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Accelere!) Activity 1 IMPROVING READING, ACCESS, AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN THE DRC (ACCELERE!) ACTIVITY 1 QUARTERLY REPORT QUARTER 3, FY2017, APRIL 1 TO JUNE 30, 2017 SUBMITTED SEPTEMBER 19, 2017 CONTRACT NO. AID-660-C-15-00001 United States Agency for International Development (USAID)/Education Office USAID Contracting Officer’s Representative: Ms. Natasha de Marcken 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Table of Contents 2 ACRONYMS 4 1. PROGRAM OVERVIEW/SUMMARY 6 1.1 Program Description/Introduction 7 1.2 Summary of Results to Date-Quarterly Report 9 2. ACTIVITY IMPLEMENTATION PROGRESS 11 2.1 Progress Narrative Summary 11 2.2 Activity Implementation Status 14 2.3 Result Two: Improved Education Quality 26 Result Three: Improved Governance and Accountability by Stakeholders 38 2. Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) 45 Monitoring & Evaluation 45 Operations Research (and Assessment) 48 3. Key Issue Narratives 52 4. INTEGRATION OF CROSSCUTTING ISSUES and USAID FORWARD PRIORITIES 52 4.1 Gender Equality and Female Empowerment 52 4.2 Sustainability Mechanisms 52 4.3 Environmental Compliance 52 4.4 Global Climate Change – NA 53 4.5 Policy and Governance Support 53 4.6 Local Capacity Development 53 4.7 Public Private Partnership (PPP) and Global Development Alliance (GDA) Impacts 53 4.8 Science, Technology, and Innovation Impacts 53 5. STAKEHOLDER PARTICIPATION AND INVOLVEMENT 53 6. MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATIVE ISSUES 53 7. LESSONS LEARNED 54 7.1. Grants 54 7.2. Result 2 55 7.3. Result 3 55 Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning 56 8. PLANNED ACTIVITIES FOR NEXT QUARTER INCLUDING UPCOMING EVENTS56 8.1 General Project Activities 56 Quarterly Report, Quarter 3, FY2017, April-June 2017 Improving Reading, Equity, and Accountability in the DRC (ACCELERE!) – Activity 1 2 8.2 Grants 57 8.3 Result 1 58 8.4 Result 2 58 8.5 Result 3 60 8.6 Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning and Operational Research 60 9. How IMPLEMENTING PARTNER has addressed A/COR comments from the last quarterly OR annual report 62 ANNEX A. MISSION STANDARD REPORTING (AS ATTACHMENT) 63 ANNEX B. CDCS RESULTS FRAMEWORK (AS ATTACHMENT) 63 ANNEX C. PROGRESS SUMMARY QUARTERLY (SEE BELOW) 63 ANNEX D. Financial Report Q3 (as attachment) 63 ANNEX E. Communications and Outreach Messages (as attachment) 63 ANNEX F. Trip Reports (as attachment) 63 ANNEX C. Progress Summary Quarterly 64 APRIL – JUNE 2017 64 Quarterly Report, Quarter 3, FY2017, April-June 2017 Improving Reading, Equity, and Accountability in the DRC (ACCELERE!) – Activity 1 3 ACRONYMS ACCELERE! Accès, Lecture, Rétention, et Redevabilité ALP Alternative Learning Program AL Accompagnateur de Lecture APS Annual Program Statement CAP Centre d’Apprentissage Professionnel CATED Centre d’Appui Technique de l’Education CELTA Centre de Linguistique Théorique et Appliquée COGES Comité de Gestion Scolaire ComCon Comité de Concertation COP Chief of party COPA Comité de Parents COR Contracting Officer Representative CRS Centre de Rattrapage Scolaire DCOP Deputy Chief of Party DFID Department for International Development (UK) DGENF Direction Générale de l’Education Non Formelle DIPROMAD Direction des Programmes et Matériels Didactiques DIVAS Division des Affaires Sociales DRC Democratic Republic of the Congo EAGLE Empowering Adolescent Girls to Lead through Education (USAID) EGMA Early Grade Mathematics Assessment EGR Early Grade Reading EGRA Early Grade Reading Assessment ELAN Écoles et Langues Nationales en Afrique FHI360 Family Health International 360 GDRC Government of the DRC I-READ Improving Reading, Equity, and Accountability in the DRC IT Information Technology M&E Monitoring and Evaluation MAS Ministère des Affaires Sociales MEL Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning MELP Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Plan (Formerly PMEP) MEPSP Ministère de l'Enseignement Primaire, Secondaire et Professionnel MEPT Ministère d’Enseignement Professionnel et Technique ML Mobilisateur de Lecture MOU Memorandum of Understanding NGO Non-Governmental Organization OIF International Organization of Francophony OPEQ Opportunities for Equitable Access to Quality Education (USAID) PAQUED Projet d’Appui à la Qualité de l’Education (USAID) PMEP Performance Monitoring and Evaluation Plan now called MELP PROVED Provincial education office for the MEPSP Quarterly Report, Quarter 3, FY2017, April-June 2017 Improving Reading, Equity, and Accountability in the DRC (ACCELERE!) – Activity 1 4 RFA Request for Application RFP Request for Proposals RFQ Request for Quotations SDP School Development Plan SEA Senior Education Advisor SERNAFOR National Training Service (Service National de Formation) SIGE Education Management Information System (Système d'Information de Gestion de l'éducation) SRA School Rapid Assessment STTA Short Term Technical Assistance STS School-to-School International Sous-PROVED Sub-provincial education office for the MEPSP TOT Training of Trainers UKAID United Kingdom Agency for International Development UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNICEF United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund USAID United States Agency for International Development Quarterly Report, Quarter 3, FY2017, April-June 2017 Improving Reading, Equity, and Accountability in the DRC (ACCELERE!) – Activity 1 5 1. PROGRAM OVERVIEW/SUMMARY Program Name: ACCELERE! Activity 1 Activity Start Date and End May 28, 2016 - May 24, 2020 Date: Name of Prime Implementing Chemonics International Partner: AID-660-C-15-00001 Contract Number: Family Health International (FHI 360), Cambridge Education (trading as Name of Subcontractors/Sub- Mott MacDonald), and School to School International awardees: Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education and Initiation into the New Major Counterpart Citizenship (MEPSP) Organizations Ministry of Social Affairs (MAS) Total targeted provinces and subdivisions, including those starting in 2017: Haut Katanga (Lubumbashi 2, Sakania, Kipushi, Likasi, Kambove), Lualaba (Lubudi, Kolwezi 1, Kolwezi 2), Kasai Central (Kananga 1, Geographic Coverage Kananga 2, Dibaya 2, Demba 1, Dimbelenge 1, Kazumba Sud), Kasai (Provinces and Sub-Provinces) Oriental (Mbuji Mayi 1, Mbuji Mayi 2, Mbuji Mayi 3, Kabeya-Kamwanga, Lupatapata), North Kivu, South Kivu, Equateur (Mbandaka 1, Mbandaka 2, Bikoro) and Sud-Ubangi (Gemena 1, Gemena 2, Gemena 3) –26 Total. Reporting Period: April 1, 2017 – June 30, 2017 Quarterly Report, Quarter 3, FY2017, April-June 2017 Improving Reading, Equity, and Accountability in the DRC (ACCELERE!) – Activity 1 6 1.1 Program Description/Introduction USAID, in collaboration with Department for International Development (DFID), has committed to implementing a primary education initiative to improve equitable access to education and learning outcomes for girls and boys in the DRC. This collective initiative, entitled ACCELERE! (Accès, Lecture, Retention et Redevabilité or access, reading, retention and accountability), aims to support the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (GDRC) commitment to free universal basic education and improved learning outcomes as articulated in the GDRC’s Interim Education Plan, the Education Sector Strategy, and other reform efforts in the sector. As one component of this joint program, Activity 1 of ACCELERE! (ACCELERE!1) is led by Chemonics International under the Improving Reading, Equity, and Accountability in the DRC contract with USAID (AID-660-C-15-00001) awarded with a period of performance of May 2015 to May 2020 and a total estimated cost of $134 million. The consortium’s institutional partners include FHI 360, Cambridge Education (CE) and School-to-School International (STS). In addition, the project has established relationships with Caritas Congo and SIL-LEAD for targeted activities in community mobilization and local language material development respectively. The purpose of ACCELERE! is to improve educational outcomes for boys and girls in select education provinces in the DRC. To contribute to achieving this purpose, ACCELERE!1 will support education service delivery in public primary schools (including écoles conventionnées run by religious networks) in 26 education sub-divisions across six provinces: Haut Katanga, Lualaba, Kasaï Central, Kasaï Oriental, Equateur and Sud-Ubangi. In addition, Activity 1 will support non-formal alternative/accelerated learning programs (ALPs), including centres de rattrapage scolaire (CRSs) in these 26 sub-divisions as well as in targeted areas of North and South Kivu provinces, and in vocational training centers (centres d’apprentissage professionnel, CAPs) in target areas of the Kivus and conflict-affected zones in Haut Katanga and Lualaba. ACCELERE! I also works to ensure that girls and boys benefit equally from project activities and that all assistance is conflict sensitive and disability inclusive. ACCELERE! will help strengthen partnerships between government at the national and decentralized levels, between communities and schools, and between the public and private sectors. ACCELERE!1 is divided into three result areas, depicted in the results framework below. Quarterly Report, Quarter 3, FY2017, April-June 2017 Improving Reading, Equity, and Accountability in the DRC (ACCELERE!) – Activity 1 7 * *This contract will support local level activities for IR 3.3 while provincial and some sub-province level activities are covered under ACCELERE! Activity 2 project, which includes additional IRs under Result Three, including IR 3.4 (Effective resource allocation and execution in the education sector strengthened) and IR 3.5 (Strengthened
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