Tunisia Resilience and Community Empowerment Activity 2019/2020 Annual Performance Report September 1, 2019 – September 30, 2020 Submission Date: October 30, 2020 Agreement Number: 72066418CA00001 Activity Start Date and End Date: SEPTEMBER 1, 2018 to AUGUST 31, 2023 AOR Name: Hind Houas Submitted by: J. Patrick Folliard-O’Mahony, Chief of Party FHI360 Tanit Business Center, Ave de la Fleurs de Lys, Lac 2 1053 Tunis, Tunisia Tel: (+216) 58 52 56 20 Email: [email protected] This document was produced for review by the United States Agency for International Development. July 2008 1 CONTENTS Acronyms and Abbreviations ................................................................................ 3 Executive Summary ............................................................................................... 1 Project Overview .................................................................................................... 3 Ma3an’s Purpose ................................................................................................................................. 3 Context ................................................................................................................................................. 4 Year 2 Results.......................................................................................................... 6 OBJECTIVE 1: Youth are equipped with skills and engaged in civic actions with local actors to address their communities’ needs ................................................................................... 7 Big picture analysis 7 Results analysis 8 OBJECTIVE 2: Enhanced capabilities to prevent and counter violent extremism ............. 16 Big picture analysis 16 Results analysis 17 OBJECTIVE 3: Tunisian communities have sustained mechanisms and processes for collaborative action ................................................................................................................ 20 Big picture analysis 20 Results analysis 21 Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning ................................................................ 25 Monitoring .......................................................................................................................................... 25 Quantitative data collection and visualization 26 Qualitative data collection 26 Evaluation............................................................................................................................................ 27 Social Network Analysis Baseline 27 Capacity for Resilience Baseline 28 Learning ............................................................................................................................................... 29 What Ma3an Partners tell us 29 Sharing the Learning 30 Comparison of Actual Expenditures with Budget Estimates .......................... 32 Annexes ................................................................................................................. 33 Annex 1A: Tunisia VE Assessment Key Findings Brief ............................................................. 33 Annex 1B: Tunisia VE Assessment Report ................................................................................. 33 Annex 1C: VE Community Snapshots.......................................................................................... 33 Annex 2: Community Support Activities (Phase 2 Communities) ........................................ 34 Annex 3: Proposed Community Support Activities (Phase 3 Communities) ..................... 35 Annex 4: Performance Management Plan ................................................................................... 37 Annex 5: Covid-19 Contributions of Ma3an Youth and Partners ......................................... 37 Annex 6: Year 2 USAID Learning blog Posts ............................................................................. 37 Annex 7: Year 2 Success Stories ................................................................................................... 37 ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS AO Agreement Officer AOR Agreement Officer’s Representative CLA Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting CNLCT Commission Nationale de la Lutte Contre le Terrorisme CONECT Confédération des Entreprises Citoyennes de Tunisie CRA Community Resilience Activities CRC Community Resilience Committee CSA Community Support Activity CSAP Collaborative Stakeholders Action Planning CSL Community Service Learning CSO Civil Society Organization CSR Corporate Social Responsibility CYM Community Youth Mapping GOT Government of Tunisia IACE L'Institut Arabe des Chefs d'Entreprises IREX International Research and Exchange Board L2D Learn to Discern LP Local Partner MEL Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning P/CVE Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism PIS Professional Insight Day PPD Public Private Dialogue PPI Partner Process Interviews PYD Positive Youth Development RFA Request for Applications SFCG Search for Common Ground SNA Social Network Analysis SOLVE Solutions to Violent Extremism TOT Training of Trainers USAID United States Agency for International Development VE Violent Extremism VScan Vulnerability Scan Y1 Year 1 Y2 Year 2 Y3 Year 3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded Ma3an project partners with Tunisia’s national and subnational government, civil society, and local communities to create sustained mechanisms and processes for collaborative action to prevent and counter violent extremism (P/CVE). In Year 2 (Y2), Ma3an worked across 33 Tunisian communities to build the capacity of youth, civil society, and local authorities to develop and implement locally-led and context-specific P/CVE solutions that confront the causes of violent extremism (VE), and create alternative options and narratives for youth vulnerable to radicalization. In Y2, Ma3an adapted programming to contend with the combined impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, political uncertainty with several changes of government, and acts of VE, including the March 2020 suicide bombing at the US Embassy in Tunis. Throughout quarters 2, 3 and 4, in response to COVID-19, Ma3an adapted to the Government of Tunisia (GoT) mandated nationwide curfews, bans on public gatherings, transportation, and travel restrictions, and the closure of schools, mosques and businesses by pivoting to delivering approximately 60% of Ma3an programming virtually, and delivering other capacity building activities in larger spaces with reduced numbers of participants wearing face masks and social distancing. Notwithstanding these challenges, Ma3an achieved several Y2 performance targets. In Y2, Ma3an equipped youth with the skills required to collaborate with civil society and local authorities to mitigate youth vulnerability to radicalization and extremism in their respective communities. In the process, Ma3an developed youth agency and leadership while tapping into youth assets and potential and their desire to support the most vulnerable youth at risk in their community. Specifically, in 12 target communities, partnering with 11 local civil society organizations (CSOs), Ma3an engaged 360 marginalized youth to complete community youth mapping activities to identify and prioritize community-based vulnerabilities to extremism and radicalization and brought together 520 stakeholders in 12 collaborative stakeholder action planning (CSAP) workshops to identify P/CVE solutions to address vulnerabilities. These workshops catalyzed ideas for implementing 36 to 48 local P/CVE solutions in 12 target communities. Ma3an is also completing additional community support activities in Phase 2 communities by refurbishing 12 safe community spaces that provide opportunities and services for youth, including youth centers, outdoor spaces such as parks, and sports, cultural, and recreational spaces, while ensuring spaces and infrastructure are accessible to persons with disabilities. In Y2, Ma3an also selected 16 new local partner CSOs in target communities in Tunis, Ben Arous, Medenine, Gafsa, Tataouine, and Kasserine governorates and prepared the Ma3an capacity building tool that, starting in Year 3 (Y3), will be used to build local CSO capacity to deliver P/CVE programming. In Y2, 55 Ma3an Youth Mentors engaged 600 youth in 42 face-to-face and online activities and more than 179 mentoring sessions, exceeding the Y2 target number. Cohort 1 Youth Mentors built momentum as their events and trainings gained credibility and popularity among youth in five target communities. The increased referrals for youth mentoring sessions also led to Ma3an exceeding the target number of mentoring sessions. Throughout its interventions, Ma3an aimed for inclusion and gender parity achieving a near balanced ratio of male to female representation in 105 events to date. Over 40,000 Ma3an Facebook members now engage with youth across Tunisia contributing to growing a culture of youth civic participation and community engagement. In Y2, in collaboration with USAID, the Ma3an team modified programming to increase focus on building the capacity of local actors – both state and non-state partners at the national and sub-national level – to prevent and counter VE through activities that generate and share knowledge and understanding of the threat of VE and build and strengthen relationships and networks among P/CVE actors. Recognizing the need for P/CVE Page 1 of 37 efforts to be contextualized, Ma3an completed two primary analytical products in Y2: (1) the Violent Extremism Drivers and