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United States Agency for International Development Bureau of Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance Office of Food for Peace ANNUAL RESULTS REPORT Reporting Fiscal Year FY 2019 Awardee Name CARE Host/Implementation Country Bangladesh Award Number AID-FFP-A-15-00009 Activity Name SHOUHARDO III program Activity Start Date September 29, 2015 Activity End Date September 30, 2022 Submission Date November 4, 2019 List of ARR documents uploaded on FFP PRT See list of Annexes on Page ii. Awardee HQ person Kumkum Kashiparekh Name, Email, Phone, Office Address Coordinator- Global Food Program [email protected] 1-404-979-9155 Food & Water System Team CARE USA 151 Ellis Street NE Atlanta, Georgia, 30303-2440 USA Awardee host country contact person Walter Mwasaa Name, Email, Phone, Office Address Chief of Party - SHOUHARDO III [email protected] (+880-2)- 9889009 Ext-210 CARE Bangladesh Dhaka Office RAOWA Complex (Level 7-8), VIP Road, Mohakhali, Dhaka -1206, Bangladesh CARE Bangladesh-SHOUHARDO III (Cooperative Agreement No: AID-FFP-A-15-00009); Page | FY 2019 Annual Results Report. Submitted: 4 November, 2019 1 CONTENTS 2 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION ......................................................................... 1 3 FISCAL YEAR 2019 PROGRAM RESULTS ........................................................................................ 4 3.1 Purpose-Level Progress ................................................................................................................. 4 4 KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT MONITORING AND EVALUATION ............................... 29 4.1 Monitoring and evaluation ......................................................................................................... 29 4.2 ToC Review FY19 ......................................................................................................................... 31 4.3 Knowledge Management and Learning (KML) ............................................................................ 32 5 CHALLENGES, SUCCESSES, AND LESSONS LEARNED .......................................................... 34 4 CONCLUSIONS AND KEY REFLECTIONS ................................................................................. 36 CARE Bangladesh-SHOUHARDO III (Cooperative Agreement No: AID-FFP-A-15-00009); Page | i FY 2019 Annual Results Report. Submitted: 4 November, 2019 List of Tables Table 1: Summary of reformed groups in SHOUHARDO III participant communities ................................ 3 Table 2: Number of Direct Participating Households Receiving Multiple Interventions by Purpose Area (PA) Part 1 ........................................................................................................................................................... 4 Table 3: Details of the newly formed VSLAs this FY19 ................................................................................ 10 Table 4: Disaster mitigation infrastructure progress ..................................................................................... 21 Table 5: Program M&E Data Sources ........................................................................................................... 30 Table 6: Details of KM&L activities and its contribution in the program ................................................... 32 Table 7 - Challenges, program's response, and status of resolution ........................................................... 34 List of Figures Figure 1: A summary of key program results over the last four years ......................................... 2 Figure 2 Return on investment calculation ....................................................................................................... 9 Figure 3: Percentage of PLW with food intake/daytime rest, IFA supplements & Vitamin A during pregnancy .......................................................................................................................................................... 12 Figure 4: Results of Breastfeeding and Complementary feeding results since July 2017 ........................ 13 Figure 5: Nirapod latrine models Courtessy: iDE .......................................................................................... 17 Figure 6 Map of villages based on the Village Grading ranking .................................................................. 30 List of Annexes Annex 1: Detailed Implementation Plan Annex 2: Indicator Performance Tracking Table Annex 3: The Participants-Based Sample Survey (PaBSS) FY19 Report Annex 4: Village Grading Report Annex 5: Return on Investment (ROI) Study Report Annex 6: Youth-Led Food Mapping Report Annex 7: DFSA Learning Visit Report Annex 8: VSLA Strategy FY19 Annex 9: SHOUHARDO III’s Approach to Transparency and Accountability (TransAcct) Annex 10: Concept note on the Community of Practice Annex 11: Expenditure Report CARE Bangladesh-SHOUHARDO III (Cooperative Agreement No: AID-FFP-A-15-00009); Page | ii FY 2019 Annual Results Report. Submitted: 4 November, 2019 Acronyms ANC Antenatal Care CC Community Clinic CG Community Group CHCP Community Health Care Provider COG Core Occupational Groups CSG Community Support Group DCRM Disaster and Climate Risk Management DFSA Development Food Security Activity EKATA Empowerment Knowledge And Transformative Action FFBS Farmers’ Field and Business School FFP Food For Peace FY Fiscal Year GBV Gender-Based Violence GMP Growth Monitoring and Promotion GoB Government of Bangladesh HHN Health, Hygiene and Nutrition IFA Iron and Folic Acid KML Knowledge Management and Learning LEB Local Elected Body M&E Monitoring and Evaluation MDD Minimum Dietary Diversity ML Mother Leader MoH&FW Ministry of Health and Family Welfare MTE Midterm Evaluation MSS Management Score Sheet NBD Nation Building Department PaBSS Participants Based Sample Survey PACC Program Advisory and Coordination Committee PEP Poor and Extreme Poor PLW Pregnant and Lactating Women PNGO Partner Non-Government Organization SHOUHARDO Strengthening Household Ability to Respond to Development Opportunities STREAM System for Tracking Results and Evidence for Adaptive Management UDMC Union Disaster Management Committee UDMP Union Disaster Management Plan UDCC Union Disaster Coordination Committee UDV Union Disaster Volunteer UP Union Parishad USAID United States Agency for International Development VDC Village Development Committee VSLA Village Savings and Loan Association WASH Water, Sanitation and Hygiene CARE Bangladesh-SHOUHARDO III (Cooperative Agreement No: AID-FFP-A-15-00009); Page | iii FY 2019 Annual Results Report. Submitted: 4 November, 2019 2 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION Strengthening Household Ability to Respond to Development Opportunities (SHOUHARDO) III is a Development Food Security Activity (DFSA) funded by the United States Government through the United States Agency for International Development/ Office of Food for Peace (USAID/FFP), with complementary funding from the Government of Bangladesh (GoB). SHOUHARDO III is a multi-sectoral program that addresses food and income insecurity, maternal and child health and nutrition, women’s and youth empowerment, and seeks to improve access to public services for the rural poor while building their resilience capacities. It is implemented through six Partner Non-Government Organizations (PNGOs) covering eight target districts in northern Bangladesh, who receive technical support from CARE. This Annual Results Report (ARR) for the Fiscal Year 2019 (FY19) covers interventions and results for the period of October 1, 2018 to September 30, 2019. In FY19, the total number of planned activities in the Detailed Implementation Plan (DIP) was 217 out of which 84 percent (182 of 217)1 were completed. The program continued to record steady increases of the desired outcomes in the participants’ households. As the program enters its final years, some result areas are expected to continue growing in line with the impact of new practices, others will stabilize as the program achieves the highest possible results, and for some, attributing to external and internal factors, may record some declines over certain periods. In the area of increased incomes and productivity, farmers recorded greater productivity per unit that averaged 1.2% to 10% increase over the FY18 levels and between 55% to 180% increase over the baseline levels for the gross margin product per hectare indicator. This positive progress is a culmination of the continued application of behaviors and technologies, engagement with public and private sectors for better prices, and greater sharing of roles in the households including economic engagement and childcare. Other reasons included greater access to early warning information leading to better choices in crop cultivation, including timing and varieties, as well as managing post-harvest losses during the monsoon by knowing which days were safe to dry the crops. Some of the results presented in this report showed limited progress and in some areas an apparent reduction compared to the results obtained in FY18. An example being the percentage of households attaining Minimum Dietary Diversity (MDD) for children aged 6-23 months. The FY19 result showed 592 percent (516 of 874) household were providing the MDD compared to 66 percent (489 of 740) households surveyed in FY18, and was at 10 percent (40 of 412) households surveyed in FY16. 3. The program has been engaging with the communities 1 Some of the planned activities such as WASH, Livelihoods and community engagement