of coronavirus in the DRC has only increased. In less than 30 days, the DRC has already passed the 109 coronavirus cases mark with 8 deaths1. This situation worries the population and risks creating the worst for the coming quarter in a country without appropriate medical facilities. This could have an impact on socio-economic life and risks heightening the humanitarian crisis in a country that lives on more than 60% of imports2. Currently five provinces are already affected, namely Kinshasa, which is the epicenter, Ituri, North Kivu, South Kivu and Kwilu.

C. Physical access:

Since January 2020, the rains which fell on several localities of Tanganyika province, precisely in Moba and Kalemie territories led to a strong degradation of certain road axis but also damaging certain bridges of which the access became very difficult for certain paths axis of the project intervention which significantly impact activities implementation.

1 This information was collected on March 31, 2020. 2 WFP- Rapport Campagne agricole 2017-2018 6 Tanganyika Emergency Food Assistance (TEFA) Project, April 30, Food for the Hungry DRC 1) Activity Summary During the course of the second quarter, the project made progress in finalizing the staff recruitment, the training of community leaders on gender-based, conflict sensitivity, SGBV facilitating project staff orientation sessions. In addition; during the same period; efforts were undertaken to receive some vegetable seeds, food commodities and non-food items. TEFA project had to also validate beneficiary lists and take their pictures into the monitoring system; the publication and posting of these lists; and the establishment of complaint mechanisms management within beneficiary communities. The identification of potential productive assets also drawn the interest of the project during this period. At the end of the second quarter, distributions of essential household items that had already been received were delivered in one of the health areas called Nyemba health zone in Kalemie territory. Furthermore, sensitization of the local authorities on the Care Group (CG) approach and the implementation of 84 CG were carried out with training and distribution of vegetable seeds to members of the health groups organized in the health areas surrounding Kalemie Centre. In addition, research activities were carried out during the quarter including a study on market analysis. As data is being compiled, the report of this study will be included as an appendix in the third quarter report.

2) Activity Outputs

Staff recruitment

To complete the TEFA project team; the recruitment of staff continued during the second quarter. The team formerly formed in the first quarter by the Emergency Program Manager and the M&E Team (including 2 M&E Officers, 4 M&E Assistants); to date; the team is now almost complete. The project was able to recruit in the second quarter 1 Assistant Manager, 1 Research & Communication Coordinator, 2 Commodity Officers, 2 Finance Officers, 4 CTS/LMMS Officers, 4 Zonal Supervisors, 7 Field Monitors, 2 Warehouse Keepers, 5 Agriculture Promotors 2 Health Promotors and 3 Drivers. One Field Monitor and one Health Promotor are yet to join as the initially recruited turned down the Offer.

Orientation of all project staff All recruited project staff attended the orientation sessions which had the aim of increasing their knowledge of the project objectives, monitoring and evaluation aspects, logistics, food distribution, financial aspects, and information and technology (IT) issues. Having more than 90% of the newly recruited staff coming from outside FH, it was good to have FH Kalemie departmental head facilitate their respective topics and answering questions from the participants. In

7 Tanganyika Emergency Food Assistance (TEFA)Figure 1 : Project,TEFA staff orientationApril 30, on Food activities for in theKalemie, Hungry DRC Tanganyika Province addition to the orientation training, the 8 field staff (Agriculture and Health Promotors) from both territories attended a training on care groups (CGs) establishment, maintenance and vegetable garden cultivation technics. At the same time, the 12 Field Monitors were trained on the functioning of the Commodity Department, food management (Food commodity reception, Storage; Distribution and Reporting) as well as the handling of the beneficiary management information system (LMMS)

Purpose 1: Households have food and income security

During this second quarter, the TEFA project identified and validated a total of 19,067 households, including 11,864 and 7,203 households in Kalemie and Moba respectively. Of these households, 17,106 are Moderately Food Insecure (MOFI) households and 1961 are Extremely Vulnerable. Before the suspension of the food security cluster meetings due to the situation of the spread of Corona Virus (Covid-19), the TEFA project was represented at 2 monthly meetings and 2 workshops organized by WFP and the food security cluster of Tanganyika Province. The workshops focused on information management and market assessment. The TEFA project has also identified productive assets in the beneficiary communities and these assets are currently being analyzed.

TEFA Project beneficiary Validation With the aim of reducing fraud and ghost beneficiaries within the community; the beneficiary validation activity was organized in all project targeted villages. This validation consists of the organization of general assemblies in each village for all the beneficiaries who have been registered; the roll call with testimony of the whole community and then a photograph that can support the identity of the authentic beneficiary. That activity was preceded by sensitization sessions in order to allow the community to channel their complaints (claims, grievances, suggestions) related to the registration and validation activities. Among the complaints Figure 2: Orientation session for local leaders of the Kashege village on the received during this mechanisms of management of complaints and the signing of partnership validation; it was reported agreement Photo by FH that some sub-villages were omitted during the general 8 Tanganyika Emergency Food Assistance (TEFA) Project, April 30, Food for the Hungry DRC registration of beneficiaries and thus a registration mission (catch-up) was organized and a total of 210 households were registered in the Mazonde health areas; Kansabala and Kabwela in the KANSIMBA health area in Moba territory. Out of a total of 19,067 households were targeted for the two territories, i.e. 7,203 households in Moba territory and 11,864 in Kalemie territory. In the plight to demonstrate transparency and accountability, participant households’ names were displayed for communities to verify whether the selected households conform to the set criteria. After the validation exercise, a participatory approach was implored in following up of complaints raised by the respective communities.

Identification of potentials productive assets With the involvement and participation of local leaders and members of the complaints management committees supported by the field teams, some productive assets have been identified. The WASH and infrastructure team is scheduled to visit and conduct technical assessments of the identified productive assets for the project to determine which ones to retain for rehabilitation with the available resources.

Distribution of essential household items The project distributed some procured items available to the targeted beneficiaries in the Tundwa Health Area (32 km from Kalemie) and Nyemba health zone. A total of 70 households received some essential Non Food Items (NFIs) in the villages Kalenge, Mwingiji, Musamaria, Kilonge and Bernard. Items distributed include but are not limited to teaspoons, laundry soap, Metal Plates 24 and 28 cm, cups, Plastic Basins, Metal Soup Spoon as well as 10 liters cans, just to mention a few. The distribution will continue during the next quarter as soon as the remaining items will be procured.

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Figure 3: Handover of NFI Kit to a beneficiary in Tundwa Photo by FH

Receipt of food commodity in project stores During this reporting period, the TEFA project received the first shipment of beans with 1,278 bags of 50 kg each. This makes a total of 63.9 Tons. The commodity team also visited the supplier warehouse (INNOV CONGO) following the arrival of 60Mt of salt. The laboratory test was conducted and the results were positive for human consumption.

Purpose 2: Improved consumption of high-quality nutritious foods by WRA, CU5

Awareness of the CG approach and care groups set up

During the quarter TEFA project staff were trained on the care group approach and they cascaded this training down to the community level with particular attention to community leaders. This approach will ensure buy-in from the community at large once the leaders comprehend the dire importance and effectiveness of the CG approach. Moreover, TEFA project also took advantage of these sensitization sessions to reinforce COVID-19 messaging. During the quarter CGs were also identified. Each CG has 15 members. The TEFA team used a door to door approach to identify women to become CG members. In total, 84 CGs were formed, 25 in Moba territory and 59 in Kalemie territory. These included 832 and 400 women for Kalemie and Moba respectively. All these women met the selection criteria for CG members and each group was headed by a mother leader who was elected by his peers.

Training of CGs on the installation of a vegetable garden; its role and distribution of market garden seeds

To date 11 CGs have been trained and received vegetable seeds for establishing home gardens. The training focused on the importance of vegetable gardening, improved cultivation techniques, making beds for vegetable gardens, row sowing, mulching, making a shade tree, watering techniques and transplanting. The seeds distributed included tomato, onion, amaranth, cabbage and eggplant.

Figure 4: Training of members of CG on preparation10 Tanganyika Emergency Food Assistance (TEFA) Project,of seed beds April 30, Food for the Hungry DRC Photo by FH

Purpose 3: Reduced incidence of SGBV

Training of community leaders in the project areas on Gender-based violence and conflict sensitivity During the reporting period a total of 43 staff (14% women), were trained on gender and conflict sensitivity as well as forms of Sexually Gender based Violence (SGBV). The staff involved were the field monitors and promoters who are in direct contact with the project participants. Community leaders, including customary chiefs, local religious leaders, territorial administrators, school principals and nurses, were trained on the various forms of sexual and gender-based violence and conflict sensitivity. A total of 47 leaders were trained, including 5 women (10.7%) and 42 men (89.3%). Collaboration In order to ensure a better coordination in project implementation; the project team have been active in different coordination meetings; Clusters, general information coordination meetings with OCHA Tanganyika. For this period TEFA participated in two workshops organized by the WFP and the food security cluster of Tanganyika Province. These training workshops focused on information management and market assessment. TEFA also participated in a sensitization workshop for the members of the food security cluster on the inclusion and integration of the disability aspect in the project programming, selection and evaluation of interventions. The workshop was organized by Handicap International in Kalemie. It’s good to point out that with COVID-19 Pandemic rallying behind the prevention measures against this disease taken at the DRC level; all meetings have been suspended and information is currently being shared between humanitarian actors by email.

3) Programming Performance (Not applicable this first quarter)

4) Some Challenges

Table 1: Challenges Table

Challenges Suggested Way out Rain season making roads and bridges Waiting for the water to recess for the trucks and other 11 Tanganyika Emergency Food Assistance (TEFA) Project, April 30, Food for the Hungry DRC impracticable. vehicles to pass Difficulty in supplying and transporting Getting support from Humanitarian Minister to ease food and other kits following the DRC's food commodity shipment suspension of communication with neighboring countries but also between provinces (difficulty in shipping cargo ships). Difficulty in organizing mass gathering Strategy to organize activities with small number of activities because of COVID-19 people not exceeding 10 beneficiaries as Tanganyika Province is not yet directly affected by Covid-19 or activities with the door-to-door approach. Difficulty in transporting laboratory food Close monitoring samples to neighboring countries due to border closures during the pandemic period.

5) Market Analysis The collected data is currently being processed and analyzed to be ready before the submission date.

6) Planned Activities A full illustration of Q3 planned activities is attached here:

7) Protection Concerns (Not applicable this quarter)

8) Success Stories (as relevant) (Not applicable this quarter)

9) Local and Regional Purchase Commodity (LRP)

TEFA Project did not procure commodities from producer associations or small holder farmers, the procurement was done with local traders and the commodities bought from DRC and neighboring countries.

10) Annex: Loss Reporting (Not applicable this quarter)

12 Tanganyika Emergency Food Assistance (TEFA) Project, April 30, Food for the Hungry DRC 11) Annex: Commodity Quality and Safety

As indicated in the data entry template annexed to this report, commodity quality control was conducted and the results for corn meal and beans were within the acceptable specifications range. The project is yet to receive laboratory results for salt and samples for Palm oil have not been submitted (still in transit).

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