Usaid Mali Civic Engagement Program Year 5 Work Plan (October 1, 2020 to July 31, 2021)

USAID MALI CIVIC ENGAGEMENT PROGRAM YEAR 5 WORK PLAN (OCTOBER 1, 2020 TO JULY 31, 2021)

Funding provided by the United States Agency for International Development under Cooperative Agreement No. AID-688-A-16-00006

Prepared by: FHI 360 Submitted to USAID September 8, 2020

Salimata Marico Leslie-Ann Nwokora Agreement Officer’s Representative/ AOR Agreement Officer [email protected] [email protected]

Inna Bagayoko Cheick Oumar Coulibaly Alternate AOR Acquisition and Assistance Specialist [email protected] [email protected]

Table of Contents

ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS 3 INTRODUCTION 4 I. CEP YEAR 5 IMPLEMENTATION APPROACH 4 A. OVERVIEW OF THE PROGRAM DURING YEAR 5 4 B. ALIGNMENT WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF MALI AND CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATION PRIORITIES 5 C. KEY IMPLEMENTING CSOs AND PROGRAMMATIC PARTNERS AND THEIR TARGET AREAS: 5 D. SYNERGY WITH OTHER USAID-FUNDED PROGRAMS 7 E. STAFFING UPDATES/APPROACH 8 II. CEP OBJECTIVES AND PLANNED ACTIVITIES FOR YEAR 5 8 A. OBJECTIVE 1: MECHANISMS OF BOTTOM UP SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY 8 STRENGTHENED B. OBJECTIVE 2: CSOS COLLABORATE EFFECTIVELY WITH GOVERNMENT AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR TO DEVELOP PUBLIC 9 POLICY AND ADVANCE ISSUES OF COMMON INTEREST C. OBJECTIVE 3: CITIZENS UNDERSTAND THEIR RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES AND FEEL EMPOWERED TO ENGAGE WITH 10 THE GOVERNMENT OF MALI ACTORS D. OBJECTIVE 4: IMPACT OF COVID-19 MITIGATED IN TARGET COMMUNITIES 11 III. MONITORING, EVALUATION, LEARNING AND EXIT STRATEGY ACTIVITIES 12

IV. THE PROGRAM FINAL REPORTING 12

V. ANTICIPATED RISKS AND MANAGEMENT MEASURES DURING YEAR 5 OF CEP IMPLEMENTATION 13

ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

AADeC Association d’Appui à l’Auto-Développement Communautaire ADEFIM Association d’Entraide pour le Développement Intellectuel de la Femme ADICO Association pour le Développement de l’Initiative Communautaire AMCFE Association Malienne pour la Conservation de Faune et de l’Environnement AMID Association Malienne pour l’Intégration et le Développement AMSS Association Malienne pour la Survie au Sahel APIB Association pour la Promotion des Initiatives de Base, Entraide Mutuelle APS Annual Program Statement ARDIL Action Recherches pour le Développement des Initiatives Locales ARGA Alliance pour Refonder la Gouvernance en Afrique ASECOM Association pour la Santé et l’Education Communautaire ASSAFE Association du Sahel d’Aide à la Femme et à l’Enfance AOR Agreement Officer Representative AAOR Alternate Agreement Officer Representative AMPA Association Malienne pour la Protection des Albinos APHM Association des Personnes en situation de Handicap « AnbeKu » CBO Community Based Organization CEP USAID/Mali Civic Engagement Program COR Contracting Officer Representative COP Chief of Party CRADE Cabinet de Recherche Actions pour le Développement Endogène CPHDA Centre de Promotion des Droits Humains en Afrique CSO Civil Society Organization DPO Disabled Persons’ Organization EIHD Emploi Intégration des Handicapés pour le Développement FEDE Femmes et Développent FERAPH Fédération Régionale des Associations de Personnes Handicapées FHI 360 Family Health International 360 FY Fiscal Year GAAS-Mali Groupe d’Animation, Action, au Sahel Mali GGB Good Governance Barometer GoM Government of Mali GRAT Le Groupe de Recherches et d’Applications Techniques IAMANEH Association pour la Promotion de la Santé de la Mère et de l’Enfant IDPs Internally Displaced persons IT Information and Technology MACNA Malian Association of Cinema Numerique Ambulant ME&L Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning MJP Mali Justice Program NGO Non-Governmental Organization PMP Performance Monitoring Plan PS&R Peace, Stability and Reconciliation PWD Persons with Disability SCALE+ System-wide Collaborative Action for Livelihoods and Environment SNGP Sub-National Governance Project TA Technical Assistance TOR Terms of Reference TOT Training of Trainers WASH Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene

INTRODUCTION

The United States Agency for International Development in Mali (USAID/Mali) awarded the USAID Mali Civic Engagement Program (CEP) to Family Health International (FHI 360) in August 2016. CEP is a five- year program that runs from 2016-2021, with a budget of $12 million. The goal of the program is to improve public accountability in Mali while increasing and strengthening citizens’ role in the process of developing public policies and oversight capacities to improve government and municipal accountability. To achieve this goal, CEP is working specifically on the following three objectives:

1. Mechanisms of bottom-up social accountability strengthened through civil society organizations 2. Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) collaborate effectively with government, municipalities, and the private sector to develop public policy and advance issues of common interest 3. Citizens understand their rights and responsibilities and feel empowered to engage with Government of Mali

However, given the outbreak of the global pandemic COVID-19 in Mali in March 2020, CEP has decided to support citizen responsive governance ensuring that from now until the end of the project in July 2021, the delivery of basic services will continue to be improved under these three objectives, and adapted to COVID-19 response. To do this, CEP decided to strengthen its current work with local governments and civil society organizations through a fourth specific objective to address its COVID-19 response action with specific COVID-19 activities to be implemented with an additional funding of $345,000. The fourth objective is:

4. Impact of COVID-19 mitigated in targeted communities

This document is the CEP’s fifth and final year (Year 5/Y5) annual workplan covering the period from October 1, 2020 to July 31, 2021. It includes: • CEP’s final year (Y5) implementation approach including the overview of the program, the alignment with Mali communal authorities and community-based organizations priorities, the key implementing CSOs and strategic partners, their activities and target areas as well as the synergy with USAID programs and other donors during this fifth year. • CEP’s four objectives and the implementation of their activities. This includes the three initial objectives and the fourth one on COVID-19 response action plan. • Monitoring, evaluation, learning and exit strategy activities. • Program final reporting. • Risk management plan including the current political situation with a possible regime change in the country. • Detailed timeline for all planned activities for Year 5 in the annex.

I. CEP YEAR 5 IMPLEMENTATION APPROACH

A. OVERVIEW OF THE PROGRAM DURING YEAR 5: During this final year (Y5), the CEP team and CSOs partners will implement the following program activities: ❖ CEP staff-led activities: CEP staff will focus on program activities that will support grantees to consolidate and finalize CEP activities in the target communes of the Program, and ensure the follow up of the implementation of the technical assistance plan of CSOs as well as some program’s exit strategy activities (see below section III). CEP will also undertake a series of regional program’s review sessions that will help to consolidate the learnings among partners. The support to CSOs will include mentoring and coaching of CSOs for the implementation of their remaining and closeout activities. This support to CSOs will end in March 2021, and an internal performance evaluation of the program will take place immediately. ❖ Civil society organization partners/sub-grantee-led activities: During this year, 18 Civic Engagement Grantees (CEG) and 4 Disabled People Organizations (DPO) grantees will implement CEP activities in the target communes. Civic engagement activities will include the implementation and finalization of Good Governance Barometer (GGB) processes, advocacy

activities, consolidation of PPP-WG activities, and support to community-based organizations (CBOs) to follow the outputs of their community-based level advocacy actions initiated and community watchdog functions activities. ❖ Subcontractor-led activities: In addition to the 22 grantees mentioned above, 2 CEP subcontractors, Studio Tamani and CPHDA, will consolidate and finalize ongoing communication, capacity building on civic engagement activities and outreach activities on citizenship and inclusion. - B. ALIGNMENT WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF MALI AND CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATION PRIORITIES: During CEP’s Year 4, the staff continued to meet with the Government of Mali (GOM) representatives and civil society organizations to share the program’s goals and objectives, to clarify their perspectives on civic engagement needs, and to discuss CEP’s planned activities. CEP staff met with representatives of the Ministry of Youth, citizenry and employment, and the Ministry of Education through its partner CPDHA at the national level. The CSOs as well continued meeting with the local authorities at the local level for the program implementation. During this final year, CEP will continue working closely with the Ministry of Youth at the national level to implement and consolidate together a synergy approach to work with youths, and with the Ministry of Education through CPDHA to support the training on citizenship of students in schools aged between 12 and 16 years old.

At the same time, CEP’s CSOs partners will continue working with the local government institutions and representatives, including the elected communal authorities which support the development or revisions of their 5 years development plans with regards to the Malian decentralization plan.

In addition, during this Y5 of the program, CEP will continue working in collaboration with other USAID funded programs such the Peace, Stabilization and Reconciliation program (PS&R), the Mali Justice Program (MJP), the project Lafia, EMERGE and SNGP in our communes.

C. KEY IMPLEMENTING CSOs AND PROGRAMMATIC PARTNERS AND THEIR TARGET AREAS: CEP will continue to use a mix of partnership approaches to achieve the program objectives. Year 5 will focus on the following collaborations: ❖ Partnership with 22 civil society organizations through 22 grants to implement grassroots-level activities: During year 5, CEP’s 18 CEG and 4 DPOs will consolidate and finalize activities initiated in earlier years in the 6 target regions of the program (Mopti, Timbuktu, Segou, Kayes, Sikasso and Bamako). CSOs and DPOs will continue to coach and mentor CBOs and other civil society groups at the grassroot level to monitor and advocate for high-quality basic services through good governance at the communal level. Specifically, Year 5 will focus on reviewing partners’ results, through sharing of experience and good practices sessions, the evaluation of CSOs ODA Plans (Organizational Development Assessment) and the implementation of the developed exit strategy. Due to the current global pandemic COVID-19 in the country, CSOs will continue to adapt the implementation of these activities to enforce COVID-19 preventive measures and deliver awareness messages about the risk of the disease. ❖ Subcontractors will finalize the ongoing strategic activities: Per CEP’s program description, FHI 360 will be partnering with the following 2 subcontractors: 1) Studio Tamani/Fondation Hirondelle: During year 5, Stuido Tamani/Fondation Hirondelle will focus on communication and outreach activities for community education through two radio programs on a variety of themes. Under CEP, Studio Tamani produces and broadcasts 5

a bimonthly three-minute radio magazine and a bimonthly “grand dialogue” radio program on civic engagement and inclusion topics nationwide through its network of 70 local radio stations. These activities will continue during year 5 of CEP. The magazines will focus on airing the main results of CEP’s CSO partners while the grand dialogue will focus on the key issues related to good governance and accountability. 2) CPDHA: During year 5, CPDHA will finalize the dissemination of audio version of laws and policies on basic service delivery, the Government access book, the comic books on civic engagement for schools and youth training on civic engagement curricula in CEP target areas. CPHDA will also implement activities on mutual accountability at grassroot level as part of the SCALE + approach. CEP will share booklets with other PDGs partners working in the same communes of the program’s intervention to facilitate the distribution process, in order to reach a large number of people. These two sub-contractors will as well comply with COVID-19 prevention measures during the implementation of their activities and integrated risks communication just as the 22 CSOs partners.

CEP activities will be implemented in the following communes by its CSOs partners and subcontracts:

CEP-Mali Implementing CE Grantees, Target Regions, and Communes Regions Communes Grantees Areas of Intervention Kayes Kayes IAMANEH-Mali Health Diema Bema Dioumara Diakounte Camara Kassaro, ADEFIM Education Madina, Toukoto, Kita-Ouest, Sirakoro Bamako Commune II AADEC Education Commune III Commune IV Commune I ARGA WASH, Education Commune V Commune VI Sikasso Danderesso ONG-APIB WASH, Education, Kapala Agriculture Zangaradougou Zangasso Koutiala Kadiolo ASECOM WASH, Education Dioumatène Fourou Misseni Zégoua Farakala GRAT WASH, Education Kolokoba Lobougoula

Niena Sikasso Koumantoun CRADE Education, WASH, Sanso Agriculture Domba Wola Zantiebougou Segou Fangasso, ADICO Health, WASH, Ouan, Education, Benena Agriculture, Resilience Tominian Yasso Sakoiba AMCFE Resilience Samine Segou Cinzana Gare Macina ASSAFE Education, Gender Kolongo Kokry Boky –Wèrè Souley Niono FEDE Gender, Education, Dogofry Agriculture Diabaly Sokolo Mopti Bandiagara GAAS-Mali WASH Dandoli Dourou Pignary-Bana Douentza, ONG-Espoir WASH, Education, Kounbewel Koundia Agriculture, Tédjé Resilience Pétaka Youwarou ONG-AMID Health, Education Déboye Dirma Donko Mopti, ONG-Action Mopti WASH Fatoma, Borondougou, Konna Bassirou Tombouctou Tombouctou AMSS WASH, Conflict Alafia Resolution Bourem-Inaly

Lafia

Salam (Taoudeni) CPDH in partnership with AMSS Goundam ARDIL WASH Tonka 7

Sogoundou (Nianfunke) Soumpi CEP-Mali Implementing DPO Grantees, Target Regions, and Communes Bamako 6 Communes of Bamako EIHD Inclusion Commune II APHM 6 communes of Bamako AMPA Sikasso FERAPH CEP-Mali Implementing Subcontractors, Target Regions, and Communes Regions Communes Subcontractors All CEP’s target regions 80 target communes Center of Promotion for Building capacity on Human Rights Defense citizenry, in Africa (CPHDA) transparency, and accountability Nation wide Nationwide Fondation Communication Hirondelle/Studio through community Tamani radio stations

D. SYNERGY WITH OTHER USAID-FUNDED PROGRAMS: CEP will continue sharing, learning, and communicating with other programs funded under the USAID Mali’s Peace, Democracy, and Governance Office (PDG). This synergy with other programs provides opportunities to share programming approaches, activities, results and challenges. It also helps identify areas of collaboration. CEP intends to collaborate in year 5 with other PDG partners in the following areas: ❖ Studio Tamani: CEP will include themes and resources from other PDG programs including SNGP, PS&R, and EMERGE into its “Grand Dialogue” radio program in partnership with Studio Tamani. ❖ CPDHA: CEP will share copies of the booklet produced with CPHDA, which will include different laws over access to basic socio-services with other PDG funded programs (SNGP, MJP, PS&R, EMERGE and Lafia). This will help disseminate the booklet to more communities. ❖ GGB and SCALE+ processes: CEP’s GGB and SCALE+ monitoring and advocacy committees will participate in PS&R exchange frameworks on advocacy sessions in the two programs’ common communes of intervention in the region of Segou, Mopti, and Timbuktu. ❖ PDESCs: CEP will work with PS&R to ensure that its CSOs partners participate in the revision sessions of PDSECS supported by PS&R in the two programs’ common communes of intervention in the region of Segou, Mopti, and Timbuktu. CEP’s CSOs partners’ participation will contribute to raise local issues of basic socio-services delivery including WASH, Education, Health, and Agriculture. ❖ COVID-19 response action plan: CEP will work with PS&R to insure that its youths data collectors participate in PS&R’s COVID-19 social medias communication small grants opportunities, and insure follow up during the implementation of their activities once selected. ❖ Training and dissemination of 100 Para judicial legal sheets: CEP will work with MJP to ensure that its CSO and CBO partners are trained by MJP on these legal sheets and are engaged in their dissemination to CBOs after the training. ❖ Marginalized groups: CEP will work in collaboration with the project LAFIA (Mercy Corps) on activities that promote the rights and inclusion of marginalized groups particularly on the theme of slavery in the region of Kayes.

II. CEP OBJECTIVES AND PLANNED ACTIVITIES FOR YEAR 5:

OBJECTIVE 1: MECHANISMS OF BOTTOM UP SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY STRENGTHENED CEP’s main drivers for achieving results of Objective 1 are the CSOs including DPOs Advocacy Grants, which will finalize the implementation of their activities in year 5. Grantees’ activities will continue to focus at the communal level to monitor local government’s actions, advocate for citizen involvement in a variety of local governance issues, improve citizens’ participation in the process especially those from marginalized groups, and facilitate access to their government representatives. CEP will continue to reinforce the GGB methodology to complete and evaluate the process of its current 8 GGB. To achieve this objective, the following activities will be implemented to achieve their related intermediate result during the final year of CEP: ❖ Good Governance Barometer (GGB): The GGB process is a tool designed to aggregate the interests of citizens, connect them to decision-makers, support advocacy and follow-up on actions for the improvement of public services. For CEP, the use of the GGB process in a particular commune inspires the creation of "islands of responsibility" that help improve public services in the sector of health, WASH, education, and others, also serve as models for surrounding communities in different municipalities and regions . The GGB process in one commune is done through six phases and carried out by the CEP’s grantee. In the past 4 years, 8 CEP’s grantees launched their GGB processes in Commune IV (Bamako), Dandoli (Mopti), Niono and Tominian (Segou), Sirakoro (Kayes), Domba, Danderesso (Sikasso), and in the Urban Commune of Timbuktu. For each of these GGB processes, CEP’s grantees have completed phase 5 with the validation of an action plan for each GGB process. During year 4, CEP’s grantees started the implementation of the GGB action plan of Dandoli, Sirakoro and Commune IV of Bamako. Their implementation will be completed in Year 5. Also, in year 5, the implementation of the remaining GGB actions plans in Niono, Tominian, Domba, Danderesso and Timbuktu will start and get completed. For Niono, Tominian and Doma, the GGB action plans are already developed and pending their approval for their implementation process. These GGB actions plans are being or will be implemented by multisector actors in the commune, and the last phase 6 will be an evaluation of each GGB process. Each of these GGB processes has a specific theme to address. The theme is identified by community members based on their priorities in terms of basic socio-services. For instance, the GGB in Dandoli addresses the issue of improving education in the commune, while the GGB process in Niono addresses the issue of WASH in the commune. The GGB in Tominian addresses the issue of the municipality’s local resources mobilization, while the GGB in Domba addresses the obstacle of girls ‘access to school due to the gold Mining company’s activities in the commune. ❖ Advocacy initiatives: At the beginning of the program, CEP conducted an assessment with its 22 CSOs (18 CSOs and 4 DPOs) to identify their advocacy skills and challenges. Following this process, CEP supported CSOs to elaborate their capacity building plans to improve their advocacy skills. To date, the 22 CSOs have increased their capacities with CEP’s support and they also started building the capacity of their CBOs partners to enable them to conduct advocacy initiatives. After their capacity reinforcement and the advocacy activities that the CSOs and CBOs partners have conducted during the past 4 years of the program, which helped influence local public policies, the year 5 will be devoted to the following up of the results of ongoing advocacy activities. Examples include the inclusion of priority actions in the municipal development plans in Sikasso, the allocation of resources for the construction of educational infrastructures in Mopti, the water points and the recruitment of health personnel at the level of health centers I in Sikasso, etc. Year 5 will also focus on the changes brought by the partners advocacy activities and sharing good practices between CSOs in the field of advocacy. When the program is close to its end, CEP will

also conduct an evaluation of its CSO partners’ capacity building plans and share the results with them.

OBJECTIVE 2: CSOs COLLABORATE EFFECTIVELY WITH GOVERNMENT AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR TO DEVELOP PUBLIC POLICY AND ADVANCE ISSUES OF COMMON INTEREST Under this second objective, CEP will continue in year 5to strengthen the collaboration between the Government, civil society, and the private sector on issues of common interests. This will happen through the implementation of: ❖ 8 GGB Grantees actions involving all multisector actors among government, civil society and the private sector representatives. ❖ 6 Public Private Partnership workplans in Sikasso, Segou, Mopti, Kayes, Bamako, and Tombouctou. ❖ 2 SCALE+ workplans that resulted from the national workshop completed during year 3.

As mentioned above under Objective 1, CEP will continue to implement its 8 GGB processes. Through this process, CEP will be strengthening the relationship among Government, civil society, and the private sector because all these multisector actors as well as other partners intervening in the same areas will be involved in the implementation process of the GGB actions plans.

From Year 3, CEP and its CSOs partners facilitated 6 public-private partnership workshops in its 6 regions of intervention: in Ségou with AMCFE, Sikasso with GRAT, Kayes and Diéma with IAMANEH, Timbuktu with AMSS, and in the district of Bamako with ARGA. Each workshop led to the creation of two Working Groups on Public-Private Partnerships (PPWG), and to date 12 PPWGs have been created. These PPWG focused on topics related to education, health, and WASH. These groups work on the implementation of plans for the improvement of collaboration between local elected representatives, technical services of the state, civil society, and the private sector on education, WASH, and health services delivery. In year 5, CEP will work with these PPWGs to revitalize their activities and provide technical and financial support to 6 PPWGs workplans (one per region) to enable them to continue addressing issues of common interests around the basic services delivery within their respective communities.

During year 3, CEP also held a national SCALE+ workshop on the topic of « Active citizenship in the governance of basic social services in Mali : Mutual accountability of decision-makers and citizens at all levels » which resulted in the creation of 2 taskforces. The two taskforces produced two action plans of which two main activities were selected and will be implemented during this year 5. The 2 main SCALE+ activities are: 1) Youth forums to promote citizenship among youth to be implemented in the 6 regions of CEP intervention with the Ministry of Youth. CEP will also work with ARGA, one of its CSO partners, and will associate other partners for collaboration including the PS&R and the project LAFIA during the implementation process. 2) Capacity building of social services management bodies and accountability forums at the grassroot level in 25 communes in the 6 regions on how to better manage basic social services (Education, Health, WASH) now and in the future. This activity will be conducted with CPDHA and the Groupe de Suivi Budgetaire (GSB). Other multisector actors including local authorities, civil society organizations, the private sector, communities’ representatives, and other partners intervening in these areas will be associated during the accountability forums.

Under this objective, CEP intends as well to support a second round of its Emerging Opportunity grants called APS (Annual Program Support) to support local conflict management initiatives. During years 4 and 5, CSOs grantees were selected after a competition process to address local conflicts in their intervention 10

area. The awarded CSO partners for this second round are ADEFIM in Kita-Kayes, GRAT in Sikasso, ARGA in Tominian-Ségou, Action Mopti in Mopti, and GAAS in Bandiagara-Mopti. These grantees will receive small grants to implement their conflict management workplans within their areas of intervention. ADEFIM will address a conflict natural resource management in Kita, GRAT will address women, youths, and disable persons’ participation in the decision-making processes for access to land in Lobougoula and Niena-Sikasso, ARGA will work to establish community prevention mechanisms against violent extremism with young people in Tominian in the region of Segou, GAAS Mali will work to reinforce community social cohesion with the return of displaced persons from Bandiangara in the region of Mopti, and Action Mopti will address leadership conflicts between the chiefs of quartiers of Mopti, their development committees and the Town hall in Mopti.

OBJECTIVE 3: CITIZENS UNDERSTAND THEIR RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES AND FEEL EMPOWERED TO ENGAGE WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF MALI ACTORS To support this objective, CEP has worked with 500 CBOs through its 22 CSOs partners including 4 DPOs and its 5 subcontractors to improve citizens’ understanding of their rights and responsibilities. CEP has built the capacity of citizens including youths, CBO members, and elected authorities to promote an active citizenry and be better engaged in local governance, particularly around the delivery of basic services. In this process, CEP also produced 8000 copies of the Government Access Booklet that contains laws and policies regarding basic services to help people improve their understanding of these laws and policies. CEP has also translated 10 laws on basic socio-services into songs, poems, and theatrical sketches by working with a group of young traditional communicators who were trained on how to disseminate these laws in the six regions of the program through caravans and community radio stations. To promote social behavior change, CEP produced 3 films on citizens’ participation in the management of basic services including WASH, education, and health. These 3 films highlight citizens’ rights and responsibility regarding the basic services’ delivery and management. The 3 films were screened twice in each of CEP targeted communes in Bamako, Kayes, Sikasso and Segou and partially in the region of Mopti. Their content is still being communicated through radio stations and social media in the regions of Mopti and Timbuktu, where the context of insecurity did not allow all the screening sessions to take place. During year 5: ❖ CEP will complete the distribution of the 8000 booklets on laws in its targeted communes accompanied with their audio versions in 6 local languages. ❖ CEP will also continue the production of its radio programs’ awareness campaigns through Studio Tamani and local radios, as well as the airing of the program results in the field of advocacy and mechanism for external monitoring. ❖ CEP will continue to support the dissemination of the content of the three films on basic services management through radio and socio medias in the region of Mopti and Timbuktu.

OBJECTIVE 4: IMPACT OF COVID-19 MITIGATED IN TARGET COMMUNITIES

As mentioned above, since the outbreak of the global pandemic COVID-19 in Mali in March 2020, CEP has decided to integrate in its programming activities, particularly in its WASH activities, a risk communication and community engagement strategy to contribute to the containment of the disease transmission in the country. CEP has started working with local governments and community-based organizations including water users and school management committees to build trust between citizens and their local authorities around their capacity to respond locally to similar crises. To that end, a combination of several communication techniques ranging from media, social media, mass communications and community engagement will be utilized to reinforce the message. A package of combined and complementary activities (awareness, risk communication, and provision of equipped kits) and the active involvement of all local actors in these activities will contribute to an effective behavioral change within communities.

COVID-19 response strategy: Since March 2020, CEP’s activities are complying with the barrier measures of COVID-19; including hands washing, wearing face masks, and social distancing - all supported by an intense communication to the community around the disease, its prevention, where and how to get the right information. All CEP’s WASH activities in its 6 regions of intervention have already included COVID-19 prevention messages, and CEP’s approach is to reinforce community engagement to work with their local governments and the private sector, strengthen the capacity of CBOs including water users and school management committees, and support their integration in the water resource and WASH priorities management.

For a period of 6 months starting in October 2020, CEP will implement specific COVID-19 activities in 12 communes in the region of Bamako, Kayes, Timbuktu, Mopti, Segou, and Sikasso already affected by the pandemic, and where CEP has already an effective presence with its WASH activities through its CSOs partners. CEP will work with 6 among these partners who will receive additional grants to carry out the specific COVID-19 activities, each in 2 communes in one region. The 12 selected communes and the 6 grantees are:

District/Regions Communes CSOs partners Kayes Diema ADEFIM Kita-Ouest Bamako Commune I ARGA Commune VI Sikasso Zegoua GRAT Sikasso Segou Segou FEDE Niono Mopti Mopti Action Mopti Bandiagara Tombouctou Tombouctou ARDIL Goundam

To implement these specific COVID-19 activities, the CEP team will carry out activities that include: ❖ Providing 180 Kits (hands washing, soap, etc.) to partners for the 12 communes. ❖ Producing COVID-19 radio messages in coordination with Breakthrough action. ❖ Monitoring visits and data collection including coordination meetings. ❖ Attending USAID and government coordination meetings at the national level. ❖ Producing regular and final reports to share findings from the field.

The 6 CSOs partners ‘activities will include: ❖ Supporting CBOs members engagement for delivering messages on COVID-19 and managing kits in 9 sites per commune (2 markets, 3 Public schools, 2 Mosques, 2 Bus stations) for 2 communes per partner. ❖ Supporting religious leaders’ engagement for delivering messages at the two mosques per commune in 2 communes each. ❖ Supporting Youth among CBOs and traditional communicators for delivering messages on COVID-19 in 2 communes. ❖ Working for community radio stations in 2 communes for the broadcast of COVID-19 radio messages produced by the CEP team. ❖ Organizing an initial meeting at the beginning of these activities, 6 monitoring meetings, and a learning and evaluation meeting at the end in each of the 2 communes. CEP team will attend some of these meetings during is follow up visits. CEP’s team attendance of the meetings will also ensure that these meetings are extended to other partners and existing frameworks on COVID-19 locally.

III. MONITORING, EVALUATION, LEARNING AND EXIT STRATEGY ACTIVITIES

During year 4, CEP’s Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Advisor organized a series of orientation sessions for CEP’s CSOs partners on data collection sheets and conducted training sessions on monitoring, evaluation, and reporting techniques (as part of their ODA workplans’ implementation process). During these trainings, CEP also helped its CSOs partners to improve evidence-based data collection processes (addressing the DQA and TPM reports recommendations). In addition, CEP with its youth data collectors implemented a beneficiary feedback system (Hotline) through community surveys in Bamako using tablets to collect data on citizens’ satisfaction on the existence and quality of basic social services within the CEP’s communes of intervention. The same community survey will be completed in the region of Kayes before the end of this fiscal year, and in Year 5 the process will continue in the 4 remaining regions of CEP’s intervention (Sikasso, Segou, Mopti, and Tombouctou).

During CEP’s final year, monitoring, evaluation, and learning activities will be a crucial part of the program’s exit strategy which comprises the following:

❖ Ensuring the complete implementation of the performance monitoring plan (PMP) including the regular collection, analysis, and interpretation of activities’ data and of the transformational change from outputs to outcomes capturing the beneficiaries’ perceptions. ❖ Storing all program information through the online database which has been created for the archive system while ensuring all staff are using it to save data. ❖ Reporting regularly of the program’s progress through weekly, quarterly, and annual reports as well as through M&E site visits. ❖ Organizing learnings and program review sessions at the regional and national levels with CEP’s CSO grantees. This will be an opportunity for CSOs to share the program key outputs and outcomes and good practices of advocacy actions, networking, resources mobilization, organizational development results acquired during the last 4 years of the program. ❖ Completing the CSOs’ ODA plans evaluation and sharing results during the review workshops. ❖ Completing all 6 phases of the 8 GGBs processes through an evaluation of their workplans. ❖ As part of the exit strategy, CEP will also capitalize on its programmatic tools used during this program to produce a summary of the ODA process, GGB process, Advocacy process, SCALE+ process, and PPWGs based on local experiences and taking into account lessons learned for future use after the program ends. CEP will also produce a Conflict management sensitivity guideline that considers local experiences to be handed as a management tool to its CSOs partners.

IV. THE PROGRAM FINAL REPORTING During this final year of the program, CEP will elaborate and submit to USAID, a final report of the intervention in compliance with the Cooperative Agreement. The purpose of this document is to mark the completion of CEP and highlight the program's performance.

V. ANTICIPATED RISKS AND MANAGEMENT MEASURES DURING YEAR 5 OF CEP IMPLEMENTATION For the implementation of CEP’s year 5 activities, some major risks, identified in previous years, will continue to affect the implementation of the planned activities. However, the political and security have been the major factors that continue to affect the country and that needs to be considered during the implementation process. With the recent change of regime, CEP will be very open to include in its programming actions that will support a transitional democratic process working especially with youths, its CSOs and CBOs, and medias partners who have already contributed during the past 4 years in promoting peaceful and transparent elections. Additionally, the global health pandemic COVID-19 has also aggravated the very difficult socio economic situation in Mali, and CEP has decided to include a response action in its intervention to contribute to the containment of the disease transmission through its risks communication and community engagement approach. Below are CEP anticipating management measures for the anticipated management risks: 13

Anticipated Risks Anticipated Management Measures

Socio-political crisis in Mali For the last two months the political situation has been dominated by a series of protest demonstrations in all major cities in the country and particularly in Bamako against the regime and this has resulted in the recent military coup in the country. The military seized power and the regime has changed. Several negotiations are underway at different levels for a transitional rule. CEP, as many other USAID programs will continue to monitor the situation and once a democratic transition period is confirmed, CEP will adjust its activities and its Year 5 annual work plan to support the democratic transition period. CEP through its CSOs and medias partners has already worked to support peaceful and transparent elections during the past 4 years, and with this experience, CEP will support the democratic transition in the country through its community and medias outreach tools and activities working with Youths, CSOs, CBOs and medias partners.

COVID-19 Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in Mali in mid-March, CEP and its partners have rapidly adapted all the prevention measures against the transmission of the virus and integrated awareness activities into its program’s activities following the government and WHO instructions: Some of CP’s actions undertaken include:

– CEP’s CSO partners have reduced the number of participants in all its training, meetings, and forums activities. – CEP’s staff have been working from home to prevent the risk of COVID-19 transmission and are continuing to provide technical support to CSOs partners through teleworking while facing sometimes technology challenges including the slow internet connections in some remote areas. – This year 5, CEP will continue to comply with these barrier measures against COVID-19 during the implementation of its activities and integrate the prevention measures in all its activities.

CEP has also developed a COVID-19 response action plan to be implemented during year 5.

Continuing community conflicts in Mopti CEP will continue to communicate weekly with its and Segou regions and insecurity in implementing partners for security updates and Timbuktu measures.

ANNEXES:

I. STAFFING UPDATES: FHI 360 plans to continue with the same staffing structure in place:

USAID/Mali

FHI 360 Oversight WAMERO & Lydia Cordes

Chief of Party Quentin Kanyatsi

Finance and Administration Director Deputy Chief of Party Babacar MBAYE Sitan Cisse Togo

Monitoring, Evaluation Advocacy and IT/Security Officer HR/Procurement Manager Grant Officer Finance Manager and Learning Advisor Empowerment Senior Communication Officer Amadou Diawara Kani Kanoute (2) Technical Advisor Alex Dembele Abdramane Faraban Alpha Macky Kane Fatoumata Fofana Bagayoko Mohamed Toure Mariam N'Diaye

Advocacy and Empowerment Administrative M&E Assistant Mentor (2) Assistant/Receptionist Saran Keita Jacques Dembele Drissa Doumbia Maïmouna Cisse

GGB Mentor (2) Drivers (2) Youssouf Sanogo Youssouf Diabate Bintou Dembele Abraham Traore

II. CEP TIMELINE for Year 5:

Comments and Annex A: FHI 360 USAID Mali Civic Engagement Program Year 5 Timeline Implementing strategies

Quarter Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4

Months (October 1, 2020 - July Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May June July 31, 2021)

Months number M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 M6 M7 M8 M9 M10 Capacity Development Advocacy & Empowerment (A&E) Mentors and staff continue to Ongoing activity to coach and mentor CSO partners be continued based on their individual needs A&E Mentors provide technical Ongoing activity to assistance and visits to CSOs for be continued and the implementation of their last completed in Y5 year work plans. Consolidation in Y5 A CSO-guided Participatory Civic of the Advocacy Engagement Assessment done tool for CSOs for and produced as an Exit Tool for future use. To be CSOs use after the program that during regional consolidates efforts during the program review program implementation. ( An workshops in Y5 Advocacy Tool). with partners The evaluation process will be Evaluation of the CSOs grantees done and

ODA work plans completed in year 5 with a 2 day per CSO Objective 1: Mechanisms of bottom-up social accountability strengthened through sub-awards and technical assistance (TA) IR1.1: Increased CSO effectiveness to provide government oversight and aggregate citizen interest The GGB phase 3 GGB Phase 3: GGB Mentors and process is to be CSO facilitators use the GGB’s completed in the universal criteria and sub-criteria to communes of define local indicators for their Danderesso and selected service delivery challenge Tombouctou in Y5 The GGB phase 3 process is to be GGB Phase 3: Data collection completed in the

(especially conducted by youth) communes of Danderesso and Tombouctou in Y5 The GGB phase 4 GGB Phase 4: GGB Mentors and process is to be CSO facilitators present outputs to completed in the the GGB multi-party stakeholder communes of group for participatory analysis and Danderesso and action planning Tombouctou in Y5 GGB Phase 4: The multi- stakeholder group elects a The GGB phase 4 Technical Monitoring Group, process is to be charged with management and completed in the oversight of the GGB action plan, communes of implementation, and coordination Danderesso and with CSO facilitators and other civil Tombouctou in Y5 society groups, and integration with the PDSEC process, as needed in

the 8 targeted communes for GGB processes.

The GGB phase 4 process is to be completed in the GGB Phase 5: The Technical communes of Monitoring Group identifies Danderesso and resources available to implement Tombouctou in Y5. GGB oversight and advocacy CEP will share the activities GGB workplans with other PDG partners 3 GGBs (Dandoli, Sirakoro and Bamako) received small grants for GGB Inclusivity Grants: CEP funds support of their select activities proposed in GGB work plans in Year action plans that promote advocacy 4. The remaining 5 and oversight for marginalized GGBs will receive groups small grants for the implementation of their work plans in Year 5 The GGB phase 6 process will start GGB Phase 6: GGB Mentors and and be completed CSO facilitators reconvene the GGB in the communes of multi-party stakeholder group to Niono, Bamako collect new measures of GGB CIV, Sirakoro, indicators, compile data, and issue Tominian, Domba, yearly GGB results in their Tonka and workplan. Danderesso in Year 4 Deployment of youth in communes to collect data related to existing This activity has water points and their functionality, been done for 6 water user committee performance, GGB during years number of latrines in public spaces, 3 and 4 and will be number of shared latrines in completed for 2 households, latrine maintenance remaining GGB and cleanliness, open defecation, (Danderesso and and presence of visible feces to Tombouctou) in serve as input for the forums and Year 5 GGB action plans for advocacy initiatives The GGB media Fondation Hirondelle, through program started in Studio Tamani, uses media to year 4 and will be showcase GGB Inclusivity Grant completed in Year activities 5 IR 1.2: Citizen ability to demand improved services, especially health services, through CSO advocacy strengthened Done and to be A&E Mentors reinforce CEG CSOs continued and advocacy skills as needed completed in Y5 These activities will CEP’s GGB and SCALE+ be planned in monitoring and advocacy collaboration with committees participate in PS&R PS&R in 13 exchange frameworks on advocacy common sessions in the two programs’ communes of the common communes of two programs. 17

intervention in the region of Segou, Mopti, and Timbuktu

CEP convenes grantees by region for a one-day workshop to exchange lessons learned in advocacy, and look for opportunities to scale-up and consolidate their most promising work in the last year of the project IR1.3: Citizens, especially marginalized groups, have improved access to and oversight of government An ODA tracker will continue to be CEP mentors will filled out progressively as CSOs continue to provide receive CEP’s capacity building technical support to following their needs expressed in DPOs in year 5 their initial ODA. A&E Mentors will work with DPOs DPOs will continue to provide and their activities information to sensitize citizens on will be the law and policies that promote disseminated marginalized groups through Studio Tamani Objective 2: CSOs collaborate effectively with government and the private sector to develop public policy and advance issues of common interest IR 2.1: Links between CSOs, government, the private sector and the media strengthened CSOs will continue to support two Two working Public-Private Working Groups Groups already (PPWGs) per region in target created in Mopti, regions. The PPWG will develop Segou, Sikasso, workplans to address challenges at Kayes, the commune level and involve all Tombouctou and multisector actors for their Bamako, and implementation. Among these through year 5 CEP PPWG, CEP will support technically will continue the and financially 6 PPWGs through follow up of the CSOs. ( one in each of its regions of implementation of intervention) their work plans CSOs present results of PPWGs at semi-annual town hall meetings in ongoing each target area Local radio, through partner Studio Done for Sikasso, Tamani, reports highlights from the to be continued for PPWGs the other regions. CEP will provide small grants to two partners ( GRAT and CPDHA) CEP will provide to implement two SCALE+ small grants to activities within the workplans support the identified by Task forces resulting SCALE+ work plan from the SCALE+ national in Year 5 workshop 5 SCALE+ task SCALE+ Task Forces convene on Forces meeting a periodic basis to adjust plans and were held in y43 receive continued mentoring and and 4, and now coaching from the A&E advisor and regrouped into 2 mentors. CEP will support the task forces. ownership of these activities by the Periodic meetings consultative committee of SCLAE+ to resume Y5, Q1

4 media programs on SCALE+ SCALE+ results are aired on already done and Fondation Hirondelle's Studio to be continued and Tamani through radio programming completed in year 5. Local radio, through partner Studio Tamani, and through CSOs' own To be continued community radio partners, reports and continued in highlights from the PPWGs and Y5 SCALE+ CEP’s CSOs partners participate in revision sessions of PDSECS funded by PS&R in the two Dates for the programs’ common communes of revision session to intervention in the region of Segou, de discussed with Mopti, and Timbuktu to raise local PS&R in Q1 Y5 issues around the basic socio- services delivery including WASH, Education, Health, and Agriculture CEP’s CSOs attend MJP training Training dates to session on legal sheets and be discussed with disseminated them to their MJP respective CBOs after training. IR 2.2: Conflict management mechanisms strengthened CEP supported 3 CSOs to elaborate their strategic plan CEP staff provide ongoing which takes into mentoring and Technical advice account conflict (TA) to organizations interested in sensitivity policies. developing conflict sensitivity CEP will elaborate policies and conflict management and disseminate a guides for their organizations Guideline on conflict management in Y5 CEG CSOs in conflict-affected CEP will continue areas will carry out conflict to support CBOs in mitigation activities including the implementation training at-risk youth, conflict of the knowledge resolution and conflict mitigation received during the training, and non-violent conflict conflict sensitivity resolution strategies training sessions 5 Emerging CEP will fund Emerging Opportunity Grants Opportunity Grants to its CSOs have been awarded grantees after a competition to 5 CSO in Year 4 process to address local conflicts and will start the in their intervention area implementation of their activities in Y5 Fondation Hirondelle’s Studio Tamani's story-enhanced talk Done, and to be shows broadcast bimonthly to continued and introduce conflict mediation, completed in year 5 communication, and dialogue skills to listeners Objective 3: Citizens understand their rights and responsibilities and feel empowered to engage with Government of Mali actors IR 3.1: Citizen understanding of rights and responsibilities increased CEP funds the translation of 12-15 laws in six languages, disseminating the translations and The dissemination relevant information about the laws will continue in Y5 through partnerships with local media and public information campaigns 19

CPHDA produced 8000 copies of the Government Access Handbook CEP makes the translated laws that contains laws available online for download and policies on through the websites of CEP and Education, WASH, CEP’s grantees, as well as in hard Health, and copy in local schools, health Agriculture. In year centers, and town halls. These 5, the laws will be laws have been translated in an disseminated audio version that CSOs and through the community will be using. distribution of Booklets in the CEP targeted regions CEP shares with other PDG funded programs ( SNGP, MJP, PS&R, Dates will be EMERGE, LAFIA ) copies of the determined once booklet produced with CPHDA, which copies are will include different laws over access available to basic socio-services for dissemination Studio Tamani produces bi-weekly 3-minute radio magazines and monthly “Grand Dialogue” debates on a variety of topics relevant to enhancing civic life, including laws, citizen rights and responsibilities, This activity is conflict management, participatory ongoing and will be governance, and issues concerning completed through marginalized groups. These shows Year 5 are broadcasted across Studio Tamani's network of 70 local radio stations. CEP will integrate resource persons and themes shared with other PDG funded programs ( SNGP, MJP, EMERGE, LAFIA) Studio Tamani supports Radio Listener Groups (RLGs) at rural This activity is health clinics, community centers, ongoing and will be and schools that gather citizens to completed through listen CEP’s radio programs (grand Year 5 dialogues and magazines) and discuss content CEP funds two to three CSOs led by CEP will women and/or members of collaborate with historically disenfranchised social TEMEDT in Y5, to groups that advocate for laws address the issue protecting their rights. CEP will work of marginalized with TEMEDT to promote the right groups (slavery) in of marginalized groups the so-called Kayes Region, in "slaves" synergy with LAFIA IR 3.2 Citizen ability to engage government and solve problems through participatory democratic processes improved Education-focused CEG and DPO CSOs advocate to include civic To be continued education curricula in public schools and completed in and universities as part of their grant Year 5 activities. CEP supports the adaptation of curricula to target children and To be continued adolescents aged 12-16 through 20 and completed in half-day trainings of 25-30 youth Y5 each and for CSOs attempting to reform policies governing education

8000 copies already printed, the CEP funds CPHDA to compile and audio version distribute a printed and audio already produced “Government Access Handbook” but the distribution to be completed in Y5 CEP funds CSOs to hold town hall meetings on issues of interest to Done, and to be various communities (Timing continued and depends on the topic and will be completed in Y5 determined by each CSO.) CEP supports an annual "Services pour Tous" photo-sharing activity To be completed in for marginalized persons to take Y5 photos of service delivery challenges objective 4: Impact of COVID-19 mitigated in target communities IR 4.1. Increased behavior change of citizens and local government to prevent COVID-19 Implement risks communication activities on COVID-19 through trusted community stakeholders ( CBOs, religious leaders and Youths/traditional communicators) Engage with local medias for

COVID-19 awareness campaigns Organizing commune-level meetings to monitor behavior change IR 4.2. Improved planning and access to COVID-19 preventive measures. Commune-driven identification of sites and delivery of handwashing kits Improving citizen engagement to prevent COVID-19 Collaboration with PS&R: To engage CEP’s Youth data collectors into PS&R COVID-19 communication small grants and follow up of implementation of their activities once selected. Monitoring, Evaluated and Closeout activities Submit quarterly reports to USAID Prepare annual report to USAID Submit weekly updates to USAID Submit monthly planning to USAID Done in Bamako implementation of an Online and Kayes, to be monitoring system (hotline) through continued and deployment of surveys in targets completed for the communes remaining 4 regions in year 5 CEP will develop and implement a detailed close out plan CEP will conduct an internal performance evaluation of the program