USAID Mali Civic Engagement Program (CEP-Mali) Year 3 Quarter 2 Performance Report (January 1 to March 31, 2019)
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USAID Mali Civic Engagement Program (CEP-Mali) Year 3 Quarter 2 Performance Report (January 1 to March 31, 2019) Public forum for the dissemination of information to increase public awareness on education in Kossouka on January 18 by ASSAFE Funding provided by the United States Agency for International Development under Cooperative Agreement No. AID-688-A-16-00006 Prepared by: FHI 360 Submitted to: USAID April 30, 2019 Salimata Marico Robert Schmidt Agreement Officer’s Representative/ AOR Agreement Officer [email protected] [email protected] Inna Bagayoko Cheick Oumar Coulibaly Alternate AOR Acquisition and Assistance Specialist [email protected] [email protected] Page i of iv TABLE OF CONTENTS Page ii of iv LIST OF ACRONYMS AMID Association Malienne pour l’Intégration et le Développement ANICT Agence Nationale d'Investissement des Collectivités Territoriales ARDIL Action Recherches pour le Développement des Initiatives Locales ARGA Alliance pour Refonder la Gouvernance en Afrique ASECOM Association pour la Santé et l’Education Communautaire ASSAFE Association du Sahel d’Aide à la Femme et à l’Enfance ARPP Advancing Reconciliation and Promoting Peace AOR Agreement Officer Representative AAOR Alternate Agreement Officer Representative CBO Community Based Organization CEP USAID/Mali Civic Engagement Program COR Contracting Officer Representative COP Chief of Party CPHDA Centre de Promotion des Droits Humains en Afrique CSO Civil Society Organization DPO Disabled Persons’ Organization FEDE Femmes et Développent FHI 360 Family Health International 360 FONGIM Fédération des Organisations Internationales Non-Gouvernementales au Mali FY Fiscal Year GAAS-Mali Groupe d’Animation, Action, au Sahel Mali GGB Good Governance Barometer GoM Government of Mali GRAT Le Groupe de Recherches et d’Applications Techniques IAMANEH Association pour la Promotion de la Santé de la Mère et de l’Enfant IDPs Internally Displaced persons INGOS International Non-Governmental Organization INSO International NGOs Security Organization IT Information and Technology MACNA Malian Association of Cinema Numerique Ambulant NDI National Democratic Institute ME&L Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning NGO Non-Governmental Organization 3P Participatory Peace Processes program PMP Performance Monitoring Plan PWD Persons with Disability RFA Request for Applications SCALE+ System-wide Collaborative Action for Livelihoods and Environment STTA Short-Term Technical Assistance SNGP Sub-National Governance Project TA Technical Assistance TOR Terms of Reference TOT Training of Trainers WASH Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Page 3 of 37 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The United States Agency for International Development in Mali (USAID/Mali) awarded the USAID Mali Civic Engagement Program (CEP) to Family Health International (FHI 360) in August 2016. CEP is a five- year program that runs from 2016-2021, with a total budget of $12 million. The goal of the program is to improve public accountability by increasing and strengthening citizens’ role in the community development process. The program focuses on achieving three main objectives: 1) strengthening mechanisms of bottom- up social accountability, 2) improving effective collaboration among civil society organizations (CSOs), the Government of Mali (GoM), and the private sector to develop public policy and advance issues of common interest, and 3) increasing citizens’ understanding of rights and responsibilities to feel empowered to engage with the GoM. The civic engagement program (CEP), amongst other programs in the USAID/Mali’s Peace, Democracy, and Governance (PDG) Office, of which include the Sub-National Governance Project (SNGP); the Mali Justice Program (MJP); the Participatory Peace Processes (3P) program; the Advancing Reconciliation and Promoting Peace (ARPP) program; the Mission’s other water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) programs; health, and agriculture programs; and education projects, supports the full consolidation of the civic engagement and democratic processes in Mali, bringing citizens closer to their officials, and reducing the underlying institutional weaknesses that have contributed to the fragility of the country. During this second quarter of the third-year of implementation, CEP accomplished the following activities to achieve its program objectives and results: a) Under objective 1: Strengthening mechanisms of bottom-up social accountability - Phase 3 and 4 of the Good Governance Barometer (GGB) process of the municipality of Niono was conducted with the participation of 48 persons including 36 men, 12 women, and among them 02 disabled people. - 24 Advocacy actions were held through forums/Collaborative frameworks to strengthen the participation of local groups in the decision-making process to improve access and quality of health services, education, WASH, and women's access to land. These forums brought together a total of 346 people, including 183 men, 163 women, and among them 23 people living with a disability. - 08 external control mechanisms for the use of public resources. b) Under objective 2: Improving effective collaboration among civil society organizations (CSOs), the Government of Mali (GoM), and the private sector to develop public policy and advance issues of common interest - 10 SCALE + task forces meetings were held in Bamako - 02 SCALE + actions plans were completed - 04 working groups were established on the public-private partnership at the regional level in the region of Sikasso, and the district of Bamako in commune V, - Mobilization and sensitization meetings were held with the government and elected officials for their adhesion to CEP’s actions; - 03 training sessions were held on mediation / conflict resolution with 03 CSOs involving 103 participants including 47 men and 56 women, and support for dialogue frameworks and consensus building on conflict resolution, - Synergies with other actors and programs funded by USAID were reinforced. Meetings were held with EMERGE, NHP, and HARANDE to identify together areas and strategies of collaboration. Effective collaboration is to start in the next quarter. Page 4 of 37 - Meeting with the Morila mining company as a private sector partner to identify areas of collaboration to support community ownership and the sustainability of social infrastructures (Health, WASH, Education, and Agriculture) built by the company for the community in the commune of Sansa and Domba, which are part of CEP’s targeted communes. c) Under objective 3: Increasing citizens’ understanding of their rights and responsibilities to feel empowered to engage with the GoM. - 08 training sessions were held on transparency, local governance, accountability, and advocacy organized by CSOs partners for 270 members of Community Based Organizations (CBOs) including 126 men, 96 women, and among them 19 people with disabilities. - 100 sensitization sessions were held on local governance, accountability, advocacy, national legal texts and instruments, improving service delivery and strengthening civic engagement. These sessions reached 1,077 people, including 436 men, 641 women and among them 93 persons with disabilities. - 05 proposals for legal instruments for the promotion of gender were introduced by CSOs and CBOs partners to local authorities. - 10 CSOs and CBOs’capacity-building workshops of three days each in the Kayes, Ségou, and Sikasso regions, and in the District of Bamako which were aimed at familiarizing members of the represented organizations with basics on citizenry, the rights and duties of citizens, the importance of active citizenry, governance, methods of analysis of governance, different modes of governance, and the notion of accountability and mutual accountability at the local level. In total 300 members CSOs and CBOs attended these workshops. - The design of a booklet containing laws and policies related to the delivery of basic social services which will be printed in 8000 copies and distributed to CBOs, schools, radio stations, and townhalls during the next quarter. - The production of 05 radio magazines among them one that promoted actions taken by Mayors and the progress made for the delivery of basic social services within their respective communes. - The production of 05 radio grand dialogues among them the grand dialogue 34 that highlighted different facts that contribute to the continuing inter-community conflicts in Mopti, where participants shared their views and recommendations to resolve the conflict. - The production and the screening of 03 films on WASH, Education, and Health were translated into 05 local languages (Bambara, Peulh, Sonraih, Tamashek, and Soninke). 12 viewings were completed in 06 communes of Bamako (2 per commune) during this reporting period. Among the above activities implemented to achieve the three objectives of the program during this reporting period, the following were specific activities for WASH: - The completion of 09 information -awareness sessions on WASH within communities and in schools in the region of Mopti to support CBOs and communities ’participation in the decision -making processes together with local authorities for the self-financing of the cost of maintenance and safeguarding of WASH infrastructures. A total of 102 persons including 65 men and 37 women attended these sessions. - The production of 02 radios programs in the region of Timbuktu to allow women’s participation in discussions around the importance of managing, keeping, and maintaining clean drinking water points. - The production and