USAID MALI CIVIC ENGAGEMENT PROGRAM (CEP-MALI) Year 4 Q3 Report (April 01 – June 30, 2020) COVID-19 prevention kits delivered by the CEP PPWG to the Town Hall in Timbuktu, June 19, 2020 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 Date: 30th of July 2020 Salimata Marico Leslie-Ann Nwokora Agreement Officer’s Representative/AOR Agreement Officer [email protected] [email protected] Inna Bagayoko Cheick Oumar Coulibaly Alternate AOR Acquisition and Assistance Specialist [email protected] [email protected] 0 TABLE OF CONTENTS ANNEX 1: PROGRAM INDICATORS STATUS AND PROGRESS IN 27 MONITORING, EVALUATION, AND LEARNING ANNEX 2: SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES PLANNED VERSUS IMPLEMENTED 30 ANNEX 3: MAGAZINES AND GRAND DIALOGUES TABLE 37 ANNEX 4: PREPARATION AND DEPLOYMENT OF SURVEYS BY YOUNG 41 COLLECTORS USING TABLETS IN BAMAKO ANNEX 5: FINANCIAL SUMMARY 49 Page i LIST OF ACRONYMS ARPP Advancing Reconciliation and Promoting Peace AOR Agreement Officer Representative AAOR Alternate Agreement Officer Representative AMPPT Association Malienne des Personnes de Petite Taille AFAD Association de Formation et d’Appui du Développement AMPA Association Malienne des Personnes Albinos AUEP Association des usagers de l’eau potable CEP Civic Engagement Program CMA Coordination des Mouvements de l’Azawad CBO Community-based Organizations CGS Comité de Gestion Scolaire COR Contracting Officer Representative COP Chief of Party CPHDA Centre de Promotion des Droits Humains en Afrique CSO Civil Society Organization DCOP Deputy Chief of Party DPO Disabled Persons’ Organization EOI Expression of Interest FHI 360 Family Health International 360 FONGIM Fédération des Organisations Internationales Non Gouvernementales au Mali FY Fiscal Year GGB Good Governance Barometer GOM Government of Mali GSB Groupe de suivi budgetaire INGOS International Non-Governmental Organization INSO International NGOs Security Organization MACNA Malian Association of Cinema Numerique Ambulant MJP Mali Justice Program MINUSMA Mission des Nations Unis pour la Stabilisation au Mali ME&L Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning NGO Non-Governmental Organization 3P Participatory Peace Processes program PDG Peace, Democracy, and Governance PMP Performance Monitoring Plan PWD Persons with Disability PPP Public-Private Partnership PPWG Public-Private Working Group PS&R Peace, Stability and Reconciliation Program 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 TEMEDT Association pour la Consolidation de la paix, le développement, la protection et la Promotion des Droits Humains TOR Terms of Reference TOT Training of Trainers OMS/WHO Organisation Mondiale de la Sante/World Health Organization USAID United States Agency for International Development WASH Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene 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, which includes the Sub-National Governance Project (SNGP); the Mali Justice Program (MJP); the Peace Stability and Reconciliation program (PS&R); the Lafia program, the EMERGE program, and the Voice for peace (V4P) program supports the full consolidation of the civic engagement and democratic processes in Mali, bringing citizens closer to their officials to reduce the underlying institutional weaknesses that have contributed to the fragility of the country. During this third quarter of the fourth-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: - Continuing the implementation of 08 GGB processes planned for the program. - Holding 58 forums to strengthen community groups’ participation in decision-making processes and improve access to information and the quality of health, education, and WASH services. These forums brought together a total of 1,311 people, including 854 men and 457 women, and among them 198 people with disabilities. - Holding 553 advocacy initiatives to improve the quality of basic social services at community level. 553 people including 395 men, 158 women, and among them 39 people with disabilities participated in these advocacy initiatives which enabled CBOs to influence and propose 14 concrete actions plans. - Establishing and facilitating 116 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: - Finalizing with ARGA, a CEP’s CSO partner in Bamako, a SCALE+ small grant package (technical and budget proposal) with inputs from the Ministry of Youth and Sports on a youths’ citizenry forums program, and with CPHDA and the GSB finalization of another SCALE+ small grant package to support the capacity building of social services management bodies and forums across the country for their accountability. - Monitoring the activities of public-private partnership working groups in the six regions of CEP’s intervention. - Continuing the mobilization of government and elected officials for their support and participation in the program’s activities. - Meeting with other USAID partners on synergy opportunities and actions. - Organizing 10 training sessions on conflict prevention and management techniques for 171 participants including 135 men, 36 women, and among them 2 people with disabilities. 1 c) Under objective 3: Increasing citizens’ understanding of their rights and responsibilities to feel empowered to engage with the GoM. - Organizing 47 training sessions on transparency-accountability, advocacy, gender and inclusion, and capacity building of CBOs. A total of 748 participants including 462 men (62%) and 286 women (38%) and among them 93 people with disabilities (12%) participated in these sessions. - Organizing 9 capacity building sessions for elected officials and water point management organizations including ASACO and water management committees on WASH management and governance. These sessions brought together 196 actors including 93 men, 103 women, and among them 24 people with disabilities. - Holding 244 awareness sessions on local governance, local budgeting, accountability, advocacy, national legal texts and instruments, governance, the improvement of the services’ delivery, and the inclusion and strengthening of civic engagement. These sessions affected a total of 4,986 people, including 2,406 men, 2,580 women, and among them 407 persons with disabilities. - Organizing with Binthily communication, a Malian communication agency, the production of a broadcast and outreach communication program to be aired by 13 community radio stations across the 6 regions of CEP’s intervention on decentralization, people’s participation in decisions making processes, access to education for all, the respect for public goods, and the community involvement to improve WASH and health sectors. - Producing and broadcasting 6 magazines and 6 grand dialogue radio programs to raise awareness on various issues such as albinism, the management of public resources, local governance with the use of a citizen audit tool, community members involvement in the management of their communes, the legislative elections, etc. After a brief summary of Mali’s political and security context during FY20 Q3, the report below provides detailed information about the activities mentioned above under each of CEP’s three program objectives, including WASH, disability, gender, and inclusion interventions. THE COUNTRY POLITICAL AND SECURITY CONTEXT During this quarter, northern and central Mali continued to record a large number of security incidents mainly driven by crimes in the north, and terrorist attacks in the center. Southern Mali also experienced a notable rise of urban crime during this quarter. Most of the NGO incidents recorded during this quarter remained concentrated in the northern areas. More than a third of these incidents are criminal. Crime reached an all-time high with 634 incidents, 45 of which involved NGOs. This problem affects all stakeholders and constitutes a real brake on socioeconomic development. Humanitarian intervention is also disrupted. Armed groups are still active despite a statistical decline fell by 28% of incidents linked to radical GOA. The number of incidents still remains high (474). Growing