USAID MALI CIVIC ENGAGEMENT PROGRAM (CEP-MALI) Year 4 Report (January 01 – March 31, 2020) Youths of the 6th district of Bandiagara clearing gutters on January 06, 2020 Funding provided by the United States Agency for International Development under Cooperative Agreement No. AID-688-A-16-00006 April 2020 Prepared by: FHI 360 Submitted to: USAID 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 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 Comite 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 support 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 second 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 67 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 2,461 people, including 1,636 men and 825 women, and among them 123 people with disabilities. They have also enabled community organisations to influence and propose 14 policies or plans to local authorities. - Holding 36 advocacy initiatives to improve the quality of basic social services at community level. - Establishing and facilitating 31 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: - Preparing SCALE+ small grants technical packages through a series of meetings with the Ministry of Youth and Sports to finalize a youths’ citizenry program, and with CPHDA and GSB for the capacity building of social services management bodies and 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 08 training sessions on conflict prevention and management techniques for 138 participants including 52 men, 86 women, and among them14 people with disabilities. c) Under objective 3: Increasing citizens’ understanding of their rights and responsibilities to feel empowered to engage with the GoM. - Organizing 26 training sessions on transparency-accountability, advocacy, gender, inclusion and capacity building of CBOs for 493 participants including 307 men and 186 women and among them 123 people with disabilities. 1 - Organizing 07 training sessions on WASH for 179 participants including 80 men, 99 women and among them 07 disabled people. - Holding 285 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 5,874 people, including 2,421 men, 3,453 women, and among them 316 persons with disabilities. - Organizing with Binthily communication, a Malian communication agency working with CEP, of caravans in the six regions of CEP’s intervention on decentralization, people’s participation in the elections process, the involvement of women in the elections process, access to education for all, the respect for public goods, and the community involvement to improve WASH and health sectors. - Developing a comic book draft (Kalilou the Good Citizen) with CPDHA, with a scenario inspired by topics of the civic education curricula of the Ministry of National Education. - Producing and broadcasting 06 magazines and 06 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. Among the above activities implemented under each of the three program objectives, the report specifies in details WASH and disabilities activities and other cross-cutting activities on gender and inclusion. THE COUNTRY POLITICAL AND SECURITY CONTEXT This second quarter of FY20 ended with 1,028 security incidents in Mali, well above the 2019 quarterly average (845) which confirms the deterioration of the security context observed for more than a year in the country. It is the first time that Mali has exceeded a thousand incidents over 3 months linked to radical groups particualrly the GOAs. Civilians remain the most vulnerable and affected by the crisis with more than 817 civilians killed during this period, a figure never reached, further accentuating the impact of the conflict on the population. The situation in central Mali, with the presence and growing actions of radical GOAs, and the intensification of self-defense militias actions and FAR operations, favors the change in proportion of the incidents observed since the last quarter between southern, central, and northern Mali. Thus, incidents linked to radical GOAs continue to increase (26%, compared to 21% on average in 2019) while criminal incidents have decreased (36% compared to 43% on average in 2019). The presence and changes within these armed groups increase NGOs’constraints to access the central and northern Mali, and require continual reviews of programs’implementation strategies. The security situation in the south remains complicated with some socio-political tensions such as the various strikes of teachers unions and CHU workers. Crime of all categories continued also to increase during this period in all major cities with several armed robberies recorded especially at night. NGOs