LOCAL CIVIL SOCIETY SPEAKERS PARTAKE IN THE SOUTH KIVU PEACE FORUM IN BUKAVU – RIO CENTER, NOVEMBER 13 – 15, 2018

USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY Progress Report: Year 3, Quarter 1

(OCTOBER – DECEMBER 2018)

THIS PUBLICATION WAS PRODUCED FOR REVIEW BY THE UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT. IT WAS PREPARED BY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL (MSI), A TETRA TECH COMPANY. (DELETE THIS BLANK PAGE AFTER CREATING PDF. IT’S HERE TO MAKE FACING PAGES AND LEFT/RIGHT PAGE NUMBERS SEQUENCE CORRECTLY IN WORD. BE CAREFUL TO NOT DELETE THIS SECTION BREAK EITHER, UNTIL AFTER YOU HAVE GENERATED A FINAL PDF. IT WILL THROW OFF THE LEFT/RIGHT PAGE LAYOUT.) CONTENTS ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS ...... II EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ...... 1 SECTION 1: SECURITY BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT ...... 3 SECTION 2: PROJECT SUMMARY ...... 4 SECTION 3: ACTIVITY IMPLEMENTATION ...... 5 OBJECTIVE 1: COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDERS IDENTIFY AND ACCEPT SOLUTIONS TO SPECIFIC DRIVERS OF CONFLICT ...... 5 OBJECTIVE 2: PARTICIPATORY (WOMEN & OMGS) SOLUTIONS ARE IMPLEMENTED ...... 7 OBJECTIVE 3: RESOURCES FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ARE MORE INCLUSIVELY ALLOCATED ...... 10 CROSSCUTTING THEMES ...... 13 INTEGRATION OF CONFLICT SENSITIVITY IN SPR OPERATIONS AND IMPLEMENTATION...... 14 SECTION 4: MONITORING, EVALUATION AND LEARNING (ME&L) ...... 16 SYSTEMS AND DATA COLLECTION ...... 16 SECTION 5: MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS ...... 17 SELECTION OF GRANTEES ...... 17 USE OF FLEXIBLE FUNDING...... 17 TARGET ZONE ACCESSIBILITY ...... 18 INTERNATIONAL PARTNER COORDINATION ...... 18 PARTNER FIELD COORDINATION ...... 18 GRANTS MANAGEMENT AND PARTNER REPORTING ...... 19 STAFFING AND STAFF MANAGEMENT ...... 19 MAIN PRIORITIES IN NEXT QUARTER ...... 20 FINANCIAL REPORT ...... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. SECTION 6: OVERALL MAIN CHALLENGES, SOLUTIONS, LESSONS LEARNED AND OPPORTUNITIES ...... 21 CHALLENGES ...... 21 LESSONS LEARNED ...... 21 OPPORTUNITIES ...... 21 ANNEX 1: PROGRESS ON PERFORMANCE PLAN ...... 22 ANNEX 2: SUCCESS STORIES ...... 28 ANNEX 3: PARTNER ACTIVITY REPORTS...... 41 ANNEX 4: GRANT PROGRAM STATUS ...... 85 ANNEX 5: YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 ACTIVITY CALENDAR...... 88

i | | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

AAP Action Pour La Paix Action for Peace ACODEPA Action Communautaire pour la Défense et le Progrès des Agriculteurs Community Action for the Defense and Progress of Farmers ACOSYF Association coopérative en synergie féminine Cooperative Association in Female Synergy ACUDI Actions des Chrétiens Unis pour le Développement Intégral United Christian Actions for Integral Development ADEPAE Action pour le Développement et la Paix Endogène Action for Development and Endogenous Peace ADPD Action pour le Développement des Populations Défavorisées Action for the Development of Disadvantaged Populations AFEM Association de Femmes de Médias Association of Women in Media AFPAP Association Féminine pour la Promotion des Activités Paysannes Women’s Association for the Promotion of Peasant Activities AHUSADEC Action Humanitaire pour la Santé et le Développement Communautaire Humanitarian Action for Community Health and Development AIBEF Appui aux Initiatives de Bien-Etre Familial Support for Family Wellness Initiatives APS Annual Program Statement AVEC Association Villageoise d’Epargne et de Crédit Village Savings and Loan Association BOAD Bureau Œcuménique d’Appui pour le Développement Ecumenical Office of Support for Development CADERSA Centre d’Appui au Développement Rural et à la Sécurité Alimentaire Support Center for Rural Development and Food Security CDF Caucus des Femmes Women’s Caucus CDP Community Development Plan CDJP Commission Diocésaine Justice et Paix Diocesan Commission Justice and Peace CEDECO Centre d’Appui à l’Education et au Développement Communautaire Support Center for Education and Community Development CFAD Centre de Formation et d’Action pour le Développement Training and Action Center for Development

ii | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV CJP Centre des Jeunes pour la Paix Youth Center for Peace CLOCs Comites Locaux d'Organisation Communautaire Local Committees of Community Organizations CMLs Club de Mentorat en Leadership Leadership Mentoring Clubs COP Chief of Party COPA Parent Committee COUD Collectif des ONG Unies pour le Développement durable des Associations pour l’encadrement des personnes désœuvrées et vulnérables United NGOs’ Coalition for the Sustainable Development of Associations for the Management of the Unemployed and Vulnerable CPGRBC Centre de Paix pour la Guérison et Reconstruction des Bases Communautaires Peace Center for Healing and Reconstruction of Community Foundations CSO Civil Society Organization DCOP Ops Deputy Chief of Party, Operations DCOP Tech Deputy Chief of Party, Technical DEC Development Experience Clearinghouse DNH Do No Harm DRC Democratic Republic of the Congo ESF Environnement Sans Frontières Environment Without Borders FARDC Forces Armées de la République Démocratique du Congo Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo FOSI Forum SIDA AIDS Forum GEC-SH Groupe d’Etudes sur les Conflits et la Sécurité Humaine Study Group on Conflict and Human Security ICJP Initiative Congolaise pour la Justice et la Paix Congolese Initiative for Justice and Peace IFDP Innovation et Formation pour le Développement et la Paix Innovation and Training for Development and Peace IGA Income-Generating Activities IMF/MFI Institution de Microfinance Microfinance Institution IP Implementing Partner IR Intermediate Result

iii | | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV ISDR Institut Supérieur de Développement Rural de Bukavu Higher Institute of Rural Development of Bukavu ISPDE Institut Supérieur pour la Promotion de la Paix, du Développement et de l’Environnement Higher Institute for the Promotion of Peace, Development and the Environment IYA Integrated Youth Activity LDP Local Development Plan LPDC Local Peace and Development Committees LOP Life of Project LUCODER Lutte Contre la Délinquance et l’Exode Rurale Fight Against Delinquency and the Rural Exodus M&E Monitoring & Evaluation ME&L Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning MOCC Savings and Credit Cooperative MONUSCO Mission de l'Organisation des Nations unies pour la stabilisation en République Démocratique du Congo United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo M&E Monitoring and Evaluation MSI Management Systems International NK North Kivu NKPAF North Kivu Advocacy Framework NUPAS Non-U.S. Organization Pre-Award Survey OMG Other Marginalized Group PAR Participatory Action Research PIRS Performance Indicator Review Sheets PIT Performance Indicator Table Q Quarter RFA Request for Applications RFEDI Réveil des Femmes Pour le Développement Intégré Women’s Awakening for Integrated Development RM Radio Maendeleo SK South Kivu SKPAF South Kivu Provincial Advocacy Framework SLIFE World Supporting Livelihood Initiatives Forever in the World

iv | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV SPR Solutions for Peace and Recovery STTA Short-Term Technical Assistance SYNIGL Synergie d’Initiatives pour les Grands Lacs Synergy Initiatives for the Great Lakes TGD Tous pour le Genre dans le Développement All for Gender in Development TIP Trafficking in Persons TPO Transcultural Psychosocial Organization UEA Evangelical University in Africa UN United Nations UNSCR United Nations Security Council Resolution USAID United States Agency for International Development USG United States Government VIVAG Vivre Loin de Vague Live Far from the Waves WASH Water, Sanitation and Health Y Year

v | | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

USAID’s Solutions for Peace and Recovery (SPR) began August 30, 2016, under Task Order AID-OAA-I-13- 0042/AID-660-TO-16-00004 and will be implemented through August 29, 2019, with the possibility for two option years until August 2021. The project aims to increase participation by women and other marginalized groups (OMGs) in community-based conflict analysis, prevention, resolution and recovery in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

During Quarter 1 of Year 3 (Q1 Y3; October – December 2018), SPR partially halted activities due to security concerns during the pre- and post-election period. Despite such challenges, the program team, together with 34 actively implementing partners, improved the project’s overall progress against its performance indicator table (PIT) from 69.7 percent at the end of Year 2 to 84.4 percent at the end of the reporting period.

Progress against Objective 1 life-of-project (LOP) targets rose from 65 percent at the end of Y2 to 69 percent for the reporting period. During Q1 Y3, project activities included: eight trainings for civil society organizations in North and South Kivu on the topics of conflict sensitivity, advocacy and communication; 15 participatory conflict analyses in three groupements; validation of the results of 65 participatory conflict analyses in seven groupements and in the cities of Goma and Bukavu; 13 Participatory Action Research (PAR) processes started in each of the project’s 13 target zones in North and South Kivu; 13 data collection training sessions on PAR for community researchers; seven data collection sessions on various PAR themes in the cities of Goma and Bukavu and in another three groupements; two community dialogue sessions titled, “Fragile Social Cohesion Between the Groupements of Ishungu and Lugendo” and “Drinking Water-Related Conflict in the Lugendo Groupement”; and two community forums in Ishungu and Lugendo which resulted in conflict resolution agreement signed between the two groupements.

For Objective 2, overall achievements exceeded LOP targets, as progress increased from 90 percent to 103.9 percent. During this quarter, women & OMGs consulted with traditional leaders on local issues 32 times. Moreover, the SPR project and its partners organized 290 regular coaching and training sessions in transformational leadership through various themes including law, protection, peacebuilding, advocacy and communication. Five local grantees produced 114 radio broadcasts promoting the acceptance and involvement of OMGs in the peace process and disseminated them in the territory of Kabare, Walungu, Kalehe (Mbinga Nord groupement), Masisi (Biiri groupement) and Bukavu City. 66 meetings took place between women, OMGs, local authorities and local leaders to discuss and find solutions to their social challenges of community exclusion and human rights abuses. In partnership with the provincial Gender Ministry and CARE International, SPR also held a stocktaking and active reflection workshop in Goma on the role and participation of women & OMGs in peace processes, according to United Nations (UN) Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325. Lastly, in Kabare, one participatory theater production sought to encourage social norms that support the participation of OMGs in decision-making.

SPR also made significant progress this quarter against Objective 3 LOP targets, with progress rising from 55 percent to 78 percent. During this quarter, the project crafted four new community development plans integrating equitable and locally produced solutions to resolve conflict; made 10 linkages to direct livelihood projects and resources; delivered foundational livelihood training to 60 women and representatives of OMGs; and established and delivered capacity building to 16 user committees.

1 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV During this quarter, SPR continued its support to the two provincial advocacy frameworks in North and South Kivu and provided sustained technical assistance and capacity building to support the development of their strategic plans and advocacy proposals. A three-day peace forum took place November 13 to 15, 2018, assembling 250 community leaders, women & OMGs, peace actors and decision-makers from the local, provincial, national and regional levels to discuss and strategize methods to bring peace and social cohesion to South Kivu and mitigate violence during the upcoming elections. Representatives agreed on and signed the Commitment Act on reinforcing peace and social cohesion in South Kivu before, during and after the elections. About 10 social media and broadcast networks disseminated information about the peace event. Participants, including provincial authorities, expressed that this event was a success and said the outcomes of the discussions will help prevent conflicts after elections in South Kivu. SPR is committed to continue prioritizing such work in Y3.

This quarter, the project initiated the recruitment process for a deputy chief of party, technical; South Kivu advocacy officer; program assistant, Objective 3; monitoring and evaluation assistant; senior grant administrator; and administrative and finance officer. SPR staffing changes also included release of a grants and procurement officer, a position it does not plan to fill at this time. Project leadership decided not to renew the contract of the Component 2 program assistant and launched recruitment to fill this position at the start of Q2. During the reporting period, the project also hired an expert consultant for short-term technical assistance (STTA) in grants management to conduct an in-depth review of the SPR grants program to identify gaps, bottlenecks and areas for improvement and provide recommendations to facilitate efficient management of the program moving forward in Y3 and beyond.

The main challenge faced by SPR this quarter was the inaccessibility of certain target zones, particularly Masisi and Kalehe, due to the increased security threats posed by armed groups during the electoral campaign period. Some SPR grantees were unable to access certain villages in these areas and were forced to postpone or suspend activities. Overall, this did not significantly affect SPR’s technical performance, but the project maintains close communication with partners to monitor security in target zones, report incidents and adjust plans as needed or advised to ensure both continued implementation and safety of partners and beneficiaries. The SPR contingency plan guided implementation and operational decisions before, during and after the elections.

Having reached 84.4 percent achievement against its PIT at the end of Y3 Q1, SPR expects to continue implementation and closeout of most grantee activities in Q2, as well as increase social cohesion activities and advocacy work and support activities that respond to conflict in the Kivus. Specifically, the project will prioritize activities that respond to residual conflicts resulting from the electoral period through follow-ons to current grants and identifying, submitting and granting rapid-response awards, including advocacy initiatives that bring together key stakeholders. In the next quarter, SPR plans to submit its revised PIT and Performance Indicator Review Sheets (PIRS) for approval and continue the implementation of recommendations from the grants STTA. A review of select technical aspects of the project is planned during the upcoming quarter.

SPR’s project leadership and the technical director, in cooperation and consultation with USAID, will prioritize development of a strategic vision for option Y4 and Y5 to allow swift implementation if awarded.

2 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV SECTION 1: SECURITY BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT

USAID’s SPR project continues to operate in a security context that remains volatile across both North and South Kivu. At least 70 armed groups are believed to be operating in Eastern Congo, largely funded by the rich mineral resources found in the region. During Y3 Q1, the security context remained very volatile across the two provinces of North and South Kivu. U.N. analysis and other humanitarian actors indicate that, within a context of political uncertainty, the security situation has deteriorated further in several DRC regions. North Kivu (NK) in particular continued to be marked by various massacres in the territory and the city of Beni. Other areas in North and South Kivu continued to suffer from national and foreign armed groups’ activism. Reports of banditry have surfaced in all project areas. These include an increase in targeted attacks by Mai-Mai groups against national security forces and on humanitarian actors. In North Kivu, Mai-Mai groups staged repeated attacks against Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) positions as a result of ongoing tensions between the Hutu and Nande communities. The Allied Democratic Forces also attempted to seize several FARDC positions. In South Kivu, Mai- Mai groups continued to attack several strategic FARDC locations. The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) has identified several cases of human rights violations and abuses that armed groups, state actors, armed forces and national police forces have perpetrated. The lack of social cohesion in communities to respond to conflicts related to power, wealth and gender continues to impoverish and harm the population.

The presidential and legislative electoral process marked this quarter and yielded a particularly tense climate between various political, religious and social trends. At the end of November and during most of December, the electoral campaigns defined the overall context in the country. The communities in SPR's intervention areas were concerned about use of voting machines and the likelihood that armed conflicts would arise from the elections. In particular, it appears that this campaign period featured a high level of political intolerance. The two opposing camps—majority and opposition—have made numerous negative statements against each other and members of the three major political coalitions—Front Commun pour le Congo, Cap pour le Changement and Lamuka (Wake Up!)—have been heavily involved in the race to power. These political developments had a negative impact on the implementation of project activities; it was difficult to gather participants because some leaders were part of campaign teams while others wanted to participate in campaign-related meetings. After several postponements, the presidential, national and provincial elections took place on December 30, 2018. However, Butembo and Beni cities, in the territories of Beni and Yumbi respectively, were excluded because of the Ebola outbreak and the intercommunal conflict. Voting machines were both a novelty and a great concern for many citizens. At the time of writing, the Constitutional Court validated the final results in mid-January 2019, and the candidate Felix Tshisekedi was inaugurated as president in late January 2019. On Election Day, four people were killed in the Lurhala groupement of Walungu Territory in South Kivu. These killings were related to voter fraud.

While the people of Beni were still reeling from successive massacres, the Ebola virus spread to new areas. The disease appeared in the area of Mangina and quickly spread to several surrounding sections of the neighboring province of Ituri. This increase has generated fear around the country. Humanitarian organizations coordinated responses and North Kivu, South Kivu and Ituri began implementing precautionary measures.

With the support of SPR’s Contingency Plan Committee and management and security team, the project implemented an urgent and regular communication strategy and approach. SPR continued to monitor tensions and security incidents in the region and shared information with local partners and all staff on a weekly basis, including specific levels of security and corresponding measures to ensure safe implementation and staff security.

3 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV SECTION 2: PROJECT SUMMARY

USAID’s SPR project began August 30, 2016, under Task Order AID-OAA-I-13-0042/AID-660-TO-16-00004 and will continue implementation through August 29, 2019, with the potential for two option years. SPR is framed within USAID/DRC’s Transitional Objective 3: “Foundation for durable peace strengthened in Eastern DRC.”

SPR aims to improve social cohesion by integrating women and marginalized groups into governance and decision- making in North and South Kivu. The project achieves this through three objectives, as follows:

1. Community stakeholders identify and accept solutions to specific drivers of conflict;

2. Participatory (women & OMGs) solutions are implemented; and

3. Resources for community development are more inclusively allocated.

The SPR project’s delivery occurs through a combination of direct and indirect activities, primarily capacity building and facilitating citizen engagement for objectives 1 and 2, as well as grants to civil society organizations (CSOs) or advocacy coalitions that support activities across all three objective areas of the project.

SPR implements activities across 10 groupements and four communes among five territories in North and South Kivu, including Kalehe, Kabare, Walungu, Masisi and Walikale, as well as two cities, Goma and Bukavu. During this reporting period, efforts have focused on building the capacity of community peace and development structures and supporting the Provincial Advocacy Framework in North and South Kivu. In addition, discussions have begun at the community level, where participatory conflicts analyses were conducted on various conflicts. Project activities through Component 1 continue with participatory research to identify drivers and solutions to these various conflicts. Community dialogues will take place in the project areas. On these occasions, communities, leaders and power holders will be invited to come together to find concerted solutions that contribute to social cohesion and peacebuilding.

4 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV SECTION 3: ACTIVITY IMPLEMENTATION

OBJECTIVE 1: COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDERS IDENTIFY AND ACCEPT SOLUTIONS TO SPECIFIC DRIVERS OF CONFLICT

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

This report captures accomplishments for Y3 Q1 of USAID’s SPR’s project implementation from October 1 to December 31, 2018. Key accomplishments for this objective are as follows:

• Eight training sessions of CSOs facilitated in North and South Kivu, covering conflict sensitivity and advocacy and communication; • 15 participatory conflict analyses conducted in the Lurhara, Karhongo and Kamisimbi groupements in Walungu Territory; • Results of 65 participatory conflict analyses validated in the Biiri, Kibabi, Muvunyi Shanga, Lurhara, Karhongo, Mbinga Nord, Ishungu, Lugendo and Kamisimbi groupements and in the cities of Goma and Bukavu; • 13 Participatory Action Research (PAR) processes started in the 13 project target areas in North and South Kivu; • 13 data collection training sessions delivered to community researchers in the 13 project target areas in support of PAR; • Seven data collection series on various PAR themes completed in the cities of Goma and Bukavu and in the Lugendo, Ishungu and Mbinga-Nord groupements; • Two community dialogue sessions held in the Ishungu and Lugendo groupements titled “Fragile Social Cohesion Between the Groupements of Ishungu and Lugendo” and “Drinking Water-Related Conflict in the Lugendo Groupement”; • One peace forum organized in South Kivu Province between civil society, political actors, religious, traditional and government leaders involved in the elections and electoral process; • One agreement signed by the representatives of actors and stakeholders present in the South Kivu (SK) Peace Forum on social cohesion and, in particular, how to involve women in relevant activities, overcome security concerns and mitigate risks of electoral and post-electoral violence; • Two community forums conducted in Ishungu and Lugendo between the various actors involved in the two conflicts (as described above); and • Two agreements signed in Ishungu and Lugendo as a result of the two community forums. The parties involved committed to the peaceful resolution of any future conflict relating to both the intra- groupement conflict of Ishungu and any tensions related to water management issues that have caused conflict between the two groupements in the past.

CHALLENGES

Implementation challenges faced by Objective 1 during Y3 Q1 included:

ELECTION-RELATED ACTIVITIES INTERFERING WITH PROJECT ACTIVITIES: A large portion of the organizations and community leaders that the project engaged were busy with pre-electoral activities. As a result, community members were overstretched during pre-campaign and campaign periods and project activities did not have the expected number of participants. In addition, the security environment has not been favorable to peace dialogues. Some perceive peacebuilding discourses as threatening to one party or the other.

5 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV It was, therefore, difficult to engage in open dialogues that were meant to be neutral without various leaders feeling offended.

TECHNICAL CHALLENGES BY SOME PARTNERS: Some organizations have had difficulties carrying out the community-based PAR process, while others have recruited new staff who required training to understand PAR activities.

TECHNICAL CHALLENGES DURING ACTIVITY IMPLEMENTATION:

• Many people (more than planned) wanted to be invited to participate in the community dialogues. • Youth expressed strong eagerness to participate in the PAR data collection. The reasons behind this were twofold: Some youth were intrigued by the PAR process and considered it a good opportunity to learn, while others found incentive in the small financial benefit of data collection work. • In Mbinga Nord, some illiterate community members were reluctant to follow the presentation of PAR results, as they thought that the analyses would be too complicated for them to understand or to meaningfully participate. • More than one partner organization working in the same area causes overlapping beneficiary pools. Sometimes this poses problems for local leaders, who have to follow more than one activity concurrently and multiple partners may invite them to participate during the same time slot.

SOLUTIONS IMPLEMENTED

ELECTION-RELATED ACTIVITIES INTERFERING WITH PROJECT ACTIVITIES: Partner organizations worked closely with members of community peace and development structures to ensure strong engagement with them and participation in activities. Activities were, often and to the extent possible, planned outside the electoral candidates’ arrival. Moreover, because the second half of December was tumultuous, the project had to temporarily stop its activities to avoid security risks to project staff.

CONFLICTING PRIORITIES FOR PARTNERS WITHIN A LIMITED TIME FRAME: The Technical Focal Points and Grants teams met regularly to coordinate so they would present a united message and provide the same instructions to implementing partners.

TECHNICAL CHALLENGES DURING ACTIVITY IMPLEMENTATION:

• To address the numbers of people wanting an invitation to participate in community dialogues, the project asked local peace and development committees to work with authorities to issue invitations that respect the principles of representativeness and inclusion. The selection criteria for the participants were communicated during the general meetings presenting the PAR process to the communities. • To overcome the challenges around strong youth enthusiasm for participating in data collection, the partners developed and used clear and well-defined criteria communicated by the peace and development committees. The selection criterion was membership in the local peace and conflict resolution structures, either at the entity or groupement level, as members of such structures have benefited from relevant trainings in the past. • To overcome hurdles around the Mbinga Nord illiterate population’s reluctance to participate in and follow the results’ restitution out of fear that it would be too complicated for them to follow and understand, members of the peace and development committees convinced this population of their interest in contributing to finding solutions to issues that concern them. As it turned out, they were able to understand and participate in the restitution.

6 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV • To address the coordination challenges of partner organizations, partner CSOs with overlapping service areas have set up a monthly coordination meeting to share plans and enact challenge management mechanisms. At the same time, the partners’ field leaders met weekly to share the week’s achievements and plan for the following week. These actions made it possible to avoid conflicts in activity scheduling.

LESSONS LEARNED, OPPORTUNITIES AND NEXT STEPS

LESSONS LEARNED

Partners’ interest in the training sessions around advocacy and communication was greater than expected. CSOs in North and South Kivu showed strong interest in deepening their knowledge and skills on advocacy and communication issues, indicating a clear need to invest more in them.

The PAR process takes longer than expected when partners have less experience in this approach. This is the case for partners who cover the groupements of Ishungu, Lugendo and Mbinga Nord in South Kivu. In the future, appropriate planning and training will be required for partners who need more technical support.

OPPORTUNITIES

Prior to the analyses and presentation of results, communities saw what caused the misfortunes that fell outside their responsibilities. Many communities thought that it was exclusively others who were at the root of their problems and conflicts. During the in-depth participatory conflict analysis sessions, the project offered the opportunity and space for communities to openly discuss, address and reflect on the various communities’ responsibilities for the violence, including their own. By researching these root causes, community members realized that they are also significantly responsible. This process led to sustainable commitments and agreements between parties to the conflict.

The consequences and long durations of conflicts have facilitated community involvement and a commitment to finding solutions. Communities are tired of living in areas of violence and suffering its effects. Strong attendance and participation in the analysis and research sessions on conflict resolution have resulted from this conflict weariness.

NEXT STEPS

Next quarter, SPR Objective 1 will focus on: 1) continuing various community-based PAR processes; 2) supporting conflict research activities; 3) consolidating participatory conflicts analyses and PAR data; 4) following up with and supporting implementing partners; 5) following up on the finalization of documents produced in the framework of research; and 6) supporting the activities of two provincial advocacy frameworks of North and South Kivu.

OBJECTIVE 2: PARTICIPATORY (WOMEN & OMGs) SOLUTIONS ARE IMPLEMENTED

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Strengthening women and OMG leaders’ capacity in transformative leadership to play a role in decision-making roles toward implementation of identified solutions for mitigating conflict: During this quarter, the SPR project and its partners AIDS Forum (FOSI), Women’s Awakening for Integrated Development (RFEDI), Live Far from the Waves (VIVAG), Training and Action Center for

7 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV Development (CFAD), Innovation and Training for Development and Peace (IFDP), the Women’s Caucus (CDF) and Caritas organized regular coaching and training sessions in transformational leadership through various themes. These included but were not limited to law, protection, peacebuilding, advocacy and communication within the leadership mentoring clubs (CMLs), local committees of community organizations (CLOCs) and sociotherapy groups in North Kivu (Muvunyi Shanga, Kibabi and Goma) and South Kivu (Kamisimbi, Karhongo, Lurhala, Lugendo, Ishungu and Bukavu) to support the engagement of women & OMGs with local authorities. Association of Women in Media (AFEM) and Radio Maendeleo (RM) have also produced and broadcast radio programs to encourage and accept the involvement of OMGs in the peace process. • Supporting women’s and OMGs' participation in decision-making bodies through advocacy and capacity building: After the relevant capacity building, several meetings took place between women & OMGs, local authorities and local leaders to discuss and find solutions to their social challenges around community exclusion and human rights abuses against them. In South Kivu specifically, partner CDF organized meetings in Karhongo, Kamisimbi and Lurhala on the challenges of OMGs relating to land access; Caritas organized roundtables, dialogues and radio broadcasts in Lugendo and Ishungu on the factors dissuading participation of women & OMGs; partners IFDP, AFEM and RM produced and broadcast advocacy, sensitization and mobilization radio programs for OMGs’ participation and inclusion in the local governance of Bukavu, Kalehe, Walungu and Kabare; Diocesan Commission Justice and Peace (CDJP) organized sensitization sessions on the UNSCR 1325 (participation of women in the peace process) in Lugendo and Ishungu. In North Kivu, RFEDI organized meetings between women, OMGs and local authorities to improve security conditions and accountability of Goma neighborhood management; FOSI organized dialogues on OMGs’ participation in community-based management structures in Kibabi groupement; and SPR held a stocktaking and active reflection workshop in Goma on the role and participation of OMGs in the peace process according to the UNSCR 1325. These activities provide a space and framework to bolster OMGs’ understanding, reconciliation and expression of decision-making processes, and help to ensure that they are taken into consideration in the management of public affairs in general and peacebuilding in particular. Some authorities have made concrete commitments in favor of OMGs. • Promoting local participation in governance: In South Kivu, CFAD organized local governance accountability management meetings in Mbinga Nord. In North Kivu, FOSI organized public sensitization on OMGs’ integration in community peace processes in Kibabi. • Transforming social norms, attitudes and barriers that constrain women’s/OMGs’ participation in decision-making processes: CDJP produced a participatory theater piece on changing social norms that disadvantage OMG participation in decision-making in Kabare. RM and AFEM produced attitude and perception change radio programs on OMGs’ participation in community meetings and activities. Caritas and IFDP produced programs and radio spots promoting participatory and inclusive governance. VIVAG conducted public sensitization on positive masculinity in Muvunyi Shanga. Planning for the Start Awareness Support Action approach and men’s positive engagement approaches is still in preparation.

CHALLENGES

The main challenges facing Objective 2 implementation during Y3 Q1 included:

LIMITED FIELD VISITS TO ENABLE REGULAR CLOSE MONITORING: As the election period approached, the risk of a deteriorating security situation increased, with some incidents recorded. Project staff thus could not

8 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV conduct regular field visits in remote areas. Moreover, the Masisi area has experienced several landslides following heavy rains.

MONETARY INCENTIVES FOR BENEFICIARY ATTENDANCE: Women and OMG members of mentoring clubs still requested financial support for catering and transportation, while this approach is on a volunteer basis. The same challenge applies to local IPs who still request payment for room rentals to conduct coaching meetings, while the approach advocates using community premises or outdoor spaces.

POVERTY HINDERING WOMEN AND OMG COMMITMENT TO MENTORING IN LEADERSHIP: The need to access loans has led some beneficiaries to ask for CMLs to offer these services. However, the latter’s role and mandate are different, so it is recommended that the CMLs (under Component 2) build relationships with and can make referrals to the village savings and loan associations (AVECs) set up by Component 3.

SOLUTIONS IMPLEMENTED

The lack of regular field missions due to security concerns was offset by multiple visits and working sessions with partners, either in their offices or in the SPR office, to discuss implementation in the field and provide guidance as appropriate. However, SPR team field visits to Mbinga Nord, Bukavu, Bweremana and Kibabi did take place to reinforce the understanding and implementation of the mentoring club approach, and especially its volunteerism facet, as well as the project objectives of Component 2. During these visits, the Objective 2 and 3 teams began reflecting on how the project can facilitate linkages between women & OMG members of mentoring clubs and livelihood activities.

LESSONS LEARNED, OPPORTUNITIES AND NEXT STEPS

LESSONS LEARNED: The involvement of the different social strata in the search for peace brings equitable and legitimate solutions. Despite their illiteracy and exclusion, women & OMGs have demonstrated potential and strengths in leadership and are interested in community governance and issues of security and peace. The groupement and daily attendance of women & OMGs in the project’s activities strengthens their self-esteem, knowledge, personal networking and abilities to fight social challenges.

OPPORTUNITIES: SPR Objective 2 activities reached women & OMGs from some North Kivu territories outside of its targeted areas, these including Beni and Lubero. During the 18th anniversary of UNSCR 1325, SPR Objective 2, in collaboration with other partners (National Ministry of Gender and CARE International), supported the participation of women & OMGs in a provincial forum where they presented their challenges and security concerns to North Kivu provincial authorities. Other partners working on women’s rights have discovered that the special consideration of OMGs in peace processes is crucial because of their specific challenges and needs. The Provincial Division of Gender and the National Ministry of Gender consider SPR a key partner in the implementation of UNSCR 1325 in North Kivu.

NEXT STEPS: Next quarter, SPR Objective 2 will focus on improving the functioning of mentoring clubs, building the capacity of women & OMGs in leadership roles, holding meetings between women & OMGs and local authorities to advocate for their participation in decision-making spheres, fighting against discriminatory social practices and beliefs against women & OMGs, advocating for improved status of women & OMGs during regional and international forums, facilitating the establishment of a strong and productive women & OMGs network that can enable them to participate in North and South Kivu peace processes, and strengthening activities to positively transform social norms on gender, diversity and inclusion.

9 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV OBJECTIVE 3: RESOURCES FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ARE MORE INCLUSIVELY ALLOCATED

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

IMPROVE WOMEN’S AND OMGs' CAPACITY ON LIVELIHOOD DEVELOPMENT: This quarter, partners Action for the Development of Disadvantaged Populations (ADPD), CDF, Fight Against Delinquency and the Rural Exodus (LUCODER), Humanitarian Action for Community Health and Development (AHUSADEC) and Support for Family Wellness Initiatives (AIBEF) continued with technical support for livelihood structures in the communes of Goma and Karisimbi, groupements of Muvunyi Shanga, Biiri, Kibabi, Karhongo, Lurhala and Kamisimbi. Partners AIBEF and Community Action for the Defense and Progress of Farmers (ACODEPA) have also ensured capacity building for 441 women & OMGs on the AVEC approach, hairdressing, pastry, crafting baskets, cutting and sewing, poultry farming, motorcycle mechanics, shoe repairing and fruit processing in the commune of Bagira and the groupement of Lurhala. The structures set up by ACODEPA, Support Center for Rural Development and Food Security (CADERSA) – Environment Without Borders (ESF) – Women’s Association for the Promotion of Peasant Activities (AFPAP) Consortium, CDF, LUCODER, and the Olame Center and All for Gender in Development (TGD) Center consortium benefited from a kit, with each group depending on its area of intervention and the approach used (small business, hairdressing, coordination, patisserie, poultry farming, motorcycle mechanics, bakery and fruit processing, artisanal mining, fishing, livestock farming, AVEC approach in the commune of Bagira and the Kibabi, Biiri and Mbinga Nord).

PRIVATE SECTOR ENGAGED IN SUPPORT OF RESOURCE MOBILIZATION: This quarter, partners LUCODER, United NGOs’ Coalition for the Sustainable Development of Associations for the Management of the Unemployed and Vulnerable (COUD) and ACODEPA supported contact between livelihood structures and private sector partners, including the Cooperative Association in Female Synergy (ACOSYF), Savings and Credit Cooperative (MOCC), Savings and Credit Cooperative of the Nyawera market, Microfinance Society, Good Harvest, and the Savings and Credit Cooperative Mungano. These connections will enable these structures to mobilize enough resources for the sustainability of their actions and for social cohesion.

IMPROVE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PLANNING ON SERVICE PROVISION AND INTEGRATING EQUITABLE AND LOCALLY PRODUCED SOLUTIONS: This quarter, partners ADPD, AIBEF, Consortium CADERSA-ESF-AFPAP and Consortium Support Center for Education and Community Development (CEDECO) and Supporting Livelihood Initiatives Forever in the World (SLIFE World) accompanied residents from the communes of Ibanda in Bukavu city, Karisimbi in Goma city, Lurhala and Mbinga Nord groupements on the elaboration of local and community development plans, integrating solutions to various conflicts identified in their localities.

IMPROVE EFFICIENCY OF SERVICE PROVISION ON DEMAND AND SUPPLY SIDES: During this reporting period, partners COUD, AIBEF, LUCODER, AHUSADEC, CDF, the CEDECO and SLIFE World Consortium and ADPD supported the development of plans to improve certain infrastructures in the health, education and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sectors in their communes, in Goma, Karisimbi and the Lugendo, Ishungu, Lurhala, Kamisimbi, Karhongo, Muvunyi Shanga, Kibabi and Biiri groupements. This process enabled the revitalization of some of the users’ committees for the involvement of women & OMGs and the capacity building of service providers and user committees on themes that emerged as a source of conflict in these structures.

SUPPORT LOCAL PEACE AND SOCIAL COHESION INITIATIVES THAT PROMOTE CONFIDENCE- BUILDING BETWEEN COMMUNITIES AND GOVERNMENT SERVICE PROVIDERS: Partners COUD, the

10 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV CADERSA-ESF-AFPAP Consortium, LUCODER, Olame and TGD Consortium Center, AIBEF and AHUSADEC supported the organization of 19 social cohesion events in the form of participatory theater, fairs, soccer matches and integration-related activities in Ishungu, Lugendo, North Mbinga, Biiri, Lurhala, Kamisimbi, Karhongo and Muvunyi Shanga groupements in response to the conflicts identified by the community.

CHALLENGES

The main challenges that Objective 3 implementation faced during Y3 Q1 included:

INSUFFICIENT FIELD COORDINATION: Coordination between local implementing partners in the various SPR priority areas was at times insufficient. Despite occurrences of multiple partners implementing activities in the same area and therefore encountering overlapping contexts, local partners did not sufficiently coordinate, exchange lessons learned or avoid duplications pertaining to activity implementation. One example concerns transportation reimbursement to workshop participants, as the varying rates that each organization used created misunderstandings among participants, particularly local authorities, who have reportedly used this factor to select the activities they would attend.

CONFUSION OF COMMUNITY STRUCTURE MEMBERS’ ROLES: There was general confusion on the roles and responsibilities of the Local Peace and Development Committees (LPDC) that the SPR project revitalized and the Joint Committee for Development members set up by the IMAGINE project implemented by Mercy Corps in Bukavu and Goma cities.

RESISTANCE OF BENEFICIARIES: Beneficiaries of livelihood activities, especially in the small business sector, wanted to receive items that could support their income generating activity (IGA) kits. In particular, the beneficiaries would like to receive funds in cash or relevant goods (e.g., flour to make bread; palm oil and caustic soda to manufacture soaps, etc.) that can constitute a start-up fund. They claim that while they have been trained and have received in-kind assistance, they need additional funds to start.

EXISTENCE OF SEVERAL INFORMAL AVECs IN PROJECT INTERVENTION AREAS: At the beginning of the partner activities, some informal structures in the form of AVECs already existed. However, SPR partners often did not have the resources to supervise them. SPR targeted some of them based on a variety of selection criteria, such as heterogeneity and knowledge of the members, but supporting the rest was not feasible due to budget limitations.

WATER MANAGEMENT-RELATED CONFLICTS IN SOME ZONES OF INTERVENTION: Ishungu and Lugendo in Kabare territory have faced drinking water problems, so the population uses water from Lake Kivu. However, the neighboring village of Birava has a water source that could provide water to Ishungu and Lugendo. The communities were sensitized by local authorities to build a canal as a community work effort with the hope of finding an organization that could finance and support this work but, so far, they have been unsuccessful. Tensions between the two communities have begun to rise, with Ishungu accusing Lugendo of slowing the process. This situation was exacerbated by an unsuccessful water supply project implemented in Lugendo by Tearfund.

DIFFICULTY LIMITING THE NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS IN SOCIAL COHESION ACTIVITIES: Interest in social cohesion activities exceeded expectations, resulting in activity management challenges around meal provision and transportation refunds. This difficulty stemmed from late and poor activity planning, including partner delays in sending out participant invitations. When the village receives information about the workshops, with the knowledge that each workshop comes with reimbursement for meals and transportation,

11 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV large numbers of participants show up, regardless of whether or not they were not invited. SPR staff advised partners to communicate to the invitees and be clear at the beginning of each workshop that uninvited attendees should not expect to receive any transport reimbursement.

INACCESSIBILITY OF SOME SPR PRIORITY ZONES: Poor road conditions and insecurity in some groupements, particularly in Masisi and Kalehe territories, rendered regular field visits difficult for the project team.

LOW CAPACITY OF SOME PARTNERS: Reporting has been particularly challenging for some local implementing partners, resulting in delays to closeout grants.

REDYNAMIZATION IS A TRIGGER FOR ATTENDING ASSEMBLIES: Prior to revitalizing the community committees, meetings of their members ranged from rare or irregular to nonexistent. This was largely due to a lack of support and clarity on members’ roles and responsibilities. The process of including women & OMGs in the community local peace structures brought new dynamism as meetings started occurring on a regular basis and addressing important topics such as participation, admissibility, gender and inclusion, and transparency.

SOLUTIONS IMPLEMENTED

The following solutions have been implemented to respond to the identified challenges:

• Holding of harmonization and coordination meetings between SPR and IMAGINE; • Encouragement to local beneficiaries of livelihood activities to organize AVEC groups so they would have access to loans for start-up capital; • If SPR receives the option two years, the project shall consider supporting informal AVECs structures in their recovery process; • Supporting the revitalization of existing water committees and the setup of new ones where needed; • Ensuring that local partners’ activities are well-budgeted and improving communication prior to each event to manage expectations and clarify participants’ selection criteria; • Participating in security-related meetings prior to any field visit to ensure safety and well-informed decisions about to travel to project areas; • Traveling to difficult and inaccessible areas via motorbike or on foot (especially during the rainy season, when road conditions worsen); and • Closely working with and supporting local partners on reporting requirements.

LESSONS LEARNED, OPPORTUNITIES AND NEXT STEPS

LESSONS LEARNED

• Awareness sessions enable the acceptance and involvement of group leaders in activities. The sensitization has led to some parents agreeing to allow their girls to join the soccer clubs for peace (Tucheze Wote). • Increased sensitization and implication of local authorities in project activities encourages their participation and ownership of results and impact in their respective entities. • The lack of clarity and poor understanding on the roles and responsibilities of the members of the parent committees (COPA) often hinder the latter’s ability to follow up on service providers’ work, effectively control the school management and raise awareness amongst parents so that all the children can attend

12 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV school without discrimination. For this reason, SPR focused on strengthening COPA members’ capacities and understanding of their roles and responsibilities.

OPPORTUNITIES

During this reporting period, the program team and local partners identified the following opportunities to increase the quality of results:

• Strong involvement, motivation and willingness of authorities to support partners in implementing the project’s activities. • Good levels of collaboration between authorities, local partners and program teams facilitates the understanding the program’s strategies and approaches. • Partners whose activities have ended exhibited a clear willingness to continue supporting the livelihood structures set up in collaboration with the local authorities.

CROSSCUTTING THEMES

INCLUSION AND PARTICIPATION

Women & OMGs have been key to the revitalization of all committees under SPR. In particular, women & OMGs represent 40 percent of committee members, which was not the case before revitalization. Women & OMGs participated actively in this quarter’s achievements, both physically and materially. 70 percent are from the mentoring clubs, CLOCs, radio broadcast listening clubs and participants in public forums. Albinos, pygmies, single mothers, ex-combatants, victims of sexual violence, the elderly and people with disabilities participated in project activities and had the opportunity to facilitate some sessions. Authorities and community members are increasingly receptive to including women & OMGs in local governance, and several women & OMGs have been integrated in decision-making processes.

ADVOCACY

The main advocacy activity this quarter was a provincial forum on peace and social cohesion held in Bukavu from November 13 to 15, 2018, organized by the South Kivu Provincial Advocacy Framework (SKPAF) with the technical and financial support of USAID through SPR. This forum provided a space for communities, local and traditional leaders, political actors, CSOs, the private sector, and provincial and national authorities to meet together and share their views on solutions to specific conflict drivers and ensure the prevention of election- related violence.

A total of 250 participants (32 percent women) from public institutions, political parties, customary authorities, women’s organizations and CSOs, youth movements and religious institutions from the local, provincial, national, regional and international levels participated in the forum to take part in participatory discussions and make recommendations. The SPR advocacy team and SKPAF recorded participant recommendations and views, prioritizing key questions and issues raised.

The main results of these forums included the following:

• A thorough diagnosis of the security, socio-economic and electoral situation; • A commitment act signed in good faith by participants; and

13 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV • Recommendations on the way forward delivered to all concerned parties in light of positive changes in security and peace conditions.

Journalists from local, national and regional media, including Voice of America, covered the event and the following advocacy and communication/media SPR products and actions were developed:

• https://www.voaafrique.com/a/4639401.html • https://www.voaafrique.com/a/bukavu-a-discut%C3%A9-de-la-paix-et-de-la-r%C3%A9solution-de-conflit- en-rdc/4665176.html)

Additionally, the Advocacy and Communications Officer wrote an article in French capturing his impressions from the forum, as well as hopes and aspirations moving forward. SPR plans to translate, edit and publish this work in an international media outlet in the coming quarter.

In this reporting period, SPR in partnership with Evangelical University in Africa (UEA), organized another advocacy activity from December 17 to 18 in Bukavu city. The objective of the advocacy workshop was to bring together various electoral candidates including teachers, students and members of administrative bodies from 10 academic institutions to discuss how to ensure peaceful pre-electoral activities in academic spaces. 70 participants attended the workshop.

During the Peace Forum organized in South Kivu province, the rector of the UEA raised concerns about a potential conflictual situation and source of tensions at universities and other higher institutions in Bukavu city and called for urgent actions, as many candidates for the upcoming national and provincial elections from Bukavu city were from those institutions.

At the end of the advocacy and social cohesion workshop, participants, most of whom were candidates or elected officials, signed a letter of commitment to comply with the Code of Good Conduct and to accept the election results in a peaceful and fair manner. This activity engendered positive results: elections at Bukavu University campuses ran smoothly, and losing candidates accepted the results with no violent incidents reported during or after the elections.

INTEGRATION OF CONFLICT SENSITIVITY IN SPR OPERATIONS AND IMPLEMENTATION

Conflict sensitivity and Do No Harm (DNH) principles are being taken into account throughout the various SPR activities. Local implementing partners provide monthly updates as part of their regular monthly reporting, which includes a section dedicated to conflict sensitivity and DNH. The tools used during the reporting are those introduced during last year’s trainings. In particular, the local partners provide contextual analysis (for example, dividers and connectors) and their observations on how project interventions (resource transfer or messages) are positively or negatively affecting communities. This enables capture of the project’s effect on the conflict and an assessment of whether the specific intervention could create new conflicts or exacerbate existing ones.

Moreover, local partners pay special attention to ethnic groups’ participation and tolerance in activities in an effort to avoid feelings or perceptions of majority dominance. Training and workshop moderators encourage and motivate marginalized and minority groups to participate by giving them an explicit opportunity to speak and share their views and opinions to avoid majority groups monopolizing discussions. Members of marginalized groups are also assigned moderator and presenter roles during community activity implementation. Men and authorities have reported that one reason they hesitate to grant power to women is that many become rude when they assume

14 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV power; this may result in increased domestic and gender-based violence. Therefore, trainings and mobilization around positive masculinity and gender started to take place in certain areas of the project.

15 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV SECTION 4: MONITORING, EVALUATION AND LEARNING (ME&L)

SPR activity implementation and monitoring during the reporting period uncovered many external elements that hampered the full execution of planned activities. This included security concerns around the election period, characterized by a context of violence and insecurity in the majority of SPR’s core zones. Despite these challenges, the program team effectively delivered activities that led to an increase in overall performance to 84.4 percent. The graphic below gives details on incremental performance for the two first years and Y3 Q1 against the approved LOP targets.

Overall Performance against LOP targets

0.9 84.40% 0.8 69.90% 0.7

0.6 53.40% 0.5 0.4 34.80% 0.3 21.30% 0.2 0.1 0 year 2 / Q1 year 2 / Q2 year 2 / Q3 year 2 / Q4 year 3 / Q1 performance to performance to performance to performance to performance to the LOP target the LOP target the LOP target the LOP target the LOP target

Annex 1 contains a full monitoring and evaluation (M&E) data table showing performance results for each indicator under each intermediary result, reflecting actual data for Years 1 and 2, as well as the Y3 Q1 performance.

SYSTEMS AND DATA COLLECTION

As reported at the close of Y2 and per the recommendations from USAID its Data Quality Assessment conducted in August 2018, SPR initiated a series of updates to the existing M&E systems and processes. These revisions included the integration of advocacy activities into the SPR results framework and linking these activities to existing intermediate results (IRs) and sub-IRs; integrating one-time grant activities to the advocacy content and linking these activities to the current output indicators; and the revision of the PIT, specifying clear data collection processes for existing indicators. This revision process of the PIRS and PIT was finalized during the reporting period and will be submitted to USAID for approval early in the next quarter. Upon receipt of approval, the M&E Team will facilitate dissemination of the revised M&E system to program staffs and local partners to improve data quality.

As reported at the end of Y2, in the upcoming period, SPR also intends to introduce a proxy monitoring approach for output activities, including identifying young leaders who can help SPR to collect data for output activities in remote zones where the M&E team cannot have a physical presence.

16 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV SECTION 5: MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS

SELECTION OF GRANTEES

During Q1, SPR sought to advance the work of the South and North Kivu Provincial Advocacy Frameworks. In October 2018, the project worked with the SKPAF to develop and finalize their grant proposal. The SPR team worked alongside members of the SKPAF to accelerate submission of the Framework’s proposal to USAID in order to allow the SKPAF to hold a province-wide forum on peace and social cohesion leading up to the launch of the national electoral campaign in late November. Through this, the SPR team supported the SKPAF to identify member organizations capable of managing the SKPAF grant and conducted a Non-U.S. Organization Pre-Award Survey (NUPAS) on three organizations. Based on the outcomes of these NUPAS, SPR selected a member organization, Heritiers de la Justice, who would play the role of secretariat for the SKPAF and submitted the final proposal to USAID. USAID approved the proposal in early November and the SKPAF successfully held the forum event just before the start of the electoral period.

After the peace forum held by SPR and the North Kivu Advocacy Framework (NKPAF) in Goma in Y2 Q4 in 2018, SPR began working with the framework to advance its grant proposal to receive funding to continue the advocacy work. In October and November 2018, the advocacy, grants and M&E teams worked alongside the NKPAF members to hone their technical and financial proposals. However, due to news received from USAID in late November regarding a possible loss of funding due to the country’s trafficking in persons (TIP) ranking, SPR halted submission of the NKPAF proposal to USAID. During this period, the project also received compliance reports associated with the NKPAF that required investigation before moving forward. SPR conducted this investigation in December and has deemed the NKPAF eligible for project funding.

Accordingly, SPR continues to push forth the NKPAF proposal as a top priority in Y3 Q2. The next steps will be to conduct the NUPAS and a request for application (RFA) to finalize selection of the organization which will play secretariat role for the framework’s grant. The project expects submission of the NKPAF proposal to USAID in February 2019.

USE OF FLEXIBLE FUNDING

USAID’s SPR has committed to establishing a rapid-response system that could quickly support conflict mitigation activities in SPR’s target areas. During the reporting period, the project received approval for a proposed budget realignment redirecting more than $800,000 in project funds to the grants pool. While this allocates a significant share of these funds to the two aforementioned provincial advocacy frameworks, SPR has earmarked a portion of these funds for rapid-response proposals in the remainder of Y3.

To facilitate a more targeted response to local conflict issues, SPR has sought to support existing partners through its rapid-response mechanism. Local partners, having already been vetted through the annual program statement (APS) or RFA solicitation processes, are familiar with SPR objectives and would be poised to respond quickly. Accordingly, during this reporting period, SPR requested notifications of flexible funding opportunities from its current grantees. In December, the project received a number of potential opportunities from grantees, but due to activity constraints associated with the electoral and holiday periods, did not advance these proposals.

At the start of Y3 Q2, SPR planned a follow-up session with grantees to discuss previous and emerging rapid- response opportunities with all partners in North and South Kivu to discuss next steps. It is anticipated that rapid- response proposals will start to be drafted after the partners meetings.

17 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV TARGET ZONE ACCESSIBILITY

The project faced accessibility challenges this period. In light of the electoral period, which occupied the majority of this reporting period, SPR bolstered its regular security monitoring to ensure consideration of threats and mitigation risks in project implementation. The project also requested direct input from partners through a weekly online survey regarding security and accessibility issues in their implementation zones.

As a result of this security monitoring, the project was alerted to violence occurring in Masisi Territory, particularly in Biiri groupement, and was forced to temporarily halt implementation in the area at the end of this quarter. Authorized partner activities continued with caution in other target areas throughout the electoral period. From mid-December to the end of the month, the project suspended all activities on the ground as the security threat rating moved from level 1 to level 2. All SPR staff and local partners were asked to delay activity implementation and field missions.

INTERNATIONAL PARTNER COORDINATION

In November 2018, SPR leadership attended events for USAID’s new Integrated Youth Activity (IYA), including a collaborative workshop to understand possible synergies between IYA and other USAID projects, as well as the formal launch of the project. During this time, project leadership attended an IP meeting hosted by USAID in Bukavu, which provided the opportunity to engage with other established and new USAID project leaders, as well as discuss branding and marking, property disposition rules and other topics.

During the reporting period, the Chief of Party (COP) and Deputy Chief of Party, Operations (DCOP Ops) also met with the U.K. Department for International Development (DFID)-funded Mercy Corps IMAGINE project to discuss possible points of collaboration and identified a need for conflict sensitivity and Do No Harm training, which SPR could provide. Discussions around this potential collaboration will continue into Q2.

PARTNER FIELD COORDINATION

During Q1, USAID’s SPR advanced the proposals of the North and South Kivu provincial advocacy frameworks and encouraged their collaboration across provinces. These frameworks comprise many organizations, some of which are SPR grant partners, increasing coordination and opportunity for synergies between the project’s technical implementation and advocacy work.

In November 2018, SPR leadership devised and validated a contingency plan for the upcoming electoral period. Late in the month, the project convened an all-local partner meeting in Bukavu to discuss contingency plans and their implications for implementation. This coordination meeting led to fruitful discussions between partners regarding their anticipated implementation challenges during the period, as well as opportunities for coordination across organizations during a possibly volatile period.

In December 2018, the SPR Security Committee launched a weekly survey of partners to provide security information relevant to their target zones. SPR used this input to develop weekly security directives to partners and staff, sharing any reported incidents with partners to inform activities in the weeks to follow.

18 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV GRANTS MANAGEMENT AND PARTNER REPORTING

During Q1, 34 grantees actively implemented activities under the project, and the period was marked by the start of closeout procedures for a significant portion of them. By December 2018, nine grantees submitted deliverables for their last milestone and the SPR team began validation and closeout. An additional 15 grantees will close their projects in Y3 Q2.

As part of the final milestone, each grantee must submit a final report to be validated and submitted to USAID’s Development Experience Clearinghouse (DEC). During the reporting period, SPR worked with grantees to understand the requirements of the final report template and provide guidance as partners began to draft their reports. Despite this support, many final reports required significant revisions. SPR’s technical and M&E staff continue to work with local grantees to hone their final reports before providing final approval.

As part of a push that began in Y2 Q4, SPR continued the modification of a large number of grant agreements to shift activities and pay schedules to facilitate implementation. During this quarter, the project fully executed 26 grant agreement modifications. To achieve this, the SPR Grants Team and home office project management team worked closely with partners to redesign their future milestones to make them more achievable and increase cash flow, as well as facilitate milestone certification. While this participative process garnered positive feedback from grantees, some partners who received modifications early in the quarter still struggled to adhere to the implementation timelines agreed on during these conversations.

In December 2018, SPR sought STTA through a senior grants expert to conduct an in-depth review of the SPR grants program to identify gaps, bottlenecks and areas for improvement and provide recommendations to facilitate efficient management of the program moving forward. The STTA submitted his final report at the end of Y3 Q1, and SPR plans to implement recommendations at the start of Q2, including immediate application of a comprehensive closeout checklist and empowerment of the grants team and DCOP Ops to take on more grants- related responsibility, limiting certain grants processes to the field level, including milestone certifications and grant payment authorizations.

During the period, the project began recruiting for a senior grants administrator to coordinate the SPR grants program at the macro level and began the hiring process for a candidate who will begin serving in the role early in Q2. At the end of Q1, SPR released a grants and procurement officer, which required the reassignment of his responsibilities to the remaining grants staff. Given the wind-down of current grantees, the project does not plan to rehire for this position until receiving further information on optional years, when the prospect of additional rounds of grants selection and management will be clear.

STAFFING AND STAFF MANAGEMENT

SPR finalized the recruitment process for the Deputy Chief of Party, Technical (DCOP Tech) in Y3 Q1 and anticipated to onboard her at the start of Q2. The project also continued recruitment of a senior grants administrator and identified a candidate for this role, who is expected to start early Y3 Q2. Additionally, in response to USAID’s emphasis on advocacy, SPR recruited and hired an advocacy officer for South Kivu, and now has an advocacy staff located in each project office.

In late Y3 Q1, project leadership informed staff of a possible end of funding due to the DRC’s level 3 TIP ranking. As a result of this announcement, the project lost its operations manager and has launched a solicitation to fill this position early in Q2. During the period, SPR created a position and hired an administrative and finance officer based in Goma, who joined the project early in Q2 and is providing interim coverage for the operations manager.

19 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV At the end of the reporting period, SPR released a grants and procurement officer and does not plan to fill the vacancy at this time. Project leadership decided not to renew the contract of the Component 2 program assistant and launched recruitment to fill this position at the start of Q2.

Beginning in Y2 Q4 and continuing into Y3 Q1, SPR conducted an investigation after receiving reports of potential fraud by SPR staff. Project leadership informed staff of the investigation and interviewed them to obtain relevant information. As expected, this announcement had a negative effect on staff morale. Nevertheless, headquarters staff at Management Systems International (MSI) and project leadership worked to conduct the investigation as efficiently as possible and, by the end of Q1, concluded the exercise and executed resulting management actions.

CAPACITY BUILDING

ETHICS AND COMPLIANCE: Concurrent with the ongoing investigation, SPR provided multiple refresher trainings on ethics and compliance. Staff and local grantees expressed a desire for continued refreshers, and SPR project leadership will provide these on a quarterly basis for the life of the project.

MAIN PRIORITIES IN NEXT QUARTER

In Y3 Q2, SPR will prioritize addressing any residual conflicts resulting from the electoral period through follow- ons to current grants and identifying, submitting and awarding rapid-response grants. Additionally, the project will continue to emphasize the development of its advocacy work through finalizing a grant to the NKPAF and providing it with necessary training and mentoring to build its capacity as a sustainable network.

Additionally, the project will focus on the thorough and compliant closeout of most SPR grantees during the next quarter, employing the newly improved checklist put forth by the grants STTA. Project leadership will also work to implement his recommendations, including the restructuring of the grants program and empowerment of field staff, including the DCOP Ops, to manage most grants-related tasks in the field. SPR plans to continue engaging the grants STTA for further support implementing recommendations and building capacities of the grants staff, whether remotely or from the field.

SPR leadership will work with the grants and procurement teams to provide refresher trainings on standard operating procedures, given new members of the team and areas for improvement identified at the end of Q1. They will also look to identify and pursue other opportunities for staff capacity building, due both to identified needs and a desire to boost morale. In the coming quarter, morale will be a priority as the project nears the end of its base years and the uncertainty of the future begins to affect staff. As part of these efforts, the project will launch a staff recognition program developed in Q1 to formally acknowledge staff for their contributions and increase motivation.

Finally, project leadership and the technical director will work to develop a vision for Years 4 and 5 of the project, begin early planning for this scenario and discuss opportunities for this period with USAID.

20 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV SECTION 6: OVERALL MAIN CHALLENGES, SOLUTIONS, LESSONS LEARNED AND OPPORTUNITIES

In Y3 Q1, USAID’s SPR faced challenges, lessons learned and opportunities. The project leadership, with support from the MSI home office and other consortium members, worked on responsive solutions to problems and developed strategic approaches to take advantage of opportunities.

CHALLENGES

During the reporting period, the main challenge was the electoral dilemma and target zone accessibility.

The reporting period coincided with the electoral period in the country. Q1, particularly November and December 2018, was characterized by security treats and tensions in the project’s target zones. During the electoral campaign, certain target zones of the project were inaccessible. In Masisi and Kalehe territories, attacks by armed groups increased. The poor state of roads in the territories of Masisi (Biiri and Kibabi) and Kalehe (Mbinga Nord) continued to make it difficult for the SPR team and partners to travel during the rainy season and led to some delays in activity implementation and partner monitoring.

ACTIONS TAKEN

• Elaborated and validated the SPR Contingency Plan. • Set up a permanent monitoring of the security situation through an internal security committee and partners security focal points who meet on a weekly basis to analyze the security situation and determine the relevant threat level for that week. The security level assessment, advice and pre-emptive measures to be taken were shared with staff, grantees and MSI’s home office on a weekly basis. • Suspended activities in Masisi. • Delayed all field activity implementation for a number of days before and after the elections. • Purchased Rwandan SIM for staff to be used in case telecommunications and internet were cut. • Created and made available a contingency fund for urgent and immediate payment during the implementation of contingency phases.

LESSONS LEARNED

Civil society advocacy coalitions still need considerable capacity building in many areas, including procurement, finance management, ethics and compliance. The functioning and accountability of a coalition of organizations is much more complex than a single organization, which makes support to such organizations equally complex. SPR will consider and anticipate identifying areas of capacity building and accompaniment of such partners.

OPPORTUNITIES

The effective operationalization of the two provincial advocacy frameworks presented a substantial opportunity for the SPR project. The realization of advocacy actions yielded an opportunity to connect the grassroots realities or evidence to high levels (provincial, national and regional). Through this approach and strategy, SPR will take the opportunity to present its accomplishments at provincial and national forums, particularly achievements at the community level, including the community participatory conflicts analysis and research around conflicts and community development plans.

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INTRODUCTION

In the table below, some indicators which performed over 100% have no performance data during this reporting period. This is because in the revised PIRS, which will be submitted shortly to the USAID mission, SPR is requesting to stop targeting new participants but focus only in coaching and mentoring the continuing beneficiaries to better serve their communities. The performance data that have been reported are those where SPR’s actuals, compared to the set targets, still show shortfall to be covered by output activities. Their implementation, although at a slower pace, supported an increase in the overall performance to-date at 84.4% compared to LOP targets. For some outcome indicators, the M&E unit will be conducting impact assessment during the next reporting period, which will influence the current reporting standards.

CUMULATIVE PROJECT ACHIEVEMENT (CUMULATIVE – 3 YEARS) LOP Y2 Y2 Y2 Y1 & Y2 Y3 Q1 INDICATOR PROGRESS CLOSING PROGRESS ACHIEVED TARGET ACHIEVED CUMULATIVE (%) ACTUAL (LOP) (%) ACHIEVEMENT ACHIEVED EXPLANATION TO DATE TARGET YI/Y2/Y3- Q1

IR 1: Conflict drivers identified, and solutions agreed upon by community stakeholders 8 additional events where community participatory conflict analysis is 1a. Cumulative presented have been completed during number of events the reporting quarter: 5 in South Kivu where community participatory conflict 19 40 48% 30 8 38 88 43% and 3 in North Kivu. Many of the events analysis is presented planned for the reporting quarter were TO3 R1 hampered by the increased insecurity around the electoral campaigns in November and December 2018.

1b. Percent of USG- assisted consensus- No consensus building process that building processes held that result in an 100% 90% 111% 100% 0% 100% 90% 111% resulted in agreement took place during agreement* TO3 IR the reporting quarter. 3.2

22 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV CUMULATIVE PROJECT ACHIEVEMENT (CUMULATIVE – 3 YEARS) Y2 Y1 & Y2 LOP Y2 Y2 Y3 Q1 PROGRESS INDICATOR ACHIEVED TARGET PROGRESS CLOSING ACHIEVED (%) ACTUAL CUMULATIVE (LOP) (%) ACHIEVEMENT TARGET ACHIEVED EXPLANATION TO DATE YI/Y2/Y3- Q1 1.1a. Percent of selected CSOs assessed for The assessment of the 7 CSOs selected conducting 0% 80% 0% 0% 0% 0 80% 0% to conduct participatory conflict analysis participatory conflict is scheduled in Q2. analysis whose score improved.

1.1b. Number of CSOs trained in No training took place during this participatory 145 148 98% 145 0 145 180 81% reporting period. Training plans and community conflict schedule has been postponed to Q2. analysis TO3 IR 3.1

1.1c. Percentage of Unless there are new grantees, no CSOs trained receiving 21% 12% 175% 21% 0% 21% 12% 171% training has been scheduled under this grants TO3 IR 3.1 indicator so far.

1.1d. Number of CSOs Unless there are new grantees, no in Grants and Financial Management training 36 21 171% 36 0 36 21 171% training has been scheduled under this TO3 IR 3.1 indicator so far.

1.2a. Number of participatory conflict 2 participatory conflict analyses have analysis validated with 0 4 0% 0 2 2 14 14% been validated with participation of target participation of target groups in South Kivu. groups TO3 IR 3.1

1.2b. Number of In spite of the insecurity and political participatory conflict context in the SPR core zones, 5 64 67 96% 67 5 72 70 103% analysis conducted* additional participatory conflict analyses TO3 IR 3.1 were conducted in South Kivu.

23 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV CUMULATIVE PROJECT ACHIEVEMENT (CUMULATIVE – 3 YEARS) Y2 Y1 & Y2 LOP Y2 Y2 Y3 Q1 PROGRESS INDICATOR ACHIEVED TARGET PROGRESS CLOSING ACHIEVED (%) ACTUAL CUMULATIVE (LOP) (%) ACHIEVEMENT TARGET ACHIEVED EXPLANATION TO DATE YI/Y2/Y3- Q1 1.3a. Number of University doctorate professors have publications or been identified to conduct desk review of conference the 72 existing conflict analysis reports presentations and will complete with additional field produced by Congolese researchers 0 5 33% 0 0 0 9 0% information to produce 5 scientific as a result of USG publications (1 for Goma, 1 for Bukavu, 1 assistance on the for Walungu, 1 for Masisi and Kabare and subject of conflict 1 in Kalehe. This will be in addition to the resolution* TO3 IR 3.1 4 that are already being conducted.

1.3b. Number of 5 new research and dissemination plans approved research will be proposed based on the new plans with 4 6 67% 4 0 4 9 44% dissemination plan approach on indicator 1.3a for approval TO3 IR 3.1 and validation.

1.3c. Percentage of individual researchers/institutions receiving Short Term Technical Assistance (STTA) to develop No STTA took place during the reporting research plans TO3 IR 75% 100% 75% 75% 0% 75% 100% 75% 3.1 period.

IR. 3 Participatory Solutions Implemented 2a. Number of new groups or initiatives created through USG SPR will continue working only with the funding, dedicated to 72 30 240% 105 0 105 70 150% 105 new or revitalized peace building resolving conflict or bodies created in formed in Y1 and Y2. the drivers of conflict* TO3 IR 3.2

24 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV CUMULATIVE PROJECT ACHIEVEMENT (CUMULATIVE – 3 YEARS) Y2 Y1 & Y2 LOP Y2 Y2 Y3 Q1 PROGRESS INDICATOR ACHIEVED TARGET PROGRESS CLOSING ACHIEVED (%) ACTUAL CUMULATIVE (LOP) (%) ACHIEVEMENT TARGET ACHIEVED EXPLANATION TO DATE YI/Y2/Y3- Q1 2b Percent of women and members of marginalized groups who feel their views A survey will be carried out by the M&E are reflected in 0 10% 0% 0% 0% 0% 30% 0% team in Q2. implementing participatory solutions and peacebuilding processes SR 2.1a. Number of local women participating in a substantive role or During the reporting period, only existing local women were active in position in a 112 92 122% 229 0 229 161 142% peace building processes across SPR’s peacebuilding process core zones. supported with USG assistance* TO3 IR 3.2 In this quarter SPR promoted women & 2.2a Number of times OMG consultation with traditional women & OMGs leaders and local authorities’ engagement in supporting women & OMG consulted with 19 43 44% 19 32 51 56 91% participation in local governance. In total, traditional leaders on 32 consultations took place during the local issues reporting period of which 5 in South Kivu and 27 in North Kivu.

No additional program radio took place 2.3a. Number of radio during the reporting period. However, programs about peace some additional radio programs are 22 16 138% 22 0 22 24 92% earmarked during the fiscal year to and social inclusion address social cohesion and rapid TO3 IR 3.2 response on emerging conflicting situations. 2.3b. Number of women trained in No training occurred during the 630 360 175% 674 0 674 560 120% transformative reporting period under this indicator. leadership TO3 IR 3.2

25 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV CUMULATIVE PROJECT ACHIEVEMENT (CUMULATIVE – 3 YEARS) Y2 Y1 & Y2 LOP Y2 Y2 Y3 Q1 PROGRESS INDICATOR ACHIEVED TARGET PROGRESS CLOSING ACHIEVED (%) ACTUAL CUMULATIVE (LOP) (%) ACHIEVEMENT TARGET ACHIEVED EXPLANATION TO DATE YI/Y2/Y3- Q1 2.3c. Number of formal and traditional leaders completing No training occurred during the 295 198 149% 339 0 339 308 110% transformative reporting period under this indicator. leadership training TO3 IR 3.2 IR. 3 RESOURCES FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ARE MORE INCLUSIVELY ALLOCATED 3a: Percent of community users This indicator will be proposed for 0% 15% 0% 0% 0% 0% 30% 0% reporting improvement modification in the new MEL Plan. in service delivery. 3b. Number of community 4 new community development plans development plans were finalized and validated during period integrating equitable 8 10 80% 8 4 12 14 86% and locally produced under review: 1 in North Kivu and 3 in solutions to resolve South Kivu. conflict* TO3 IR 3.2

3.1.a. Number of SPR led livelihood participants to connect linkages to direct with private sector stakeholders on 1 45 0% 1 10 11 70 16% livelihood projects and opportunities and linkages that promote resources TO3 IR 3.2 livelihood: 5 in Lugendo and 5 Biiri.

During this period 60 additional community members received training 3.1b. Number of under this indicator. This shows the women and members continue interest in livelihood trainings as of marginalized groups in foundational training 1241 540 230% 1241 60 1301 840 155% spillover effects and success of the Y1 that facilitates and Y2 participants achievement. SPR has livelihood TO3 IR 3.2 opened a door to take these additional trainees as a tool for more social cohesion and inclusion.

26 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV CUMULATIVE PROJECT ACHIEVEMENT (CUMULATIVE – 3 YEARS) Y2 Y1 & Y2 LOP Y2 Y2 Y3 Q1 PROGRESS INDICATOR ACHIEVED TARGET PROGRESS CLOSING ACHIEVED (%) ACTUAL CUMULATIVE (LOP) (%) ACHIEVEMENT TARGET ACHIEVED EXPLANATION TO DATE YI/Y2/Y3- Q1 16 more user committees were established and received capacity building 3.2a. Number of user for a better service delivery to the committees established and receiving capacity 21 27 78% 21 16 37 42 88% community users: 5 in South Kivu on building TO3 IR 3.2 education service delivery, and 11 in North Kivu of which 4 in education, 4 in WASH and 3 in health services. Indicator to be deleted as suggested and 3.2b. Number of user after consensus with the DRC committee grants TO3 0 27 0% 0 0 42 0 0% Monitoring, Evaluation & Coordination IR 3.2 Contract (MECC).

3.2c. Number of 30 service providers from South Kivu (15 service providers from the health sector and 15 from 166 108 154% 166 30 197 168 117% receiving capacity education sector), received capacity building TO3 IR 3.2 building during the reporting period.

3.2d. Percentage of SPR performance under this indicator has user committee increased drastically as more committee members that are women and members 11% 40% 28% 11% 31.9% 42.9% 40% 107% were created and the majority of of marginalized groups appointed members were women or TO3 IR 3.2 OMGs.

3.3a. Number of In South Kivu, 12 community-local community-local government dialogues have been 13 27 48% 13 15 28 42 67% government dialogues facilitated by SPR's IPs and 3 in North TO3 IR 3.2 Kivu. 3.3b. Number of grants SPR facilitated 40 new social cohesion supporting (confidence activities and events in different core 22 42 52% 26 40 75 74 101% building and peace zones of the two provinces. 23 in South promotion TO3 IR 3.2 Kivu and 17 in North Kivu.

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28 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV Mr. Heritier Murhandikire noted: “Akadali kushaba kashaba.” This Mashi expression means, “Conflict is a destroyer of family and social ties.” He thanks USAID’s SPR for bringing peace to his family.

REBUILDING FAMILY LINKS VIA PEACEFUL CONFLICT RESOLUTION Family inheritance dispute ends peacefully, with help from USAID’s SPR.

In the Walungu Territory, Heritier Murhandikire and his nephew Raphael have been intertwined in a long- standing dispute over familial inheritance. Although they had not spoken to each other for more than 22 years— the length of the dispute—these two men have benefited from the intervention of USAID’s SPR.

During the conflict prioritization conducted by SPR’s provincial advocacy framework, the project identified this as a conflict to address. After three mediation meetings that SPR supported, Heritier and Raphael worked to see one another’s differing viewpoints on the subject of inheritance and agreed to resolve their conflict through signing a peace agreement. Since they signed this agreement, the two men have begun to co-exist harmoniously, and their families have started collaborating and supporting each other once again.

Mr. Héritier Murhandikire is grateful for the support of the SPR project and noted in his local language an important realization: “Conflict is a destroyer of family and social ties.” He advised all people embroiled in conflict to work with their adversaries to resolve disagreements peacefully, as promoted by USAID’s SPR.

41 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV UNDERSTANDING COMMUNITY PARTICIPATORY CONFLICT ANALYSES

To provide effective and sustainable solutions to the conflicts that are preventing peace in the Kivus, the USAID- funded Solutions Peace and Recovery (SPR) project has sought to involve local communities in finding solutions to persisting conflicts. SPR achieves this by conducting participatory analysis and conflict resolution involving communities at all levels. During Year 3 Quarter 1 of the project, USAID’s SPR conducted conflict analysis workshops across 11 groupements and two communes. These workshops, typically lasting two to three days, seek to create a friendly atmosphere that invites lively but respectful debates. Through this discourse, SPR aims to help participants elucidate the complexity of conflicts in their midst and work together to find lasting solutions to them, ultimately preventing further escalation or violence. These workshops have brought to light the fatigue that communities feel after cycles of violence and war, and they reinforce the project’s mandate to address and reduce these cycles. After the workshops they conducted, SPR implementing partner Aide et Action pour la Paix (AAP) noted the following: “First impressions during participatory conflict analyses in the Biiri groupement led us to believe that a conflict centering on customary power was going to be the main theme of our participatory action research (PAR). However, actual findings were surprising. During workshops, the community changed their minds and validated land conflict as the priority theme of PAR. This is because the problem of land access affects all communities that live in the groupement, while the power conflicts concern the community of a single ethnic group, such as the Hundes. The choice made during the workshop demonstrated that communities do effectively understand and have the capacity to conduct in-depth conflict analyses.”

THE AAP MANAGER REPORTED: “WE FOUND THAT THE MAIN SOURCE OF THE CONFLICT IS THE ACCESS TO LAND, WHICH AFFECTS ALL COMMUNITIES. THIS IS A BIG STEP TO REINFORCE SOCIAL COHESION. IT IS THROUGH THE PARTICIPATION OF COMMUNITIES IN THE IDENTIFICATION OF CONFLICT THAT WE ARE COMING TO THIS CONCLUSION. THANKS TO SPR AND USAID.”

42 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV Attendees interact during the Participatory Action Research Training Group workshop in Bukavu.

TAKING A CLOSER LOOK AT MYRIAD ADVOCACY TOOLS An SPR-sponsored training examines the relevance and importance of the many approaches that civil society organizations can use to communicate their message.

Civil society organizations (CSOs) in North and South Kivu have benefited from capacity building provided by the SPR project on advocacy and communication principles and practices. The topics addressed in the training sessions generated significant enthusiasm and participants expressed strong interest in continuing to learn about and invest in them.

Mr. Kabakaba Jacques, who took part in the most recent training, said: “Following the ‘Advocacy and Communications’ training, I was able to identify my shortcomings in this domain. The training gave me the opportunity to understand and correct some mistakes that we made when setting up community advocacy group in the Ruzizi Plain. I am now well aware of the different advocacy tools and approaches.”

ONE PARTICIPANT, MS. GLORIA ICHUKWE, SAID: "THIS COMMUNICATION TRAINING HAS BEEN VERY IMPORTANT TO MY LIFE AND WORK IN MY ORGANIZATION BECAUSE IT HAS HELPED ME UNDERSTAND HOW TO BEHAVE, VIS-À-VIS MY CO-WORKERS AND OTHER PEOPLE. I WILL NOW USE CONSTRUCTIVE COMMUNICATION.”

43 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV NAVIGATING FAMILY CONFLICTS Community members get help reaching a compromise without costs.

Mr. Maombi Nzamwita Vianney, age 33, is leader of the Kashenda village in the Mupfuni-Shanga group of Chefferie des Bahunde in Masisi Territory, North Kivu.

For more than 10 years, Mr. Vianney has been embroiled in conflict with his brothers, as he believed the family council unevenly and unfairly distributed the land his father bequeathed. As a result, Mr. Vianney filed a lawsuit contesting his brothers’ stake in the inheritance, with no solution. Due to the legal dimensions of this conflict, Mr. Vianney has incurred heavy financial costs. With the arrival of the SPR project, Mr. Vianney learned about the importance of peacefully resolving conflicts and decided to petition the local Peace and Development Committee to resolve his family conflict.

Committee members analyzed his conflict and invited the various parties, including Mr. Vianney’s brothers, to sit together, discuss and seek a peaceful solution that works for everybody. After listening to the opposing sides, the committee helped the men reach a compromise, after which Mr. Vianney reconciled and restored his relationships with his brothers.

Mr. Vianney shares: “Thanks to the work of the members of the local peace structure, the SPR and USAID, and the tremendous efforts they have made, we managed to find a compromise and finally reconciled with each other.”

44 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV MR. VIANNEY ACKNOWLEDGED: "WE SPENT A LOT MONEY TO FIND A SOLUTION TO THIS CONFLICT, BUT IT DID NOT WORK. HOWEVER, THANKS TO THE WORK OF THE MEMBERS OF THE PEACE STRUCTURE, WE FOUND A COMPROMISE AND WE FINALLY RECONCILED.”

45 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV SPR’s CAPACITY-BUILDING GUIDANCE BOOSTS QUALITY CONFLICT ANALYSES

Mrs. Chiriza Emilie Matembera, age 55, is a member of the local peace committee in Kalehe, Mbinga North. She has received abundant training from the Solutions for Peace and Recovery (SPR) project to help her understand the contexts of conflicts and the analyses around their origins, causes and consequences, as well as social cohesion.

Ms. Emilie attests to her enhanced skills in bringing lasting solutions to community conflicts, which she gained through various training sessions of the USAID-funded SPR project.

“I am pleased today to have the capacity to respond to multiple demands regarding family and community conflicts. I had the chance to participate in the data collection around one conflict, which for us has long weakened the community ties in our groupement of Mbinga North. When collecting the data, we understood that everyone—without discrimination of the sexes, ethnicities, religions—wanted to see families who had always been in conflict resolve them, which showed us that the desire for reconciliation is on a community level, rather than individual or family level.

Ms. Emilie noted: “With new practices and data collection methodologies learned through the Solutions for Peace and Recovery project, I am proud of my increased skillset that enables me to better understand and manage conflict. I pray that USAID will continue to support local peacebuilding initiatives and sustainable development projects that will cement the social cohesion of our groupement.”

“I THANK THE SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY PROJECT AND USAID, WHO HAVE TAUGHT WOMEN NEW GOOD PRACTICES FOR PEACEFUL CONFLICT RESOLUTION.” — CHIRIZA EMILIE MATEMBERA

46 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV Ms. Louise Kaseke, center, attends a conflict resolution workshop. WOMEN SERVE AS COUNSELORS, MEDIATORS TO RESOLVE CONFLICT

Louise Kaseke, a local community leader and former chief of a village for five years, is a beneficiary of the USAID- funded SPR conflict analysis training. Louise is currently chief of avenue and is known and appreciated for her bravery.

Many times she has sought solutions to conflicts between community members. Ms. Kaseke reports: “Since I have been the avenue chief, we have had a lot of conflicts … related to land boundaries, easements’ closures, juvenile behavior and so on. Before sending the respective files to the public prosecutor or to the police—and using the training received from the SPR project—I learned to first seek amicable solutions for the issue at hand at our level. This has resulted in the majority of the conflicts being peacefully resolved (80 percent of the cases that reach me). In turn, this helps to reinforce social cohesion and reduce hatred and its resulting tensions.”

The mother of seven continued, “We are not replacing justice, but we are facilitating justice with finding local, peaceful and sustainable solutions for certain issues where feasible. [Prior to the training,] when the parties involved in conflict came to us, we did not take enough time, days or weeks to analyze conflicts and used to seek solutions as an entity leader and not as a true conflict manager. Assuming two community roles—that of the head and that of the community member—it is easier for me to act as mediator as people respect me for my title. I thank the SPR project and USAID, to be saving the population from legal harassment. Moreover, the benefits of the training received from the project have enabled me to strengthen peace and social cohesion in my community.”

THE SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY PROJECT “IMPROVES THE WAY WE MANAGE CONFLICTS BETWEEN PARTIES. POPULATIONS [GET] THE BENEFIT OF THIS APPROACH AND THEY COME BACK TO US WITH THANKS. WE UNDERSTOOD THAT [WE] ARE COUNSELOR AND MEDIATOR.” — MS. LOUISE KASEKE

47 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV Solange Mwenyi REINTEGRATING SINGLE MOTHERS PROMOTES SOCIAL COHESION

Solange Mwenyi tells the story of how losing her father as a young child affected the path that her life would take. She is a farmer and a member of the Munya Village Mentoring Club in Walungu, South Kivu.

“After the death of my father [when I was 8], everything was complicated, and our situation got worse. I got pregnant at a very young age; my daughter’s father never wanted to marry me and abandoned me with the baby.” To make the situation worse, Mwenyi’s family rejected her and her community turned its back on her because, she says, “out-of-wedlock pregnancies are not deemed acceptable.”

She expresses relief about the help she found through the USAID-funded SPR grantee Women’s Caucus for Peace, describing it as an entity that “cares about marginalized groups of which I am part.” She adds, “I am proud to be a beneficiary of this project for my social reintegration. I am currently participating in meetings with our group leader and other village leaders to discuss our inclusion in decision-making.”

Mwenyi continues: “The activity on the platform of popular expression on the inclusion of underaged mothers was very beneficial to me. … It gave me the opportunity to speak to the authorities on this issue and we together identified the obstacles related to the low inclusion of underaged mothers in schools and in the community, as well as their limited participation in decision-making bodies. We also reflected and came up with strategies on how to overcome this problem and got the authorities’ commitment to consider the inclusion of underaged mothers.

“During this meeting … the head of our village, recognizing the importance of inclusion of underaged mothers in decision-making, he granted us posts of responsibility (10 households, head of village, etc.). And that is how I am already integrating into the community!”

“I AM VERY SURE THAT NOTHING WILL BE DIFFICULT FOR ME, AS I HAVE AROUND ME THE SUPPORT OF THE STAFF OF THE MENTORING CLUB. AND OUR LOCAL AUTHORITIES, FROM WHOM I CAN ‘RECHARGE MY BATTERIES’ WHEN NEEDED, ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE PROMOTION OF WOMEN AND OTHER MARGINALIZED GROUPS FOR SOCIAL COHESION.” — SOLANGE MWENYI

48 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV SPORTS EMPHASIS CAN OFFSET Football coach Sarah Cibalonza. CONFLICT BETWEEN COMMUNITIES

Sarah Cibalonza, age 19, is coach of a Soccer for Peace team in Kandekere village, Walunga Territory in South Kivu, who praises the activity for its role in putting her community on a path to peace.

“The involvement of the [Solutions for Peace and Recovery, or SPR] project saved our communities from war,” she says, explaining: “This conflict started right after a football match between the Munya youth team and the Kandekere local team, which ended in a fierce fight. Three young men from Munya were beaten unconscious and another one from Kandekere village was killed. From that day on, the conflict took another dimension as reprisals begun from both sides. It became difficult, if not impossible, for young people from these two communities to meet or get involved in any activities together again. The two communities prepared each day for revenge or were getting ready to defend themselves.”

SPR, she notes, was aware of the conflict and asked community members to let the project help with the reconciliation process. SPR’s training seminar brought civil society actors together to explain the activity’s approach to reconciliation and the expected outcome.

“After this meeting, I felt very interested in being part of the project,” Ms. Cibalonza says. “Even my parents— who were initially telling me that being a coach was not made for girls, nor approved of seeing a girl playing with boys in the same team—were convinced and allowed me to continue my activities in collaboration with the other coaches.”

Although the two teams had not interacted since the flare-up, the training led to the communities agreeing on a friendly football match “as a sign of pacification and reconciliation,” Ms. Cibalonza says. “We formed a mixed team of seven girls and seven boys and organized a football match for peace where young people from both villages were invited. We played together without hurting each other, as our goal this time was to repair the wrongdoings and mistakes of the past.”

In summary, she says, “Our goal for the moment … is to maintain peace with everyone and strengthen social cohesion in our grouping.”

49 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV Ishungu Institute Prefect Jules Bahirwe SCHOOL MANAGEMENT EFFORT PROMOTES SOCIAL COHESION

Once a teacher at the school complex in Bukavu, Mr. Jules Bahirwe was promoted to the position of prefect of the Ishungu Institute in the Ishungu grouping, South Kivu.

Upon embarking on his new role, he found a parents’ school management committee facing internal conflict issues, as some parents felt that one group of individuals was dominating the institution, in collaboration with the former management committee.

The start of the Strengthening Peace and Recovery (SPR) project activities in the grouping, which nearly coincided with the promotion, included raising awareness to implement universally acceptable solutions and building capacity on roles and responsibilities. In response to the conflict over school management, the SPR organized several community participatory conflict analyses and sustainable conflict resolution activities.

Prefect Bahirwe said this activity offered a space for meaningful exchange between members of the parents’ committee: “It is thanks to this support that we are building two classrooms under the supervision of the Parents' Committee members, an approach which made it possible to put an end to the conflict between the parents and the school management committee.”

He added, “We sincerely thank the SPR project and USAID through its partner, who accompanied and supported us in undertaking follow-up actions, such as developing a service improvement plan.”

50 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV Nzigire M’Bizimani walks with women from her community. OVERCOMING MARGINALIZATION IN TRADITIONS LIKE FISHING

Nzigire M’Bizimana, a farmer in Kabare Territory, South Kivu, reflects on the way that cultural conscriptions can impede women and other marginalized groups.

“Traditionally, the Shi culture has instilled in women behavioral norms and practices that they must follow since their early childhood,” says Ms. M’Bizimana, age 41. “For example, they are expected to keep quiet in the presence of men in a meeting. Another example is fishing: Shi culture does not allow women to go fishing, as men have the exclusive right to do so. Yet, residing next to the river, fishing largely contributes to Shi livelihoods. Before the [Strengthening Peace and Recovery, or SPR] project, in fear of being punished by the ‘wise men’ of the village, women did not think that one day they could take up fishing as men do.”

Ms. M’Bizimana explains that she participated in SPR training sessions that also included leaders of her communities, with a range of topics addressed, such as preventing sex and gender-based violence, gender and development, empowering women, entrepreneurship and local governance.

“Things have gradually begun to change, and another look is being considered with the help of the U.S., especially on women’s role,” she said. “Spaces of exchange where one can consult with local leaders, roundtables, forums of popular expressions … were all opportunities for us to advocate.

As a result of the erosion of cultural barriers in her area, Ms. M’Bizimana said she has broken out of old patterns. “My neighbor and I decided to rent a fishing net, went fishing in the lake and came back with fish so we could feed our children,” she said. “We sold part of the fish we caught to earn some money and used the rest to feed our families. We said goodbye to those negative customs that prevented women from contributing to the family’s survival.”

51 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV A woman signs inheritance documents as her family members look on. ADVOCACY FOR WOMEN’S RIGHT TO ACCESS INHERITANCES

In Kabonde, a village in Ishungu grouping, members of the local Peace and Development Committee formed by the Strengthening Peace and Recovery (SPR) project received training on the new family code. A key tenet: The right to inherit is a guaranteed to all children, regardless of their sex.

Committee members initiated advocacy efforts for women whose deceased parents have excluded them from inheritance property, in favor of men. Male siblings of women—having deprived the latter of this right partly due to ignorance of the law—received information from the committee members. This exclusion was occurring largely due to the fact that the women were already married and were therefore no longer considered part of the family.

SPR committee members visited a family with three female siblings who had been deprived of their inheritance rights. Their brothers were convinced to equitably share inheritance assets with their three sisters. As a result, each sister received a piece of land she could use for her agricultural activities, as well as a cow, in accordance with local customs symbolizing the abundance of food in the families.

One of them expressed her gratitude to the SPR committee. She said: “I had lost hope, and hatred for my brothers was beginning to take over in my heart. I did not want to speak to them anymore. But thanks to the SPR’s reconciliation and advocacy, I recovered my rights and my relationship with my brothers is restored. In the future, if I come across a situation of injustice like the one my sisters and I experienced, I will refer them to the committee.”

She stressed the importance of spreading the news: “Last, I will share my experience with other members of the community to let them know that women are also entitled to inheritance, just like men are.”

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53 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV PARTNER NAME: GEC SH-ISP Mining Governance and Human Security in the PHOTO: Mining Zones in South Kivu province, DRC: A GRANT TITLE: Case Study of the Mukungwe Mining Site Walungu territory CONTRIBUTES Objective 1 TO OBJECTIVE Indicators: I.3a, I.3b, I.3c & INDICATORS: Territory: Walungu TARGET AREA: Groupement: Mushinga TOTAL Amount: $59,804.50 AMOUNT AND Disbursed: 90% % DISBURSED: PERIOD OF March 2018 – November 2018 PERFORMANCE: Researchers on the trail of the traceability of gold of Mukungwe This project contributes to the GRANT consolidation of peace through research on SUMMARY: the Mukungwe mine in Walungu territory.

RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS): • 1 Investigation of the analysis of trail and traceability of Mukungwe mining products and their interference in local conflicts (I.3a, I.3b, I.3c) • 1 Survey of gold and cassiterite-buying counters in Bukavu (I.3a, I.3b, I.3c) • I Policy Brief Development Workshop for authorities as an advocacy tool for human security (I.3a, I.3b, I.3c) • 4 radio broadcasts of the project activities • One seminar on research and dissemination on the security of humans and mining conflicts (I.3a, I.3b, I.3c) • Detailed report of the final project IMPACT: The various data collections showed the various protagonists that the Mukungwe conflict is wearing them out. They understood that the consequences are numerous and that they are victims of manipulation. PROUDEST MOMENT: During the research seminar for the dissemination of the results, it was noted that of greatest concern to the participants was the development of solutions for a sustainable outcome in this conflict because it has already had many consequences.

LESSONS LEARNED: It is difficult to identify all the stakeholders in a conflict: With the presentation of the first results, other stakeholders who were not affected in the data collection indicated the need to contribute to the research, which informed the research team about the complexity of the conflict and the multiplicity of parts.

54 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV PARTNER NAME: Commission Diocésaine Justice et Paix (CDJP RAP/Bukavu) Peace Consolidation and Social Cohesion PHOTO: Project in the KARHONGO, LURHALA GRANT TITLE: and KAMISIMBI groupements in Ngweshe Chiefdom, Walungu Territory. CONTRIBUTES Objective 1 TO OBJECTIVE Indicators: I.3a, I.3b, I.3c & INDICATORS: Territory: Walungu TARGET AREA: Groupement: Mushinga TOTAL Amount: $113,121.98 AMOUNT AND Disbursed: 60% % DISBURSED: PERIOD OF April 20, 2018 – January 12, 2019 PERFORMANCE: Result validation forums of the conflict analyses The project contributes to the in Kamisimbi consolidation of peace and social cohesion GRANT through (i) capacity building of community SUMMARY: peace structures, (ii) conflict analysis, and (iii) conducting participatory action research (PAR) with communities RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS): • 15 analyses of prioritized conflicts analyzed and validated in the Kamisimbi, Karhongo, and Lurhala groupements (1.2b) • 6 conflict analysis results forums (2 per group) in Kamisimbi, Karhongo, and Lurhala (1a) • Presentation of the results of the analyses to the territorial authorities and the chieftainship (1a) • Training of community researchers on research techniques for PAR data and collection of PAR data for the three groupements (1.2a) IMPACT: Awakening and commitment: During the forums, it was noted that the communities of the 3 groupements engaged in in-depth analyses of the results of the conflict analysis without fear or complexity. They enriched the conflict analyses and corrected certain errors. PROUDEST MOMENT: The presentation of the results of the analyses to the territorial and chieftainship authorities was an interesting moment for them and the members of the community. They were surprised to find conflicts that implicated the basic frameworks and conflicts that the authorities thought were resolved. They have pledged their support to the process. LESSONS LEARNED: The presentation of the conflict analysis data to the authorities revealed the fact that some local authorities are parties to the conflicts. However, the authorities remained reasonable and were not negatively affected by the fact that they were cited by the community. A negative was that in certain discussions, the presence of the authorities was a deterrent when it was necessary to openly discuss the realities on the ground.

55 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV PARTNER NAME: AAP Aid and Action for Peace PHOTOS: GRANT TITLE:

CONTRIBUTES Objective I TO OBJECTIVE & Indicators: A.0.1.1,a, 1.1.12 . 1.1.31a INDICATORS: Territory: Masisi TARGET AREA: Groupements: Muvunyi Shanga, Kibabi, Biiri TOTAL Amount: $116,496.05 AMOUNT AND % Result validation forum of the participatory Disbursed: 61% DISBURSED: conflict analyses in BIIRI PERIOD OF October 1, 2018 – April 11 2019 PERFORMANCE: This project targets three (3) groupements of Masisi territory (Kibabi, Muvunyi Shanga and Biiri) and contributes to the consolidation of peace and GRANT social cohesion through (i) capacity building and support of community structures for peace and Capacity-building workshop of 16 community SUMMARY: development, (ii) identification, prioritization and analysis of conflicts with communities, and (iii) researched in the Kibabi Groupement conducting the process of participatory research and action (PAR) on an identified conflict. RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS): • 3 community forums for results validation of the participatory conflict analyses organized in Kibabi, with 80 participants, including 39 women (2 OMGs) and 41 men (3 OMGs); in Muvunyi Shanga there were 80 participants, including 35 women (3 OMGs) and 45 men (4 OMGs); lastly in Kalinga there were 80 participants, including 34 women (5 OMGs) and 46 men (4 OMGs) (1.2b) • 1 PAR validation workshop organized in Kalinga with 70 participants including 28 women (3 OMGs) and 42 men (3 OMGs) (1.2a) • 40 PAR community researchers (19 men and 21 women) were selected in 3 groupements (16 in Kibabi, 14 in Muvunyi Shanga, and 10 in Biiri) (1.2a) • 3 capacity building workshops for 40 PAR communities organized (1.2a) IMPACT: In the 3 groupements, community members heavily consult local peace and development structures pour the peaceful resolution of their conflicts. The degree of trust in the members of these different structures is very high given the representation of all the layers of the communities within them PROUDEST MOMENT: Behavior in the Validation of Conflict Analyses: the way in which participants responded to the different outcomes of the analyzed conflicts showed that community members truly adopted the participatory conflict analysis processes. LESSONS LEARNED: In the Muvunyi Shanga groupement, some participants misinterpreted the results of our analysis by saying that we accused of the Chief of the chiefdom of being at the root of the power conflict between the current leader and his predecessor. The lesson learned is that regular contact between the project and the authorities is very necessary and can help to avoid manipulation and misunderstandings. At the end of the analysis validation sessions, we understood that the community members are determined to play an active role in the implementation of solutions identified through the participatory conflict analysis reports within their respective groupements.

56 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV PARTNER NAME: Pole Institute Participatory Analysis of Conflicts in the PHOTOS: GRANT TITLE: City of Goma

CONTRIBUTES Objective I TO OBJECTIVE Indicators: 1.a. 1.2b & INDICATORS: TARGET AREA: Territory: Goma City TOTAL Amount: $89,640 AMOUNT AND Disbursed: 90% A participant giving their opinion on the results % DISBURSED: of the quantitative data collection of the PAR in PERIOD OF April 19, 2018 – December 15, 2018 (to be the Goma commune PERFORMANCE: extended) This project contributes to the consolidation of peace and social cohesion through (i) implementation of community peace structures and capacity building, (ii) conducting participatory conflict analyses, GRANT (iii) organization of participatory action SUMMARY: research with communities, and (iv) production of a social cohesion plan with Plenary presentation working on the crossroads the communities and implementation of of the amendment of the final report of the PAR advocacy actions related to the solutions in the Goma commune formulated in the various analyses. RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS): • 40 community researchers recruited and trained on research techniques and data collection for PARs • Copies of survey questionnaires produced on the two themes of the PARs conducted in Goma • 2 preparatory meetings organized to introduce community researchers to members of local peace structures in the city of Goma • Data collection in the two Goma communes, Goma and Karisimbi IMPACT: The key actors of the components and stakeholders of the two themes studied were contacted in focus groups and in-depth interviews. They responded favorably to our requests for mini-dialogues and each produced a set of specifications for the preparation of two upcoming round tables, which shows that the next stage is setting up well. PROUDEST MOMENT: The different authorities at all levels of the North Kivu Province recognize the importance of the work that is being done through this project in the city of Goma. At all levels, the results of the PARs are expected. LESSONS LEARNED: We understood that the election period had a significant negative impact on our activities because it was difficult to work in a rather tense context. We have therefore understood that in the near future everything will have to be done to prevent key project activities from coinciding with political events that require a high level of prudence.

57 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV PARTNER NAME: ISDR Contribution to the improvement of social PHOTOS: cohesion in the groupement of Mbinga GRANT TITLE: North and Ishungu respectively in the territory of Kabare and Kalehe. CONTRIBUTES Objective 1 TO OBJECTIVE Indicators 1a, 1b, 1.2a, 1.2b, 2.1.a et 2.2a & INDICATORS: Territory: Kabare and Kalehe TARGET AREA: Groupement: Ishungu and Mbinga North The two respective communities of Ishungu and TOTAL Amount: $85,913 Lugendo in the middle of a community dialogue AMOUNT AND Disbursed: 80% session. % DISBURSED: PERIOD OF April 1, 2018 – November 30, 2018 PERFORMANCE: This project contributes to the consolidation of peace and social cohesion through (i) capacity building of community peace structures in the peaceful resolution GRANT of conflicts, data collection, analysis and SUMMARY: archiving techniques; (ii) conducting The two chiefs of the groupements : to the left participatory conflict analyses and (iii) is the chief of Lugendo and to the right is the supporting the community in Participatory chief of Ishungu, taking in the joyful gathering of Action Research (PAR) activities. their communities RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS): • Primary and complementary data collection in Ishungu and Mbinga Nord (I.2a) • Data validation by members of the community peace structures and the Ishungu & Mbinga Nord communities (I.2a) • Data analysis and PAR report production with Ishungu community peace structures (I.2a) • Data analysis and production of second PAR report with peace community structures, community leaders, and representatives of women and members of the Ishungu community (I.2a) • Organization of community mini-dialogues, dialogues, and forums in Ishungu (I.2a) IMPACT: At the invitation of the LPDCs and with the collaboration of local authorities, a dialogue was held on the issue that divides the Lugendo and Ishungu communities. Local authorities agreed to receive positive criticism from members of their communities in order to put in sustainable cohabitation mechanisms. Agreements were signed between the two populations. PROUDEST MOMENT: The highlight was the signing of the agreements. The members of both groups and their leaders were pleased to have peacefully resolved the conflict between them. LESSONS LEARNED: While conducting the analyses, the first impressions were related to the recent conflicts between the two communities. However, we realized that there is a long history of conflict between the two entities.

58 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV PARTNER NAME: Consortium SYNIGL and Solidarité CINAMULA The Amani Kwa Maendeleo Participatory PHOTO: Action Research in The Lugendo GRANT TITLE: Groupement, Territory of Kabare, South Kivu CONTRIBUTES Objective I TO OBJECTIVE & Indicators: 1.2a. INDICATORS: Territory: Kabare TARGET AREA: Groupements Lugendo TOTAL Amount: $ 62,497.83 AMOUNT AND % Disbursed: 80% DISBURSED: PERIOD OF April 20, 2018 – December 24, 2018 PERFORMANCE: Presentation of data from the PAR to This project contributes to the consolidation of peace and social cohesion community leaders GRANT through (i) conducting participatory conflict SUMMARY: analyses, (ii) conducting participatory research with communities, and (iii) leading participatory actions on identified conflicts. RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS): • A training workshop on PAR for PAR community researchers (1.2a) • A preparatory meeting between researchers and members of peace structures (1.2a) • A data collection by PAR community researchers (1.2a) • 3 mini dialogues on the production of the terms of reference for the parties to the conflict (1.2a) • Community dialogue sanctioning the PAR process (1.2a) • Community forum to present the results of the PAR (1.2a) • Production of the PAR report (1.2a) IMPACT: The PAR process in the Lugendo groupement allowed all the groupement’s trends to meet and discuss the conflicts between them. Although the PAR focused on the water supply theme, the participants took the opportunity to discuss the other conflicts, including the power conflict that required the replacement of the groupement leader and agitated the conflicts over drinking water. The practice of dialogues is gradually taking place with the collaboration of authorities and LPDC members. PROUDEST MOMENT: The reunion of all the stakeholders of the Lugendo water supply dispute during the dialogue was an opportunity for the community to have further explanation about the failure of the water network and listen to the service provider organization’s plan for the supplies reserved for the community. LESSONS LEARNED: Although the water-related conflict has exacerbated the groupement-level conflicts of customary power, removing the group leader from his office at grouping level was not found to be a solution for either the water or the power conflict as the divisions related to the power conflict and water management extend to the leaders at village level.

59 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV PARTNER NAME: ICJP Tupeane Amani Wa Ndungu (Let Us Give PHOTO: GRANT TITLE: Peace)

Objective I CONTRIBUTES Indicators: 1.2b; Ia; 2.3a, 2.a TO OBJECTIVE & Number of participatory conflict analyses INDICATORS: conducted* TO3 IR 3.1 Territory: Kalehe TARGET AREA: Groupement: Mbinga North TOTAL Amount: $103,990 AMOUNT AND % Disbursed: 80% DISBURSED: PERIOD OF December 13, 2017 – December 30, 2018 PERFORMANCE: ICJP contributes to strengthening the capacity of local leaders in good and GRANT inclusive local governance through the use Participants at the participatory SUMMARY: of suggestion boxes managed by analysis workshop in Bubale II Peacemakers in the Mbinga North groupement, in Kalehe territory. RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS): • Participatory Conflict Analysis Workshop in Bubale 1 and Bubale II (I.2b) • Validation of participatory conflict analysis in Mbinga Nord (1a) • Preparation of the peace consolidation plan for the Mbinga Nord groupement (1.2b) • Production of 3 governance and security reports to prevent conflicts, particularly between communities • Popularization of 3 key messages of peace among 625 volunteer peacekeepers • Broadcast of 3 radio programs on peace and human rights (2.3a) • Popularization of human rights law and protection documents among 625 volunteer peacekeepers • Material support to 6 local peace and development committees (2a) • Organize the monitoring & evaluation missions of the project IMPACT: Community engagement, through local structures and authorities, in finding the solution to the different conflicts in the Mbinga Nord groupement. The leader of the groupement, accompanied by the LPDC members, traveled to Bukavu to ask the SPR project to lead a process of transformation of the analyzed conflicts instead of remaining at the level of analysis. PROUDEST MOMENT: The validation of the conflict analyses (5) was a moment of community participation in the analysis process as people who were not directly invited contributed to the final document. For the participants, the project should not remain at the level of theoretical analysis. It must put in place means to transform these conflicts in support of community structures, the latter not being able to do so without support. LESSONS LEARNED: Interventions in Mbinga Nord must consider the local development plan that exists: the Mbinga Nord groupement is an isolated place forgotten by humanitarian intervention, whereas it is an environment in great need of them. Most organizations working in Mbinga Nord do not account for the local development plan because they develop the projects without considering the base’s real needs before executing the project. Many groupement leaders do not know that they serve the community and want to be paid each time for the community work they complete.

60 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV PARTNER NAME: ISPDE Social Cohesion Project for the Community PHOTOS: GRANT TITLE: of Conflict Analysis in lbanda and Bagira

CONTRIBUTES Objective 1 TO OBJECTIVE & Indicators: 1a, 1b, 1.2a, 1.2b, INDICATORS: Territory: Bukavu TARGET AREA: Communes: Ibanda and Bagira TOTAL Amount: $89,818 AMOUNT AND Participants at the PAR process Disbursed: 56% % DISBURSED: presentation workshop in Ibanda PERIOD OF April 18, 2018 – April 17, 2019 PERFORMANCE:

This project contributes to the consolidation of peace and social cohesion through (i) implementation of LPDCs, (ii) GRANT conducting participatory conflict analyses, SUMMARY: (iii) organization of participatory action research (PAR) with communities, and (iv) definition and implementation of Community researchers from the participatory actions. Ibanda commune in the PAR training

RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS): • 2 community forums on the validation of results in Ibanda and Bagira (1 per commune) (1.2b, Ia) • 1 conflict analysis presentation on the provincial level (Ia) • 4 presentations of the PAR process in Ibanda and Bagira (I.2a) • 2 training workshops of PAR data collection in Ibanda and Bagira • 1 PAR data collection in two communes by Ibanda and Bagira community researchers (1.2a) IMPACT: The data collection on PAR topics at the level of two communities has been a collaboration of all social strata with community researchers. The engagement observed by members of LPDC structures alongside community researchers demonstrates the ownership of the process by the community. PROUDEST MOMENT: The presentation of the data to the Ibanda and Bagira communities on PAR themes and the seriousness with which LPDC members engaged in the identification of possible solutions shows the need to respond to the different conflicts identified, especially the conflict related to bankruptcy of microfinance institutions (MFIs) and the loss of investment by their members. LESSONS LEARNED: It is important to consider local capacities: LPDC members, from the community level to the provincial authorities, are receptive and have better control over the context-driven workings, factors, actors, causes, and consequences of conflict. This is contrary to the team preliminary conclusions, namely that many of the conflicts had not found answers from the authorities, who are, however, the first responders to agreements and cohabitation at the entity level.

61 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV PARTNER NAME: OBJECTiVE1 NORTH AND SOUTH KIVU AMANI KWA MAENDELEO/AKM-SPR PHOTOS: GRANT TITLE: (Activité exécutée par l’équipe du projet)

CONTRIBUTES Objective 1 TO OBJECTIVE & Indicators: 1.1.1. 5, 1.1.16 INDICATORS:

TARGET AREA: North Kivu and South Kivu TOTAL AMOUNT AND % N/A DISBURSED: Participants being trained on advocacy and PERIOD OF October 1, 2018 – December 31, 2018 communication at the Hotel Mbiza in Goma, PERFORMANCE: October 18, 2018

USAID’s Solutions for Peace and Recovery (SPR) began on 30 August 2016 under Task Order AID-OAA-I-13-0042/AID-660-TO- 16-00004 and will be implemented through GRANT 29 August 2019, with possibility for two SUMMARY: option years. The project aims to increase women and other marginalized groups’ (OMGs) participation in community-based conflict analysis, prevention, resolution, and Participants give their thanks to the training recovery in eastern DRC organizers

RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS): • Conflict sensitivity training: 4 sessions with 154 organizations including 80 (represented by 24 women and 56 men) in North Kivu and 74 (represented by 21 women and 53 men) in South Kivu. • Advocacy & Communication training: 4 sessions with 166 organizations including 84 (represented by 28 women and 56 men) in North Kivu and 82 (represented by 31 women and 51 men) in South Kivu IMPACT: Many participants admitted to being aware that most of their interventions created serious conflicts and divisions in the intervention zones. With these trainings, CSOs have increased their knowledge on the themes of conflict sensitivity, advocacy, and communication. As a result, they are making conflict-sensitive analyses and their interventions already contain local context elements. PROUDEST MOMENT: • The conflict sensitivity training helped organizational members realize the different unexpected situations of conflict that may arise from intervention that did not have a strong analysis of the project area context. This objective was achieved. • Organizations trained in communication know that poor communication can be a source of conflict. LESSONS LEARNED: All interventions must account for conflict sensitivity: many members of CSOs did not believe in the importance of having such interventions in their areas. The different exercises required community members to ask themselves several times before deciding. They did not consider the serious consequences that may result from their actions. This topic was little known to many CSOs in North and South Kivu.

62 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV PARTNER NAME: ACODEPA IBANDA Building the capacity of community structures, PHOTOS: local peace and development committees GRANT TITLE: towards the promotion of social cohesion and peace consolidation in the municipality of lbanda, Bukavu City CONTRIBUTES Objective I, Objective 2 TO OBJECTIVE & Indicators: 2.3a INDICATORS: Territory: Bukavu TARGET AREA: Commune of Ibanda TOTAL Participants at the workshop of planning Amount: $76,554.55 AMOUNT AND % development Disbursed: 90% DISBURSED: PERIOD OF December 13, 2017 – December 30, 2018 PERFORMANCE: Contributes to the promotion of social cohesion and the consolidation of peace in the Ibanda commune and in the city of Bukavu. Specifically, this project aims to strengthen the GRANT capacities of the local peace and development members by providing knowledge in conflicts SUMMARY: analysis, positive transformation and peace mobilization; and provide ongoing support to The dialogue on defining security strategies local peace and development structures in at the Nyalukemba District Office Ibanda commune and Bukavu City to monitor regularly security governance improvement. RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS): • Production and diffusion of 15 radio programs on peaceful cohabitation (2.3a) • Workshop to develop the community plan for consolidating security governance in Ibanda • Produce 3 videos on the state of social cohesion in the Ibanda commune • Conduct 24 site visits to monitor field activities • 4 advocacy network accompaniment meetings • 3 months of material support to 11 peace and development structures and 1 local security committee on data collection activities and reporting of security incidents (2a) • 4 organized security data presentation sessions • Organization of 3 dialogues on the definition of security strategies in the base entities IMPACT: Peace structure members discussed their respective security issues with local authorities and security services, reviewed recorded security incidents, and developed community and administrative management mechanisms. PROUDEST MOMENT: The development of the local security governance plan between authorities (administrative and police) was a great moment of exchanges in the Ibanda commune. Together, they developed political, administrative, and community strategies to improve security. LESSONS LEARNED: Authorities alone cannot ensure the security and protection of citizens. Through the various meetings on security incidents, they noticed that authorities are able to handle certain incidents despite state means at their disposal. This brings about calls for collaboration amongst the people to denounce the perpetrators of these cases of insecurity and unfortunately results in cases of popular justice.

63 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV PARTNER NAME: SYNIGL (Synergie d'Initiative pour les Grands Lacs) Research project on the activism of armed PHOTO: groups in South Kivu: relations and dynamics GRANT TITLE: between armed groups and communities in Kalehe and Walungu territory. CONTRIBUTES Objective I TO OBJECTIVE & Indicators: 1.3a, 1.3b, 1.3c INDICATORS: Territory: Walungu, Kalehe TARGET AREA: Groupements Mulamba, Mbinga North TOTAL Amount: $90,769 AMOUNT AND % Disbursed: 80% DISBURSED: PERIOD OF February 2, 2018 – November 30, 2018 PERFORMANCE: Over 4 days, researchers, readers, and the This research highlights the relationships SYNIGL team worked on the production of the and dynamics between armed groups and 2 articles to be published local communities in the province. The GRANT research is carried out by Congolese SUMMARY: researchers using robust research methods and under SPR oversight as part of its researcher capacity building objective. RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS): • 2 scientific workshops: presentations and debates on the results of the research and the provisional report & validation (1.3a, 1.3b, 1.3c) • Organization of the validation retreat for the articles (1.3a, 1.3b, 1.3c) • Organization of a reading of the articles by two independent academic experts (1.3a, 1.3b, 1.3c) • Scientific articles finalized and ready for publication (1.3a, 1.3b, 1.3c) IMPACT: Research findings were shared with and validated by research and academic experts. PROUDEST MOMENT: The production of the two articles ready for publication.

LESSONS LEARNED: In the planning of SYNIGL, the time given to contact and sign the contract with the publishing houses of the articles was underestimated. By getting in touch with the journals, SYNGIL was facing a deadlock vis-à-vis the conditions posed by them: The publication could not be made in less than 45 days for the Journal "Transitional Justice". However, SYNIGL remained with less than one month of its contract with MSI. Knowing in advance the publishing conditions for each house in advance is a priority for any publication.

64 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV PARTNER NAME: ADEPAE Project to strengthen youth participation PHOTOS: GRANT TITLE: and engagement in conflict transformation in South Kivu, Bukavu City CONTRIBUTES Objective I, Objective 2 TO OBJECTIVE & Indicators: 2a, 2.3.b, 2.3.c, 3.3.b INDICATORS: Territory: Bukavu TARGET AREA: Commune of Ibanda and Bagira TOTAL Amount: $87,126.53 AMOUNT AND % Disbursed: 60% Participants at the inter-university conference. DISBURSED: PERIOD OF April 25, 2018 – December 24,2018 PERFORMANCE:

This project aims to contribute to the strengthening of social cohesion, the GRANT promotion and adoption of a culture of SUMMARY: peace and non-violence and of youth civic engagement in Bukavu.

RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS): • Organized exchange symposium on the role of youth in promoting peace, social cohesion and governance in the Bagira Commune (3.3b) • 2 inter-university conferences which brought together 150 students at the UEA in the Ibanda commune (3.3b) • 4 inter-community projects organized in Ibanda and Bagira to improve the sanitation of Bukavu City • 2 inter-youth dialogues and 2 youth/grassroots dialogues organized in Ibanda and Bagira (3.3b) • 200 people participated in four public debates on the culture of pace, the promotion of non-violence and security for the Ibanda and Bagira communities chosen for intervention (3.3b) • 8 supported structures in Ibanda and Bagira (2.a) • Organization of 3 social forums in Ibanda and Bagira • 50 youth leaders participated in a capacity-building workshop on leadership, governance, and the role of political parties in conflict management in Ibanda and Bagira (3.3b) IMPACT: Youth were strongly committed to the various activities and expressed the need to reflect on the problem of peaceful cohabitation in the region. They are characterized by a certain determination to make things happen and seek to prioritize continual capacity building to take charge in the future. PROUDEST MOMENT: The involvement of young people in reflecting on the promotion of peace and social cohesion. LESSONS LEARNED: During the implementation of the project, the needs of youth overlap regardless of their environment and occupation. Unemployment is a challenge for youth, OMGs, graduating and continuing students.

65 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV PARTNER NAME: RADIO MAENDELEO (RM) The radio program of peace for the PHOTO: mobilization and sensitization through the participation and inclusion of women and GRANT TITLE: marginalized groups in the solutions for peace and social cohesion in Mbinga Nord, Karhongo, Kamisimbi and Lurhala in South Kivu CONTRIBUTES Objectives 2 and 3 TO OBJECTIVE & Indicators 2a, 2.1a, 2.3a, 2.2a, 3.3a INDICATORS: Territory: Kalehe, Walungu TARGET AREA: Groupements: Karhongo, Kamisimbi Lurhala, Mbinga Nord TOTAL USD $29.262,00 AMOUNT AND 100¨% % DISBURSED: PERIOD OF October 1, 2018 – December 31, 2018 Core members of a support group in Mbinga PERFORMANCE: Nord in a meeting on November 25, 2018

This project aims to contribute to social GRANT cohesion by including women and other SUMMARY: marginalized groups.

RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS): • 2 produced broadcasts: in Lurhala and Mbinga Nord • 3 follow-up meetings and the revitalization of the cores and support groups in the groupements of Kamisimbi, Lurhala and Mbinga Nord • 2 consultation sessions and the sensitization of authorities in Mbinga Nord and Lurhala bringing 40 participants together • Educational messages on the consolidation of achieved peace • 552 broadcast spots on the consolidation of peace and the change in norms; • 38 produced radio spots diffused by radio partners • 21 core members and support groups formed on the techniques of radio production IMPACT: Implication and participation of women in instances of decision making and the integration of OMGs in their respective communities, especially through organizations and state structures PROUDEST MOMENT: The airing of public broadcasts and sensitization sessions for authorities; the different actors of groups targeted by the project engaged together to ban contrary values in their respective areas and to reinforce that positive cooperation between authorities and the population is vital to success LESSONS LEARNED: If the leaders of local organizations include people representing varying ethnic backgrounds, peaceful cohabitation is possible

66 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV PARTNER NAME: CARITAS DEVELOPPEMENT BUKAVU Support project for civil society PHOTO: organizations and local associations working GRANT TITLE: on social cohesion and women’s empowerment in the groupements of Lugendo and Ishungu in South Kivu. CONTRIBUTES Objective 2 TO OBJECTIVE & Indicators: 2.a, 2.b, 2.1.a, 2.2.a, 2.3.a, 2.3.b, INDICATORS: 2.3.c2.1.a, 2.2.a, 2.3.a, 2.3.b, 2.3.c, 3.1.b, 3.3.b Territory: Kabare TARGET AREA: Groupements: Lugendo, Ishungu TOTAL Budget total: US $142,981.26 AMOUNT AND % Disbursed: 85.7% DISBURSED: PERIOD OF October to December 2018 PERFORMANCE: Group creating a framework for consultation between women and member of CLOCs in The project is for the empowerment of women & OMGs in the groupements of Lugendo and Lugendo and local chiefs

GRANT Ishungu through cognitive capacity building activities for local authorities, women, and SUMMARY: OMGs, as well as increasing cooperation between authorities and the population through CLOCs for social cohesion RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS): • 18 meetings between women & OMGs and local authorities to discuss factors negatively affecting the inclusion of women & OMGs in local governance (157 participants: 81 women, 36 men and 40 local authorities) • 81 meetings with CLOCs, 22 successful mediations, 12 advocacy actions completed, 15 sensitization sessions on social cohesion • 3 mentoring sessions for female members of CLOCs • Sensitization radio programs covering the meetings between local authorities and women & OMGs. • Establish 2 networks for women of Lugendo and Ishungu to disseminate and exchange information and experiences • Exchange of experiences between women of CLOCs grouped into networks and women in feminist organizations in Bukavu • Support for income-generating activities of 11 livelihood groups comprising 185 members IMPACT: Around 26 women & OMGs of Lugendo and Ishungu participated in local government. They were promised different posts in decision-making on the local level (chief of subvillages responsible for 10 homes). The women & OMGs’ perspectives are now taken into consideration in the groupements. PROUDEST MOMENT: The women applied for positions of responsibility in certain villages in Lugendo and Ishungu and some women were designated to village chiefs and are responsible for 10 homes in their groupements. This has never been seen in the history of the two groupements. LESSONS LEARNED: The natural mechanism for peaceful conflict resolution that comprises the CLOCs constituted by a majority of women & OMGs produced the results within the community where mediations that are led by the CLOCs and lead to compromise. The women can negotiate and lead basic entities when given the opportunity and are accompanied.

67 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV PARTNER NAME: Caucus des Femmes Congolaises du Sud- Kivu pour la paix (CDF) Project for the inclusion of women and PHOTO: other marginalized groups in decision- GRANT TITLE: making for social cohesion in the territory of Walungu CONTRIBUTES Objective 2 TO OBJECTIVE Indicators: 2.a, 2.1.a, 2.3.b, 2.3.c, 2.2.a & INDICATORS: Territory: Walungu TARGET AREA: Groupements: Karhongo, Kamisimbi, Lurhala TOTAL Total Amount: US$ 61,988.58 AMOUNT AND Disbursed 80.4% % DISBURSED: PERIOD OF April 2018 - February 2019 (10 months) PERFORMANCE: Contribute to strengthening the foundations of lasting peace, to prevent or avoid conflict by including women & Group photo of members of mentoring clubs after OMGs in decision-making. The direct a training on UN Resolutions 1325 and 2250 GRANT target is the authorities, women, and SUMMARY: OMGs. The strategy is to train our target groups in different practices to promote women & OMGs through coaching sessions for their inclusion in decision- making. RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS): • 3 trainings on gender, community management, and conflict transformation (120 participants) • 3 trainings on UN Resolutions 1325 and 2250 (120 members of mentorship clubs took part) • 3 trainings on advocacy and creation of an advocacy plan (120 women & OMGs participants) • 6 community forums in 3 groupements where 182 women & OMGs participated • 42 regular meetings for the mentoring clubs IMPACT: 8 months into the project, women & OMGs of the mentoring clubs began to receive solicitations from the community to resolve certain problems that often divide people within the community. PROUDEST MOMENT: When the women & OMGs met with local authorities and discussed a salient problem that impedes their inclusion into the community. In one session, certain authorities made commitments to including women & OMGs. A village chief in Munya designated a young mother as the leader of 10 homes. LESSONS LEARNED: The inclusion of women & OMGs in decision-making in our communities, as a family, would be a strategy to get them to give their best efforts for the consolidation of peace. Cultural norms continue to reinforce discrimination between women & OMGs and other categories of people. Access to land by women & OMGs is one of the cures for certain conflicts and inspires social cohesion.

68 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV PARTNER NAME: Association des Femmes des Médias AFEM Promotion of social cohesion and PHOTO: GRANT TITLE: empowerment of women and other marginalized groups through media CONTRIBUTES Objective 2, 3 TO OBJECTIVE & Indicators 2a, 2.3; 2.3a, 3, 3a INDICATORS: Territory: Bukavu TARGET AREA: Groupements: Lugendo, Ishungu, Kabare, Communes Ibanda, Bagira, Bukavu City TOTAL Total Amount: US $28,903.16 AMOUNT AND % Disbursed: 70% DISBURSED: PERIOD OF April 24, 2018 – December 5, 2018 PERFORMANCE:

This project contributes: to the promotion of inclusion and involvement of women & Members of a support group in Bagira after OMGs in Lugendo, Ishungu, Bagira, and a meeting GRANT Ibanda to research peace, empowerment, SUMMARY: and peaceful cohabitation; to advocate through radio the change of discriminatory social norms for social cohesion and the development of communities.

RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS): • 2 public forums organized for 140 people (69 men and 71 women) • 1 radio spot for the sensitization on the role of women & OMGs in the consolidation of peace • 15 broadcasts on 5 empowerment programs for women and social cohesion; • 18 meetings for members of organized support groups and members of the groups committed to passing messages of social cohesion in their quartiers • 6 meetings on radio production for 100 people organized in Bukavu and Kabare; • 2 follow-up activities on the 4 axes of intervention of the project IMPACT: Parents in Lugendo and Ishungu became aware of their roles supporting equality between girls and boys and “normal” children versus those with handicaps and/or young mothers from other villages. Messages promoting social cohesion and peace were approved by local authorities, confirming prior commitments they made. Two women from the 10 Listening Clubs participated in security meetings. PROUDEST MOMENT: The public forum organized in Ishungu. The traditional chiefs of Ishungu pledged to fight discrimination against women in their village and are going to begin to integrate them in decision-making posts in order to have female voices in the management of the village. LESSONS LEARNED: The women of Lugendo and Ishungu must be made aware of the sensitization efforts on the radio and the follow-ups to participate in the peace process because if they are not informed, they will not know how best to help their village. The village heads of Lugendo and Ishungu already know of the project and are available to prepare journalists and the radio programs.

69 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV PARTNER NAME: FOSI Nord-Kivu “Forum Sida” Sote Kwa Amani/AKM-SPR PHOTO: GRANT TITLE:

CONTRIBUTES Objective 2, 3 TO OBJECTIVE & Indicators 2.a; 2.1.a; 2.2.a; 3.3.a; 2.3.b; 2.3.c; INDICATORS: 3.3. b. Territory: Masisi TARGET AREA: Groupement: Kibabi TOTAL Total Amount: USD $52,920.49 AMOUNT AND % Disbursed: 69.97% DISBURSED: PERIOD OF April 13, 2018 – March 13, 2019 PERFORMANCE: To contribute to the research of A mentoring session for women & OMGs on participative and inclusive solutions for leadership in Kibabi women & OMGs to establish a sustainable GRANT social cohesion based on citizen SUMMARY: engagement and the development of their competencies in transformational leadership in the groupement of Kibabi RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS): • 2 mentoring sessions, 16 other mentoring sessions, including building transformational leadership (160 women and OMG participants) • 27 sessions of meetings between women, OMGs, and local authorities with 160 women & OMGs, 9 formal leaders, and 72 local leaders • 2 framed dialogue meetings, permanent and interactive, between women & OMGs and local authorities • 20 sensitization and mass mobilization sessions in the Kibabi groupement and 3,396 people sensitized on peace and social cohesion with women & OMGs • 40 women & OMGs trained on the rights and protections of women IMPACT: • Solidarity between women & OMGs in mentoring clubs without any form of discrimination • Interaction between women & OMGs and local leaders leading to palatable solutions to local participation problems for women & OMGs • Determination of women & OMGs to continue the mentoring actives with or without funds from the project PROUDEST MOMENT: Local drives for social cohesion initiated by women & OMGs in certain localities (unblocking of gutters, rehabilitation of local roads). LESSONS LEARNED: Issues related to social cohesion are interesting and stoked a fruitful exchange of ideas between women & OMGs on how to direct the messages for peace and cohabitation in the community. The mentoring sessions are of vital importance because they prepare the clubs for successful activities that are documented and reinforce the efficacy of developing competencies of women & OMGs in leadership.

70 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV PARTNER NAME: REVEIL DES FEMMES POUR DEVELOPPEMENT INTEGRE (RFEDI) Reinforcement of social cohesion and PHOTOS: GRANT TITLE: promotion of the rights of women & OMGs in the city of Goma CONTRIBUTES Objective 1, 2 TO OBJECTIVE & Indicators1.1, 2a, 1.a, 2.3b, 2.2a, 2.3c INDICATORS: Territory: Goma TARGET AREA: Groupements: Karisimbi and Goma City : TOTAL Total Amount: $79,804 .97 AMOUNT AND % Disbursed: 39.66% DISBURSED: PERIOD OF April 14, 2018 – April 17, 2019 PERFORMANCE: The current project contributes to social cohesion through the inclusion of women & OMGs in the consolidation of peace in GRANT Goma. The activities gravitate around SUMMARY: mentoring clubs who are framed to build Exchange of experiences between women & capacity on the themes of leadership, OMGs of Katoyi and Kasika. Above and human rights, social cohesion, good below, meetings between women & OMGs governance, and advocacy techniques. and authorities of Mabanga Sud RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS): • 66 coaching meetings on transformational leadership, comprised of 220 women & OMGs • 40 women & OMGs participated in a capacity building workshop on transformational leadership • 8 reconciliation meetings between women & OMGs with local authorities, 2 meetings between women, OMGs, and communal authorities, and 4 experience exchange sessions • 40 officials trained on participative government. IMPACT: The participation and presence of officials in the progress of activities carried out by women & OMGs which would have been impossible without local authority support. Lobbying and advocacy in the quartiers done by women & OMGs and the local authorities praised these initiatives for unifying the community peacefully. PROUDEST MOMENT: The adherence of local authorities to the cause of women & OMGs for their participation in local governance and consolidation of peace. The total buy-in of mentors to activities and the organization of several meetings. The effective inclusion of authorities in the reconciliation sessions on the challenges that inhibit the participation and inclusion of women and other OMGs in basic decision-making processes. LESSONS LEARNED: The reconciliation meetings created a solidarity between women & OMGs and an opening to authorities, something that was not possible without the mentoring clubs. The dialogue between women & OMGs and authorities and the inclusion of activities by local officials arose spontaneously thanks to the inclusion of the officials in all of the women & OMGs’ activities.

71 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV PARTNER NAME: Consortium Centre OLAME – TGD Project for the promotion and consolidation PHOTO: GRANT TITLE: of peace in the groupement of Mbinga Nord

CONTRIBUTES Objective 3 TO OBJECTIVE & Indicators 3.3b, 3.1b, 3.3a INDICATORS: Groupement: Mbinga Nord TARGET AREA: TOTAL Total Amount: $103,210 AMOUNT AND % % Disbursed: 90% DISBURSED: PERIOD OF October 2018 PERFORMANCE: This project aims towards wide improvement of community cohabitation and peace consolidation, specifically to GRANT accompany and support the communal SUMMARY: structures of the Groupement Mbinga to Socio-economic activities in Mbiga Nord, develop peace and reinforce integration of Kalehe social and economic systems to building of peace and development. RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS): • 1 subvillage supported by granting agricultural tools • 30 people (9 women and 21 men) trained in advocacy and gender approaches (Resolution 1325) • 960 members (485 women and 475 men) of community peace and mediation structures exchanged their experiences • 2 community advocacy dialogues addressing the authorities of Muganzo and Sanzi • The population of Mbinga Nord was sensitized to messages of peace, peaceful cohabitation, non- discrimination of OMGs, and respect for gender through 2 radio broadcasts • 350 women & OMGs supported with socio-economic kits in Sanzi, Muganzo, Kinyezire & Magango IMPACT: • Improved social cohesion between 4 supported subvillages and other villages thanks to the plan that was implemented and to commercial exchanges between the communities • Improved capacity of LPDC/groupement members in advocacy, obtaining authorization from a Muganzo village concessionaire to use their road to reach its plantations. PROUDEST MOMENT: Improved relations between people accompanied in sociotherapeutic and social integration groups due to past conflicts with other members. Strengthened social cohesion between 4 villages and supported subvillage communities and created a market in Magango aided by socio-economic support and implementation of integral activities. LESSONS LEARNED: Experience exchange sessions between the community structures - whether these are supported or not - enable not only to have a global view on how to move forward and on how to define improved perspectives for the future, but also on the close out of a project and on how to reinforce the volunteerism approach amongst its members.

72 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV PARTNER NAME: LUCODER Support to strengthen social cohesion, PHOTOS: accessibility the means of subsistence and GRANT TITLE: social services in the groupement of Biiri in the territory of Masisi CONTRIBUTES Objective 3 TO OBJECTIVE & Indicators 3.3b, 3.1b, 3.3a INDICATORS: Territory: Masisi TARGET AREA: Groupement: Mbinga Nord

TOTAL Total Amount: $82,820.96 AMOUNT AND % % Disbursed: 60% DISBURSED: PERIOD OF May 1, 2018 – December 30, 2018 (to be PERFORMANCE: extended) The project will permit women, youth, and OMGs in the groupement of Biiri to strengthen social cohesion by having better GRANT access to means of subsistence SUMMARY: (development of IGA collectives as well as Income generating activities (IGA) kits distribution GIE) and to facilitate access to basic quality to beneficiaries in Tunda social services. RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS): • 98 participants (61 men, 37 women, and 18 OMGs) developed 3 actions plans for to improve service for l’E.P Muhondo, C.S Loashi et C.S Sati • 45 radio programs on interethnic marriage, heritage, neighborliness, and education for all • 28 Representatives of GIE (14 women, 14 men, and 9 OMGs), participated in networking activities with MFIs, resulting in 5 connections created. • 5 economic interest groups equipped with IGA kits in husbandry and hardware sectors IMPACT: The IGA kit, which helped 60 trained women & OMGs, allowing them to begin generating revenue and improve social status, raising their household’s standard of living. PROUDEST MOMENT: Thanks to the sensitizations and orientations, three women have run for president of GIEs among 5 groups and were unanimously elected LESSONS LEARNED: Theatrical activities remain an effective way of passing sensitizing messages in the communities because they are simple, accessible, and entertaining. The beneficiaries are more motivated when they themselves make the choice of which activities to undertake. Involving services users in creating the action plan help them understand that service improvement does not solely depend on outside support.

73 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV PARTNER NAME: ACODEPA Bagira Support project for the entrepreneurship of PHOTOS: women and other marginalized groups for GRANT TITLE: the promotion of social cohesion and consolidation of peace in the commune of Bagira CONTRIBUTES Objective 3 TO OBJECTIVE & 3.1a, 3.1b, 3b, 2.3a INDICATORS: Territory : Bukavu TARGET AREA: Bagira Commune, Bukavu City TOTAL Training in baking skills Total Amount: US $83,096.72 AMOUNT AND % % Disbursed: 90% DISBURSED: PERIOD OF March 21, 2018 - December 15 2018 PERFORMANCE: The project aims to contribute to the promotion of social cohesion and peaceful GRANT cohabitation of communities through to the SUMMARY: entrepreneurial activities of women and other marginalized groups in the commune of Bagira Training in shoe repair RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS): • 381 women & OMGs trained in entrepreneurship, tailoring, shoe repair, baking, motorcycle mechanics, bio- transformation, and hairdressing • 11 economic interest groups comprised of 416 supported members in small commerce, basket making, tailoring, hairdressing, bio-transformation, motorcycle mechanics, and baking • A reconciliation between GIE AMANI and MOCC. • 20 produced radio broadcasts on economic interest groups and their impact on social cohesion • 2 videos produced on entrepreneurship and social cohesion IMPACT: Women & OMGs had access to financing and developed a spirt of saving and collective credit thanks to the innovative character of the project and their connections to MFIs. The women and OMG beneficiaries of the project developed an approach based on research of communal interests to overcome prejudices, resolve conflicts, and to consolidate cohesion among themselves PROUDEST MOMENT: The moment of success during the third trimester of the project occurred after development of trainings for the OMGs. The beneficiaries received kits relevant to them that allowed them to develop income-generating activities. LESSONS LEARNED: For a longer training that is engaging and interesting, to benefit the participants by gathering in once place, one should choose a conducive location that allows everyone to attend and avoid discouraging those that live further away. Selling of goods should be organized in the form of a fair for selected vendors to show their wares and the beneficiaries could purchase, to reduce the time and cost of transport.

74 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV PARTNER NAME: Appui aux Initiatives de Bien-Etre Familial, AIBEF Peace for Development PHOTOS: GRANT TITLE:

Objective 3 CONTRIBUTES Indicator 3.1b TO OBJECTIVE & Indicator 3b INDICATORS: Indicator 3.2d Indicator 3.3b Groupement of Karhongo, Lurhala and TARGET AREA: Kamisimbi TOTAL Context updating in Lurhala Total Amount: $91,923,23 AMOUNT AND % % Disbursed: 50% DISBURSED: PERIOD OF April 2018 – April 2019 PERFORMANCE: The project aims to consolidate social cohesion through improving livelihoods, providing equal access to community GRANT resources, and reinforcing confidence in SUMMARY: local authorities & local communities through dialogues and social cohesion Soccer match for peace promotion in Karhongo events RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS): • 40 women and 20 members of OMG groups formed under the AVEC approach in Lurhala • 3 revitalized parent committees • 2 community development plans developed and validated • 60% of the users committee are revitalized women and members of OMGs • 6 soccer matches to reinforce confidence and promotion of peace IMPACT: The strengthening of confidence and social cohesion between communities, for example: In Lurhala, between the communities of Ciherano and Lurhala who were in a leadership debate over the management of the group; In Karhongo, between the parents and the teaching staff who oppose the paying of bribes; in Kamisimbi, between the associations CINAMULA and AMAKA who dispute the ownership of the health center building in Muku. PROUDEST MOMENT: The organization of matches for the promotion of peace and peaceful cohabitation between conflicting groups that formerly lived separated and did not communicate. The ownership of community development plans and of social cohesion by the community to the point that, the chief of the groupement Kamisimbi accepted to grant a plot of land for the construction of a market if a partner was available. It is noted that in in field of commerce within this groupement the major problem and source of conflict is the lack of a market LESSONS LEARNED: The more the authorities are informed, the more they understand the program’s approach, strategies, and implementation, so they are involved in the ownership of results and achieving the project’s goals

75 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV PARTNER NAME: COUD Jibu Ni Kwetu Sisi Kwa Amani Na PHOTOS: Maendeleo Ya Lugendo Na Ishungu GRANT TITLE: “We are the answers to Peace and Development in Lugendo and Ishungu” CONTRIBUTES Objective 3 TO OBJECTIVE & Indicators: 3.3a, 3.1a, 3.3b INDICATORS: Territory: Kabare TARGET AREA: Groupements: Lugendo, Ishungu TOTAL Total Amount: $76,382.8 Festival for Peace and social cohesion in Lugendo AMOUNT AND % % Disbursed: 95% grouping DISBURSED: PERIOD OF October to December 2018 PERFORMANCE: The project supports the structures of the basic social sectors and the two groupements with GRANT strategic advocacy documents for social cohesion SUMMARY: while focusing on the inclusion of women and other marginalized groups in committees and decision-making circles. RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS): • 8 service improvement plans including 4 for the groupement of Lugendo and 4 for the groupement of Ishungu, developed in 3 areas (Wash, Health and Education) • 5 connections created during the Connection Forum linking community structures to private sector partners (ACOSYF, WFWI, and the Kivu, Cahi, and Nyawera Savings and Credit Cooperatives) • 6 Revitalized and trained user committee • 64 Service providers from three sectors (Education, Health and Wash) trained • 50% of the members of the user committees are women and AGM • 4 Dialogues between the community/local authorities on governance conflict between fishermen and sailors • 3 soccer games, one of which pitted service providers against user committees, the other against sailors and fishermen, as well as the final game between fishermen and user committees • 1 Peace & Social Cohesion Festival and participative theatre show on conflicts between fishermen and sailors. IMPACT: Jumpstarting a new collaboration between fishermen and sailors after a discussion was organized with the support of COUD followed by a soccer game. Improvement in the participation of women & OMGs from 16% to 42% in the revitalized committees. PROUDEST MOMENT: Linkages between the sailors from Kabonde and the Bukavu naval force with fishermen and the community to discuss the problems that divide them and to set up palliative actions to resolve conflicts and orientations at different military command levels and the management of Lake Kivu. This resulted in good relations pending the final decision. A lull in demonstrations (Citizen Movement to Awaken the Outraged), which carried out actions of indignation and protest against the mismanagement of the Lugendo group since the accession to power of the new group leader. LESSONS LEARNED: Social cohesion activities, such as soccer match and participatory theatre strengthen community linkages and create a climate of understanding, discussion and sharing of experiences between stakeholders in the conflict. Ito allow leaders and chief to sit down together to discuss conflicts that divide them and possible solutions to be undertaken for the good of the community. The discussions also contribute to conflict resolution between and fishermen where mediation continues at the provincial level. However, at the local level, significant progress is already being made;

76 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV PARTNER NAME: Collectif Alpha Ujuvi Support to encourage community participation PHOTOS: towards social cohesion, the inclusion of women GRANT TITLE: and other marginalized groups on securing means of subsistence through this program ASP/AKM Groupement Masisi/KIBABI CONTRIBUTES Objective 3 TO OBJECTIVE & Indicators: 2a, 3b, 3.1b, 3.2 a, 3.2d, 3.3b INDICATORS: Territory: Masisi TARGET AREA: Groupements: Mpfuni, Kibabi, Bahunde TOTAL Total Amount: $93,274 Women & OMGS at a subsistence methods workshop AMOUNT AND % $ Disbursed: 70% DISBURSED: PERIOD OF September 20,2018 – November 19, 2018 PERFORMANCE:

The project increases community participation through intercultural cultural sessions, sports & GRANT theatre, dialogue between local authorities, service providers & users, building trust by celebrating Rural SUMMARY: Women's Days, the planning of theatre shows and Group photo after a WASH capacity building service provider capacity building

RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS): • 8 user committees, 3 education, 3 Wash, 2 health were revitalized • 53.5% of the members of 8 revitalized committees were women & OMGs • Strengthened capacity of 35 Participant/service users in terms of their roles and responsibilities, techniques for monitoring students' daily work, school resource, budget management, and were equipped and trained in management skills • 60 people (57 women, 3 men) trained in economic skills based on "entrepreneurial" activities and mastering techniques • 3 Joint Service Improvement Plans: 1 WASH, 1 Education and 1 Health were produced. More than 4,021 people from 6 localities received messages of peace and peaceful coexistence through sketches and media • An event to celebrate the International Day of Rural Women was held • A fair for the sale of agropastoral products brought together more than 732 women vendors IMPACT: 23 loans granted to 23 women allowed them to increase business capital and diversify activities. The AVECs created became a framework for exchanges, information and sharing of commercial experiences and life, health and life skills education for younger women. More than 200 women and 8 men from AVECs acquired the ability to negotiate prices and have opened business production units after training in basic accounting and entrepreneurship. AVECs are a source of income for women members who promote commerce and employment in the community. 249 once marginalized and illiterate women can read posters and road signs and participate in elections PROUDEST MOMENT: 60 people, including 57 women and 3 men trained in basic economic skills based on the setting up of "entrepreneurial" activities and can set up their IGAs. The incomes of 197 women and 8 men increased. The capital of their AVECs increased from 1433,500 to 4,826,400 Congolese francs. Original credit amount was 944,600 with an interest rate covering 370,900 in cash in favor of 41 marginalized women who are traders LESSONS LEARNED: For service users, alternation was a means to resolve conflicts, organize meetings, and expression. Revitalization is a trigger for meetings. Lack of knowledge of roles and responsibilities of COPA members is the root of the conflict in the educational structure. Awareness messages by theatre shows attract individual attention to issues and create a need for behavior change through signed commitments

77 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV PARTNER NAME: CJP TUCHEZE WOTE: Strengthening of the PHOTOS: trust and promotion of peace culture through the planning of inclusive community GRANT TITLE: events for peace and social cohesion in 3 groupements of the Walungu territory: Karhongo, Kamisimbi et Lurhala CONTRIBUTES Objective 2, 3 TO OBJECTIVE & Indicator 2.2a, 3.3b INDICATORS: Territory : Walungu TARGET AREA: Groupements: Karhongo, Kamisimbi, Lurhala

TOTAL Total Amount: $39,527.19 AMOUNT AND % % Disbursed: 95% DISBURSED: PERIOD OF April 13, 2018 – October 31, 2018 PERFORMANCE: This project aims to strengthen trust and promotion of peace culture through GRANT Cultural fairs planning of 6 inclusive community events in SUMMARY: the Lurhala, Kamisimbi & Karhongo groupements RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS): • 6 "TUCHEZE WOTE" clubs revitalized in Lurhala (2.2a) • 25 sports and cultural equipment packages distributed to the 25 Tucheze Wote soccer clubs; • 2 socially sporting activities organized in the three groups, 1 in Karhongo and 1 in Lurhala. (3. 3b) • 1 educational theatre session popularizing laws and texts protecting women's rights, youth development and other marginalized groups in Kamisimbi; • 1 cultural fair (dances, poems, music) promoting cultural diversity and organized mutual acceptance, IMPACT:57 In the 3 support groups, the situation was initially not easy. Women could not speak in public or defend their rights. The community still lives with harmful norms and customs that harm women's rights. Participatory theatre activities popularizing texts and laws promoting the rights of women & OMGs, and the soccer tournament for peace brought great change. Women were interactive on the soccer fields and in the halls and can express their concerns and defend their rights. PROUDEST MOMENT: The approval of the new approach of "soccer for peace" by players in the support groups. The trained players (girls and boys) are starting to organize soccer games for peace in their respective villages without our support and in accordance with the standards. Ex; in Karhongo the Munya and Weza teams played on August 26th on the grounds of the Cibimbi parish. LESSONS LEARNED: To avoid conflicts, social cohesion activities require a high degree of flexibility in terms of participants, as it is difficult to limit their number. A good awareness allows the acceptance and involvement of group leaders in activities. Awareness has led some parents to agree to release their daughters and join the Soccer for Peace Clubs (TUCHEZE WOTE) on a massive scale.

78 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV PARTNER NAME: Consortium CADERSA-ESF-AFPAP Capacity Building Project for Post-Conflict PHOTOS: GRANT TITLE: Community Recovery and Support to solidarity entrepreneurship in Mbinga North CONTRIBUTES Objective 2, 3 TO OBJECTIVE & 3.1b, 3.3a, 3.3b, 2.3a INDICATORS: Territory: Kalehe TARGET AREA: Groupement: Mbinga-Nord TOTAL Total Amount: $58,189.41 AMOUNT AND % % Disbursed: 84% DISBURSED: PERIOD OF October – December 2018 PERFORMANCE: This project builds the capacity of women professionals, unemployed and at-risk youth, ex-combatants and artisanal miners to

GRANT participate more in conflict transformation and social cohesion by supporting livelihoods, SUMMARY: developing community development plans (CDP) and by organizing an awareness Social cohesion campaign / Participatory theater campaign. on peace, social cohesion and post- in Kabulu 1 conflict resilience. RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS): • 5 dialogues between multicultural groups, local authorities and health, education, security and civil society technical services organized in each village • 5 social cohesion events organized in the 5 villages of North Mbinga • 16 awareness radio programs on social cohesion and peace promotion prepared and broadcast • 2 advocacy and lobbying visits to the communities living in the 5 villages of Mbinga-North on the CDP carried out (one at the Buhavu Chiefdom and the other at the Province Governorate). • Socio-economic capacities of vulnerable targets and local livelihoods improved through IGA Kits IMPACT: 1,600 beneficiaries participated in peace and social cohesion activities in Mbinga North, joining Pygmy, Havu, Hutu, Tutsi, Nande, Bashi, Bahunde and OMGs. The project improved living conditions of 500 beneficiaries in 20 livelihood structures through goods and services. 16 awareness-raising radio programs on social cohesion and peace promotion were broadcast to aid peace and social cohesion. 2 advocacy and lobbying visits to communities living in the villages of Mbinga- North were conducted and spurred integration of group needs in the PDL of the Bukavu chieftaincy. The provincial governor is contacting technical and financial partners. PROUDEST MOMENT: The Ulimwengu Wa Vijana and Best Family theatrical groups presented on the conflicts between the community members, who became aware of their roles in social cohesion. Community members through popular forums expressed their needs to local authorities, who responded to some concerns and made promises for others. LESSONS LEARNED: The Pygmy people set aside an inferiority complex and have become integrated with groups from other communities. All communities living in North Mbinga villages agreed to cohabit together, coming from groups that benefited from solidarity credits, showing social cohesion. The Havu, Tutsi, Pygmies and other members agreed to dance songs sang in all their languages. The forum is a framework that remove barriers between the public and authorities, allowing community members to express themselves about the service they receive.

79 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV PARTNER NAME: Consortium CEDECO-SLIFE WORLD Projet pilote Inter Genre d’Appui PHOTOS: GRANT TITLE: Communautaire à la Gouvernance locale dans les communes de Bagira et Ibanda CONTRIBUTES Objective 3 Presentation of BCP by a participant TO OBJECTIVE & Indicateur 2.3b, 3b, 3.2a, 3.2c, 3.2d INDICATORS: Territory : Bukavu TARGET AREA: Ibanda and Bagira Commune TOTAL Total Amount: USD$92,482.44 AMOUNT AND % Intervention of the nursing student in Bagira % Disbursed: 57.5% DISBURSED: PERIOD OF October – December 2018 PERFORMANCE: The project aims to strengthen the mechanisms for drawing up development GRANT plans in the communes of Bagira and Ibanda SUMMARY: through participatory and intersectoral approaches. RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS): • 13 user committees’ capacity strengthened in conflict management. • 6 service improvement plans produced in 3 sectors (Education, Health and Wash) for Bagira Institute, Kiguri Health Centers, Saio, Wesha and Mulungulu Water Points and EP Ibanda II. IMPACT: 3 conflicting Panzi Mulungulungu water committees reconciled and formed a single concesus led by a woman working with understanding and calm. The newly elected Nyalukemba LPDC committee works with the support of the former committee. 2 community conflicts were resolved by the Wesha Water Committee and LPDC Cikera after capacitation (land dispute in Cikera and water conflict at the Wesha springs). 1 nurse holder of the Saio Red Cross health center is committed to involving the Codesa in the management of the Structure. Service providers and user committees agree to work together to identify and solve problems in their structures. PROUDEST MOMENT: When filling in the resource tables and community performance reports, participants were surprised at the information that they had. The constructive discussions between providers and beneficiaries have led both to change their minds and make concessions on the priority issues in their structures. The parties in conflict in the water points management dispute of Panzi the parties in conflict reconciled and mutually undertook to end all legal proceedings in the name of social cohesion. LESSONS LEARNED: The involvement of authorities in the process of developing service improvement plans facilitates the expansion of the approach into other structures. The capacity building of the members of LPDCs as well as the empowerment of members make them creative, as was the commune of Bagira in Cikonyi where the members of the LPDC set up their own committee for the peaceful resolution of the conflict.

80 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV PARTNER NAME: ADPD Economic recovery of women, youth PHOTOS: and other marginalized groups for peace GRANT TITLE: in the city of Goma, in two communes (Goma and Karisimbi) CONTRIBUTES Objective 3 TO OBJECTIVE & INDICATORS: Indicators: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1 Territory: Goma TARGET AREA: Karisimbi and Goma City Communes TOTAL Total Amount: $78,098.88 AMOUNT AND % % Disbursed: 60% DISBURSED: PERIOD OF April 18, 2018 – February 17, 2019 PERFORMANCE: This project supports 300 women and OMG grouped in 25 AVECs to strengthen their economic power and commitment to decision-making GRANT processes in two municipalities of SUMMARY: Goma, support development of their social cohesion plans, and promote

improvement in distribution of basic Workshop for the elaboration of a social cohesion plan social services. in Karisimbi (both photos RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS): • 15 livelihood mechanism community structures (AVECs) trained on proven approaches • 2 social cohesion plans including conflict resolution strategies developed, validated • Two plans to improve services in the education and health sector • Soccer game bringing together indigenous pygmy and non-pygmy communities to strengthen social cohesion; • A day of exchange on the issue of indigenous populations in relation to access to education and the means of substances organized; • Two days of exchange on the role of women in households organized IMPACT: Engagement of community and local authorities in to develop their cohesion plans and building trust between communities through social cohesion activities. PROUDEST MOMENT: Active participation of the authorities and basic frameworks in the process of drawing up social cohesion plans. During the various AVEC meetings, members of the different ethnic communities united for the same purpose and common interest felt closer together. LESSONS LEARNED: AVEC women are able to train others and will sustain project achievements. The authorities validated the cohesion plan since they actively participated from the beginning until the end of this process and they will take ownership. When authorities are sensitized, they are collaborative.

81 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV PARTNER NAME: AHUSADEC Support and Capacity Building Project for PHOTO: Community-Based Organizations and OMGs GRANT TITLE: for Peacebuilding and Social Cohesion in the Muvunyi Shanga groupement in Masisi Territory CONTRIBUTES Objective 3 TO OBJECTIVE & Indicator 3.2a, 3.2c, 3.2d, 3.3a, 3.3b INDICATORS: Territory : Masisi TARGET AREA: Groupement : Muvunyi Shanga

TOTAL Total Amount: $80,535.05 AMOUNT AND % % Disbursed: 95% DISBURSED: PERIOD OF October – December 2018 Soccer match between young people from PERFORMANCE: the high plateau and those from the valley, This project contributes to social cohesion once in conflict. through economic recovery of women, GRANT youth and OMGs, organization of social SUMMARY: cohesion events and capacity building of service providers and user committees for equitable access to basic social services. RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS): • 3 Service Improvement Plans for health, WASH, and education • Built capacity of 3 user committees in Bishange (education), Lutoboko (health)and Kabase (WASH) • 30 service providers in the health and capacity-building sectors, including 15 men health participants, and 15 education participants (11 men and 4 women) on safer motherhood and the improvement of the teaching staff on the new teaching program in Bishange and Lutoboko • 3 sessions of setting up/revitalization of user committees was organized in WASH (20% women, 10% OMGs), health (20% women, 10% OMGs) and education (40% women, 20% OMGs) • 3 community dialogue sessions between local authorities and the community organized conflict • A soccer tournament on social cohesion between young people from the high plateau and valleys • An open day between farmers and herders organized in Kiluku village. IMPACT: Reinforcement of social cohesion within the group through social cohesion activities (soccer match, open day between farmers and breeders): the case of young people from the high plateau and those from the bottom that thanks to soccer became closer. PROUDEST MOMENT: Communities proposed solutions to conflicts and participated in a social cohesion activity. LESSONS LEARNED: Good awareness motivates communities to accept each other. They agreed to discuss their conflicts to find a solution together, showing reconciliation. The more the communities know what divides them, the more they think about what can unite them; here the community has come to understand that intercommunity mistrust is a brake on development.

82 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV PARTNER NAME: Commission Diocésaine Justice et Paix (CDJP APS/Bukavu) PHOTO: Strengthening Social Unity through GRANT TITLE: Community Recovery

CONTRIBUTES Objectives: 2,3 TO OBJECTIVE Indicators: 1.1b; 2a; 2.1a; 2b; 2.3a; 2.3b; 3.1a; & INDICATORS: 3.3a et 3.3b Province: South Kivu; Territory: Kabare; TARGET AREA: Lugendo Groupement; Kabare Chiefdom

TOTAL Total Amount: $147,622 AMOUNT AND % Disbursed: 76.6% % DISBURSED: PERIOD OF March 21, 2018 – January 20, 2019 PERFORMANCE: This project aims to contribute to equal Gathering of spectators during the mass rights between men and women in Lugendo sensitization through participatory theater GRANT by allowing equal contribution to peace activities in Lugendo on November 18th, 2018 SUMMARY: building and rebuilding/socio-economic recovery of entities. RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS): • 4 broadcasts on gender & gender stereotypes and social cohesion popularized by Resolution 1325 • 50 beneficiaries (48 women, 2 men) using livestock and agriculture for IGAs with 88 goats and 12 pigs (2 per beneficiary) while sharing 2 community fields. All 100 beneficiaries of the IGA (livestock, agriculture and dewing) were split into 4 groups of 25 each. • 50 marginalized young mothers trained in cutting and sewing (6 widows, 6 disabled people, 1 abandoned woman, 36 young mothers, one marginalized pygmy woman) • 120 participants (37 men, 83 women) took part in a Resolution 1325 and gender meeting where a woman was chosen as Nyumba Kumi and another declared their candidacy in the provincial delegation • 2 mass sensitizations through participatory theater activities bringing together more than 2,500 spectators • 40 participants (18 women/22 men, 5PVH/5PA) trained in leadership, organization and management of OBC • 2 follow ups and accompaniment for IGA groups. IMPACT: Bringing hope to beneficiary and non-beneficiary women & OMGs: involvement and participation in decision-making and integration into the community and their families. Beneficiaries learned about farming techniques, breeding stabilization and identifying other women & OMGs who could receive goats and pigs. This is to enhance the economic power of women & OMGs and strengthen social cohesion and peace between them and the Lugendo groupement. PROUDEST MOMENT: During a follow-up meeting on November 10, 2018, a beneficiary asked to identify other women & OMGs that would benefit from livestock after their goats gave birth following program support in goat and pig breeding. LESSONS LEARNED: Involving and empowering (as active actors) the women & OMGs in community activities (sensitization, reunions, etc.) not only encouraged them and brought hope to OMGs, but also facilitated their integration and allowed the community to benefit from their services while also diminishing the perceptions made of these women. Although there are challenges from past experiences that could have created difficulties for social cohesion and/or the sustainability of project achievements in a group or community, identifying the mechanisms together provides reassurance and prevention. AVEC memberships put into place are solicited even by non-beneficiary members. IGAs the project would like to develop must provide relevant response to the expressed needs while preferably starting with activities the population has cultural knowledge of and prior experience.

83 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV PARTNER NAME: Centre de Formation et d’Action pour le Développement (CFAD) Contribution to Social Cohesion through the PHOTOS: Inclusion of Women & Other Marginalized GRANT TITLE: Group photo of the training of political- Groups in Mbinga Nord and Bukavu (Ibanda administrative and customary authorities on and Bagira) in South Kivu participatory governance in Mbinga Nord Objective 2, 3 CONTRIBUTES (October 2018) Indicators: 1.1 (SPR 2.a), 1.2 (SPR 2.1.a), 1.3 TO OBJECTIVE (SPR 2.3.b), 1.3 (SPR 2.3.c), 2.1 (SPR 2.2.a), & INDICATORS: 2.2. (SPR 3.3.b) Bukavu (Bagira et Ibanda) and Kalehe (Mbinga TARGET AREA: Nord) TOTAL Total Amount: USD $75.892,08 AMOUNT AND % Disbursed: 70% % DISBURSED: PERIOD OF April 16, 2018 – April 15, 2019 Coaching sessions of women & OMGs from PERFORMANCE: the Wa Mama Tusongembele club from the Kabulu 1 village from Mbinga Nord during a This project contributes to social cohesion follow-up with SPR staff Fanny (November through the inclusion of women & OMGs in 2018) community management for decision- making and the involvement of political- GRANT administrative and customary authorities. SUMMARY: This project is based on individual consultation approaches, participatory actions and advocacy between women & OMGs.

RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS): • 14 mentoring clubs conducted regular coaching activities, of which 5 clubs were revitalized in the Ibanda commune and 9 new clubs were created (3 in Bagira and 7 in Mbinga Nord) • 44 authorities trained in participatory governance (22 each Bukavu and Mbinga Nord) • 5 meetings (1 in Bukavu and 4 in Mbinga Nord) between women, OMGs, and traditional leaders as well as formal authorities (elected or nominated by the government) on local problems of women & OMGs in Bukavu and Mbinga Nord • 2 support sessions and implementation of participatory governance actions plans in Bukavu IMPACT: Sensitization activities from CFAD helped pygmy women of Mbinga Nord be integrated into the community and participate in community work and local governance. Two women (1 pygmy) from Mbinga Nord were named chiefs of their sub villages (Kabulu 1 and Myianzi). Bagira's administrative authorities included women & OMGs in security meetings thanks to advocacy by SPR beneficiaries. PROUDEST MOMENT: Women & OMGs mentoring clubs from Mbinga Nord organized themselves by village to meet pygmies in the camps where they live (Myianzi, Kabulu1 and 2, Bubale 1 and 2). Women & OMGs from certain mentoring clubs developed an AVEC approach to strengthen social cohesion LESSONS LEARNED: Women & OMGs possess assets to defend their issues and propose solutions to authorities. Women & OMGs strengthen their social cohesions by meeting in coaching sessions.

84 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV ANNEX 4: GRANT PROGRAM STATUS

USAID’S SPR GRANT PIPELINE AND STATUS

BUDGET DISBURSED IMPLEMENTATION ORGANIZATION NAME DURATION PROVINCE (USD) TO-DATE STATUS

AAP (Aide et Action pour la Implementation in $116,496.05 12 months North-Kivu $71,062.59 Paix) Progress

ACODEPA Bagira (Action Communautaire Pour La Implementation in $83,096.82 8 months South Kivu $74,786.96 Defense Et Le Progrès Des Progress Agriculteurs) ACODEPA Ibanda (Action Communautaire Pour La Implementation in $76,554.55 8 months South Kivu $45,932.74 Defense Et Le Progrès Des Progress Agriculteurs) AHUSADEC (Action Humanitaire pour la Santé et le Grant closed, $80,535.05 7 months North-Kivu $76,508.29 Développement Final payment in process Communautaire) ACUDI (Actions des Chrétiens Unis pour le Développement 79,714.00 8 months North Kivu $79,714.00 Grant Closed Intégral) ADEPAE (Action pour le Implementation in Développement et la paix 87,126.53 8 months South Kivu $82,770.21 Progress Endogène)

ADPD (Action pour le Implementation in Développement des Populations $78,098.88 12 months North-Kivu $46,859.33 Progress Défavorisées)

AFEM (Association des Femmes Implementation in $28,903.16 8 months Sud-Kivu $20,232.21 des Médias) Progress

AIBEF (Appui aux initiatives de Implementation in $91,923.23 12 months Sud-Kivu $55,153.94 bien-être familial) Progress

BOAD (Bureau Œcuménique Grant suspended, 44,898.00 5 months North Kivu $24,334.72 d’Appui pour le Développement) Closeout underway

Implementation in Caritas Développement Bukavu 142,981.26 11 months South Kivu $127,043.14 Progress

Implementation in CDF (Caucus des Femmes) $61,988.58 10 months Sud-Kivu $43,392.00 Progress

85 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV USAID’S SPR GRANT PIPELINE AND STATUS

BUDGET DISBURSED IMPLEMENTATION ORGANIZATION NAME DURATION PROVINCE (USD) TO-DATE STATUS

CDJP RAP (Commission Implementation in Diocésaine Justice Et $113,121.98 10 months South Kivu $67,873.18 Progress Paix/Archidiocèse De Bukavu)

CDJP APS (Commission Implementation in Diocésaine Justice Et 147,622.00 9 months South Kivu $113,186.45 Progress Paix/Archidiocèse De Bukavu)

CPGRBC (Centre de Paix pour Grant suspended, la Guérison et la Reconstruction 56,210.00 4 months North Kivu $16,863.00 Reopen soon in Feb2019 des Bases Communautaires)

CJP (Centre des Jeunes pour la Grant closed, $41,607.56 6 months South Kivu $39,527.19 Paix) Final payment in process

CFAD (Centre de Formation et Implementation in d’Action pour le $75,892.08 12 months South Kivu $53,124.48 Progress Développement)

Implementation in Collectif ALPHA-UJUVI $93,274.07 10 months North Kivu $65,291.80 Progress

Consortium CADERSA-ESF- AFPAP (Le Centre d’Appui au 58,189.41 7 months South Kivu $48,929.53 Closeout underway Développement Rural et à la Sécurité Alimentaire) Consortium CEDECO ASBL- SLIFE WORLD (Centre d’Appui Implementation in à l’Education et au 134,924.94 11 months South Kivu $83,154.96 Progress Développement Communautaire) Consortium CENTRE OLAME & Grant closed, 103,210.00 9 months South Kivu $92,889.00 TGD-TOUS POUR LE GENRE Final payment in process

Consortium SYNIGL et Implementation in $62,497.83 6 months South Kivu $43,748.48 Solidarité Cinamula Progress

COUD (Collectif des ONG Unies pour le Développement Grant closed, durable des Associations pour $76,382.81 6 months South Kivu $72,563.67 Final payment in process l’encadrement des personnes désœuvrées et vulnérables) Implementation in FOSI (Forum SIDA) $52,920.49 11 months North Kivu $37,044.35 Progress

86 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV USAID’S SPR GRANT PIPELINE AND STATUS

BUDGET DISBURSED IMPLEMENTATION ORGANIZATION NAME DURATION PROVINCE (USD) TO-DATE STATUS

GEC-SH/ISP (Groupe D’études Sur Les Conflits Et La Sécurité 59,804.00 6 months South Kivu $53,824.05 Closeout underway Humaine)

ICJP (Initiative Congolaise pour 103,990.00 12 months South Kivu $83,192.00 Closeout underway la Justice et la paix)

IFDP (Innovation et Formation pour le Développement et la 125,366.16 8 months South Kivu $112,914.55 Closeout underway Paix) ISPDE (Institut Supérieur Pour La Promotion De La Paix Du $89,818.00 12 months South Kivu $50,298.08 Closeout underway Développement Et De L’environnement) ISDR (Institut Supérieur de Implementation in $85,913.00 8 months South Kivu $68,730.40 Développement Rural à Bukavu) Progress

LUCODER (Lutte Contre la Implementation in $82,820.96 8 months North Kivu $49,692.58 délinquance et l’Exode Rural) Progress

Implementation in Pole Institute $89,640.91 6 months North Kivu $80,676.82 Progress

Implementation in Radio Maendeleo $29,262.00 12 months South Kivu $20,483.40 Progress

North & Implementation in RVI (Rift Valley Institute) $166,326.30 10 months $49,897,.89 South Kivu Progress

RFEDI (Réveil des Femmes pour Implementation in $79,804.97 12 months North Kivu $55,863.48 le Développement Intégré) Progress

SYNIGL (Synergie d’initiatives Implementation in 90,769.00 9 months South Kivu $82,087.10 pour les Grands Lacs) Progress

Cadre Provincial de Plaidoyer Implementation in 146,471.11 8 months South Kivu $65,911.99 South Kivu/Héritiers de la Justice Progress Cadre Provincial de Plaidoyer TBD 6 months North Kivu $0 Pre-award stage North Kivu

87 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV ANNEX 5: YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 ACTIVITY CALENDAR

SPR WORKPLAN YEAR 3 QUARTER 2: JAN-MAR 2019

Indicato 19-Jan 19-Feb 19-Mar Partners Coverage Code Component / Activity Goal r W 1 W 2 W 3 W 4 W 1 W 2 W 3 W 4 W 1 W 2 W 3 W 4

COMPONENT 1: COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDERS IDENTIFY CONFLICT DRIVERS AND AGREE ON SOLUTIONS SR-1.1 Strengthened local organizations conduct conflict analysis

Official delivery of certificates to CSOs 192 CSOs (92 CSO received capacity Bukavu and A1.1.1 in S-K and 109 SCO SPR 1.1b building in participatory Goma in N -K) conflict analysis and research

Administrate of the final index to selected CSO Bukavu and A1.1.2 partners for conducting CSO partners SPR 1.1.a Goma participatory conflict analysis

SK - Walungu, Improve overall CSO 192 CSOs trained in Bukavu, Kabare, capacity in the Kivus on participatory SPR & A1.1.3 Kalehe 1.1b conflict analysis, community conflicts partners research and facilitation. analysis NK - Masisi, Walikale, Goma

80% of selected SK - Walungu, partners have Bukavu, Kabare, Improve participatory enhanced skills and SPR & Kalehe A1.1.4 conflict analysis capacity 1.1a improve scores in Partner among partners. participatory conflict analysis NK - Masisi, Goma SPR & CSO partners, SK - Walungu, Conduct and present Local Peace Bukavu, Kabare, community participatory 65 participatory and Kalehe A1.1.5 conflicts analysis and conflict analysis and Developmen 1.2b, 1a participatory action research t research Committees, NK - Masisi, GoRDC Goma officials SR 1.2 Inclusive stakeholder participatory conflict analysis and identification of solutions improved

88 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV SPR WORKPLAN YEAR 3 QUARTER 2: JAN-MAR 2019

Indicato 19-Jan 19-Feb 19-Mar Partners Coverage Code Component / Activity Goal r W 1 W 2 W 3 W 4 W 1 W 2 W 3 W 4 W 1 W 2 W 3 W 4

SK - Walungu, 10 participatory Bukavu, Kabare, conflict analyses Conduct Participatory Kalehe A.1.2.1 validated with SPR & CSOs 1.2a Action Researches participation of NK - Masisi, target groups Goma

Strengthen and provide Two active peace South Kivu technical and financial Advocacy Networks A.1.2.3 support to NK and SK in both province SPR & CSOs 1.a & 1.b Provincial Advocacy North and South North Framework Kivu Kivu

SR 1.3 Congolese researchers conduct context-specific conflict research

67 % of selected SK - Walungu, Strengthen the capacity researchers Bukavu, Kabare, SPR, of Congolese receiving STTA in Kalehe A.1.3.1 Consultants 1.3c researchers through research design, & CSOs STTA planning, or NK - Masisi, methodology skills Goma

22 research and Support the validation, SK - Walungu, conflicts analysis publication and Bukavu, Kabare, articles (9 research dissemination of Kalehe 1.3a & A.1.3.2 and 13 conflicts SPR & CSOs participatory conflicts 1.3b analysis) to be analysis and high-level disseminated or NK - Masisi, researches products published Goma COMPONENT 2 : PARTICIPATORY SOLUTIONS IMPLEMENTED SR 2.1 Women and members of marginalized groups participate in and lead community decision-making processes Strengthening women/OMGs leaders’ SK - Walungu, 1,040 women & capacity in Bukavu, Kabare, OMGs reinforce transformative Kalehe their leadership SPR & CSOs A.2.1.1. leadership to play role in 2b, 2.1a skills and talents to partners decision-making roles participate in peace towards implementation NK - Masisi, processes building of identified solutions Goma for mitigating conflict

89 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV SPR WORKPLAN YEAR 3 QUARTER 2: JAN-MAR 2019

Indicato 19-Jan 19-Feb 19-Mar Partners Coverage Code Component / Activity Goal r W 1 W 2 W 3 W 4 W 1 W 2 W 3 W 4 W 1 W 2 W 3 W 4

A social movement of women leaders SK - Walungu, Support women & OMGs' and OMGs Bukavu, Kabare, participation in decision- representatives SPR & CSOs Kalehe A.2.1.2 making bodies through 2.2.a, 2b create changes in partners advocacy and capacity social norms and building practices that prevent inclusion and participation NK - Masisi, Goma

SR 2.2 Inclusion increased in traditional and formal governance structures and processes Local & traditional Transforming social authorities and SK - Walungu, norms, attitudes and targeted Bukavu, Kabare, barriers that constraints USAID's SPR communities Kalehe A.2.2.2 the participation of & CSOs 2.3a increase awareness women/OMGs in partners and are engaged to decision-making fight against negative NK - Masisi, processes social norms Goma COMPONENT 3: RESOURCES FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT MORE INCLUSIVELY ALLOCATED

SR3.1 Linkages to livelihood activities and resources increased SK – Kabare, 45 livelihood Kalehe,Walungu Expand access to linkages , Bukavu A.3.1.1 livelihoods in target SPR & CSOs 3.1a opportunities communities created NK – Masisi, Goma SK – Kabare, 540 women & Kalehe,Walungu Improve women's OMGs engage in , Bukavu A.3.1.2 capacity on livelihood SPR & CSOs 3.1b training that development facilitates livelihood NK – Masisi Goma

90 | USAID’S SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY – YEAR 3 QUARTER 1 REPORT USAID.GOV SPR WORKPLAN YEAR 3 QUARTER 2: JAN-MAR 2019

Indicato 19-Jan 19-Feb 19-Mar Partners Coverage Code Component / Activity Goal r W 1 W 2 W 3 W 4 W 1 W 2 W 3 W 4 W 1 W 2 W 3 W 4

Livelihood/resource SK – Kabare, s solutions Kalehe,Walungu Build community community-driven Communities , Bukavu A.3.1.3 planning capacity on with action plan 3.1b & CSOs livelihoods livelihood objectives NK – Masisi, developed and Goma implemented

SK – Kabare, Private sector Kalehe,Walungu Private sector engaged engaged in , Bukavu A.3.1.4 in support of resource supporting SPR & CSOs 3.1a

mobilization community social NK – Masisi, cohesion initiatives Goma

SR3.2 Equitable community participation in basic services provision increased

2 community SK – Improve community development plans SPR, CSOs, Kalehe,Walungu A.3.2.1 development planning integrating equitable Committees, , Bukavu 3b on service provision and locally solutions LAs to resolve conflict

SK – Kabare, Services mapped Improve efficacy of SPR, CSOs, Kalehe,Walungu and prioritized by A.3.2.2 service provision Committees, , Bukavu 3b communities/local demand side LAs authorities NK – Goma

SK – Kabare, Improve efficacy of SPR, CSOs, Kalehe,Walungu Regular dialogue on A.3.2.3 service provision on Committees, , Bukavu 3.2a service quality supply side LAs NK – Goma

SR 3.3 Participation in confidence building and peace promotion increased

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Support local peace and social cohesion SK – Kabare, initiatives that promote 30 peace and social Kalehe,Walungu 3.3a, A.3.3.1 confidence building cohesion grants SPR, CSOs , Bukavu 3.3b between communities supported and government service NK – Masisi, providers

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