LEBANON COMMUNITY SUPPOT PROGRAM
QUARTERLY REPORT LEBANON COMMUNITY SUPPORT PROGRAM October – December 2019
DISCLAIMER The authors’ views expressed in this deliverable do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States Agency for International Development or the United States government.
DISCLAIMER The authors’ views expressed in this deliverable do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States Agency for International Development or the United States government.
USAID/LEBANON COMMUNITY SUPPORT PROGRAM
FY2010 Q1 QUARTERLY PROGRESS REPORT: OCTOBER – DECECEMBER 2019
JANUARY 30, 2020
IDIQ Contract No. 72026818D00005 Task Order No. 1 72026818F00002 Task Order No. 2 72026818F00003 Task Order No. 3 72026819F00001 Task Order No. 5 72026819F00003 USAID/Lebanon Community Support Program (CSP) Chemonics International Inc. Fattal-Dolphin Building, 4th Floor, Sin el Fil Beirut, Lebanon
FRONT COVER PHOTO A woman in the southern village of Tanbourit uses a mechanical olive harvesting machine provided by USAID through CSP. Mechanical harvesting machines improve efficiency and decrease the cost of producing olive oil. CSP provided eight of them, worth $12,000, to benefit 54 families in Tanbourit, helping alleviate tensions that were arising as farmers were forced to compete for scarce resources.
BACK COVER PHOTO Students sit in desks in a classroom at the Al Salam Public Mixed School, which serves 518 Lebanese students and more than 400 Syrian refugee students in the northern region of Akkar. Despite the roadblocks and other complications during the quarter, CSP managed to complete its procurement and rehabilitation intervention at the school, totaling some $67,000.
CONTENTS
ACRONYMS 1 I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1 II. BACKGROUND AND COUNTRY CONTEXT 5 III. TASK ORDER 1: MANAGEMENT 6 MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS TASKS 6 RECRUITMENT AND STAFFING 6 ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE 8 GRANTS, SUBCONTRACTS, AND PROCUREMENT 10 CROSS-CUTTING TECHNICAL SUPPORT 10 PROTEST RESPONSE AND ADAPTATION 12 LEADERSHIP RETREAT 13 IV. TASK ORDER 2: COMMUNITY SUPPORT PROGRAM 14 COMMUNITY IDENTIFICATION AND SELECTION 14 ACTIVITY DESIGN 14 ACTIVITY IMPLEMENTATION 17 ACTIVITY HIGHLIGHTS 18 IMPLEMENTATION CHALLENGES, SOLUTIONS, AND NEXT STEPS 19 V. TASK ORDER 3: TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND CAPACITY BUILDING 21 TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO MUNICIPALITIES AND CIVIL SOCIETY 21 COLLABORATIVE PARTNERSHIP WITH THE UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM 23 IMPLEMENTATION CHALLENGES, SOLUTIONS, AND NEXT STEPS 24 VI. TASK ORDER 5: WASTEWATER MANAGEMENT 25 START-UP AND MOBILIZATION 25 WASTEWATER INFRASTRUCTURE 25 WASTEWATER INVESTMENT 27 IMPLEMENTATION CHALLENGES, SOLUTIONS, AND NEXT STEPS 28 VII. LESSONS LEARNED, BEST PRACTICES, AND NEXT STEPS 29 MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS LESSONS LEARNED AND BEST PRACTICES 29 PROGRAMMATIC LESSONS LEARNED AND BEST PRACTICES 29 VIII. ANNEXES 31 ANNEX A: CSP ORGANIZATIONAL CHART 31 ANNEX B: YEAR 1 QUARTER 1 FINANCIAL REPORT (OCTOBER – DECEMBER 2019) 32 ANNEX C: VETTING REPORT (OCTOBER – DECEMBER 2019) 33 ANNEX D: ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE SUMMARY REPORT 3937 ANNEX E: PERFORMANCE MONITORING: PROGRESS MADE TOWARD TARGETS SET 4142 ANNEX F: INDICATORS PERFORMANCE TRACKING TABLE 4847 ANNEX G: TRANSFORMING LIVES — USAID SUPPORTS OLIVE FARMERS IN TANBOURIT5049 ANNEX H: COMMUNITY PROFILES (OCT. – DEC. 2019) 5251 ANNEX I: CSP TO 2 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT GRANTS TRACKER 5352 ANNEX J: CSP ACTIVITIES BY SECTOR AND IMPLEMENTATION STATUS (THROUGH DEC. 2019) 5453 ANNEX K: CSP ACTIVITIES BY FUNDING LEVELS (THROUGH DEC. 2019) 5554
ANNEX L: CSP TO 2/TO 3 ACTIVITY TRACKER 5655 ANNEX M: TO 3 TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE ACTIVITY SELECTION TOOL — PROVIDING SUPPORT FOR FARMERS IN NOURA AFFECTED BY THE SYRIAN CONFLICT 6564 ANNEX N: CSP TO 2 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT GRANTS TRACKER 6665 ANNEX O: SHORT LIST OF POTENTIAL WASTEWATER INTERVENTIONS 6867
ACRONYMS TAAST technical assistance activity selection tool AAP activity approval package TAAT technical assistance assessment tool AUB American University of Beirut TAPT technical assistance profiling tool ALI Association of Lebanese Industrialists TAAR technical assistance assessment report BTD Bureau Technique pour le Développement TO task order
CAF Conflict Assessment Framework TVET technical and vocational education and training COOP cooperative USP University Scholarship Program COR contract officer’s representative
CQCP construction quality and control plan
CSO civil society organization
CSP Community Support Program
CSR corporate social responsibility
DGA Director General of Antiquities
ELARD Earth Link & Advanced Resources Development
GESI gender equality and social inclusion
IDIQ indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity
LAU Lebanese American University
LSA local systems approach
MEL monitoring, evaluation, and learning
MOU memorandum of understanding
RAD rapid analysis design
RFA request for applications
RFP request for proposals
RWE regional water establishment
SLWE South Lebanon Water Establishment
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Community Support Program (CSP) in Lebanon is a USAID-funded $80 million, seven-year, single-holder indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract designed to provide a range of support to underserved and vulnerable communities. CSP seeks to improve the delivery of essential services and enhance economic opportunities in order to improve lives and reduce tensions that contribute to conflict and violence, primarily in Lebanon’s North, South, and Beqaa Valley regions.
To achieve this objective, USAID issues task orders CURRENT CSP TASK ORDERS (TOs) according to the following components: 1) community stabilization; 2) community TO 1: Management development; and 3) technical assistance and • $19.7 million – 5 years TO 2: Community Support capacity building. CSP uses a fast, flexible, and • $16.5 million – 30 months participatory approach to address a broad range of needs TO 3: Technical Assistance in Lebanon’s most underserved and vulnerable • $10.3 million – 5 years communities in response to evolving political, security, TO 4: Workforce Development and economic conditions. To achieve its objectives, CSP • $7.4 million – 3 years is partnering with municipalities, regional water TO 5: Wastewater Management • $15 million – 4 years establishments (RWEs), civil society organizations Current CSP Task Orders (CSOs), educational and training institutions, and the private sector to implement at least four main activities in the shortTO 1: andManagement long term: community support projects, technical assistance and capacity building, workforce development, and wastewater management (see the text box and the infographic on page 4). • $19.7 million – 5 years TO 2: Community Support This reporting period was the first quarter of full operation for TOs 3 – 5. During the first year of the project, CSP focused mostly on establishing an operational •platform $16.5 throughmillion – 3TO0 months 1 and initiating some community support projects under TO 2. The months ofTO October 3: Capacity – December Building saw the expansion of the IDIQ to three new technical TOs and the initial implementation of their first activities. This required all CSP TOs to collaborate and integrate• their$10,389,132 efforts to– 5ensur yearse the smooth, effective, and amplified operation of the CSP IDIQ. TO 4: Workforce Development
As TO 1 and TO 2 had previously completed their start-up phases• $7.4during million FY2019 – 3 years, those teams focused on project implementation despite significant challengesTO that 5: Wastewaterstemmed from Management the nationwide protests that broke out on October 17 and continued throughout• $15the millionquarter – (4Chapter years II). (For an overview of CSP’s major achievements through the end of the first quarter of its second year, refer to the infographic on page 6.)
The TO 1 team provided support to CSP’s four technical TOs, with an emphasis on the recruitment of new staff and the administration of work orders to the program’s four institutional subcontractors – BTD, ELARD, Quantum, and AUB – to augment the teams’ capabilities. Concurrently, the monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) team under TO 1 conducted visits to the sites of CSP activities already completed or under implementation to collect data, interview local actors, and report results. Finally, the communications and outreach team expanded, submitted several deliverables to USAID, and increased CSP’s social media presence. With all TOs now fully operational, CSP held a leadership retreat for the directors, as well as the heads of the MEL and communications teams. During the retreat, the team’s leadership came up with recommendations for improving intraproject communications in light of the IDIQ’s expansion.
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FIGURE 1: CSP’S FIVE TASK ORDERS
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Despite some delays that resulted from the protests, TO 2 continued the implementation of its activities while also designing and proposing new ones. By the end of the quarter, the total number of approved projects had reached 40, including 12 that were either completed or fully closed out. TO 2 also held the first half of a six-day workshop on conflict-sensitive community engagement for development, which brought together representatives of partner organizations that have been selected for community engagement grants.
In its first full quarter of operation, TO 3 began coordinating with TO 2 to develop a number of technical assistance interventions to complement the latter’s material assistance interventions. The TO 3 team proposed 11 interventions to USAID for approval during the reporting period. The TO 3 team also initiated work with representatives from the University Scholarship Program (USP) at both the American University of Beirut (AUB) and the Lebanese American University (LAU). The collaboration between TO 3 and USP is expected to officially kick off early next quarter.
Early on in the TO 2 and 3 collaboration, the teams integrated their separate design processes into a single comprehensive activity approval package encompassing both material and technical assistance for beneficiaries, a major cross-TO achievement. The integration has already yielded a few integrated activities, and the teams plan to continue co-designing the packages going forward.
Finally, TO 5 received USAID’s approval of its initial deliverables (work plan and activity selection methodology) and short-listed 12 potential wastewater infrastructure activities, and is now working to narrow the list down to two to four viable interventions that are within the scope and budget of TO 5. The team also initiated work on its parallel, wastewater investment track.
TO 4, CSP’s workforce development activity, falls under USAID’s economic growth office and operates according to a different development objective and set of expected results. Although TO 4 reports separately from the rest of the IDIQ, it is worth noting that the team made significant progress on its deliverables during the reporting period. Notably, the team completed a labor market assessment, identifying three sectors in Lebanon that have promise for economic growth and employment opportunities: home-based health care services, information technology and information and communications technology, and the repair and maintenance of industrial machinery. The team plans to partner with technical and vocational education and training institutions and small-to-medium enterprises in these sectors in the future to improve the prospects of employability for some 1,000 Lebanese. The team also began collaborating with AUB to establish a framework for a new scholarship program to benefit job seekers.
The rest of this report describes the progress made by each TO during the first quarter of CSP’s second year, from October – December 2019. It is organized by TO and includes a brief section introducing the country context; a chapter each detailing the work accomplished by TOs 1, 2, 3, and 5; and a final section on lessons learned from working in the current context of high economic, social, and political instability and uncertainty. The report also includes a series of annexes to augment the narrative.
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FIGURE 2: CSP’S MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS, THROUGH DEC. 2019
4 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV I. BACKGROUND AND COUNTRY CONTEXT This reporting period in Lebanon was characterized by political, social, economic, and environmental instability, as mass protests broke out across the country in defiance of Lebanon’s political class. The demonstrations began in mid-October, in the aftermath of wildfires that erupted in parts of the country. The government proved ill-equipped to contain the blazes, prompting anger among Lebanese citizens. Days later, reports surfaced that the government planned to introduce a new tax on phone calls made through the smartphone app WhatsApp. That night, residents of Beirut began taking to the streets in protest.
The initial demonstration soon expanded into a nationwide condemnation of sectarian rule, the stagnant economy, high unemployment, and corruption. People decried the government’s failure to provide basic services such as 24-hour electricity, clean water, and health care. The protesters blocked roads, forced the closure of public institutions and of banks for more than a week, and eventually provoked the resignation of then-Prime Minister Saad Hariri. The tense situation in some instances led to clashes between demonstrators and Lebanese security personnel, which were deadly in at least two cases. Periodic conflicts persisted with varying degrees of intensity even after road blocks tapered and the situation calmed.
The months that followed saw an accelerated deterioration of Lebanon’s already struggling financial situation. Although the rate of exchange from the Lebanese lira to the dollar has been fixed at the Central Bank’s midrate of LBP 1,507.5 to $1, the black market exchange rate during the quarter increased by as much as 50 percent amid fears of a shortage of U.S. dollars in the country. Meanwhile, banks introduced austerity measures that significantly limit that amount of dollars and Lebanese pounds customers can withdraw or transfer each week. These measures have led to price inflation while also severely limiting the purchasing power of individuals and businesses, forcing many of them to close. According to the market research firm InfoPro, more than 160,000 jobs were permanently or temporarily lost in the first six weeks after the protests broke out, and almost 10 percent of the institutions in Lebanon were forced to suspend work or shut down completely. The Syndicate of Restaurant Owners said that 265 restaurants closed in October and November alone, and another 200 were expected to shutter by the end of the year.
The country context has profound implications for the USAID-funded Community Support Program (CSP) in Lebanon, implemented by Chemonics Beirut S.A.R.L. The roadblocks led to implementation challenges for all CSP’s task orders. For TOs 1 and 2, the protests hampered the implementation of material assistance and MEL activities, and also presented internal challenges for staff that required creative solutions from the management team, such as authorizing temporary telework on pre- determined tasks that could be accomplished from home. For TOs 3 – 5, the demonstrations delayed the completion of early deliverables. Despite the obstacles, all CSP TOs managed to make significant progress on their work plans during the reporting period. They also devised and put in place mitigation measures – such as scheduling multi-day trips to the field during lulls in public demonstrations – to limit the impact that the protests have had and may have in the future.
5 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV II. TASK ORDER 1: MANAGEMENT
MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS TASKS During the reporting period, CSP’s fully-staffed management team provided centralized cross-cutting technical support to the program’s various departments and activities. As this was the first quarter of full operation for CSP’s newest technical task orders, the TO 1 team reorganized and adapted to more effectively support a higher volume of interventions in a wide range of sectors.
RECRUITMENT AND STAFFING As shown in the following table, CSP made significant progress in its recruitment efforts during the quarter, filling most of the vacancies according to the staffing plans of TOs 3 – 5.
STAFFING PROGRESS, OCTOBER – DECEMBER 2019
POSITION SELECTED CANDIDATE START DATE
Director, TO 3 Fares El Zein Oct. 1
CSO Capacity Building Manager, Alice Azar Oct. 1 TO 3
Wastewater Investment Adviser, Youssef Abou Hamad Oct. 1 TO 5
Document Controller/Junior Angie El Halby Oct. 1 Engineer
Wastewater Infrastructure Imad El Khazen Oct. 7 Manager, TO 5
Training and Partnership Lamya Ayyad Oct. 7 Coordinator, TO 3
Relationship Manager, TO 4 Saly Khalaf Oct. 21
Director, TO 4 Khadija Al Zahzah Oct. 23
6 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV Driver, TO 5 Georges Mathias Oct. 23
Director, TO 5 Osama Amad Nov. 1
Wastewater Management Carole Soueidi Nov. 1 Program Coordinator, TO 5
Admission Officer, TO 4 Layla Mouawad Nov. 4
MEL Field Officer — North, TO 2 Christina Rahban Nov. 4
As for the positions left to be filled, CSP interviewed and selected candidates for all but two of them during the reporting period, as shown in the table below. The TO 1 team expects to launch the recruitment process for the remaining positions two positions on TO 5 in 2020, once the team identifies its wastewater infrastructure interventions.
In anticipation of the various construction projects that CSP will implement in the coming year, the team is working with its construction design and supervision subcontractor, the Bureau Technique pour le Developpment (BTD), to identify and hire a full-time field construction engineer, to be based in CSP’s office. This position will support the TO 2 field teams and the TO 1 engineering team by providing real-time and sustained technical oversight, quality control, and adherence to CSP’s construction quality control plan (CQCP).
OUTSTANDING RECRUITMENT
POSITION SELECTED CANDIDATE START DATE
Workforce Development Noussayma Njeim Jan. 2, 2020 Coordinator, TO 4
Capacity Building Officer — Christian El Chekieh Jan. 13, 2020 Beqaa Valley, TO 3
Capacity Building Office — Ranim Abdel Kader Jan. 13, 2020 North, TO 3
MEL Specialist, TO 4 Mike Haddad Jan. 15, 2020
7 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV Capacity Building Officer — Jihad el Cheikh TBD South, TO 3
Capacity Building Technical Nancy Maroun TBD Advisor, TO 3
Procurement Specialist, TO 5 TBD TBD
Construction Supervisor, TO 5 TBD TBD
For a full list of CSP staff as of the end of December, please refer to the organizational chart in Annex A.
ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE The details of CSP’s spending across TOs 1, 2, 3, and 5 are as follows and as shown in Figure 1. For a more detailed breakdown of CSP expenditure during the reporting period, see Annex B.
TASK ORDER 1 During the reporting period, TO 1 expended a total of $909,601.40, with an average burn rate of $303,200.47 a month. Since implementation began in August 2018, TO 1 has expended $4,503,811.31, which represents 23 percent of its overall contract ceiling of $19,746,752, and 27 percent of the program’s current obligation of $16,593,619.70. TO 1 has $15,242,940.96 remaining, or 77 percent of its total funds. This quarter experienced an increase in spending as a result of the three new task orders and the implementation of new, larger-scale activities under TO 2. However, subcontractor spending did not increase as significantly as was expected — $59,398.49 this quarter compared with $55,030.23 in the previous quarter — due in large part to the country context in Lebanon. Road closures and a resulting lack of access to CSP’s partner communities delayed some technical activities that go hand-in-hand with subcontractor spending.
TASK ORDER 2 Regarding TO 2, CSP spent a total of $845,704.11, with an average burn rate of $281,901 a month. To date, CSP has spent $2,892,972.80 under TO 2, which represents 18 percent of CSP’s current obligation of $16,154,623 and 16 percent of its total contract ceiling of $16,536,562. In terms of available funds, CSP has $13,643,489.20, or 83 percent, remaining. Despite experiencing delays in implementation as a result of the protests in Lebanon, CSP increased spending on technical activities, including a marked increase in grants spending. CSP expects its activity fund and grants spending to increase further during the next quarter as programming throughout the North, South, and Beqaa focuses on higher-value community development activities and more money is directed to community engagement grants.
8 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV TO 1 and 2 Spending as of Y2Q2 TO 3 and 5 Spending as of Y1Q2 $700,000.00
$600,000.00
$500,000.00
$400,000.00
$300,000.00
$200,000.00
$100,000.00
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TO 1 TO 2 TO 3 TO 5
FIGURE 3: CSP SPENDING BY TASK ORDER (SEPT. 2018 - DEC. 2019)
TASK ORDER 3 During the reporting period, TO 3 spent $187,120.16, with an average burn rate of $62,373.39 a month. To date, CSP has spent $284,261.96 under TO 3, which represents about 14 percent of its current obligation of $2,000,000, and 3 percent of its total contract ceiling of $10,922,132.00. In terms of available funds, TO 3 has $10,637,870.04, with 97 percent remaining in the total contract ceiling. As TO 3 starts to implement its technical assistance interventions in the next quarter, CSP expects increased spending from the capacity building activity fund, especially given that USAID recently approved 11 of TO 3’s technical assistance proposals.
TASK ORDER 5 TO 5 spent a total of $444,611.25, with an average burn rate of $148,203.75 a month. To date, CSP has spent $595,859.15 under TO 5, or 4 percent of both its current obligation of $14,241,806 and its total contract ceiling of $14,999,058. In terms of available funds, CSP has $14,403,198.85 remaining under the total contract ceiling, or 96 percent. Notably, TO 5 Director Osama Amad joined the team this quarter. Also, the team initiated a period of prefeasibility studies with BTD and CSP’s subcontractor for environmental management services, Earth Link & Advanced Resources Development (ELARD), to propose a list of wastewater management interventions to USAID in the coming quarter.
Regarding the impact of the economic crisis on personal finances, CSP responded to USAID’s request for information about how the economic and political situation was affecting the program following the outbreak of protests in mid-October. In the letter, CSP noted how the currency black market and banking restrictions in the country were affecting staff and recommended that its employees receive payments in U.S. dollars. USAID authorized CSP’s request on December 4 for an initial period of six months. This decision was met with high levels of appreciation.
9 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV GRANTS, SUBCONTRACTS, AND PROCUREMENT
SUBCONTRACTS WITH INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS As activities ramped up during the reporting period, especially under TO 2, CSP increased coordination with and issued a greater number of work orders to its three institutional subcontractors to augment its technical capabilities: BTD, ELARD, and Quantum Communications, which supports and augments CSP’s strategic communications and outreach efforts.
With TO 1’s assistance, TO 4, also executed a subcontract with AUB to develop a scholarship framework inspired by USP. The scope of this subcontract includes training and building the capacity of the CSP team to implement the scholarship program according to identified best practices.
VETTING CSP adheres to USAID’s Vetting Mission Order 15/03, related to the National Security Screening of Awards, and has established a system to gather information from partners and beneficiaries at the field level to expedite the vetting process for key individuals. All of the submissions of partner information forms during this quarter were logged using the vetting tracker, as shown in Annex C.
CROSS-CUTTING TECHNICAL SUPPORT
ENGINEERING AND ENVIRONMNTAL COMPLIANCE For a summary of environmental compliance monitoring done on activities through the end of the reporting period, see Annex D.
On December 5, CSP representatives took part in a stakeholder project start-up workshop with CDM Smith, the firm recently hired by USAID to provide architecture, engineering, and monitoring support in Lebanon. During the workshop, which was also attended by representatives of USAID, BTD, and CDM Smith’s architecture and engineering subcontractor, Dar Al-Handasah, the participants agreed on a joint mission statement, listed factors crucial to success, and agreed on a set of priorities and an action plan to increase efficiency and improve engineering review turnaround times.
MONITORING, EVALUATION, AND LEARNING Throughout the reporting period, CSP’s MEL team worked on customized MEL plans for all of the IDIQ’s new technical task orders based on coordination and input from the related technical teams. Submission dates for all new MEL plans are as follows:
• TASK ORDER 4: Oct. 10
• TASK ORDER 3: Nov. 14
• TASK ORDER 5: Nov. 18
As for TO 2, the MEL team conducted its annual working sessions with the activity’s director, regional program managers (RPMs), and technical advisors to review and update targets based on the most recent number of activities expected to be implemented. The new agreed-upon targets will be submitted to USAID for approval early during the next quarter.
10 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV Meanwhile, the MEL team conducted sites visits to CSP activities implemented during the quarter to collect data, interview local actors, and report results. Some of the highlights from the team’s findings were:
• 14,491 people benefiting from U.S.-government (USG) assistance during the quarter
• 54 percent of the participants in USG-assisted programs were female.
• 6 local actors have enhanced abilities to provide better services as result of USG support.
• 14,276 people have access to adequate levels of essential services.
For a full account of MEL indicators for the quarter and how they compare with the targets set, see Annex E. See Annex F for CSP’s full indicators tracking table, including targets for the remainder of Year 2. In most cases, the results achieved during the reporting period fell short of the targets set in the work plan. This is in due, in part, to the protests, which delayed some elements of TO 2’s activity cycle throughout the quarter. In response, the CSP team has put in place adaptation measures to minimize the more systemic effects of the protests going forward (see Chapter IV). In many cases, the frequency of road closures resulting from the countrywide protests affected the MEL team’s ability to meet with CSP stakeholders. Consequently, some monitoring exercises were postponed temporarily until the roads reopened. To mitigate the effects of the delays, the MEL team combined field visits and managed to check up on six ongoing activities — those in Al Fayhaa, Jabal Akroum, Akroum, Noura, Barghoun and Badbhoun, and Tanbourit. The visits enabled the team to collect the data necessary to close out the activities and solicit feedback from local partners, stakeholders, and beneficiaries to assess results against the targets set out in the activities’ MEL plans. If the security situation persists, the MEL team will continue combining field visits or otherwise adapt its information gathering process to ensure the safety and security of its staff.
COMMUNICATIONS AND OUTREACH During the reporting period, the communications and outreach team added a reporting officer and a strategy advisor through Quantum. Besides updating CSP’s overall communications strategy, the advisor, along with the rest of the team, is closely involved in preparing a customized strategy for each TO. The team’s expansion gives CSP the opportunity for closer cooperation with Quantum on communications related to both individual interventions and the broader CSP program. One such example of this collaboration involved the production of a short video about TO 2’s activity to provide olive farmers in the southern village of Tanbourit with mechanical harvesting machines. The video has been resubmitted to USAID for approval after being edited according to USAID feedback. The other deliverables the team submitted during the reporting period include: a revised factsheet for the overall IDIQ and a factsheet for each TO and three Transforming Lives stories (Success Stories) for assistance to SADA NGO, Qabiit School, and Tanbourit electricity, which are also pending approval. For an example of a Transforming Lives story submitted during the quarter, which focuses on TO 2’s assistance to olive farmers in the southern village of Tanbourit, see Annex G. Finally, the team expanded CSP’s social media coverage on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube. In addition to posting a higher volume of material, CSP started posting in Arabic to target communities and municipalities in rural areas and Arabic speakers in Lebanon and abroad. CSP’s most successful Facebook post — about the Tanbourit activity — reached 2,395 users.
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FIGURE 4: EVOLUTION OF THE REACH OF CSP’S FACEBOOK POSTS (OCT – DEC. 2019)
GENDER EQUALITY AND SOCIAL INCLUSION During the reporting period, CSP beneficiaries included girls and women who received assistance in the form of improved solid waste sorting and equipment delivery to schools, universities, and associations in the North and Beqaa. As noted earlier in this chapter, the proportion of women benefiting from USG assistance during the quarter surpassed the target set by CSP — 54 percent against a target of 30 percent. One such female beneficiary was a farmer in Tanbourit who is featured in the video about CSPs support in the village. As all TOs progress in the implementation of their projects, CSP will continue to actively seek ways to promote gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) and maximize the number of female beneficiaries.
PROTEST RESPONSE AND ADAPTATION In response to the nationwide demonstrations and roadblocks throughout the reporting period, TO 1 took several adaptive management measures to maintain CSP’s operations. Throughout the protests, the CSP offices in Sin el Fil remained open for staff members who were able to commute there safely. Those unable to access the office either coordinated with their supervisor to work from home or, in a few exceptional cases, were placed on involuntary administrative leave, in accordance with Chemonics policy. CSP’s senior management team followed up with and managed staff who were teleworking to maintain continuity of business operations as best as possible. As mentioned earlier, CSP also modified its staff’s long-term employment agreements to make payments in U.S. dollars, based on USAID guidance. Finally, in line with Chemonics’ policy and USAID/Lebanon practice, CSP began paying certain contractors in dollars that meet a number of conditions to ensure that the program’s interventions could continue with minimal interruption.
12 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV LEADERSHIP RETREAT Key Elements of CSP Intra-project In light of the significant staff expansion that took place Communications during the quarter, on November 20 CSP held a leadership retreat for the directors of all TOs and the • COP to record and share weekly MEL and communications directors. Following the Loom videos to reach all staff with key announcements. completion of CSP’s first year, and with five TO contracts • Install kudos board to recognize awarded, the retreat aimed to: 1) promote the program’s staff for key contributions. culture of transparency, openness, and collaboration; 2) • COP to share weekly reports with clarify each leader’s roles and responsibilities to facilitate all staff. better collaboration across TOs; and 3) identify next • HR specialist to present new hires steps based on performance gaps and other concerns, through an introductory email, including how the current political and economic crisis is inclusive of photo. affecting the program and staff. The retreat’s key outcomes included the establishment of a best-in-class approach to improving intra-project communications (see textbox), including the use of Loom – a free screen and video recording software. The team also unanimously agreed that an all-staff team-building workshop would be beneficial to further address and manage the changes CSP is undergoing as it evolves. The all-staff
PHOTO 1: CSP CHIEF OF PARTY RHETT GURIAN GIVES A PRESENTATION DURING THE CSP LEADERSHIP
RETREAT HELD IN NOVEMBER. (LEBANON COMMUNITY SUPPORT PROGRAM)) workshop is scheduled for January.
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COMMUNITY IDENTIFICATION AND SELECTION
SITUATION MONITORING: PRESELECTION As TO 2 moved into its second year of operation, it focused more on the later stages of design and implementation and less on the preselection stage. No updates to preselection data took place during the reporting period as CSP did not receive new data or other information related to tensions or poverty following the outbreak of the protests. CSP also did not receive new guidance from USAID that would lead it to update the factors it considers when pre-selecting communities for potential CSP assistance.
COMMUNITY PROFILES: FINAL SELECTION During the quarter, CSP managed to profile 11 Lebanese communities — five in the South, four in the North, and two in the Beqaa — despite delays caused by roadblocks and aggravated tensions in communities after the protests broke out. See Annex H for a summary of the community profiles undertaken by TO 2 during the reporting period.
As noted in its Year 2 work plan, going forward CSP will profile communities as part of the community engagement process only if they have not previously been profiled, experience a flare-up in tensions, or are recommended by USAID for program-led activities. This decision was mainly the result of an agreement with USAID to reduce the number of activities from 220 to 110 that CSP should aim to carry out during TO 2’s current 30-month period of performance, which translates to a reduced need to collect new information about Lebanese communities using CSP’s community profiling tool.
ACTIVITY DESIGN
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT CSP’s ability to engage with local partners and stakeholders was significantly hampered by the protests in October and November. Roads closed, businesses and government offices shut down, and many local leaders and authorities were unavailable – busy dealing with the consequences of the demonstrations or focused on responding to their communities’ immediate demands. The situation improved marginally in December, and the teams managed to undertake a few visits before the holiday period, when stakeholders again became unavailable.
The sporadic and unpredictable roadblocks hampered the ability of the North team in particular to plan and conduct field visits. By the end of the reporting period, however, the team was able to mitigate the blocks’ effects as it came to know the patterns of closures and adjusted accordingly. For example, it began scheduling all meetings for the afternoon, as blocked roads typically reopened by noon or 1 p.m. The Beqaa team faced a similar situation and also adjusted by pinpointing trends and planning around them.
As for the South, road closures dropped significantly in number and frequency between the beginning of the protests and the end of the reporting period.
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PHOTO 12: TEAMS FROM CSP'S COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT GRANTS PARTNERS ATTEND A WORKSHOP ON CONFLICT-SENSITIVITY TRAINING CONDUCTED BY
CSP IN DECEMBER. (LEBANON COMMUNITY SUPPORT PROGRAM) The closure of government offices proved a greater obstacle, affecting activities in the design phase. For instance, a field visit to the southern village of Ain Ebel with the director-general of antiquities was delayed until January, preventing CSP from submitting an activity approval package (AAP) for a project there, which is pending the official’s approval. In total, about 10 activities that were in the design phase or pending submission to USAID were delayed by the closure of public administrations. Moving forward, CSP will take into account potential projects’ need for government approval or paperwork as a potential hinderance when selecting and designing interventions, prioritizing possible activities that will not rely on such approvals or seeking conditional approvals from USAID, when appropriate. CSP will also look to procure goods and services from local suppliers as much as possible to mitigate the effects of road and business closures on activity implementation.
Separately, in December TO 2 held the first half of a six-day workshop on conflict-sensitive community engagement for development for partners selected for community engagement grants (CEGs). (See Annex I for a list of partners selected for grants.) CSP and its CEG partners will work together closely to identify and design interventions that address resource-, service-, or economic- based tensions in communities selected for partnership with CSP. A total of 30 people attended the workshop’s first three days.
The workshop introduced partners to CSP's community engagement methodology, exploring its key concepts and the USAID standards that informed its design. Chief among these is conflict sensitivity and its significance in development programming. Guided by USAID's Conflict Assessment Framework (CAF) 2.0 and other key resources, participants learned the definition of conflict sensitivity, what a conflict-sensitive approach to development entails, and why USAID requires it for all development programs implemented in conflict-affected and fragile states, like Lebanon. The
15 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV workshop also introduced the participants to USAID’s “Do No Harm” framework and various analytical tools that can be used to ensure conflict sensitivity.
Finally, the participants delved deeper into CSP's local systems approach (LSA) to understand sources of tension accurately and therefore better identify resource- or service-based tensions.
The second half of the workshop, planned for January, will include real-life case studies, planning sessions between partners and their respective regional CSP teams, and knowledge-sharing sessions so that the CEG partners can benefit from previous CSP experiences in communities throughout Lebanon.
Also during this quarter, CSP’s TO 2 team worked closely with TO 1 to address USAID’s questions and requests for clarification on the approval requests submitted to USAID for the CEGs.
DESIGN OF COMMUNITY STABILIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT CONCEPTS This quarter, CSP focused on designing primarily community stabilization projects in an effort to respond to the developments that took during the reporting period (see Chapter II) and to tensions arising from the deteriorating socioeconomic conditions, including mass losses in job opportunities. The shift in emphasis to community stabilization projects in part accounts for the fewer number of concept notes (CNs) for new projects developed and submitted to USAID during the quarter.
For example, only a couple of weeks into the quarter, wildfires broke out in Lebanon’s Chouf and other areas, followed soon after by the mass protests, leading to a sharp deterioration in many Lebanese people’s ability to sustain their livelihood. In response, the TO 2 team submitted 11 new CNs to USAID — two for projects in the Chouf village of Ed Damour to mitigate the disastrous effects of the wildfires and nine focused on activities across Lebanon to provide support to the most vulnerable families and communities, such as the distribution of food and nonfood items and cash- for-work activities. The Ed Damour activities were subsequently yellow lit, while the other activities are pending USAID feedback.
Regarding AAPs, the TO 2 team submitted seven to USAID for approval this quarter. On the one hand, the two for the previously mentioned emergency response activities in Ed Damour were approved; on the other hand, three activities to enhance the conditions of public schools in the southern villages of Maghdoushe and El Khelwat were rejected. Based on guidance provided by USAID this quarter, CSP will move away from designing assistance interventions that reduce intracommunal tensions by providing material assistance to public schools to help them cope with increased enrollment until further notice.
During November and December, the TO 2 and TO 3 teams designed and submitted their first integrated AAP as part of a new co-design process — for an activity that would improve security in Rachaiya el Foukhar by providing street lighting. In the new process, the teams develop the TO 2 AAP and the TO 3 technical assistance assessment report (TAAR) simultaneously so that the activity could be submitted as a comprehensive package, which also includes a MEL plan and a strategic communications strategy. The integration required several working sessions to help the TO 3 team get up to speed on the concepts that USAID had yellow-lit in September and October but TO 2 had not yet developed into AAPs. The meetings helped the TO 3 team prepare for and conduct field
16 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV visits that informed the design of not Y2Q1 - CSP Approved Activities by Status only the Rachaiya el-Foukhar technical intervention but also other, 1 forthcoming projects. While this 11 process resulted in minor delays to the submission of the proposals, CSP expects during the coming quarters to 27 roll out integrated AAPs faster and with a high approval rate. Closed out Completed ACTIVITY IMPLEMENTATION Implementation By the end of the reporting period, the overall number of approved FIGURE 5: APPROVED CSP ACTIVITIES BY IMPLEMENTATION STATUS (THROUGH DEC. 2019) activities reached 40. One of these activities was closed out, while 11 were completed, 27 were still under implementation, and one was canceled. Of the 27 activities under the implementation, 16 were progressing smoothly, while the others were experiencing delays related to pending legal documentation or rescoping related to environmental compliance requirements and/or findings from more thorough design.
Figure 6 as well as the maps in Annexes J and K show the community assistance interventions under TO 2 by geographic and sectoral distribution as well as funding levels, respectively. For a full breakdown of proposed and approved CSP activities, inclusive of TO 3 technical assistance, see the activity tracker in Annex L.
In addition to these activities, CSP submitted AAPs for five community engagement grants, one of which was approved and four of which received conditional approval during the quarter.
Y2Q1 - CSP APPROVED ACTIVITIES BY SECTOR
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FIGURE 6: APPROVED CSP ACTIVITIES BY SECOTR (THROUGH DEC. 2019)
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ALLEVIATING BOTTLENECKS IN OLIVE OIL PRODUCTION AND PROCESSING The olive and olive oil sector remains essential to the livelihood of the residents of rural Lebanon. During the reporting period, CSP implemented several activities in the South and North to directly benefit Lebanese farmers reliant on the sector. For example, in Tanbourit in the southern district of Saida and Barghoun and Badbhoun in northern El Koura, the farmers harvest their crops manually. Manual olive harvesting accounts for about 30 – 50 percent the cost of producing olive oil. Furthermore, the destruction of new shoots that results from manual harvesting techniques can negatively affect an orchard’s future productivity levels by up to 80 percent. To mitigate the potential drawbacks from manual harvesting, CSP supported farmers in both regions by providing mechanical olive harvesting machines that would decrease production costs and Photo 3: A member of the Akroum improve the orchards’ productivity. Eight machines in olive farmers cooperative shows off a cup of olive oil produced using a Tanbourit are benefiting 54 farmers, and 15 harvesters in separator provided by USAID through Barghoun and Badbhoun will help 98 farmers’ households. CSP. LEBANON COMMUNITY SUPPORT PROGRAM Meanwhile in Akroum, in northern Akkar, CSP worked with the local olive cooperative (COOP) to provide a 150-kilovolt- ampere generator and a centrifuging machine to support the COOP’s new olive press machine and decanter. The equipment facilitates the low-cost, high-quality processing of olive oil for almost 100 farmers’ households, eliminating the need for them to transport their harvest to a distant mill for processing. Altogether, the three activities’ budgets totaled $107,240.
IMPROVING WATER PROVISION TO PROTECT RURAL HOUSEHOLD LIVELIHOODS AND REDUCE RESOURCE-BASED TENSIONS Jabal Akroum, in Akkar, is a cluster of several underserved villages that suffer from recurrent water shortages and an unreliable electrical supply. All of the communities in the area share the same main water sources, and the inadequate supply
Photo 4: The aftermath of the October created tensions and in some cases direct confrontations wildfires as seen in Lebanon’s Chouf among the villages. To reduce the risk of tensions and conflict area. CSP is carrying out emergency while also bolstering livelihoods, CSP installed a water pump response interventions with Ed Damour Municipality and the Arc en and a pipeline to connect a tank to the pumping station that Ciel center to mitigate the damage. feeds the water network. The activity ensures the sustainability LEBANON COMMUNITY SUPPORT PROGRAM of the water supply that flows into the reservoirs of the villages of Akroum and Kfartoun — about 12,000 residents, including 4,000 Syrian refugees.
18 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV Meanwhile, in Ras Baalbek, in Beqaa, the farmers are smallholders, cultivating fruit trees such as peach, fig, olive, and berry trees to produce jams and other products, and vegetables like potatoes and beets. Like in Jabal Akroum, a water shortage led to tensions among residents, in this case resulting from severe leaks in the main irrigation pipeline. Some farmers go for as many as 20 days without irrigation in the hot summer months, which reduces their yields and even kills some of their trees. To alleviate tensions, CSP is installing an 1,800-meter irrigation pipe that will support 400 Lebanese farmers and their households. By eliminating leaks in the water system, the pipe will increase the water supply by a third. The budget for the project totaled $94,100.
ADDRESSING IMMEDIATE NEEDS IN EMERGENCY AND DISASTER RESPONSE In October 2019, the massive wildfires that broke out in Chouf severely damaged the Arc en Ciel community center in the village of Ed Damour. Arc en Ciel quickly located a temporary space to resume operations but lacked the funds needed to equip the old center. In response, CSP designed an intervention to procure the IT equipment and furniture needed for Arc en Ciel to maintain a fully functional operations department so that it could continue fulfilling its mission of assisting the most vulnerable communities in Ed Damour and its surroundings.
The wildfires also caused extensive damage to the Ed Damour Municipality’s infrastructure, burning away parts of its main water pipeline and electricity network, including poles and cables. In response, CSP is in the process of finalizing an intervention to rehabilitate the water system by providing the municipality with material support to replace the burned parts of the pipeline. The municipality is contributing by carrying out the installation of the new parts. Regarding the rehabilitation of the electricity system, CSP is following up with the state-run electricity provider Electricité du Liban on legal issues in order to finalize an intervention. In all, CSP expects about 5,600 residents to benefit from the rehabilitated electricity and water services. Altogether, the budget for the activities is $52,950.
IMPLEMENTATION CHALLENGES, SOLUTIONS, AND NEXT STEPS As noted throughout this chapter, the main challenges encountered by TO 2 during the reporting period stemmed from the nationwide protests that began in October. The demonstrations delayed the implementation of five ongoing activities, in all three of CSP’s focus regions, as CSP’s teams, subcontractors, vendors, or suppliers were physically unable to reach communities to conduct their work because of road closures, security conditions, or the unavailability of key local partners. In the North, NTH012: Supporting Livelihoods Through Improving Sales for a Rural COOP in Fnaideq was delayed because banking restrictions prevented the supplier from purchasing raw materials to construct a kiosk proposed for the activity. The vendor is now scheduled to deliver the kiosk at the end of January. In Tanbourit and Barghoun and Badbhoun, the team worked tirelessly to secure the delivery of the mechanical olive harvesting machines to farmers in time for the harvest despite the road closures. However, promotional events planned to promote the COOP’s harvest were not yet able to be held.
In the South, the completion of STH002: Enhance Solid-Waste Collection and Sorting-at-Source Efforts in El Miye w Miye was contingent on the implementation of recycling awareness sessions in schools and the community by the Saida Ta’ref Tafroz campaign. However, the sessions could not be held because the campaign suspended activities throughout the entire reporting period for security reasons and schools were shut for much of the quarter.
19 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV As noted earlier, the TO 2 team is taking all possible measures to mitigate the effects of the delays, including building on lessons learned from the first months of the protests to schedule implementation activities for times of day when the team expects roadblocks to have cleared. The team hopes its efforts will significantly lessen the impact on timing as a result of the ongoing protests going forward.
Meanwhile, activities that required government approvals, paperwork, or feedback experienced holdups because many public administrative offices were shut down. The implementation of STH010: Enhancing the Provision of Water in Jinjlaya could not begin, because the South Lebanon Water Establishment (SLWE) was closed and therefore could not sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) necessary for the project, as the board of directors was unable to meet. Similarly, the implementation of an activity in southern Jinsnaya is currently delayed by a slow response from the SLWE regarding feedback as the activity’s technical design.
Meanwhile, the equipment procured under an activity CSP completed in the North, NTH001: Improving the Sorted Solid-Waste-Collection Capacity of the Union of Al Fayaa Municiaplities, was burned or used by the protesters in the area. None of the bins suffered significant damage, and the union repainted and otherwise rehabilitated the affected bins. However, after multiple repeated incidents, the union has decided to wait until the unrest subsides before painting them again. To account for the fact that similar incidents may occur in the coming months, CSP can, when appropriate, incorporate an agreement with local partners into MOUs, grants, and budgets related to their responsibility for the safeguarding, maintaining, and repairing CSP-provided equipment that is damaged as a result of the protests or for any other reason.
Finally, as referenced earlier in this chapter, the TO 2 and TO 3 teams held multiple working sessions to streamline and integrate the activity design process. The teams expect to further refine the new co-design approach over the coming quarters with the aim of expediting the activity proposal process, leading to quicker implementation. On a rolling basis, the TO 2 team shares its proposals for material assistance interventions with TO 3, after which both teams hold a co-design session. During the co-design sessions, the teams discuss an activity’s background and rationale, the desired outcome and expected results, and how to construct an optimal assistance package to achieve results in a sustainable and conflict-sensitive manner. The resulting comprehensive activity approval package, complete with MEL and strategic communications plans, is then sent to USAID for approval.
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TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO MUNICIPALITIES AND CIVIL SOCIETY
MOBILIZATION, REVIEW, AND DEVELOPMENT OF TOOLS REVIEW OF CSP ACTIVITIES AND DEVELOPMENT OF TO 3 METHODOLOGY Throughout the reporting period, the TO 3 team reviewed all the AAPs designed under TO 2 from the start of CSP through September 30, 2019. By understanding the context and rationale for each activity, how it evolved, and the unique circumstances of each community, the team could more properly prepare for field visits and design complementary technical assistance interventions ahead of traveling to the targeted sites.
In addition to familiarizing itself with TO 2’s activities, the TO 3 team studied existing tools to assess the capacity of CSOs and municipalities, focusing on those designed and tested by the USAID- supported Building Alliances for Local Advancement, Development, and Investment — Capacity Building (BALADI CAP) program. Based on the review, the TO 3 team designed a technical assistance activity selection tool (TAAST), technical assistance profiling tool (TAPT), technical assistance assessment tool (TAAT), and TAAR, the last of which USAID approved in November.
These tools enable TO 3 to effectively select technical assistance interventions that complement TO 2 material assistance, conduct baseline assessments based on select indicators, design action plans for improvement based on those indicators, and set target outcomes.
DESIGN OF TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE INTERVENTIONS METHODOLOGY FOR SELECTING INTERVENTIONS The TAAST, which assesses whether material assistance interventions merit technical assistance, uses a weighted numerical index to evaluate the TO 2 project according to four criteria:
• Whether the potential technical assistance recipient is a direct recipient of TO 2 assistance.
• Whether there is an institutional recipient of technical assistance or capacity building activities.
• Whether the number of beneficiaries exceeds 20 people.
• Whether the beneficiary needs technical assistance for either the sustainability of the TO 2 intervention or institutionalization reasons. (If a potential recipient scores zero, the TO 3 team does not continue its evaluation.)
For an example of a TAAST submitted to USAID by the TO 3 team, see Annex M.
As per discussions with USAID and the amended TO 3 MEL plan, the TO 3 team is conducting its selection process with an eye to maximizing the number of technical assistance interventions it carries out to complement TO 2 interventions.
COORDINATING TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE INTERVENTIONS ACROSS CSP TOS As discussed earlier in the report, during this quarter the TO 3 and TO 2 teams integrated their processes so that their respective interventions would be co-designed and submitted together as a single concept or package to USAID (see Chapter IV). Initial progress from the quarter included:
21 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV • The first integrated package, for the activity in Rachaiya el Foukhar.
• The development other integrated AAPs for activities in Chebaa, El Qariye, and Khirbet Ej Jendi, which are set to be submitted to USAID for approval early in the upcoming quarter.
In addition to collaborating with TOs 1 and 2, the TO 3 team has begun working with the TO 4 team to design an institutional assessment tool for technical and vocational education and training (TVET) institutions and another tool to facilitate the design of action plans to these institutions’ administrative and technical capacities. The team expects this collaboration to ramp up in the coming quarters as TO 4 begins to provide direct assistance to partner TVETs. In the coming quarter, TO 3 will continue working with these teams and also actively seek points of collaboration with TO 5, with a particular emphasis on building the capacity of operators of wastewater facilities to enhance the sustainability of funded infrastructure interventions.
INITIAL FIELD VISITS AND COORDINATION The identification and design of TO 3 activities until now falls under two categories:
The first category comprises the 31 projects that TO 2 had designed before October 1, when TO 3’s long-term director joined the activity. For these projects, and following the inception meetings with TO 2, the TO 3 team conducted 19 field visits to conduct profiles of CSP partners and assess their technical assistance needs. (See Annex N for a list of all the site visits the TO 3 team made during the reporting period.) Following the field visits, the TO 3 team designed a TAAR for each technical assistance intervention, which includes a concise description of the findings of the field visit, a situational analysis, a technical assistance intervention design and action plan, an anticipated budget, and expected results.
By the end of the reporting period, the TO 3 team had designed and submitted 11 TAARs related these activities to USAID, prioritizing TO 2 activities that had either been completed or were in progress. (See Annex O for tracking sheet of all TAARs developed by TO 3). Now that the TO 2- TO 3 integration process is complete, the team plans to submit TAARs for the rest of the activities designed before October 2019 at a faster pace.
The second group consists of activities whose design started in October, when the majority of the long-term TO 3 team had joined CSP. These interventions are being co-designed with TO 2 according to the new integrated process.
In the coming quarter, the TO 3 team expects to submit at least 15 TAARs as part of integrated AAP packages. To do so, it will conduct field visits to all 15 of the activity sites. The team will also aim to visit the sites of activities proposed in CSP’s first year to continue designing TAARs that complement already-implemented TO 2 activities. By the end of the next reporting period, the team expects that it will have produced 26 TAARs (11 submitted and 15 planned), or 65 percent of its annual target.
For a full list of technical assistance interventions proposed or under development by the TO 3 team, see the activity tracker in Annex L.
IMPLEMENTATION OF TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND REQUESTS FOR PROPOSALS In addition to designing technical assistance interventions throughout the reporting period, the TO 3 team also issued its first request for proposals (RFPs) from businesses interested in providing
22 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV maintenance, operations, and safety services for equipment that has been procured under TO 2. This includes water-related equipment such as pumps and filters, solar equipment, agricultural equipment, electrical equipment, and heaters. Due to the low level of response from the market and high proposed budgets, CSP did not accept any of the proposals it had received. Rather, CSP plans to rerelease the RFP in January 2020. To mitigate the potential that the RFP will again result in a low number of proposals, the TO 3 team plans to individually invite potential service providers to an informational session to set expectations about the RFP.
During the quarter, the TO 3 team finalized a second RFP, also to be launched in January, to solicit technical assistance and capacity building services for the following:
• COOPs (labelling, marketing, branding, safe food processing)
• CSOs (bookkeeping, strategic planning, organizational development)
• Municipalities (asset management, financial systems, strategic planning)
• Environmental compliance (solid and liquid olive waste management)
• Schools (safety awareness, nonviolence, water conservation)
• Proposal writing and on-the-job training
COLLABORATIVE PARTNERSHIP WITH THE UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
PREPARATORY MEETINGS AND MOUS WITH AUB AND LAU This quarter, the TO 3 team sent a draft MOU to the USP teams at AUB and LAU to formalize its collaboration with the program, based on several preparatory meetings with the teams to assess their respective needs and how CSP can help address them. TO 3 expects LAU to sign the MOU and begin its collaboration with CSP before the start of the spring semester, on January 20. Meanwhile, the AUB USP team is still discussing the MOU. In the meantime, AUB agreed that its collaboration with CSP would begin on January 2, without any official framework in place.
To jump-start the process, the TO 3 team has designed a framework for CSP to receive USP interns and expects each TO to receive at least one intern during the next quarter. It is also holding a meeting next quarter with as many as 50 local CSOs that it hopes will recruit USP students as volunteers to help the students fulfill the volunteer requirement of the program.
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PHOTO 6: TO 3 DIRECTOR FARES EL ZEIN AND TRAINING AND PARTNERSHIP COORDINATOR LAMYA AYYAD MEET WITH REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM AT THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT. (LEBANON COMMUNITY SUPPORT PROGRAM)
IMPLEMENTATION CHALLENGES, SOLUTIONS, AND NEXT STEPS
PROTESTS AND DELAYS TO FIELD VISITS As with CSP’s other TOs, the protests and road blocks during the quarter impacted the TO 3 team’s ability to schedule field visits necessary to design technical assistance interventions. To mitigate the effects, especially in the North, the team stayed two nights in Tripoli to conduct the field visits in the region.
REDUCED ABILITY AND WILLINGNESS OF PRIVATE SECTOR PROVIDERS As mentioned earlier, the RFP released near the end of the quarter had a low response rate, even though the team launched it publicly on the online civil society network Daleel Madani and sent it to 49 providers. This may have been due to a lack of clarity within the RFP itself, or to a lack of interest on the part of private sector given the current country context or other factors such as weak capacity to prepare a proposal or other incentives. Many small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) in Lebanon have been recently facing significant challenges in terms of their profitability and staff retention, leading to some of them going out of business. Others have lost the manpower to be able to deliver technical assistance services and are instead focusing only on selling and delivering machinery and equipment.
As stated above, to increase the response rate to RFPs going forward, the team will do targeted outreach to service providers and organize informational sessions/bidders conferences for each solicitation. Additionally, the team plans to gather information about the available human resources of the service providers that submit winnings proposals and their ability to effectively and efficiently deliver technical assistance services in remote areas at a reasonable cost. This will enable the TO 3 team to better understand the problems and challenges facing all potential partners and adapt accordingly.
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START-UP AND MOBILIZATION Following the award of the TO 5 contract on July 31, CSP deployed a start-up team to initiate the program’s administrative and technical rollout. Acting TO 5 Director Scott Short remained in Lebanon until October 22 to oversee start-up and initiate TO 5’s initial deliverables for an interim period before the arrival of long-term TO 5 Director Osama Amad, who arrived in Lebanon on November 2. By the end of the quarter, the team had received USAID’s approval of its key start-up deliverables, including the work plan for TO 5’s first year and the intervention selection and implementation methodology.
By the beginning of November, the TO 5 activity was fully staffed. The team initially worked out of the CSP offices in the Fattal-Dolphin building in Sin el Fil before moving into its permanent office in the next-door Qubic Square Building.
WASTEWATER INFRASTRUCTURE In terms of wastewater infrastructure, TO 5’s primary focus is to implement two to four infrastructure interventions to sustainably manage 6,000 cubic meters of domestic wastewater effluent a day. To identify which interventions would help TO 5 achieve this aim, the team began by identifying and categorizing the stakeholders relevant to the program. They are:
STAKEHOLDERS IDENTIFIED BY CSP
GOVERNMENT MINISTRIES REGIONAL WATER ESTABLISHMENTS OTHER/PRIVATE SECTOR STAKEHOLDERS
Ministry of Energy and Water North Lebanon Water Establishment Litani River Authority
Ministry of Industry South Lebanon Water Establishment Council for Development and Reconstruction
Ministry of the Environment Beqaa Valley Water Establishment Association of Lebanese Industrialists and Chambers of Commerce
USAID Lebanon Water Project
Other donor wastewater projects
25 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV After identifying the stakeholders, and despite the delays caused by the protests during the past quarter, the team managed to collect extensive data on possible infrastructure interventions by early December.
After collecting recommendations from the stakeholders on small-to-medium activities that could fit within the scope of TO 5’s objectives, the team tabulated them and engaged CSP’s subcontractors BTD and ELARD in verifying and reconciling the collected data, resulting in matrix of 60 potential interventions (see Photos 7 and 8 for an example of the preliminary data collected).
PHOTOS 7 – 8: THE MASTER SCREENING MATRIX DEVELOPED BY TASK ORDER 5 TO NARROW 60 POTENTIAL WASTEWATER INFRASTRUCTURE INTERVENTIONS DOWN TO 12. The team used the matrix to determine which projects would have the highest potential of fulfilling TO 5’s objective, based on three main assessment criteria:
• PROJECTED WASTEWATER FLOW The team filtered out proposed wastewater mitigation interventions that tend to treat fewer than 1,000 cubic meters a day as they were considered too small for TO 5 to meet its objectives.
26 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV • COST (PRELIMINARY ESTIMATE) In light of the $6.7 million allotted for pure construction, proposed projects with an estimated cost of more than $3.5 million were considered too expensive to allow for the two to four discreet projects desired under TO 5.
• SEPARATE IMPLEMENTING AGENCIES New wastewater treatment systems, rehabilitation works, or upgrades being implemented or operated and maintained by any governmental organization, such as the Council for Development and Reconstruction, or another donor such as the European Union, were filtered out to ensure that TO 5 avoids possible duplication.
After assessing the 60 proposed interventions based on these criteria, the team short-listed 12 interventions for further research (see Annex O) and engaged CSP’s subcontractors to conduct prefeasibility studies on them. The prefeasibility reports are due by late January, at which time TO 5 team will evaluate and rank them as detailed in the intervention selection and implementation methodology plan. The later stages of wastewater infrastructure will then follow the process as shown in Figure 7.
FIGURE 7: TASK ORDER 5’S INFRASTURCTURE INTERVENTION PROCESS
WASTEWATER INVESTMENT To fulfill its second objective of wastewater investment, TO 5 will use its investment incentives fund (IFF) to assist Lebanese industries in mitigating industrial wastewater pollution. The TO 5 team is planning on leveraging the budgeted $150,000 to provide industries with rebates or cost-sharing incentives in exchange for their making improvements that reduce their pollution levels. To this end, the team held several meetings with governmental organizations, as well as with the Association of Lebanese Industrialist (ALI), which represents licensed and viable industries in Lebanon, to identify potential sectors that could potentially benefit from an incentive program.
The team also began exploring through meetings the interest of key private sector actors, such as banks, media, and other industries, to adopt wastewater stewardship under their strategy for corporate social responsibility. By endorsing this CSP initiative, the interested company would confirm its readiness to promote awareness on wastewater management topics both internally
27 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV among the company’s employees and externally among the public. TO 5 is developing a strategy and CN related to the wastewater stewardship initiative for submission to USAID.
IMPLEMENTATION CHALLENGES, SOLUTIONS, AND NEXT STEPS The political and security events that swept through Lebanon beginning in October resulted in many delays for TO 5, particularly during the data collection and assessment phase. Roadblocks and demonstrations forced the team to postpone several meetings with stakeholders, causing TO 5 to push back the beginning of its prefeasibility studies by a month. Despite the delay, the team still expects CSP’s subcontractors to complete the 12 studies by the end of January so that TO 5 can screen, evaluate, and rank the interventions near the beginning of the next quarter.
Once the interventions are selected, TO 5 will begin the formal design process with its subcontractors. The ongoing road closures and demonstrations may impede the normal operations of TO 5 staff and its partners, preventing them from making site visits, meeting local communities, and conducting surveys and geotechnical testing. Furthermore, the banking restrictions and a shortage of U.S. dollars could severely affect future construction activities, as most construction material is imported. In response, the team will use lessons learned from other CSP task orders to schedule its meetings and activities so as to avoid the roadblocks and mitigate their effects as much as possible. It will also collaborate closely with TO 1 to creatively design and administer work orders to its subcontractors in order to minimize the effect of economic crisis.
Regarding the investment track, many industries are facing difficulties accessing the money they need to import raw material and equipment. As a result, TO 5 may struggle to persuade them to co- invest in wastewater pollution abatement equipment. Despite the challenges, the TO 5 team still plans to collaborate with ALI, the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of the Environment to get some industries to take advantage of the incentive program.
28 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV VI. LESSONS LEARNED, BEST PRACTICES, AND NEXT STEPS As noted throughout this report, CSP faced significant setbacks in implementation during the October – December reporting period as a result of the countrywide protests that broke out on October 17. Since then, the depreciation of the Lebanese lira against the U.S. dollar on the market, related inflation, bank closures and limitations on USD withdrawals, public demonstrations and roadblocks, school closures, and inconsistent access to public servants from municipalities, RWEs, and other government entities have delayed or complicated CSP’s ability to carry out technical activities. As this report has shown, the distinct nature of each of task order means that CSP has experienced variations in the impact of the civil unrest on the program. Despite these variations, CSP has learned some key lessons and best practices to help it cope with the current situation, which it has begun and plans to continue implementing going forward.
MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS LESSONS LEARNED AND BEST PRACTICES The unpredictable nature of public demonstrations and roadblocks and the closure of public institutions and municipalities led to difficulties in planning field visits, especially visits to the regions for staff from our central office in Beirut. To mitigate the effects of roadblocks and account for potential ones, CSP has been organizing multiday trips, leaving Beirut at times when the roads are known to be open to the North, South, and Beqaa and then overnighting for two to three days to meet with all targeted stakeholders during the same trip.
The TO 3 team in particular used this approach to great effect. Rather than waiting to see whether roads were open and then having to reschedule meetings if they were not, the team managed to conduct capacity assessments of local partners on the same trip over multiple days. Similarly, the MEL team is now consolidating its field monitoring visits so as to cover multiple communities and activities in the same region.
Avoiding persistent logjams is a strategy that CSP will continue to employ in order to facilitate field operations during times of civil unrest in the capital and the secondary cities of Tripoli and Saida.
PROGRAMMATIC LESSONS LEARNED AND BEST PRACTICES By design, CSP’s work is intended to be amplified through collaboration among all task orders operating under the banner of the CSP IDIQ. This requirement is most profound under TO 2 and TO 3, whereby material assistance under the former should be complemented by technical assistance under the latter to better enable beneficiary communities to maintain CSP-funded equipment, infrastructure, and facility operations. As a result, CSP is striving for the full integration of the design and implementation of community support assistance interventions. While the teams are using regular integration meetings and joint field visits to accomplish this goal effectively, it has become increasingly clear that the AAP and all its components need a champion to own the process from start to finish. Going forward, the process of collecting and organizing AAP inputs and controlling the quality of submittals to USAID will be led by either TO 2’s senior program manager or TO 3’s capacity building advisor. By centralizing the AAP with one senior member of the team, CSP hopes to achieve greater efficiencies, improve quality, and increase integration.
29 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV
LEBANON COMMUNITY SUPPORT PROGRAM
U.S. Agency for International Development 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, D.C. 20523 Tel: (202) 712-0000 Fax: (202) 216-3524 www.usaid.gov
30 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV VII. ANNEXES
ANNEX A: CSP ORGANIZATIONAL CHART
31 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV ANNEX B: YEAR 1 QUARTER 1 FINANCIAL REPORT (OCTOBER – DECEMBER 2019) Please refer to the email attachment labeled “Annex B. Y2Q1 Financial Report.”
32 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV ANNEX C: VETTING REPORT (OCTOBER – DECEMBER 2019)
VENDORS
PIF NO. AWARDEE NAME VETTING RESULT
70195 General Manufacturing and Maintenance Approved S.A.R.L.
70420 Hani Kamel Kassem & Partners S.A.R.L. Approved
70568 LibanSol S.A.R.L. Approved
70646 Revetting/Isabelle Marie Doumit Approved
70816 Oliver Joseph Fayssal Approved
70951 Revetting/Khalil Fattal & Fils S.A.L. Approved
CSP KEY INVIDIVUALS
PIF NO. AWARDEE NAME VETTING RESULT
70558 Doris Elkhazen Youngs Approved
70559 Scott Earl Short Approved
70392 Hibatallah Jindi Pending
70393 Fares El Zein Pending
33 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV 70404 Osama Amad Pending
70414 Khadija Ezzedine Al Zahzah Pending
RECIPIENTS OF ASSISTANCE (MOU, GRANTS, ETC.)
PIF NO. AWARDEE NAME VETTING RESULT
70297 Bechmizzine Municipality Approved
70300 Ras Baalbek Municipality Approved
70308 Es Swairi Municipality Approved
70310 T.E.R.R.E. Liban Approved
70359 El Qaa Municipality Approved
70438 Revetting/Ain Ebel Municipality Approved
70439 Right to Development Movement Approved
70575 Majdel Aanjar Cooperative for Agricultural Approved products
70654 Ed Damour Municipality Approved
34 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV 70672 Niha Village Approved
70814 Rachaiya El Foukhar Municipality Approved
70944 Revetting/Bechmizzine Municipality Approved
SUBCONTRACT
PIF NO. AWARDEE NAME VETTING RESULT
70380 American University of Beirut (AUB) Approved
70780 Revetting/Earth Link & Advanced Resources Approved Development S.A.L. (ELARD)
SUBCONTRACT
PIF NO. AWARDEE NAME VETTING RESULT
70380 American University of Beirut (AUB) Approved
70780 Revetting/Earth Link & Advanced Resources Approved Development S.A.L. (ELARD)
PIF NO. AWARDEE NAME VETTING RESULT
70915 Revetting/Chemonics International Inc. Approved
35 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV 70480 Revetting/Chemonics — Lebanon CSP Field Approved Office
70499 Revetting/Chemonics International Inc. Approved
36 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV ANNEX D: ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE SUMMARY REPORT (FY20, Q1)
ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE SUMMARY REPORT (FY20, Q1)
ACTIVITY ERAC STATUS STATUS OF MAIN FINDINGS ACTION AREA ACTIVITY ACTIVITY NO. TITLE ENVIRONMENTAL POINTS/NEXT STEPS LOCATION COMPLIANCE ACTIONS
Beqaa Britel BQA001 Providing Approved by First compliance Partially compliant, CSP engineers/field Essential USAID visit report done in pending points: officers will conduct the Equipment to June 2019 remaining the Britel Public Place of fire environmental School extinguishers at mitigation action points. proper proximity (responsibility: school administration)
Beqaa Tannoura BQA004 Providing the Approved by TBD Environmental First environmental Municipality USAID compliance visit not mitigation inspection with a 250-KVA yet conducted visit to be conducted by Generator and CSP engineers/field Replacing officers in January 2020. Storm-Affected Accessories
Beqaa El Qaa BQA009 Equipping the El Approved by TBD Environmental First environmental Qaa Municipality USAID compliance visit not mitigation inspection field officers yet conducted visit to be conducted by Storm Response CSP engineers/field officers in February 2020.
Beqaa Hawch er Rafqa BQA014 Reducing Approved by TBD Environmental First environmental Tensions by USAID compliance visit not mitigation inspection Equipping the yet conducted visit to be conducted by Intermediate CSP engineers/ field Public School of officers in January 2020. Hawch El Arab
37 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV North Tripoli NTH001 Improving Approved by TBD Environmental First environmental Sorted Solid USAID compliance visit not mitigation inspection Waste yet conducted visit to be conducted by Collection CSP engineers/ field Capacity of the officers in January 2020. Union of Al Fayha’ Municipalities
North Jabal Akroum NTH003 Enhance Approved by TBD Environmental First environmental Strained Water USAID compliance visit not mitigation inspection Services in Jabal yet conducted visit to be conducted by Akroum CSP engineers/field officers in January 2020.
North Akroum NTH004 Supporting Approved by First compliance Partially Compliant, Second environmental Olive Tree USAID visit report done in pending points: mitigation inspection is Farmers in December 2019 expected in July 2020. Akroum Improving the Through a seepage prevention The corrective Decanter and measures for the measures will be done Generator pomace drying area with support and (responsibility: supervision from CSP cooperative). prior to the next anticipated Improving the compliance visit. seepage prevention measures for the canals (responsibility: cooperative). Improving the mitigation measures of the domestic wastewater being discharged into an underground hole directly in contact with the soil (responsibility: cooperative).
North Noura NTH015 Providing Approved by TBD Environmental First environmental Support to USAID compliance visit not mitigation inspection Farmers in yet conducted visit to be conducted by Noura Affected CSP engineers/field by the Syrian officers in January 2020. Conflict
38 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV North Barghoun and NTH026 Supporting Approved by TBD Environmental First environmental Badbhoun Farmers from USAID compliance visit not mitigation inspection Barghoun and yet conducted visit to be conducted by Badbhoun by CSP engineers/field Providing officers in February Mechanical 2020. Harvesters
South El Miye w Miye STH002 Improving Approved by TBD Environmental First environmental Sorted Solid USAID compliance visit not mitigation inspection Waste yet conducted visit to be conducted by Collection CSP engineers/field Capacity of El officers in January 2020. Miye w Miye Municipality
South Tanbourit STH009 Supporting the Approved by TBD Environmental First environmental Cooperative of USAID compliance visit not mitigation inspection Olive Farmers in yet conducted visit to be conducted by Tanbourit by CSP engineers/field Providing officers in January 2020. Mechanical Harvesters
39 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV 40 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV ANNEX E: PERFORMANCE MONITORING: PROGRESS MADE TOWARD TARGETS SET Freq. of Y2 Q1 Y2 Q1 10% ± Y2 TO2 Y2 TO2 Justification of deviation from # Indicator Title Reporting Target Actual Deviation Targets Results target Project Goal: Municipalities and underserved and vulnerable communities enjoy better services and enhanced economic opportunities that improve lives and reduce tensions. CSP reached 17 percent of this quarter’s target. The achieved results are the outputs of the seven activities that were, or are about to be, completed during this reporting period. The deviation from the target is because many ongoing activities include construction work that Number of people need to be completed prior to 01 benefiting from of USG Quarterly 84,900 14,491 (83%) 339,600 14,491 reporting their results. assistance [PMP] In Q1, CSP is reporting the results of two completed activities and five activities under implementation. However, CSP is currently implementing 27 activities. CSP will continue reporting the results of the ongoing and upcoming activities. CSP reached 20 percent of this Number of local actors quarter’s target. CSP is currently with enhanced abilities as implementing 27 activities that 02 Quarterly 30 6 (80%) 120 6 result of USG support aim to enhance abilities of local [PMP] actors. However, CSP reports only on local actors who
41 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV successfully completed or are about to complete activities supported by USG. Activities under implementation or already reported on in previous quarters are not reported here. CSP exceeded the target set for this quarter. Most of the reported beneficiaries are female Proportion of female students in schools, associations 03 participants in USG Quarterly 30% 54% 80% 30% 54% and/or universities that benefited assisted programs from improved solid waste sorting and equipment delivery to public schools in the North and the Beqaa. Purpose Level: Priority needs in underserved and vulnerable communities met Result 1 Level: Ability of local actors to mobilize development resources demonstrated. CSP reached 13 percent of this quarter’s target. Four out of seven reported activities included resources mobilized — local partners contribution. The Value of resources and or deviation is mainly due to the assets mobilized by local $ $ $ fact that the target was set based 06 actors to respond to Quarterly $ 5,165.00 (87%) 39,500.00 185,000.00 5,165.00 on the assumption that 20 communities’ priority percent of Component 1 needs activities would include mobilized resources from local partners. However, since CSP is working with the most vulnerable and underserved
42 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV communities whose financial resources are now even more stretched as a result of the worsening economy, the local partners have not been able mobilize resources at the assumed rate. CSP will be able to report on an increased values of mobilized resources as more Component 2 construction activities involving a community contribution are implemented. IR 1.1 Level: Development resources accessed by communities. CSP reached 33 percent of this quarter’s target. Four out of seven reported activities included resources mobilized – local partners contribution. The deviation is mainly due to the fact that the target was set based Number of community on the assumption that 20 resources and or assets percent of Component 1 07 Quarterly 18 6 (67%) 72 6 involved in USG assisted activities would include activities mobilized resources from local partners. However, since CSP is working with the most vulnerable and underserved communities whose financial resources are now even more stretched as a result of the worsening economy, the local
43 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV partners have not been able mobilize resources at the assumed rate. CSP will be able to report on an increased numbers of mobilized resources as more Component 2 construction activities involving a community contribution are implemented. CSP reached 10 percent of this quarter’s target. The activities with reported results are program-led community stabilization interventions that do not involve many community members participating and being engaged in the CSP activity Number of community cycle, as opposed to the type of members who have 08 Quarterly 240 23 (90%) 960 23 activities to be implemented participated in the CSP under Component 2. activity cycle CSP will report on more community members that participated in CSP activity cycle as soon as more activities are designed using the RAD and LSA methodologies and more Component 2 activities are completed. IR 1.2 Level: Capacity of local actors to mobilize resources developed. CSP reached 20 percent of this Number of activities 09 Quarterly 30 6 (80%) 120 6 quarter’s target. Six activities implemented with were or are about to be
44 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV participation from local completed during this reporting stakeholders period. The deviation from the target is because many ongoing activities include construction work that needs to be completed prior to reporting their results. In Q1, CSP is reporting the results of two completed activities and four activities under implementation. However, CSP is currently implementing 27 activities. CSP will continue to report the results of the ongoing and upcoming activities. Activities that are under implementation or were already reported on in previous quarters are not reported here. Result 2 Level: Community members benefit from local development collaboration CSP reached 23 percent of this quarter’s target. CSP is currently Number of USAID- implementing 27 activities assisted local actors engaging local actors in (including CSOs, Private communal, regional and national 11 sector organizations) Quarterly 30 7 (77%) 120 7 programs. However, CSP only engaged in community, reports on local actors who have regional and national successfully, completed, or are programs about to complete activities supported by USG.
45 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV Note: Some activities provide assistance to more than one local actor. IR 2.1 Level: Essential services delivered or improved. CSP reached 14 percent of this quarter’s target. Nevertheless, Number of essential the number of essential services 12 services provided, Quarterly 21 3 (86%) 85 3 provided are 23. CSP reports installed or upgraded only on successfully completed activities supported by the USG. CSP reached 24 percent of this quarter’s target. It is worth mentioning that 23 out of 27 activities that are being implemented provide people Number of people with with access to adequate levels of 13 access to adequate levels Quarterly 60,138 14,276 (76%) 240,550 14,276 essential services. CSP only of essential services reports on successfully completed activities or activities about to be completed, where services have been delivered and people have access to them. IR 2.2 Level: Economic opportunities increased CSP reached 14 percent of this Number of people directly quarter’s target. Out of four benefiting from increased livelihood activities that are 15 economic opportunities as Quarterly 300 43 (28%) 1,200 43 being implemented to help a result of USG-assistance people have better economic in local communities opportunities through increasing their income or decreasing costs
46 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV of production, only one activity was completed. Number of MSMEs No results to be reported during 16 supported by USG Quarterly 3 0 (100%) 12 0 this quarter. assistance
47 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV Y2Q1 Achieved Results vs Targets 100%
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0% 11 -Number of 15 -Number of USAID-assisted 06 -Value of 12 -Number of people directly 07 -Number of 08 -Number of 09 -Number of local actors 01- Number of 02 -Number of resources and essential 13 -Number of benefiting from 03 -Proportion community community activities (CSOs, Private people local actors or assets services people with increased of female resources and members who implemented sector benefiting from with enhanced mobilized by provided, access to economic participants in or assets have with organizations) of USG abilities as local actors to installed or adequate levels opportunities as USG assisted involved in USG participated in participation engaged in assistance[PMP result of USG respond to upgraded as a of essential a result of USG- programs assisted the CSP activity from local community, ] support communities’ result of USG services assistance in activities cycle stakeholders regional and priority needs assistance local national communities programs Y2Q1- Actual 14,491 6 54% $5,165 6 23 6 7 3 14,276 43 Y2Q1- Target 84,900 30 30% $39,500 18 240 30 30 21 60,138 300
48 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV ANNEX F: INDICATORS PERFORMANCE TRACKING TABLE Please refer to the email attachment labeled “Annex F. Indicators Performance Tracking Table.”
49 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV ANNEX G: TRANSFORMING LIVES — USAID SUPPORTS OLIVE FARMERS IN TANBOURIT
50 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV
the machines helped the farmers reduce the cost of harvesting by up to 60 percent per ton of olives. By helping the farmers harvest more efficiently, the new harvesters will also help improve the oil’s quality since olives should be pressed within two days of being harvested. Using the increased profits generated by the harvesting machines, the COOP plans to invest in a new olive press for the village. This, in turn, will help the farmers sell their oil earlier in the season, beating their competitors to the market and boosting their profits. A more bountiful harvest means the village will have a greater number of zeitoun jarjer — Arabic for “unused olives” — which the Tanbourit farmers use to make natural soap. Moussa says that whenever the COOP participates in exhibitions in the Saida Municipality, its soap and olive oil sellout completely. Moussa hopes that the support offered by USAID will lead to the economic empowerment of Tanbourit’s residents, including women and young people, thereby enticing them to remain in the village. As such, the next generation can cultivate in their children that same connection to the land that Mousa has instilled in his own kids. CSP is an $80 million, seven-year activity funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). It is designed to provide a broad range of support to underserved and vulnerable communities in order to improve the delivery of essential services and enhance economic opportunities, primarily in Lebanon’s North, South, and Beqaa regions.
51 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV ANNEX H: COMMUNITY PROFILES (OCT. – DEC. 2019) South Region South Not prioritized for CSP intervention Saida Aaddoussiyeh 2.2 Lebanon at this time South Saida Ain Ed Delb 1.7 Proceed with program led Lebanon South Saida Es Salhiye 1.7 Proceed with LSA Lebanon South Bteddine el Not prioritized for CSP intervention Jezzine 1.4 Lebanon Liqsh at this time South Not prioritized for CSP intervention Jezzine Kattine N/A Lebanon at this moment North Region North Menieh- Concept Bqaa Safrine 3.2 Proceed with program led Lebanon Dinnieh note North Menieh- Burj El Not prioritized for CSP intervention 2.0 Lebanon Dinnieh Yahoudieh at this time North Concept Batroun Ras Nhash 2.0 Proceed with program led Lebanon note North Not prioritized for CSP intervention Akkar Aaidamoun 1.7 Lebanon at this time Beqaa Region Concept Beqaa West Beqaa Loussiya 2.2 Proceed with program led note Concept Beqaa West Beqaa Aammiq 1.4 Proceed with program led note
52 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV ANNEX I: CSP TO 2 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT GRANTS TRACKER Lebanon CSP Community Engagement Grants Tracker
Code Partner Activity Description Estimated/Final Value Status Notes (Updates, Challenges, Progress)
Rene Mouawad Amplifying CSP’s Capacity to Engage Communities to Identify CE001 Foundation Potential Stabilization and Development Activities $232,786 Approved Ongoing.
Amplifying CSP’s Capacity to Engage Communities to Identify Conditional CE002 Caritas Potential Stabilization and Development Activities $85,451.10 approval Pending CSP feedback on USAID comments.
Amplifying CSP’s Capacity to Engage Communities to Identify Conditional CE004 Peace Labs Potential Stabilization and Development Activities $226,192 approval Pending CSP feedback on USAID comments.
Amplifying CSP’s Capacity to Engage Communities to Identify Conditional CE005 Nahnoo Potential Stabilization and Development Activities $155,078.12 approval Pending CSP feedback on USAID comments.
Akkar Network for Amplifying CSP’s Capacity to Engage Communities to Identify Conditional CE006 Development Potential Stabilization and Development Activities $98,764 approval Pending CSP feedback on USAID comments.
53 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV ANNEX J: CSP ACTIVITIES BY SECTOR AND IMPLEMENTATION STATUS (THROUGH DEC. 2019)
54 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV ANNEX K: CSP ACTIVITIES BY FUNDING LEVELS (THROUGH DEC. 2019)
55 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV ANNEX L: CSP TO 2/TO 3 ACTIVITY TRACKER
Lebanon CSP Activity Concept, Design, and Implementation Tracker
Estimated /Final Notes (Updates, TAAR Code Location Dist. Gov. Region Activity Description Comp Value Status Challenges, Progress) Partner Status
Baalbek- Providing Essential Equipment to Pending USAID approval Britel Public BQA001 Britel Baalbek Hermel Beqaa Britel Public School 1 $11,589 Completed to close out. School
Providing Essential Equipment to Pending USAID approval Ali El Nahri BQA002 Ali en Nahri Zahleh Beqaa Beqaa Ali El Nahri Public High School 1 $3,606 Completed to close out. Public School
ACP submitted. Pending Baalbek- Provision of Fuel Vouchers in USAID feedback and Aarsal BQA003 Aarsal Baalbek Hermel Beqaa Response to Local Grievances 1 $24,062 Completed approval to close out. Municipality
Providing the Municipality with 250 KVA Generator and ACP submitted. Pending Replacing Storm-Affected USAID feedback and Tannoura TAAR008 BQA004 Tannoura Rachaya Beqaa Beqaa Accessories 1 $42,540 Completed approval to close out. Municipality submitted
Reequipping SADA NGO Center West in Joub Jannine after Norma SADA El Beqaa TAAR009 BQA005 Joub Jannine Beqaa Beqaa Beqaa Storm Damages 1 $8,763 Closed Closed. NGO submitted
CSP is facing difficulties to provide legal Enhancing Water Supply B documentation, resulting El Fourzol BQA006 El Fourzol Zahle Beqaa Beqaa Constructing a Water Tank 2 $100,600 AAP submitted in a delay. Municipality
CSP finalized FGDs and Agricultural Baalbek- Under will submit a request to Cooperative BQA007 Fissane Hermel Hermel Beqaa Expanding Fissane Cooperative 1 $20,200 implementation rescope this activity. Fissane
56 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV TAAR under development
ACP submitted. Pending Baalbek- Provision of Fuel Vouchers in USAID feedback and Aarsal BQA008 Aarsal Baalbek Hermel Beqaa Response to Local Grievances II 1 $163,989 Completed approval to close out. Municipality
ACP submitted. Pending Baalbek- Equipping El Qaa Municipality for USAID feedback and El Qaa TAAR010 BQA009 El Qaa Baalbek Hermel Beqaa Storm Response 1 $2,535 Completed approval to close out. Municipality submitted
Partner municipality is facing challenges Enhancing the Efficiency of Water providing legal Deir El Baalbek- Provision to Reduce Tensions in Under documentation of land to Deir El Ahmar BQA011 Ahmar Baalbek Hermel Beqaa Deir El Ahmar 1 $120,400 implementation submit change in scope. Municipality
West Improving Public Safety in Ghazze Under Quotations received. Ghazze BQA012 Ghazze Beqaa Beqaa Beqaa Through Retaining Wall 1 $21,400 implementation Tendering underway. Municipality
Enhancing Economic Activity on hold pending Souaih and Baalbek- Opportunities for Farmers in further guidance from BQA013 Chehairy Hermel Hermel Beqaa Hermel Outskirts 1 $13,300 AAP submitted USAID.
All items delivered. Reducing Tensions by Equipping Pending branding and Hawch Er Baalbek- the Intermediate Public School of Under visibility to complete the Hawch El Arab BQA014 Rafqa Baalbek Hermel Beqaa Hawch El Arab 1 $42,290 implementation activity. Public School
Enhancing Safety and Security West through Solar Lighting in El Under Design and tendering to El Khiara TAAR005 BQA015 El Khiara Beqaa Beqaa Beqaa Khiara 1 $58,000 implementation be launched. Municipality submitted
57 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV Reducing Tensions Through Installation of Water Filtration Saadnayel System at Intermediate Public Under Pending USAID approval Intermediate BQA016 Saadnayel Zahleh Beqaa Beqaa School of Saadnayel 1 $10,400 implementation on ERAC. Public School
Rehabilitating the Main Irrigation Channel in Ras Baalbek to Baalbek- Preserve Water and Improve Under Pending USAID approval Ras Baalbek BQA017 Ras Baalbek Baalbek Hermel Beqaa Livelihoods 1 $69,600 implementation on ERAC. Municipality
Equipping Majdel Anjar Pending AAP. Majdel Agricultural Produce Cooperative Yellow light TAAR under Pending Aanjar Zahleh Beqaa Beqaa 1 $35,000 pending development
Baalbek- Expanding the Capacity of CLAC TAAR under Pending El Qaa Baalbek Hermel Beqaa Qaa 1 $20,000 Yellow lit Pending AAP. development
Reducing Tensions Through Operating Water-Supply Pump on Solar Energy and Upgrading TAAR under West the New Water Network in development Pending Loussiya Beqaa Beqaa Beqaa Loussiya 1 $90,000 Yellow lit Pending AAP.
West Providing Generator to Ammiq Pending Yellow
Pending Ammiq Beqaa Beqaa Beqaa Municipality 1 $70,000 Light Pending AAP.
Creating Environmentally Ainata, Baalbek- Sustainable Maintenance System Pending Bechwat Baalbek Hermel Beqaa for Ainata Farmers 1 $20,000 Yellow lit Pending AAP.
Enhancing Security and Service Nabha el Baalbek- Delivery Through Solar Street Pending Qeddam Baalbek Hermel Beqaa Lighting in Nabha and El Qeddam 1 $30,000 Yellow lit Pending AAP.
58 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV Improving Water Efficiency and Agricultural Production Through
Baalbek- Drip Irrigation Infrastructure in Pending Ras Baalbek Baalbek Hermel Beqaa Ras Baalbek 2 $100,000 Yellow lit Pending AAP.
Improving Safety and Security Through Street Lighting in Kfar Pending municipal Pending Kfar Zabad Zahleh Beqaa Beqaa Zabad 1 $80,000 Yellow lit elections.
West Expanding Services Provided by Pending municipal Pending Es Swairi Beqaa Beqaa Beqaa Es Swairi Municipality 1 $10,000 Yellow lit elections.
AAP development on hold as CSP’s focus
Central Providing Equipment to Central shifted from schools at Pending Beqaa Zahleh Beqaa Beqaa Beqaa Public Schools 1 $111,000 Yellow lit the moment.
Improving Sorted Solid-Waste- ACP submitted. Pending Collection capacity of the Union USAID feedback and Union of Fayha’ NTH001 Tripoli Tripoli North North of Al Fayha’ Municipalities 1 $47,806.58 Completed approval to close out. Municipalities
ACP Submitted. Pending Supporting Qabaait Public Middle USAID feedback and Qabaait Public NTH002 Qabaait Akkar Akkar North School 1 $52,399.14 Completed approval to close out. Middle School
Jabal Enhance Strained Water Services Akroum NTH003 Akroum Akkar Akkar North in Jabal Akroum 1 $24,500 Completed Completed Municipality
Cooperative for Production and Supporting Olive Tree Farmers in Processing of TAAR001 Akroum Through a Decanter and Under Olives in Akroum submitted NTH004 Akroum Akkar Akkar North Generator 1 $61,000 implementation Pending closing event. and Surroundings
Supporting the Wastewater- Management System in El Under Pending USAID approval El Mahmra NTH007 El Mahmra Akkar Akkar North Mahmra 2 $81,600 implementation on ERAC to proceed. Municipality
59 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV Design and tendering Minieh- Building a Supporting Wall in Under documents under Markebta NTH008 Markebta Dannieh North North Markebta 1 $32,000 implementation review. Municipality
Supporting Jdaidet el Qaitaa Jdaidet el Women’s Cooperative for Under CSP to proceed with Jdaidet el Qaitaa TAAR004 NTH009 Qaitaa Akkar Akkar North Agricultural Products 2 $56,200 implementation design Municipality submitted
Design and tendering Ensuring Proper Water Flow in Under documents under Kfar Hilda NTH010 Kfar Hilda Batroun North North the Channels of Kfar Hilda 1 $70,400 implementation review. Municipality
Construction of a Reinforced- Concrete Water-Irrigation Activity on hold pending Tall Aabbas ech Tall Aabbas Channel for Tall Aabbas ech further guidance from Charqi NTH011 ech Charqi Akkar Akkar North Charqi village 1 $86,200 AAP Submitted USAID. Municipality
Cooperative Association for Production of Supporting Livelihoods Through Agricultural Improving Sales for a Rural Under Products in NTH012 Fnaideq Akkar Akkar North Cooperative in Fnaideq 1 $30,000 implementation Procurement underway. Fnaideq
Rehabilitating the Pumping ERAC resubmitted to System for the Artesian Well USAID for approval. North Lebanon Supplying Mouanse and Nsoub Under Procurement process Water NTH013 Mouanse Akkar Akkar North villages 1 $80,400 implementation launched. Establishment
Providing Support for Farmers in ACP Submitted. Pending Noura Affected by the Syrian USAID feedback and Noura NTH015 En Noura Akkar Akkar North Conflict 1 $7,333.33 Completed approval to close out. Municipality
Al Mourabia Supporting Al Mourabia Marzouka Al Marzouka Al Mouzakzek Public Under Pending approval from Mouzakzek Public TAAR002 NTH016 Bebnine Akkar Akkar North School for Girls in Bebnine 1 $60,750 implementation MEHE to proceed School for Girls submitted
60 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV
All equipment has been Supporting Salam Public Mixed Under delivered and branded. Salam Public TAAR006 NTH017 Bebnine Akkar Akkar North School in Bebnine 1 $67,790 implementation Pending MEL visits. Mixed School submitted
Enhancing Services and Improving Under Pending USAID approval NTH019 Niha Batroun North North Lives in the Village of Niha 2 $37,200 implementation on ERAC. Footprints NGO
Improving and Rehabilitating the Irrigation Distribution Network Pending CSP feedback on in Aachach, Meriata, and Arde ERAC comments to villages to Support Livelihoods USAID. Aachach, and Ease Water Resource Municipalities of Meriata, Tensions Among the Three Under Technical design of Aachach, Meriata, NTH020 Arde Zgharta North North Villages 2 $192,200 implementation activity to be launched. and Arde
Supporting Solid-Waste Management in Berqayel Village by Waste Bins, Broom, and Two Under Pending USAID approval Municipality of NTH024 Berqayel Akkar Akkar North Recycling Points 1 $52,517 implementation on ERAC. Berqayel
Pending CSP Recycling-Awareness Sessions in resubmission as one Support of the Bechmezzine package with MRF TAAR under NTH025 Bechmizzine El Koura North North Material Recovery Facility 2 $43,105 AAP submitted expansion. development
Barghoun Haq for and Supporting the Olive Farmers in Development TAAR003 NTH026 Badbhoun El Koura North North Barghoun and Badbhoun by 1 $30,160 Completed Completed. NGO submitted Providing Mechanical Harvesters Minieh- Pending Beit Hawik Dannieh North North Supporting Beit Hawik Public 1 $15,000 Yellow lit Pending AAP. School Providing a Sustainable Waste- Pending Bechmizzine Koura North North Management Solution in Al Koura 2 $164,800 Yellow lit Pending AAP.
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Haret el Completing the Sewage Network TAAR under Pending Fouwar Zgharta North North Lines in Haret el Fouwar Village 2 $150,000 Yellow lit Pending AAP. development
More design is needed Khirbet ej Supporting Khirbet ej Jendi Yellow light before developing the TAAR under Pending Jendi Akkar Akkar North Electrical Backup System 1 $65,000 pending concept into an AAP. development
Water-Treatment System in Kfar Pending NLWE approval Aaqqa to Produce Drinking on the concept before Pending Kfar Aaqqa Koura North North Water 1 $40,000 Yellow lit proceeding with AAP.
Khirbet Enhancing Electricity Provision in TAAR under Pending Daoud Akkar Akkar North Khirbet Daoud 1 $40,000 Yellow lit Pending AAP. development
Connecting Irrigation Canals to Pending Tarane Donnieh North North Water Sources in Taran 1 $35,000 Yellow lit Pending AAP.
Providing Electrical Station (Transformer) for Mechmech Pending Mechmech Akkar Akkar North Sorting Facility 1 $30,000 Yellow lit Pending AAP.
More information about the environmental Supporting the Litter Collection Yellow light aspects are needed Pending Hasroun Bcharreh North North System in Hasroun Village 1 $15,000 pending before developing AAP.
Pending municipal confirmation on the Addressing Irrigation Water feasibility of the activity Shortages in Menjez to Improve before developing an Pending Menjez Akkar Akkar North Livelihoods 1 $50,000 Yellow lit AAP.
62 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV Pending submission of a modification to USAID Installing Solar LED lights in Old based on new design Saida Alleys to Enhance Sense of Under including ERAC and STH001 Saida Saida South South Security 1 $46,300 implementation ARAR. Saida Municipality
Enhance Solid-Waste Collection and Sorting from Source efforts Under Pending ACP Mieh w Mieh STH002 Mieh w Mieh Saida South South in El Miye w Miye 1 $20,000 implementation development. Municipality
Providing Water Filtration for Under Design currently pending Hasbaiya STH005 Hasbaiya Hasbaiya Nabatieh South Hasbaiya Water Tank 1 $79,800 implementation BTD feedback. Municipality
Pending tender documents after CDM Smith revision and Providing Better Water Services Under USAID clearance of Bqasta STH006 Bqasta Saida South South in Bqasta 2 $185,000 implementation design documents. Municipality
Pending SLWE Enhancing Water Provision in El documentation of land South Lebanon Ghazieh Region Through ownership to receive Water STH007 El Ghazieh Saida South South Construction of a Water Tank 2 $250,000 AAP submitted USAID approval. Establishment
Upgrade of the Municipal Festival Pending CSP Grounds to Support Local resubmission as one Economic Integration and package with hiking trail TAAR under STH008 Ain Ebel Bent Jbeil Nabatieh South Cultural Events 2 $61,860 AAP Submitted expansion. development
Cooperative of Olive Farmers in Supporting the Cooperative of Under Marketing events TAAR007 Tanbourit STH009 Tanbourit Saida South South Olive Growers in Tanbourit 1 $16,080 implementation pending. submitted
South Lebanon Enhancing the Provision of Water Under Water STH010 Jinjlaya Saida South South in Jinjlaya 1 $44,700 implementation Procurement underway. Establishment
63 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV Emergency Response to Ed Damour Wildfires by Replacing Mount Damaged Electrical Cables and Under Municipality of STH014 Ed Damour Shouf Lebanon South Water Networks 1 $28,450 implementation Procurement underway. Damour
Providing equipment to Arc en Mount Ciel in response to the latest Under CSP to launch TAAR under STH015 Ed Damour Shouf Lebanon South wildfires 1 $24,500 implementation procurement process. Arc-en-Ciel development
Rachaiya El Enhancing Security and Service Foukhar Rachaiya el Delivery Through Efficient Street Pending USAID feedback TAAR011 Municipality STH016 Foukhar Hasbaiya Nabatieh South Lighting in Rachaiya El Foukhar 1 $68,950 AAP submitted and approval. submitted
Constructing an Elevated Water Pending Jinsnaya Jezzine South South Tank in Jinsnaya 2 $185,000 Yellow lit Pending AAP.
Improving Economic Opportunities in El Qariye by
Supporting Community TAAR under Pending El Qariyeh Saida South South Investments 1 $27,000 Yellow lit Pending AAP. development
Supporting Farmers Through Providing Water-Irrigation TAAR under Pending Chebaa Hasbaiya Nabatieh South Systems 2 $100,000 Yellow lit Pending AAP. development
Installing Hybrid Solar System for Electrical-Power Supply in Ain Pending Ain Arab Marjayoun Nabatieh South Arab Public School 1 $59,900 Yellow lit Pending AAP.
Rehabilitating the Wastewater-
Pending Kfar Hamam Hasbaiya Nabatieh South Treatment Facility in Kfar Hamam 1 $50,000 Yellow lit Pending AAP.
Installing Irrigation Network for
Pending Qawzah Bint Jbeil Nabatiye South Farmers in Qawzah 2 $170,000 Yellow lit Pending AAP.
64 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV ANNEX M: TO 3 TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE ACTIVITY SELECTION TOOL — PROVIDING SUPPORT FOR FARMERS IN NOURA AFFECTED BY THE SYRIAN CONFLICT Lebanon Community Support Program – LCSP Task Order 3- Technical Assistance Intervention Technical Assistance Activity Selecion Tool
Community/Beneficiary Municipality of Noura Type: Municipality Geographical Location Akkar/Noura Sector Agriculture
TO2 Activity : NTH015 - Providing Support for Farmers in Noura Affected by the Syrian Conflict
Criterion Weight 0 1 Total Notes TA Recipient is not a Direct TA Recipient is Direct Recipient of Technical Assistance Beneficiary of TO2 Beneficiary of TO2 Moreover, TA will also be provided to the 0.25 0.25 (TA) Assistance Assistance farmers, if needed 1 No Evident Need for Evident Need for Technical Need for Technical Assistance 0.25 Technical Assistance Assistance 0.25 Operation and maintenance of the tiller 1
Absence of Clear Institutional Existence of Clear Existence of Clear Institutional Recipients to Capacity Institutional Recipients to Recipients to Capacity Building 0.25 Building Activities Capacity Building Activities 0.25 Activities 1 Number of Direct Number of Direct Number of Direct Beneficiaries of Beneficiaries is equal or 0.25 Beneficiaries is below 20 0.25 Technical Assistance above 20 1 Total/1 1 Result Eligible
Note: 1- Need for Technical Assistance: This criterion is a necessary condition for TA. A score of zero on this criterion is an elimination score 2- To be eligible, an organization should have a score of 1 on the criterion "Need for Techncial Assistance" and a total score equal to or exceeding 0.5
65 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV ANNEX N: CSP TO 3 SITE VISIT TRACKER
TO 3 FIELD VISITS (OCT. – DEC. 2019)
VISIT NO. TAAR NO. BENEFICIARY LOCATION DATE OF VISIT
1 TAAR001 Cooperative Akroum 7 Nov. 2019 for the Production and Processing of Olives in Akroum and Its Surroundings
2 TAAR002 Al Mourabia Bebnine 8 Nov. 2019 Markouza Al Mouzakzek Public School
3 TAAR003 Harakat Haq al Barghoun and Badbhoun 7 Nov. 2019 Inma’iyah (“Haq Development Movement”)
4 N/A Noura Noura 7 Nov. 2019 Municipality
5 TAAR004 Jdaidet el Jdaidet el Qaitaa 6 Nov. 2019 Qaitaa Women’s Cooperative for Agricultural Products
6 N/A Qabaait Public Qabaait Public School 6 Nov. 2019 School
7 TAAR005 El Khiara El Khiara 21 Nov. 2019 Municipality
8 TAAR006 Al Salam Public Bebnine 8 Nov. 2019 School
9 N/A Union of Union of Municipalities of 6 Nov. 2019 Municipalities Al Fayhaa’ of Al Fayhaa’
10 TAAR007 Cooperative of Tanbourit 19 Nov. 2019 Olive Farmers in Tanbourit
11 N/A Saida Saida 19 Nov. 2019 Municipality
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13 N/A Britel Public Britel 20 Nov. 2019 School
14 TAAR008 Tannoura Tannoura 21 Nov. 2019 Municipality
15 TAAR009 SADA NGO Joub Jannine 21 Nov. 2019
16 TAAR010 E El Qaa Municipality 20 Nov. 2019
17 TAAR011 Rachaiya el Rachaiya el Foukhar 5 Dec. 2019 Foukhar
18 TAAR012 Cooperative Fnaideq 6 Nov. 2019 Association for the Production of Agricultural Prodcuts in Fnaideq
19 TAAR013 El Qariye El Qariye 26 Dec. 2019
67 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV ANNEX O: TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROPOSAL TRACKER
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROPOSAL TRACKER
TECHNICAL DATE DATE DATE APPROVED ASSISTANCE PARTNER CORRESPONDING SUBMITTED REVISED BY RESUBMITTED ASSESSMENT NAME ACTIVITY UNDER TO USAID USAID TO USAID REPORT TO 2 (TAAR) NO.
001 Cooperative NTH004: Supporting 11/14/2019 12/13/2019 12/30/2019 for the the Cooperative for Production and the Production and Processing of Processing of Olives in Olives in Akroum and Its Akroum and Surroundings its Surroundings
002 Al Mourabia NTH016: Supporting 11/18/2019 12/13/2019 12/30/2019 Marzouka Al Al Mourabia Marzouka Mouzakzek Al Mouzakzek Public Public School School for Girls in for Girls Bebnine
003 Harakat Haq al NTH:026: Supporting 11/27/2019 12/13/2019 12/30/2019 Inma’iyah the Olive Farmers in (“Haq Barghoun and Development Badbhoun by Providing Movement”) Mechanical Harvesters
004 Jdaidet el NTH09: Supporting 11/27/2019 12/13/2019 12/30/2019 Qaitaa the Jdaidet el Qaitaa Women’s Women’s Cooperative Cooperative for Agricultural for Agricultural Products Products
005 El Khiara BQA: Enhancing Safety 12/2/2019 12/13/2019 12/30/2019 Municipality and Security Through Solar Lighting in El Khiara
006 Al Salam Public NTH017: Supporting 12/2/2019 12/13/2019 12/30/2019 School Al Salam Public School in Bebnine
007 Cooperative of STH009: Supporting 12/9/2019 12/13/2019 12/30/2019 Olive Farmers the Cooperative of in Tanbourit Olive Farmers in Tanbourit by Providing Mechanical Harvesters
008 Tannoura BQA004: Providing a 12/9/2019 12/13/2019 12/30/2019 Municipality Generator to the Tannoura Municiaplity
009 SADA NGO BQA005: Equipping 12/11/2019 12/13/2019 12/30/2019 the SADA NGO Center in Joub Jannine in Response to the Latest Storm
68 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV 010 El Qaa BQA009: Providing 12/11/2019 12/13/2019 12/30/2019 Municipality Essential Equipment to the El Qaa Municipality for Improved Storm Response
011 Rachaiya el- STH016: Enhancing 12/13/2019 Foukhar Security and Municipal Municipality Service Delivery at the Rachaiya el-Foukhar Municipality
69 | LEBANON CSP QUARTERLY REPORT USAID.GOV ANNEX P: SHORT LIST OF POTENTIAL TO 5 WASTEWATER INTERVENTIONS Please refer to the email attachment labeled “Annex O. Short List of Potential Wastewater Interventions.”
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