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Barrio Mio Scale Up My Neighborhood “Transforming Guatemala’s High-Risk Urban Settlements into Resilient, Safe and Productive Neighborhoods & Building Capacity to Respond to Urban Disasters.” “Transforming Guatemala’s High-Risk Urban Settlements into Resilient, Safe and Productive Neighborhoods & Building Capacity to Respond to Urban Disasters.” “Transforming Guatemala’s High-Risk Urban Settlements into Resilient, Safe and Productive Neighborhoods & Building Capacity to Respond to Urban Disasters.” “Transforming Guatemala’s High-Risk Urban Settlements into Resilient, Safe and Productive Neighborhoods & Building Capacity to Respond to Urban Disasters.” “Transforming Guatemala’s High-Risk Urban Settlements into Resilient, Safe and Productive Neighborhoods & Building Capacity to Respond to Urban Disasters.” Semi Annual Report “Transforming Guatemala’sSUBMITTED High -TO:Risk USAID Urban Settlements into Resilient, Safe andOffice Productive of Foreign Neighborhoods Disaster Assistance & Building Capacity to Respond to Urban DisastersApril.” 30, 2019 AID-OFDA-G-17-00186 “Transforming Guatemala’s High-Risk Urban Settlements into Resilient, Safe and Productive Neighborhoods & Building Capacity to Respond to Urban Disasters.” “Transforming Guatemala’s High-Risk Urban Settlements into Resilient,Semi Safe and Productive Annual Neighborho Reportods & Building Capacity to Respond to Urban Disasters.” PCI Guatemala, BMSU Semi-Annual Report October 1, 2018 – March 30, 2019 Semi-Annual Report Organization: Project Concern International (PCI) Name of Project: Barrio Mio Scale Up Agreement No.: AID-OFDA-G-17-00186 Country: Guatemala Sites / Locations / Amatitlán, Mixco, Santa Catarina Pinula, San Miguel Municipalities of: Petapa, Villa Canales, Villa Nueva, and Guatemala. Reporting Period: October 1, 2018 to March 30, 2019 Name: Pascale Wagner Position: Country Director For further information, Organization: PCI please contact: Email: [email protected] Telephone: (502) 2369-2881 Cooperative Agreement: AID-OFDA-G-17-00186 i Submitted April 30, 2019 PCI Guatemala, BMSU Semi-Annual Report October 1, 2018 – March 30, 2019 Table of Contents Glossary – Acronyms ......................................................................................................... iii Summary Table of Beneficiaries ........................................................................................iv I. Project Highlights ............................................................................................................ 1 II. BMSU Project Strategy .................................................................................................. 1 III. Project Achievements ................................................................................................... 2 SECTOR 1: Risk Management Policy and Practice………………………….………………2 SECTOR II: Shelter and Settlements………………………………………….………………8 SECTOR 3: Economic Recovery and Market Systems……………………….…………….9 III. Monitoring and Evaluation .......................................................................................... 11 IV. Program Challenges and Actions Taken .................................................................... 11 V. Key Activities for the Next Reporting Period................................................................. 11 Annexes ........................................................................................................................... 12 Cooperative Agreement: AID-OFDA-G-17-00186 ii Submitted April 30, 2019 PCI Guatemala, BMSU Semi-Annual Report October 1, 2018 – March 30, 2019 Acronyms AGIES Guatemalan Association of Structural and Seismic Engineering ANACOVI National Association of Home Builders AVE Administration of Vulnerabilities and Emergencies Barrio Mío Project Name BANRURAL Rural Development Bank BMSU Barrio Mío Scale Up CEPREDENAC Center for Coordination and Prevention of Disasters in Central America and the Dominican Republic CIG College of Engineers of Guatemala CEMPRO Cement Production Company COCODE Community Development Council CONADUR National Council for Urban and Rural Development COLRED Local Coordinator for Disaster Reduction CONRED National Coordinator for Disaster Reduction CONSTRURED Construction Materials Supply Chain CONAVI National Council for Housing CUNOC University Center of the West DRR Disaster Risk Reduction DMM Municipal Women’s Board of Directors DMP Municipal Planning Department EMUVI Municipal Housing Enterprise FHA Institute for Preferred Mortgages FOPAVI Housing Fund FUNDESA Foundation for the Development of Guatemala GIS Geographic Information Systems GOAL Irish non-profit organization GOG Government of Guatemala INAP National Institute of Public Administration INFOM Municipal Development Institute INSIVUMEH National Institute of Seismology, Volcanology, Meteorology and Hydrology INTEPRO Private sector housing company MACA Working Group for Applied Knowledge MAFI Working Group for Institutional Strengthening MGCS Association of Municipalities Greater Southern City MIB Integrated Neighborhood Upgrading MICIVI Ministry of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing OFDA Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance OMDUT Municipal Office of Urban and Territorial Development ONSEC National Office of Civil Service PCI Project Concern International POT Territorial Development Plan SCEP Secretary of the Executive Coordination of the Presidency SEGEPLAN Presidential Secretary for Planning and Programming UFM University of Francisco Marroquín UNISDR United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction URL University of Rafael Landivar USAC University of San Carlos in Guatemala USAID United States Agency for International Development VIS Social Housing Cooperative Agreement: AID-OFDA-G-17-00186 iii Submitted April 30, 2019 PCI Guatemala, BMSU Semi-Annual Report October 1, 2018 – March 30, 2019 Summary Table of Beneficiaries Beneficiaries for the Reporting Cumulative Beneficiaries to Period Date Targeted Reached Targeted Reached Total IDP Total IDP Total IDP Total IDP SECTOR 1. Risk Management 482 n/a 650 n/a 2,178 n/a 729 n/a Policy and Practice (1) 2. Shelters and 420 n/a 17 n/a 2,178 n/a 17 n/a Settlements 3. Economic Recovery and 1,255 n/a 33 n/a 4,394 n/a 33 n/a Market Systems Total1 2,157 700 6,572 779 1 Total beneficiaries are unduplicated across sectors Cooperative Agreement: AID-OFDA-G-17-00186 iv Submitted April 30, 2019 PCI Guatemala, BMSU Semi-Annual Report October 1, 2018 – March 30, 2019 I. Project Highlights A number of notable achievements and advances took place for BMSU during this reporting period, including: • The creation and consolidation of an Academic Working Group that, through its two subgroups, the Working Group for Applied Knowledge (MACA) and the Working Group for Institutional Strengthening (MAFI), who are developing sustainable institutional processes in the public sector for advocacy, capacity building and accreditation in urban DRR. • Five training workshops in GIS for DRR for 26 high-level technicians (19 Male, 6 Female) in the municipalities of Villa Nueva, Mixco, Santa Catarina Pinula, Amatitlan and Villa Canales, which led to the creation of geomorphological analysis models that will guide decision making processes to improve disaster resilience in high risk communities in those cities. • A model housing project in San Mateo, Villa Nueva, has not only advanced housing designs and the internal processes of creating a Municipal Housing Enterprise (EMUVI), but has also been the subject of a study profiling the socioeconomic status of 622 workers in need of housing. These workers are a typical representation of workers who live in areas with high levels of vulnerability and will be the first beneficiaries of this project component. • With the support of Build Change, BMSU held a three-day hands-on training workshop with 24 participants (15 Male, 9 Female) in Mixco for government, private sector and NGO partners on technology platforms that help improve urban upgrading and other measures that impact the habitability of at-risk housing structures. As part of the project’s capacity building work, BMSU identified 17 families from two communities in Mixco (Cipresales and Vistas de la Comunidad) whose houses needed structural reinforcement and developed blueprints and costing analyses for 15 of the structures so that the beneficiaries could present them to banks to gain access to financing. II. BMSU Project Strategy During this reporting period, the BMSU team reviewed year one achievements and worked with public and private partners, civil society and academia, to revise the project strategy to focus on strengthening policy and planning to scale up the development of resilient housing and infrastructure. Using a gap analysis methodology, the project strategy was divided into three pillars that align work areas, objectives and results and allows BMSU partners to better adapt to the national context and understand what national and local mechanisms are involved in the BMSU strategy. The first pillar is “Policy” and is comprised of components one and two. The second pillar is “Intervention Areas” and is comprised of components three and six. The third pillar is “Knowledge” and is comprised of components four and five. PILLARS & COMPONENTS AREA OF WORK RESULT SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES Policy Develop the capacity of 1: Strengthen national social housing Creation of policies government agencies, policies and related government institutions and forums to Regulations, private partners, NGOs and that can advance