WOMEN'S GROUP LEADER PRESENTS DURING THE SOUTH KIVU PEACE FORUM IN NOVEMBER 2018 USAID SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY YEAR 3 ANNUAL REPORT, FY 2019 (OCTOBER 2018 – SEPTEMBER 2019)
NOVEMBER 14, 2019 This publication was produced for review by the United States Agency for International Development. It was prepared by Management Systems International (MSI), A Tetra Tech Company. USAID SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY YEAR 3 ANNUAL REPORT, FY 2019 (October 2018 – September 2019)
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DISCLAIMER The authors’ views expressed in this report do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States Agency for International Development or the United States Government. CONTENTS ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS ...... III EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ...... VI SECURITY BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT ...... 1 PROJECT SUMMARY ...... 2 IMPLEMENTATION ...... 3 OBJECTIVE 1: COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDERS IDENTIFY AND ACCEPT SOLUTIONS TO SPECIFIC DRIVERS OF CONFLICT ...... 3 ACCOMPLISHMENTS ...... 3 CHALLENGES ...... 6 SOLUTIONS IMPLEMENTED ...... 7 LESSONS LEARNED, OPPORTUNITIES, AND NEXT STEPS ...... 7 OBJECTIVE 2: PARTICIPATORY SOLUTIONS ARE IMPLEMENTED...... 9 ACCOMPLISHMENTS ...... 9 CHALLENGES ...... 11 SOLUTIONS IMPLEMENTED ...... 11 LESSONS LEARNED, OPPORTUNITIES, AND NEXT STEPS ...... 11 OBJECTIVE 3: RESOURCES FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ARE MORE INCLUSIVELY ALLOCATED ...... 13 ACCOMPLISHMENTS ...... 13 CHALLENGES ...... 15 SOLUTIONS IMPLEMENTED ...... 16 LESSONS LEARNED, OPPORTUNITIES, AND NEXT STEPS ...... 16 CROSSCUTTING THEMES ...... 17 ADVOCACY ...... 17 INCLUSION AND PARTICIPATION ...... 20 INTEGRATION OF CONFLICT SENSITIVITY ...... 20 MONITORING, EVALUATION, AND LEARNING ...... 21 PERFORMANCE OF OUTPUT AND OUTCOME INDICATORS ...... 21 SYSTEMS AND DATA COLLECTION ...... 22 MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS ...... 22 OVERALL CHALLENGES, SOLUTIONS, LESSONS LEARNED, AND OPPORTUNITIES ...... 28 CHALLENGES ...... 28 INACCESSIBILITY OF TARGET ZONES ...... 28 STAFFING CHALLENGES ...... 28 PARTNER COMPLIANCE ...... 29 LESSONS LEARNED ...... 29 OPPORTUNITIES ...... 30 ANNEX 1: PROGRESS ON PERFORMANCE PLAN ...... 31 OBJECTIVE 1 ...... 31 OBJECTIVE 2 ...... 32
USAID.GOV SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT | i OBJECTIVE 3 ...... 33 ANNEX 2: PROGRESS AGAINST YEAR 3 APPROVED WORK PLAN ...... 41 ANNEX 3: SUCCESS STORIES ...... 60 ANNEX 4: PARTNER ACTIVITY REPORT...... 74 ANNEX 5: GRANT PROGRAM STATUS ...... 105 ANNEX 6: YEAR 4, QUARTER 1 ACTIVITY CALENDAR ...... 108
ii | SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT USAID.GOV ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
AAP Aide et Action Pour La Paix Aid and Action for Peace ACODEPA Action Communautaire pour la Défense et le progrès des Agriculteurs Community Action for the Defense and Progress of Farmers ACUDI Actions des Chrétiens Unis pour le Développement Intégral United Christian Actions for Integral Development ADEPAE Action pour le Développement et la Paix Endogène Action for Development and Endogenous Peace ADPD Action pour le Développement des Populations Défavorisées Action for the Development of Disadvantaged Populations AFEM Association de Femmes de Médias Association of Women in Media AFPAP Association Féminine pour la Promotion des Activités Paysannes Women’s Association for the Promotion of Peasant Activities AHUSADEC Action Humanitaire pour la Santé et le Développement Communautaire Humanitarian Action for Community Health and Development AIBEF Appui aux Initiatives de Bien-Etre Familial Support for Family Wellness Initiatives ANR Agence Nationale de Renseignements Congolese National Intelligence Agency BOAD Bureau Œcuménique d’Appui pour le Développement Ecumenical Office of Support for Development CADERSA Centre d’Appui au Développement Rural et à la Sécurité Alimentaire Support Center for Rural Development and Food Security CDF Caucus des Femmes Women’s Caucus
CDJP Commission Diocésaine Justice et Paix Diocesan Commission Justice and Peace CDP Community Development Plan CEDECO Centre d’Appui à l’Education et au Développement Communautaire Support Center for Education and Community Development CFAD Centre de Formation et d’Action pour le Développement Training and Action Center for Development CJP Centre des Jeunes pour la Paix Youth for Peace Center CLOC Comité Local d’Organisation Communautaire Community-Based Organization Management Committee CODESA Comité de Santé Health Committee
USAID.GOV SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT | iii COPA Comité des Parents Parents’ Committee CPP Cadre Provincial de Plaidoyer Provincial Advocacy Framework CPGRBC Centre de Paix pour la Guérison et Reconstruction des Bases Communautaires Center for Peace, Healing, and Community Rebuilding CSO Civil Society Organization COUD Collectif des ONG Unies pour le Développement durable des Associations pour l’encadrement des personnes désœuvrées et vulnérables United NGOs’ Coalition for the Sustainable Development of Associations for the Management of the Unemployed and Vulnerable DNH Do No Harm DRC Democratic Republic of the Congo EHA Eaux, Hygiène, Assainissement Water, Hygiene, Sewerage ESF Environnement Sans Frontières Environment without Borders FARDC Forces Armées de la République Démocratique du Congo Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo FOSI Forum SIDA AIDS Forum GEC-SH Groupe d’Etudes sur les Conflits et la Sécurité Humaine Study Group on Conflict and Human Security ICCN Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature ICGLR International Conference for the Great Lakes Region Secretariat ICJP Initiative Congolaise pour la Justice et la Paix Congolese Initiative for Justice and Peace IFDP Innovation et Formation pour le Développement et la Paix Innovation and Training for Development and Peace IR Intermediate Result ISDR Institut Supérieur de Développement Rural de Bukavu Higher Institute of Rural Development of Bukavu ISPDE Institut Supérieur pour la Promotion de la Paix, du Développement et de l’Environnement Higher Institute for the Promotion of Peace, Development, and the Environment LOP Life of Project LPDC Local Peace and Development Committees LUCODER Lutte Contre la Délinquance et l’Exode Rurale Fight against Delinquency and the Rural Exodus
iv | SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT USAID.GOV M&E Monitoring and Evaluation MFI Microfinance Institution MSI Management Systems International NGO Nongovernmental Organization OMG Other Marginalized Group PAR Participatory Action Research PIT Performance Indicator Table REGIDESO Régie de distribution d’eau de la RDC DRC Water Distribution Board RFEDI Réveil des Femmes Pour le Développement Intégré Women’s Awakening for Integrated Development RVI Rift Valley Institute SPR Solutions for Peace and Recovery STTA Short-Term Technical Assistance SYNIGL Synergy Initiatives for the Great Lakes UNHCR United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees USAID United States Agency for International Development USG United States Government VIVAG Vivre Loin de Vague Live Far from the Wave
VSLA Village Savings and Loan Association WASH Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene
USAID.GOV SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT | v EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Solutions for Peace and Recovery (SPR) project began on August 30, 2016, to be implemented through August 29, 2019, and has been extended for two option years until August 29, 2021. The project aims to increase the participation of women and other marginalized groups (OMGs) through a community-based approach to conflict analysis, prevention, resolution, and recovery in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
During Year 3 (October 2018 – September 2019), SPR implemented activities in all its target zones except Walikale1 and saw achievement against its performance indicator table (PIT) rise from 69.7 percent at the start of Year 3 to 111 percent at the end. The high performance and progress in Year 3 resulted from Year 2 improvements to technical program delivery. The onboarding and continuing collaboration of local partners accelerated activity implementation. As most grantees were selected and began implementation during Year 2, Year 3—particularly Quarters 3 and 4—saw a ramping down of activities and closeout of grant agreements. During this year, the project kicked off 3 new grants and closed 35, leading to a 100 percent closeout of all grants by the end of the reporting period. The project worked with 37 local partners and met the grants ceiling, and all field activities were completed by the end of Quarter 3.
Progress in achieving Objective 1 targets rose from 64.7 percent at the end of Year 2 to 114 percent at the end of Year 3. Achievements included 94 community presentations and conflict assessments, 13 participatory action research (PAR) findings, and validation and dissemination of nine conflict assessments and research reports. Through community forums and dialogues, the presentation of results and findings of the participatory conflict analyses brought together 2,076 local leaders (1,472 men and 604 women) in community peacebuilding and social cohesion processes in Biiri, Ishungu, Kamisimbi, Karhongo, Kibabi, Lugendo, Lurhala, Mbinga Nord, and Muvunyi Shanga groupements and Bagira, Goma, Ibanda, and Karisimbi communes. Sixteen peacebuilding processes were facilitated that resulted in 13 agreements. Thirteen agreement monitoring committees were established in Masisi and Walungu and received training to support compliance with commitments and report to the community. Nine research papers on conflict, including six meta-reports that consolidated 65 community participatory conflict analyses, were validated with local communities and disseminated. Forty-five civil society organizations received training in community participatory conflict analysis, and seven local implementing partners showed an increase in their capacity and knowledge to conduct participatory conflict analysis and PAR, with an overall average progress score of 20 percent.
Objective 2 progress in Year 3 against base period life-of-project (LOP) targets rose from 89.6 percent to 110 percent. Activities under this component supported community consultations between women and local authorities; advocacy opportunities for women and OMGs to present their concerns on security and
1 USAID SPR reduced implementation in Walikale this year, as USAID reevaluated the level of intervention desired from the project in that area due to accessibility challenges.
vi | SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT USAID.GOV gender-based violence; and participation in peace processes and decision making at the local, provincial, and national levels, including engagement with international representatives in Kinshasa. Fifty-two consultative meetings with local authorities and leaders addressed the concerns of women and OMGs and promoted their inclusion in local decision making.
During this reporting period, the project provided ongoing technical support to 664 women and OMG leadership mentoring club members. Through these clubs, SPR organized 129 weekly coaching and training sessions in Biiri, Bukavu, Goma, and Mbinga Nord. Training and coaching themes included law, protection, peacebuilding, leadership, advocacy, and communication. SPR organized a vast community campaign to raise awareness about women’s and OMGs’ inclusion and participation in local governance and peace processes in the project areas. The campaign targeted local authorities such as members of the provincial government, members of Parliament, mayors, political leaders, and private service officials as well as the general population in North and South Kivu. SMS messages were sent to 72,000 recipients via the telecommunications company Airtel, and 10 community forums, including one festival, brought together about 4,000 women, OMG individuals, and local authorities. Themes developed during the events included increasing women’s economic power, discouraging early marriage, promoting family reconciliation, peaceful cohabitation, and the role of women in consolidating peace.
SPR also made significant progress this year against Objective 3 base period LOP targets, with its performance rising from 55.3 percent to 108 percent during the reporting period. This was accomplished through targeted delivery of activities in a few key areas that required deliverables from Objectives 1 and 2 that had been delayed. During the reporting period, 186 service providers and 23 user committees received training on various themes, including good governance (transparency, gender and inclusion, and accountability). SPR organized continuing technical support to women and OMGs involved in livelihood activities through refresher training, distribution of village savings and loan association material, and regular accompaniment. SPR facilitated 63 events connecting women and OMG livelihood groups to private sector actors and other economic opportunities, resulting in 15 memoranda of understanding being signed between microfinance institutions and livelihood groups. Sixty social cohesion events and 49 community dialogues on peace and improving the quality of service delivery were organized, bringing together 1,580 community leaders, state service providers such as the DRC Water Distribution Board, and members of user committees and local authorities and led to an increase in stakeholder engagement and commitment. This stakeholder engagement resulted in user committees and local authorities developing and signing six joint services improvement plans and one commitment pledge for the inclusion and non-marginalization of albinos in Bukavu City and Goma City.
In Year 3, SPR continued advocacy efforts to bring grassroots voices to provincial, national, and international audiences through joint activities with the South Kivu and North Kivu Provincial Advocacy Frameworks (CPP SK and CPP NK). SPR organized an advocacy week in Kinshasa from June 10 to 14, where a delegation of 29 nongovernmental organization (NGO) representatives and community leaders from North and South Kivu met national authorities; elected representatives from the Kivus and regional institutions; and representatives from embassies and UN agencies. An advocacy forum held on June 13 at Hotel Fleuve Congo in Kinshasa brought together 200 stakeholders, including 67 parliamentarians from the Kivus. As a result of SPR’s advocacy efforts, SPR, CPP NK, and CPP SK have been invited to present conflict and security assessments in eastern DRC to two regional peace forums in Cameroon and Nairobi. SPR also organized a three-day Peace Forum in Bukavu from November 16 to 18, where representatives of the provincial government, public institutions, political parties, civil society actors, and communities signed a resolution committing to peaceful elections in South Kivu. A lobbying mission in Bujumbura from
USAID.GOV SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT | vii July 28 to 31 by a delegation composed of CPP NK, CPP SK, and SPR met the International Conference for the Great Lakes Region Secretariat (ICGLR) and the Special Representative of the African Union (AU) in the Great Lakes Region, resulting in the production and validation of two advocacy notes, including recommendations for immediate actions for peace, security, Ebola response, and participation of women and OMGs. The advocacy recommendations were presented to the president of the Republic, the Speaker of the National Assembly, the Prime Minister, the Senate, the ICGLR Secretariat, and the AU Great Lakes Office in Bujumbura.
On the operational side, some staff members, including an operations manager, the Objective 3 lead, a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) officer, a finance and compliance manager, an accountant, and the Deputy Chief of Party Technical left the project this year. Eight new staff have joined the project—an Objective 2 program assistant, a senior grants administrator, an advocacy officer, an administrative and finance officer, a finance and compliance manager, an accountant, a procurement and logistics assistant, and a short-term M&E assistant.
SPR’s performance resulted in USAID exercising its two-year option period. In collaboration with the Mission, the project team developed a strategy for Years 4 and 5 and developed the Year 4 work plan. The team also revised its monitoring, evaluation, and learning plan; PIT; and performance indicator reference sheet.
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x | SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT USAID.GOV SECURITY BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT
In Year 3, Solutions for Peace and Recovery (SPR) continued to operate in a volatile security context across both North and South Kivu. At least 70 armed groups are believed to be operating in eastern DRC, funded largely by political and business interests that are enriched by the region’s vast mineral resources. Various massacres and killings have been reported, particularly in Bukavu City, Goma City, Kalehe, and Masisi. Other areas in North and South Kivu such as Beni, Bijombo, and Moyens and Haut Plateaux of Uvira Territory and Fizi continued to suffer from national and foreign armed groups’ activism and targeted attacks by Mai-Mai groups on communities, national security forces, and humanitarian actors. In North Kivu, Mai-Mai groups staged repeated attacks against Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) positions, reflecting ongoing tensions between the Hutu and Nande communities. The Allied Democratic Forces also attempted to seize several FARDC positions. In South Kivu, Mai-Mai groups continued to attack several strategic FARDC locations. The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) has also identified several cases of human rights violations and abuses perpetrated by armed groups, state actors, armed forces, and national police forces. The lack of social cohesion in many communities to respond to conflicts related to power, wealth, and gender continues to impoverish and harm the population.
In addition to banditry, armed robberies, and targeted mass killings and attacks on households or individuals, human rights violations such as arbitrary arrests, assault, battery, and torture were common. Violence and tensions in Ituri pushed some of the population to cross to North Kivu. The death of chiefs’ rebels (Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda and Ngumino) created panic among communities as people anticipated revenge.
In Quarter 1, the presidential and legislative electoral process created a particularly tense climate with various political, religious, and social currents. The communities in SPR's intervention areas were concerned that the unfamiliarity of voting machines would lead to unreliable results and that the elections would trigger armed conflicts. This campaign period featured a high level of political intolerance. The two opposing camps made numerous negative statements about each other and members of the three major political coalitions—Front Commun pour le Congo, Cap pour le Changement, and Lamuka (Wake Up!)— were heavily involved in the race to power. These political developments had a negative impact on project activity implementation. SPR halted implementation in both provinces in early Quarter 2 during the tense waiting period for election results. The Constitutional Court’s validation of results in mid-January 2019 and Felix Tshisekedi’s inauguration as president later that month led to a demonstration of Lamuka opposition members in some target areas, including Goma City. While North and South Kivu were awaiting the installation of a new government, information and rumors about potential provincial governor candidates circulated within the community.
With the support of SPR’s contingency plan committee and management and security team, the project implemented an urgent and regular communication strategy. SPR continued to monitor regional tensions and security incidents and shared information with local partners and all staff weekly.
The Ebola virus spread to new areas, including several surrounding sections of the neighboring province of Ituri, generating fear around the country and the region. Humanitarian organizations coordinated responses and began implementing precautionary measures. Ebola continued to claim victims in North Kivu, particularly in Beni and Butembo, and reached Goma City and Mwenga territory in South Kivu. A
USAID.GOV SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT | 1 significant portion of the population remains unconvinced of Ebola’s existence and continues to resist treatment. There have been several attacks (often involving armed individuals) against Ebola response teams.
PROJECT SUMMARY
USAID SPR began on August 30, 2016. At the end of Year 3, USAID announced its intention to extend the project beyond its three-year base period for an additional two years until August 2021. SPR is framed within USAID/DRC’s Transitional Objective 3: Foundation for durable peace strengthened in eastern DRC.
SPR aims to improve social cohesion by integrating women and other marginalized groups (OMGs) into governance and decision making in North and South Kivu. The project achieves this through three objectives:
1. Community stakeholders identify and accept solutions to specific drivers of conflict. 2. Participatory (women and OMG) solutions are implemented. 3. Resources for community development are more inclusively allocated.
SPR implements activities in North Kivu and South Kivu—10 groupements and four communes in four territories (Kabare, Kalehe, Masisi, and Walungu) and two cities, Bukavu and Goma.
SPR implements a combination of direct and indirect activities. All three objectives provide grants to civil society organizations (CSOs) or advocacy coalitions to support project activities; Objectives 1 and 2 also provide direct capacity building and facilitation of citizen engagement.
In this reporting period, Objective 1 finalized the participatory action research (PAR) process, providing refresher trainings for project partners to better support community peace and development structures, consolidating 65 community participatory conflict analyses into six meta-analysis research reports, and presenting participatory conflict analyses to local authorities and other stakeholders.
Under Objective 2, SPR continued capacity building for women and OMG leaders in transformative leadership to strengthen their role in decision making and in facilitating and promoting participation in decision-making bodies. SPR also facilitated consultations between women and OMGs and local authorities to discuss their issues; promote participatory governance; and transform social norms, attitudes, and barriers that constrain women’s and OMGs’ participation in decision-making processes.
Objective 3 efforts focused on revitalizing and building capacity of user and basic service committees, conducting intercultural sessions and community dialogues to promote social cohesion, facilitating connections between livelihood groups and the private sector, raising awareness (through theater pieces, advertisement broadcasts, and so forth) on the rights of women and OMGs, and disseminating cohesion and community development plans.
SPR also manages advocacy work to shed light on the conflict in eastern DRC and bring the voices of those affected to provincial, national, and international audiences. As part of this work, SPR continued to support the provincial advocacy frameworks (CPPs) in North and South Kivu (CPP NK and CPP SK) through grants and capacity building.
2 | SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT USAID.GOV IMPLEMENTATION This report describes accomplishments for Year 3, October 1, 2018 to September 30, 2019.
OBJECTIVE 1: COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDERS IDENTIFY AND ACCEPT SOLUTIONS TO SPECIFIC DRIVERS OF CONFLICT
During the reporting period, the project continued to build the capacity of local communities and civil society organizations including local partners, implement the participatory conflict assessments and Participatory Action Research (PAR) processes to inform activities under component 2 and 3. These processes were successful as they empower local communities and key stakeholders to understand local conflict context and play a role in the identification and implementation of sustainable solutions.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
COMPLETED THE PARTICIPATORY CONFLICTS ASSESSMENT PROCESSES This process has been completed in 13 out of 14 groupements except Wassa groupement in Walikale Territory2. In addition to 67 participatory conflicts analysis conducted over the two years, five remaining conflicts analyses including three in Walungu territory in South Kivu and two in Masisi territory in North Kivu were finalized. The process included: (i) conducting context analysis to understand the local conflict dynamism, (ii) identification of existing and latent conflicts, (iii) prioritization of conflicts based on their potential to exacerbate the tensions or violence in the targeted communities and (iv) presentation and validation of the participatory conflicts analysis findings with communities. The community participatory conflict assessments were facilitated in collaboration with local peace and development committees, local authorities and leaders. The graphic below shows the types and nature of conflicts analyzed in North and South Kivu provinces:
Types of conflicts analyzed in North and South Kivu provinces 12 10 8 6 4 2 0
North Kivu South Kivu
During the reporting period, 69 events were held where participatory conflict analyses findings were presented and validated with communities in the 13 project areas in North and South Kivu. 94 community
2 SPR activity has been interrupted in Walikale since the beginning of Year 2 Q2 as a result of accessibility challenges. This suspended conducting 5 Community Participatory Conflicts Analysis process in Wassa groupement.
USAID.GOV SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT | 3 events which brought together 2,076 local leaders (1,472 men and 604 women) were organized in Biiri, Ishungu, Kamisimbi, Karhongo, Kibabi, Lugendo, Lurhala, Mbinga Nord, and Muvunyi Shanga groupements in Bagira, Goma, Ibanda, and Karisimbi communes and Kalehe Territory. This process encouraged community members, traditional leaders, and local authorities to provide comments on the findings from the participatory conflict analysis reports and recommendations. For example, in Kalehe Territory, the chief of Buhavu chefferie acknowledged the conflict’s existence and promised to support the local peace and development committee (LPDC) from Mbinga Nord to research sustainable solutions.
COMPLETED THE PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH (PAR) PROCESSES This process was completed in all 13 project groupements targeted in the base period. Through the PAR process and approach, community members and stakeholders are engaged in prioritization of one main conflict analyzed out of many identified in the target zone which went through deep research. The research step helps community members and local stakeholders to understand its roots causes, agree on consensual sustainable solutions and establish implementation monitoring mechanism. Specific achievement included: Step 1: Data collection: Collection of PAR data in the Kibabi, Muvunyi Shanga and Biiri groupements in Masisi territory, North Kivu province. Forty community researchers (19 women and 21 men) conducted key informant interviews and focus group discussions on land conflicts. Data was collected from approximately 5,000 people. Step 2: Presentation and validation of the main findings: 20 validation sessions of research findings were organized during the reporting period. Seven sessions took place in Kamisimbi, Karhongo and Lurhala groupements and bring together 120 participants (40 women and 80 men). Four took place in Ibanda and Bagira and brought together 80 people (56 men and 24 women) while nine took place in Lurhala, Kamisimbi and Karhongo and bring together 315 people (94 women, three of whom are marginalized; and 221 men, 10 marginalized).
During these forums, community members, traditional leaders and local authorities provided inputs on conflict analyses reports and recommendations. For example, in Kalehe territory, the chief of the Buhavu chiefdom acknowledge the existence of the conflict and promised to support the Local Peace and Development Committee (LPCD) from Mbinga Nord toward research of sustainable solutions. Step 3: Mini dialogues and community dialogues: 48 mini-dialogues and 8 community dialogues were organized in the project targeted areas, in Bagira, Ibanda communes in Bukavu City; Lurhala, Karhongo and Kamisimbi groupements in Walungu territory; Biiri, Kibabi and Muvunyi Shanga groupements in Masisi territory; Goma and Karisimbi communes in Goma city. Based on PAR process findings and feedback from presentation and validation meetings, different parties involved in the conflicts are listed and engaged in reaching sustainable solutions and agreements. 714 community members (495 men and 219 women) were engaged in the dialogues processes in the targeted zones. To ensure that parties in conflict meet their commitments to resolving the conflict, agreement-monitoring committees and basic services improvement plans have been set up to monitor whether the parties keep their commitments. A task force in charge of monitoring and reporting to the community has been established in each targeted zone. During the reporting period, five agreement-monitoring committees have been set up. These committees are composed of: Kibabi (6 men, 2 women); Muvunyi Shanga (5 men, 3
4 | SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT USAID.GOV women); Kamisimbi (8 men including 1 OMG, 4 women); Karhongo (11 men, 1women), Mbinga Nord (20 men, 5 women) and Ishungu (16 men, 4 women).
Step 4: Community post-dialogues: This step consists of presenting to communities and key stakeholders the results of dialogues processes, priorities and the way forward toward the effective implementation of solutions. During this step, the monitoring task forces presented key achievements and challenges encountered. 24 community peace forums and conferences have been organized in the project targeted zones to present mini - dialogues and dialogues results. These forums enabled community members to take ownership of the process and engage local authorities in the search for lasting solutions when conflict arises. For example, in Goma, peace forums allowed members of Local Peace and Development Committees (LPDC) members to discuss security and conflicts about land rights. These peacebuilding events brought together 734 community members and local authorities (434 men including and 300 women, including 85 OMGs).
In South Kivu, four peacebuilding and social cohesion plans were produced for Ibanda, Bagira, Ishungu, and Mbinga Nord, and five advocacy initiatives connecting LPDCs structures to the South Provincial Advocacy Framework (CPP-SK), Walungu authorities, and Ngweshe chiefdom were organized. Peace community forums between members of local peace and development committees and the South Kivu provincial advocacy framework led to the elaboration of advocacy priorities for short and middle term for Bukavu City, Walungu, Kalehe and Kabare territories to be addressed at provincial and national levels.
BUILDING THE CAPACITY OF LOCAL IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS, COMMUNITY PEACE STRUCTURES, DECISION-MAKERS & LEADERS IN CONFLICT ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES
To achieve objective one, the project continued building the capacity of civil society organizations including SPR grantees, local peace and development committees and local authorities and leaders. During the reporting period:
• 45 CSOs completed the remaining three modules (of six) of the training course including participatory conflict analysis, conflict resolution and transformation, and Participatory Action Research (PAR), including 18 in North Kivu and 27 in South Kivu. These 45 completed the target of 180 organizations trained for the base period. • 76 partner staff received refresher training on conflict management techniques, community support and accompaniment of peace structures: 38 participants (19 men, 19 women) attended the training in Goma and 38 participants (32 men, 6 women) in Bukavu. A similar training was organized for 43 local decision makers and leaders (33 men, 10 women) in Goma and 37 in Bukavu (22 men, 15 women). • At the end of the training, decision-makers and local leaders understood their responsibilities for building peace and committed to fighting to change attitudes and practices in their daily work to contribute to social cohesion. In Ibanda commune, the authorities committed to taking note of security incidents the community structures reported in hopes of finding adequate solutions to them. • The evaluation of local partners’ capacity to implementing participatory conflict analyses and Participatory Action Research (PAR) confirm that the average increase in the Knowledge and Practice Index for the seven partners was 16 percent from these trainings.
USAID.GOV SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT | 5 Organization Beginning Score Ending Score
ICJP 45% 67% ISDR 64% 73%
CDJP 67% 75%
ISPDE 47% 81%
Consortium SYNIGL et CINAMULA 70% 75%
AAP 64% 69%
Pole Institute 73% 96%
Index total 61% 77%
COMPLETED CONFLICTS ASSESSMENTS AND RESEARCH REPORTS
Nine conflicts assessments and research reports including six meta-conflicts assessments reports consolidating at territory level3 65 participatory conflicts assessments from groupements were produced, validated and approved. The project started dissemination and publication of conflict assessments and research findings through conferences and publications.
CHALLENGES
ELECTION-RELATED INTERFERENCE WITH PROJECT ACTIVITIES
Many of the organizations and community leaders that the project engaged were busy with pre-electoral activities. As a result, community members were overstretched during the pre-campaign and campaign periods and project activities did not draw the expected number of participants. In addition, the security environment was not favorable to peace dialogues. Some perceived peacebuilding discourses as threatening to one party or the other, which reduced implementation. Further, the electoral process and anticipated security concerns delayed implementation of field activities in January, especially in rural areas.
TECHNICAL CHALLENGES DURING ACTIVITY IMPLEMENTATION
Some organizations had difficulties carrying out the community-based PAR process, and others recruited new staff who required training to understand PAR activities. The data collection phase encountered some difficulties—some key informants found this exercise a nuisance and a waste of time, disrupting the schedule of activities among the partners. Some showed indifference and sometimes refused to participate in the dialogue because they felt guilty or afraid of being attacked by other stakeholders.
3 1) Understanding the Imagination at the Heart of the Dynamics of Conflict in Kabare Territory; 2) Case Study on Conflict Dynamics and Community Resilience in Masisi Territory (Biiri, Kibabi, and Muvunyi Shanga Groupements); 3) Sources of Conflict in Walungu Territory (Kalinzi, Maji, And Mujakazi); 4) Conflicts in Mbinga North: Invisible Facets and Possibilities for Conversion; 5) Goma Between Reptilian Tendencies—Systemic Analysis of Conflicts; 6) Survive in the Unlivable—Bukavu at the Risk of Multifaceted Conflicts.
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ELECTION-RELATED ACTIVITIES INTERFERING WITH PROJECT ACTIVITIES
Partner organizations worked closely with LPDC members to ensure strong engagement with them and participation in activities. Activities were as far as possible planned outside the electoral candidates’ arrival. Because the second half of December was tumultuous, the project had to temporarily stop its activities to avoid security risks to project staff.
TECHNICAL CHALLENGES DURING ACTIVITY IMPLEMENTATION
To address the numbers of people wishing to participate in community dialogues, SPR asked LPDCs and local authorities to issue invitations that respect the principles of representativeness and inclusion. SPR announced the selection criteria for participants during the general meetings presenting the PAR process to the communities. In addition, SPR used triangulation of sources and informants to ensure objective selection.
Partners organized complementary data collection activities and conducted data validation sessions with Local Peace and Development Committees (LPDC) members and the community for additions and amendments.
SPR agreed to extend various partners’ contracts through modifications and amendments to fulfill their request for additional time. SPR also provided technical accompaniment and quality control of deliverables to partners. . The Monitoring Evaluation (M&E) team were brought to work closely with partners for a direct collection of deliverables.
LESSONS LEARNED, OPPORTUNITIES, AND NEXT STEPS
LESSONS LEARNED
• The PAR process takes longer than expected when partners have less experience in this approach. Appropriate planning, ongoing capacity building, and close accompaniment are required for local partners who need more technical support. • Some PAR processes need more time and must be persistent. The absence of some key informants during data collection was a significant challenge, as some partner organizations were unable to organize data collection outside their targeted areas for budgetary reasons. To overcome this challenge, PAR researchers were advised to use the telephone when possible or to interview relatives of key informants. In the future, peacebuilding activities such as PAR should be afforded enough time to mitigate external factors and redirect sustainable actions. Also, negativity during PAR process dialogues can be replaced by positivity through the engagement that arises from joint efforts. In conducting a community peace process, one must not give in to discouragement when encountering obstacles; one must persevere. • Remain alert to hidden interests. One must stay aware and sensitive to potential hidden interests. Before involving local authorities in community analysis and conflict management, the authorities must show that they are neutral. For example, a local authority was behind the resistance of one party to participate in the PAR process in Mbinga Nord groupement. In addition, during mini-dialogues, the implementing partner noticed that some authorities sided with one party against the other because they were profiting from the conflict or defending ethnic interests. To avoid this situation, partners involved in participatory conflict analysis were advised to assess local authorities’ or leaders’ roles in the current conflict.
USAID.GOV SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT | 7 • Involve authorities to hold them accountable. Involving authorities in the PAR process is important to allow them to be accountable. Some conflicts date back more than 20 years and have been waiting only for the local authority’s intervention to be settled. This was the case of the land disputes in the Lurhala groupement in Walungu Territory and in the Mbinga Nord groupement in Kalehe Territory. In managing these conflicts, one must plan discussions with the authorities and negotiate their involvement in all stages of the process.
OPPORTUNITIES
• Receptivity to PAR. Authorities at all levels have been receptive to advocacy on PAR themes. During the presentation of research findings, local and provincial authorities committed to supporting the actions of community structures arising from PAR conflict analysis. Presentation of PAR findings created a space for communities to openly discuss, address, and reflect on communities’ responsibilities for the violence, including their own. By researching root causes, community members realized that they were also significantly responsible. This process led to greater understanding of community engagement and responsibility, sustainable commitments, and agreements between parties to the conflict. • Provincial Advocacy Frameworks of North and South Kivu. Some implementing partners and community peace structures presented their questions and issues to CPP leadership and requested that they add their concerns to the agenda during discussions and advocacy events with provincial and national authorities. • Collaboration with other implementing partners. In Kamisimbi groupement, Walungu Territory, the Swiss Cooperation project supported the implementation of PAR process findings through a water supply project in collaboration with the DRC Water Distribution Board (REGIDESO). The water supply conflict was affecting Bukalwa, Bukera, Bushigi, and Nshanvu villages. The Swiss Cooperation team agreed to participate in the dialogue to clarify some important points. NEXT STEPS
In Year 4 Quarter 1, Objective 1 will prioritize the following actions: • Facilitate the project’s induction in the new target zone, Kahuzi Biéga National Park and Kadutu commune. • Provide training on conflict analysis, peaceful conflict management, conflict sensitivity, and peacebuilding to CSOs, community-based organizations (CBOs), community leaders, Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature (ICCN), and other state services involved in Kahuzi Biéga National Park. • Support high-level research on the Kahuzi Biéga National Park conflict to determine root causes and key stakeholders and explore possible solutions that can inform advocacy efforts and partners. • Support selected partner organizations in supporting peace and development structures, community mediation and social cohesion, and monitoring implementation of agreements signed during the base years.
8 | SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT USAID.GOV OBJECTIVE 2: PARTICIPATORY SOLUTIONS ARE IMPLEMENTED
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
STRENGTHENING WOMEN/OMG LEADERS' CAPACITY TO PLAY A DECISION- MAKING ROLE IN IMPLEMENTING CONFLICT MITIGATION SOLUTIONS During Year 3, SPR and its partners Caritas, Training and Action Center for Development (CFAD), Women’s Caucus (CDF), Women’s Awakening for Integrated Development (RFEDI), Live Far from the Waves (VIVAG), AIDS Forum (FOSI), and Innovation and Training for Development and Peace (IFDP) ensured the functioning of the women’s/OMGs’ leadership mentoring clubs, community-based organization management committees (CLOCs), and other social groups previously set up in the various intervention areas. Through regular coaching sessions and trainings, women and OMGs were trained on how to exercise their rights; become leaders; and apply for and occupy substantial positions in community structures, including peace processes. As a result, women and OMGs exercised their acquired knowledge and roles by conducting local advocacy efforts on arbitrary arrests, uncontrolled construction in neighborhoods, street lighting, identification of residents in neighborhoods, and so forth. SPR achieved the following:
• Conducted five training sessions on women’s rights for 200 women and OMG individuals in North Kivu. • Conducted 288 weekly regular coaching sessions by 47 leadership mentoring clubs on various themes: law, protection, research and peacebuilding, communication and advocacy, health, hygiene, and socio-therapy, bringing together 940 women and OMGs and 242 local authorities in North and South Kivu. • Conducted six experience-sharing sessions between women and OMGs from various villages on key achievements and persistent challenges they face in leadership practice, bringing together 240 women and OMG individuals. • Conducted 15 community forums and public awareness campaigns, including one via Airtel Telecom Company through SMS, reaching 73,298 people. • Continued to produce and broadcast radio programs on Association of Women in Media (AFEM) and Radio Maendeleo (RM) radio stations in Bukavu, South Kivu, disseminating messages encouraging participation by women and OMG individuals in the peace process.
SUPPORTING WOMEN’S AND OMGS' PARTICIPATION IN DECISION-MAKING BODIES THROUGH ADVOCACY AND CAPACITY BUILDING After the relevant capacity building, SPR held 52 consultative meetings bringing together women and OMG individuals, local authorities, and local leaders to discuss and find solutions to social challenges around community exclusion and human rights abuses. In South Kivu: • CDF organized meetings in Kamisimbi, Karhongo, and Lurhala on the challenges OMGs face on land access. • Caritas organized roundtables, dialogues, and radio broadcasts in Ishungu and Lugendo on the factors dissuading participation of women and OMGs. • Partners IFDP, AFEM, and RM produced and broadcast advocacy, sensitization, and mobilization radio programs for OMG participation and inclusion in the local governance of Bukavu, Kabare, Kalehe, and Walungu.
USAID.GOV SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT | 9 • Diocesan Commission Justice and Peace (CDJP) organized sensitization sessions on UNSCR 1325 (participation of women in the peace process) in Ishungu and Lugendo.
In North Kivu: • RFEDI organized meetings bringing together women, OMG individuals, and local authorities to improve security conditions and accountability of Goma neighborhood management. • FOSI organized dialogues on OMG participation in community-based management structures in Kibabi groupement. • SPR held a stocktaking and active reflection workshop in Goma on OMGs’ role and participation in the peace process according to UNSCR 1325.
These activities provided a framework to bolster OMGs’ understanding, reconciliation, and expression of decision-making processes and helped to ensure that they are taken into consideration in the management of public affairs, especially in peacebuilding. Some authorities have made concrete commitments supporting OMGs.
PROMOTING LOCAL PARTICIPATION IN GOVERNANCE In South Kivu, CFAD organized local governance accountability management meetings in Mbinga Nord. In North Kivu, FOSI organized public sensitization on OMG integration in community peace processes in Kibabi.
TRANSFORMING SOCIAL NORMS, ATTITUDES, AND BARRIERS THAT CONSTRAIN WOMEN’S/OMGS’ PARTICIPATION IN DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES • In South Kivu, CDJP produced a participatory theater piece on changing social norms that discourage OMG participation in decision making in Kabare and broadcast four participatory radio programs on gender and social cohesion. The partner also organized a song festival for peace and social cohesion in Lugendo for about 1,200 spectators from various villages. For this occasion, musicians from Lugendo composed and produced a song about SPR’s objectives, “Umoja kwa maendeleo.” CDJP also organized two mass awareness campaigns through participatory theater with the theme “Participation and inclusion of women and OMGs and social cohesion.” About 2,000 community members attended the event.
• To strengthen social cohesion in Lugendo, which suffered from conflict among youth and tension after soccer games, CDJP organized soccer games that mixed the players of the four existing teams. Sixty-four young people played, and some 2,000 supporters attended the games. At the end of the games, young people and the spectators learned that postgame celebrations do not have to lead to fights or perpetuate community conflict. • RM and AFEM produced attitude and perception change radio programs on OMG participation in community meetings and activities. • Caritas and IFDP produced programs and radio spots promoting participatory and inclusive governance. • VIVAG conducted public sensitization on positive masculinity in Muvunyi Shanga. The Start Awareness Support Action approach and men’s positive engagement approaches are still in the planning stages.
10 | SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT USAID.GOV CHALLENGES
LIMITED FIELD VISITS
The risk of a deteriorating security situation during the electoral period, with some incidents recorded, limited field implementation and monitoring visits in remote areas. Moreover, the Masisi area experienced several landslides following heavy rains. Mentoring clubs, particularly those in Kibabi, Muvunyi Shanga, and Walungu, received few visits by SPR field staff.
MONETARY INCENTIVES FOR BENEFICIARY ATTENDANCE
Women and OMG members of mentoring clubs still requested financial support for catering and transportation although this approach is on a volunteer basis. Similarly, local implementing partners still requested payment for room rentals to conduct coaching meetings although the approach advocates using community premises or outdoor spaces.
POVERTY HINDERING COMMITMENT TO MENTORING IN LEADERSHIP
The need to access loans has led some beneficiaries to ask leadership mentoring clubs to offer these services. However, the latter’s role and mandate are different, so it is recommended that the clubs (under Objective 2) build relationships with and make referrals to the village savings and loan associations (VSLAs) set up by Objective 3.
NO-COST CONTRACT EXTENSIONS No-cost contract extensions resulted in staff reduction and affected the grant closeout process. Some grantees had difficulty completing activity reports and submitting deliverables with reduced staff.
IMPLEMENTING PARTNER PERFORMANCE A deficit in programmatic and financial performance continued with one implementing partner, Center for Peace, Healing, and Community Rebuilding (CPGRBC), despite multiple guidelines and advice, which led to a warning letter and suspension of its contract.
SOLUTIONS IMPLEMENTED
To offset the reduction in regular field monitoring visits, SPR conducted multiple visits and working sessions with partners, either in their offices or in the SPR office, to discuss field implementation and provide guidance as appropriate. However, SPR team field visits did take place in some accessible target areas to reinforce the understanding and implementation of the mentoring club approach, especially its volunteerism facet, as well as the Objective 2 project objectives. During these visits, the Objective 2 and 3 teams began reflecting on how the project can facilitate linkages between women and OMG members of mentoring clubs and livelihood activities.
LESSONS LEARNED, OPPORTUNITIES, AND NEXT STEPS
LESSONS LEARNED
USAID.GOV SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT | 11 Lesson 1. To build peace and social cohesion, one must consider all population groups and use all channels to convey messages of peace. Using local languages and local social networks can help mobilize community members and other key stakeholders, furthering the project’s sustainability and impact.
Lesson 2. Involving local authorities in SPR would strengthen the sustainability of project initiatives such as community dialogue with local authorities to further women’s and OMGs’ participation in local governance and to advance gender equality. Local authorities are willing to support community activities when requests are addressed to them solemnly and are within their means. The chief of Lugendo groupement made a space available to women and OMG cutting and sewing trainees for two months while they were still building capital from their income-generating activity.
Lesson 3. In an environment of multiple intercommunity conflicts, one must prioritize Do No Harm principles during activity implementation and involve communities in closely neighboring areas during planning to avoid frustration or further conflict between them.
OPPORTUNITIES
SPR Objective 2 activities reached women and OMGs from some North Kivu territories outside its target areas, including Beni and Lubero. During the 18th anniversary of UNSCR 1325, SPR Objective 2, in collaboration with other partners (National Ministry of Gender and CARE International), supported the participation of women and OMGs in a provincial forum where they presented their challenges and security concerns to North Kivu provincial authorities. Other partners working on women’s rights have discovered that the special consideration of OMGs in peace processes is crucial because of their specific challenges and needs. The Provincial Division of Gender and the National Ministry of Gender consider SPR a key partner in the implementation of UNSCR 1325 in North Kivu.
Sharing SPR’s unique mentoring club approach and its experiences during the International Women’s Leadership Conference in Kigali, Rwanda, hosted by African Women in Leadership in collaboration with Rwanda’s Ministry of Gender, resulted in 13 sponsorship commitments and leadership-building connections for three beneficiaries (women and OMGs) whose portraits and support needs were written on leaflets and shared with conference participants. The conference brought together about 300 women and men from women’s empowerment organizations in Belgium, Cameroon, Canada, the DRC, the EU, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, and the United States. African Women in Leadership in turn wrote to SPR explaining its partnership needs. SPR is willing to explore partnership with this organization in the option period.
The advocacy week in Kinshasa and the meeting with UN Women resulted in collaboration between the Carter Center and SPR. The Special Adviser of the Head of State on sexual and gender-based violence personally contacted the SPR Objective 2 lead to share its women’s leadership approach with Carter Center. Carter Center, in partnership with Alliance Canada, sent a request for proposal to SPR. The Objective 2 team, with project management support, selected three partners and developed a proposal.
NEXT STEPS
During the next quarter period, Objective 2 will: • Support selected partners to scale up the leadership mentoring approach by improving the operation and building the capacity of other women and OMGs in new areas.
12 | SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT USAID.GOV • Support and reinforce community dialogues between women and OMGs and local authorities. • Strengthen community activities to transform social norms that discriminate against women and OMGs.
OBJECTIVE 3: RESOURCES FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ARE MORE INCLUSIVELY ALLOCATED
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
EXPANDED ACCESS TO LIVELIHOODS IN TARGET COMMUNITIES In the fourth quarter of Year 3, the SPR team collaborated with two local consultants to provide supplemental instruction to trainers previously trained by SPR on livelihoods, focus group discussions, and entrepreneurship. Training was conducted in Goma from July 17 to 23 on VSLAs and from July 23 to 30 on focus group discussions to 26 partner staff, including Fight against Delinquency and the Rural Exodus (LUCODER), Humanitarian Action for Community Health and Development (AHUSADEC), Collective Alpha Ujuvi, United Christian Actions for Integral Development (ACUDI), Support for Family Wellness Initiative (AIBEF), CDJP, CENTRE OLAME, and the Support Center for Education and Community Development (CEDECO). SPR organized a refresher training on entrepreneurship in Bukavu from August 1 to 14 for the same participants.
REVITALIZED AND INCREASED CAPACITIES OF COMMITTEES AND SERVICE PROVIDERS Action for the Development of Disadvantaged Populations (ADPD) formed two parent committees (12 members each) on their roles and responsibilities and the concepts of good governance (transparency, gender and inclusion, eligibility, and so forth) at Lac Vert Primary School in Goma commune and Ndosho Primary School in Karisimbi commune. In addition, two user committees of the Buhimba health center in Goma (13 members, including five women) and the Bujovu Health Center in Karisimbi (13 members, including four women) were trained.
The staff of the Kibabi Reference Health Center, composed of 28 health workers (seven women and 21 men), received training in obstetric and emergency care techniques provided by Alpha Ujuvi, and 10 nurses from the Loashi Health Center received training in prenatal, preschool, and vaccination counseling provided by LUCODER. These trainings were organized to mitigate tensions between the population and health workers after the death of some community members in the two health facilities because of poor service quality.
In South Kivu, AIBEF strengthened the capacities of 90 service providers and user committees on good governance (transparency, gender and inclusion, and accountability). Thirty participants from each of the three groupements of Walungu Territory attended the training (Karhongo: 22 men and 8 women; Kamisimbi: 28 men and 2 women; Lurhala: 25 men and 5 women). The education sector was trained in active participatory methods, and the health sector was trained in the use of the flowchart, which consists of a graphical representation of the chain of operations, decisions, or functions to be carried out using a computer program.
USAID.GOV SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT | 13 CEDECO organized an evaluation of joint service improvement plans in the municipalities of Bagira and Ibanda. In Bagira, the event took place at Christian Hall Christian Parish in Bagira and was attended by 50 participants (10 members of the Health Committee [CODESA]; 10 members of the Parents' Committee [COPA]; 10 members from the water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) sector; 10 water, hygiene, sewerage (EHA) service providers, including five in health and five in education; and 10 LPDC members, including four OMG individuals). The activity was organized in collaboration with Bagira Institute, Cigurhi Health Center, and the Cikonyi Water Committee.
In Ibanda commune, a similar activity took place at the Maman Kinja restaurant from May 20 to 21. It brought together 50 participants (10 CODESA members; 10 COPA members; 10 WASH committee members; 10 service providers, including five in health and five in education; and 10 LPDC members, including three OMG individuals). The following structures benefited from the activity: Ibanda 2 Primary School, Sante Saio Red Cross Center, and Panzi Mulungulungu Water Committee.
As a result of this process, six service improvement plans were revised to address certain urgent priority needs, including medical materials, teaching materials, and water source rehabilitation. Local authorities have already been sensitized to approve and implement sustainable solutions to problems.
IMPROVED WOMEN'S CAPACITY IN LIVELIHOOD DEVELOPMENT AIBEF and Community Action for the Defense and Progress of Farmers (ACODEPA) provided training to 441 women and OMG individuals from Bagira commune and Lurhala groupement on livelihood development and VSLAs. The training included hairdressing, pastry making, basket making, cutting and sewing, poultry, motorcycle, shoe repair, fruit processing, fishing, and livestock. Livelihood structures in Bagira, Biiri, Kibabi, and Mbinga Nord benefited from kits of materials and orientation on their use.
INVOLVED THE PRIVATE SECTOR IN SUPPORTING RESOURCE MOBILIZATION During Year 3, SPR facilitated 63 linkage events to help livelihood structures mobilize sufficient resources for sustainability and social cohesion. As a result, 15 memoranda of understanding have been signed between microfinance institutions and livelihood groups.
In South Kivu, grantees United NGOs’ Coalition for the Sustainable Development of Associations for the Management of the Unemployed and Vulnerable (COUD) and Community Action for the Defense and Progress of Farmers (ACODEPA) supported contacts between livelihood structures and private sector partners. This included four meetings with the Cooperative for Women's Synergy (ACOSYF); the Savings and Credit Cooperative (MOCC); and the Nyawera Market, Savings, and Credit Cooperative (MCC). CEDECO organized a forum connecting 15 livelihood structures to a private sector microfinance company as part of a pilot project in Walungu Territory. Fifteen cooperation agreements have been signed between the two parties. CEDECO also provided technical support, including equipment (notebooks, pens, and so forth.) to the community's 15 livelihood structures. CEDECO also organized a merit- based awards campaign titled "Courageous and Peacebuilding Woman" in Bagira and Ibanda for the creation of community livelihood structures. In Bagira, the activity took place on May 29 for 50 women VSLA members (including 14 OMG individuals). For Ibanda, the event took place on May 28 and brought together 50 members of local cohesion and development groups and municipal authorities (38 women and 12 men, including 10 OMG individuals).
In North Kivu, eight livelihood structures and private sector actors in Kibabi formed a local farmers' union focused on integrated rural development, agricultural cooperatives, landowners, and so forth. The forum
14 | SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT USAID.GOV resulted in commitments between participants. One landowner contributed US$100 (US$12.50 per structure) to support the social funds. Some landowners have promised to provide fields to livelihood structures to develop agriculture and increase production and income.
IMPROVED SERVICE PROVISION EFFECTIVENESS During Year 3, SPR conducted capacity building in governance and service delivery monitoring for local key stakeholders, technical service providers, and user committees in education, health, and WASH. The project supported the development of service improvement plans in the groupements of Ishungu, Lugendo, Lurhala, Kamisimbi, and Karhongo and communes Bagira and Ibanda. In collaboration with local partners, SPR strengthened service provider and user committee capacities in service delivery and service monitoring. In total, 32 service providers and user committees from the health and education sectors received refresher training to find solutions to conflicts arising from service provision and supply delivery.
FACILITATED SOCIAL DIALOGUES AND OTHER COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES SPR organized 60 social cohesion events and 49 community dialogues on peace and improving the quality of service delivery in the target areas.
In South Kivu, LPDCs and user committees presented community needs and priorities to the authority and advocated for the integration of these into the annual budget. In Bukavu City, in response, the authority promised to invite this delegation to the next budget session of Ibanda and Bagira to ensure that their needs are taken into consideration. This is the first time that authorities at the head of the commune responded positively to the community structure request.
In North Kivu, social cohesion and community dialogue events resulted in positive engagement of local authorities and service providers. The REGIDESO provincial director promised to serve all neighborhood villages in Goma City by the end of the year to ensure that water and electricity would be available 24 hours a day. Community dialogue between service providers of the Bujuvo health center in Karisimbi and the Karisimbi district chief medical officer on increasing subsidies for essential medicine resulted in the authority’s reaching out to the health division, international organizations, UN agencies (World Health Organization and United Nations Development Program), and Doctors without Borders for their support in input and equipment and in building service provider capacity.
Social dialogue between the provincial Ministry of Land Affairs and local authorities and the leaders of the pygmy indigenous peoples on the lack of access to land for the Bulengo pygmies in the Green Lake district led the provincial Minister of Land Affairs to make plots available for the pygmies, though insisting that if plots are granted, they will not be allowed to be sold.
CHALLENGES
During this reporting period, the following challenges were encountered: DELAY IN THE SUBMISSION OF DELIVERABLES BY SOME PARTNERS. Reporting has been particularly challenging for some local implementing partners, resulting in delays to closeout grants. This was due to partners’ staff resignations and misunderstanding the reporting template and headings. The Objective 3 team has followed up regularly to ensure that the new staff master the approach and that deadlines are met.
USAID.GOV SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT | 15 INSUFFICIENT FIELD COORDINATION. Lack of coordination among local implementing partners in the various SPR priority areas at times led to duplicated efforts and missed opportunities to exchange lessons learned.
WATER MANAGEMENT CONFLICTS IN SOME INTERVENTION ZONES. Ishungu and Lugendo in Kabare territory have faced drinking water problems, so the population uses water from Lake Kivu. However, the neighboring village of Birava has a water source that could provide water to Ishungu and Lugendo. The communities were advised by local authorities to build a canal as a community work effort with the hope of finding an organization that could finance and support this work but, so far, they have been unsuccessful. Tensions between the two communities have begun to rise, with Ishungu accusing Lugendo of slowing the process. This situation was exacerbated by an unsuccessful water supply project implemented in Lugendo by Tearfund.
INACCESSIBILITY OF SOME PRIORITY ZONES. Poor road conditions and persistence of insecurity in some groupements, particularly in Masisi and Kalehe Territories, rendered regular field visits difficult for the project team. The electoral period particularly affected field activity implementation and monitoring.
SOLUTIONS IMPLEMENTED
To address the above challenges, the Objective 3 team:
• Supported the revitalization of water committees and the setup of new ones where needed. • Ensured that local partner activities were well budgeted and improved communication before each event to manage expectations and clarify participants’ selection criteria. • Worked closely with partners who were experiencing difficulties in planning and discussing activity implementation and in preparing the terms of reference. For all reports and other deliverables submitted by partners, the SPR team worked directly with partner staff to ensure that they integrated and understood comments and observations. All parties were involved in this approach, which reduced the time required to finalize deliverables. • Participated in security-related meetings before any field visit to ensure safety and well- informed decisions about travel to project areas.
LESSONS LEARNED, OPPORTUNITIES, AND NEXT STEPS
LESSONS LEARNED
Awareness sessions enable the acceptance and involvement of group leaders in activities. The sessions have led to some parents agreeing to allow their girls to join the soccer clubs for peace (Tucheze Wote).
Increased involvement of local authorities in project activities encourages their participation and ownership of results and impact on their respective entities. The active involvement of the authorities at all stages of implementation contributes to a better understanding of the project's approach and enables them to effectively support the structures set up by the project. A typical example is Biiri, where the group leader was actively involved in the awareness and mobilization campaign for youth to participate
16 | SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT USAID.GOV in social cohesion and other activities organized by the project. His involvement in campaign efforts mobilized the participation of young people.
COPA members’ poor understanding of their roles and responsibilities often hinders their ability to follow up on service providers’ work, effectively control school management, and raise awareness among parents so that all children can attend school without discrimination. SPR focused on strengthening COPA members’ capacities and understanding of their roles and responsibilities. The more a woman increases her financial autonomy, technical knowledge, and income-generating activity, the better able she is to support her family and contribute to the costs of her children's education and health care. (See Annex 3 for examples of success stories.)
OPPORTUNITES
The following opportunities can improve Objective 3 results and impact:
• The presence of various private sector actors and connection of livelihood activities to the private sector through, for example, microfinance institutions (MFIs) can help sustain socioeconomic reintegration of women and OMGs. MFIs can provide and facilitate loans to women in VSLAs that facilitate capital increase by generating income and promote mutual trust among community members. • Good collaboration among authorities, local partners, and program teams facilitates understanding of the program’s strategies and approaches, creating strong involvement, motivation, and willingness of authorities to support partners in implementing the project’s activities.
NEXT STEPS
During the next quarter, Objective 3 priorities will be to: • Advocate for the integration of community development and social cohesion plans developed at the group level into the consolidated chiefdom plans. • Ensure regular monitoring of effective implementation of commitments made by the private sector, such as MFIs, to support various livelihood structures. • Continue field visits to ensure that the structures set up by the partners continue to meet and maintain contact with the private sector, in line with their commitments. • Maintain contact with community groups, particularly youth groups, so that all ethnic groups develop a consultation framework to ensure that internal problems are resolved locally.
CROSSCUTTING THEMES
ADVOCACY
During the reporting period, the following advocacy and lobbying activities and achievements were reported at provincial, national, regional, and international levels.
USAID.GOV SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT | 17 PROVINCIAL LEVEL In South Kivu province, a provincial forum on peace and social cohesion held in Bukavu from November 13 to 15, 2018, organized by CPP SK with the technical and financial support of USAID through SPR, provided a space for communities, local and traditional leaders, political actors, CSOs, the private sector, and provincial and national authorities to meet and share their views on solutions to specific conflict drivers and prevent election-related violence. A total of 250 participants (32 percent women) from public institutions, political parties, customary authorities, women’s organizations and CSOs, youth movements, and religious institutions from the local, provincial, national, regional, and international levels participated in the forum discussions and made recommendations. The SPR advocacy team and CPP SK recorded participant recommendations and views, prioritizing key questions and issues raised. The main results of these forums included the following: • A thorough diagnosis of the security, socioeconomic, and electoral situations. • A commitment act signed in good faith by participants. • Recommendations delivered to all concerned parties in light of positive changes in security and peace conditions.
SPR, in partnership with Evangelical University in Africa, organized a social cohesion activity from December 17 to 18 in Bukavu. The activity aimed to bring together various electoral candidates, including teachers, students, and members of administrative bodies from 10 academic institutions to discuss how to ensure peaceful pre-electoral activities in academic spaces. Seventy participants—mostly candidates or elected officials—attended the workshop. At the end of the social cohesion workshop, participants signed a letter of commitment to comply with the Code of Good Conduct and to accept the election results in a peaceful and fair manner. This activity engendered positive results: elections at Bukavu University campuses ran smoothly, losing candidates accepted the results, and no violent incidents were reported during or after the elections.
A roundtable to discuss community conflict in Bijombo took place in Bukavu on March 29 and 30 with 72 participants (18 women). This activity brought together representatives from ethnic groups from Bijombo, including Babembe, Bafulero, Banyamulenge, Banyindu, Bavira, and others. Bijombo communities, local and traditional leaders, political actors, CSOs, and provincial and local authorities were provided a space to meet and share their views on solutions to the current situation, which has been marked by complex conflicts and violent attacks, often taking ethnic dimensions. Participants signed an act of commitment and made recommendations to ensure peaceful cohabitation. They also developed a road map on the situation in Bijombo that will lead to the organization of an inclusive dialogue, proposed for either Uvira or Bijombo. International Alert will organize the dialogue through its Tujenge/I4S project, with which the SPR team has been in close collaboration to avoid duplication and ensure that actions are complementary.
Following the SK Peace Forum recommendations, four advocacy meetings took place between CPP SK and the Provincial Security Council to discuss the causes of insecurity in South Kivu. Discussion issues included illicit barriers at the airport, port and border harassment, and urban insecurity. As a result, three illegal barriers were removed in the Bukavu-Goma, Bukavu-Mwenga, and Bukavu-Uvira road axes in South Kivu, allowing free movement of citizens.
18 | SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT USAID.GOV NATIONAL LEVEL A delegation of 29 people from CPP SK, CPP NK, and SPR held a series of advocacy meetings in Kinshasa with elected representatives from eastern DRC; national institutions; and international organizations, including the UN. The aim was to raise awareness of the situation in eastern DRC, particularly North and South Kivu, concerning peace, security, Ebola, social cohesion, and women’s and OMGs’ participation in decision making. The advocacy week closed with an advocacy forum on June 13 that was attended by more than 200 stakeholders, including parliamentarians from the Kivus. The advocacy week and forum had the following highlights: • Bilateral meetings with national authorities and decision makers to present conflict analyses and discuss urgent priority actions and solutions for peace and security. The delegation met with the National Assembly Speaker Ms. Jeanine Mabunda, Director of the President of Republic’s Office Mr. Vital Kamerhe, the Prime Minister’s Cabinet, the UNSG special representative’s delegate, USAID’s Deputy Mission Director Mr. Jonathan, the Swiss Ambassador, and the UNWOMEN representative in the DRC. • Presentation on the situation in eastern DRC, including Ebola; challenges facing persons with disabilities; challenges facing persons with albinism; the participation of women; the conflict between indigenous peoples (pygmies) and ICCN in Kahuzi Biéga National Park; the role of citizen movements in the first peaceful political handover in the DRC; and the demobilization, reinsertion, and reintegration program. • Press conference, attended by about 45 national and international media representatives, on the results of advocacy week. • Advocacy dinner, at which notables, national elected representatives, national authorities, and other leaders from eastern DRC had the opportunity to continue bilateral discussions about peace, security, social cohesion, and women’s leadership. • Advocacy note and recommendations validated and distributed with the commitment statement signed by participants and disseminated to government institutions, including the Presidency, National Assembly, Government, and Senate, and to embassies, regional and international institutions, and UN representatives and agencies in Kinshasa.
REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LEVELS SPR supported the participation of advocacy partners in the following regional peace forums:
• North Kivu Provincial Advocacy Framework in the regional consultation in Douala, Cameroon, on the establishment of a regional early warning mechanism on conflict prevention in the Central African Region (April 2019) organized by the Economic Community of Central African States. At this event, CPP NK presented the conflict situation and analysis findings in North Kivu and called for the community’s involvement in addressing root causes of instability in eastern DRC. • Meeting with Great Lakes Countries’ Economic Community (CEPGL). On May 21, CPP SK met with the CEPGL Ambassador to discuss regional security issues, particularly in South Kivu. This meeting was an excellent opportunity to receive important information from CEPGL about the problems in South Kivu.
USAID.GOV SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT | 19 • Meeting with International Conference on Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) and African Union (AU) Regional office in Bujumbura from July 28 to 31 to transmit to the regional authorities the recommendations and commitment notes from the June 9–20 advocacy week in Kinshasa. During the meeting, the CPP SK advocated for ICGLR and AU involvement in the rapid search for solutions to the precarious South Kivu security situation created by the destabilizing activities of local and foreign armed groups. • Participation in ICGLR high-level meeting in Nairobi on Addis Ababa Peace Pact. From September 8 to 9 at the Trademark Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya, CPP SK and CPP NK participated in a high-level meeting bringing together women, youth, parliamentarians, and civil society forums. The regional peace event developed a civil society advocacy document on peace and security issues and women's participation that will be presented to the technical support committee and the ICGLR heads of state summit scheduled for October 2019 in Kinshasa.
INCLUSION AND PARTICIPATION
Women and OMGs now constitute 40 percent of SPR committee members and have been key to committee revitalization. Women and OMGs participated actively in this quarter’s achievements. Seventy percent are from the mentoring clubs, CLOCs, radio broadcast listening clubs, and public forums. Albinos, pygmies, single mothers, ex-combatants, survivors of sexual violence, the elderly, and persons with disabilities participated in project activities and had the opportunity to facilitate some sessions. Authorities and community members are increasingly receptive to including women and OMGs in local governance, and several women and OMG individuals have been integrated in decision-making processes.
All SPR implemented activities during this reporting period, including mini-dialogues, dialogues, forums, and so forth, adopted a gender-sensitive approach that respects and promotes the meaningful inclusion of women and OMGs. The average rate of women’s participation was 34 percent for all Objective 1 activities and 90 percent for Objective 2 activities. Women participated in the community participatory conflict analyses; as data collectors in the PAR process; and, alongside men, as conflict mediators, dialogue facilitators, and LPDC members.
Local authorities have also made commitments that support women’s and OMGs’ involvement in local governance and are meeting their commitments as soon as opportunities arise. The Objective 3 team encouraged implementing partners to ensure that all community categories were involved and participated in activities. Partners and local community structures advocated for the integration of community-specific needs into municipal budget forecasts. The average rate of women’s participation in user and service provider committees reached 40 percent in the reporting period.
INTEGRATION OF CONFLICT SENSITIVITY
Activities implemented by SPR paid special attention to adhering to conflict-sensitive and Do No Harm principles. Local implementing partners provided regular updates with sections dedicated to conflict sensitivity and Do No Harm, using tools that SPR introduced to them and trained them to use. The tools enable contextual analysis (such as dividers and connectors) and their observations on how project interventions (resource transfer or messages) positively or negatively affect communities. Through its focus on contextual and conflict analyses, the project seeks to reduce factors that could create or exacerbate tensions.
20 | SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT USAID.GOV Refresher on conflict sensitivity. The project organized a training session on conflict sensitivity for 35 partners organizations. This refresher training has allowed organization members to remember key principles to be observed and avoid harm in the application of the conflict-sensitive approach during the implementation.
The conflict-sensitive approach through the PAR process. This process positively affects connectors and minimizes dividers to strengthen social cohesion. By doing so, the project drew attention to the factors that can create or exacerbate conflict in target areas. All stakeholders were invited equally to the discussions to find solutions to the issues that put them in opposition to each other.
Development of a strong culture of conflict prevention. SPR initiated a community citizen education campaign for respecting values that promote peaceful cohabitation. In Bukavu, for example, the project focused on educating young people about peace and security governance. To prevent post- dialogue conflict, the project supported the establishment of monitoring committees to ensure compliance with signed agreements. This is a good way to remain sensitive about the issues after agreements are reached.
Applying conflict-sensitive principles in activities. The project organized several meetings that allow communities to meet in training, social cohesion activities, mutual aid and savings, mediation, dialogue, and community forums to discuss and reinforce factors that reduce tension between them. In Kibabi, these activities helped to reduce tension between farmers and herders who had not agreed to meet before.
Provide support to other USAID programs and implementing partners. The project supported other organizations in implementing conflict-sensitive approaches. For example, SPR trained 40 program officers from the Mercy Corps and USAID-funded World Vision Food for Peace project on Do No Harm and conflict sensitivity over three days in Katana in South Kivu.
In addition, local partners attended to the participation and tolerance of ethnic groups in activities to avoid perceptions of majority domination. Training and workshop moderators encouraged and motivated marginalized and minority groups to participate by giving them an explicit opportunity to speak and share their views and opinions to prevent majority groups from monopolizing discussions. OMG individuals were also assigned moderator and presenter roles in community activity implementation. Men and authorities reported that one of the reasons they were reluctant to grant power to women was that many became rude when they took power. This can lead to an increase in domestic and gender-based violence. Therefore, SPR provided training and mobilization around positive masculinity.
MONITORING, EVALUATION, AND LEARNING
PERFORMANCE OF OUTPUT AND OUTCOME INDICATORS
SPR continued to monitor activities and collect data to document performance results. By the end of the reporting period, most indicators had exceeded their performance against base period LOP targets. Figure 1 shows the overall performance (111 percent) and performance by objective.
USAID.GOV SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT | 21 FIGURE 1. PERFORMANCE AGAINST LOP TARGETS AT THE END OF THE REPORTING PERIOD, BY OBJECTIVE
SPR Overall 111%
Objective 3 108%
Objective 2 110%
Objective 1 114%
100% 102% 104% 106% 108% 110% 112% 114% 116%
During this period, an endline scope of work was planned but not realized for outcome indicators 2b and 3a, data for which were collected during the baseline. The endline was postponed early in the option period. Survey findings will be documented in the next reporting period, and the report will be available with the Year 4 Quarter 2 report. A full table showing performance results for each indicator under each intermediary result is in Annex 1, which reflects actual data for Years 1, 2, and 3.
SYSTEMS AND DATA COLLECTION
In accordance with recommendations from the USAID Data Quality Assessment conducted in August 2018, SPR initiated a series of updates to the existing M&E systems and processes. These revisions included integrating advocacy activities into the SPR results framework and linking these activities to existing intermediate results (IRs) and sub-IRs; integrating one-time grant activities to the advocacy content and linking these activities to the current output indicators; and revising the performance indicator table (PIT) to specify clear data collection processes for indicators. To improve its M&E system, SPR submitted to USAID a revised monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) plan with improved indicator definitions, revised targets in the PIT, and an updated performance indicator reference sheet. SPR received feedback through the Monitoring Evaluation Coordination Contract (MECC) M&E contract team suggesting a few changes. The reason for reducing targets was no longer relevant after an internal data quality review, however, so SPR suggested that the proposed changes to the MEL plan become effective with the option period. For the option period, SPR will propose a revised framework, capturing changes in program direction and activity focus with new or modified indicators that will capture performance for the option period.
MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS
SELECTION OF GRANTEES Year 3 partner selection centered primarily on advocacy work through SPR’s two CPPs. In early Year 3, the project worked to support CPP SK to develop, finalize, and submit a grant proposal to allow them to conduct important advocacy work leading up to the national elections. This grant was approved early in Year 3 Quarter 1. SPR also focused on advancing CPP NK’s work after their successful forum hosted in collaboration with SPR at the end of Year 2.
22 | SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT USAID.GOV SPR spent a large part of Year 3 Quarter 1 supporting the development of the CPP NK proposal but received compliance reports associated with the CPP NK that required investigation and halted progress. SPR conducted this investigation in December and January. Given the high priority of advocacy for USAID and the nine months of accompaniment already provided, SPR decided to formalize this organization’s grant, putting in place risk mitigation strategies to ensure compliance throughout implementation. The grant began as a hybrid in-kind and fixed-amount award, but after the project discovered additional compliance concerns within the grant’s first weeks of implementation, the entirety of the grant was moved to in-kind and implemented in concert with SPR.
At the end of Year 3, SPR began selecting follow-on grantees. This was done first through a request for expression of interest sent to all 40 partners worked with during Years 1–3. Overall, 29 expressions of interest were received. SPR then created a grants evaluation committee comprising a member of each technical component, the senior grants administrator, and project leadership to evaluate each grantee who submitted an expression of interest. From these, the project selected nine grantees to work with in Year 4, expecting to add a few additional research and advocacy grants early in the year.
SPR immediately informed and called together the nine selected grantees for a week-long workshop to provide guidance and help each organization elaborate their proposals. Once project funding is clear in early Year 4, SPR will finalize and submit these proposals for USAID approval.
USE OF FLEXIBLE FUNDING In Year 3, SPR identified several flexible funding opportunities. To ensure a more targeted response to local conflict issues, the project opted to work primarily with existing partners for flexible funding opportunities. However, early in the reporting period, the project faced challenges to act on these opportunities given the impending elections and suspension of activities for security reasons. In later quarters of Year 3, SPR faced budgetary uncertainties—obligation constraints and questions of whether the project would continue past the base period—and could not commit funding to rapid response grants. Should funding be sufficient in Year 4, SPR will aim to respond to emerging needs through a number of small rapid response grants.
TARGET ZONE ACCESSIBILITY The project faced considerable accessibility challenges at the start of Year 3 due to heightened tensions during the electoral period. Throughout that period, SPR reinforced its regular security monitoring and requested direct input from partners through a weekly online survey on security and accessibility issues in their implementation zones. This mechanism alerted the project to a number of security issues in project target zones, particularly in the Biiri groupement of Masisi Territory, where the project ultimately halted implementation for Quarter 1.
Given ever-rising tensions and security threats around the electoral period, the project suspended all activities on the ground from mid-December to late January. As a result, all SPR staff and local partners were asked to delay activity implementation and field missions. SPR resumed field activities early in Quarter 2 but still faced accessibility issues due to increased presence of armed groups after the electoral period. Masisi was the most severely affected territory, and as a result, the project limited field travel to the area for most of Quarter 2.
In Quarter 3, heavy rains destroyed a bridge linking Goma to Masisi, halting access to the territory for a period, and continued clashes between armed groups and FARDC led the project to suspend activities in
USAID.GOV SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT | 23 the area for a few weeks. In the final quarter of the reporting period, activities were winding down or complete as SPR awaited news of whether it would continue into the option period and thus faced no accessibility challenges that hindered project work.
INTERNATIONAL PARTNER COORDINATION Early in the reporting period, SPR leadership attended a USAID project launch and partner meetings in Bukavu. These events provided an opportunity to engage with other established and new USAID project leaders to find potential synergies. Later in Year 3, the SPR team supported a new International Alert project by building capacity of its staff and facilitators in managing peace structures and facilitating community dialogues. SPR also built capacities of Mercy Corps and World Vision staff implementing the Food for Peace project in Do No Harm and conflict sensitivity.
SPR provided support to the Building a Better Future project implemented by International Alert as part of capacity building for field workers and facilitators. The training, attendee by 25 participants (including three women), focused on "managing community peace structures and facilitating community dialogues."
Through its two CPPs, SPR convened with several international stakeholders, including the embassies of Germany, Sweden, and Switzerland, to garner support for the project’s advocacy work at the national level. This year, the project also established relationships with UN agencies, including UN Women and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). SPR joined the UNHCR’s Protection Cluster and began to participate in monthly coordination meetings, and UN Women expressed interest in supporting SPR to scale up its leadership and mentoring approaches. SPR’s collaboration with UN Women will continue into Year 4.
PARTNER FIELD COORDINATION Early in Year 3, SPR prioritized partner coordination across provinces as a result of the impending elections. In November 2018, SPR leadership devised and validated a contingency plan for the upcoming electoral period, and the project convened an all-local partner meeting in Bukavu to discuss contingency plans and their implications for implementation. This coordination meeting led to fruitful discussions among partners on their anticipated implementation challenges, as well as opportunities for coordination across organizations during a possibly volatile period.
Just before the elections in December 2018, the SPR security committee launched a weekly survey of partners to provide security information relevant to their target zones. SPR used this input to develop weekly security directives to partners and staff, sharing any reported incidents with partners to inform activities.
Later in Year 3, SPR partners created two WhatsApp groups, one in each province, to share training programs, experiences, challenges, opportunities, security concerns, and emergencies. Additional partner coordination focused heavily on the two CPPs, which are composed of many organizations, some of which are SPR grant partners. The coordination between the two frameworks increased synergies between the project’s technical implementation and advocacy work. As an example of the collaboration across the provincial frameworks, SPR supported CPP NK to host a week-long advocacy event in Kinshasa in mid- June with the ardent support and presence of CPP SK and many of its members. The collaboration of both frameworks to implement this CPP NK–sponsored activity increased publicity for advocacy work in both Kivu provinces and maximized the reach of the activity’s messaging.
24 | SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT USAID.GOV GRANTS MANAGEMENT AND PARTNER REPORTING Given that the majority of grantees were selected and began implementation during Year 2, Year 3 was marked by the ramping down of activities and closeout of grant agreements. In all, this year SPR kicked off 2 new grants and closed a total of 35, closing out 100 percent of all grants by the end of the reporting period.
As was seen in Year 2, many SPR partners continued to face challenges to implement on time. As a result of implementation delays, many grantees required modification of their grant agreements to provide no- cost extensions. In the first quarter of Year 3, SPR modified 26 grant agreements to shift activities and pay schedules to facilitate implementation.
To achieve these modifications, the SPR grants team and home office project management team worked closely with partners to redesign their future milestones to make them more achievable, increase cash flow, and facilitate milestone certification. Although this participative process garnered positive feedback from grantees, some partners who received modifications early in the quarter still struggled to adhere to the implementation timelines agreed on during these conversations.
This year, SPR continued to note the difficulty many partners faced to produce quality deliverables and reports. Throughout the year, SPR technical and M&E staff worked closely with grantees to review and revise their deliverables before providing final approvals. Still, many grantees submitted work that required significant revisions, delaying some milestone certifications and grant closeouts. As a result, the grants and technical teams increased their site visits to monitor the ongoing partner activities and to track deliverables and progress against objectives more closely.
Early in Year 3, SPR sought short-term technical assistance through a senior grants expert to conduct an in-depth review of the SPR grants program to identify gaps, bottlenecks, and areas for improvement and provide recommendations to facilitate efficient program management moving forward. By the second quarter of the reporting period, SPR had implemented several recommendations, including limiting the milestone certification and payment authorizations entirely to the field and using a comprehensive closeout checklist. SPR and its partners saw positive results from these changes nearly immediately, including increased cash flow, accelerated certifications, and empowerment of the field team. During the same period, the project hired an expert senior grants administrator to coordinate the SPR grants program at the macro level. This role has greatly helped the project implement the positive changes mentioned above.
Two new grants were awarded in Year 3 to the two CPPs, CPP SK and CPP NK. Leading up to the signing of these grants, SPR worked to build their operational, financial, and technical management capacities. Despite extensive capacity building to mitigate issues, early in the implementation of the CPP NK grant, SPR discovered compliance issues and immediately changed the grant mechanism from a hybrid FAA and in-kind to fully in-kind, permitting expenditures under the grant to be managed by SPR. To support the implementation of the CPP NK grant, the Washington, D.C.-based project manager temporarily relocated to the field to oversee its financial activities and ensure compliance.
At the end of Year 3, SPR developed and implemented a fair and compliant process to select follow-on grantees. Through this process, the project selected nine grantees and began working alongside them to develop grant proposals based on project targets for Year 4. Continued support to these partners will depend on project funding decisions to be made in early Year 4.
USAID.GOV SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT | 25 STAFFING AND STAFF MANAGEMENT In the first quarter of the year, SPR focused on recruiting the Deputy Chief of Party Technical position. The candidate selected for this position began at the start of Quarter 2 and departed from the project in Quarter 3. SPR’s uncertain future led the project to halt recruitment to fill this role again until option years were executed. A candidate has been identified for this position, but funding remains unclear into the first quarter of Year 4, and thus onboarding for this key personnel position remains on hold.
Year 3 saw considerable staff movement due to uncertainties such as possible trafficking in persons sanctions and whether option years would be executed. During Year 3, the project lost its grants manager, operations manager, Objective 3 team leader, finance and compliance manager (key personnel), M&E officer, accountant, and advocacy officer.
To ensure continuity of project operations, SPR accelerated recruitment and hired the following positions in Year 3: administrative and finance officer, senior grants administrator, SK-based advocacy officer, accountant, finance and compliance manager, Objective 2 program assistant, short-term M&E assistant, and operations and administrative assistant. Although the staffing changes were challenging, overall, they did not impede project delivery.
At the start of Year 3, SPR conducted an investigation after receiving reports of potential fraud by SPR staff. Project leadership informed staff of the investigation and worked to conduct the investigation as efficiently as possible. Later in the year, project leadership investigated reports of security threats targeting one staff member originating from within the project. After both investigations closed, the project executed necessary management actions to ensure compliant implementation and the security of the SPR team.
Project leadership has reflected on staff departures and has identified potential reasons, which include staff seeking job security with the option period having been uncertain, as well as higher salary offers elsewhere. At the end of Quarter 2, SPR leadership met with Management Systems International (MSI) project staff to understand potential motivations to remain until the end of the project base years and, if applicable, into the option years. This meeting was useful to understand what draws staff elsewhere and what actions management can take to retain staff. SPR evaluated these factors and has already begun several actions to address them at the end of Year 3 or made plans to do so at the start of Year 4. As one example, SPR contracted a salary benchmarking firm to perform a salary survey of SPR’s positions, particularly for MSI staff, which will help MSI develop a salary scale for its team to ensure fair and adequate compensation.
To boost morale and social cohesion, retain staff, and connect SPR staff back to the project’s core values, SPR also launched a staff recognition program, ETOILE. The program has offered an opportunity to recognize staff contributions. Since the launch of the peer nomination program, SPR has already announced two ETOILEs.
As Year 3 ended, SPR received confirmation that USAID would execute the two option years. Although the project’s technical work would remain largely the same, SPR would be required to break new ground to address the conflict in Kahuzi Biéga National Park, and the budget for the option period was unconfirmed. With this information, SPR leadership reflected on the staffing structure for the option period. As staff contracts from the base period came to an end in late August, leadership made difficult and careful decisions about who would continue with the project into its option period and who would be released.
26 | SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT USAID.GOV Despite budgetary uncertainties, after consultation with USAID, SPR planned to continue implementation in Year 4 at nearly 90 percent and thus retained the majority of staff members to support this. However, based on feedback from the USAID mission, SPR made significant cuts to the operations team, eliminating the operations manager and accounting assistant positions.
CAPACITY BUILDING In light of the compliance investigations conducted during the reporting period, SPR prioritized refresher trainings on ethics and compliance to both staff and local partners. Both staff and partners have expressed a desire for continued refreshers on these subjects, and the project has worked to provide them on a quarterly basis. This year, SPR also provided hands-on support to grant partners through technical orientation sessions conducted throughout Year 3. These sessions were meant to provide a clear strategy for grant partner closeouts and offer an opportunity for staff and partners to connect and exchange experience.
The project also provided further capacity building for its grants team, including training in “Grants Management Best Practices” and “Developing a Cost Proposal,” through a short-term consultant. This consultant also trained the grants and technical teams on “Drafting a Technical Proposal and Improving the Solicitation Process,” as well as “Partnership Management: Best Practices.” Outside of these initiatives, given the number of budgetary restrictions and uncertainty experienced over the course of Year 3, little other formal capacity building took place.
MAIN PRIORITIES NEXT QUARTER At the start of Year 4, SPR held a learning and planning session to review and reflect on lessons learned from implementation of activities and internal collaboration between components and departments and to plan implementation for the first quarter of the year. SPR is currently working to strategize implementation of recommendations that were developed during these sessions, which will require cross- departmental collaboration and buy-in of staff at every level.
As the project awaits clarity around its budget for Year 4, leadership is focusing on improving internal processes and procedures, including performing reviews and revisions of financial, personnel, and grants manuals and sensitizing staff to any changes. Additionally, SPR will continue revising and improving internal coordination for grants management, particularly between the technical and administrative teams. This work will aim to accelerate further the review and approval of deliverables, payment of milestones, and compliant filing of grant documentation, leading up to the launch of grants implementation in Year 4.
Once budget questions are resolved, SPR will accelerate the finalization of pending grant proposals to begin implementation as soon as possible. During the grant finalization and approval process, SPR will also prioritize capacity building of grant partners through refresher trainings in technical, financial, and operational skills, as well as ethics and compliance, before kick-off of their grant implementation.
Additionally, with the budget fixed, SPR will focus on advancing recruitment for vacancies on the project. Top priority will be finalizing recruitment for the Deputy Chief of Party Technical, for which SPR has already identified an apt candidate. Additionally, the project will recruit for an M&E manager, an M&E officer, an advocacy officer, and a communications officer.
USAID.GOV SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT | 27 OVERALL CHALLENGES, SOLUTIONS, LESSONS LEARNED, AND OPPORTUNITIES
During this reporting period, SPR faced challenges but also learned valuable lessons and took advantage of opportunities. The project team, in collaboration with local implementing partners, addressed challenges and developed strategic approaches to maximize opportunities to reach SPR’s objectives.
CHALLENGES
INACCESSIBILITY OF TARGET ZONES
During the reporting period, particularly November and December and early in Quarter 2, political uncertainty and electoral tensions reduced implementation due to target zone inaccessibility. During the electoral campaign, spikes in security threats were reported in some areas. In Masisi and Kalehe Territories, attacks by armed groups rose. Poor road conditions in Masisi (Biiri and Kibabi) and Kalehe (Mbinga Nord) continued to make it difficult for the SPR team and partners to travel during the rainy season and led to some delays in activity implementation and partner monitoring.
ACTIONS TAKEN
• Elaborated and validated the SPR contingency plan. • Set up permanent security monitoring through an internal security committee and partner security focal points who met weekly to analyze the security situation and determine the relevant threat level for that week. The security level assessment, advice, and preemptive measures to be taken were shared with staff, grantees, and MSI’s home office every week. • Suspended activities in Masisi. • Delayed all field activity implementation for several days before and after the elections. • Purchased Rwandan SIM for staff to be used in case telecommunications and internet were cut. • Created and made available a contingency fund for urgent and immediate payment during the implementation of contingency phases.
STAFFING CHALLENGES
Due to option period uncertainty, some project staff started looking for more job security in long-term work opportunities. This led to several staff resignations, beginning in Quarter 2. The staff members who left included the Objective 3 team leader, an operations manager, an M&E officer, a finance and compliance manager, and an accountant. During this reporting period, SPR saw the departure of two key personnel, including the finance and compliance manager and Deputy Chief of Party Technical.
SPR also faced a number of fraud, corruption or security issues with project staff, which required lengthy investigations, and ultimately management actions to ensure all risk was mitigated. While the project has many strong, and trustworthy members of its team, SPR has also found it challenging to identify and hire loyal, ethical staff who consider organizational and project interests as paramount. This year, investigations around staff misconduct have required a considerable amount of time from project leadership and home office staff, which have taken away focus on project delivery.
28 | SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT USAID.GOV ACTIONS TAKEN
SPR continued recruitment to fill vacancies, hiring a new accountant and finance and compliance manager during the reporting period. The home office increased its support for the field office to fill operational gaps. SPR began recruitment of a new Deputy Chief of Party Technical.
Outside of typical reference checks, SPR is beginning to conduct additional due diligence through formal and informal channels to ensure that staff hired have positive work histories and will be positive members of the team who uphold required ethical standards.
PARTNER COMPLIANCE
SPR has also faced challenges with partner compliance and corruption. These challenges have required time-consuming investigations by project leadership and MSI’s home office support team. They have also required SPR to reevaluate its funding mechanism for some partners who have proved, despite extensive capacity building, that compliance with USAID regulations is not a priority.
ACTIONS TAKEN
With the two new partners selected this year, SPR provided extensive training around USAID regulation and compliance. The project has even gone so far as to provide one-on-one training to partner leadership whom the project has identified as high-need in this area. The project has also began analyzing how to avoid working with certain high-risk partners, despite the value add their technical work may present for the project and will continue these conversations with USAID early in Year 4.
LESSONS LEARNED
Civil society advocacy coalitions still need considerable capacity building in many areas, including procurement, finance management, ethics, and compliance. The functioning and accountability of a coalition of organizations are much more complex than those of a single organization, which makes support to such organizations equally complex. SPR identified areas of capacity building where additional support is necessary.
The corruption, fraud and security issues encountered both with project staff and partners are part and parcel of the challenges of operating in the conflict-affected context of eastern Congo, particularly the Kivus. These issues have required much attention from project leadership, and out of necessity drew, some of their focus away from project delivery. From these challenges this year, the project has learned that it must take additional measures to go above and beyond to verify staff backgrounds and past work experience when hiring, as well as continue providing compliance trainings on a regular basis. While a number of due-diligence mechanisms are already in place for partner selection, SPR will continue to be cognizant of risks involved in partner selection and ensure comprehensive capacity building in best practices – as well as fostering an understanding a zero-tolerance policy and the consequences of misuse of funds – for partners before their first disbursement.
USAID.GOV SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT | 29 OPPORTUNITIES
The new DRC government and other institutions that were recently installed will constitute opportunities for SPR. In particular, the new DRC president has expressed his political will to invest in ending conflict in eastern DRC, which is in line with USAID SPR’s objectives and goals. The first signs of his presidency have been positive in supporting institutions and CSOs involved in conflict resolution and social cohesion. SPR will continue to follow the establishment of institutions at the provincial and national levels.
The effective operationalization of the advocacy work presented a substantial opportunity for sustainability of SPR project results and impact. Advocacy actions yielded an opportunity to connect the grassroots realities to high levels (provincial, national, and regional). Through this strategy, SPR will take the opportunity to present its achievements, including the community participatory conflict analyses, research on conflict, and community development plans in target zones to provincial and national authorities and institutions.
30 | SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT USAID.GOV ANNEX 1: PROGRESS ON PERFORMANCE PLAN
OBJECTIVE 1 In Year 3, progress against the Objective 1 LOP target rose from 64.7 percent to 114 percent. Most indicators have reached the targets. Ten of 11 indicators for Objective 1 have reached or exceeded 100 percent or 100 percent plus 10 percent deviation in performance compared with LOP targets.
PROGRESS FOR CSOS ENGAGED IN PARTICIPATORY CONFLICT ANALYSIS
100% 90% 96% 80% 87% 81% 70% 78% 73% 73% 73% 67% 67% 69% 60% 64% 64% 50% 58%
40% 45% 47% 47% 40% 30% 34% 20% 23% 22% 20% 10% 9% 6% 5% 0%
Baseline Index Endline Index % of progress
The overall average performance of the first IR is at 110 percent. The chart below gives the performance trends for each indicator of Objective 1.
31 | SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT USAID.GOV COMPONENT 1 PERFORMANCE BY INDICATOR
114% Objective 1 overall 1.3c 1.3b 1.3a 1.2b 1.2a 1.1.d 1.1.c 1.1.b 1.1.a 1.b 1a
0% 50% 100% 150% 200%
OBJECTIVE 2 Progress against Objective 2 LOP rose from 89.6 percent to 110 percent. Five of the six output indicators have exceeded the performance target. One outcome indicator is still at 0 percent of performance because its results depend on the endline survey. The only indicator below 100 percent of performance is the radio program planned for Walikale, which will not be achieved because security and transportation challenges limited access and caused activities to be suspended in that territory. The figure below shows achievement for each indicator (and the Objective 2 average) against the LOP targets to date.
OBJECTIVE 2 ACHIEVEMENT BY INDICATOR, % OF TARGET ACHIEVED
Objective 2 110% overall 2.3c
2.3b
2.3a
2.2a
2.1a
2b 0%
2a
0% 50% 100% 150%
32 | SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT USAID.GOV OBJECTIVE 3 Objective 3 performance rose from 55.3 percent to 108 percent, with the majority of indicators exceeding 100 percent, including 10 percent deviation. The chart below gives the overall performance trends and each indicator.
108% Objective 3 overall
3.3b
3.3a
3.2d.
3.2c
3.2a
3.1b
3.1a
3b*
3a 0%
0% 50% 100% 150% 200% 250%
The table below gives details of performance for each indicator, showing Year 3 results, cumulative achievement to date (the sum of Years 1 and 2 annual results plus Year 3), the percentage of achievement against the base period LOP target, and explanatory narrative.
USAID.GOV SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT | 33 CUMULATIVE PROJECT ACHIEVEMENT OVER 3 YEARS
CUMULATIVE PROJECT ACHIEVEMENT
CUMULATIVE - 3 YEARS Y3 Y1 + Y2 Y1 + Y2 Y3 Y3 INDICATORS PROGRESS ACTUAL TARGET ACHIEVED TARGET LIFE OF LOP (%) PROJECT PROGRESS ACHIEVED (LOP) (%) TO DATE TARGET ACHIEVED EXPLANATION
IR 1: Conflict drivers identified, and solutions agreed to by community stakeholders 1a. Cumulative 30 40 94 48 196% 124 88 141% SPR achieved excellent results for this number of events indicator during this reporting period; 94 where community events took place in the project targeted participatory conflict zones to present participatory conflict analysis analysis is presented results. The achievement against the target TO 3 R1 represents 196%. Significant difference between target and result is due to several community participatory conflict analyses being completed in Y2 but not validated. Validation and presentation of most conflict analyses to community members and other key stakeholders happened in Q1, Q2, and Q3 of this year. Due to the electoral period, advocacy partners (CPP SK and NK) conducted additional conflict analysis reports which were not planned. Due to these additional events, the LOP progress for the 3- year base period rose to 141%. 1b. Percent of USG- 100% 90% 100% 90% 111% 100% 90% 111% In Year 3 the performance of this indicator assisted consensus- was at 100% against 90% set as target. All 16 building processes held peace-building processes held resulted in that result in an agreement. This consists of 12 PAR processes, agreement* TO3 IR excluding that of Walikale, and 4 advocacy 3.2 forums conducted by the two CPPs. This was additional to 6 consensus building held in Y1 and 14 held in Y2. 1.1a. Percent of 0% 80% 78% 80% 78% 78% 80% 98% During the period under review, SPR selected CSOs conducted the endline to assess the capacity assessed for index of selected CSO assessed to conduct
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CUMULATIVE - 3 YEARS Y3 Y1 + Y2 Y1 + Y2 Y3 Y3 INDICATORS PROGRESS ACTUAL TARGET ACHIEVED TARGET LIFE OF LOP (%) PROJECT PROGRESS ACHIEVED (LOP) (%) TO DATE TARGET ACHIEVED EXPLANATION conducting participatory conflict analysis at the baseline. participatory conflict The overall result indicates that the seven analysis whose score CSOs had an overall average progress score improved. of 20% compared with the baseline score. 1.1b. Number of CSOs 145 148 45 32 141% 190 180 106% 13 CSOs were added to the Y3 target due to trained in participatory the high demand from local organizations to community conflict receive training in participatory community analysis TO3 IR 3.1 analysis. 1.1c. Percentage of 22% 12% 2% 0% NA 21% 12% 175% Three partners received grantees in Year 3: CSOs trained receiving CPP SK, Rift Valley Institute (RVI) and CPP NK. grants TO3 IR 3.1 SPR worked with 37 subgrantees, managing 40 grants during the base period. This represents 21% of the 180 CSOs trained during the base period (Numerator 37, denominator 180). The project went beyond the 12% targeted for the LOP due to the wide geographic coverage and the volume of activities to deliver in all the selected zones.
1.1d. Number of CSOs 36 21 1 0 NA 37 21 176% In Year 3, only one subgrantee has been in grants and financial trained. 37 subgrantees received the training management training in the base period out of the 21 planned. The TO3 IR 3.1 project exceeded the planned targeted partners due to the wide geographic coverage and the volume of activities to deliver in all the selected zones. 1.2a. Number of 0 4 13 10 130% 13 14 93% This indicator collected data around the PAR participatory conflict process. All PAR processes have been analyses validated with completed in Year 3 as all the selected participation of target conflicts subject to PAR have been identified group TO3 IR 3.1 and validated by target groupements and the processes started in Year 2 Quarter 4 in most
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CUMULATIVE - 3 YEARS Y3 Y1 + Y2 Y1 + Y2 Y3 Y3 INDICATORS PROGRESS ACTUAL TARGET ACHIEVED TARGET LIFE OF LOP (%) PROJECT PROGRESS ACHIEVED (LOP) (%) TO DATE TARGET ACHIEVED EXPLANATION of the SPR targeted zones. One PAR for Walikale was taken out of the LOP target. 1.2b. Number of 67 70 5 0 NA 72 70 103% In Y3, due to insecurity and political context participatory conflict during the electoral period, the project analysis conducted* decided to conduct 5 additional conflict TO3 IR 3.1 analysis in some target areas (South Kivu) to inform the advocacy efforts at provincial level. 1.3a. Number of 0 5 9 4 225% 9 9 100% All publications and conference presentations publications or on community participatory conflict analyses conference findings including high level research have presentations been completed in this reporting year. produced by Congolese researchers as a result of USG assistance on the subject of conflict resolution* TO3 IR 3.1 1.3b. Number of 4 6 5 3 167% 9 9 100% Two research plans not completed in Y2 approved research were postponed and achieved in Y3. plans with dissemination plan TO3 IR 3.1 1.3c. Percentage of 22% 100% 78% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% In addition to Synergy Initiatives for the Great individual researchers Lakes (SYNIGL) and GEC ISP receiving STTA and institutions in Y2, RVI and 5 individual researchers doing receiving short-term conflict analyses meta-research on the 72 conflict analyses, received STTA from two technical assistance university professors and the SPR project (STTA) to develop team. research plans TO3 IR 3.1 IR. 2 Participatory Solutions Implemented
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CUMULATIVE - 3 YEARS Y3 Y1 + Y2 Y1 + Y2 Y3 Y3 INDICATORS PROGRESS ACTUAL TARGET ACHIEVED TARGET LIFE OF LOP (%) PROJECT PROGRESS ACHIEVED (LOP) (%) TO DATE TARGET ACHIEVED EXPLANATION 2a. Number of new 105 70 0 0 0 105 70% 150% No new groupements or initiatives planned in groups or initiatives Year 3 as the project exceeded the number of created through U.S. initial targets at the end of Y2. government (USG) funding, dedicated to resolving conflict or the drivers of conflict* TO3 IR 3.2 2b Percent of women 0 10% TBD 20% TBD TBD 30% TBD This is one of the baseline indicators. The and members of baseline report was completed and submitted marginalized groups to USAID for approval at the end of the Year who feel their views 2. Y3 achievement will be completed after the are reflected in Endline Survey to be conducted in option implementing period participatory solutions and peacebuilding processes SR 2.1a. Number of 229 138 0 23 0% 229 161 142% No activities contributing to this indicator local women planned in Year 3 as this it exceeded the participating in a targets by end of Year 2. substantive role or position in a peacebuilding process supported with USG assistance* TO3 IR 3.2 2.2a Number of times 19 43 52 13 400% 71 56 125% The number of dialogues planned in Year 3 women’s and other was exceeded due to many opportunities that marginalized groups women and OMGs received to present their consulting with security situation, women and OMGs’ traditional leaders on involvement in local and national governance, local issues and participation issues to national and international leaders.
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CUMULATIVE - 3 YEARS Y3 Y1 + Y2 Y1 + Y2 Y3 Y3 INDICATORS PROGRESS ACTUAL TARGET ACHIEVED TARGET LIFE OF LOP (%) PROJECT PROGRESS ACHIEVED (LOP) (%) TO DATE TARGET ACHIEVED EXPLANATION 2.3a. Number of radio 22 16 0 8 0% 22 24 92% The project didn’t implement new radio programs about peace programs in Year 3 as the target was achieved and social inclusion in Y2. Two that were remaining were pulled TO3 IR 3.2 out due to reducing intervention in Walikale, zone. 2.3b. Number of 674 360 68 200 34% 742 560 133% In Year 3, the project decided not to increase women trained in the number of women to be trained as the transformative LOP target was exceeded at the end of Year leadership TO3 IR 3.2 2. 2.3c. Number of 339 198 62 110 56% 401 308 130% In Year 3, the project decided not to increase formal and traditional the number of formal and traditional leaders leaders completing to be trained as the LOP target was exceeded transformative at the end of Year 2. leadership training TO3 IR 3.2 IR. 3 Resources for community development are more inclusively allocated 3a: Percent of 0% 15% TBD 15% TBD TBD 30% TBD Pending Endline Survey community users reporting improvement in service delivery. 3b. Number of 8 10 5 4 125% 13 14 93% The Walikale Community Development Plan community was not elaborated because implementation development plans was reduced in this zone due to accessibility integrating equitable issues. and locally produced solutions to resolve conflict* TO3 IR 3.2 3.1.a. Number of 1 45 63 25 252% 64 70 91% Most linkage activities happened in Q2 and linkages to direct Q3 of Year 3. Linkages of VSLA groups with private sector actors were delayed due to
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CUMULATIVE - 3 YEARS Y3 Y1 + Y2 Y1 + Y2 Y3 Y3 INDICATORS PROGRESS ACTUAL TARGET ACHIEVED TARGET LIFE OF LOP (%) PROJECT PROGRESS ACHIEVED (LOP) (%) TO DATE TARGET ACHIEVED EXPLANATION livelihood projects and establishment of livelihood structures in year resources TO3 IR 3.2 1 and 2. 3.1b. Number of 1241 540 60 300 20% 1301 840 155% In Year 3, only a few trainings were organized women and members due to the LOP targets being exceeded in of marginalized groups Year 2. The number of women & OMGs in in foundational training training that facilitate livelihood was higher that facilitates than planned due to high demand from the livelihood TO3 IR 3.2 field and the large geographic coverage of Walungu and Masisi Territories. 3.2a. Number of user 21 27 23 15 153% 44 42 105% committees established and receiving capacity building TO3 IR 3.2 3.2b. Number of user Archived indicator due to the feedback committee grants TO3 received from MECC that each IR cannot IR 3.2 exceed 3 indicators. 3.2c. Number of 166 108 186 60 310% 352 168 210% The number of the service providers was service providers underestimated at the beginning of the receiving capacity activities. The large geographic size of building TO3 IR 3.2 Walungu and Masisi territories increased the number of the participants. 3.2d. Percentage of 41% 40% 32% 40% 80% 37% 40% 93% user committee members that are women and members of marginalized groups TO3 IR 3.2 3.3a. Number of 13 27 49 23 213% 62 50 124% The project was obliged to conduct more community local dialogue processes than planned due to the results of community needs and local context
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CUMULATIVE - 3 YEARS Y3 Y1 + Y2 Y1 + Y2 Y3 Y3 INDICATORS PROGRESS ACTUAL TARGET ACHIEVED TARGET LIFE OF LOP (%) PROJECT PROGRESS ACHIEVED (LOP) (%) TO DATE TARGET ACHIEVED EXPLANATION government dialogues to organize more discussion on service quality TO3 IT 3.2 improvement between local authorities and communities to prevent increased emerging conflicts. 3.3b. Number of 26 46 60 28 214% 86 74 115% The number of social cohesion activities grants supporting increased due to the urgent need to conduct (confidence building more events that bring together communities and peace promotion and local authorities during the electoral TO3 IR 3.2 period to prevent conflicts and escalation of tensions and violence in targeted areas.
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OP.1.1 Provide conflict sensitivity refresher training and Q1 – Q4 FULLY All SRP staff, 36 IPs, and some USAID capacity building to SPR staff, grantees, and USAID ACHIEVED IPs in eastern DRC received conflict IPs. sensitivity refresher training. SPR and local grantees have been reporting 1. Execute recruitment process for conflict quarterly on how they are applying sensitivity STTA. 2. Conduct refresher training workshop for DNH principles in the implementation. staff, grantees, and other USAID IPs. 3. Conduct extensive capacity building for LPDCs, local leaders, and authorities. 4. Produce, and share with partners and other USAID IPs, Do No Harm (DNH) and conflict sensitivity training tools. 5. Produce conflict sensitivity integration assessment report on a quarterly basis.
OP.1.3 Support final evaluation. Q4 NOT YET As the mission granted the two-year ACHIEVED option period, the final evaluation was 1. Organize field activities related to the final evaluation. postponed to Year 5. 2. Participate in the evaluation review and validation workshop. 3. Organize a final evaluation restitution workshop with key stakeholders.
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OP.1.4 Reinforcement of early warning systems and Q1 – Q4 PARTIALL The early warning approach, strategy, response mechanism to identify flexible funding Y and written procedure criteria were opportunities. ACHIEVED developed in Year 2. The project started to implement the mechanism, 1. Sign the memorandum of understanding and two activities have been (MOU) with identified organizations active in early alert. implemented out of more than 15 2. Fix early warning criteria with all potential alerts on emerging conflicts received. partners. There is still a need to establish flexible 3. Receive and review early warning funding to respond to proposals for this messages. rapid response mechanism. 4. Reject, or submit to USAID for approval, early warning alert concept note. 5. If approved, develop early warning alert full proposal. 6. Submit request for USAID approval of the early warning alert proposal. 7. Contractualize and implement early warning proposal. 8. Produce final report.
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OP.1.5 Coordination with other USAID and non-USAID Q1 – Q4 MOSTLY Focal points appointed for each USAID implementing partners. ACHIEVED IP and other non–USAID programs intervening in eastern DRC have been 1. Participate in the quarterly conflict participating in coordination meetings mitigation working group with USAID IPs (SPR - DFAP/FSP, IGA, Kivu Value regularly. SPR has meetings with Chain). Internews, Congo Democratia program 2. Participate in all relevant platform – Counterpart International, SVC - meetings. Tetra Tech, FSP – Mercy Corps, IYA - 3. Organize regular bilateral meetings with EDC, IGA - DAI, Tushinde - IMA-Panzi strategic partners. Foundation-Heal Africa Consortium. 4. Develop points of collaboration with SPR and the FSP-Mercy Corps strategic partners. consortium revitalized joint quarterly rotating meetings as a “Conflict Mitigation Working Group.” Coordination meetings have been organized with Mercy Corps "Imagine" Project in Bukavu and Goma. UNSCR 1325 Working Group in North Kivu, Kahele Territory, coordination was managed by ZOA and MONUSCO.
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OP.1.6 Support and participate in the celebration of Peace Q1, Q2, Q3, MOSTLY SPR participated and organized Days and other advocacy events (Sixteen Days Q4 ACHIEVED activities in all planned events. The against Sexual and Gender-Based Violence [SGBV], celebration of Sixteen Days against Human International Day, International Women's SGBV and Human International Day Day). coincided with the pre-electoral period. The security concerns didn’t 1. Develop a calendar of planned activities allow the project to realize planned for all possible relevant international recognition days. activities for this event. However, IPs 2. Identify partners or committees that wish implemented some of the planned to organize these days. activities on the ground, which brought 3. Support the organization of all activities. together women and OMGs and local 4. Produce reports. authorities to discuss women’s issues, including but not limited to inclusive and effective participation in peace processes.
OP.1.7 Provide ongoing capacity-building support to Q1 – Q3 FULLY In Year 3, SPR continued to provide selected and approved partners. ACHIEVED ongoing capacity building and close accompaniment to all 37 grantees on 1. Provide capacity building in project M&E, grant and financial management, administration and financial management, reporting, and M&E, based on individual and technical and reporting plans, expectations. Through technical and 2. Evaluate the improvement of each grant focal points, partners have been partner. supported in their daily implementation 3. Produce and validate a capacity-building and coached regularly on best practices report for each grantee. in reporting, data collection, compliance, technicality of the program, and administrative and financial management.
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OP.1.8 Organize USAID's SPR quarterly Consultative Q1, Q2, Q3, MOSTLY Four meetings and field visits held with Committee meeting. Q4 ACHIEVED the Consultative Committee members in North Kivu. However, it has been 1. Elaborate TOR of the meeting or field difficult for the project to organize visit. 2. Proceed with participant invitations. meetings with Consultative 3. Organize the quarterly or joint field visits. Committee members in South Kivu 4. Produce report. because not all focal points have been appointed by the new government.
OP.1.9 Organize quarterly steering committee meetings. Q1, Q2, Q3, FULLY Four steering committee meetings Q4 ACHIEVED were organized by the project 1. Develop agenda for the workshop. leadership, one on a quarterly basis. 2. Coordinate a meeting date. 3. Share agenda with all attendees. The outcomes of those meetings 4. Produce minutes with key action points. improved collaboration and project management among USAID’s SPR consortium members MSI, International Alert (IA), and International Rescue Committee.
OP.1.10 Organize internal planning and coordination Q1, Q2, Q3, FULLY Four all-staff planning workshops took meetings. Q4 ACHIEVED place during the reporting period, producing the Year 3 Activity Calendar 1. Elaborate workshop TOR. for Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4 and the Year 2. Share TOR with all staff and request feedback. 4 work plan and Year 4 Q1 Activity 3. Organize the planning and coordination Calendar. workshop. 4. Produce a report with key action points.
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OP.1.11 Organize semiannual staff team building. Q1, Q3 FULLY Two team-building retreats with all staff ACHIEVED 1. Elaborate TOR. were organized as planned. This was an 2. Share TOR with all staff and request opportunity for all staff to deeply feedback. discuss and propose solutions to issues 3. Identify themes and facilitators. and problems that were affecting 4. Produce report. performance, well-being, and internal cohesion among the team members.
OBJECTIVE 1: COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDERS IDENTIFY AND ACCEPT SOLUTIONS TO SPECIFIC DRIVERS OF CONFLICT SR 1.1: Strengthened capacity of local organizations to conduct conflict analysis and research
A1.1.1 Deliver certificates to CSOs who received Q3 FULLY All 190 CSOs have completed trainings capacity building in participatory conflict ACHIEVED and received their recognition analysis and research. certificates.
1. Receive and validate restitution reports. 2. Elaborate activity TOR. 3. Organize ceremonies for delivery of certificates to 192 CSOs. 4. Produce report.
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A1.1.2 Administer the final index to selected CSO partners Q1 FULLY The final index has been applied to all for conducting participatory conflict analysis. ACHIEVED seven local IPs involved in community participatory conflict analyses and PAR. 1. Validate index evaluation tool. In North Kivu: Pole Institute and Aid 2. Plan meeting with partners. 3. Organize evaluation meeting with and Action for Peace (AAP). In South grantees. Kivu: Higher Institute of Rural 4. Produce evaluation index improvement Development of Bukavu (ISDR), CDJP, report. ISPDE, Consortium SYNIGL and CINAMULA. The overall result indicates that the seven CSOs had an average progress score of 20% compared with the baseline score.
A1.1.3 Improve overall CSO capacity in the Kivus on Q1 – Q2 MOSTLY During Year 3, 45 organizations conflict analysis, research, and facilitation level. ACHIEVED received training to complete the six Organize six modules throughout Year 3 as follows: training modules already received by other 145 CSOs. 1. Train CSOs in Year 2 remaining modules on conflict analysis, research, and facilitation of conflict analysis at the community level. 2. Implement PAR process (some organizations). 3. Facilitate DNH and conflict sensitivity sessions. 4. Develop advocacy and communication tools.
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A1.1.4 Improve participatory conflict analysis capacity Q1-Q2 FULLY In both North Kivu and South Kivu, among partners. ACHIEVED local IPs involved in participatory conflict analyses were among 190 1. Ensure that selected partners participate in CSOs receiving training. The capacity ongoing CSO training on conflict analysis, research, and facilitation. and knowledge of Pole Institute, AAP, ISDR, CDJP, ISPDE, SYNIGL, and 2. Provide technical assistance to CSO CINAMULA Consortium partners partners over the course of their project rose to 20% compared with the initial implementation. baseline index.
A1.1.5 1. Conduct and present community participatory Q1 – Q3 FULLY Continuation of the presentation of conflict analyses and PAR. Facilitate conflict ACHIEVED conflict analyses to help communities analyses, reusing participatory processes. understand the root causes of conflicts and seek common and consensual 2. Oversee report-back and community solutions in a participatory manner: 65 validation of analyses and research findings at groupement and territory levels. participatory conflict analyses planned in Year 3 were presented and validated in the project areas.
Description: presentation and validation of participatory conflict analyses:
• In Walungu Territory, the conflict drivers are poor local governance, illegal possession and circulation of small arms and light weapons, impunity, and the unequal distribution of basic socioeconomic goods and natural resources.
• In Kabare Territory groupements Ishungu and Lugendo, communities have come to understand the "imaginary" at the heart of conflict dynamics that has negatively influenced lived realities. Many false images have created a gap between the residents of the two groupements, as was the case around the conflict over the drinking water supply. The two groupements had a long and turbulent period characterized by mutual accusations, mistrust, clashes between young people at the well, the virtual nonexistence of
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• In Masisi Territory, conflicts differ from those of other territories in North Kivu. Whereas elsewhere, the beginning of armed conflicts occurred in the 1990s, in Masisi Territory the warning signs were already apparent in 1940, with the creation of the Gishali chieftaincy. Also, serious ethnic clashes took place in 1963. All the conflicts analyzed in the three groupements—Biiri, Kibabi, and Muvunyi Shanga—have ethnic roots in a distant past full of social inequalities, making it difficult to build strong links among the communities. Stakeholders had to take these historical elements into account.
• In Goma City, the 30 or so conflicts have historical, political, and socioeconomic roots. The conflict analyses raised deep and long- neglected issues, such as noncommunication or lack of sincere dialogue among actors, the search for easy gains, and selfish interests.
• Bukavu faces multifaceted conflicts. The major conflicts analyzed in the two communes of Ibanda and Bagira are recurrent altercations between the sanitation police forces and merchants on the main roads; the conflict between the informal local committees, the population, and the SNEL over the lack of electricity; land conflicts related to easements and rainwater pipelines and the desecration of public cemeteries; conflicts linked to insecurity and the crisis of trust among the population, the political-administrative authorities, and the security services; the conflict between the population and REGIDESO over the almost complete lack of drinking water; and the conflict concerning waste management between the residents of Bagira and the two companies Bralima and Pharmakina.
• In Mbinga Nord, Kalehe Territory, the main axes of conflict are land, economic issues, social issues, and security. Sharecropping contracts are not respected by both parties; mining contracts are violated unscrupulously. In addition, poor governance leads to mismanagement of public power and administration by security service managers and of land and security issues by local leaders. The conflicts have numerous consequences.
Mr. Antoine Ndikumwenimana, 27 years old, father of three children, vice-president of the Kalinga locality peace center and member of the Masisi Territorial Youth Council, met the project team on July 12, 2019, in Lushebere. He testifies, "This community-based conflict analysis process allows the whole population to understand conflicts and that it is possible to find peaceful solutions to conflicts and at no cost, unlike past practices."
Presentation of conflicts and capacity building of decision makers and power holders:
Participatory conflict analyses have shown that some power holders and political decision makers are conflict entrepreneurs. The analyses have also shown that these power holders and political decision makers are less informed about conflict dynamics. The project organized two sessions: one on conflict dynamics in North and South Kivu, followed by training on peaceful conflict management techniques, and one on
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SR 1.2: Inclusive stakeholder participation in conflict analysis and identification of solutions is improved
A.1.2.1 Conduct PAR Q1 – Q3 FULLY The 13 PAR processes conducted were ACHIEVED 1. Facilitate the validation of prioritized completed on time with the participation conflict subjects to PAR process. of community members from 13 2. Facilitate community PAR processes. groupements targeted by the project. 3. Disseminate the community PAR findings. 4. Collaborate with Objective 3 to integrate PAR findings into the community development plan (CDP). PAR processes conducted in Year 3 range from collecting data to conducting forums to disseminate signed agreements. These steps were as follows: 1. Data collection (primary and complementary data) in Biiri, Kibabi, and Muvunyi Shanga in Masisi Territory in North Kivu: Forty community researchers (19 women and 21 men) conducted individual and focus group interviews. 5,000 people were directly reached by this data collection process in the three groupements. 2. Presentation and validation of data collected in the Kamisimbi, Karhongo, and Lurhala groupements in Walungu Territory; Bagira and Ibanda in Bukavu City; and Biiri, Kibabi, and Muvunyi Shanga in Masisi Territory: These sessions were attended by 449 women and 812 men. The comments and additional information were incorporated into the reports produced by the community researchers. 3. Organization of mini-dialogues: A total of 28 minidialogues were held in the project areas (Bagira, Biiri, Ibanda, Kamisimbi, Karhongo, Kibabi, Lurhala, Mbinga Nord, and Muvunyi Shanga). The events had 895 participants (632 male and 263 female). Through the minidialogues, each party had to draw up its own specifications and contribute to the code of good conduct. 4. Organization of dialogues (Bagira, Biiri, Goma, Ibanda, Kamisimbi, Karhongo, Karisimbi, Kibabi, Lurhala, Mbinga Nord, and Muvunyi Shanga): In the 11 project areas, community dialogues were held with 859 participants (621 men and 238 women).
50 | SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT USAID.GOV Organization of community forums to disseminate the (Bagira, Biiri, Goma, Ibanda, Kamisimbi, Karhongo, Karisimbi, Kibabi, Lurhala, Mbinga Nord, and Muvunyi Shanga): In the 11 project areas, the partners conducted community forums and 866 participants attended the activities (552 men and 314 women).
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A.1.2.2 Support the reaching of agreements on Q2 – Q4 FULLY Thirteen agreements were signed conflict-related matters through dialogue ACHIEVED between the stakeholders and a facilitation. monitoring committee was set up in each 1. Based on PAR findings and consensual area. plans, identify solutions that need
dialogue process. 2. Identify community dialogue facilitators among partners or external consultants. 3. Identify key actors in dialogue process. 4. Support dialogue process and agreements. 5. Produce a report.
A.1.2.3 Strengthen and provide technical and Q1 – Q4 FULLY CPP NK and CPP SK received grants financial support to CPP NK and CPP ACHIEVED and technical support to develop their SK. advocacy proposals. Leadership and staff members of the two CPPs received trainings on grants and financial management, USAID regulations, and compliance.
SR 1.3 Congolese researchers conduct context-specific conflict research
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A.1.3.1 Strengthen Congolese researchers’ Q1 – Q3 FULLY Six Congolese researchers who were capacity through STTA. ACHIEVED hired to complete six meta-conflict analysis reports received capacity building, and the RVI team received an induction M&E orientation. Deliverables from the research team and RVI were reviewed and received technical inputs from the project and technical director.
Technical accompaniment to local researchers included the finalization of six meta-research reports carried out through STTA consultants: 1. Understanding the Images at the Heart of Conflict Dynamics in Kabare Territory 2. Conflict Dynamics and Community Resilience in Masisi Territory: Biiri, Kibabi, and Muvunyi Shanga groupements 3. Sources of Conflict in Walungu Territory: Kalinzi, Maji, and Mujakazi 4. Conflicts in Mbinga Nord: Invisible Aspects and Possibilities for Reconversion 5. Goma Caught Up in Shape-Shifting Trends: A Systemic Conflict Analysis 6. Surviving in the Unbearable: Bukavu at Risk of Multifaceted Conflicts
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A.1.3.2 Support the validation, publication, and Q2 – Q4 FULLY Nine conflict assessments were dissemination of high-level research ACHIEVED completed (six by Congolese products. researchers, one by Study Group on Conflict and Human Security (GEC- SH) ISP, and two by RVI).
In addition to the six studies mentioned, RVI published 10 small blogs on security in Goma and Bukavu.
OBJECTIVE 2: PARTICIPATORY SOLUTIONS ARE IMPLEMENTED
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SR 2.1: Women and other marginalized groups empowered
A.2.1.1. Strengthening women/OMG leaders’ Q1 – Q4 FULLY Partners Caritas, CFAD, Caucus, capacity in transformative leadership to play ACHIEVED RFEDI, VIVAG, FOSI, and IFDP a role in decision making to implement continued mentoring and coaching solutions for mitigating conflict. Train women and OMGs to practice their selected groups on specific themes regarding transformational leadership skills inclusion, participation, and others. through regular coaching sessions on 1. Organize experiential learning activities various themes (rights, conflict to provide opportunities to apply management, advocacy and learning. communication, self-esteem, etc.) 2. Organize coaching sessions between within mentoring clubs, CLOCs, and more established leaders and emerging ones. social groups. AFEM and RM also 3. Organize periodic leadership forums continued to support women and among women, including from the OMGs and local authorities in the previous USAID project. production of radio programs that Link DRC women and OMG network to promote gender and inclusion- national, regional, and international sensitive social standards. A resources. networking contact between women and OMGs and women leaders in Goma was initiated by RFEDI. The SPR team participated in an international conference on women's leadership held in Kigali.
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A.2.1.2 Support women and OMG participation in Q1 – Q4 FULLY Partners supported advocacy decision-making bodies through advocacy ACHIEVED dialogues between women and and capacity building. OMGs and local authorities to ensure gender sensitivity and inclusion in 1. Link women leaders and OMG conflict resolution processes. representatives to decision- making structures through Women and OMGs have developed regular meetings and dialogues. capacities to analyze their needs for 2. Organize advocacy participation and inclusion as well as initiatives targeting advocacy techniques. Local government institutions authorities have responded to some on women’s and requests and have made OMGs' meaningful commitments for others to be participation in fulfilled as far as possible. decision-making bodies.
SR 2.2 Inclusion increased in traditional and formal governance structures and processes
A.2.2.2 1. Transforming social norms, attitudes, Q1 – Q4 MOSTLY Through local IPs, SPR has conducted and barriers that constrain the ACHIEVED public awareness events and participation of women/OMGs in community-targeted sensitization decision-making processes. Facilitate activities through thematic leaflets, provincial restitution workshop of popular expression forums, telephonic rapid assessment of prevailing norms SMS, and radio broadcasts aimed at and attitudes on the participation of changing social norms and practices. women/OMGs in decision-making The project could not implement the processes. SASA! and Men Engage approaches 2. Support community mobilization that due to funding limitations. This promotes positive promotion and transformation of social norms and approach will be prioritized at the attitudes through approaches like beginning of the option period.
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SASA! and Men Engage to build upon/expand sustainable methods. 3. Facilitate dialogue/negotiations between women and OMGs and members of the government/parliament on gender equality. 4. Support community collective and individual actions against social inequalities. 5. Disseminate broadcasts of radio platforms through which women/OMGs can air programming in which the public is engaged and sensitized to inclusion. OBJECTIVE 3: RESOURCES FOR COMMUNITY AND DEVELOPMENT ARE MORE INCLUSIVELY ALLOCATED
SR 3.1: Linkages to livelihood activities and resources increased
A.3.1.1 Improve women and OMGs' capacity on Q1 – Q3 FULLY The SPR team and partners livelihood development ACHIEVED continued to provide technical 1. Partners train women and OMGs support to livelihood groups through on livelihood methodologies. trainings in North and South Kivu. 2. Identify women and OMGs Also, the project strengthened supported with technical assistance partner capacities in savings and and kits to develop livelihoods. credit associations, focus group discussions, and entrepreneurship. The partners attending this training were ADPD, ACUDI, LUCODER, CEDECO, AHUSADEC, COL- LECTIF ALPHA UJUVI, ACODEPA,
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Centre OLAME-TGD, Support Center for Rural Development and Food Security (CADERSA)-ESF- Women’s Association for the Promotion of Peasant Activities (AFPAP), and AIBEF.
A.3.1.2 Private sector engaged in support of Q1 – Q4 FULLY The project team, in collaboration resource mobilization. ACHIEVED with IPs ADPD, AHUSADEC, and 1. Finalize mapping private sector LUCODER, mapped the private activity in target zones. sector actors in Biiri, Goma, Ishungu, 2. Orient communities around Lugendo, and Muvunyi Shanga for corporate social responsibility and potential connection activities. accountability. 3. Support communities to develop The Alpha Ujuvi collective, CEDECO, "win-win" strategies to attract and CADERSA each organized a private sector support. forum where livelihood structures 4. Engage private sector by organizing discussed possible support with regular forums between private sector partners (landowners, communities and private sector. microfinance institutions). At the end 5. Collaborate with private sector of these connections, one private to make small grants, as sector actor Seninga made $100 appropriate, for community livelihood projects and support available to eight Kibabi livelihood the implementation of CDPs' structures in Masisi Territory. In the participatory solutions. same groupement another private sector actor, Safari Ayobangira, made available a 100-hectare field to livelihood structures to grow beans and potatoes to increase their production and income.
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SR 3.2: Equitable community participation in basic services provision is increased
A.3.2.1 Improve community development Q1 – Q2 FULLY During this reporting period, IPs planning on service provision and ACHIEVED ADPD, ACODEPA AIBEF, ALPHA integrating equitable and locally UJUVI, and CEDECO facilitated the produced solutions to resolve conflict. development of CDPs that integrate cohesion plans in each intervention 1. Support communities/local authorities and CSOs to map and groupement. All these plans were prioritize services based upon validated by community members and communities’ expressed need as approved by the groupement chiefs in source of conflicts. Walungu and Kibabi and by the 2. Facilitate the elaboration of CDPs on mayors in Goma and Bukavu. Today, conflict mitigation and take into these plans are reference tools for all consideration service provision needs stakeholders who want to intervene as source of conflicts. in the target zones because they 3. Support CDP dissemination. constitute community aspirations and expressions. After the validation, these plans were disseminated and made available in the villages and neighborhoods of our intervention areas.
A.3.2.2 Improve efficacy of service provision on the Q1 – Q2 MOSTLY IPs ADPD, LUCODER, CEDECO, demand side. ACHIEVED and AIBEF succeeded in revitalizing 1. Provide refresher trainings to various user committees in their user committees on legal respective intervention zones before framework on service proceeding to strengthen the provision and quality issues. capacities of committee members on their roles and responsibilities as well
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2. Support user committees to as on the principles of good advocate for improvement of governance. services. 3. Support user committee members to engage in dialogue platforms with service providers. A.3.2.3 Improve efficacy of service provision on the Q1 – Q3 MOSTLY SPR has organized sessions for supply side. ACHIEVED community service providers to provide services and monitor the 1. Provide refresher trainings to services offered. service providers on legal The main themes were governance framework on service and the system for monitoring a local provision and quality development plan and improving standards. social services, the use of the new 2. Support service providers national program in the education to implement service sector, neonatal care, and others. The improvement provision training focused on the full plans and quality participation of user committees, monitoring systems. peace and development committees, 3. Support service providers to population representatives, and establish participatory dialogue service providers. mechanisms with users. IPs supported the development of the
plan to improve services in education, health, and WASH facilities, as well as capacity building of service providers in the Ishungu, Lugendo, and Mbinga Nord groupements. Today, all the targeted structures have a joint service improvement plan and a consultation framework allowing user and service provider committees to discuss problems and try to find
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lasting solutions while avoiding conflicts.
SR 3.3: Participation in confidence building and peace promotion increased
A.3.3.1 Support local peace and social cohesion Q1 – Q3 MOSTLY IPs CEDECO, LUCODER, ADPD, initiatives that promote confidence building ACHIEVED AHUSADEC, ALPHA UJUVI, and CJP between communities and government listed different themes based on the service providers. conflicts identified in Biiri, Goma, Ishungu, Karhongo, Karisimbi, Kibabi, 1. Cohesion drivers in planning and design committees supported to set an Mbinga Nord, and Lugendo. Among event calendar and plan cohesion the target themes were interethnic events. mistrust, monoethnic marriage, joint 2. Support cohesion drivers to mobilize management of water points, farmers resource support for cohesion events and herders, and albinos. The project from SPR, the private sector, and organized social cohesion activities other sources. and events that brought communities 3. Collaborate with private sector in together around the same problem. target zones to support grant making These sessions allowed the for social cohesion events. community to propose solutions 4. Cohesion events are organized. through participatory theater and a
day of reflection on the albino person.
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60 | SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT USAID.GOV Mr. Emmanuel Zaza "The training and sensitization have made me a peaceful conflict manager."
THE PAR PROCESS, A FORCE FOR SUSTAINABLE MEDIATION Emmanuel Zaza, Member of the Local Peace and Development Committee of the Ishungu Groupement
Mr. Emmanuel Zaza, 49 years old, married, is a member of the Local Peace and Development Committee of the Ishungu groupement, where he lives and carries out his income-generating activities, including agriculture and small livestock breeding. Mr. Emmanuel Zaza says that in his community there are many rural problems. But no one used to talk about conflicts; mistrust between people led to quarrels and actions of revenge among groups and communities.
"For some time now, we have been involved in conflict management, and we understand the value of participating in the search for solutions for peace. This is how we built the peace monument, so that everyone and future generations can realize that we have buried the hatchet of war for the cohesion and development of our region.”
"I would be ungrateful if I didn't say that my life has improved thanks to the different activities carried out by the SPR project in the Ishungu groupement. I am delighted with the awareness, training, and advice that has made me a peaceful conflict manager to promote peace and social cohesion by analyzing and improving intercommunity relations in my living environment.”
USAID.GOV SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT | 61 Mr. Gaguta Kaynode Innocent, president of the Tutsi Breeders of the Mbinga Nord group
FOR LASTING PEACE, LET’S FORGET DISCRIMINATION Gakuta Kayonde Innocent, President of the Tutsi Breeders of the Mbinga Nord Groupement, Member of the Nyabibwe Dialogue and Mediation Committee
Mr. Gakuta Kayonde Innocent, 53 years old, is a member of the Mediation Committee of the Mbinga Nord groupement. He actively participates in the project activities. He says he has come to understand the importance of social cohesion. He is committed to helping his community resolve conflicts peacefully and to respecting commitments made for peace.
Gakuta Kayonde Innocent states the following: "Since I became President of the Tutsi Breeders in the Mbinga Nord groupement, I did not have enough knowledge of peaceful conflict management. But four months after the various training courses offered to me, I have improved my level of intervention in conflict transformation and I continue to manage even in the resolution of certain conflicts between communities, especially between Tutsis and Hutus who often have conflicts between farmers and herders.”
62 | SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT USAID.GOV Fungulo Rumesha, Chief of the Village of Myanzi. Photos of the ISDR-Bukavu, taken with permission of the Chief himself PROMOTING SOCIAL COHESION IS OUR FIGHT Fungulo Rumesha, Chief of the Village of Myanzi, Mbinga Nord Groupement
Mr. Fungulo Rumesha, 73 years old, is the chief of the village of Myanzi, where the quarrel between Riniga Gasigawa's family and Anatole Muhizi's family is located.
The chief of the village of Myanzi declares that the activities carried out in Mbinga Nord by the Amani kwa Maendeleo Project, of which he was a direct beneficiary, reflect conflict management in a very concrete and operational way. Conflict analyses are conducted well and thoroughly clarify the causes and actors. All these trainings have led to a change in the way he manages different conflicts in his community.
USAID.GOV SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT | 63 Antoine Ndikumwenimana, 1st Vice President of the Kalinga Peace Node et member of the territorial youth advisory group in Masisi.
IT IS POSSIBLE TO FIND PEACEFUL SOLUTIONS TO CONFLICTS Antoine Ndikumwenimana, First Vice President of the Kalinga Locality Peace Nucleus, Member of the Masisi Territorial Youth Council
"Like all the localities in the Biiri groupement in Masisi Territory, Kalinga faces various land conflicts. The population used to employ all the local authorities to seek a solution to a conflict. Thus, the police, the FARDC, and even the Congolese National Intelligence Agency interfered in the management of land conflicts by demanding exorbitant costs from the parties, yet these bodies could not solve these types of problems because they did not have the mission, nor the mandate, and conflicts had always rebounded.
With the arrival of the SPR project, a peace and development core was set up in the locality in which I was elected; we received several training courses on peaceful conflict management and we conducted public awareness campaigns on the use of peaceful conflict resolution. For the time being, the population is using the peace nucleus to seek peaceful solutions to problems and even the Masisi Centre Peace Tribunal is in the process of referring conflicts to the core to seek a peaceful solution between the parties.
This community process allows the whole population to understand that it is possible to find a peaceful solution to conflicts and at no cost, unlike the practices before SPR; all ethnic communities refer to this nucleus because there is no fear of bias or favoritism of a party because of its membership of any ethnic group or social class because all categories of the population are represented in the structure."
64 | SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT USAID.GOV Gerard Bazamanza Kamonyo, an agronomist from the Kibabi groupement
A SIGNED SOCIAL CONTRACT IS A SUCCESS IN SOCIAL COHESION Gérard Bazamanza Kamonyo, Agronomist of the Kibabi Groupement, Kibabi Center, Bahunde Chiefdom, Masisi Territory
Involved in the PAR process, especially in the minidialogues and the community dialogue on the conflict between herders and farmers, he says he is relieved by the very commendable contribution of the Amani kwa Maendeleo project because, according to him, several times with his small resources, he and his veterinary colleague from the groupement tried to bring together some herders and farmers to stop escalation of conflicts, but in vain. As an agronomist engineer, he was involved in resolving conflicts between farmers and herders but did not demonstrate impartiality. Sometimes when conflicts arose, he had no basis for trying to reconcile the parties. Today, he says he is pleased with the success of the dialogue that led to a social contract. For Mr. Bazamanza, this contract is a reference in conflict management between farmers and herders. Mr. Bazamanza also affirms that in this short time after the dialogue, a change in the conduct of pastoralists and farmers can already be observed; they are beginning to resort to peaceful means of conflict resolution by appealing either to agronomists and veterinarians or to peace nuclei or authorities, as mentioned in the social contract.
Finally, this agronomist promised to contribute to the social contract’s popularization and to promote compliance with the parties' commitments by instructing all the groupement's agricultural instructors to use it as a tool to resolve any conflict between herders and farmers.
USAID.GOV SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT | 65 Bahati Mbuleki, delegate of the Kituva Village Peace and Development Nuclei
A MISSION: TO MANAGE CONFLICTS EFFECTIVELY Bahati Mbuleki, Delegate of the Kituva Village Peace and Development Nuclei to the Groupement’s Peace and Development Unit
Mr. Bahati Mbuleki, 44 years old, lives in the Shasha village in the Muvunyi Shanga groupement, chiefdom of the Bahunde, Masisi Territory in North Kivu Province. At the same time, he is the president of the motorcycle riders in the village of Kituva.
"Before, I was an actor in many conflicts, and this was happening everywhere and even in my own family. However, I was a highly consulted person in the community and in my work as a motorcycle taxi operator. I was called upon to resolve several conflicts in my community. So, I served as a mediator in my community. Unfortunately, in my way of doing things, I behaved like a judge. And very often I proposed my own solutions to the parties in conflict. Often, I would see what would come back to me again once the conflict was resolved. To my great surprise, during the elective assemblies organized to set up a peace and development committee, the members of my community chose me as their delegate to the groupement's Peace and Development Cell. Since that time, I have resolved to start changing my behavior. During the capacity-building workshop on conflict management and environmental scanning, I understood that to be a good mediator and member of the peace cell, I must respect the principles of mediation, including impartiality, neutrality, and accountability, and I must not impose my solution but rather facilitate the parties seeking solutions on their own.”
66 | SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT USAID.GOV Koko Chirimwam during the official handover of the tools to Sanzi
AGRICULTURAL SERVICE ROADS FOR COHESION AND DEVELOPMENT Koko Chirmwami, Leader of the Mbinga Nord Groupement, Bahavu Chiefdom
“For a long time, almost all the villages that make up my groupement have remained isolated. This isolation put these villages in a state of deep poverty and total insecurity because of low accessibility. This explains the absence of humanitarian organizations and the high rate of banditry, rape, and theft; for these communities, the government has abandoned them to be robbed at will by thieves by leaving them in severe vulnerability. In 2014, to overcome these challenges, I called a meeting to draw up a development plan for the groupement. Tracing agricultural feeder and interconnection roads emerged as a priority, but no initiatives had been undertaken due to the lack of agricultural tools.
Since the beginning of SPR project activities, four villages have been targeted by the project's support. When identifying needs, participants prioritized the tracing of agricultural service roads to connect these distressed villages in order to mitigate acts of barbarism and consolidate social cohesion between communities; work has already begun. These villages are now accessible by motorcycle if it doesn’t rain. It brings joy to these villagers to see their localities connect with others. SPR has not only strengthened social cohesion but also saved human lives by freeing them from bandits. The project has also enabled the creation of a small market at the junction of the Nyabiwe-Magango and Kinyezire-Murambi roads where food products are exchanged. This is the first project that has met the expectations of all the communities of Mbinga Nord without any discrimination. The road is the first element in the development process.”
USAID.GOV SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT | 67 Sadiki Birego and community members’ photo taken after road-marking work
SOCIOTHERAPY: A TRIGGER FOR COHESION AND INTEGRATION OF OMGS Sadiki Birego describes how he went from armed group member at 14 to obtaining his state diploma and becoming a community leader:
“In February 2018, the SPR project organized a community forum in Sanzi to elect a team of local sociotherapists. After being chosen, I received sociotherapy training and helped organize groups for traumatized people. Two groups supported by two pairs of facilitators were formed, and after 16 sociotherapy sessions, despite the emotional burden from reliving traumatic experiences such as witnessing the deaths of loved ones and rape, people began to note their improving mental health. Physical exercise sessions were transformed into community work sessions, called Salongo, where community members weeded along small village paths that became bushy.
Having seen the progress on this, I went to the village chief and gained his approval to integrate the whole village into this Salongo system. We initiated the community road tracing work, which I proposed to other colleagues following its success, who facilitated sessions in other subvillages. Today the activity has grown throughout the entire groupement of Mbinga Nord. I am very pleased today to see that those who were once considered OMGs have been able to undertake such an initiative that demonstrates social cohesion because through our community work, we bring together all members of the population without distinction and pursue a common interest.”
68 | SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT USAID.GOV Jules Bahirwe Lugalika, prefect of the Ishungu Institute
SOCIAL COHESION BETWEEN THE PARENT COMMITTEE AND THE PREFECT Jules Bahirwe, Prefect of the Ishungu Institute, Kabare Chiefdom
First a teacher at the school complex in Bukavu, Mr. Jules Bahirwe was promoted on December 18, 2017, to the position of prefect of the Ishungu Institute, in the Ishungu groupement, Kabare chiefdom. Upon his arrival in this institution, he found a parents' committee composed of three members, all men, in which there was a management conflict because the parents did not feel represented by these three people who they felt had practically taken the institution hostage in collaboration with the former management committee. His arrival almost coincided with the start of SPR activities in the groupement. COUD enabled this institution to set up a COPA composed of seven members, including four women and three men, who benefited from capacity building on their roles and responsibilities, one of the actions forming part of their service improvement plan produced with the support of the SPR project partner.
To address the conflict on school management, COUD organized a football match followed by an exchange on the conflict between school user committee members and service providers. According to the prefect of the Ishungu Institute, this activity allowed exchange between COPA and service providers, although they were beaten. "It is thanks to this support that we are building two classrooms under the supervision of COPA members, an approach that has enabled us to put an end to the conflict between parents and the school's management committee. We will continue to work in collaboration and transparency for the teaching quality in our dear school.”
USAID.GOV SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT | 69 Sarah Cibalonza, Kandekere, Karhongo groupement
FOOTBALL FOR PEACE: RESOLVING CONFLICT AMONG YOUTH Balonza Sarah, Football Coach for Peace, Kandekere, Karhongo Group
A conflict began among the youth of Kandekere and Munya in a football match that ended in a fierce fight because of the referee’s partiality. In these hostilities, three young people from Munya were beaten unconscious and one young person from Kandekere was killed. From that day on, it was difficult, if not impossible, for the young people to meet again to play football.
When Sarah was invited to participate in the first two-day mixed coach training session that included youth from Kandekere and Munya, it was difficult for her because she still felt hatred against the people of Munya. Her parents, meanwhile, found it very embarrassing to see a girl playing with boys. Following an awareness meeting led by a handful of parents and civil societies to explain the project’s approach and expected result, “I felt so interested, and even my parents were convinced and allowed me to continue with my activities in collaboration with the other coaches, including Munya's,” says Sarah.
“Currently, I am one of the best peace football coaches in my community because of my ability to raise awareness and mentor other girls. We have a mixed team of seven girls and seven boys. On September 18, we organized a football match for peace with the young people of Munya at the Cibimbi stadium, where we played together without violence. Our objective this time was to repair the mistake made. We will use this framework for dialogue to help us resolve our conflicts peacefully.”
70 | SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT USAID.GOV “From these IGAs, I intend to solve at least some of my children's schooling problems, especially since my goats are already multiplying.”
INCOME-GENERATING ACTIVITIES MOTIVATE VULNERABLE POPULATIONS Germaine M’Bihogo, Widowed Mother of Nine Children, Kivu
"It's sad when I remember my late husband lost during a drowning in Lake Kivu, leaving me with orphans whose care was a headache for me after all the goods (motorcycle, arable fields, and a motorized canoe) left by him were taken away by the children of the first office in complicity with the in-laws. From then on, we started our ordeal and the children all dropped out of school." Abandoned by all after her husband's death, she began to initiate small business activities that were not at all profitable for her family. With all the debt she accumulated in her small business, she could no longer join any social group because everyone thought she was a con artist.
Through the Amani Kwa Maendeleo project, she has reintegrated into the community. She learns and teaches others new agricultural and livestock housing techniques, savings in VSLAs, and many other training courses. Their community field helps her to interact with others and she feels safe because she is in a social group. The money she receives from VSLA groups allows her to send her children to school. She has a small farm and her goat has given birth to two kids. "It is a new era that my family aspires to, thanks to the SPR project. I have regained my dignity and my abilities as a woman through training, support in IGA. As proof, today I am the president of the agriculture and livestock group. Many of my neighbors come to my house to ask me how to join our group too, but they hadn't spoken to me since my husband's death.”
USAID.GOV SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT | 71 Florentin Katan, Kabare Territory
COMMUNITY INTEGRATIONS THROUGH CLOCS AND CECIS Florentin Katana, CLOC and CECI, Kabare, South Kivu
For several years, persons with disabilities had been subjected to discrimination, rejection, and abandonment in Ishungu, especially in the village of Kaboneke These people were excluded from the management of public affairs and considered worthless, unable to produce economically or contribute to village development. Access to and control of resources remained a serious problem for them.
In April 2018, Mr. Florentin Katana, a father of five children, joined the SPR project as a member of CLOC Kaboneke. In August 2018, he joined the CECI group in his village, where he is an active member. "My integration into the CLOC and then into CECI was for me the beginning of my new era of relief from my suffering that dates back to my childhood because since my childhood, I have always been excluded in my village," says Mr. Katana.
Thanks to the training and instruction received in the CLOCs and the amounts received as a CLOC and CECI member, he was able to raise $200. With this sum, he decided, in consultation with his wife and children, to create an income activity by opening a shop selling various products and generating foodstuffs to improve their socioeconomic situation and uphold the image of the SPR project, which promotes social cohesion and PVH inclusion. "Since I joined the CLOC and especially since I started this economic activity, I have been considered in my village, and some people (and even local authorities) come to me for advice on their family problems and on the problems of the village.”
72 | SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT USAID.GOV Espérance Kitumaini Masini, mother of nine, Mbinga Nord groupement
WOMEN’S TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP Espérance Kitumaini Masini, Chief of Avenue d’Usine Kiniezire in the Village of Bubale 2, Kalehe
Espérance Kitumaini Masini is a 41-year-old saleswoman and married mother of nine children. When SPR was launched in Mbinga Nord, she joined the mentoring club in May 2018. The training she received has allowed her to understand that as a woman, she can also hold positions of responsibility in local government. “After participating in various training sessions organized by CFAD in partnership with MSI through USAID SPR on transformational leadership, a spirit of awareness came into me to apply for the position of avenue chief in the Kiniezire district," she said.
“I didn't think I could do it. We organized the vote, for which I was the only female candidate. For me, the women at the mentoring club encouraged me by saying to keep everything going smoothly.” After the elections, she became head of avenue d'Usine in Kiniezire. With the various pleas and mediations that they organize in Kiniezire, she finds that she has a great role to play, not only as an avenue leader but also as a woman and mentoring club member.
"Before, my husband was against the actions of women in our village, but now he understands that I can also change other people (men and women), especially when he sees people coming to the house for family problems and I give suggestions for solutions for good social cohesion."
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74 | SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT USAID.GOV PARTNER NAME: CDJP GRANT TITLE Peace Consolidation and Social PHOTOS Cohesion Project in the Karhongo, Lurhala and Kamisimbi, Ngweshe Chiefdom, Walungu Territory
CONTRIBUTES Objective 1 TO OBJECTIVE Indicators: 1.2b., 1a, I.2a & INDICATORS TARGET AREA Territory: Bukavu Groupements: Lurhala, Karhongo and Kamisimbi TOTAL Amount: $113,121.98 AMOUNT AND Disbursed: 100% % DISBURSED PERIOD OF April 20, 2018 – May 3, 2019 PERFORMANCE GRANT The project contributes to the SUMMARY consolidation of peace and social cohesion through (i) capacity building Kamisimbi Analysis and Results Validation Forum of community peace structures, (ii) Group Photo conflict analysis, and (iii) conducting participatory action research (PAR) with communities. RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS) • 15 conflict analyses identified, analyzed and validated in Kamisimbi, Karhongo, and Lurhala (1.2b). • 6 forums to present conflict analysis results in Kamisimbi, Karhongo and Lurhala (1a). • Presentations of analysis results to territorial and chiefdom authorities (1a). • Training of community researchers on PAR data search techniques (1.2a). • 3 Community forums to validate conflict analyses results in Lurhala, Karhongo and Kamisimbi. • 9 mini-dialogues to develop specifications in Karhongo, Lurhala and Kamisimbi. • 3 community dialogues in Lurhala, Karhongo and Kamisimbi. • Advocacy on priority issues from PARs in Karhongo, Lurhala and Kamisimbi. IMPACT During the forums, communities engaged in thorough discussions on the results of conflict analyses without fear or complexity. They have enriched conflict analyses and corrected some errors. At the end of the dialogues in Kamisimbi and Karhongo, the parties agreed to sign community agreements to settle conflicts between them. The outcome of these conflicts has given CLPD members confidence and communities have committed to consult them in the event of a conflict. PROUDEST MOMENT The presentation of results to territorial and chiefdom officials was an interesting moment for the and community leaders and members. Authorities were surprised to find conflicts therein that they thought had been resolved and subsequently promised their support for the process. Although no agreement was reached in Lurhala, authorities at the territorial and chiefdom level made a commitment to support the community in land conflicts. The chiefdom, traditionally in charge of land management, has committed to discussions with the Musikamira party with the support of the Lurhala CLPD. LESSONS LEARNED The presentation of conflict analysis data showed that traditional authorities can be parties to conflicts and their silence only encourages it, as there are conflicts dating back to 1980 and are the chief’s input, such as the case of a land dispute in Lurhala. However, they remained sensitive and were not negative when criticized by the community. In some cases, the presence of authorities prevented open discussion.
USAID.GOV SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT | 75 PARTNER NAME: AAP GRANT TITLE: Aid and Action for Peace PHOTOS:
CONTRIBUTES Objective I TO OBJECTIVE Indicators: 1.1a, 1.12, 1.31a & INDICATORS: TARGET AREA: Territory: Masisi Groupements: Muvunyi Shanga, Kibabi, Biiri TOTAL Amount: $116,496.05 AMOUNT AND Disbursed: 100% Conflict analysis validation forum in Biiri % DISBURSED: PERIOD OF April 12, 2018 – August 15, 2019 PERFORMANCE: GRANT The project contributes to the SUMMARY: consolidation of peace and social cohesion through (i) capacity building and support of community structures, (ii) identification, prioritization and analysis of community conflicts, and (iii) • Capacity building workshop for 16 conducting PARs on identified community researchers in Kibabi conflicts. RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS) • 3 participatory conflict analysis validation forums in Kibabi (39 women, 41 men, 5 OMGs), Muvunyi Shanga (35 women, 45 men, 7 OMGs), and Kalinga (34 women, 46 men , 9OMGs (1.2b). • 1 PAR validation workshop on PARs in Kalinga (70 participants – 28 women, 42 men, 5 OMGs) (1.2a). • 40 PAR community researchers (21 women, 19 men) selected (16 from Kibabi, 14 from Muvunyi Shanga, 10 from Biiri) (1.2a). • 3 PAR capacity building workshops for 40 community researchers organized (1.2a). • 18 mini dialogues organized in Biiri, Muvunyi Shanga, and Kibabi • 2 community dialogues in Muvunyi Shanga and Kibabi IMPACT Community members consult extensively with CLPDs for peaceful resolutions to conflicts. Trust in members of these structures is high given the representation of all levels of the communities within them. PROUDEST MOMENT The way in which participants reacted to the different outcomes of the conflicts analyzed showed that community members took ownership of participatory conflict analysis process. Agreements signed on traditional royalty in Muvunyi Shanga relieved the community while the parties honor their commitments. LESSONS LEARNED In Muvunyi Shanga, some participants misinterpreted the results of the analyses by saying that the project accused the chief of being at the root of the power conflict between him and his predecessor. Regular contacts between the project and the authorities are necessary and can help to avoid manipulation and misunderstandings. At the end of the analysis validation sessions, we understood that community members are determined to play an active role in implementing the solutions identified through the participatory conflict analysis reports within their respective groups.
76 | SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT USAID.GOV PARTNER NAME: Pole Institute GRANT TITLE: Participatory Analysis of Conflicts in PHOTOS: the City of Goma
CONTRIBUTES Objective: I TO OBJECTIVE & Indicators: 1.a. 1.2b INDICATORS: TARGET AREA: Territory: Goma Groupement: Goma City TOTAL Amount: $89,640.91 AMOUNT AND Disbursed: 100% % DISBURSED: PERIOD OF April 20, 2018 – May 15, 2019 PERFORMANCE: GRANT This project contributes to SUMMARY: consolidation of peace and social cohesion through (i) implementation of community peace structures and capacity building, (ii) conducting Presentation in a working plenary session during participatory conflict analyses, (iii) finalization of the PAR final report in Goma organization of community PARs, and (iv) production of social cohesion plans with communities and implementation of advocacy actions. RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS) • 40 community researchers recruited and trained in data collection techniques and PAR • Copies of survey questionnaires produced on the two themes of the two PARS conducted in Goma. • 2 preparatory meetings organized to introduce community researchers to members of CLPDs in Goma. Data collection in Goma City and Karisimbi and Goma. • Organization of 4 forums on resolutions resulting from the PAR and conflict analyses. • Organization of 4 conferences on PAR results and conflict analyses. IMPACT The key actors and stakeholders of the two themes studied were contacted in focus groups and in-depth interviews. They responded favorably to requests for mini-dialogues and each produced specifications for the preparation of two upcoming round tables, which shows that the next step is already looking positive. The scientific community of Goma City was informed of the possible solutions, recommendations, and messages to prevent land conflicts in Goma. PROUDEST MOMENT Participants in the PAR results conference were interested in recommendations resulting from community dialogues and local authorities opted to support community structures in monitoring social agreements. LESSONS LEARNED The election period had a significant negative impact on activities because it was difficult to work in a rather tense context. In the future, everything must be done to ensure that the project's key activities do not coincide with political events that require a high level of caution. The enthusiasm of the scientific community in the conferences fostered debates on the PAR process and its results. It should be noted that the comparison of scientific evidence and the practice of PAR must be complementary.
USAID.GOV SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT | 77 PARTNER NAME: ISDR GRANT TITLE: Contribution to the improvement of PHOTOS: social cohesion in the groupement of Mbinga North and Ishungu respectively in the territory of Kabare and Kalehe. CONTRIBUTES Objective 1 TO OBJECTIVE & Indicators 1a, 1b, 1.2a, 1.2b, 2.1.a, INDICATORS: 2.2a TARGET AREA: Territory: Kabare, Kalehe Groupements: Ishungu, Mbinga North TOTAL Amount: $85,913 Ishungu and Lugendo communities in the middle of AMOUNT AND Disbursed: 100% % DISBURSED: PERIOD OF April 12, 2018 – May 15, 2019 PERFORMANCE: GRANT This project contributes to the SUMMARY: consolidation of peace and social cohesion through (i) capacity building of community peace structures in the peaceful resolution of conflicts, data collection, analysis and archiving techniques; (ii) conducting a dialogue session participatory conflict analyses and (iii) supporting the community in Lugendo leader (left) and Ishungu leader (right) PAR activities. RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS) • Primary and additional data collection and data validation in Ishungu and Mbinga North (I.2a). • Data analysis and production of 2 PAR reports with Ishungu CLPDS and community members (I.2a). • Organization of community dialogues, mini-dialogues, and forums in Ishungu (I.2a). • 2 monitoring committee trainings of the Ishungu and Mbinga North agreements. • Advocacy with the Kabare and Buhavu chiefdom with results of the analysis and research on the Ishungu and Mbinga North • Community forum presentation of the process and results of the PAR and monitoring committee. • Development of peacebuilding plans in Ishungu and Mbinga North IMPACT Local authorities have agreed to receive positive feedback from members of their communities in order to establish sustainable cohabitation mechanisms. Agreements have been signed between the two populations. In conducting advocacy actions, CLPD members have understood the importance of meeting with the authorities to get answers to certain conflicts. PROUDEST MOMENT The highlight was the signing of the agreements. The members of the groups and their leaders were pleased to have peacefully resolved the conflict between them. The activity of presenting the results of the PAR and conflict analyses was a time for CLPD members and authorities to meet. LESSONS LEARNED In conducting the analyses, the first impressions were about recent conflicts between the two communities. However, we realized that there is a long history of the conflict between them.
78 | SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT USAID.GOV PARTNER NAME: Consortium SYNIGL and Solidarité CINAMULA GRANT TITLE The Amani Kwa Maendeleo PAR in PHOTOS: The Lugendo Groupement, Territory of Kabare, South Kivu CONTRIBUTES Objective I TO OBJECTIVE Indicators: 1.2a & INDICATORS TARGET AREA Territory: Kabare Groupement: Lugendo TOTAL Amount: $62,497.83 AMOUNT AND Disbursed: 100% % DISBURSED PERIOD OF April 23, 2018 – March 15, 2019 PERFORMANCE GRANT This project contributes to the Presentation of PAR data to community leaders SUMMARY consolidation of peace and social cohesion through (i) conducting participatory conflict analyses, (ii) conducting participatory research • with communities, and (iii) leading participatory actions on identified conflicts. RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS) • Training workshop on PAR for community researchers (1.2a). • Preparatory meeting between researchers and members of peace structures (1.2a). • Data collection by community researchers on the PAR theme (1.2a). • 3 community mini-dialogues for the production of specifications of those involved in conflicts (1.2a). • Community dialogue endorsing the PAR process (1.2a). • Community forum for presenting PAR results (1.2a). • Production of a PAR report (1.2a). IMPACT The PAR process in Lugendo has allowed community members to meet and discuss together on the conflicts between them. Although the PAR was focused on the water supply, participants took the opportunity to discuss other conflicts, including the power struggle that forced the replacement of the Lugendo leader and was aggravated by conflicts over drinking water. The practice of dialogue is gradually taking root with the collaboration of the authorities and the members of the CLPD. PROUDEST MOMENT The gathering of all stakeholders in the Lugendo water supply conflict during the dialogue was an opportunity for the community to have more explanations about the failure of the water network and an opportunity to listen to the service provider organization about the community's follow-up. LESSONS LEARNED Although the water-related conflict exacerbated the traditional power conflict at the group level, it was found that the mere fact of relieving the group leader of his duties was not a solution to either the water problem or the power problem. The divisions were throughout the village, affecting the power conflict, the resolution of the water supply conflict, and the provision of drinking water.
USAID.GOV SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT | 79 PARTNER NAME: ICJP GRANT TITLE Tupeane Amani Wa Ndungu (Let Us PHOTO Give Peace)
CONTRIBUTES Objective: I TO OBJECTIVE Indicators: 1.2b, Ia, 2.3a, 2.a, 3.1 & INDICATORS TARGET AREA Territory: Kalehe Groupement: Mbinga North TOTAL Amount: $103,990 AMOUNT AND Disbursed: 100% % DISBURSED PERIOD OF December 13, 2017 – December 30, PERFORMANCE 2018 GRANT ICJP contributes to strengthening the SUMMARY capacity of local leaders in good and inclusive local governance through in the Mbinga North groupement, in Participants at a participatory conflict analysis Kalehe territory. workshop in Bubale II RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS) • Participatory conflict analysis workshop at Bubale I and Bubale II (I.2b). • Validation of participatory conflict analyses in Mbinga North (Ia). • Development of the peace consolidation plan for the Mbinga North group (I.2b). • Production of three governance and security reports to prevent conflicts between communities. • Distribution of key peace messages and texts on human rights protection laws to 625 volunteers. • Broadcasting of 3 radio programs on peace and human rights (2.3a) • Material support for the 6 CLPDs (2.a). • Organized monitoring and evaluation missions for project activities IMPACT There is increased community involvement through local structures and authorities in the search for solutions to various conflicts in Mbinga North. The leader of Mbinga North, accompanied by members of the CLPD, travelled to Bukavu to ask the SPR project to conduct a transformation process of the analyzed conflicts, going beyond just the elves of analysis. PROUDEST MOMENT The validation of five conflict analyses was a moment of community participation, as people who were not directly involved in the process contributed to the final document. For the participants, the project must not remain at the level of theoretical analysis; it is necessary to find ways to transform these conflicts, in support of community structures. LESSONS LEARNED Interventions in Mbinga North must take into account the existing local development plan. Mbinga North is an isolated environment overlooked by humanitarian intervention, despite a great need for it. The majority of organizations operating in Mbinga North do not incorporate the local development plan because projects are developed without taking into account the real needs of the community. Many of the leaders of Mbinga North do not know that they are serving the community and want to be paid each time for community work they do.
80 | SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT USAID.GOV PARTNER NAME: ISPDE GRANT TITLE Social Cohesion Project for the PHOTOS: Community of Conflict Analysis in lbanda and Bagira CONTRIBUTES Objective: 1 TO OBJECTIVE & Indicators: 1a, 1b, 1.2a, 1.2b, INDICATORS TARGET AREA Territory: Bukavu Groupements: Ibanda, Bagira TOTAL Amount: $89,818 AMOUNT AND Disbursed: 100% Photo1 : Participants à l’atelier de % DISBURSED présentation du processus RAP à Ibanda PERIOD OF April 18, 2018 – April 17, 2019 PERFORMANCE GRANT This project contributes to the SUMMARY consolidation of peace and social cohesion by (i) implementing CLPDs, (ii) conducting participatory conflict analyses, (iii) organizing PARs with communities, and (iv) defining and Photo 2 : Les chercheurs communautaires de la implementing participatory actions. commune d’IBANDA en formation sur la RAP RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS) • 2 community forums for the validation of results in Ibanda and Bagira (1.2b, Ia). • 1 presentation of conflict analyses at the provincial level (Ia). • 4 meetings to present the RAP process in Ibanda and Bagira (I.2a). • 2 training workshops on RAP data collection in Ibanda and Bagira (I.2a). • 1 collection of RAP data in two municipalities by community researchers in Ibanda and Bagira (I.2a) • Development and validation of two peacebuilding plans in Ibanda and Bagira. • 1 community forum to present the results of the Ibanda and Bagira PAR and advocacy related to the conflict analysis process. Preparation and validation of two peacebuilding plans in Ibanda and Bagira. IMPACT The collection of data on RAP themes at the level of two municipalities has involved collaboration between all social strata and community researchers. For members of community structures (CLPD), the peacebuilding plan has been a tool for community engagement once objectives were set to achieve social cohesion in their community. The municipal authorities have shown interest in supporting the results of the PAR process, especially in the conflict related to the bankruptcy of MFIs/Savings and Credit Unions. PROUDEST MOMENT The presentation of data to the population of Ibanda and Bagira on the PAR themes and the seriousness with which CLPD members are identifying possible solutions shows the need to respond to the various conflicts identified, especially the conflict related to the bankruptcy of MFIs/Savings and Credit Unions, and the loss of investments by their members. The participation of the political, administrative, judicial and responsible authorities of the Central Bank of Congo in the advocacy sessions was a first in this conflict. MFIs' clients expressed their wishes to the various authorities and the latter have committed themselves to seek solutions to this conflict, which has greatly impoverished the South Kivu Province. LESSONS LEARNED It is important to consider local capacities: Members of CLPDs, from the communities to the provincial authority, have been receptive and better understand the context, factors, actors, causes, and consequences of conflicts, contrary to what the team thought. The managers, proponents, and facilitators showed willingness to meet in community dialogue for a solution, which was previously doubtful.
USAID.GOV SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT | 81 PARTNER NAME: SPR Direct Implementation: Objective 1 GRANT TITLE N/A PHOTOS
CONTRIBUTES Objective: 1 TO OBJECTIVE Indicators: 1.1, 1.5, 1.16 & INDICATORS TARGET AREA North Kivu and South Kivu TOTAL N/A AMOUNT AND % DISBURSED PERIOD OF August 30, 2018 – August 29, 2019 PERFORMANCE GRANT The project aims to increase women Participants being trained on advocacy and SUMMARY and OMGs’ participation in communication at the Mbiza Hotel in Goma on community-based conflict analysis, October 18, 2018 prevention, resolution, and recovery in eastern DRC. RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS) • 4 training sessions on conflict sensitivity attended by 154 organizations (80 in North Kivu, with 24 women and 56 men, and 74 in South Kivu, with 21 women and 53 men). • 4 advocacy and communication training sessions attended by 166 organizations (84 in North Kivu, with 28 women and 56 men, and 82 in South Kivu, with 31 women and 51 men). • Presentation of conflict dynamics and mapping, and training of state services on peaceful conflict transformation techniques and community dialogue in North and South Kivu. • Training of partners and community structure members on how to support community structures. • Administration of the knowledge index and control practices to CSO partners implementing conflict analysis and research activities in North and South Kivu. IMPACT Several participants admitted awareness that most of their interventions have created serious conflicts and divisions in intervention areas. With these trainings, CSOs have increased their knowledge in conflict sensitivity, advocacy, and communication. They have begun to conduct conflict-sensitive analyses and their interventions already take into account the local context. State services resolved to promote social cohesion efforts by supporting community efforts. Understanding conflict dynamics raises the need to renew context analyses where decision-makers work and accept the value of transforming conflicts to aid development. PROUDEST MOMENT Training on conflict sensitivity informed partners how unexpected conflict situations can arise from their interventions due to incomplete context analysis of the project areas. The conflict mapping presentation of for SPR project areas helped services understand the dynamics that fuel conflicts and the key factors on which social actors must work to bring about positive changes. The community dialogue process discussions allowed state services to understand the need to be legal and fair when working with parties in conflict while advocating for a peaceful resolution for all involved. LESSONS LEARNED All interventions must take into account conflict sensitivity. Many members of CSOs did not realize the importance of having conflict-sensitive activities in their areas of intervention. Exercises asked community members to debate amongst themselves several times before making a decision in order to understand the serious consequences that can result from hasty decision-making. Conflict sensitivity was a little-known theme for many CSOs in North and South Kivu.
82 | SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT USAID.GOV PARTNER NAME: ACODEPA IBANDA GRANT TITLE: Building the capacity of community PHOTOS: structures, local peace and development committees towards the promotion of social cohesion and peace consolidation in the municipality of lbanda, Bukavu City CONTRIBUTES Objective I, Objective 2 TO OBJECTIVE & Indicators: 2.3a INDICATORS: TARGET AREA: Territory: Bukavu Groupement: Ibanda • Les participants à l'atelier d’élaboration TOTAL Amount: $76,554.55 du plan en plein carrefour AMOUNT AND Disbursed: 100% % DISBURSED: PERIOD OF December 13, 2017 – April 30, 2019 PERFORMANCE: GRANT Contributes to promotion of social SUMMARY: cohesion and consolidation of peace in Ibanda and Bukavu. Specifically, this project aims to strengthen the capacities of CLPD members • Le dialogue sur la définition des through conflicts analysis training, stratégies sécuritaire au bureau du Quartier positive transformation and peace Nyalukemba mobilization, and provide ongoing support to regularly monitor security governance improvement. RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS) • Production and animation of 15 radio programs on peaceful coexistence and three videos on the state of social cohesion in Ibanda (2.3a). • Workshop to develop a community plan to consolidate security governance in Ibanda. • 24 field trips for follow-up of field activities. • 4 support meetings of the advocacy network. • Three months of support in data collection and security incident reporting to 11 CLPDs and 1 local security committee (2a). • Four presentation sessions on organized security data. • Organization of 3 dialogues on the definition of security strategies. IMPACT Members of peace structures discussed pertinent security issues with local authorities and services. Together, they reviewed the various security incidents recorded and developed community and administrative management mechanisms. PROUDEST MOMENT The development of the local security governance plan between the authorities (administrative and police) led to great discussions on security in Ibanda. Together with the authorities, the community has developed political, administrative and community strategies to improve security. LESSONS LEARNED Authorities alone cannot ensure the safety and protection of citizens. Various meetings about security incidents demonstrated that authorities are not able to manage certain incidents despite the resources at their disposal. This leads to public denouncements of perpetrators and, unfortunately, popular justice.
USAID.GOV SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT | 83 PARTNER NAME: ADEPAE GRANT TITLE: Project to strengthen youth PHOTOS: participation and engagement in conflict transformation in South Kivu, Bukavu City CONTRIBUTES Objective I, Objective 2 TO OBJECTIVE & Indicators: 2a, 2.3.b, 2.3.c, 3.3.b INDICATORS: TARGET AREA: Territory: Bukavu Groupements: Ibanda, Bagira TOTAL Amount: $87,126.53 AMOUNT AND Disbursed: 100% % DISBURSED: PERIOD OF April 25, 2018 – February 28, 2019 PERFORMANCE: GRANT This project aims to contribute to SUMMARY: strengthen social cohesion, the Participants at an inter-university conference promotion and adoption of a culture of peace, non-violence, and youth civic engagement in Bukavu. RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS) • Forum on the role of youth in promoting peace, social cohesion and governance in Bagira (3.3b). • 2 conferences attended by 150 students at the Evangelical University in Africa in Ibanda (3.3b). • 4 inter-community projects organized in Ibanda and Bagira to contribute to sanitation in Bukavu. • 4 inter-youth dialogues on the basic framework organized in Ibanda and Bagira (3.3b). • 4 public debates with 200 participants on the culture of peace, the promotion of non-violence, and security for Ibanda and Bagira (3.3b). • 8 support structures in Ibanda and Bagira (2.a). • 3 social forums organized in Ibanda and Bagira. • 50 young leaders participated in a capacity building workshop on leadership, governance, and the role of political parties in conflict management in Ibanda and Bagira (3.3b). IMPACT There is strong youth involvement in the various activities and a concern to reflect on the problem of peaceful coexistence in the region. A determination to make things happen is characteristic of most young people, who give priority to continuous capacity building in order to take charge of their lives. PROUDEST MOMENT Involvement of young people in discussions on the promotion of peace and social cohesion. ADEPAE organized 4 social dialogues on peace, promotion of non-violence and security, gathering 200 people. It was a great moment of sharing experiences and good practices. LESSONS LEARNED Young people play a leading role in promoting social cohesion in their living environments and can do more if they have the confidence of adults and authorities. The project has framed biker structures. We learned that these bikers, if they are considered in activities that engage them, they put into practice the code of good behavior learned at the weekly moral talks.
84 | SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT USAID.GOV PARTNER NAME: SYNIGL Synergie d'Initiative pour les Grand Lacs GRANT TITLE Research project on the activism of PHOTOS: armed groups in South Kivu: Relations and dynamics between armed groups and communities in Kalehe and Walungu territory. CONTRIBUTES Objective I TO OBJECTIVE Indicators: 1.3a, 1.3b, 1.3c & INDICATORS TARGET AREA Territory: Walungu, Kalehe Groupements: Mulamba, Mbinga North TOTAL Amount: $90,769 AMOUNT AND Disbursed: 100% % DISBURSED PERIOD OF February 2, 2018 – March 31, 2019 PERFORMANCE GRANT This research highlights the • Amani Center: For 4 days, researchers, SUMMARY relationships and dynamics between readers and the SYNIGL team withdrew to work armed groups and local communities in a quiet place to produce the articles to be in the province. The research is published carried out by Congolese researchers using robust research methods and under SPR oversight as part of its researcher capacity building objective. RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS) • 2 workshop presentations and discussions on research results and report validation (1.3a, 1.3b, 1.3c). • Organization of the article validation retreat (1.3a, 1.3b, 1.3c). • Organization of a review of the two articles by two independent academic experts (1.3a, 1.3b, 1.3c). • 2 scientific articles finalized and awaiting publication (1.3a, 1.3b, 1.3c). IMPACT Documentation exists that provides information on armed groups and the actors involved in peacebuilding can consult the existing report. For the moment, project partners are using the report to properly analyze the context. PROUDEST MOMENT Production of the two articles finalized for publication. The timing of meetings with children associated with armed forces and groups has been a highlight of the research because they provided useful information and they illuminated several situations that adults could not explain well. LESSONS LEARNED Very often mines hide several realities and violations of rights. We learned through the study that the purpose of the struggle of armed groups scattered over the South Kivu is much more the defense of the interests of their communities. If we want to promote peace, we must work on local governance and community empowerment.
USAID.GOV SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT | 85 PARTNER NAME: FOSI GRANT TITLE Forum SIDA PHOTOS
CONTRIBUTES Objectives: 2 and 3 TO OBJECTIVE Indicators: 2.2a, 2.3b, 2.3c, 3.3a et 3.3b & INDICATORS Session of the material developed on day TARGET AREA Territory: Masisi 1 on the characteristics of a good female Groupement: Kibabi leader TOTAL Amount: $52,920.49 AMOUNT AND Disbursed: 48.7% % DISBURSED PERIOD OF April 13, 2018 – March 12, 2019 PERFORMANCE GRANT This project contributes to the search SUMMARY for participatory and inclusive solutions for women & OMGs through continuous construction and the development of their individual and collective skills in transformational leadership. RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS) • 4 in-depth and 18 regular mentoring sessions on transformational leadership (160 women & OMGs). • 27 meetings between women, OMGs, and local authorities in localities with 160 women & OMGs, 9 formal leaders, and 72 local and traditional leaders. • 2 interactive dialogue framework meetings held between women & OMGS and authorities. • 28 awareness-raising sessions and mass mobilizations carried out in Kibabi and 3,396 people instructed on peace and social cohesion with women & OMGs. • 1 peaceful public demonstration leading to community work bringing together 160 women & OMGs and 20 formal leaders. • 1 exchange of experience between women & OMGs held in Lutingita on International Women's Day with 270 participants, including 160 women & OMGs and local authorities and leaders. • 40 Women & OMGs trained on women's rights and protections. IMPACT Involvement of women & OMGs in project implementation is a sign of sustainability. Interactions between women & OMGs and local decision-makers led to solutions to local problems of women & OMG’s participation in the decision-making process in terms of peace and local governance. There is solidarity within women & OMGs within mentoring clubs, without discrimination, rejection and stigmatization. PROUDEST MOMENT 6 women & OMGs from the Club Maendeleo de Bukumbiriri were honored by their local intelligence service as part of good participatory governance and inclusion of women & OMGs. Several local social cohesion initiatives were initiated by women & OMGs in certain localities (clearing of gutters, rehabilitation of certain agricultural access roads, etc.). In addition, 8 clubs successfully advocated for the removal of compulsory contributions to local chiefs and the gender officer. LESSONS LEARNED In-depth mentoring sessions are critically important as they prepare club activities that document successes and strengthen the development of women & OMGs’ transformational leadership skills. Advocacy and mobilization by women & OMGs is more effective and leads decision-makers to decide in their favor rather than doing so on their behalf.
86 | SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT USAID.GOV PARTNER NAME: RFEDI GRANT TITLE Strengthening social cohesion and PHOTOS promoting the rights of women and other marginalized groups in Goma. CONTRIBUTES Objective 2 TO OBJECTIVE Indicators: 2.1a; 2.2a; 2.3; 2.3c & INDICATORS TARGET AREA Territory: Goma Groupement: Karisimbi & Goma TOTAL Amount: $79,804.97 AMOUNT AND Disbursed: 39.66% % DISBURSED PERIOD OF September 1, 2018 – May 31, 2019 Women and OMG of Goma participating in PERFORMANCE exchanges experiences session on leadership GRANT This project contributes to and advocacy (CML Katoyi & CML Himbi, SUMMARY strengthening social cohesion 13 février 2019). Above and below, through the effective inclusion of meetings between women & OMGs and women and other marginalized authorities of Mabanga Sud. groups in peacebuilding in the city of Goma. RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS) • 40 women and AGMs participated in a workshop to reinforce leadership capacities; 165 coaching meetings with 220 participants (women and AGMs); 6 interclub experience exchanges. • 40 public servants trained on a government initiative; 16 meetings between FAGM and local authorities at the neighborhood level, and 4 meetings between FAGM and local communal authorities. • Raising public awareness via the elaboration of 2 themes, produced in 45 copies, for FAGM capacity building; 1 forum on leadership and 1 open house. IMPACT • The authorities who work with the clubs express their satisfaction by referencing the actions of women and AGMs in the districts and ask them to extend the clubs in the 18 districts of the city of Goma. Their participation and involvement have contributed to the progress of the activities carried out by FAGMs, which would not have been possible without their support. Women and AGMs are represented between 30% and 40% in peace and development committees and on the Security Council; women have acquired leadership positions and are more interested in exercising their rights. PROUDEST MOMENT • The full participation of mentors in the activities and the organization of several meetings. The effective inclusion of authorities in reconciliation sessions on the challenges that prevent the participation and inclusion of women and other AGMs in key decision-making processes. • The development of sustainability strategies for activities organized by 6 mentorship clubs. LESSONS LEARNED The creation of a framework for exchange between women, AGM and authorities has helped these two parties understand each other's limits in the search for peace, but also helps to bring FAGMs closer to the authorities.
USAID.GOV SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT | 87 PARTNER NAME: CPGRBC GRANT TITLE The increased involvement of PHOTOS women, youth, and OMGs in local governance In Biiri for integrated peace CONTRIBUTES Objective: 2 TO OBJECTIVE Indicators: 2.3b, 2.2a & INDICATORS TARGET AREA Territory: Masisi Groupement: Biiri TOTAL Amount: $56,210 AMOUNT AND Disbursed: 66.7% % DISBURSED PERIOD OF January 15, 2018 – June 30, 2019 PERFORMANCE GRANT Contributes to the search for SUMMARY participatory and inclusive solutions for women and OMGs to achieve sustainable social cohesion by engaging them in local Mentorship session for OMGs and Biiri governance, increasing their roles leadership in community management for peacebuilding and by establishing collaboration with local leaders. RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS) • 40 coaching sessions for 10 mentoring clubs located in 5 Biiri localities, with 200 participants (2.3b). • 1 community dialogue between OMGs and authorities, with100 participants (10 formal authorities, 10 local leaders and 80 OMGs (2.2a). IMPACT Initial interactions between OMGs and local decision-makers led to possible palliative solutions to local problems of women's participation and OMGs. PROUDEST MOMENT Initiation of a mechanism for consultation and dialogue between FAGM and local authorities on issues of peace and governance and seeking the inclusion of women in decision-making bodies in the search for peace. The revitalization of leadership mentoring clubs through material support (communication cards, refreshment and work supplies) has led to the active participation of FAGMs in CMLs and a reflection on sustainability.
LESSONS LEARNED Addressing social cohesion questions is necessary as it provokes a fruitful exchange between OMGs, allowing for the effective orientation of awareness messages for peace and pacific cohabitation. The mentoring sessions. In-depth mentoring sessions are critically important as they prepare club activities that document successes and effectively strengthen the development of women's and OMGs’ transformational leadership skills.
88 | SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT USAID.GOV PARTNER NAME: Vivre Loin des Vagues (VIVAG) GRANT TITLE Contribute to peacebuilding and PHOTOS community recovery in Muvunyi Shanga through inclusion of women & OMGs CONTRIBUTES Objective 2 TO OBJECTIVE Indicators: 2a, 2.3b, 2.3c, 2.1a, 2.3a, & INDICATORS 2.1a TARGET AREA Groupement: Muvunyi Shanga TOTAL Amount: $36,103.80 AMOUNT AND Disbursed: 100% % DISBURSED PERIOD OF April 13, 2018 – December 30, PERFORMANCE 2018 GRANT Peace and community rebuilding in SUMMARY the Muvunyi Shanga groupement through the inclusion of women Dialogue between authorities and OMGs in and other marginalized groups in Lutobogo community decision-making bodies. RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS) • 140 OMGs accompanied in mentoring clubs, with 20 OMGs per community. • More than 700 OMGs took part in the 5 community mobilization sessions on the transformation of norms and behaviors. • 14 practical action sessions with local authorities, in which at least 120 OMGs participated. • Training workshop on positive masculinity conducted with 30 people including 23 men and 7 women. IMPACT • Granting fields to some women in the Bishange area as an inheritance. • Strengthened closeness between OMGs and local authorities. • Appointment of some OMGs to community decision-making positions; one Pygmy woman was appointed to the village kapita position and another became leader in the Kabase locality. • Change in mentality of some OMGs who, through awareness sessions in mentorship clubs, have decided to marry their wives. PROUDEST MOMENT • In the encounter between the VIVAG staff and the chief of the Bahunde chiefdom, the latter stated that he oversees many marriages in his locality free of charge thanks to the awareness-raising of VIVAG within the framework of the SPR project. • A Pygmy woman from the Shasha village of Kituva publicly expressed her desire to apply to the provincial legislature one day to plead the causes of pygmies because she feels prepared to do so thanks to all the lessons she has received in mentoring clubs. LESSONS LEARNED It is important to consider climate disruptions in business planning. It is wise to invite at least one local authority in all activities for good implementation and to ensure that there is a follow-up on the recommendations.
USAID.GOV SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT | 89 PARTNER NAME: Association des Femmes des Médias (AFEM) GRANT TITLE Promoting social cohesion and the PHOTOS autonomy of women & OMGs by media bias CONTRIBUTES Objective 2 and 3 TO OBJECTIVE Indicators 2a, 2.3; 2.3a, 3, 3a & INDICATORS TARGET AREA Territory: Bukavu Groupements: Lugendo, Ishungu, Kabare; Communes Ibanda, Bagira, Bukavu City TOTAL Total Amount: $28,903.16 AMOUNT AND Disbursed: 100% % DISBURSED PERIOD OF April 23, 2018 – February 15, 2019 PERFORMANCE GRANT This project contributes to SUMMARY promoting the inclusion and participation of women and OMGs Members of a support group at Bagira after in Lugendo, Ishungu, Bagira and a meeting. Ibanda in research on peace, empowerment and peaceful • coexistence; advocating through radio for the change of discriminatory social norms for social cohesion and community development. RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS) • 2 public forums organized for 140 people (69 men and 71 women). • 1 radio spot to raise awareness on the role of women and OMGs in peacebuilding. • 15 broadcasts on 5 women's empowerment programs and social cohesion. • 18 meetings for members of organized support groups and members of groups committed to spreading social cohesion messages in their neighborhoods. • 6 meetings on radio production for 100 people organized in Bukavu and Kabare. • 2 follow-up activities on the project’s 4 intervention topics. IMPACT The parents of Lugendo and Ishungu became aware of their role in promoting equality between girls and boys and "normal" children in relation to those with disabilities and/or young mothers from other villages. Messages promoting social cohesion and peace have been approved by local authorities, confirming previous commitments. Two women from the 10 listening clubs participated in safety meetings. PROUDEST MOMENT The public forum held in Ishungu was a moment when the traditional chiefs of Ishungu committed to fighting discrimination against women in their village and will start integrating them into decision-making positions in order to have a female voice in the leadership of the village. LESSONS LEARNED Women in Lugendo and Ishungu must be informed via radio about awareness and monitoring efforts to participate in the peace process, because if they are not informed, they will not know how best to help their village. Lugendo and Ishungu already know the project and are available to prepare journalists and radio programs.
90 | SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT USAID.GOV PARTNER NAME: Caritas Developpement Bukavu GRANT TITLE Support to CSOs and Local PHOTOS Associations in the Actions of Social Cohesion and Women’s Empowerment in Lugendo and Ishungu CONTRIBUTES Objective 2 TO OBJECTIVE Indicators: 2.a, 2.b, 2.1.a, 2.2.a, 2.3.a, & INDICATORS 2.3.b, 2.3.c2.1.a, 3.1.b, 3.3.b TARGET AREA Territory: Kabare Groupements: Lugendo, Ishungu TOTAL Total Amount: $142,981.26 AMOUNT AND Disbursed: 100% % DISBURSED PERIOD OF February 19, 2018 – February 28, PERFORMANCE 2019 GRANT The project aims to empower SUMMARY women and OMGs in the Lugendo Group creating a consultation framework and Ishungu groups through between women and the members of CLOCs activities to strengthen the in Lugendo and local chiefs. cognitive capacities of local authorities, women and OMGs, as well as strengthening cooperation between authorities and communities through CLOCs. RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS) • 18 meetings between women & OMGs and local authorities to discuss factors that adversely affect their inclusion in local governance (157 participants: 81 women, 36 men and 40 local authorities). • 81 meetings with CLOCs, 22 successful mediations, 12 advocacy actions, 15 social cohesion awareness sessions, and 3 mentoring sessions for women members of CLOCs. • Awareness-raising radio shows covering meetings between local authorities and women & OMGs. • Established 2 networks for women in Lugendo and Ishungu to exchange information and experiences. • Supported income-generating activities of 11 livelihood groups with 185 members. IMPACT About 26 women & OMGs from Lugendo and Ishungu participated in local government. They were promised different positions in local decision-making bodies (head of sub-villages responsible for 10 houses). The views of women & OMGs are now being considered in the groups. PROUDEST MOMENT Women have applied to leadership in villages in Lugendo and Ishungu. Some have been designated village chiefs responsible for 10 houses in their groups. This is unprecedented in these groups’ history. LESSONS LEARNED The natural mechanism for peaceful conflict resolution, which includes CLOCs made up of a majority of women & OMGs, has produced results within the community. CLOC-led mediation has led to compromises. Women can negotiate and lead grassroots entities when they have the opportunity and are supported.
USAID.GOV SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT | 91 PARTNER NAME: Centre de Formation et d’Action pour le Développement (CFAD) GRANT TITLE Contributing to Social Cohesion PHOTOS through Inclusion of Women and OMGs in Mbinga North and Bukavu, South Kivu CONTRIBUTES Objectives 2, 3 TO OBJECTIVE Indicators: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.a, & INDICATORS 2.1.a, 2.3.b, 2.3.c, 2.2.a, 3.3.b TARGET AREA Territory: Bukavu, Kalehe Groupements: Bagira, Ibanda, Mbinga North TOTAL Total Amount: $75,892.08 AMOUNT AND Disbursed: 100% % DISBURSED PERIOD OF April 23, 2018 – June 29, 2019 PERFORMANCE GRANT This project contributes to social SUMMARY cohesion by including women and Group photo of a participatory governance OMGs in community management training of traditional political authorities in for decision-making and by Mbinga North. involving political and customary authorities, based on individual consulting, participatory action and advocacy activities between women and OMGs. RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS) • 14 mentorship clubs conducted regular coaching activities, including 5 clubs revitalized in Ibanda and 9 new clubs created (3 in Bagira and 7 in Mbinga North). • 44 authorities trained in participatory governance (22 in Bukavu and 22 in Mbinga North). • 5 meetings (1 in Bukavu and 4 in Mbinga North) between women, OMGs and traditional leaders as well as formal authorities on local women's issues and OMGs in Bukavu and Mbinga North. • 2 support sessions and implementation of participatory governance action plans in Bukavu. • 2cCultural fairs: 1 in Bukavu and 1 in Mbinga North. • 1 experience-sharing session on strategies for sustaining the transformational leadership mentoring approach of the Bukavu and Mbinga North women & OMGs. IMPACT CFAD's awareness-raising activities helped Pygmy women integrate into the community and participate in community work and local governance. Two women (1 pygmy) from Mbinga North have been appointed heads of their sub-villages (Kabulu 1 and Myianzi). Bagira's administrative authorities included women and OMGs in security meetings. Strengthened social cohesion between women & OMGs of Bukavu and Mbinga North mentorship clubs mobilized communities in support of positive and encouraging attitudes for their participation in decision-making, peacebuilding and social cohesion. Their involvement with local leaders, CLPDs, and formal authorities will make the mentoring approach sustainable in the future. PROUDEST MOMENT Mbinga North's mentorship clubs in leadership have organized themselves by village to meet pygmies in the camps where they live (Myianzi, Kabulu1 and 2, Bubale 1 and 2). LESSONS LEARNED Involving FAGMs in activities lets them provide solutions and participate in decision-making. A good collaboration among all project actors ensures the sustainability of project activities in the field.
92 | SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT USAID.GOV PARTNER NAME: Commission Diocésaine Justice et Paix (CDJP APS/Bukavu) GRANT TITLE Strengthening social cohesion PHOTOS through community recovery in the Lugendo groupement in Kabare Territory CONTRIBUTES Objectives: 2, 3 TO OBJECTIVE Indicators: 1.1b, 2a, 2.1a, 2b, 2.3a, & INDICATORS 2.3b, 3.1a, 3.3a, and 3.3b TARGET AREA Territory: Kabare Groupement: Lugendo TOTAL Total Amount: $147,622 AMOUNT AND Disbursed: 100% % DISBURSED PERIOD OF March 21, 2018 – January 20, 2019 PERFORMANCE
GRANT This project aims to contribute to SUMMARY equal rights and opportunities for Assembly of spectators during mass men and women in Lugendo by awareness-raising via participatory theater advancing equal participation in activities in Lugendo, November 18, 2018. peace-building and contributing to socioeconomic recovery. RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS) • 4 radio shows on gender, stereotypes, and social cohesion popularized by UN Resolution 1325. • 50 beneficiaries (48 women, 2 men) with agropastoral IGAs received 88 goats and 12 pigs while sharing 2 community fields. • 50 marginalized single mothers trained in sewing, with 50 sewing machines distributed. • 37 men and 83 women attended a meeting on UN Resolution 1325 and a gender meeting where one woman was chosen as Nyumba Kumi and another ran for provincial delegate; • 4 mass awareness programs through theatrical activities bringing together more than 4500 spectators. • 40 participants trained in leadership, organization and management of the CBO. • 3 follow-ups on IGAs carried out at the beneficiaries' homes. • 5 football matches for peace and cohesion played by 4 teams of 16 young people from Lugendo. • 1 song festival for peace and social cohesion organized in front of about 1200 spectators; • 3 community forums on reinsurance split in 3 topics in the 5 villages with more than 222 people; • An ideas fair was organized with 80 people (48 women and 32 men). IMPACT There is renewed hope in women and OMGs for socioeconomic reintegration into their communities and their increased empowerment. Prejudices and perceptions of them are significantly reduced and social cohesion and peace between them and the Lugendo group are strengthened. PROUDEST MOMENT The testimony of Innocent Cikuru, player and captain of the "Umoja" team: "I am amazed to be playing and coalescing with people who have been lifetime opponents against my twin brother’s team. Thanks to this tournament, we have familiarized ourselves with the spirit of fair play, forgiveness, and acceptance of others, in order to adopt an exemplary and responsible behavior in our community.” LESSONS LEARNED Involving and empowering women and OMGs in community activities not only encourages and gives hope to them, but also facilitates their integration and allows the community to benefit from their services while reducing the perceptions of these women.
USAID.GOV SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT | 93 PARTNER NAME: RADIO MAENDELEO (RM) GRANT TITLE Contributing to social cohesion PHOTOS through the inclusion of women and OMGs in Mbinga North, Karhongo, Lurhala, and Kamisimbi in South Kivu through peace radio programming for mobilization and awareness CONTRIBUTES Objectives: 2, 3 TO OBJECTIVE Indicators: 2a, 2.1a, 2.3a, 2.2a, 3.3a & INDICATORS TARGET AREA Territory: Kalehe, Walungu Groupements: Karhongo, Kamisimbi Lurhala, Mbinga North TOTAL Total Amount: $29,262 AMOUNT AND Disbursed: 100¨% % DISBURSED PERIOD OF April 19, 2018 – May 15, 2019 PERFORMANCE GRANT This project aims to contribute to SUMMARY the social cohesion of communities Core members of a support group in Mbinga through the involvement of women North in a meeting on November 25, 2018. and other marginalized groups in the production of radio programs that raise awareness and mobilize communities for a positive transformation of norms in favor of inclusion and gender.
RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS) • 2 broadcasts produced in Lurhala and Mbinga North. • 3 follow-up meetings and re-laucnch of core support groups in Kamisimbi, Lurhala and Mbinga North • 2 consultation sessions and sensitization of authorities in Mbinga North and Lurhala (40 participants). • 552 broadcast spots on the consolidation of peace and the change in norms. • 38 produced radio spots diffused by radio partners. • 21 core members and support groups formed on the techniques of radio production. IMPACT There is an increase in the involvement and participation of women in decision-making and the integration of OMGs in their respective communities, especially through organizations and state structures. PROUDEST MOMENT The airing of public broadcasts and sensitization sessions for authorities: the different actors of groups targeted by the project engaged together to ban contrary values in their respective areas and to reinforce that positive cooperation between authorities and the population. LESSONS LEARNED If the leaders of local organizations include people representing varying ethnic backgrounds, peaceful cohabitation is possible.
94 | SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT USAID.GOV PARTNER NAME: Consortium Centre OLAME – TGD GRANT TITLE Project for the promotion and PHOTOS consolidation of peace in the groupement of Mbinga North CONTRIBUTES Objective: 3 TO OBJECTIVE Indicators: 3.3b, 3.1b, 3.3a & INDICATORS TARGET AREA Territory: Kalehe Groupement: Mbinga North TOTAL Total Amount: $103,210 AMOUNT AND % Disbursed: 100% % DISBURSED PERIOD OF January 19, 2018 – October 31, 2018 PERFORMANCE GRANT This project aims to significantly SUMMARY improve community cohabitation and peacebuilding, in particular to accompany and support the communal structures of Mbinga North in order to develop peace and Socioeconomic activity in Mbinga North, strengthen the integration of Kalehe. economic and social systems in peace-building and development. RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS) • 30 people (9 women and 21 men) trained in advocacy and gender approaches based on UN Resolution 1325. • 960 members (485 women, 475 men) of community peace and mediation structures shared their experiences. • 2 community advocacy dialogues addressed to the authorities of Muganzo and Sanzi. • Awareness was raised in Mbinga North on messages of peace, peaceful coexistence, non- discrimination of OMGs and respect for gender through two radio programs. • 350 women and other groups supported with socioeconomic kits in Sanzi, Muganzo, Kinyezire and Magango. IMPACT There is improved social cohesion between 4 supported sub-villages and other villages through the plan implemented and trade between the communities. The advocacy capacity of LCPDs and community members has improved, obtaining permission from a concessionaire in Muganzo village to use their road to reach its plantations. PROUDEST MOMENT There are improved relations between people accompanied in social therapeutic and social integration groups due to past conflicts with other members. Social cohesion between 4 villages has been strengthened, in addition to support for sub-village communities and the creation of a market in Magango, facilitated by socioeconomic support and the implementation of integral activities. LESSONS LEARNED The exchange sessions between community structures—whether supported or not—provide a global vision not only of how to move forward and how to define improved perspectives for the future, but also of project closure and expected results.
USAID.GOV SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT | 95 PARTNER NAME: Appui aux Initiatives de Bien-Etre Familial, AIBEF GRANT TITLE Peace for Development in three PHOTOS groupements: Karhongo, Lurhala, and Kamisimbi CONTRIBUTES Objective 3 TO OBJECTIVE Indicators: 3.1b, 3b, 3.2d, 3.3b & INDICATORS TARGET AREA Territory: Walungu Groupement: Karhongo, Lurhala, and Kamisimbi TOTAL Total Amount: $91,923.23 AMOUNT AND Disbursed: 100% % DISBURSED Football match for peace at Karhongo PERIOD OF April 23, 2018 – April 30, 2019 PERFORMANCE GRANT The project aims to strengthen social SUMMARY cohesion by improving livelihoods, providing equal access to community resources and building trust in local authorities and communities through social cohesion dialogues and events.
Contextualization discussion in Lurhala
RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS) • 40 women and 20 members of OMG groups trained in the AVEC approach in Lurhala. • 3 rejuvenated parent committees. • 2 community development plans developed and validated. • 60% of the members of the users' committee are revitalized groups of women and OMGs. • 6 football matches to build confidence and promote peace. IMPACT Strengthened trust and social cohesion between communities: in Lurhala, between the communities of Ciherano and Lurhala who participated in a leadership debate on the management of the Karhongo; between parents and teachers who oppose the payment of bribes (corruption) in Kamisimbi; between the associations CINAMULA and AMAKA who contested the ownership of the Muku health center. PROUDEST MOMENT The organization of matches to promote peace and peaceful coexistence between groups in conflict who previously lived apart and did not communicate. The ownership of community development plans and social cohesion by the community to such an extent that the head of the Kamisimbi group agreed to cede land for the construction of a market in the event that a partner was available. It should be noted that in the field of trade within this group, the main problem and source of conflict is the absence of a market. LESSONS LEARNED The more informed the authorities are, the more they understand the approach, strategies and implementation of the program, so that they are involved in monitoring the results and achieving the project objectives.
96 | SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT USAID.GOV PARTNER NAME: COUD GRANT TITLE Jibu Ni Kwetu Sisi Kwa Amani Na PHOTOS Maendeleo Ya Lugendo Na Ishungu “We are the answers to Peace and Development in Lugendo and Ishungu” CONTRIBUTES Objective 3 TO OBJECTIVE Indicators: 3.3a, 3.1a, 3.3b & INDICATORS TARGET AREA Territory: Kabare Groupements: Lugendo, Ishungu TOTAL Total Amount: $76,382.8 AMOUNT AND Disbursed: 100% % DISBURSED PERIOD OF April 25, 2018 – November 24, 2018 PERFORMANCE GRANT The project supports the structures Festival for peace and social cohesion in SUMMARY of the basic social sectors and the the groupement at Lugendo. two groups with strategic advocacy documents for social cohesion while focusing on the inclusion of women and marginalized groups in committees and decision-making. RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS) • 8 service improvement plans (4 each in Lugendo and Ishungu) made for WASH, health, and education. • 5 connections created during the Connection Forum linking community structures to private sector partners (ACOSYF, WFWI, and savings and credit cooperatives in Kivu, Cahi and Nyawera). • 6 user committees and 64 service providers revitalized and trained for education, health and WASH. • 50% representation in user committees for women and OMGs. • 4 dialogues between community and local authorities on conflict between fishermen and seafarers. • 3 football matches, between service providers and user committees; service providers and sailors and fishermen; and fishermen and user committees. • 1 participatory theatre show on conflicts between fishermen and sailors. IMPACT Strong collaboration between fishermen and sailors was launched after a discussion organized with the support of COUD, followed by a football match. Improved participation of women and OMGs went from 16% to 42% in revitalized committees. PROUDEST MOMENT The connection between Kabonde sailors and the Bukavu naval force with fishermen and the community to discuss the problems that divide them and put in place palliative actions to resolve conflicts and orientations at the different levels of military command and management of Lake Kivu. This has led to good relations pending the final decision. A lull in the demonstrations has led to outrage and protest against the mismanagement of the Lugendo group since its new leader came to power. LESSONS LEARNED Social cohesion activities strengthen community ties and create a climate of understanding, discussion and sharing of experiences among conflict stakeholders. This allows leaders and chiefs to sit down together to discuss conflicts and solutions to be implemented for the good of the community. The discussions also contribute to the resolution of conflicts between fishers where mediation continues at the provincial level. However, at the local level, significant progress has already been made.
USAID.GOV SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT | 97 PARTNER NAME: Collectif Alpha Ujuvi GRANT TITLE Support for community participation PHOTOS for social cohesion, inclusion of women and other marginalized groups and increased livelihoods through SPR CONTRIBUTES Objective 3 TO OBJECTIVE Indicators: 2a, 3b, 3.1b, 3.2 a, 3.2d, & INDICATORS 3.3b, 3.1, 3.2 TARGET AREA Territory: Masisi Groupements: Muvunyi Shanga, Kibabi, Bahunde TOTAL Total Amount: $93,274 AMOUNT AND Disbursed: 100% Women and OMGs workshop on % DISBURSED sustenance means. PERIOD OF April 20, 2018 – April 12, 2019 PERFORMANCE GRANT The project increases community SUMMARY participation through intercultural cultural sessions, sports and theatre, dialogue between local authorities, service providers and users, building trust by celebrating Rural Women's Group photo after the strengthening of Day, planning performances, and WASH capacities. capacity building of service providers. RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS) • 8 user committees, 3 education centers, 3 washing centers and 2 health centers were revitalized; • 53.5% of the members of 8 revitalized committees were women and OMGs • 35 members of user committees have strengthened their capacity on their roles and responsibilities; • 60 people (57 women and 3 men) trained in economic skills based on "entrepreneurial" activities and focus group techniques; • 3 joint service improvement plans developed; • A fair for the sale of agropastoral products brought together more than 732 women sellers. IMPACT 23 loans granted to women enabled them to increase capital and diversify activities. The AVECs created have become a forum for exchanges of information, sharing of business experiences, and education in life, health, and skills for younger women. More than 200 women and 8 men from AVECs have learned to negotiate prices and opened production units after training in entrepreneurship. AVECs are a source of income for women who promote trade and employment in the community. 249 once marginalized and illiterate women can read posters and signs and participate in elections. PROUDEST MOMENT 60 people (57 women and 3 men) acquired basic economic skills based on the development of "entrepreneurial" activities and can create their IGAs. The incomes of 197 women and 8 men increased the capital of their AVECs. LESSONS LEARNED Revitalization is a catalyst for meetings. Lack of knowledge of the roles and responsibilities of members of parent committees is at the root of the conflict within the educational structure. Awareness messages in plays draw individual attention to problems and create a need for behavior change through signed commitments.
98 | SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT USAID.GOV PARTNER NAME: CJP GRANT TITLE TUCHEZE WOTE: Building trust and PHOTOS promoting peace through inclusive community events in three groupements in Walungu territory (Karhongo, Lurhala, and Kamisimbi) CONTRIBUTES Objectives: 2, 3 TO OBJECTIVE Indicators: 2.2a, 3.3b & INDICATORS TARGET AREA Territory: Walungu Groupements: Karhongo, Kamisimbi, Lurhala TOTAL Total Amount: $41,607.56 Cultural fair conducted in Walungu. AMOUNT AND Disbursed: 100% % DISBURSED PERIOD OF April 13, 2018 – October 31, 2018 PERFORMANCE GRANT This project aims to strengthen trust SUMMARY and the promotion of a culture of peace through the planning of 6 inclusive community events in each of Lurhala, Kamisimbi and Karhongo. RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS) • 6 "TUCHEZE WOTE" clubs (let's play together) set up in Lurhala. • 25 packages of sports and cultural equipment distributed to the 25 football clubs in Tucheze Wote. • 2 social sports activities organized in the three groupements. • 1 educational theatre session popularizing laws and texts protecting women's rights, youth development and OMGs in Kamisimbi. • 1 cultural fair (dances, poems, music) promoting cultural diversity and organized mutual acceptance. IMPACT Mutual acceptance between young people, mothers, and other marginalized groups can already be seen in public; this could not be done in the past. PROUDEST MOMENT The approval of the new approach to "football for peace" by players in support groups. The trained players (girls and boys) are starting to organize football matches for peace in their respective villages without our support and in accordance with standards. In Karhongo, Munya, and Weza, teams played on the grounds of the Cibimbi parish. LESSONS LEARNED To avoid conflicts, social cohesion activities require a high degree of flexibility on the part of participants because it is difficult to limit their number. Good awareness allows the acceptance and involvement of group leaders in the activities. Awareness has led some parents to agree to release their daughters and join the football clubs for peace (TUCHEZE WOTE) on a massive scale.
USAID.GOV SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT | 99 PARTNER NAME: Consortium CADERSA-ESF-AFPAP GRANT TITLE Capacity building project for post- PHOTOS conflict community recovery and support for solidary entrepreneurship in the Mbinga North groupement CONTRIBUTES Objectives: 2, 3 TO OBJECTIVE Indicators: 3.1b, 3.3a, 3.3b, 2.3a, 3.1a & INDICATORS TARGET AREA Territory: Kalehe Groupement: Mbinga North TOTAL Total Amount: $58,189.41 AMOUNT AND Disbursed: 100% % DISBURSED PERIOD OF April 2, 2018 – March 31, 2019 PERFORMANCE GRANT This project strengthens the capacity SUMMARY of female sex workers, unemployed and at-risk youth, ex-combatants and artisanal miners to transform conflict by supporting livelihoods, elaborating cohesion and community development plans and organizing an Social cohesion campaign; participatory awareness campaign on peace, social theater in Kabulu. cohesion and post-conflict resilience. RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS) • 5 dialogues between multicultural groups, local authorities and technical health, education, security and civil society services organized in each village. • 5 social cohesion events organized in the 5 villages of Mbinga North. • 16 awareness-raising radio programs on social cohesion and peacebuilding prepared and broadcasted. • 2 advocacy and lobbying visits to communities living in the 5 villages of Mbinga North as part of the CCP (one in the Buhavu chiefdom and the other in the province's governorate). • 20 community-based organizations received a revolving credit to increase their livelihoods. • 5 connections between private sector actors and community-based organizations ensured. IMPACT 1,600 beneficiaries participated in peace and social cohesion activities, coming from the Pygmy communities of Havu, Hutu, Tutsi, Nande, Bashi, Bahunde and OMGs. The project improved living conditions of 500 beneficiaries in 20 livelihood structures through increased income. Advocacy visits to communities helped integrate their needs into the cohesion and development plan of the Buhavu chiefdom. The group leader will contact the provincial governor to find technical and financial partners. PROUDEST MOMENT The theater groups presented the conflicts between community members, who became aware of their roles in social cohesion. Community members, through popular forums, have expressed their needs to local authorities, who have addressed some concerns and made promises to others. LESSONS LEARNED The Pygmies have set aside their inferiority complex and integrated groups in other communities. All communities living in Mbinga North have agreed to live together, benefiting from solidarity credits and demonstrating social cohesion. The forum is a framework that removes barriers between the public and the authorities, allowing community members to express their views on the service they receive.
100 | SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT USAID.GOV PARTNER NAME: Consortium CEDECO-SLIFE WORLD GRANT TITLE Inter-Gender Pilot Project on PHOTOS Community Support for Local Governance and Peacebuilding in Bagira and Ibanda Municipalities in Bukavu City CONTRIBUTES Objective 3 TO OBJECTIVE Indicators: 2.3b, 3b, 3.2a, 3.2c, 3.2d, & INDICATORS 3.2b, 3.3b TARGET AREA Territory : Bukavu
Ibanda and Bagira Commune Outline of the social cohesion and TOTAL Amount: $134,924,94 development plan in the communes of AMOUNT AND Disbursed: 100% Ibanda and Bagira. % DISBURSED PERIOD OF April 13, 2018 – June 30, 2019 PERFORMANCE GRANT The project aims to strengthen the SUMMARY mechanisms for drawing up cohesion and development plans in the communes of Bagira and Ibanda through participatory and intersectoral approaches. RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS) • 13 members of the users' committee in Bagira expanded skills in conflict management. • 6 service improvement plans developed in 3 sectors (education, health and WASH) for the Bagira Institute, Kiguri health centers, and water points in Saio, Wesha, Mulungulu, and EP Ibanda II. • Cohesion and development plans are available in Bagira. IMPACT All the women in the village savings and credit associations are in the second credit cycle. The service providers and user committees have a framework for consultation and manage the structures together. PROUDEST MOMENT In completing the community's resource tables and performance reports, participants were surprised at the information they had. Constructive discussions between providers and beneficiaries have led both to a change of mind and to concessions on priority issues in their structures. The parties in conflict in the dispute over the management of the Panzi water points have reconciled and committed themselves to ending all legal proceedings in the name of social cohesion. LESSONS LEARNED The involvement of the authorities in the process of drawing up service improvement plans facilitates the extension of the approach to other structures. Capacity building and empowerment of members of LCPDs makes them creative, as was the case in Bagira commune in Cikonyi, where LCPD members have created their own committee for the peaceful resolution of the conflict.
USAID.GOV SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT | 101 PARTNER NAME: ADPD GRANT TITLE Economic recovery of women, youth PHOTOS and other marginalized groups for peace in in two communes (Goma and Karisimbi) CONTRIBUTES Objective 3 TO OBJECTIVE Indicators: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2a, 3.1b, & INDICATORS 3.2c, 3.2d TARGET AREA Territory: Goma Groupements: Karisimbi, Goma City TOTAL Total Amount: $78,098.88 AMOUNT AND % Disbursed: 100%
% DISBURSED PERIOD OF April 18, 2018 – May 31, 2019 PERFORMANCE GRANT This project supports 300 women SUMMARY and OMGs in 25 AVECs to strengthen their economic power and commitment to decision-making.
Workshop for the development of a social cohesion plan in Karisimbi.
RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS) • 15 community structures of livelihood mechanisms (AVECS) trained on proven approaches. • 2 social cohesion plans including conflict resolution strategies developed and validated. • 2 plans to improve services in the education and health sectors. • 4 user committees (2 educational, 2 health) trained on roles, responsibilities, and good governance. • 2 data collection and monitoring workshops for the education sectors. • 1 day of exchange on issue of indigenous populations in relation to education access and the means of organized substances. IMPACT Communities and local authorities engaged to develop their cohesion plans and build trust. Health development committees are being revitalized and have a better understanding of their roles and responsibilities towards the community. PROUDEST MOMENT Active participation of local authorities and managers in the process of drawing up social cohesion plans. During the various AVEC meetings, the ethnic communities gathered for the same purpose and in the common interest. LESSONS LEARNED AVEC women can train others and support the achievements of the project. The authorities have validated the cohesion plan insofar as they have actively participated from the beginning to the end of the process and will take charge of it. When the authorities are made aware, they collaborate.
102 | SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT USAID.GOV PARTNER NAME: AHUSADEC GRANT TITLE Support and Capacity Building Project PHOTOS for Community-Based Organizations and OMGs for Peacebuilding and Social Cohesion in the Muvunyi Shanga groupement in Masisi Territory CONTRIBUTES Objective 3 TO OBJECTIVE Indicator 3.2a, 3.2c, 3.2d, 3.3a, 3.3b & INDICATORS TARGET AREA Territory : Masisi Groupement : Muvunyi Shanga TOTAL Total Amount: $80,535.05 AMOUNT AND Disbursed: 100% % DISBURSED PERIOD OF April 18, 2018 – November 30, 2018 PERFORMANCE Football match between the youth of the GRANT This project contributes to social plateau and the valley, following a SUMMARY cohesion through the economic reflection on their conflict. recovery of women, youth and OMGs, the organization of social cohesion events and capacity building for service providers and user committees for equitable access to basic social services. RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS) • 3 plans to improve services for health, WASH and education. • Capacity building of user committees in Bishange (education), Lutoboko (health) and Kabase (WASH). • 30 service providers in the health and capacity building sectors, including 15 health participants and 15 education participants (11 male and 4 female) on safe maternity and improvement of teaching staff in the new Bishange and Lutoboko curriculum. • 3 sessions to set up and revitalize user committees were organized in WASH (20% women, 10% OMGs), health (20% women, 10% OMGs) and education (40% women, 20% OMGs). • 3 community dialogue sessions between local authorities and the conflict organized by the community. • A football tournament on social cohesion between young people from the highlands and valleys. • An open day between farmers and herders organized in the village of Kiluku. IMPACT Strengthening social cohesion within the group through social cohesion activities (football match, open day between farmers and herders), e.g. the case of young people from the high plateau and those from the valley who have come closer through football. PROUDEST MOMENT When the VSLA activity had come to the end of the activity cycle, members jointly evaluated the activities carried out during this period. The members observed among others that the approach had contributed to overcome conflict between the members and that indeed there had been increased cohesion between all ethnic groups participating in the activity. LESSONS LEARNED Strong awareness motivates communities to accept themselves. They agreed to discuss their conflicts to find a solution together, showing reconciliation. The more communities know what divides them, the more they think about what can unite them. Here, the community has come to understand that inter- community mistrust is a barrier to development and has decided to start collaborating
USAID.GOV SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT | 103 PARTNER NAME: LUCODER GRANT TITLE Support to reinforce social cohesion PHOTOS and accessibility to means of subsistence and basic social services CONTRIBUTES Objective 3 TO OBJECTIVE Indicators: 3.3b, 3.1b, 3.3a & INDICATORS TARGET AREA Territory: Masisi Groupement: Biiri TOTAL Total Amount: $82,820.96 AMOUNT AND Disbursed: 100% % DISBURSED PERIOD OF April 18, 2018 – March 31, 2019 PERFORMANCE GRANT The project will enable women, SUMMARY youth and OMGs in the Biiri groupement to strengthen social cohesion by providing them with better access to livelihoods (development of IGA and EIG Distribution of IGA kits in Tunda. collectives) and facilitate access to quality basic social services. RESULTS (TARGETS & INDICATORS) • 98 participants (61 men, 37 women, and 18 OMGs) developed 3 action plans to improve the services of the P Muhondo, C.S Loashi and C.S Sati Primary Schools. • 45 radio programmes on inter-ethnic marriage, heritage, neighborhood relations and education for all. • 28 representatives of EIGs (14 women, 14 men and 9 OMGs) participated in networking activities with MFIs, resulting in 5 connections created. • 5 EIGs equipped with IGA kits in the livestock and equipment sectors. IMPACT The IGA kit has helped 60 women and OMGs, enabling them to start generating income, improving their social status, and increasing their household standard of living. PROUDEST MOMENT Thanks to awareness-raising and guidance, three women were candidates for the presidency of EIGs from five groups and were unanimously elected. LESSONS LEARNED Theater activities remain an effective way to convey awareness messages in communities because they are simple, accessible, and entertaining. Beneficiaries are more motivated when they choose the activities to be undertaken themselves. Involving service users in the creation of the action plan helps them to understand that service improvement does not depend solely on external support.
104 | SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND RECOVERY ANNUAL REPORT USAID.GOV ANNEX 5: GRANT PROGRAM STATUS
USAID’S SPR GRANT PIPELINE AND STATUS
BUDGET DISBURSED IMPLEMENTATION ORGANIZATION NAME DURATION PROVINCE (USD) TO-DATE STATUS
AAP (Aide et Action pour la Paix) $116,496.05 15 months North-Kivu $116,496.05 Step 17: Grant Closed
ACODEPA Bagira (Action Communautaire Pour La Défense $83,456.72 12 months South Kivu $83,456.72 Step 17: Grant Closed Et Le Progrès Des Agriculteurs)
ACODEPA Ibanda (Action Communautaire Pour La Défense $70,830.24 12 months South Kivu $70,830.24 Step 17: Grant Closed Et Le Progrès Des Agriculteurs) AHUSADEC (Action Humanitaire pour la Santé et le $80,535.05 8 months North-Kivu $80,535.05 Step 17: Grant Closed Développement Communautaire) ACUDI (Actions des Chrétiens Unis pour le Développement $79,714.00 10 months North Kivu $79,714.00 Step 17: Grant Closed Intégral) ADEPAE (Action pour le Développement et la paix $87,126.53 11 months South Kivu $87,126.53 Step 17: Grant Closed Endogène)
ADPD (Action pour le Développement des Populations $78,098.88 14 months North-Kivu $78,098.88 Step 17: Grant Closed Défavorisées)
AFEM (Association des Femmes $28,903.16 11 months Sud-Kivu $28,903.16 Step 17: Grant Closed des Médias)
AIBEF (Appui aux initiatives de $91,923.23 12 months Sud-Kivu $91,923.23 Step 17: Grant Closed bien-être familial)
BOAD (Bureau Œcuménique 44,898.00 5 months North Kivu $24,334.72 Step 17: Grant Closed d’Appui pour le Développement)
Caritas Développement Bukavu 142,981.26 12 months South Kivu $140,881.26 Step 17: Grant Closed
Caucus des Femmes $61,988.58 15 months Sud-Kivu $61,988.58 Step 17: Grant Closed
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BUDGET DISBURSED IMPLEMENTATION ORGANIZATION NAME DURATION PROVINCE (USD) TO-DATE STATUS
CDJP RAP (Commission Diocésaine Justice Et $113,830.19 13 months Sud-Kivu $113,830.19 Step 17: Grant Closed Paix/Archidiocèse De Bukavu)
CDJP (Commission Diocésaine Justice Et Paix/Archidiocèse De $147,622.00 16 months South Kivu $147,622.00 Step 17: Grant Closed Bukavu)
CPGRBC (Centre de Paix pour la Guérison et la Reconstruction 56,210.00 4 months North Kivu $37,532.90 Step 17: Grant Closed des Bases Communautaires)
CJP (Centre des Jeunes pour la $41,607.56 6 months Sud-Kivu $41,607.56 Step 17: Grant Closed Paix)
CFAD (Centre de Formation et d’Action pour le $75,892.08 15 months Sud-Kivu $75,892.08 Step 17: Grant Closed Développement)
Collectif ALPHA-UJUVI $93,274.07 10 months North-Kivu $93,274.07 Step 17: Grant Closed
Consortium CADERSA-ESF- AFPAP (Le Centre d’Appui au $58,189.41 7 months South Kivu $58.189.41 Step 17: Grant Closed Développement Rural et à la Sécurité Alimentaire) Consortium CEDECO ASBL- SLIFE WORLD (Centre d’Appui à l’Education et au $134,924.94 15 months South Kivu $128.453.19 Step 17: Grant Closed Développement Communautaire) Consortium CENTRE OLAME & $103,210.00 9 months South Kivu $103,210.00 Step 17: Grant Closed TGD-TOUS POUR LE GENRE
Consortium SYNIGL et $62,497.83 11 months Sud-Kivu $62,497.83 Step 17: Grant Closed Solidarité Cinamula
COUD (Collectif des ONG Unies pour le Développement durable des Associations pour $76,382.81 6 months Sud-Kivu $76,382.81 Step 17: Grant Closed l’encadrement des personnes désœuvrées et vulnérables)
FOSI (Forum Sida) $52,920.49 10 months North-Kivu $52,920.49 Step 17: Grant Closed
GEC-SH/ISP (Groupe D’études Sur Les Conflits Et La Sécurité 59,804.00 12 months South Kivu $59,504.00 Step 17: Grant Closed Humaine)
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BUDGET DISBURSED IMPLEMENTATION ORGANIZATION NAME DURATION PROVINCE (USD) TO-DATE STATUS
ICJP (Initiative Congolaise pour la $103,990.00 12 months South Kivu $103.990 Step 17: Grant Closed Justice et la paix)
IFDP (Innovation et Formation pour le Développement et la $125,366.16 12 months South Kivu $125.366.16 Step 17: Grant Closed Paix) ISPDE (Institut Supérieur Pour La Promotion De La Paix Du $89,818.00 15 months Sud-Kivu $50,298.08 Step 17: Grant Closed Développement Et De L’environnement) ISDR (Institut Supérieur de $85,913.00 15 months Sud-Kivu $85,913.00 Step 17: Grant Closed Développement Rural à Bukavu)
LUCODER (Lutte Contre la $82,820.96 9 months North-Kivu $82,820.96 Step 17: Grant Closed délinquance et l’Exode Rural)
Pole Institute $89,640.91 15 months North-Kivu $89,640.91 Step 17: Grant Closed
Radio Maendeleo $29,262.00 12 months Sud-Kivu $29,262.00 Step 17: Grant Closed
North & Sud RVI (Rift Valley Institute) $165,076.30 12 months $165,076.30 Step 17: Grant Closed Kivu
RFEDI (Réveil des Femmes pour $79,804.97 14 months North-Kivu $79,804.97 Step 17: Grant Closed le Développement Intégré)
SYNIGL (Synergie d’initiatives 90,769.00 12 months South Kivu $90,769.00 Step 17: Grant Closed pour les Grands Lacs)
Cadre Provincial de Plaidoyer 146,471.11 10 months South Kivu $146,471.11 Step 17: Grant Closed South Kivu/Héritiers de la Justice
Cadre Provincial de Plaidoyer $132,320,89 4 months North Kivu $127,135.20 Step 17: Grant Closed North Kivu / ACUDI
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OP.1 COORDINATION AND CROSSCUTTING ACTIVITIES
SK – Kabare, Kalehe, Provide refresher training and Conflict sensitivity is Bukavu, Walungu USAID's SPR staff capacity building on conflict mainstreamed across OP.1.1 and grantees, LPDC sensitivity to SPR staff, grantees, SPR and other USAID & other USAID IPs NK – Masisi, Walikale, USAID IPs IPs activities Goma NK – Masisi, Goma
Reinforcement of early warning Approved early systems and response USAID's SPR and SK – 8 territories OP.1.4 warning proposals mechanisms to identify flexible Partners receive support fund opportunities NK – 7 territories
Maximum Coordination with other USAID SK – Walungu, Kalehe coordination and OP.1.5 & Non-USAID International USAID's SPR synergy with non- Partners USAID's SPR activities NK – Goma City, Masisi
Support and participate in the USAID's SPR visibility celebration of Peace Days and SK – Walungu, Bukavu increased, advocacy other advocacy events (Sixteen City, Kalehe, Walungu OP.1.6 agenda and mission USAID's SPR days against SGBV, Human known in Eastern International Day, International DRC Women's Day) NK – Goma City, Masisi, Walikale
40 partners have SK – Walungu, Bukavu, Provide ongoing capacity building enhanced skills in USAID's SPR & Kabare, Kalehe OP.1.7 support to selected and grants, project 1.1d partners approved partners administration and financial management NK – Masisi, Walikale, Goma
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19-Oct 19-Nov 19-Dec Code Component / Activity Goal Partners Coverage Indicator W W W W W W W W W W W 3 W 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 4 meetings and field evaluation missions Organize USAID's SPR quarterly SK – Walungu, Bukavu, organized with DRC USAID's SPR & OP.1.8 Consultative Committee Kabare, Kalehe government officials partners meeting from technical Ministries NK – Masisi, Goma Consolidate programmatic Senior management Quarterly Steering Committee OP.1.9 approaches across the of each SPR Goma, Bukavu meetings USAID's SPR consortium partner partnership
Annual, quarterly and Organize internal planning and monthly activity USAID's SPR and SK – Bukavu OP.1.10 coordination meetings reviewed, and plans Partners validated NK – Goma COMPONENT 1: COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDERS IDENTIFY CONFLICT DRIVERS AND AGREE ON SOLUTIONS
General Activities Introduce USAID's SPR project USAID's SPR to statutory, traditional legitimacy established Process leading A.0.1.1 authorities and communities in USAID's SPR SK & NK in Kadutu and Kahuzi to 1.2b Kadutu and Kahuzi Biega Biega National Park National Park Update the mapping of all key A cartography of key stakeholders including different Process leading A.0.1.2 stakeholders in Kahuzi USAID's SPR SK & NK donors intervening in Kahuzi to 1.2b Biega conflict available Biega National Park
Conduct a community profiling A data base of key SK & NK Process leading A.0.1.3 around Kahuzi Biega National information on Kahuzi USAID's SPR to 1.2b Park Biega established NK - Masisi, Walikale, Goma A cartography of Update the systemic conflict current context and A.0.1.4 analysis on Kahuzi Biega National USAID's SPR SK & NK 1.1a conflict dynamic Park conducted
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Key stakeholders Organize strategic coordination shared information, SK & NK meetings with Kahuzi Biega key harmonize views, USAID's SPR & Process leading A.0.1.5 stakeholders including local approaches and partners to 1.2b authorities and government conflict dynamics NK - Masisi, Goma presented NK - Masisi, Goma COMPONENT 2 : PARTICIPATORY SOLUTIONS IMPLEMENTED
SR 2.1 Women and members of marginalized groupements participate in and lead community decision-making processes
Strengthening women/OMGs 1040 women and leaders’ capacity in OMG reinforce their transformative leadership to play SK - Walungu, Bukavu, leadership skills and USAID's SPR & CSOs A.2.1.1. role in decision-making roles Kabare, Kalehe 2b, 2.1.a talents to participate partners towards implementation of in peace processes identified solutions for mitigating building conflict NK - Masisi, Goma A social movement of women leaders and OMGs Support women and OMGs' SK - Walungu, Bukavu, representatives participation in decision-making USAID's SPR & CSOs Kabare, Kalehe A.2.1.2 impulse changes in 2.2.a, 2.b bodies through advocacy and partners social norms and capacity building practices that prevent inclusion and NK - Masisi, Goma participation SR 2.2 Inclusion increased in traditional and formal governance structures and processes Local & traditional Transforming social norms, authorities and attitudes and barriers that targeted communities SK - Walungu, Bukavu, USAID's SPR & CSOs A.2.2.2 constraints the participation of increase awareness Kabare, Kalehe 2.3.a partners women/OMGs in decision- and are engaged to making processes fight against negative social norms NK - Masisi, Goma COMPONENT 3: RESOURCES FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT MORE INCLUSIVELY ALLOCATED
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SR3.1 Linkages to livelihood activities and resources increased
SK – Kabare, ,Walungu, Improve women & OMGs 's Women and OMG Bukavu A.3.1.1 capacity on livelihood engage in training that USAID's SPR & CSOs 3.1b development facilitates livelihood NK – Masisi, Goma
Private sector SK – Kabare,Walungu, Private sector engaged in engaged in supporting A.3.1.2 USAID's SPR & CSOs Bukavu 3.1a support of resource mobilization community social cohesion initiatives NK – Masisi, Goma
SR3.2 Equitable community participation in basic services provision increased
Community Improve community SK – Kabare, ,Walungu, development plans development planning on service Bukavu integrating equitable USAID's SPR, CSOs, A.3.2.1 provision and integrating 3b and locally solutions to Committees, LAs equitable and locally produced resolve conflict are solutions to resolve conflict elaborated NK – Masisi, Goma
Services mapped and SK – Kabare ,Walungu, Improve efficacy of service prioritized by USAID's SPR, CSOs, A.3.2.2 Bukavu 3b provision demand side communities/ local Committees, LAs authorities NK – Masisi , Goma
SK – Kabare,Walungu, Improve efficacy of service Regular dialogue on USAID's SPR, CSOs, A.3.2.3 Bukavu 3.2a provision on supply side service quality Committees, LAs
NK – Masisi, Goma SR 3.3 Participation in confidence building and peace promotion increased
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Support local peace and social cohesion initiatives that promote 57 peace and social SK – Kabare, Walungu, A.3.3.1 confidence building between cohesion grants USAID's SPR, CSOs Bukavu 3.3a, 3.3b communities and government supported service providers
NK – Masisi, Goma
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