Parceria Cívica para Boa Governação Program (PCBG) Quarter 2 2020: January 1, 2020 – March 31, 2020, Submitted to USAID/Mozambique
PCBG Agreement No. AID-656-A-16-00003
FY20 Quarterly Report
Reporting Period: January 1 to March 31, 2020
Parceria Cívica para Boa Governação Program (PCBG)
Crown Prince of Norway Haakon Magnus (left) shaking hands with TV Surdo’s Executive Director Felismina Banze (right), upon his arrival at TV Surdo.
Submission Date: April 30, 2020 Agreement Number: Cooperative Agreement AID-656-A-16-00003 Submitted to: Jason Smith, USAID AOR Mozambique Submitted by: Charlotte Cerf Chief of Party Counterpart International, Mozambique Email: [email protected]
This document was produced for review by the United States Agency for International Development, Mozambique (USAID/Mozambique). It was prepared by Counterpart International. Parceria Cívica para Boa Governação Program (PCBG) Quarter 2 2020: January 1, 2020 – March 31, 2020, Submitted to USAID/Mozambique
Table of Contents ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS ...... 3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ...... 4 PROGRAM DESCRIPTION...... 6 Project Overview ...... 6 Project Framework ...... 6 PROGRAM AND INDICATOR IMPLEMENTATION PROGRESS ...... 7 2. Implementation Progress ...... 7 Objective 1: More effective advocacy by partner CSOs in target sectors...... 7 Objective 2: Strengthened organizational performance by partner CSOs ...... 15 Objective 3: Facilitate a credible, participatory and peaceful electoral process ...... 26 CROSS CUTTING OBJECTIVES ...... 27 Communication strategy and branding awareness ...... 27 Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Section ...... 27 CHALLENGES & LESSONS LEARNED ...... 28 COLLABORATION WITH OTHER DONOR PROJECTS ...... 28 KEY ACTIVITIES PLANNED FOR NEXT QUARTER ...... 29 Objective 1: More effective advocacy by partner CSOs in target sectors ...... 29 Objective 2: Strengthened organizational performance by partner CSOs ...... 29 Objective 3: Facilitate a credible, participatory and peaceful electoral process ...... 29 ADMINISTRATIVE UPDATE ...... 29 FINANCIAL UPDATE ...... 30 SUCCESS STORIES ...... 33 Annex A: Indicators Performance Table PITT- FY20 Q2 ...... 34 Annex B: Summary of Active Grants ...... 36 Attachments: ...... 37
Parceria Cívica para Boa Governação Program (PCBG) Quarter 2 2020: January 1, 2020 – March 31, 2020, Submitted to USAID/Mozambique
ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS ADS Associação Desenvolvimento e Sociedade AENA Associação Nacional de Extensão Rural AMDEC Associação Moçambicana para o Desenvolvimento Concertado ANDA Associação Nacional para o Desenvolvimento Auto-Sustentado BIOFUND The Foundation for the Conservation of Biodiversity CCIE Coligação Cívica sobre Indústria Extractiva CESC Centro de Aprendizagem e Capacitação da Sociedade Civil CEURBE Centro de Estudos Urbanos de Moçambique CNCS Conselho Nacional de Combate ao HIV&SIDA CSO Civil Society Organization CPI Counterpart International FAA Fixed Award Amount FMO Fórum de Monitoria de Orçamento FRELIMO Frente de Libertação de Moçambique GRM Government of the Republic of Mozambique GRC Grants Review Committee GSI Gender and Social Inclusion IEC Information Education Communication INP National Institute of Petroleum KUWUKA Associação Kuwuka JDA – Juventude Desenvolvimento e Advocacia Ambiental MAHLAHLE Associação Para a Promoção e Desenvolvimento da Mulher MEF Ministry of Economy and Finance MEPT Movimento de Educação Para Todos MITADER Ministry of Land, Environment and Rural Development M&E Monitoring and Evaluation NNL No Net Loss OD Organizational Development PCBG Parceria Cívica para Boa Governação PENCS IV National Strategic Plan for the Fight against AIDS PLASOC Plataforma da Sociedade Civil sobre Saude e Direitos Humanos PNDH Pressão Nacional dos Direitos Humanos PNSCIE Plataforma Nacional da Sociedade Civil sobre Indústria Extractiva PODA Participatory Organizational Development Assessment RENAMO Resistência Nacional Moçambicana REGEB General Regulation of Basic Education RFA Request for Applications STAE Technical Secretariat for Election Administration USAID United States Agency for International Development VAWIE Violence Against Women in Elections
Parceria Cívica para Boa Governação Program (PCBG) Quarter 2 2020: January 1, 2020 – March 31, 2020, Submitted to USAID/Mozambique
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report provides a summary of PCBG Program’s activities implemented in the second quarter of the 2020 fiscal year (FY20). The PCBG Program continues to support its partners to effectively engage policymakers, mobilize citizens’ voices to inform key legislative frameworks, and improve policy processes. This quarter, PCBG received a no-cost extension from March 25, 2020 to July 31, 2020 that will allow the project to capitalize on gains made using evidence-based approaches to affect policies and ensure government accountability; most notably in the climate change, health and governance sectors. PCBG continued to help partners strengthen their organizational capacity, developing new skills in Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Communication, and Gender and Social Inclusion (GSI). The FY20 Q2 coincided with closeout of eight grant agreements, including the PCBG elections component. This quarter ended with the World Health Organization announcing the COVID-19 pandemic and PCBG preparing a series of phased plans for responding to the impact of COVID-19 on project staff and activities, as well as the impact on sub-grantee activities.
Some key policy engagement activities with our partners included:
• LIVANINGO made strides using evidence-based approaches to advocate decision makers to take action to include and recognize climate migrants in policies and strategic documents such as the National Climate Change Adaptation Plan (NAP) and Climate Change Local Adaptation (PLA). On March 31, LIVANINGO presented its research findings Impact of Climate Change in Coastal Zones of Mozambique at a workshop attended by representatives from the Ministry of Environment and Land, National Institute for Disaster Management (INGC), members of the National Climate Change Platform, and other key stakeholders.
• This quarter, TV Surdo continued to advocate that health communications materials, formats and programs be adapted for people with disabilities to ensure equal access for this community. On March 25, TV Surdo participated in the first meeting for the Communication Technical Group at the National Council for Combat of AIDS (CNCS) to discuss the preparation of the Fifth National Strategic Plan to Combat HIV/AIDS (PENCS V). TV Surdo used this opportunity to pressure CNCS on the need to include aspects of disability in the national plan such as; equitable access to information, use of sign language, use of braille language on medicines, and other measures that would ensure access to and inclusion for people with disabilities.
• Between March 23-27, MAHLAHLE engaged the district governments of Jangamo and Homoine, in Inhambane Province with the goal of enhancing government accountability to citizens through district civil society platforms. MAHLAHLE recently began working with these two districts and submitted petitions to the district governments to adopt the use of the District Social and Economic Budget Plan monitoring tool. This is in alignment with the Memorandum of Understanding signed between MAHLAHLE and the Inhambane Provincial Government that supports the practice of CSOs monitoring the district government’s implementation of plans and budgets.
• This quarter, CESC focused on refining governance, transparency and accountability tools to ensure that citizens opinions are expressed, and their needs are attended to. From March 23-27, CESC developed an implementation plan for the revised good governance tools (Municipal Observatory, Community Scoring Card and Participatory Budget) and submitted it to the Nampula and Maputo Municipal Councils for approval. Approval of these tools will bind the municipal authorities to hold regular joint monitoring and be accountable to their citizens.
Parceria Cívica para Boa Governação Program (PCBG) Quarter 2 2020: January 1, 2020 – March 31, 2020, Submitted to USAID/Mozambique
In this FY20 Q2, PCBG conducted the final Participatory Organizational Development Assessment (PODA) with three closing subgrantees BIOFUND, KUWUKA JDA and AMDEC. The three partners demonstrated progress in all six evaluation pillars with BIOFUND’s scores illustrating it has reached “a robust and mature organization” status. AMDEC consistently scored high in almost all functional areas, however, the organization will need to spend more time and investment in improving functional areas related to financial sustainability and to external relations. KUWUKA registered the greatest achievements in the areas of Leadership and Strategic Management, and in Advocacy, but needs to work on including communications in their advocacy strategy. KUWUKA also needs to continue improving in the areas of financial sustainability and external relations.
This quarter, two of the closing sub-grantees, KUWUKA and AMDEC, and PCBG active sub-grantee TV Surdo reported that they had identified funding opportunities for their activities. TV Surdo is anticipating an extension of funding from the Norwegian Embassy. AMDEC has submitted its technical qualifications to USAID for possible future collaboration, and KUWUKA is on several applications to donors including: Terra dos Homens (German funding), Open Society Initiative of Southern Africa, Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Funds, EU/PAANE, and UNEPT.
During this reporting period, PCBG conducted training on the “Foundations for Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL)” for the project managers and monitoring and evaluation officers from PCBG partners CESC, AENA, FRUTICAD, MAHLAHLE, LIVANINGO, Ntumbuluklu, MEPT and TV Surdo, with the goal of helping partners monitor and assess progress on the implementation of their activities and boost their capacity to focus on achieving the expected impacts. PCBG also conducted training with MAHLAHLE staff to improve MAHLAHLE's technical ability to document success stories, take quality photos and share their success stories through reports. In support of Ntumbuluku’s advocacy work to establish a marine reserve in Vilanculos, Inhambane, PCBG and Ntumbuluku jointly engaged in a learning tour of two Mozambican conservation organizations (Ocean Revolution and Marine Megafauna Foundation) that are working on community based marine reserves in their respective localities in Inhambane Province.
Adaptive Management in Response to the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic
The global COVID-19 pandemic has presented unique challenges and constraints to project implementation. However, the PCBG team promptly and proactively took measures to adjust activities and workplace operations to keep personnel safe and prevent transmission to ensure project impact continued. In mid-March, PCBG developed a three-phase plan of action for dealing with COVID-19 including arrangements for teleworking and social distancing, alternative transport for staff using public transport, and procedures for regularly disinfecting the office. In addition, project related travel has been canceled for the protection of staff. The COP was also evacuated back to US on March 20 and has been working remotely with the team swiftly adapting to the new global reality. PCBG has also worked with Sub-grantees to adjust activities in their workplans so meetings and conferences would be limited to smaller numbers or done remotely. The project continues to work in collaboration with USAID, and its partners to mitigate the impact of PCBG activities in the last few months of the Project.
Parceria Cívica para Boa Governação Program (PCBG) Quarter 2 2020: January 1, 2020 – March 31, 2020, Submitted to USAID/Mozambique
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Project Overview
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded Counterpart International, Inc. (herein “Counterpart”) a Cooperative Agreement with the budget of $11,825,000 to implement the four- year program entitled “Parceria Cívica para Boa Governação” (PCBG) in Mozambique.
Project Framework
PCBG’s goal is to improve accountable and effective democratic governance in Mozambique. To this end, as the program nears the end of its implementation cycle, it decreased the number of implementing partners from 16 (including CSO partners working under project objective 3 – election component) to 8 Mozambican civil society organizations (CSOs) to continue advocating for reform in the target sectors of biodiversity conservation, climate change, education, extractive industry, health, and transparent and accountable governance. The goal is supported by three interrelated objectives:
Objective 1: More effective advocacy by partner CSOs by supporting the technical ability of partner CSOs to work on sectors of biodiversity conservation, climate change, education, extractive industry, health, and transparent and accountable governance. Objective 2: Strengthened organizational performance by partner CSOs through intensive and customized technical assistance, coaching/mentoring, and training for partner CSOs using a customized participatory organizational development assessment model. Objective 3: Facilitation of a credible, participatory and peaceful electoral process through long- term domestic electoral violence monitoring, conflict mitigation and advocacy activities throughout the election period of what may become the most contested election in Mozambique’s democratic history.
The program’s theory of change proposes that by improving the advocacy and organizational capacities of motivated, committed Mozambican partners, the CSOs will implement more effective advocacy strategies and engage in facilitating a credible, participatory, and peaceful electoral process. These reforms will support the longer-term strengthening of accountable, effective democratic governance in Mozambique in target sectors.
Parceria Cívica para Boa Governação Program (PCBG) Quarter 2 2020: January 1, 2020 – March 31, 2020, Submitted to USAID/Mozambique
PROGRAM AND INDICATOR IMPLEMENTATION PROGRESS 2. Implementation Progress
Objective 1: More effective advocacy by partner CSOs in target sectors PCBG Indicator 1 (Impact): Proportion of CSOs reporting that they impacted government public policies as a result of USG assistance in target sectors
FY20 is the last year of implementation and therefore the focus is supporting grantees to complete their final activities and closing out the project. In FY20 Q2 PCBG, the closeout process for the following eight grantees took place:
Table 1: PCBG CSO partners that closed out
Name Sector ANDA, CDD, CEDES, PNDH, CESC1 Elections Biofund Biodiversity Kuwuka Extractive Industries AMDEC Education
Indicator 1 is an annual indicator and the corresponding data is collected through Focus Group Discussion Methods. The results will be reported at the end of the Fiscal Year. However, during Q2 the eight CSO partners with active grants continued working, making progress and impacting government public policies focusing on the following areas:
Table 2: Summary of progress on public policies impacted
CSO Sector Policy impacted Policy status Impacted Improve municipal authorities in Maputo and Nampula Ongoing CESC understanding of the law No. 2/97 on local governance; Good Increased citizens participation in local governance focused Governance, on health sector and increased local government Transparency transparency and accountability. and Accountability Expanded the District Social, Economic and Budgeting Plan Being MAHLAHLE (PESOD Portuguese acronym) monitoring tools in two implemented new districts of Inhambane Province to improve government accountability under the Decree-Law 11/2005, which regulates Law No. 8/2003. Continued advocating for the implementation of Circular Circular No. AENA Extractive No. 01-MPD-2013. As a result of continued dialogue and 01-MPD-2013 Industry community petitions, Montepuez Ruby Mining are under review channeling the 2.75% of the revenue to fund community priorities and socio-economic development. Continued to advocate for the implementation of Ongoing NTUMBULUKU Biodiversity conservation law No. 5/2005 and make progress to establish marine reserves in Vilanculos, Inhambane.
1 CESC – this worked working under two components and with two projects. The election component (this one is closed) and the governance project (this is ongoing). Parceria Cívica para Boa Governação Program (PCBG) Quarter 2 2020: January 1, 2020 – March 31, 2020, Submitted to USAID/Mozambique
Continued advocating for the implementation of Being Climate environment friendly practices in Metuge Districts under implemented FRUTICAD Change the Law No. 20/1997 and wildlife law No. 10/1999 to improve communities’ reliance to climate change impacts. TVSURDO Continued advocating for the health communications Ongoing Health campaigns to include messaging and formats that reach people with disabilities. This work will culminate with the drafting of the ministerial decree that will require that health campaigns to be inclusive and appropriate for people with disabilities. MEPT Continued advocating to improve the Government Ongoing Education Budget Law, simultaneously promoted the use of the Budget Preparation Module, an instrument that provides guidelines and criteria for budget allocation to basic education. Produced evidence on the Impact of Climate Change on LIVANINGO Climate Coastal Zones in Mozambique to influence environmental Ongoing Change Law No. No. 20/97, of October 1; the National Environment Policy, Resolution nº 5/95, of August 3; and Disaster Management policy, resolution No. 18/99 of June 10.
PCBG Indicator 02: Number of public policies introduced, adopted, repealed, changed or implemented consistent with citizen and/or civil society input
In FY20 Q2, PCBG’s four CSO partners continued advocating for changes and implementation of public polices, laws, regulations and strategic plans with CSO and citizen inputs in the sectors of good governance, extractive industry and climate change. However, no new public policies were introduced, adopted, repealed, changed or implemented during FY20 Q2.
AENA continued working with the Coordination Committee of the Initiative on Transparency in the Extractive Industry of Mozambique (EITI-M) to advocate and influence decision makers, such as the Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy (MIREME), to observe and implement the Mining Law, Law No. 20/2014 and Petroleum Law, Law No. 21/2014 to protect communities living in areas surrounding extractive industries. To complement these laws AENA continued to advocate for the enforcement and implementation of the Circular 1/MPD-MF/2013 aimed at promoting more transparency and accountability and adequate allocation of extractive industry revenues (2.75%) to support community socio-economic development.
MAHLAHLE continued working and advocating for the implementation of the existing Decree-Law No. 11/2005, which governs the Law No. 8/2003, and stipulates in Article 100 that (i) “local state bodies, including the provincial and district levels have the right to stand up for their rights”. However, the implementation of this law is weak and consequently the citizens participation in the governance of their district or to hold the government accountable is also weak. This quarter, to address the gaps in the implementation of the law and the weak participation of citizens, MAHLAHLE continued building capacity of and providing technical assistance to local CSO platforms and the district authorities on the use of the PESOD oversight accountability mechanism. As a result of positive feedback on MAHLAHLE’s intervention, the provincial government endorsed scaling up use of this monitoring approach in two new districts in Inhambane Province: Jangamo and Homoine.
LIVANINGO, in view of influencing changes in the 10-year climate change National Adaptation Plan (NAPs) and guideline on Local Adaptation Plans (PLAs), organized a workshop to disseminate results of Parceria Cívica para Boa Governação Program (PCBG) Quarter 2 2020: January 1, 2020 – March 31, 2020, Submitted to USAID/Mozambique the research paper, entitled “Climate Refugees in the Coastal Zones of Mozambique”. This paper reported evidence of people affected and displaced due to environment and climate change impacts in the northern region of the country. As key sector stakeholders attended the workshop including representatives from the Ministry of Environment and Land, National Institute for Disaster Management (INGC), members of the National Climate Change Platform, Livaningo recommended to government representatives to incorporate the protection needs of climate refugees in those strategic documents. As follow up from the meeting LIVANINGO published the policy statement on climate refugee in the Savana national weekly newspaper (Annex A)
CESC continued advocating for the effective implementation of the law No. 08/2003 on local governance. In Q2, given the extensive list of priorities in the municipalities CESC focused on refining governance, transparency and accountability tools in the selected sector of education, health, and municipal budget monitoring through citizens participation to ensure that their “voices are heard, and their needs attended too”. The tools refined and submitted were submitted for approval of the Municipal authorities include: Municipal Observatory, Community Scoring Card, and Participatory Budget. By approving these tools, authorities are now obligated to hold regular joint monitoring sessions, which enhances their accountability to citizens.
PCBG Indicator 03: Number of activities that contribute to government engagement with citizens
In the FY20 Q2, PCBG supported and mobilized its partners to implement nine activities that increased government engagement with citizens in support of more accountable and transparent governance in project target sectors.
Influence disability issues to be considered in the PEPFAR 2020 Country Operational Plan From February 10 – 14 in Maputo, TV Surdo participated in a working group that advocated for and defined the Mozambique Civil Society Organization (CSO) position on HIV/AIDS to be considered in the design of the PEPFAR COP 20 (Mozambique Country Operational Plan on HIV/AIDS, 2020) to be presented at the COP 20 workshop held in South Africa from February 24-28th. The COP conference is held annually, and the objective is to identify action steps in the fight against HIV worldwide. In this CSO positioning meeting, TV Surdo advocated for mainstreaming disability in this key strategic document. The COP conference will result in the determination of the budget needed to finance HIV action steps. Each country will then draft its own HIV response budget. TV Surdo participated in the forum as a member of the communication working group for social and behavioral change issues.
Presentation of tools for good governance and identification of public services by residents of Nampula and Maputo From March 23-27, CESC developed an implementation plan for the good governance tools (Municipal Observatory, Community Score Card and Participatory Budget) and submitted it to the Nampula and Maputo Municipal Councils for approval. CESC uses these tools to monitor public services which are then evaluated by Nampula and Maputo citizens. The evaluation will review and assess the level of citizen satisfaction with the execution of the respective implementation action plans. Highlights include the following: Meetings with participatory monitoring groups and the Health Committees in Nampula and Maputo CESC held three meetings with the participating monitoring groups for health services, the Health Committee and CSO members working in the health sector of the Lhamakulu, Maxakeni and Mavalen Parceria Cívica para Boa Governação Program (PCBG) Quarter 2 2020: January 1, 2020 – March 31, 2020, Submitted to USAID/Mozambique neighborhoods in Maputo. The meetings involved one member from NAMATI, an international organization, based in Mozambique, that seeks to build a movement of grassroots legal advocates, and six members from the Health Committees of the Health Centers. The meetings presented the issues and concerns in the health sector that were identified in the 2018-2019 assessment and analyzed the degree of achievement and satisfaction of citizens on the provision of public health services. During one of the meetings held in Mavalane, citizens raised a new issue: concern over the decision of the Maputo Municipal government and health authorities to open a care unit and admission center for Covid- 19 patients in the Mavalane and Polana Caniço health centers. Citizens living near the health centers raised this issue. In responses, CESC produced the petition card help record the citizens’ concerns and take them back to the municipalities to be addressed by the municipal authorities. of medicine to municipal authorities for approval. Moreover, CESC scheduled meetings with relevant stakeholders, such as potential residents in municipal districts, administrative posts in Maputo and Nampula, to start assessing citizen satisfaction with services provided. Participatory Budget and Municipal Observatory CESC conducted a survey about the use of the Participatory Budget tool in the municipalities of Nampula and Maputo in order to mobilize and support local stakeholders to reactivate its implementation. This survey will culminate with a specific report on the state of the Participatory Budget tool. In relation to Municipal Observatory (Nampula), CESC defined the action plan for the first session of Municipal Observatory for Nampula Region. It is scheduled for April 28, 2020.
Debate on the PENCS V (Fifth National Strategic Plan to Combat HIV/AID) On March 25, TV Surdo participated in the first meeting of r the Communication Technical Group at the National Council to Combat AIDS (CNCS) to discuss the preparation of the Fifth National Strategic Plan to Combat HIV/AIDS (PENCS V). The majority of the members of this technical group participated in the meeting remotely through online systems due to the government's restrictions in response to the COVID 19 pandemic. On this occasion, Helio Manhiça, CNCS technician, reported that CNCS staff are drafting terms of reference for the working groups that will develop the final version of the PENCS V. Once again, TV Surdo reminded CNCS of the need to include aspects of disability, such as access to information, non- discrimination, use of braille language in medicine, among others, in the document. CNCS staff were receptive to TV Surdo’s advocacy efforts.
Joint monitoring of school year 2020.
From March 15-21, MEPT as a representative of basic education for civil society and representatives from the Ministry of Education and Human Development (MINEDH) carried out joint monitoring of the school year in the provinces of Sofala (covering eight schools in the districts of Dondo and Búzi), Maputo Province (covering six schools, three in Moamba and three in Manhiça), and Maputo City. The monitoring agenda included:
1. Level of registration and enrollment of 1st, 6th, 8th and 11th grade students, and of young people and adults aged 15 years or more,, in literacy and adult education centers; 2. Process of class organization, teacher’s assignment and tutors in compliance with the established rules; 3. Organization of school management; Parceria Cívica para Boa Governação Program (PCBG) Quarter 2 2020: January 1, 2020 – March 31, 2020, Submitted to USAID/Mozambique
4. Confirmation of receipt and execution plan for the 1st installment of the Direct School Allocation (ADE) for 2020 and its performance; 5. Compliance with the stated procedure’s manual on the use of ADE and ADE performance funds. It should be noted that points 4 and 5, above are related to the project implemented in partnership with the PCBG.
The monitoring mission found that all eight schools visited in Sofala had not received the ADE. In Maputo Province, out of six schools visited, one school did not receive the ADE. The schools did not received funds because they submitted their applications late.
The Advisory Council, MINEDH department heads and technicians, Cooperating Partners and MEPT – as a representative of the education sector of civil society - participated in this monitoring mission. MEPT shared meeting notes with the MINEDH at the central level.
Meetings with district government departments to address the creation of a marine reserve in the Chibuene and Mangalisse communities in Vilanculos District
In March, Ntumbuluku had two meetings focused on marine reserves: one with the representatives of the Institute for Fishery Investigation, (district level) and the other, with the District Service for Planning and Infrastructure (Environment Sector) of Vilanculos. The main objective of these meetings was to advocate for the creation of a marine reserve in Chibuene and Mangalisse communities in Vilanculos and to influence the Institute for Fishery Investigation and Municipal Environment Sector- which are responsible for creating and managing marine and coastal conservation areas – to collaborate more closely. Both sectors were unanimously agreed on the importance of better managing natural resources. They stated that they had already received requests from fishermen in Mangalisse and Chibuene and other communities to support the creation of conservation areas. However, due to the scarcity of resources to support these projects, little Meeting with the Mangalisse committee on the creation of the community marine reserves. action has yet been taken.
The government claims that it needs partners such as Ntumbuluku to provide material support, training to community members and local inspectors, and awareness raising in the communities in order to implement this request. They stated that the proposed reserve area should be selected together with the community in order to incorporate their needs. For the government, the communities must have other alternatives for income generation to reduce the pressure on fishing resources. Alternative options identified include the promotion of agro-livestock, creation of savings groups, and the establishment of fish conservation mechanisms for fishermen. The district government recommends that the surrounding communities be included as they will also benefit from these reserves. Each of the meetings included the presence of two technicians and the heads of the respective sectors.
MAHLAHLE engages civil society to submit a petition to the District Administrators
Parceria Cívica para Boa Governação Program (PCBG) Quarter 2 2020: January 1, 2020 – March 31, 2020, Submitted to USAID/Mozambique
Between March 23-27, MAHLAHLE engaged the district governments of Jangamo and Homoine, in Inhambane Province to provide regular accountability to citizens through district CSO platforms. MAHLAHLE recently began working with these two districts in Inhambane. MAHLAHLE submitted petitions to the district governments to adopt the PESOD monitoring tool, in alignment with the memorandum of understanding signed between MAHLAHLE and the Inhambane Provincial Government. MAHLAHLE submitted a request for a hearing with the administrators of these districts to provide clarification on the petitions. As a subsequent step, MAHLAHLE will have meetings with district technical teams and district CSO platforms to discuss and familiarize them with the model, methodology, and accountability tools, as well as the benefits of these instruments for the local government and the citizens.
Revitalization of the Homoine District CSO Platform
On February 26 MAHLAHLE engaged Homoine District authorities to revamp that district’s civil society platform to effectively monitor the implementation of PESOD and hold the district government accountable to the citizens on its execution. The revitalization included a training on the use of tools to monitor PESOD activities. A total of 21 members (13 men and 8 women) of the CSO platform participated in the meeting.
On February 28, MAHLAHLE held a meeting with the Jangamo District CSO platform to present the project. Both Jangamo and Homenine districts recently joined the MAHLAHLE project activities in the context of the expansion of MAHLAHLE’s intervention of monitoring PESOD in Inhambane Province.
DR.2.4-2 (Indicator) 04: Number of mechanisms for external oversight of public resource use supported by USG assistance
In this reporting period, PCBG supported partners continued consolidating and scale up two existing mechanisms to ensure more effective oversight of the use of public resources.
Budget execution and monitoring tool for PESOD
From March 18-19, MAHLAHLE trained the Jangamo and Homoine Districts’ civil society platforms on the use of a budget execution and monitoring tool called FAROL. This is a tool used to indicate how the PESOD is being executed by using three colors (Green=good, yellow=medium, red=bad). A total of 44 people participated between both districts (21 females, 23 males). These trainings are a result of the Memorandum of Understanding that MAHLAHLE signed with the Inhambane Provincial Government as an instrument to ensure government buy-in. According to MAHLAHLE, it protects them and provides more security during the PESOD monitoring, mainly at the community level.
The Jangamo District civil society platform has some experience working with PESOD, although not with a specific tool. Given their previous experience, Jangamo District easily adopted the tool. It was the first time, however, for the Homoine District civil society platform to work with FAROL and associated materials. As a next step, the platforms will request the 2020 PESOD in order to select the activities to be monitored in the first quarter. In April they will consult citizens (after the publication of the quarterly balance sheet by the governments of the respective districts) to assess their satisfaction.
Training School Councils on Transparency and Accountability in School Management
From February 2-5, MINEDH invited MEPT to take part on a mission to visit schools in Tete province. Though MEPT’s PCBG supported work is not implemented in this province, MEPT independently used the opportunity to share best practices on management of funds allocated to schools with a focus on the Parceria Cívica para Boa Governação Program (PCBG) Quarter 2 2020: January 1, 2020 – March 31, 2020, Submitted to USAID/Mozambique
Direct Allocation to Schools (ADE Portuguese acronym). While in Tete, the mission visited School Councils in the Districts of Moatize and Tete City.
The provincial Directorate of Education in Tete also carried out a training on direct allocation of funds to schools. Based on MEPT’s example from Zambezia, the training also emphasized the need to ensure participation of members of the School Councils in the School Management process, with a view to foster transparency and accountability in school management. The training involved 30 members of School Councils -20 from the Moatize district and 15 from Tete City. The training also included aspects of emergency management since the training covered schools affected by Cyclone Idai, which hit the central region of the country. It helped strengthen the School Council’s capacity to more effectively respond to emergency situations mainly by ensuring the schools’ lessons continued and to engage communities’ members to work together towards their social transformation, creating more participatory and equitable educational systems and structures, improving school governance and therefore transparency, accountability and quality of education for students. Communities are expected to be involved in all government and Courtesy visit to the Tete Provincial Director of Education and NGOs actions to ensure the rebuilding of school Human Development infrastructure.
As integral part of the training, School Councils learned how to carry out coordinated social audits in emergency situations in order to monitor the effectiveness of the education sector programs in emergency situations.
DR.4.2-2 (Indicator. 5): Number of CSOs receiving USG assistance engaged in advocacy interventions
PCBG continued providing technical assistance to eight CSO partners focusing on health, education, extractive industries, climate change, biodiversity and governance transparency.
Table 3: Number of CSO’s supported by PCBG engaged in advocacy
Sector Number of partners Health 1 Education 1 Extractive Industries 1 Climate Change 2 Biodiversity 1 Governance 2
PCBG 06: Number of evidence-based position statements on policy presented for public dialogue
Parceria Cívica para Boa Governação Program (PCBG) Quarter 2 2020: January 1, 2020 – March 31, 2020, Submitted to USAID/Mozambique
In FY20 Q2, PCBG supported partner LIVANINGO to produce two evidence-based position statements and presented them for public dialogue. The statements are aimed at influencing change in strategic climate change documents namely the National Climate Change Adaptation Plan (NAP) and Climate Change Local Adaptation (PLA).
LIVANINGO developed and disseminated an article on the impact of rainfall in the northern part of Mozambique
LIVANINGO published a press statement in the Savana national weekly newspaper on climate refugees. The article serves as an instrument to influence decision makers to be more responsive and sensitive to climate refugees and migrants in Mozambique. It discusses the concept of climate refugees, understood “as the group of people who have to leave their habitat, immediately or in the near future, due to sudden or gradual changes in their natural environment, related to at least one of the three impacts of climate change: sea level, extreme weather events and drought and water scarcity” against the environmental refugees, those that migrants due to environmental insecurity. The article also discusses the climate risks facing the country and provides statistics on people affected and displaced. The goal is to increase people’s knowledge of the interconnections between migration and climate change in Mozambique, particularly in coastal areas. The statement ends by urging decision makers to take action to include and recognize climate migrants in policies and strategic documents such as the National Climate Change Adaptation Plan (NAP) and Climate Change Local Adaptation (PLA) in programmatic priorities. See more details in link below: http://www.livaningo.co.mz/2020/01/17/chuva-devasta-norte-de-mocambique-e-cria-milhares-de- migrantes-climaticos/#.XiGqRLg9NrU.facebook Debate on Climate Refugees in Mozambique's Coastal Zones
LIVANINGO conducted a workshop and debate with CSOs and government representatives aimed at collecting comments and hearing from participants on the “Climate Refugees in the Coastal Zones of Mozambique”. The debate was based on the results of the study on climate refugees entitled: Impact of Climate Change in Coastal Zones of Mozambique. This debate was attended by 12 people, (8 men and 4 men) including National Disaster Management Institute (INGC) representative from the City of Maputo, members CSOs, namely the Mozambican Aid Community (CMA), LIVANINGO, Grupo da Mulher e Rapariga (GMR) and independent researchers. Methodologically, the workshop was organized around two areas of inquiry:
1. Reflections on climate change in Mozambique, including its impacts, challenges, and ongoing adaptation and mitigation efforts. This reflection was facilitated via Skype by José Maria Langas (Ph.D.), professor at the Technical University of Mozambique. The session also discussed the possible solutions and recommendations for Mozambique. This included the need for the Mozambican government to invest in research and technology that increases f knowledge of existing risks and invest in monitoring tools and warning services to timely communicate and disseminate prevention actions to enhance community resilience to climate change impacts. 2. A launch of the study on climate refugees - Impact of Climate Change on Coastal Zones in Mozambique. The study focused on the provinces of Cabo Delgado (in the Municipal City of Pemba), Nampula (Municipality of Ilha de Moçambique and Nacala), Zambézia (Quelimane) and Inhambane (City of Inhambane and Municipality of Vilanculos). The report presents evidence on the existence of climate refugees as a result of climate change manifested in terms of droughts, floods and cyclones. It describes a range of impacts on populations including loss of habitat, diminished economic opportunities and the emergence of land conflicts. s. The study recommends the introduction of a legal framework that protects climate refugees in Mozambique as the current legal framework does not address the needs of this demographic. Parceria Cívica para Boa Governação Program (PCBG) Quarter 2 2020: January 1, 2020 – March 31, 2020, Submitted to USAID/Mozambique
During plenary discussions questions and comments focused on the need to: (i) reinforce the legal framework that recognizes the existence of climate refugees in Mozambique so that the needs of this population are addressed; (ii) initiate further studies examining the country’s interior, which is most affected by droughts. Furthermore, there is a need for a nexus between immediate humanitarian relief and long-term development needs that should create an enabling environment to have development assistance in accommodation areas or places outside of traditional humanitarian assistance. Following the LIVANINGO publishes an article in the local event, LIVANINGO published on its website a news article newspaper about the event that can be seen in the following link: http://www.livaningo.co.mz/2020/04/01/livaningo-lanca-estudo -sobre-refugiados-climaticos-em- mocambique/
PCBG 07: Number of organizations conducting HIV/AIDS advocacy with USG/ PEPFAR support TV Surdo is the only PCBG partners using PEPFAR funding to implement HIV/AIDS related advocacy work. However, this funding source ended on March 2019 and the activities reported below are using general USG/DA funding.
Training to improve advocacy techniques to mobilize funding for HIV projects
From March 3-5, TV Surdo, as a member of the Civil Society Platform (PLASOC) – a platform that focuses on mobilizing, organizing, and training CSOs to monitor and formulate public policies to improve the access and offering of quality services in the area health and human rights including people with disabilities - participated with the other members of the platform in a training facilitated by a UNAIDS consultant.. The objective of the training was to improve advocacy techniques to boost CSO capacity to mobilize funds for projects focusing on the fight against HIV, tuberculosis and malaria. During the training, three working groups were created that discussed different themes including aspects of inclusion for People with Disabilities (PwD), not only for human rights issues, but to follow the global orientation that “no one should be left behind”.
The role of TV Surdo in the training was fundamental because it ensured that all PLASOC plans and policies are oriented to respect and promote policies on disability. One of the issues TV Surdo advocated for that was incorporated in the discussions was the need to include Braille on drug labels and to ensure that health communication campaigns are inclusive for people with disabilities.
PCBG 08: Number of advocacy materials and documents produced with USG/ PEPFAR support
During this reporting period neither PCBG nor PCBG partners produced advocacy documents with USG/PEPFAR support as this funding source ended in March 2019.
Objective 2: Strengthened organizational performance by partner CSOs
EG.11-1(Ind. 9): Number of people trained in climate change adaptation supported by USG assistance (Output) Parceria Cívica para Boa Governação Program (PCBG) Quarter 2 2020: January 1, 2020 – March 31, 2020, Submitted to USAID/Mozambique
In FY20 Q2, PCBG CSO partners organized training, workshops and debate on climate change related impacts and solutions targeting 179 stakeholders including government representatives and CSO platforms working in the sector.
Third National Workshop on Climate Change: Reflection Post-Conference of Parties (CoP) 25
The CSO National Platform on Climate Change (PNOSCMC) organized the “III National Workshop on Climate Change: Post-Conference of Parties (CoP) 25 Reflection” workshop between February 12-13. PNOSCMC is composed of national and international civil society organizations including PCBG partner LIVANINGO. The goal of the workshop was to create a space in which different actors could discuss and reflect on sensitive aspects related to climate change, (causes, impacts, and proposals for solutions), a phenomenon that threatens humanity and the planet, as well as the sustainable development of several developing countries, including Mozambique. Domenico Liuzzi, KULIMA Director, during the At the workshop, LIVANINGO presented the theme opening of the workshop organized by the CSO “Climate Migration: Impact of Climate Change on Human National Platform for Climate Change (PNOSCMC) Mobility” and shared some recommendations that aim to respond to the challenges imposed by the impacts of climate change: • Improve coordination between different government institutions working in this area; • Promote the participation and inclusion of all social segments given that communities are often not consulted; • Revise the guiding documents to combat climate change envisaging the inclusion, recognition and protection of refugees / migrants / and climate displaced persons; • Need for a more comprehensive debate to build consensus regarding the terms; climate refugee, displaced, or migrant resulting from climate change; • Mozambique must have a specific instruments (policy or strategy on climate change-induced migration) that addresses issues of climate migration; • There is a need for more significant dissemination and implementation of policies and strategies on climate migration and; • Harmonization of instruments and their link with local content (community knowledge).
The workshop combined the following methodologies: group work, interaction and practical demonstration. The workshop resulted in the development of a vulnerability matrix and some possible solutions to address climate refugee concerns.
Parceria Cívica para Boa Governação Program (PCBG) Quarter 2 2020: January 1, 2020 – March 31, 2020, Submitted to USAID/Mozambique
Training on the impact and effects of climate change in the Metuge District
On March 25, PCBG partner FRUTICAD conducted a refresher training on the impact of climate change and mitigation measures targeting Metuge District authorities, community leaders from the locality of Messanja, Nacuta, Metuge, Miezi and Nanlia, heads of production, primary school directors, environmental clubs leaders, extensionists (these serve as FRUTICAD focal points in the districts and they are part of the District Economic Services), the Metuge District Education, Youth and Technology Services, as well as the District Planning and Infrastructure Services. Practical work with training participants in the Metuge District
Given the impact of Cyclone Kenneth in 2019, the training was an opportunity to raise awareness and advocate for continued implementation of climate migration and risk reduction measures, of which some are promoted by the FRUTICAD project such as tree planting and environment education action targeting students through school environment clubs. The training used vivid examples shared by the participants on how Cyclone Kenneth affected different sectors of the district and what can be done to mitigate those impacts. Thirty-one participants attended the training (27 female and 4 male).
Ntumbuluku met with Ocean Revolution (OR) and Marine Megafauna Foundation (MMFF) to foster collaboration and knowledge transfer in biodiversity conservation
From February 17-20, Ntumbuluku and Counterpart PCBG senior staff held two exploratory meetings and field visits with CSOs based in Inhambane Province that focus on biodiversity conservation, community marine reserve management, and coastal area protection. The objective of the field visits was for Ntumbuluku to learn the approach used by these other biodiversity CSOs, make necessary adjustments to its approach, and replicate best practices used by these two CSO in Vilanculos in view of fostering biodiversity protection and conservation.
Meeting with Ocean Revolution On February 18, senior Ntumbukulu staff and Counterpart staff met with Ocean Revolution, in Inhambane. Ocean Revolution works in partnership with Eduardo Mondlane University to promote biodiversity protection. Ntumbuluku learned that OR work covers the establishment and management of small marine conservation areas, training of local divers and overall drowning prevention in Inhambane Bay. As a result of its work, the organization aided local communities to establish nine community reserves along the Inhambane Bay. Ntumbuluku also learned that the communities proposed the initiative to create reserves because of their familiarity with the local environment and the selected areas that were formerly protected because they are Antonio De Sacramento from Ocean Revolution known as sheltered, breeding places for marine species. showing Ntumbuluku staff the map of conservation areas created. According to the communities, the protection of the breeding areas of the species has always been a custom in the Inhambane Bay, but during the civil war and Parceria Cívica para Boa Governação Program (PCBG) Quarter 2 2020: January 1, 2020 – March 31, 2020, Submitted to USAID/Mozambique during the post-war period, conservation efforts declined. This resulted in overfishing in these areas, and therefore some species that had been commonly found are now rare or have completely disappeared.
Ntumbuluku also learned that the creation of reserves presupposes the building of consensus between the Community Fisheries Committees (CCPs) and the community in general. In addition to the communities, Ocean Revolution works with key government sectors such as District Services for Economic Activities, District Services for Planning and Infrastructure, Fisheries Research Institute, Provincial Directorate of Land and Environment, Provincial Directorate of Sea, Inland Waters and Fisheries and the local university. Reserves are managed by the communities themselves based on a “Management Plan” designed by them with the help of Ocean Revolution. The inspection and monitoring of the reserves areas is being carried out by the community members with technical assistance and support from government inspectors and CSOs. They also help with the oversight and sharing of human, material and monetary resources. The reserve areas are signposted with poles and red cloths and any fishing gear is prohibited. The fencing in these areas is permanent and fishing is only done in the adjacent areas.
Ntumbuluku expressed interest to continue collaborating with OR in an effort to build a network of local CSOs working on biodiversity protection and conservation in Inhambane Province. Ntumbuluku also committed itself to implement the OR approach in Vilankulos and requested technical assistance from OR, even in post- PCBG period, a request accepted by OR.
Meeting with Marine Megafauna Foundation On February 19, Ntumbuluku and Counterpart PCBG staff met with the Marine Megafauna Foundation (MMFF) a subsidiary of Megafauna Association. Like the Ocean Revolution, Ntumbuluku learned that the Megafauna Association is committed to conservation of marine resources, but with a focus on larger marine wildlife such as whale sharks, and manta ray. Although a reserve area has yet to be established, the organization has been monitoring the species inhabiting since 2017. Ntumbuluku also learned that to establish reserves it is necessary to assess and study the areas. For instance, MMFF is currently conducting several studies on the marine world, monitoring coral reefs, and carrying out environmental education in the community and schools in order to generate evidence to support their cause. They also implement alternative income generating projects to fishing, including small scale farming.
Ntumbuluku learned that, similar to the Ocean Revolution approach, MMFF is following a similar approach of having the community members lead the identification and management of reserve areas. They have a strong focus on conducting scientific study to confirm the conditions for the establishment of conservation areas. If the study indicates the conditions are not appropriate for a reserve, they will move to another area that meets the conditions.
During the visit Megafauna took Ntumbuluku and Counterpart to attend the inauguration of a Fishing Community Council (CCP Portuguese acronym), a process led by the district fisheries sector. CCPs represent the interests of communities and are entities with which CSOs and the government work on issues related to biodiversity conservation.
Ntumbuluku also expressed interest in continuing to collaborate with MMFF, with particular focus on the local community training and sensitization components. MMFF welcomed the request and agreed to collaborate where MMFF had added expertise.
PCBG 10: Number of organizations engaged with networks
Parceria Cívica para Boa Governação Program (PCBG) Quarter 2 2020: January 1, 2020 – March 31, 2020, Submitted to USAID/Mozambique
In this reporting period, six PCBG partners engaged networks and coalitions to more widely cooperate, refine and disseminate their messages, influence and demand change in public policies and practices to achieve widespread reach in PCG target sectors (below is a list of PCBG partners engagement in networks).
Table 4: List of PCBG partners who are members of networks
Grantee Name of network Sector focus Activities Extractive Industry Extractive Discussed the Extractive Industry Transformative Multisectoral industry Initiative (EITI's) 8th report for the year 2017 and 2018 at AENA Transparency event attended by CSOs: AENA, KULIMA, AAAJC2-Tete, Initiative group AMA, CDD and the Platform Secretariat; CSO produced evidences that were discussed in a meeting held on the February 27th in the Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy's Office National Climate Climate Change Periodic meetings to discuss issues related to climate change with Platform members: Kulima, Kuwuka JDA, Change Platform LIVANINGO Group of Women and Girls, Environmental Justice and (PNOSCMC) CARE Mozambique; Elaboration of Terms of Reference for an online meeting
(via Skype) with platform members on climate migration District civil society Governance Engaged the district governments of Homoine and MAHLAHLE platforms in Homoine Jangamo to implement the practice of regular and Jangamo Districts accountability to citizens through district CSO platforms MEPT Forum for budget Basic Education Attended a monitoring mission on budget allocation and monitoring training of schools affected by Cyclone Idai in Tete CSO biodiversity Biodiversity Meetings with fisheries and municipal government sectors NTUMBULUKU Platform in Vilankulos conservation to discuss the need to establish a marine conservation (PDMC) area in Chibuene and Mangalisse Health and Meeting with the Health Communication Technical Group TV SURDO PLASOC Human Rights at the National Council for Combat of AIDS (CNCS) to discuss the preparation of the Fifth National Strategic Plan to Combat HIV/AID (PENCS V) and inclusion of People with Disabilities
PCBG 11: Proportion of CSOs that received funding from donor’s other than Counterpart
This is an annual indicator and in this FY20 Q2 we present the narrative of the progress accomplished. In this regard, PCBG conducted three final project evaluations with CSO partners that ended their project implementation cycle in FY20 Q1 and found progress made towards financial sustainability of these CSO partners.
BIOFUND, KUWUKA JDA and AMDEC ended their agreements with PCBG on December 31, 2019. The assessment demonstrates a change between the mid-term assessment (March 2019) and the final assessment (February 2020). The final evaluation reports show that the three organizations improved their financial sustainability efforts.
BIOFUND
2 AAAJC: Associação de Assistencia e Apoio Juridico as Comunidades Parceria Cívica para Boa Governação Program (PCBG) Quarter 2 2020: January 1, 2020 – March 31, 2020, Submitted to USAID/Mozambique
This organization had an increase in its applications (endowment) to US$ 37 million in 2019, compared to 2018, where they had an increase of $ 33.7 million. The organization is now less dependent on donors. For example, the World Bank, which financed BIOFUND by 70%, decreased funding levels to 35% of BIOFUND’s overall budget. Based on recommendations from PCBG on financial sustainability using PODA tools, BIOFUND was able to include its 15% project fee in two projects approved in this period. To this end, it renewed its investment committee, having updated the organization's investment policy and established improved procedures for project monitoring and management. This fee will be used to support the organization’s operations during transition period, from one project to another.
KUWUKA JDA
As a way of increasing unrestricted funds, based on the contribution of its members, KUWUKA JDA increased the membership fees at the General Assembly held in January 2020 to 500 meticais (previously 100 meticais). As a result, member contributions went from 1000 meticais to 5000 meticais. The membership fees had not increased since inception of the organization 10 years ago. KUWUKA JDA is also pursuing funding opportunities in the private sector, for example, ANADARKO has a funding opportunity for CSOs as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives , but priorities go to the CSOs registered in their funding portal. To this end, Kuwuka registered and expects to have positive feedback. Matilde Mirals, a subsidiary of Savana Resources, expressed interest in funding KUWUKA JDA to advocate on behalf of the community in Jangamo and Inharrime districts to ensure that the 2.75% of revenues from the extractive industry are channeled to fund community priorities. This is another funding opportunity that Kuwuka will be tapping into as part of their financial sustainability strategy.
AMDEC
During this reporting period, AMDEC developed 15 proposals applying for financial support from other donors. The organization also tapped into consortiums when submitting these proposals. AMDEC began negotiations with the private sector as well. For example, they approached Mozal, a large extractive industry company (Aluminim), about funding AMDEC as a local CSO as part of their Mozal’s Corporate Social Responsibility strategy, Although the discussions are embryonic AMDEC approached them as part of their Financial Sustainability Plan, that now expanded their funding sources beyond bilateral donors to include the private sector. The financial sustainability plan also foresees charging a fee of (7%) per project to support the AMDEC’s financial sustainability.
PCBG 12: Number of CSOs with improved organizational capacity
During the reporting period, PCBG conducted three final evaluations of the following partners: BIOFUND, KUWUKA JDA and AMDEC. The three partners demonstrated progress in all the evaluation pillars. Improvements in pillars are described below (financial sustainability described above):
Parceria Cívica para Boa Governação Program (PCBG) Quarter 2 2020: January 1, 2020 – March 31, 2020, Submitted to USAID/Mozambique
BIOFUND
Functional areas under Initial Evaluation Mid-term Evaluation Final Evaluation revision Concluded Used Concluded Used Concluded Used 1. Leadership and Strategic 3.2 4.0 3.6 4.0 3.7 4.0 Management 2. Program Management 2.7 2.8 4.0 3.4 4.0 3.6 and Quality Control 3. Financial Management 4.0 4.0 4.0 4.0 4.0 4.0 and Accounts 4. Financial Sustainability 3.3 3.0 3.8 3.5 4.0 3.9 5. Human Resources and 2.6 2.9 2.8 3.2 3.4 3.6 Material 6. External Relations & 1.7 1.8 3.2 3.3 3.9 3.7 Partnerships Total 2.9 3.1 3.6 3.6 3.8 3.8
As the data in the tables shows, in the initial assessment the overall organization capacity was 2.9 which was indicative of weakness in some PODA functional areas (2, 5 and 6). With the technical assistance from PCBG the BIOFUND recorded significant progress in all functional areas that had demonstrated weakness in initial assessment. The functional area #2, moved from 2.7 up to 3.6; the functional area #5, moved from 2.6 to 3.6 and the functional are #6, moved from 1.7 to 3.7 giving the organization an overall score of 3.8 out of the possible total score of 4.0. This demonstrates that BIOFUND is a robust and mature organization.
Regarding communication (integral part of functional area #6), BIOFUND believes that the strategy developed with the support of a consultant at the beginning of the project, did not adequately respond to the organization's needs. However, BIOFUND feels that it has gained significantly from the training that Counterpart provided them on image capturing and the development of success stories. It increased the organization’s visibility which is helping BIOFUND engage more donors and partners.
KUWUKA JDA
Functional areas under Initial Evaluation Mid-term Evaluation Final Evaluation revision Concluded Used Concluded Used Concluded Used 1. Leadership and Strategic 3.0 2.6 3.5 3.2 3.9 3.6 Management 2. Program Management 2.6 2.6 3.1 3.2 3.7 3.5 and Quality Control 3. Financial Management 2.3 2.3 3.0 3.1 3.3 3.3 and Accounts 4. Financial Sustainability 2.7 2.8 2.9 3.0 3.2 3.0 5. Human Resources and 1.6 1.7 3.0 2.6 3.5 2.8 Material 6. External Relations & 2.9 3.1 3.2 3.5 3.4 3.5 Partnerships Total 2.5 2.5 3.1 3.1 3.5 3.3
Parceria Cívica para Boa Governação Program (PCBG) Quarter 2 2020: January 1, 2020 – March 31, 2020, Submitted to USAID/Mozambique
KUWUKA JDA improved their scores in all of the pillars. Areas of greatest improvement included: (1) leadership and strategic management improved as they developed and put into practice key internal governance documents, although the respective appropriation by staff and members of the governing bodies is still in progress; (2) in advocacy where KUWUKA worked more on involving the government and stakeholders to adjust and/or change extractive industry polices. This promoted government ownership, especially in promoting dialogue with communities and corporate social responsibility projects initiated by companies in the communities in which they operate.
However, in terms of drafting their advocacy strategy, there was a lack of discussion on improving its communication components, and this was reflected in slow strategy implementation. KUWIKA did improve its understanding and interpretation of aspects of gender and social inclusion in general and developed policies in this regard.
The data presented in the table above illustrates that KUWUKA registered progress in overall functional areas, moving from 2.5 to 3.3 out of an overall score of 4.0 according to PODA. In terms of the overall PODA assessment, this organization needs to spend time and attention to functional areas #4 and #5.
AMDEC
Functional areas under Initial Evaluation Mid-term Evaluation Final Evaluation revision Concluded Used Concluded Used Concluded Used 1. Leadership and Strategic 3.8 3.2 3.8 3.6 4.0 3.8 Management 2. Program Management and 3.6 3.4 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.8 Quality Control 3. Financial Management and 4.0 3.8 3.9 3.9 4.0 3.9 Accounts 4. Financial Sustainability 3.0 2.8 3.5 3.4 3.7 3.7 5. Human Resources and 3.8 3.8 3.8 3.8 3.8 3.9 Material 6. External Relations & 2.7 2.7 2.9 2.9 3.7 3.5 Partnerships Total 3.5 3.3 3.6 3.6 3.8 3.8
The data in the table illustrates that the organization made progress in all functional areas. In relation to leadership and strategic management (functional area #1), AMDEC drafted its advocacy strategy that was used to guide their advocacy work. The strategy developed with PCBG support, highlighted the need to work in coalitions and networks, an approach adopted by AMDEC staff. As a reflection of this, the latest grant proposals that AMDEC applied for to seek funding for strengthening the School Councils, were made in partnership with other organizations working in the education sector and, if awarded, will be implemented in partnership.
In relation to functional area #6, AMDEC has been able to improve is advocacy approach and support it with evidence. For instance, the research carried out in Zambezia Province on School Council functioning, challenges and alternatives for improvement, was used to influence and to improve the general regulation of basic education (REGED). The results of the research were also shared with interested partners and Parceria Cívica para Boa Governação Program (PCBG) Quarter 2 2020: January 1, 2020 – March 31, 2020, Submitted to USAID/Mozambique other organizations to inform the investments needed in the sector. AMDEC effectively utilizes their website as a hub for this information.
In general, AMDEC has consistently scored high in almost all functional areas. However, the organization will need to spend more time and investment in functional areas #4 related to financial sustainability and #6 related to external relations.
Indicator 13: Number of CSOs effectively integrating gender into organizational structures, procedures, and programming
In FY20 Q2, four PCBG CSO partners reported through the adjusted Participatory Organizational Assessment to mainstream gender and social inclusion (GSI) using the scale (0-GSI blind and 1- full GSI mainstreaming) within the PODA functional areas including their organizational structure, procedures and programs.
BIOFUND Following training on gender and social inclusion (GSI) facilitated by PCBG in FY19, the BIOFUND technical team mainstreamed gender and social inclusion in key strategic documents and designed specific indicators to monitor progress towards those specific components. During the initial assessment, BIOFUND scored an average of 48% of GSI mainstreaming, but with technical assistance and support provided by PCBG throughout the project BIOFUND had scored 70% of GSI mainstreamed all functional areas. For example, for all of their new projects, such as the Biodiversity Offset Program, the Conservation Leadership Program and the PROMOVE Biodiversity Program, they have mainstreamed gender and have set aside specific biodiversity funds targeting women and youth. This is monitored through specific indicators that capture the number of women, population aged 18-24 targeted and engaged in biodiversity conservation activities.
AMDEC AMDEC registered a slight increase in GSI Mainstreaming. In the initial evaluation, the organization had an average of 70% of GSI mainstreamed in all functional areas. As a result of PCBG technical assistance, in the final evaluation AMDEC recorded an average of 80% GSI mainstreamed in all functional areas. The PCBG support helped them finalize their gender and social inclusion policy. Based on this policy, the organization included the GSI component in its 2019-2020 strategic plan. In recent funding proposals, suggesting the integration of women in School Councils.
KUWUKA JDA PCBG trained KUWUKA JDA staff on gender and social inclusion including sexual harassment. As a result of this training, the staff improved their knowledge on how to mainstream gender aspects into the organization’s strategic documents, policies and procedures and the organization assumed a greater commitment in relation to these issues. Leading to the development of a gender and social inclusion and sexual harassment policy. The GSI policy has a component on how to communicate aspects of GSI, but it will need to be incorporated into their communication strategy as well. KUWUKA JDA had an average of 40% of GSI mainstreaming in the initial evaluation and in the final evaluation it scored 50% in all PODA functional areas. KUWUKA will need to work on integrating GSI into its practices.
NTUMBULUKU During this reporting period PCBG continued to provide technical assistance to Ntumbuluku to assist them develop internal policies and governance documents, such as its Gender and Social Inclusion Policy and Sexual Harassment Policy. These policies and internal governance documents are being used to guide the organization practices and procedures. Parceria Cívica para Boa Governação Program (PCBG) Quarter 2 2020: January 1, 2020 – March 31, 2020, Submitted to USAID/Mozambique
EG.11-2 (Ind.14): Number of institutions with improved capacity to assess or address climate change risks supported by USG assistance
In this reporting period PCBG improved the capacity of one partner to better assess and/or address climate change risks.
PCBG worked with its partner FRUTICAD to design and finalize terms of reference to engage an experienced consultant in the area of climate change adaptation and mitigation, and on Mozambique’s climate change and Disaster Risk Reduction policy and legal framework. In the agreed upon terms of reference, the consultant will advise on climate change adaptation and mitigation activities implemented by FRUTICAD, provide technical assistance and risk assessment tools to FRUTICAD for assessing climate risk, identify on the ground activities and refine the District Strategic Plan for Adaptation and Mitigation for Metuge District. The expected outcome of this consultancy is the ability of FRUTICAD to make use of the knowledge generated and assessment tools to continue assessing and monitoring underlying climate risks and, above all, to support the Metuge District to implement climate adaptation and mitigation actions.
Indicator 15: Number of CSO staff who report using new skills and/or knowledge received in USG-funded training and provide an example
In this reporting period, PCBG trained 40 PCBG partners’ staff, among them 29 (20 men and 9 women) on M&E fundamentals and 11 (8 men and 3 women) in communication techniques to produce success stories and photographs (further details of communication training can be found in crosscutting section).
The M&E fundamentals training focused on new skills and tools to improve monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL), and strategic communications. The number of CSO staff who report using these new skills will be reported in FY20 Q3. A focus group discussion technique will be used to assess to what extent the trainees are using the new skills and knowledge three months after the trainings were conducted. The table below illustrates the number of organizations and respective staff targeted by the training:
Partner Location Participant Total Male Female Mahahle Inhambane 18 5 23 Ntumbuluko, TVSurdo, Maputo 4 4 8 Livaningo, MEPT Fruticad Pemba 3 2 5 AENA Nampula 3 1 4
28 12 40
The aim of these trainings was to improve the methodology of monitoring, reporting and evaluating the success and impact of implemented program activities, as well as learning from the challenges faced during implementation. The trainings focused specifically on foundations for Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning, reporting achievements during project implementation, and on developing success stories on achievements.
Parceria Cívica para Boa Governação Program (PCBG) Quarter 2 2020: January 1, 2020 – March 31, 2020, Submitted to USAID/Mozambique
Indicator 16: Number of new funding sources identified, submitted, contracted or received by each CSO.
In this FY20 Q2 period, three PCBG CSO partners reported having identified eight donors with funding opportunities for their activities as described below. TV SURDO TV Surdo identified the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation as a potential donor source. On February 12, the Crown Prince of Norway Haakon of Norway and his delegation, which included the Minister of Norwegian Development and the Ambassador of Norway to Mozambique, visited TV Surdo. During the visit, TV Surdo produced a television interview with the Norwegian Minister of Development asking him questions about funding opportunities for projects in Mozambique. The TV Surdo interview will be translated and broadcast in Norway. With this activity TV Surdo hopes to increase the existing Norwegian Embassy funding which commenced in December 2019.
KUWUKA JDA The PCBG organizational development assessment mid-term review (March 10, 2019 - February 13, 2020) of KUWUKA JDA found that they have identified and mobilized funds for six projects; some ongoing and others upcoming. Among them are:
Projects/funder Implementation Project objective timeframe Terra des Homens (German)- April 2019 – April To contribute to the legal/ systematic inclusion of children’s and 2020 (annual youth rights in all decisions related to Local Development and renewal) now Particularly to Extractive Industries through informed participation extended up to children and youth in decision making in mining communities of September due to Matutuine (Maputo Province), and Jangamo (Inhambane province) COVID 19 OSISA - Publish What You Pay- End in December To galvanise local communities and civil society actors to demand receptor principal (implemented 2020 for equitable distribution and just use of mineral sector revenues in by 3 partners Malawi, Madagascar, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique Mozambique and Madagascar; Ministry of external affairs of October 2019 - To promote equitable and transparent generation and allocation of Finland – Lead CSO PWYP December 2020 extractives revenues for sustainable development in Mozambique, (implemented by Tanzania, Uganda and Tanzania Uganda and Mozambique) UE/ PAANE- CARE Mozambique July 2019- 2023 Expand the effective participation of CSO in the elaboration, lead CSO with KUWUKA JDA implementation and monitoring of public policies on land management and extractive sector, for the direct benefit of communities, in the provinces of Cabo Delgado, Niassa, Tete, Sofala and Inhambane, until 2022 Kent University April 2019 – May Promote tourism development, biodiversity conservation and 2020 community development, through a cross-border virtual (online) social platform and a conservation planning system for Maputaland UNEPT – Faculty of biological January to To develop a management action plan for sea-grass meadows based Science, of Eduardo Mondlane December 2020. on concrete research questions that leads to a demonstrative University in consortium with outcome of sustainability of sea-grass invertebrate fisheries, its value com KUWUKA JDA, to the community well-being, testing blue carbon restoration of seagrasses in southern Mozambique
AMDEC AMEDC communicated with USAID during this reporting period regarding an opportunity for collaboration. On February 25-27, USAID sent an email to AMDEC to ask about their work. With support Parceria Cívica para Boa Governação Program (PCBG) Quarter 2 2020: January 1, 2020 – March 31, 2020, Submitted to USAID/Mozambique from PCBG, AMDEC prepared their technical document and sent it to USAID with the intention of a future joint collaboration between USAID and AMDEC in the education sector in Mozambique.
Objective 3: Facilitate a credible, participatory and peaceful electoral process
FY20 Q1 marked the close out of PCBG election component and consequently five election CSO partners ended their project implementation cycle. In this regard, there are no updates for this project component in FY Q2 DR.3.2-3 (Ind 17): Indicator 17: Number of domestic election observers and/or party agents trained with USG assistance;
Indicator 19: Percent of reported electoral violence monitoring forms meeting quality threshold;
Indicator 20: Number of USG-supported activities designed to promote or strengthen the civic participation of women (DR.4-1);
Indicator 20: Number of USG-supported activities designed to promote or strengthen the civic participation of women (DR.4-1);
Indicator 21: Number of participants in community mitigation, confidence building, and peace building activities;
Indicator 22: Number of coordination meetings conducted with external grassroots electoral actors to mitigate violence and/or for peace building
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CROSS CUTTING OBJECTIVES Communication strategy and branding awareness In FY20 Q2, PCBG provided technical assistance to eight partners by reviewing their publications and documents related to their program implementation. Most notably, PCBG provided technical assistance to LIVANINGO on the production and dissemination of a report on Climate Change Refugees in Mozambique.
Reporting and dissemination
In FY20 Q2 PCBG produced and disseminated 12 weekly updates highlighting partners’ work in all seven sectors. The weekly highlights were shared with USAID and translated into Portuguese for dissemination to all the PCBG partners. In this quarter, PCBG disseminated MONITOR Network’s elections lessons learned report in Portuguese to USAID and PCBG elections partners. FY20 Q2, PCBG collected success stories and lessons learned from partners to produce a PCBG success story booklet which will be finalized and shared in the next quarter.
Branding
In FY20 Q2 PCBG assisted LIVANINGO to produce press releases published in the local newspapers and formatted MONITOR’s elections lessons learned report. In both documents, Counterpart ensured that the support provided by USAID is appropriately acknowledged in writing, verbally and visibly by using the USAID logo where appropriate.
Training
In FY20 Q2, Counterpart trained eleven (8 men and 3 women) MAHLAHLE staff, including field technicians, project officers, program managers and the coordinator in techniques for producing success stories and photography. The present activity arose in the project extension proposal, sub-activity 3.6.1 “Training the team in the capture and processing of images and in the documentation of change and success stories, which illustrate the organization's work”. The objectives of the session were to improve MAHLAHLE's technical ability to document success stories and take quality photos and encourage MAHLAHLE to share their success stories through reports. During the training PCBG identified five stories, including a feature on MAHLAHLE (see success story in report).). Group photo with training participants
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Section
During this reporting period, PCBG conducted training on monitoring and evaluation fundamentals as this was identified as a common need among that the majority of CSOs. The training included Foundations for Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) with the goal to help CSOs monitor and assess progress on the implementation of their activities and increase their capacity to focus on achieving the expected impacts. The training included data collection tools, data quality assessment, and techniques to capture impacts related to project interventions. Project managers and monitoring and evaluation officers from PCBG partners CESC, AENA, FRUTICAD, Mahlahle, Livaningo, Ntumbuluklu, MEPT and TV Surdo participated in the trainings. At the end, trainees were encouraged to: Parceria Cívica para Boa Governação Program (PCBG) Quarter 2 2020: January 1, 2020 – March 31, 2020, Submitted to USAID/Mozambique
• Prioritize the use of data collecting tools to capture quantitative data and use key informant or focal group discussion as tool to capture qualitative data. • Set up targets in order to facilitate the focus of the implementation of activities; • Regularly use the Indicator Tracking Table in all quarterly reports and do this as a reporting culture. • Always ensure data quality assurance (Data Quality Assurance) and don't expect to prepare for the eve of USAID's data quality audit. • Make use of the opportunity for learning lessons and recording success stories to better report the impacts of the project. CHALLENGES & LESSONS LEARNED
This quarter, the project experienced staffing challenges, particularly within the finance team. In early March, the Senior Accountant resigned. Given the short amount of time remaining for the project, it would be very difficult to recruit a qualified person to fill this position for the remaining four months. Therefore, Counterpart offered a short-term consulting contract to the former Senior Accountant on another Counterpart project in the region that had recently closed. This consultant was scheduled to arrive in Mozambique when travel restrictions began to take place due to the COVID-19 threat. Counterpart made the decision for the consultant to remain in her home country, but she is successfully working remotely with the team.
Counterpart identified a former project employee, based in Morocco, who was available and interested in this assignment. The consultant was deployed in February. However, as a result of COVID-19 travel restrictions place in Morocco, the consultant returned to Morocco in mid- March and proceeded to work remotely. The Chief of Party was also repatriated to the United States. She has been effectively managing the project remotely since March 20, 2020. To facilitate processing financial reports via teleworking, personnel were set up with electronic signatures and PCBG initiated activating on-line banking with the BCI, the local Mozambican bank.
COVID-19 has presented unique challenges and constraints as project staff and subgrantees have had to adjust activities and workplace operations to keep personnel safe and prevent transmission. In mid-March, PCBG developed a three-phase plan of action for dealing with COVID-19 including arrangements for teleworking and social distancing, alternative transport for staff using public transport, and procedures for regularly disinfecting the office. In addition, project related travel has been canceled for the protection of staff. PCBG has also worked with Sub-grantees to adjust activities in their workplans so meetings and conferences would be limited to smaller numbers or done remotely.
COLLABORATION WITH OTHER DONOR PROJECTS
This quarter, PCBG participated in the final meetings of the Election Working Group including a February 7th presentation by the European Union (EU) on the findings of the EU Observer Mission to the General Elections 2019.
PCBG continued to participate in the International NGO Forum (INGO) in Mozambique, which is made up of international NGOs working with funds from bilateral and multilateral cooperation partners. In particular, this forum is collaborating on sharing information on the current status and challenges facing NGOs working in Cabo Delgado amidst the ongoing insurgency in that province. Additionally, the forum began sharing information about the impact of COVID-19 and as a collective the forum lobbied the government to extend visas for INGO international employees and consultants whose visas had expired but they could not renew their visas due to COVID-19. Parceria Cívica para Boa Governação Program (PCBG) Quarter 2 2020: January 1, 2020 – March 31, 2020, Submitted to USAID/Mozambique
KEY ACTIVITIES PLANNED FOR NEXT QUARTER
Objective 1: More effective advocacy by partner CSOs in target sectors
• Carry out assessments of the level of implementation of the advocacy strategies of the eight active partners to capture the lessons learned from implementation of evidence-based and non- confrontational advocacy approaches using the adapted USAID’s Advocacy Index tool; • Engage a climate change consultant to assist CBG Partner FRUTICAD in the area of climate risk assessment to better position the partner to advocate for the target stakeholder – District of Metuge implementation of climate change adaptation measure measures; • Provide technical assistance to Ntumbukulu to continue implementing activities to operationalize the community marine conservation area in Vilanculos. • Finalize and disseminate PCBG partner CEURBE’s research results on Violence Against Women in Elections.
Objective 2: Strengthened organizational performance by partner CSOs
• Engage a financial consultant to assist three PCBG partners strengthen their procedures and internal controls: • Conduct final organizational development assessments for AENA, MEPT, TV SURDO, MAHLAHLE, LIVANINGO, NTUMBULUKU, FRUITCAD and CESC; • Undertake a PCBG partner “Learning Exercise” to answer critical end-of-program questions that can be used to inform future follow-on projects and CSO support in Mozambique; • Conduct surveys and focus group discussions (FGDs) to measure key performance indicator.
Objective 3: Facilitate a credible, participatory and peaceful electoral process
FY20 Q1 marked the close out of PCBG election component and consequently five election CSO partners ended their project implementation cycle. In this regard, there are no planned activities for Objective 3 in FY Q3.
ADMINISTRATIVE UPDATE Administration During this period the HQ and field teams worked on a closeout plan. There were no major events happened with respect to the administration department There were no new major procurements during this period besides those related to logistics for trainings, travel and accommodation as well as liquidate payments due to consultants.
During this period, Mozambique reported their first case of COVID-19. The PCBG field team created a task force to come up with an Action Plan to mitigate impact and to provide continuous updates to staff to ensure preparedness and safety. The task force held and will continue holding bi-weekly meetings as well as enacting the COVID-19 action plan.
Human Resources During this period, three staff members resigned; the Administration Assistant, Grant Assistant and the Senior Accountant. To address the staffing gaps in the finance department, PCBG engaged a former Counterpart International staff in the region as a consultant to support with financial management. PCBG continues to be supported by a Senior Financial Management consultant, who was formerly a Counterpart staff member in Morocco. To provide additional support to the grants team and finance teams, PCBG Parceria Cívica para Boa Governação Program (PCBG) Quarter 2 2020: January 1, 2020 – March 31, 2020, Submitted to USAID/Mozambique onboarded three interns. PCBG also held refresher staff trainings on Ethics and Compliance, Procurement Flowchart, Conflict of Interest and Visual Compliance.
FINANCIAL UPDATE As of March 2020, the PCBG project had reported expenditures in the amount of $11,002,546.91, 93.04% of its $11,825,000 total obligation.
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Table 5: Sub award (including in-kind) expensed in FY20 Q2:3
Exchange Rate 66.07 66.07 66.07 Amount advanced/paid Award Obligation N/O Status Name of the Organization/Individual to grantees (USD) (USD) by March 20 (USD)
1 Closed BIOFUND - Fundacao para conservacao da Biodiversidade 190,368 190,368 190,363
2 Active AENA - Associacao Nacional de Extensao rural 250,460 250,460 221,364
3 Closed TV SURDO - Associacao TV SURDO Mocambique 150,802 150,802 135,966
4 Closed AMDEC - Associacao Mocambicana para Desenvolvimento Concertado 212,086 212,086 212,086
5 Active MEPT - Movimento de Educacao para Todos 164,529 164,529 145,334
6 Active CESC - CENTRO DE APRENDIZAGEM E CAPACITACAO DA SOCIEDADE CIVIL 614,830 557,263 501,900
7 Closed MASC - Fundacao Mecanismo de Apoio a Sociedade Civil ** 13,563 - 13,563
8 Closed MASC - Fundacao Mecanismo de Apoio a Sociedade Civil ** 10,626 - 10,626 KUWUKA - Associacao KUWUKA JDA - Juventude Desenvolvimento e Advocacia 9 Closed Ambiental 164,222 147,350 146,272
10 Closed MASC - Fundacao Mecanismo de Apoio a Sociedade Civil ** 161,435 106,054 106,054
Ended/Pending ORPHAD - ORGANIZACAO PARA A PROMOCAO DA PAZ E 11 Closeout DESENVOLVIMENTO HUMANITARIO 151,021 151,021 107,533
12 Closed CEDES - COMITE ECUMENICO PARA O SOCIAL 155,864 155,864 138,963
3 All subgrant awards are issued in local currency, the values for USD amounts reflected in this table are based on the current month’s exchange rate. As such, the amounts reflected under the award and obligation amount column may vary from quarter to quarter.
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MALHALHE - ASSOCIACAO PARA PROMOCAO E DESENVOLVIMENTO DA 13 Active MULHER 131,561 131,561 116,796
14 Closed ANDA - ASSOCIACAO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO SUSTENTAVEL 145,381 145,381 141,488
15 Closed PNDH - PRESSAO NACIONAL DOS DIREITOS HUMANOS 127,346 127,346 127,610
16 Active FRUTICAD - ASSOCIACAO DE FRUTICULTORES E HORTICULTORES DE CD 178,055 178,055 147,110
17 Closed CEURBE - CENTRO DE ESTUDOS URBANOS DE MOCAMBIQUE ** 33,281 - 71,048 LIVANINGO - ASSOCIACAO PARA PRESERVACAO E DEFESA DO MEIO 18 Active AMBIENTE 105,347 105,347 74,108
19 Active ASSOCIACAO NTUMBULUKU 119,813 119,813 100,624
20 Closed ADS - Associacao de Desenvolvimento e Sociedade 260,718 260,718 247,945
21 Active CEURBE - CENTRO DE ESTUDOS URBANOS DE MOCAMBIQUE 67,954 67,954 53,386
3,409,263 3,221,973 3,010,139
** Fix Amount Awards
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SUCCESS STORIES
Civil Society Monitors District Social and Economic Budget Plans in Inhambane Province Counterpart Parceria Cívica para Boa Governação (PCBG) partner MAHLAHLE (Association for the Promotion and Development of Women) is changing the way that civil society participates in the implementation of the District Social and Economic Budget Plans (PESOD) in Inhambane Province, Mozambique. MAHLAHLE engaged with the Provincial Government of Inhambane and convinced government decision-makers about the benefits of opening up the PESOD process to citizen participation, pointing out the gaps and opportunities of decree No. 11 / 2005 that regulates the law of local state bodies (LOLE). As a result, the Provincial Government signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with MAHLAHLE, with the participation of the district “We are happy with governments of Massinga, Funhalouro and Inhassoro, in Inhambane. this meeting. We will MAHLAHLE also developed a PESOD monitoring tool called FAROL and take this report to the trained district civil society platforms on how to use the tool to monitor and provincial level, as document how the district has executed the PESOD. proof that the District The MOU opened the space for interactions between the district governments of Massinga is already and local civil society organizations through engagement meetings where civil implementing the society actors can present their monitoring results for discussion and action recommendation,” by the local government. said the District The provincial government recognized Administrator of that these interaction meetings are a good practice of transparency and Massinga, José citizen participation in governance and Jeremias. recommended their implementation in all districts of Inhambane Province. As a result, MAHLAHLE rolled out the monitoring tool to civil society platform in Homoine and Jangamo District Administrator, Permanent Secretary, District Directors and members of the Civil Society Platform of Massinga District and is working with those district government officials to gain their buy-in and support of citizen participation in the PESOD process.
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Annex A: Indicators Performance Table PITT- FY20 Q2
Annex C FY2020 N Indicators Target/ FY FY FY FY Q1 Q2 Total LOP o. Actual/Varia 2016 2017 2018 2019 nce Impact Indicators Proportion of CSOs reporting that Target 0 TBD TBD TBD TBD 1 they impacted government public Actual 55.6% 57% 0 0 112.6% policies as a result of USG assistance in Variance N/A target sectors Outcome Indicators Number of public policies introduced, Target 0 1 1 0 4 adopted, repealed, changed or 2 implemented consistent with citizen Actual 1 2 6 0 0 0 10 and/or civil society input Variance N/A (1) (5) N/A (6) (Custom indicator) Output Indicators Number of activities that contribute to Target 8 8 8 8 32 3 government engagement with citizens Actual 7 22 42 7 9 16 87 (Custom indicator) Variance 1 (14) (34) (8)4 (55) Number of mechanisms for external Target 2 4 4 4 14 oversight of public resource use 4 supported by USG assistance Actual 0 4 12 0 0 0 16 (F-indicator 2.2.4-4) Variance 2 0 (8) 45 (2) Number of CSOs receiving USG Target 2 2 2 2 8 5 assistance engaged in advocacy interventions Actual 5 3 16 16 8 24 16 Variance (3) (1) (14) (22) (8) Number of evidence-based position Target 1 1 1 1 4 6 statements on policy presented for Actual 2 4 8 6 2 8 22 public dialogue Variance 1 3 (7) (7) (18) (Custom indicator) Number of organizations conducting Target 0 1 0 0 1 HIV and AIDS advocacy with Actual 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 7 USG/PEPFAR support Variance 0 0 0 0 0 (Custom indicator) Number of advocacy materials and Target 0 1 1 0 2 8 documents produced with Actual 0 1 1 1 0 1 3 USG/PEPFAR support Variance 0 0 0 (1) (1) (Custom indicator) 9 Target 0 0 60 0 60 Number of people trained in climate change adaptation supported by USG Actual 0 0 366 29 205 208 574 assistance Variance 0 0 (306) (208) (514)
10 Number of organizations engaged with Target 0 4 4 4 12 networks Actual 0 12 14 7 6 13 39 (Custom indicator) Variance 0 (8) (10) (9) (27) Outcome Indicators
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11 Proportion of CSOs that received Target N/A TBD TBD TBD TBD funding from donor’s other than Actual 100% 87% 0 37.5% 0 225% Counterpart Variance N/A (Custom indicator) Output Indicators 12 Number of CSOs with improved Target 0 0 6 6 12 organizational capacity Actual 0 0 11 4 3 7 18 (Custom indicator) Variance 0 (5) (1) (6) 13 Number of CSOs effectively integrating Target 0 6 2 1 9 gender into organizational structures, Actual 0 0 6 1 4 5 11 procedures, and programming Variance 0 6 (4) (4) (2) (Custom indicator) 14 Number of institutions with improved Target 0 0 0 1 1 capacity to assess or address climate Actual 0 0 3 0 1 1 4 change risks supported by USG Variance 0 0 (3) 0 (3) assistance (EG.11-2) 15 Number of CSO staff who report using Target 32 20 10 10 72 new skills and/or knowledge received Actual 36 17 94 0 0 40 147 in USG-funded training and provide an example (Custom indicator) Variance (4) 3 (84) 10 (75) 16 Number of new funding sources Target 0 5 6 6 17 identified, submitted, contracted or Actual 0 2 9 0 8 8 19 received by each CSO (Custom indicator) Variance 3 (3) 2 2 Output Indicators 17 Number of domestic election Target 0 40 0 0 40 observers and/or party agents trained Actual 0 81 199 4 0 4 199 with USG assistance Variance 0 (41) (199) (4) (159) (Custom indicator) 18 Number of incidents of electoral Target 0 N/A N/A 0 N/A violence reported Actual 0 32 33 59 0 59 124 (Custom indicator) Variance N/A N/A 19 Percent of reported electoral violence Target N/A 85% 0 N/A 85% monitoring forms meeting quality Actual 0 87.5% 97% 100 0% 1 97.0% threshold (Custom indicator) % Variance 3% 97% N/A 12.00% 20 Number of USG-supported activities Target N/A TBD TBD TBD TBD designed to promote or strengthen the Actual 0 8 43 39 0 39 82 civic participation of women (DR.4-1) Variance N/A 21 Number of participants in community Target N/A TBD TBD N/A TBD mitigation, confidence building, and Actual 503 394 0 0 0 897 peace building activities Variance N/A 22 Number of coordination meetings Target 0 25 5 N/A 30 conducted with external grass-root Actual 0 15 71 30 0 30 116 electoral actors to mitigate violence Variance (10) (66) (30) (86) and/or for peace building
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Annex B: Summary of Active Grants
Organization Sector Locations Program Goal
Associação TV Surdo Health Maputo, National Persons with disabilities are mainstreamed into Moçambique (TV Surdo) HIV/AIDS policies and interventions.
Movimento de Educação Para Education National, Improve the quality of primary education through Todos (MEPT) Zambézia the promotion of equitable budget allocation and inclusive education budget processes.
Center for Training and Learning Good National Influence policies to provide quality municipal Civil Society (CESC) Governanc services. e
Associação Ntumbuluku Biodiversit Inhambane Communities in Defense of Biodiversity in Vilankulos y
Associação Nacional De Extensão Extractive Nampula, Cabo Ensure that citizens living near extractive industries Rural (AENA) Industries Delgado, are benefitting from projects production revenues. Zambézia
Associação Para a Promoção e Good Inhambane Improve citizen accountability mechanisms and Desenvolvimento da Mulher Governanc practices in the context of the State Local (MAHLAHLE) e Government Act.
FRUTICAD - Associação Climate Cabo Delgado Increasing the response of government, civil society Fruticultores e Horticultores Change and the private sector in protecting forests as a Cabo Delgado means of achieving better adaptation to climate change in the district of Metuge - Cabo Delgado province
Centro de Estudos Urbanos de Elections National Addressing violence against women in the Moçambique-CeUrbe 2019municipal elections
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Attachments: Annex A: Livaningo Policy Brief- March Edition
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Policy Brief
Promovendo justiça social, ambiental e bem estar das comunidades
Edição No 01/2020 - Março - Distribuição Gratuita
‘MIGRAÇÕES E MUDANÇAS CLIMÁTICAS EM MOÇAMBIQUE’ Moçambique está localizado na costa leste da África económicos, sociais e ambientais. As alterações Austral e tem uma população de 27,909,798 ambientais representam um factor bastante habitantes (INE, 2020). O país está exposto a uma importante na medida em que a sua ocorrência, em variedade de riscos hidro-meteorológicos que inclui conjunto com outros factores impulsionadores, sua a elevação do nível do mar, erosão costeira e duração e forma impulsionam o indivíduo e podem subsistência da terra combinada com uma densidade levar a que este se torne num migrante. populacional e concertação de actividades económicas nas zonas costeiras, particularmente A primeira tentativa séria de definição de refugiado vulneráveis às mudanças climáticas. Os fenómenos ambiental e bastante popularizada nos últimos 30 ambientais já estão a impactar meios de subsistência anos vem da United National Environmental e forçando pessoas a migrarem. Programme (Programa das Nações para O Meio Ambiente). No seu relatório de 1985 (El-Hinnawi, Este Policy Brief visa contribuir para o aumento de 1985:4), refugiado ambiental é definido como sendo: conhecimento sobre as interconexões entre “aquelas pessoas que foram forçadas a deixar seu migração e mudança climática em Moçambique, h a b i t a t t r a d i c i o n a l , t e m p o r á r i a o u particularmente nas zonas costeiras, a fim influenciar permanentemente, devido a uma perturbação os tomadores de decisão para inclusão e ambiental acentuada (natural e/ou desencadeada reconhecimento dos migrantes climáticos nas por pessoas) que pôs em causa sua existência e/ou políticas e identificar prioridades programáticas. A afectou seriamente a qualidade de sua vida (Boas, mesma resulta de uma extensa revisão literária, 2012:291). entrevistas com os refugiados climáticos, instituições públicas tais como INCG, conselhos Esta definição, porém, foi bastante criticada por ser autárquicos de Pemba, Inhambane, Quelimane e i m p r e c i s a e a m p l a M e t h m a n n ( 2 0 1 2 ) . Nacala. Deste modo, este policy brief apresenta Alternativamente usa-se o conceito de refugiado evidências sobre existência de refugiados climáticos climático (climate refugee). Apesar de ser considerado um conceito também impreciso parece como consequência das mudanças climáticas em captar melhor o fenómeno. Boas (2012) define-o da Moçambique. seguinte maneira: Este estudo foi ppossível graças ao generoso apoio “pessoas que têm de abandonar seu habitat, do povo Americano através da Agência dos Estados imediatamente ou num futuro próximo, devido a Unidos para o Desenvolvimento Internacional alterações repentinas ou graduais em seu ambiente (USAID) em parceria com a Counterpart natural, relacionadas a pelo menos um dos três International. impactos das mudanças climáticas: nível do mar, I S C U S S Ã O C O N C E I T U A L : eventos climáticos extremos e seca e escassez de R E FU GI A D OS A MBI EN TA I S , água” (Boas, 2012:22). REFUGIADOS CLIMÁTICOS OU D Assim, enquanto a expressão “refugiado ambiental” MIGRANTES AMBIENTAIS Segundo Henriques (2016:31) a migração é se refere aqueles que abandonam o seu local de influenciada por cinco tipos de factores origem devido à insegurança ambiental, o termo impulsionadores: políticos, demográficos, “refugiado climático” é reservado para os que se
2 d e s l o c a m d e v i d o a u m a c o n t e c i m e n t o ambientais do país. Dados os efeitos acentuados dos concretamente provocado por alterações climáticas. eventos climáticos sobre os fluxos migratórios do país, urge uma política estratégica sobre como lidar Por outro lado, a aplicação do termo “refugiado” é com a problemática das migrações ambientais. também alvo de debate. Vários autores criticam esta terminologia por entenderem não ser a mais i g r a ç õ e s C l i m á t i c a s e m apropriada. Como refere Boas (2012) algumas MMoçambique: Causas e Impactos agências intergovernamentais como International Moçambique é considerado o terceiro país africano Organization for Migration (Organização mais exposto ao risco de diferentes perigos Internacional para Migrações) e a United Nation relacionados com o clima, de acordo com o Relatório High Commissioner for Refugees (Alto de Avaliação Global publicado em 2009 sobre a Comissariado das Nações Unidas para os Redução do Risco de Calamidades. Também existem Refugiados) rejeitam o termo refugiado (ambiental evidências de que as mudanças climáticas ou climático) porque esta associado a migrações aumentaram as temperaturas e que os padrões de transfronteiriças e também porque pessoas com pluviosidade mudaram consideravelmente. No país, estatuto de refugiados não podem se beneficiar da as Mudanças Climáticas manifestam-se nas protecção de seu Estado de origem por medo de variações dos padrões de temperatura e precipitação, perseguição (Boas, 2012:292). no aumento do nível médio das águas do mar e no aumento da frequência de eventos climáticos Em oposição, alguns autores propõem o termo extremos como a seca, cheias e ciclones. A seca “migrante ambiental” e outros “environmentally tornou-se num fenómeno recorrente, principalmente displaced person”. Blank (2015) mostra que existem nas regiões sul e centro do país, e as cheias ocorrem várias outras expressões usadas: “refugiados anualmente na época chuvosa influenciada pela zona ecológicos”, migrantes ou refugiados ambientais”, de convergência intertropical e pelo fenómeno El “refugiados do clima”, “eco-refugiados”, “pessoas nino (World Bank, 2011, INGC, 2009). deslocadas em razão de uma catástrofe natural”, “êxodo ecológico”, etc. (Blank, 2015: 168). Embora Nos últimos 20 anos, mais de 8 milhões de essas designações possuam especificidades próprias, moçambicanos foram afectados por desastres de um modo geral, refere-se às pessoas que são naturais causados por fenómenos naturais, deslocadas voluntariamente ou involuntariamente retrocedendo significativamente o desenvolvimento em razão de factores ambientais ou climáticos. económico do país (INGC, 2017). Em Fevereiro do ano 2000 o país foi assolado por cheias de grandes Esta clarificação dos conceitos é particularmente proporções afectando 4,5 milhões de pessoas em três importante porque configura-se num primeiro meses de inundação e dizimando outras 800. No exercício com vista a inclusão dos desafios mesmo mês o ciclone Eline devastou a costa migratórios na definição das políticas e estratégias moçambicana causando destruição com ventos até
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3 260 Km/h (Patt and Schoter, 2008). Nos anos de de 1 milhão de hectares e infraestruturas avaliadas 2001, 2007 e 2008 chuvas torrenciais causaram em 1 bilhão de dólares norte-americanos. cheias ao longo da bacia do Rio Zambeze no centro de Moçambique. As cheias de 2007 foram seguidas O ciclone Kenneth afectou 250 mil pessoas, tendo do ciclone Flávio aumentando o número de deslocado 24.036 pessoas e 44,9 mil casas desalojados em cerca de 100.000 pessoas morreram destruídas. e 17 milhões foram afectadas (Word Bank, 2011). Alguns autores como Blank (2015) avançam que o Entre os anos de 2015 e 2017 Moçambique foi número de pessoas deslocadas por questões afectado pela seca que obrigou o país a procurar ambientais ao longo do mundo até já supera a assistência humanitária. Durante o mesmo período, quantidade de refugiados deslocados por razões as estatísticas revelam que mais de 2.2 milhões de políticas, sociais ou religiosas ou como diz Boas moçambicanos foram afectados pela seca (Mate, (2012) o número de refugiados afectados pela crise 2017; 2016). Em 2019, o ciclone IDAI afectou 1.85 ambiental vai superar o número de refugiados milhões de pessoas, tendo deslocado 146 mil pessoas afectados por outras crises. A tabela abaixo mostra e destruído 239 mil casas. Outrossim, destruiu cerca número pessoas internamente deslocadas.
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³Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (2009). ⁴Estudo do Impacto das Mudanças Climáticas no Risco das Calamidades em Moçambique: Relatório Síntese do INGC, Julho de 2009.
4 Fonte: Global Internal Displacement Database
De acordo com os dados acima apresentados na . A seguir, iremos caracterizar e analisar cada local de tabela, há muitas razões que ditam os deslocamentos estudo de forma particular e por fim condensar todos internos, desde as políticas até às que têm a ver com aspectos analisados. os desastres naturais. No que tange aos desastres As cidades costeiras moçambicanas são naturais os dados mostram que nos últimos 10 anos o caracterizadas por um elevado número de população número de deslocados internos sempre variou tendo que maioritariamente se dedica à actividades atingindo o seu pico em 2017 com 186.000 pessoas económicas como a pesca e agricultura. Estas deslocadas internamente. Os motivos desses populações são também ciclicamente afectadas por deslocamentos internos variam desde a seca, os eventos climáticos e, por isso, ficam sujeitas às ciclones e as inundações. mudanças das áreas consideradas vulneráveis para as O ano de 2017 é o que registou menos deslocamentos consideradas seguras ou menos vulneráveis. Com internos ao nível nacional – 7.000 deslocados este estudo pretendia-se captar a sensibilidade da internos. É importante sublinhar que as pessoas população em relação à necessidade de mudança, geralmente se deslocam internamente não isto é, pautar por fixar residências em áreas seguras. necessariamente pela seca, mas pelos ciclones e inundações. A seca, se comparada com os ciclones e A ocorrência desses eventos em Moçambique suscita as inundações impõe menor risco imediato de vida intervenções urgentes em relação migrações diferentemente dos eventos anteriores. humanas em larga-escala devido a escassez de
³Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (2009). ⁴Estudo do dImpactoas Mudanças Climáticas no Risco das Calamidades em Moçambique: Relatório Síntese do INGC, Julho de 2009.
5 recursos e meios de subsistência e aumento de Ÿ Criar condições de inclusão, reconhecimento e eventos extremos e intensificação da competição protecção dos migrantes climáticos em inter e intra-comunitária para aquisição de Moçambique; alimentos, água e outros recursos ou meios de Ÿ Construir uma estrutura que ofereça protecção, subsistência particularmente nas zonas afectadas. mecanismos ou medidas que minimizem os Outrossim, o governo deve: efeitos dos deslocamentos e que possa garantir Ÿ Reconhecer legalmente os migrantes Climáticos aos “refugiados climáticos” um tratamento em no país; conformidade com o princípio da Dignidade da Pessoa Humana. REFERÊNCIAS ASSEMBLEIA DA REPÚBLICA DE MOÇAMBIQUE (2004). Constituição da República de Moçambique. Maputo: Escolar Editora CONSELHO DE MINISTROS. Decreto 6/2006 de 12 de Abril - Estrutura Orgânica do Governo Distrital...... Decreto nº 2/92 de 21 de Dezembro – Cria o Ministério para Coordenação da Acção Ambiental ...... Decreto nº 12/2006 de 15 de Junho – Cria Autoridade Nacional Designada ...... Decreto nº 42/2006 de 29 de Novembro – Cria o Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia ...... Decreto nº 6/2006 de 12 de Abril – Aprova a Estrutura Orgânica do Governo Distrital ...... Diploma Ministerial 91/99 de 25 de Agosto - Direcções Provinciais de Coordenação da Acção Ambiental...... Estratégia Nacional de Mudanças Climáticas ...... Estratégia Ambiental de Desenvolvimento Sustentável (2007-2017)...... Plano de Acção para Redução da Pobreza (2011-2014) MINISTÉRIO PARA COORDENAÇÃO DA ACÇÃO AMBIENTAL (2011). Revisão da Despesa Pública do Sector Ambiental – Relatório Final, Moçambique ...... (2012). Estratégia Nacional de Mudanças Climáticas. Maputo...... Plano Estratégico do Ministério para Coordenação da Acção Ambiental (2005-2015)...... Resolução nº 5/95, 3 de Agosto - Política Nacional do Ambiente ...... Resolução nº 18/99 de 10 de Junho - Política de gestão das calamidades ...... Orçamentos de 2011 a 2014. MINISTÉRIO DOS TRANSPORTES E COMUNICAÇÕES. Plano Estratégico de Desenvolvimento da Meteorologia (2013-2016). Maputo...... Resolução Nº 7/96, 2 de Abril - Política de Desenvolvimento da Meteorologia ...... Resolução n◦ 43/2006, de 26 de Dezembro - Estratégia de Desenvolvimento da Meteorologia ...... Resolução nº 7/96 de 2 de Abril – Política de Desenvolvimento da Meteorologia. MINISTÉRIO DAS FINANÇAS. Orçamento do Estado do ano 2011 ...... Orçamento do Estado do ano 2012 ...... Orçamento do Estado do ano 2013 ...... Orçamento do Estado do ano 2014 PRESIDÊNCIA DA REPÚBLICA. Decreto nº 1/2015, de 16 de Janeiro. Extingue e cria novos ministérios.
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Título: Policy Brief - 'MIGRAÇÕES E MUDANÇAS CLIMÁTICAS EM MOÇAMBIQUE' Propriedade: Livaningo Coordenação editorial: Clemente Ntauazi e Sheila Mhula Maquetização e Layout: Edson Roberto Sitoe Data: Março 2020 Financiamento: USAID/COUTERPART INTERNATIONAL Endereço: Bairro da Coop, Rua C, Casa n0 140 Contactos: 849246997/825288933 E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.livaningo.co.mz
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