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USAID NIGERIA STEER SYSTEMS TRANSFORMED FOR EMPOWERED ACTIONS AND ENABLING RESPONSES FOR VULNERABLE CHILDREN AND FAMILIES QUARTERLY REPORT (FY14 Q3) APRIL 2014 – JUNE 2014 JULY 2014 This publication was produced for review by the United States Agency for International *ForDevelopment. the purpose of uploading It was documents prepared to the DEC, by all Save personal the information Children and pictures International were removed and replaced with “XXX” 1 USAID NIGERIA STEER QUARTERLY REPORT (FY14 Q3) April 2014- June 2014 Award No: AID-620-A-13-00002 Prepared for XXX, AOR United States Agency for International Development/Nigeria C/O U.S. Embassy Abuja Plot 1075 Diplomatic Drive Central District Area Abuja, Nigeria Submitted by: XXX, Chief of Party Save the Children International No. 4 Danube Close, off Danube Crescent, Maitama, Abuja Tel: XXX Email: [email protected] Submitted: July 31, 2014 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. *For the purpose of uploading documents to the DEC, all personal information and pictures were removed and replaced with “XXX” 2 *For the purpose of uploading documents to the DEC, all personal information and pictures were removed and replaced with “XXX” 3 Contents ACRONYMS 5 1. PROGRAM OVERVIEW/SUMMARY 7 1.1 Program Description/Introduction 8 1.2 Summary of Results to Date 9 2. ACTIVITY IMPLEMENTATION PROGRESS 10 2.1 Progress Narrative 10 2.2 Implementation Status 11 2.3 Implementation challenges. 16 2.4 M& E Plan Update 16 3. INTEGRATION OF CROSSCUTTING ISSUES AND USAID FORWARD PRIORITIES 18 4. STAKEHOLDER PARTICIPATION AND INVOLVEMENT 19 5. MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATIVE ISSUES 20 6. LESSON LEARNED 21 7. PLANNED ACTIVITIES FOR NEXT QUARTER INCLUDING UPCOMING EVENTS 21 8. WHAT DOES USAID NOT KNOW THAT IT NEEDS TO? 22 9. HOW IMPLEMENTING PARTNER HAS ADDRESSED A/COR COMMENTS FROM THE LAST QUARTERLY OR SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT 22 ANNEX A: PROGRESS SUMMARY (TO BE COMPLETED FROM NEXT QUARTER) 23 *For the purpose of uploading documents to the DEC, all personal information and pictures were removed and replaced with “XXX” 4 ACRONYMS ABUTH Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital AID Agency for International Development ACE-HI African Community and Environmental Health Initiative ACET Almanah Rescue Mission, and AIDS Care Education and Training Society Nigeria AIHA American International Health Alliance ARFH Association of Reproductive and family Health AONN Association of Orphans and Vulnerable Children NGOs in Nigeria ATBU Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University BACATMA Bauchi State Agency for Control of AIDS CAHLI Children and Adult Healthy Living Initiative CAPs Corrective Action Plans CEOs Chief Executive Officers CHWs Community Health Extension Workers CIYCF Community Infant and Young Child Feeding CSO Civil Society Organization CV Community Volunteers DO Development Objective ES Economic Strengthening Face-PaM Forward in Action for Education Poverty and Malnutrition FHI Family Health International FIYCF Facility Infant and Young Child Feeding HH House Holds HIV/AIDs Human Immuno-Deficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome IPs Implementing Partners KADSACA Kaduna State Agency for Control of AIDS LACA Local Government Agency for Control of AIDS LGAs Local Government Areas MC Mercy Corps MEMS Monitoring and Evaluation Management Services MSH Management Sciences for Health (MSH) M&E Monitoring and Evaluation N/A Not Applicable NPA National Priority Agenda OVC Orphans and Vulnerable Children PIRS Project Indicator Reference Sheet RHISA Reproductive Health Initiative and Support Association SCI Save the Children International SIMS Site Improvement Monitoring System SMOH State Ministry of Health SMWASD State Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development SO Strategic Objective SPRING Strengthening, partnership Results and Innovation in Nutrition Globally SUWA Scripture Union West Africa *For the purpose of uploading documents to the DEC, all personal information and pictures were removed and replaced with “XXX” 5 STEER Systems Transformed for Empowered Actions and Enabled Responses TA Technical Assistance TB Tuberculosis TWG Technical Working Group UNICEF United Nations Children’s Fund USAID United States Agency for International Development VC Vulnerable Children VC TWG Vulnerable Children Technical Working Group VHHs. Vulnerable households YARAC Youth, Adolescent Reflection & Action Centre *For the purpose of uploading documents to the DEC, all personal information and pictures were removed and replaced with “XXX” 6 1. PROGRAM OVERVIEW/SUMMARY Program Name: Systems Transformed for Empowered Actions and Enabling Responses For Vulnerable Children and Families (STEER) Activity Start Date And End th th Date: April 29 2013 to April 28 , 2018 Name of Prime Implementing Partner: Save the Children International [Contract/Agreement] AID-620-A-13-00002 Number: Name of Sub-contractors/Sub- awardees: Major Counterpart Management Sciences for Health (MSH) Organizations Association for Reproductive and Family Health (ARFH) Mercy Corps (MC) American International Health Alliance (AIHA) Geographic Coverage 5 Northern Nigerian States (cities and or countries) Kaduna State Kano State Bauchi State Sokoto State Plateau State Reporting Period: April 1st 2014 – June 30th, 2014 *For the purpose of uploading documents to the DEC, all personal information and pictures were removed and replaced with “XXX” 7 1.1 Program Description/Introduction The Systems Transformed for Empowered Actions and Enabling Responses (STEER) is a USAID funded five-year project targeting five states namely: Kaduna, Bauchi, Sokoto, Plateau and Kano. The project is a consortium of five organizations led by Save the Children International (SCI), the other partners are: the Association for Reproductive and Family Health (ARFH), American International Health Alliance (AIHA), Management Sciences for Health (MSH) and Mercy Corps (MC). STEER aims at improving the wellbeing of Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) in Northern Nigeria by enabling them to access and utilize comprehensive and coordinated services to realize their full rights. STEER targets 575,000 children and 125,000 care givers in the five states. To ensure goal success, four results spanning two key areas will be achieved: 1) strengthened institutional and technical capacity of state/local governments and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), and 2) households with measurably increased and on-going capacity to meet their needs. STEER’s breakthrough strategy revolves around a 3600 approach to systems strengthening which takes into account regional differences, religious and cultural considerations, household (HH) vulnerabilities and gender dynamics. The strategy aims to: 1) strengthen families by building caregivers’ capacity to serve as frontline care and support providers to children; 2) strengthen community systems to identify vulnerable children, link them to needed services and promote the creation of protective structures; 3) strengthen and reinforce state and local government leadership and ownership of the OVC response through targeted capacity building, strong mentorship, institutionalization of standards and practices and increased accountability; and 4) support active engagement of private sector to address the unique vulnerabilities faced by OVC and their families. Through an innovative, competitive and performance-based sub-granting strategy, Nigerian CSOs will rapidly scale up quality care and support to OVC and families and increase their technical and institutional capacity through the use of demand-driven technical assistance. STEER works through innovative yet tailored approaches to capacity building for state and non-state partners (government, civil society, private sector and families/communities) by working within these entities to strengthen and sustain institutional capacity and between entities to support networking and modeling of approaches for a holistic response. With specific attention to gender integration, STEER aims at addressing the unique female challenges in the north and engages females in decision making on issues which affect them at all levels. *For the purpose of uploading documents to the DEC, all personal information and pictures were removed and replaced with “XXX” 8 1.2 Summary of Results to Date Annual Annua On Baselin Q Q Q Q Performan l Standard Indicators e 1 2 3 4 ce Target Targe Achieved Y/N FY t FY FY FY F to the End YYYY 14 14 14 Y of 1 Number of active beneficiaries served by PEPFAR OVC Reporting 0 130,000 0 0 0 4 Period (%) programs for children and families affected by HIV/AIDS Number of active beneficiaries supported to access HIV 0 TBD TBD TBD TBD services (To be reported from FY15) Note: The Results Performance Column depicts level of achievement expressed as a percentage of Actual versus Planned. *For the purpose of uploading documents to the DEC, all personal information and pictures were removed and replaced with “XXX” 9 2. ACTIVITY IMPLEMENTATION PROGRESS 2.1 Progress Narrative This report provides a summary of the project’s achievements so far for the second year (September 2013 to October 2014) with much emphasis on the 3rd quarter (April 2014 – June 2014). In the calendar year under review STEER has completed initial activities aimed at bringing first batch of CSOs on board to provide care and support to OVC, STEER Project was officially launched at its Headquarters