Annual Progress Report Gender-based Violence Prevention and Response Project Reporting Period from January—December, 2018 Submitted to: United Nations Population Fund Country Office for Nepal January, 2019 1 Table of Contents Chapter 1 .................................................................................................................................... 4 Executive Summary..................................................................................................................... 4 Chapter 2 ................................................................................................................................... 6 Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 6 Chapter 3 ................................................................................................................................... 8 Outcomes achieved (expected outcomes achieved, changes in population, their behaviour, socio-cultural structure after implementation of activities) .......................................................... 8 Outcome 1: Men and women in working districts increasingly prevent, report and address Gender-based Violence ............................................................................................................ 8 Outcome 2: Duty bearers respond effectively to gender-based violence in the working districts and increasingly at national level ............................................................................................10 Chapter 4 ..................................................................................................................................12 Outputs Achieved and performance (with details of each activities performed under each outcomes with data tables/graphs and pictures of events) ........................................................12 Outcome 1: Men and women in working districts increasingly prevent, report and address Gender-based Violence ...........................................................................................................12 Output 1.1: Women Cooperatives (WC) have established functioning GBV watch groups and adolescent girls groups to address gender-based violence ........................................................12 Output 1.2: Men and boys have acquired the capacity to engage in the prevention of and response to GBV ....................................................................................................................................13 Output 1.3. Civil Society Organisations, media and research organizations engaged in evidence based advocacy for an improved response to GBV by Government actors at district and national level... .....................................................................................................................................13 Outcome 2: Duty bearers respond effectively to gender-based violence in the working districts and increasingly at national level ............................................................................................14 Output 2.1: Women and Children Development Offices, police, and legal service providers have been enabled to prevent GBV and respond to GBV ...................................................................14 Output 2.2: Women Service Centres (Safe Houses) have been established and are functional in the working districts, with links to capable referral safe houses in Kathmandu ...............................15 Output 2.3: Health facilities in the working districts have the capacity to provide adequate medical services and community based psychosocial case management for GBV survivors and their families ...................................................................................................................15 Output 2.4: Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare and Ministry of Health are supported with evidence to develop policies and plans .............................................................................16 Chapter 5 ...................................................................................................................................17 5.1 Project Management and Financial Resources ........................................................................17 5.2 Percentage of budget spent vs. planned budget: .....................................................................18 2 Chapter 6 ...................................................................................................................................19 Lessons Learnt ...........................................................................................................................19 Annexes .....................................................................................................................................20 Annex-1 .................................................................................................................................20 GBV Service Model and Cost-Sharing Matrix ............................................................................20 Annex-2 .................................................................................................................................24 List of Municipalities selected for GBV Prevention and Response Activities ...............................24 Annex-3 .................................................................................................................................25 A full overview of cases supported by the CPSWs .....................................................................25 Annex 4: .................................................................................................................................25 DATA OF GBV CASES ..............................................................................................................25 Annnex-5 : ..............................................................................................................................27 Human Interest Stories ...........................................................................................................27 Annex-6 .................................................................................................................................28 Photoes with title ( training, beneficiaries’ activities, monitoring), ............................................28 3 Chapter 1 Executive Summary CMC-Nepal conducted mental health and psychosocial support activities in coordination and collaboration with the 10 local level governments of Udayapur (4), Sindhuli (3) and Okhaldhunga (3) to offer needful services to the survivors of GBV 2018. The program activities were focused on achieving the best results possible by means of training and back stopping supervision in capacity building, supervision and monitoring of the quality expected for the clinical management of the GBV cases through OCMCs in district hospital based in the project districts. Also the activities such as awareness, sensitization and advocacy helped the target population to come forward and set their views, ideas, opinions and thoughts to continue with the project activities at local level, in the long run. All 26 sessions of the Rupantaran course for Phase I were completed by mid-2018, and Phase II was completed in Siddhicharan Municipality (OKH), whereas in Dudhauli Rural Municipality (SDH) and Triyuga Municipality (UDP), the remaining sessions is on plan in the First Quarter of 2019. The girls have been more confident to solve their day-to-day problems related to reproductive health, GBV issues, become more expressive and bold enough to deal such issues. Girls in Sidhicharan and Dudhauli municipality could prevent child marriage issues (2), started promoting menstrual hygiene behaviour. Clinical supervision with PS Counsellors, Case Managers, Staff Nurse, based at the OCMCs, has been continued whole the yearlong which strengthened quality of mental health and psychosocial services (MHPSS) services to be offered to the survivors of GBV. Couples' Training Course was discontinued from the end of second quarter based on the recommendation made by the MTR. Documentation training to CPSW supported to produce data, report of GBV prevention and response work through the project. The obtained information from CPSWs supported to develop and move on with a new perspective that one needed to have equanimity to work on GBV issues and challenges. From the third quarter onward, the project activities has been implementing through local government (rural/ urban municipality). Because of continuous interaction with elected leaders (Mayer/ chairperson, deputy Mayer/ chairperson, administration chief) to have contribution from (rural) municipalities. Nine (rural) municipalities contributed which ranged 30-50% budget for the salary of CPSWs and same for CPSWs coordinators in seven rural/municipalities in Sindhuli and Udayapur. It has increased involvement of the local governments to own the GBV program activities and incorporate them in their planning process. Eighty-five CPSWs in 10 rural/municipalities and seven CPSW Coordinators in 7 (rural) municipalities are selected with close cooperation of the (rural) municipalities, CMC-Nepal trained them following already tested and revised CPSW training manual, and mobilized to coordinate, identify, and refer GBV cases to hospital based OCMCs for a comprehensive management. Total number of GBV survivors to receive mental