USAID MALI CIVIC ENGAGEMENT PROGRAM YEAR 5 WORK PLAN (OCTOBER 1, 2020 TO JULY 31, 2021) Funding provided by the United States Agency for International Development under Cooperative Agreement No. AID-688-A-16-00006 Prepared by: FHI 360 Submitted to USAID September 8, 2020 Salimata Marico Leslie-Ann Nwokora Agreement Officer’s Representative/ AOR Agreement Officer [email protected] [email protected] Inna Bagayoko Cheick Oumar Coulibaly Alternate AOR Acquisition and Assistance Specialist [email protected] [email protected] 1 Table of Contents ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS 3 INTRODUCTION 4 I. CEP YEAR 5 IMPLEMENTATION APPROACH 4 A. OVERVIEW OF THE PROGRAM DURING YEAR 5 4 B. ALIGNMENT WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF MALI AND CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATION PRIORITIES 5 C. KEY IMPLEMENTING CSOs AND PROGRAMMATIC PARTNERS AND THEIR TARGET AREAS: 5 D. SYNERGY WITH OTHER USAID-FUNDED PROGRAMS 7 E. STAFFING UPDATES/APPROACH 8 II. CEP OBJECTIVES AND PLANNED ACTIVITIES FOR YEAR 5 8 A. OBJECTIVE 1: MECHANISMS OF BOTTOM UP SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY 8 STRENGTHENED B. OBJECTIVE 2: CSOS COLLABORATE EFFECTIVELY WITH GOVERNMENT AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR TO DEVELOP PUBLIC 9 POLICY AND ADVANCE ISSUES OF COMMON INTEREST C. OBJECTIVE 3: CITIZENS UNDERSTAND THEIR RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES AND FEEL EMPOWERED TO ENGAGE WITH 10 THE GOVERNMENT OF MALI ACTORS D. OBJECTIVE 4: IMPACT OF COVID-19 MITIGATED IN TARGET COMMUNITIES 11 III. MONITORING, EVALUATION, LEARNING AND EXIT STRATEGY ACTIVITIES 12 IV. THE PROGRAM FINAL REPORTING 12 V. ANTICIPATED RISKS AND MANAGEMENT MEASURES DURING YEAR 5 OF CEP IMPLEMENTATION 13 2 ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS AADeC Association d’Appui à l’Auto-Développement Communautaire ADEFIM Association d’Entraide pour le Développement Intellectuel de la Femme ADICO Association pour le Développement de l’Initiative Communautaire AMCFE Association Malienne pour la Conservation de Faune et de l’Environnement AMID Association Malienne pour l’Intégration et le Développement AMSS Association Malienne pour la Survie au Sahel APIB Association pour la Promotion des Initiatives de Base, Entraide Mutuelle APS Annual Program Statement ARDIL Action Recherches pour le Développement des Initiatives Locales ARGA Alliance pour Refonder la Gouvernance en Afrique ASECOM Association pour la Santé et l’Education Communautaire ASSAFE Association du Sahel d’Aide à la Femme et à l’Enfance AOR Agreement Officer Representative AAOR Alternate Agreement Officer Representative AMPA Association Malienne pour la Protection des Albinos APHM Association des Personnes en situation de Handicap « AnbeKu » CBO Community Based Organization CEP USAID/Mali Civic Engagement Program COR Contracting Officer Representative COP Chief of Party CRADE Cabinet de Recherche Actions pour le Développement Endogène CPHDA Centre de Promotion des Droits Humains en Afrique CSO Civil Society Organization DPO Disabled Persons’ Organization EIHD Emploi Intégration des Handicapés pour le Développement FEDE Femmes et Développent FERAPH Fédération Régionale des Associations de Personnes Handicapées FHI 360 Family Health International 360 FY Fiscal Year GAAS-Mali Groupe d’Animation, Action, au Sahel Mali GGB Good Governance Barometer GoM Government of Mali GRAT Le Groupe de Recherches et d’Applications Techniques IAMANEH Association pour la Promotion de la Santé de la Mère et de l’Enfant IDPs Internally Displaced persons IT Information and Technology MACNA Malian Association of Cinema Numerique Ambulant ME&L Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning MJP Mali Justice Program NGO Non-Governmental Organization PMP Performance Monitoring Plan PS&R Peace, Stability and Reconciliation PWD Persons with Disability SCALE+ System-wide Collaborative Action for Livelihoods and Environment SNGP Sub-National Governance Project TA Technical Assistance TOR Terms of Reference TOT Training of Trainers WASH Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene 3 INTRODUCTION The United States Agency for International Development in Mali (USAID/Mali) awarded the USAID Mali Civic Engagement Program (CEP) to Family Health International (FHI 360) in August 2016. CEP is a five- year program that runs from 2016-2021, with a budget of $12 million. The goal of the program is to improve public accountability in Mali while increasing and strengthening citizens’ role in the process of developing public policies and oversight capacities to improve government and municipal accountability. To achieve this goal, CEP is working specifically on the following three objectives: 1. Mechanisms of bottom-up social accountability strengthened through civil society organizations 2. Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) collaborate effectively with government, municipalities, and the private sector to develop public policy and advance issues of common interest 3. Citizens understand their rights and responsibilities and feel empowered to engage with Government of Mali However, given the outbreak of the global pandemic COVID-19 in Mali in March 2020, CEP has decided to support citizen responsive governance ensuring that from now until the end of the project in July 2021, the delivery of basic services will continue to be improved under these three objectives, and adapted to COVID-19 response. To do this, CEP decided to strengthen its current work with local governments and civil society organizations through a fourth specific objective to address its COVID-19 response action with specific COVID-19 activities to be implemented with an additional funding of $345,000. The fourth objective is: 4. Impact of COVID-19 mitigated in targeted communities This document is the CEP’s fifth and final year (Year 5/Y5) annual workplan covering the period from October 1, 2020 to July 31, 2021. It includes: • CEP’s final year (Y5) implementation approach including the overview of the program, the alignment with Mali communal authorities and community-based organizations priorities, the key implementing CSOs and strategic partners, their activities and target areas as well as the synergy with USAID programs and other donors during this fifth year. • CEP’s four objectives and the implementation of their activities. This includes the three initial objectives and the fourth one on COVID-19 response action plan. • Monitoring, evaluation, learning and exit strategy activities. • Program final reporting. • Risk management plan including the current political situation with a possible regime change in the country. • Detailed timeline for all planned activities for Year 5 in the annex. I. CEP YEAR 5 IMPLEMENTATION APPROACH A. OVERVIEW OF THE PROGRAM DURING YEAR 5: During this final year (Y5), the CEP team and CSOs partners will implement the following program activities: ❖ CEP staff-led activities: CEP staff will focus on program activities that will support grantees to consolidate and finalize CEP activities in the target communes of the Program, and ensure the follow up of the implementation of the technical assistance plan of CSOs as well as some program’s exit strategy activities (see below section III). CEP will also undertake a series of regional program’s review sessions that will help to consolidate the learnings among partners. The support to CSOs will include mentoring and coaching of CSOs for the implementation of their remaining and closeout activities. This support to CSOs will end in March 2021, and an internal performance evaluation of the program will take place immediately. ❖ Civil society organization partners/sub-grantee-led activities: During this year, 18 Civic Engagement Grantees (CEG) and 4 Disabled People Organizations (DPO) grantees will continue to implement CEP activities in the target communes. These activities include the implementation and finalization of Good Governance Barometer (GGB) processes, advocacy 4 activities, consolidation of PPP-WG activities, and support to community-based organizations (CBOs) to follow the outputs of their community-based level advocacy actions initiated and community watchdog functions activities. ❖ Subcontractor-led activities: In addition to the 22 grantees mentioned above, 2 CEP subcontractors, Studio Tamani and CPHDA, will consolidate and finalize ongoing communication, capacity building on civic engagement activities and outreach activities on citizenship and inclusion. - B. ALIGNMENT WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF MALI AND CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATION PRIORITIES: During CEP’s Year 4, the staff continued to meet with the Government of Mali (GOM) representatives and civil society organizations to share the program’s goals and objectives, to clarify their perspectives on civic engagement needs, and to discuss CEP’s planned activities. CEP staff met with representatives of the Ministry of Youth, citizenry and employment, and the Ministry of Education through its partner CPDHA at the national level. The CSOs as well continued meeting with the local authorities at the local level for the program implementation. During this final year, CEP will continue working closely with the Ministry of Youth at the national level to implement and consolidate together a synergy approach to work with youths, and with the Ministry of Education through CPDHA to support the training on citizenship of students in schools aged between 12 and 16 years old. At the same time, CEP’s CSOs partners will continue working with the local government institutions and representatives, including the elected communal authorities which support the development or revisions of their 5 years development plans with regards to the Malian decentralization plan. In addition, during this Y5 of the