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Resilience and Economic Growth in the Sahel - Enhanced Resilience REPUBLICS OF NIGER and BURKINA FASO REGIS-ER Annual Report OCTOBER 1, 2017 TO SEPTEMBER 30, 2018 Revised, December 2018 Cooperative Agreement No. 625-A-14-00001 Blvd. Mali Béro, Rue IB-73 B.P. 12 909, NIAMEY Tel.: (227) 20.35.16.48 Table of Contents I. Executive summary.………………………………………………………………… 3 II. Programs………………………..………………………………………………….... 7 Program 5 – Governance Sub-Section A: Promotion of Local Institutions ................................... 7 Program 1 – Habbanayé plus Animal Health and Feed ................................................................ 9 Program 2 - Horticulture ............................................................................................................... 12 Program 3 – Access to Financial Services ..................................................................................... 15 Program 4 - Resilient Production Systems .................................................................................... 17 Program 5 – Governance Sub-Section B: Natural Resource Management, Disaster Risk Management, Conflict Management and Land Tenure Security ................................................. 19 Program 6 – Water Services ........................................................................................................... 21 Program 7 – Hygiene and Sanitation ........................................................................................... 24 Program 8 – Community-based Health and Nutrition ................................................................ 25 III. Cross-cutting activities ………………...……………………………………….... 30 Monitoring and Evaluation .......................................................................................................... 30 Gender ........................................................................................................................................... 31 Communications .......................................................................................................................... 32 Implementation of the Environmental Mitigation and Monitoring Plan (EMMP) .................... 35 IV. Project management ………………………………………………………………37 Program Support .......................................................................................................................... 37 Grants management ..................................................................................................................... 37 Cost share ..................................................................................................................................... 38 V. Appendices ………………………………………………………………………..…….40 Annex 1: Table on Indicators of Project Performance ................................................................. 40 Annex 2: Results Achieved by CBSPs in FY18 ............................................................................ 59 Annex 3 (P2): Home, Community, and Oasis Gardens ............................................................... 60 Annexe 4 (P3) : FY17 and FY18 Results on SECCA Implementation and on access to MFIs…. 64 1 Annex 5 (P4): Comparative CF - Non-CF Yields in 2017 Growing Season and Soil Protection and Restoration Actions at Pastoral Sites ..................................................................................... 65 Annex 6: Status of Local Conventions .......................................................................................... 71 Annex 7: (P8) – Granaries and C-QI Achievements ..................................................................... 76 Annex 8: List of Success stories developed during FY18 ............................................................. 79 Annex 9: Success stories ................................................................................................................ 81 Annex 10: Inventory ...................................................................................................................... 87 List of tables: Table 1: Placements Made in FY18 Table 2 Breakdown of project staff at the end of FY18 Table 3: List of sub-grants and large grants closed as of September 30, 2018 Table 4: List of sub-grants and large grants extended through December 31, 2018 Table 5: Comparison of cost share reported in FY18 against FY18 targets. 2 I. Executive summary Implementation of the Sustainability Strategy In FY18, REGIS-ER managed a major transition from its successful scaling-up phase to its sustainability phase, during which the project concentrated on resilience systems through a lens of local governance and institutions and narrowed its geographic focus in order to consolidate its achievements. REGIS-ER’s sustainability strategy is based on the empowerment of local institutions which provide services to their communities, notably in the 12 communes of concentration (CCs) targeted (six each country) and in the 232 villages of concentration in those communes where the project has achieved its best results. Below is a summary of REGIS-ER’s major interventions in support of the 3 targeted local institutions: ● Municipal Councils (Conseils Municipaux, CMs): REGIS-ER launched its initiative to promote this local institution (IL) by meeting collectively with the Mayors, the elected leaders of the CMs, of the 6 communes of concentration in each country. The Mayors unanimously agreed that their communes should take on the ownership of REGIS-ER's successful activities and selected the 8 most successful project activities to be carried forward by the communes. The CM of each commune supported their Mayors’ actions. Subsequent discussions between the project and the CMs involved the preparation and the implementation in FY19 of Commune Resilience Plans (Plan Communal pour la Promotion de la Résilience, PCPR); ● Citizen Working Groups (CWGs) in the communes, plus their community-level “branches”, the Local Development Committees (Niger) / Village Development Councils (Burkina) (CLDs/CVDs). REGIS-ER adopted a bottom-up approach, strengthening the CLDs/CVDs in the communities before setting up the CWGs and working to ensure their functionality in the communes; and ● Service Providers – specifically, Community-Based Solution Providers (CBSPs) and Local Resource Persons (PRLs): The project has supported CBSPs in establishing commune-level platforms (clustering, networking, and diversification of goods and services), which will help them bring affordable solutions to villagers and grow demand. The project strengthened capacities, including the leadership of project groups (water point management committees/water user associations, Mother-to-Mother [MtM] groups, husband schools [EdM], village savings and loan groups [SECCA], etc.) in order to consolidate results. REGIS-ER also connected the groups with the appropriate local institutions to make sure that this human capital is recognized locally and will continue to benefit the community after the project ends. REGIS-ER also improved linkages with national institutions, notably the High-Commission of the 3N Initiative (HCi3N) in Niger and the Ministry of Agriculture in Burkina Faso, via regular meetings. For instance, our experience with Conservation Farming or Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration (CF- FMNR) was shared with HCi3N in Niger and the relevant ministries in Burkina Faso, with a view to integration into the national agricultural outreach system. At the local level, representatives from various ministries (Decentralization, Public Health, Agriculture and Livestock, etc.) attended the CM sessions on resilience activities, which were co-financed by the communes (50%). The project implemented a graduation approach with the Municipal Councils of the 12 communes of concentration (CCs). The process consists of periodic and progressive assessments which use specific criteria to determine the institution’s capacity to promote resilience to food and nutrition insecurity. REGIS-ER also applied the graduation process to its own field agents in order to help them transition from a mode of direct intervention to an indirect one in which they coach PRLs. 3 Key program achievements Program 5 (P5) – Promotion of local institutions: In FY18, the promotion of Local Institutions brought the project into a new phase. This programmatic change caused a corresponding structural change within the project, which began a restructuring process that required staff to adopt new ways of working. REGIS-ER succeeded in obtaining the full buy-in of the 3 local institutions targeted in the sustainability strategy. Innovation: REGIS-ER initiated the process of creating a public-private partnership between the Municipal Council and CWG, a civil society organization (CSO) at the commune level. This alliance creates a synergy between two complementary local institutions seeking practical solutions to resilience-related problems. P1 – Habbanayé plus Animal Feed and Health: The project focused on empowering habbanayé entities through training and guidance. REGIS-ER provided the habbanayé management committees (at the village level) and the communes with the capacity and tools to take ownership of habbanayé activities (choice of beneficiaries, and properly manage habbanayé assets and transfers). Sustainability: REGIS-ER developed a habbanayé tracking tool in excel for communes to monitor “animal placements and livestock asset transfers”, which provides up-to-date snapshots of the situation by village. P2 – Horticulture: At REGIS-ER’s request, CLDs/CVDs