COREM — USAID Community Resilience in /Mopti Project

he USAID Mali Community Resilience Project Key COREM Accomplishments T (COREM) (2017-2019) known in French as Convergence pour la Résilience au Mali/ Mopti is part Think Systems of the Feed the Future Catalyzing Partnerships for Scale project (2014-2019),1 and supports the USAID Paradigm Shift 1 – The Mali Resilience Portfolio. system is “owned” by stakeholders in COREM’s key objectives are to multiple sectors ÆÆ In October 2017, MALI

Improve Promote over 90 participants MOPTI coordination communication attended the Global between implementing and coordination Food Security partners and mission staff among stakeholders Strategy (GFSS)/ and the USAID Mopti Whole-System-in- Resilience Platform the-Room workshop from the private sector, research and academic Provide Provide institutions, U.S. government and other donors, support to general implementing partners, civil society, regional/ the USAID/Mali Resilience administrative local government, and national government. Coordinator support to the Mali mission and Global Paradigm Shift 2 – Stakeholders identify common Food Security goals Strategy (GFSS) ÆÆ GFSS workshop participants established for Mali common ground and identified nine high priority goals and areas to focus resilience work and nine The chronically vulnerable region of Mopti action plans to achieve these goals. struggles with poverty, malnutrition, and food Paradigm Shift 3 – Focus on building social capital insecurity while facing the challenges of climate among stakeholders change, conflict, and instability. To improve the ÆÆ Mopti Resilience Platform members committed collective impact of resilience investments in to carry actions forward though relationship Mopti’s complex development environment, COREM building and attendance at bi-monthly meetings, uses the SCALE+2 systems methodology that applies frequent communication with COREM, and a systems lens to the USAID Resilience Platform’s engagement with COREM’s coordination of communication and coordination, builds social capital synergy activities. among stakeholders, and facilitates locally-driven development for sustainability. FIGURE 1: Organizational Network Analysis (ONA) Integrate the System of Mali Resilience Stakeholders Organized and facilitated nine bi-monthly

MC CRS PSI resilience coordination meetings in Mopti with 143 IRC ILRI SC total participants and 20 percent participation rate WV Donor/ UNICEF EDC International SI for female participants. AKF Aid Agency ICRAF IESC ACCORD Organized and facilitated four Resilience FFSWE Civil Society MJP (Foundation, Stakeholder Workshops/Meetings with over FTF Mali MSI AVRDC NGO, CBO) 272 participants: SNGP CAREh&n AECOM MCCAA Research/ Æ IFDC Æ Resilience and Collaboration Workshop CAMRIS University/ Education for USAID Implementing Partners CVC CARE Harande (September 2017) ÆÆ Global Food Security Strategy (GFSS)/ Whole- Map the System System-in-the-Room workshop: “Toward Eliminating Hunger, Malnutrition, and Poverty in Formed a Cross-Sector Advisory Committee with Mali” (October 2017) eight members from the agricultural, health, and ÆÆ USAID and Mopti Resilience Platform Partners private sectors and included national government Workshop (June 2018) as well as implementing partners and research institutes. Committee members advised on ÆÆ Security Collaboration and Coordination stakeholder mapping and participant selection for Meeting for USAID and Mopti Resilience the GFSS workshop. Partners, to discuss security challenges for implementers and how to better coordinate Mapped 117 national organizations and 27 Mopti efforts to ensure safety for staff and organizations using Organizational Network beneficiaries (September 2018) Analysis (ONA). COREM grew the resilience stakeholder network from 10-15 organizations in Mopti to 117 organizations across the country (see Figure 1).

Transform the System Created synergies among USAID Mopti Resilience Led thought leadership on Gender and Resilience: Platform members that resulted in 20 joint ÆÆ Presented COREM’s Gender and Resilience activities (see Figure 2 on page 4 for COREM work on a panel entitled “Resilience for Synergy Activity Timeline) between resilience All? Working Towards Inclusive & Equitable implementing partners with 624 total participants Resilience Programs and Measurement” at the Resilience Measurement, Evidence and Learning Produced and distributed 10 informational Conference (RMEL) Conference in New Orleans newsletters for the USAID Mopti Resilience (November 2018) Platform and reached over 75 readers with Æ resilience lessons learned, good practices, success Æ Facilitated Gender Roundtable discussions stories, and member profiles. during the COREM workshop in (June 2018) ÆÆ Presented on women’s leadership at bimonthly Mopti Resilience Platform meetings ÆÆ Collected data on gender and measurement from Mopti Resilience Platform partners

2 Created and facilitated a WhatsApp Community Created a sustainable online repository for Mopti of Practice (CoP) for the USAID Mopti Resilience Platform members to share and upload Resilience Platform that had 135 interactions between resources. The repository uses free open source February and August 2019 among 38 participants. technology that can be edited by any Platform Shared resources included security updates, links to member. There are currently 559 resources in the COREM newsletter, video interviews, and photos of the repository. advocacy events and joint activities.

TABLE 1: USAID Mopti Resilience Platform

Project Number of Projects Projects Names/Implementers Sector (23 total) (24 total implementers)

• Finance for Food Security and Women Entrepreneurs program (FFSWE)/ International Executive Services Corps • Harande implemented by CARE/Save the Children, Eco, & Yak Tu • Bringing agroforestry to scale for improved livelihoods in Harande resilience zones/World Agroforestry Centre • Livestock for Growth Program (L4G)/AECOM • Feed the Future Mali Livestock Technology Scaling Program (FTF/ MLTSP)/International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) 10 • Fertilizer Deep Placement Micro-Dosing (FDP-MD)/International Agriculture/Food Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC) Security • Cereal Value Chains (CVC) /ACDI VOCA • Mali Climate Change Adaptation Activity (MCCAA)/Chemonics • Scaling-Up Climate-Smart Agroforestry Technologies in Mali (SmAT- Scaling)/World Agroforestry Centre • Africa Rising’s Large-Scale Diffusion of Technologies for Sorghum and Millet Systems (ARDT-SMS)/Catholic Relief Services (CRS) & Aga Khan Foundation (AKF)

• Girls’ Leadership and Empowerment Through Education (GLEE)/Winrock 2 • Activité d’Appui à l’Education En Situation d’Urgence (USAID-EESA)/ Education CAMRIS

• Mali Sub-National Governance Program (SNGP)/Tetra Tech • Agence de Développement Régional (ADR) of Mopti 4 • The Mali Peacebuilding, Stabilization and Reconciliation project/ Creative Governance/ Associates Conflict • Civic Engagement Program (CEP)/FHI 360

• Mali Horticulture Scaling Project (AVRDC)/World Vegetable Center • Keneya Jemu Kan (KJK)/Palladium, MSI, John Hopkins University • Nutrition Hygiene Projet (NHP)/CARE • Global Health Supply Chain – Procurement and Supply Management Health/Nutrition/ 7 (GHSC-PSM)/Chemonics WASH • Human Resources for Health in 2030 (HRH2030)/Chemonics International • Assainissement Total Piloté par la Communauté (ATPC) et Fin de la Défécation à l’Air Libre en (FDAL)/UNICEF 3 • World Food Program (WFP)/United Nations FIGURE 2: COREM Synergy Activity Timeline TIMEFRAME KEY HIGHLIGHTS SUPPORT PROVIDED COLLABORATIVE PARTNER(S)

Trainings on good household nutrition practices for farmer NHP, ILRI, Harande, and L4G organizations in collaboration with NHP, ILRI, Harande, MAR–DEC and L4G 2017 3 Training for trainers for farmers organizations on fundraising NHP, Harande, and L4G Trainings & Meetings 16 Participants for water supply points Training for small producers in PPU intensive rice system NHP, IFDC, Harande

NHP, IFDC, MCCAA, Worldveg, L4G, Two trainings on soil and water conservation and protection 1 CRS, Harande, CVC JAN–APR Advocacy Event ALPHA producer training NHP, MCCAA, and CVC Supported African Vaccination Week and the campaign JKJ, GSC-PSM, Harande 2018 16 against measles in Mopti Participants 4 Quarterly stakeholder meeting on essential GHSC-PSM, HRH2030, KJK, and CRS Trainings & Meetings medications management

MCCAA, IFDC, Harande, NHP, CRS, Training on Striga control and elimination and AKF MAY–AUG Outreach for a workshop on access to credit for businesses IESC, L4G, CVC, AKF, IFDC, Harande, 2018 2 21 and individuals CRS, Nutrition Hygiène, MCCAA Trainings & Meetings Participants Training of farming organizations on business development Harande, Care, and KJK and water access points.

World Handwashing Day HRH 2030, KJK, NHP, and Harande L4G field agent training event on the basics of MCCAA and L4G 4 climate change Advocacy Event Supported Session II of the Local Elected SNGP, MCAA, L4G, IESC, GHS-PSC, Leadership workshop HRH2030, CRS, and Harande L4G, CRS, WORDLVEG, MCCAA, Two cooking demonstrations of Baobab and Moringa leaves HARANDE, CARE NUTRITION, and SEP–DEC WFP 5 Training on a Social Behavioral Change communication NHP, GHS, MCCAA, Harande, L4G, and Trainings & Meetings 2018 tool box IESC Supported the Regional Council on its 2019 preliminary draft SNGP/ADR and Harande budget development Development of the simplified Process of Elaboration of the SNGP, ADR, and Harande Program for Development-Economic, Social, and Cultural 141 (PDSEC) guide in collaboration with Participants Assisted in organizing messaging workshop for WASH JKJ, PNH, Harande, and HRH2030 and nutrition

SNGP, ADR, and Harande Studies on agricultural market opportunities for Mali’s 1 administrative regions JAN–APR Advocacy Event 2019 5 MCCAA, L4G, CRS, ICRAF, IRD /WYL, 1 Participants Training on crop planting method without watering (PLASA) and Harande Trainings & Meetings

Training for focal points and facilitators for System of Rice MCCAA, World Veg, and L4G 1 Intensification (SRI) Workshop MAY–SEP PEC, Harande, and NHP Workshop on local government budgeting transparency for 2019 425 communities in Bandiagara (attended by 411 participants 1 Participants including 121 women) Trainings & Meetings

This factsheet was produced under United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Associate Cooperative Agreement No. AID-OAA-A-14-00097. The contents are the responsibility of FHI 360 and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government.

1. For more information please visit our website: https://www.fhi360.org/projects/feed-future-catalyzing-partnerships-scale 2. System-wide Collaborative Action for Livelihoods and Environment (SCALE+) is a systems methodology developed by FHI 360 in conjunction with USAID in the 1990s. For more information please visit our website: http://scaleplus.fhi360.org/index.html 3. ONA of Mopti Resilience Stakeholders: Organizations are represented as nodes (circles) and relationship are represented by edges (lines). The thickness of the line indicates the strength of the relationship (thicker=stronger).

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