JJSSP FY19Q3 Report
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FY20 Q2 Performance Report Country/Region: El Salvador Project Name: Juvenile Justice System Strengthening Program (JJSSP) Cooperative Agreement: No: AID-519-A-17-00003 Project Duration: September 28, 2017 – September 27, 2022 Reporting Period: January 1st to March 31st, 2020 WVUS Contact: Tiana R. Olugboji, Program Management Officer Child Protection & Education International Programs Group, World Vision, Inc. 300 I Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002 E-mail: [email protected] USAID Agreement Officer Representative (AOR): Gracia López, JJSSP AOR USAID El Salvador Antiguo Cuscatlán, La Libertad/El Salvador E-mail:[email protected] WVSL National Office Contact WVSV Contacts: Laura del Valle National Director World Vision El Salvador Bernal Av., #220, Colonia Miramonte, San Salvador, El Salvador Tel: +503 2260 0565 E-mail: [email protected] Ivan Séassal JJSSP Chief of Party Bernal Av., #220, Colonia Miramonte, San Salvador, El Salvador Tel: +503 2261 9800 Ext. 1034 E-mail: [email protected] Acronyms and Abbreviations Acronyms Meaning BCC Behavior change communication CBO Community-based organization CMS Case Management System CSJ Supreme Court of Justice of El Salvador FBO Faith-based organization FGR Attorney General of El Salvador GoES Government of El Salvador ISNA Salvadoran Institute for the Comprehensive Development of Children and Adolescents JJMG Juvenile Justice Management Group JJIWG Juvenile Justice Interinstitutional Working Group MoSJ Ministry of Justice and Public Security NGO Non-governmental organization PNC Civil National Police RFL Ready for Life program SAN Shared Attention Network TOR Terms of Reference YICL Youth in conflict with the law WV World Vision 1 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .................................................................................................................................. 1 2. CONTEXT IN WHICH JJSS PROGRAM OPERATES............................................................................................ 2 3. 3. ACHIEVEMENTS DURING THE REPORTING PERIOD ................................................................................... 5 3.1 IR 1.1. Improved access to YICL case information ............................................................................... 5 3.2 IR1.2: Better information on the effectiveness of alternative sentencing .......................................... 6 3.3 IR1.3: JJI Working Group and JJ Management Group strengthened ................................................... 7 3.4 IR1.4: Civil servants better trained on alternative sentencing ............................................................ 8 3.5 IR2.1: Increased sufficiency of information on Organizations providing community- based programs and services ................................................................................................................................................. 11 3.6 IR2.3: Better offer of alternative sentencing programs .................................................................... 14 3.7 IR3.2: Private sector companies better trained on skills needed to bring support to alternative sentencing programs ................................................................................................................................... 16 3.8 IR4.1: Justice Sector actors have better information on the effectiveness of alternative sentencing 19 3.9 IR4.2: Salvadoran population has better information on the effectiveness of alternative sentencing, through increased positive media coverage on alternative sentencing. .................................................... 21 4. MONITORING & EVALUATION .................................................................................................................... 22 4.1 MEL plan ............................................................................................................................................ 22 4.2 Data Quality Assessment ................................................................................................................... 23 4.3 Outcome evaluation: cohort 1 ........................................................................................................... 23 5. GENDER AND SOCIAL INCLUSION RELATED ACTIVITIES .............................................................................. 23 6. CHALLENGES AND LESSONS LEARNED ........................................................................................................ 23 7. MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS ...................................................................................... 24 2 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The USAID funded Juvenile Justice System Strengthening (JJSS) Program is a five-year Project focused mainly on five municipalities of El Salvador (Santa Ana, Colón, San Salvador, Zacatecoluca, San Miguel). The Project is implemented by World Vision El Salvador (WVES). The award was signed on September 28, 2017, and Project implementation will end on September 2022. This report represents activities implemented, and progress made, from January 1 to March 31, 2020 The JJSS Project has the overall goal of increasing the use of alternative sentencing (AS) in El Salvador delivered through: • Improved capacity to administer AS • Better AS programs created or strengthened • Recidivism reduced • Effectiveness of AS proven • Increased support for AS JJSS is pursuing its activities and initiating new ones to make progress towards its Goal, Strategic Objectives (SOs) and Intermediate Results (IRs), outlined below: SO1: Build capacity within the public sector juvenile justice system, to more effectively advocate for, manage, and monitor YICL. IR1.1: Improved access to YICL case information. IR1.2: Better information on the effectiveness of alternative sentencing. IR1.3: JJ Working Group and JJ Management Group strengthened. IR1.4: Civil servants better trained on alternative sentencing. SO2: Increase the number and improve the quality of accredited alternative sentencing programs accessed by YICL as alternatives to detention. IR2.1: Increased sufficiency of information on service providers. IR2.2: Increased quality of service providers’ delivery. IR2.3: Better offer of alternative sentencing programs. SO3: Engage the private sector as employers, mentors, and co-founders of programs used in alternative sentencing. IR3.1: Improved coordination of private sector companies that support YICL. IR3.2: Private sector companies better trained on skills needed to bring support to alternative sentencing programs. IR3.3: More private sector companies supporting alternative sentencing. SO4: Increase support for alternative sentencing among all juvenile justice stakeholders. 1 IR 4.1 Increase positive media coverage on alternative sentencing. The JJSS Project targets a total population of currently 2,247 young people, of which 244 are female, and 2,203 are male1. 2. CONTEXT IN WHICH JJSS PROGRAM OPERATES The Project has developed a new scenario that takes into account the risk of unavailability of further funding by the end of the 2020 calendar year, and the impact of the current COVID-19 pandemic. Both factors negatively impact the Projected results by forcing the suspension of key activities and the redesign of others. On March 27, 2020, WV submitted the JJSSP’s contingency plan for the rest of 2020 and the first 3 months of 2021, in line with the funds currently available. The plan redefined priorities, as per USAID’s recommendations (i.e. suspension of the CMS). Under the new set of priorities, the lack of a case-tracking system leaves the Project without an important source of information to evaluate YICLs. The plan also integrated new activities that would increase the impact of RFL, both quantitatively and qualitatively, in the next few months of FY20. WV reached an agreement with the General Direction of Intermediate Centers of the Ministry of Justice and Public Security, to open a computer training center in the Ilobasco Intermediate Center (“la Granja”). Another agreement was confirmed with ISNA, to develop similar centers in the Ilopango’s Young Women Social Insertion Center, and in the Social Insertion Center for Juveniles of Ahuachapán (“El Espino”). These interventions will allow youth to develop computer literacy, and, for a few of them, to get on track for a new career in the computer industry. The YICL included in the training will also participate in RfL’s sessions, adapted to a close environment, to prepare them for their return to society. Other new and innovative activities include (1) an alliance with an FBO, to provide technical assistance and support to a half-way house in Santa Ana, which will receive and provide care to YICL from ISNA’s Ahuachapán Insertion Center (El Espino). This is sponsored by RfL and benefits from alternative measures instead of detention, per the agreement with the execution judge; and (2) alliances with therapeutic communities, to provide residential addiction treatment to YICL with criminal records related to drug consumption, as alternative measures to detention. In addition to these new activities that would impact over 120 YICL, the Project plans to establish three new cohorts of YICL, with alternative measures in three municipalities, for a total of 60 additional participants. This plan is still in place, but the COVID pandemic has changed the reality on the ground and has put a halt to the implementation of all the standing agreements with public institutions in a manner akin to force majeure. Those changes came into being a