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[REDACTED] FOR RGA COLOMBIA REGIONAL GOVERNANCE ACTIVITY QUARTERLY REPORT: APRIL – JUNE 2020 JULY 31, 2020 This publication was produced for review by the United States Agency for International Development. It was prepared by Management Systems International (MSI), A Tetra Tech Company. COLOMBIA REGIONAL GOVERNANCE ACTIVITY QUARTERLY REPORT: APRIL – JUNE 2020 Management Systems International 200 12th Street, South Arlington, VA 22202 USA Tel: + 1 703 979 7100 Contracted under AID-OAA-1-13-00042, Programming Effectively Against Conflict and Extremism (PEACE) IQC, Task Order No. AID-514-TO-15-00015 Colombia Regional Governance Activity DISCLAIMER The authors’ views expressed in this report do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States Agency for International Development or the United States Government. CONTENTS ACRONYMS ............................................................................................................ II EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ........................................................................................ 1 NATIONAL CONTEXT ......................................................................................... 2 KEY ACTIVITIES AND RESULTS ........................................................................ 3 COMPONENT 6 ...................................................................................................................................................... 3 COMPONENT 7 – LOOKING AHEAD .......................................................................................................... 21 GENDER AND VULNERABLE POPULATIONS STRATEGY .................................................................... 22 PROGRESS ASSESSMENT .................................................................................. 26 COORDINATION WITH OTHER USAID IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS AND INTERNATIONAL DONORS .................................................................... 26 ACTIVITIES FOR NEXT QUARTER .................................................................. 27 TRANSFORMING LIVES: WORKING TOGETHER TOWARD PROGRESS .................................................................................................................................. 29 MAICAO: LEADING BY EXAMPLE .................................................................................................................. 29 RIOHACHA: ADVOCATING FOR COMMUNITY NEEDS ...................................................................... 30 URIBIA: INFORMING COMMUNITIES TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE ....................................................... 31 COVID-19: ADAPTING TO NEW CHALLENGES ...................................................................................... 33 ANNEXES ............................................................................................................... 35 ANNEX 1: NATIONAL CONTEXT ................................................................................................................. 35 ANNEX 2: RGA-SUPPORTED PROJECTS THIS QUARTER ..................................................................... 37 ANNEX 3: RGA’S SENA SERVICE ACCESS ROADMAP FOR RETURNEES ........................................ 38 ANNEX 4: RGA’S INTERINSTITUTIONAL GBV SERVICE ROADMAPS IN NORTE DE SANTANDER .......................................................................................................................................................... 39 ANNEX 5: RGA’S INTERINSTITUTIONAL GBV SERVICE ROADMAPS IN LA GUAJIRA .............. 44 ANNEX 6: PROGRESS ASSESSMENT .............................................................................................................. 46 ANNEX 7: COORDINATION WITH IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL AID PROGRAMS ............................................................................................................... 47 ANNEX 8: PROGRESS IN COMPONENT 6 PROGRAM ACTIVITIES ................................................... 51 USAID.GOV QUARTERLY REPORT: APRIL – JUNE 2020 | i ACRONYMS COMPOS Consejo Municipal de Política Social (Municipal Council of Social Policy) CSO Organización de la Sociedad Civil (Civil Society Organization) CIDEA Comité Interinstitucional de Educación Ambiental (Interinstitutional Committee for Environmental Education) CTP Consejo Territorial de Planeación (Territorial Planning Council) DNP Departamento Nacional de Planeación (National Planning Department) ELN Ejército de Liberación Nacional (National Liberation Army) FONSECON Fondo de Seguridad y Convivencia Ciudadana (Security and Citizen Coexistence Fund) FONSET Fondos Territoriales de Seguridad y Convivencia Ciudadana (Territorial Funds for Security and Citizen Coexistence) FY Fiscal Year GBV Gender based violence GIFMM Grupo Interagencial sobre Flujos Migratorios Mixtos (Interagency Group on Mixed Migratory Flows) GIZ Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (German Corporation for International Cooperation) GOC Gobierno Colombiano (Government of Colombia) ICBF Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar (Colombian Family Welfare Institute) IOM Organización Internacional para las Migraciones (International donor for Migration) JAC Junta de Acción Comunal (community action board) LOP Life-of-Project MOC Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo (Ministry of Commerce) MOH Ministerio de Salud y Protección Social (Ministry of Health) MSI Management Systems International NRC Norwegian Refugee Council OTI Office of Transition Initiatives ii | QUARTERLY REPORT: APRIL – JUNE 2020 USAID.GOV PAR Programa Alianzas para la Reconciliación (Partnerships for Reconciliation Program) PDM Plan de Desarrollo Municipal (Municipal Development Plan) PEGR Planes Escolares para la Gestión del Riesgo (School Risk Management Plans) PISCC Planes Integrales de Seguridad y Convivencia Ciudadana (Comprehensive Coexistence and Security Plans) PMP Performance Management Plan RFI Rural Finance Initiative RGA Programa de Gobernabilidad Regional (Regional Governance Activity) SENA Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje (National Institute for Learning) SGP Sistema General de Participaciones (System of National Transfers) SGR Sistema General de Regalías (General System of Royalties) SIMAT Sistema Integrado de Matrícula (National Admissions Information System) SISBEN Sistema de Identificación de Potenciales Beneficiarios de Programas Sociales (Identification System for Potential Beneficiaries of Social Programs) SNG Gobiernos Sub-Nacionales (Sub-National Government) TEC Total Estimated Cost UNHCR United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees UNICEF United Nations Children's Fund USAID United States Agency for International Development WFP World Food Programme USAID.GOV QUARTERLY REPORT: APRIL – JUNE 2020 | iii EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Regional Governance Activity (RGA) began on June 22, 2015, under Task Order No. AID-514-TO-15-00015, with an initial period of performance of four and a half years. Its original objective was to improve governance in 40 Colombian municipalities affected by the nation’s armed conflict through five program components: decentralization, public financial management, tertiary roads, citizen participation, and electoral reform. On April 23, 2019, RGA was awarded a six-month cost extension to June 21, 2020. The amendment added a sixth component and adjusted RGA’s territorial focus to concentrate on 10 subnational governments (SNGs)1 in three border departments—Arauca, La Guajira, and Norte de Santander—to help them cope with the challenges created by the influx of Venezuelan migrants and Colombian returnees in host communities. On June 17, 2020, the program was awarded a second cost extension thru June 21, 2021. This amendment increased the Total Estimated Cost (TEC) by USD$10 million, added a seventh component shifting RGA’s focus to COVID-19 prevention, containment and recovery, and broadening the project’s geographic focus. This quarterly report covers RGA activities between April and June 2020,2 corresponding to the third quarter of the 2020 fiscal year. The document provides an overview of the national context; information about RGA progress, accomplishments, and impacts; a summary of RGA coordination with USAID implementing partners and international donors; progress on program indicators; and a summary of activities scheduled to take place in the fourth quarter of 2020. The quarterly report also includes a success story, “Working Together toward Progress,” and eight annexes that provide detailed information on selected program elements. Highlights this quarter include: • Support to SNGs to improve health service provision: Following its assistance to the Ministry of Health to draft and issue Decree 064,3 RGA focused on increasing migrant and returnee access to Colombia’s health system. To do so, the program focused on census list creation4 and database maintenance, achieving the registration in census lists of more than 8,000 people, including nearly 6,000 migrants, who now have access to the health system. • Support to SNGs to improve education service provision: Recognizing the challenges of delivering education services remotely, RGA provided assistance to train public school teachers from Arauca, La Guajira and Norte de Santander in online and remote methodologies. Through online forums, workshops and radio programs, RGA provided support to develop teacher’s skills in psychological support, radio production, the creation of online educational content and methodologies to detect cyber-bullying