Improving Human Security for Vulnerable Communities in Southwest Serbia
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IMPROVING HUMAN SECURITY FOR VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES IN SOUTHWEST SERBIA FULL PROPOSAL For the UN Trust Fund for Human Security (UNTFHS) UN Country Team in Serbia 1 Acronyms CSO Civil Society Organization CPs Collection Points CRDA Community Revitalization through Democratic Action EC European Commission EU European Union FOS Friends of the Sandzak GOS Government of Serbia HSU Human Security Unit IDPs Internally Displaced Persons JP Joint Programme JPM Joint Program Manager LSG Local Self Government MDG Millennium Development Goal MOV Means of Verification NGO Non-Government Organization NSDS National Sustainable Development Strategy OVI Objectively Verifiable Indicators PPES Preparedness and Planning Program PUC Public Utility Company RHDR Regional Human Development Report TOR Terms of Reference UNDAF UN Development Assistance Framework UNDP United Nations Development Programme UNFPA United Nations Population‟s Fund UNHSTF United Nations Human Security Trust Fund UNOHCHR United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights UNOPS United Nations Office for Project Services USAID US Agency for International Development WHO World Health Organization 2 Table of Contents Acronyms ...................................................................................................................................................... 2 1 Basic data/ Summary ............................................................................................................................ 4 2 Executive summary ............................................................................................................................... 4 3 Introduction and rationale for funding from the UNTFHS ................................................................... 5 4 Context .................................................................................................................................................. 7 4.1 Past and current activities ............................................................................................................. 7 4.2 National and local government commitments............................................................................... 8 4.3 Project identification and formulation .......................................................................................... 9 4.4 Beneficiaries ................................................................................................................................. 9 5 Project details ...................................................................................................................................... 11 5.1 Goals and objectives ................................................................................................................... 11 5.2 Outputs and activities .................................................................................................................. 11 5.3 External factors/risk .................................................................................................................... 18 6 Sustainability ....................................................................................................................................... 18 7 Implementation and partnership strategy ............................................................................................ 20 8 Dissemination, public affairs and communications ............................................................................ 21 9 Monitoring and evaluation plan .......................................................................................................... 21 10 Administration and financial management ..................................................................................... 21 10.1 Management structure and financing arrangements ................................................................... 21 10.2 Financial reporting ...................................................................................................................... 23 10.3 Substantive reporting .................................................................................................................. 23 10.4 Work plan .................................................................................................................................... 23 11 Budget ............................................................................................................................................. 23 Annex 1 (Budget) ........................................................................................................................................ 24 Annex 2 (Logical Framework) .................................................................................................................... 25 Annex 3 (Assumption/Risk Log) ................................................................................................................ 34 Annex 4 (Work Plan) .................................................................................................................................. 37 Annex 5 Additional Information on Implementation Activities and Arrangements ................................... 40 Annex 6 (Letters of Support) ...................................................................................................................... 49 3 1 Basic data/ Summary Date of submission 29 June 2012 Benefitting country and location Serbia (southwest region) Title of the project Improving Human Security for Vulnerable Communities in southwest Serbia Duration of the project 24 months Executing UN organizations UNDP Country Office Serbia (executing) (incl. contacts in field offices) UNOPS Europe and Middle East Office (executing) WHO Country Office Serbia (executing) UNFPA (executing) Non-UN executing partner Commissioner for Protection of Equality Ministry of Environment, Mining and Spatial Planning Ministry of Human and Minority Rights, Public Administration and Local Self-Government Ombudsman Serbian Office for EU integration Municipality of Novi Pazar Project budget including PSC USD 2,859,659 2 Executive summary Southwest Serbia, commonly known as the Sandzak, is one of the most deprived areas in Serbia. It is home to a number IDPs, refugees and returnees under the readmission agreements. Living conditions of the Roma community are particularly hard. Although the Sandzak is among the youngest regions in Serbia (more than 50% of population is under the age of 30), the youth unemployment rate is 60%.The region is ethnically mixed and the two largest ethnic groups, Bosniaks and Serbs, are divided internally and disenfranchised by the central government. There is a threat of inter-ethnic and intra-communal conflict. In order to address these problems, the UN Team in Serbia will pioneer an innovative and scalable model that will employ, engage and empower vulnerable groups in southwest Serbia. This project will create jobs that will generate household income, secure access to public and social services, and promote community cohesion which will collectively enhance and strengthen human security in southwest Serbia. It will set the ground for a widespread behavioral change and for increased citizen‟s engagement in community related matters. The main project deliverables include: establishment of a formal recycling and waste collection center and cooperative, enhancement of the inter-ethnic dialogue and human rights through art, sports, culture and education and improvement of the access to services related to citizenship rights and documentation. Beneficiaries are politically disenfranchised, socially excluded and economically and culturally unempowered individuals and households in Novi Pazar and other municipalities in southwest Serbia, especially the women, youth and Roma. The number of direct beneficiaries is estimated at 60,000 women and men. 4 3 Introduction and rationale for funding from the UNTFHS Southwest Serbia borders Montenegro, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Kosovo1, and is one of the poorest regions2 in the country. In 2011 Serbia conducted its first census in a decade. Preliminary census results report 229,382 people in the Sandžak, a majority, 60%, of whom are Bosniaks, followed by 38% Serbs and 2% other ethnicities3. In 2005, The International Crisis Group (ICG)4 wrote that southwest Serbia was “vulnerable and a possible flashpoint of new violence.” Four years later, little had changed, and as a result two dozen diplomats joined U.S. Ambassador Cameron Munter in founding the “Friends of the Sandžak (FOS).” FOS provides a forum that has allied the external partners, focusing their development interventions on a region that is politically and economically isolated from Belgrade and the rest of Serbia. The ethnically diverse populations in the Sandzak communities “co- exist,” living alongside one another, studying and working in common institutions and/or organizations, but in segregated communities. Neighborhoods are divided along ethnic lines, and tensions are rising. The threat of inter-ethnic and intra-communal conflict is still simmering after a decade, and now the threat of regional conflict directed by the south at the north (Belgrade) is also increasing. The populations in the south are collectively disenfranchised from central government in Belgrade.5 Communities across southern Serbia, complain about the lack of demonstrable and deliberate action on the part of central Government. Following the tragic assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic in 2003, the succession