2021 Annual Work Plan December 8, 2020 – December 7, 2021
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Approved May 20, 2021 AOR, Inclusive Socio-Economic Development Beni Mellal Khénifra Region (ISED-BMK) Kingdom of Morocco 2021 Annual Work Plan December 8, 2020 – December 7, 2021 Submission Date: draft February 12, 2021; final May 12, 2021 Agreement Number: 72060821CA00001 Activity Start Date and End Date: December 8, 2020-December 7, 2025 AOR Name: Nadia Amrani Submitted by: FHI 360 Beni Mellal, Morocco [email protected] This document was produced for review by the United States Agency for International Development. 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Acronyms and Abbreviations …………………………………………………… 3 Project Data Sheet ………………………………………………………………. 5 Preface …………………………………………………………………………… 6 1 INTRODUCTION ……………………………………………………………... 7 2 IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY ……………………………………………… 7 3 IMPLEMENTATION CONTEXT. ……..……………………………..………… 13 4 PROJECT COMPONENTS ……………………………………………………...17 4.1 Component 1 …………………………………………………………………. 17 4.2 Component 2 …………………………………………………………………. 31 5 GRANTS PROGRAM ……………………………………………………………48 6 GENDER EQUALITY AND SOCIAL INCLUSION ……………………………. 49 7 COORDINATION WTH OTHER USAID PROJECTS …………………………50 8 COORDINATION WITH OTHER DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS ……………. 52 9 ENVIRONMENTAL MITIGATION AND MONITORING …………………… 56 10 COMMUNICATIONS STRATEGY …………………………………………… 56 ANNEXES ANNEX 1: YEAR 1 IMPLEMENTATION PLAN TIMELINE ……………………… 58 ANNEX 2: STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT ………………………………….. 63 ANNEX 3: COMPONENT AND ACTIVITY INTEGRATION GRAPHIC: DG-EG…. 66 ANNEX 4: PROJECT RISK IDENTIFICATION AND MITIGATION TABLE ………... 67 ANNEX 5: ORGANIZATION CHART ………………………………………. 69 2 ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS AIDECA Association Al Intilaka pour le développement, l’environnement et la culture Afourer AMELP Activity Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Plan ANAPEC Agence Nationale de Promotion de l’Emploi et des Compétence AO Agreement Officer AOR Agreement Officer’s Representative ATLAS Alternative Training Local Analytics System ATTA Adventure Travel Trade Association AWP Annual Work Plan BMK Beni Mellal Khénifra CBO Community-based Organization CC Challenge Competition CDAI Commission d'Accès à l'Information CDCO Office du Développement de la Coopérative CGEM Confédération Générale des Entreprises du Maroc CLA Collaborative Learning and Adapting COP Chief of Party CRI Centre Régionale d’Investissement CSO Civil Society Organization CYM Community Youth Mapping DACUM Developing a Curriculum DG Democracy and Governance DGCT Direction Générale des Collectivités Territoriales DNH Do No Harm DO Development Objective DPA Directions Provinciales de l’Agriculture DRA Directions Régionales de l’Agriculture EACCE Independent Institution for Export Control and Coordination EDT Environmental Threshold Decisions EG Economic Growth EMMP Environmental Mitigation and Monitoring Plan EWC Economic Watch Committee FHI Family Health International FSVC Financial Services Volunteer Corps GESI Gender and Social Inclusion GGB Good Governance Barometer GOM Government of Morocco GSTC Global Sustainable Tourism Council HEI Higher Education Institutions ICAT Institutional Capacity Assessment Tool IEE Initial Environmental Examination ISED Inclusive Socio-Economic Development Project IT Information Technology 3 LMA Labor Market Assessment MCC Millennium Challenge Corporation MEL Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning MEO Mission Environmental Officer MSU Mississippi State University NDC Negative Determination with Conditions OFPPT Office de la Formation Professionnelle et de la Promotion de Travail OGP Open Government Partnership ONSSA National Office for Health Security of Food Products PAC Plan d’Action Communale PAT Pre-Award Assessment Tool PDP Provincial Development Plan PEFA Public Expenditure and Financial Management PPP Public-Private Partnership PwD People with Disabilities PYD Positive Youth Development RBEC Regional Business Environment Committee RC Regional Council RDP Regional Development Plan RfA Request for Applications RTI Right to Information SC Steering Committee SGI Sub-national Government Institutions SME Small-Medium Enterprise SMSU Sultan Moulay Slimane University SNA Social Network Analysis STTA Short-term Technical Assistance TOT Training of Trainers TVET Technical, Vocational Education and Training UIL University Innovation Lab USAID United States Agency for International Development USG United States Government 4 PROJECT DATA SHEET Inclusive Socio-Economic Development for the Beni Mellal-Khénifra Project title Region (ISED-BMK) Start and end dates December 8, 2020-December 7, 2025 Prime implementing Family Health International 360 (FHI 360) partner Financial Services Volunteer Corps (FSVC) in partnership with Lixia Sub-implementing Capsia Gestionis (LixCap), Mississippi State University (MSU), and the partners Association Al Intilaka pour le développement, l’environnement et la culture Afourer (AIDECA) Agreement number 72060821CA00001 The Wilaya of the Beni-Mellal-Khénifra Region Regional Council, Beni-Mellal-Khénifra Region Provincial and local governments (communes Major partner University of Sultan Moulay Slimane organizations Civil society organizations Vocational training institutions and The private sector Geographic The Beni Mellal-Khénifra Region of the Kingdom of Morocco in about 40 coverage communities to be identified during Year 1 5 PREFACE THE ISED-BMK VISION – 2021-2025 The Beni Mellal Khénifra (BMK) Region is rich with promise. The combination of a strong agricultural sector, enormous potential for higher levels of tourism, major phosphate mines, a good climate and a willing workforce provide the region with a solid foundation for accelerated growth. The leadership of its sub-national government institutions has demonstrated its commitment to growth and its understanding of the socio-economic barriers to a more robust economy and engaged civil society. For these reasons, in 2019, USAID began a process of co- designing an initiative that would respond directly to the priorities expressed by regional stakeholders and work at the inter-section of democratic governance and economic growth. The Inclusive Socio-Economic Development project for the Beni Mellal Khénifra Region (ISED- BMK) project is the result of that process and reflects the consensus that emerged between USAID and regional actors that to achieve sustainable and equitable accelerated growth, the BMK region must address socio-cultural and economic constraints holistically. Moroccan stakeholders in the BMK region identified: 1) the weak participation of women in the workforce and in local governance, 2) the inadequate targeting of youth to help them build their assets, agency and leadership skills, 3) the marginalization of people with disabilities and 4) the isolation of rural mountain communities as the four key challenges affecting the region’s social and economic development. Over the 2021-2025 period, ISED-BMK plans to address these issues systemically and to co-implement activities with the full engagement of BMK stakeholders (government, civil society, private sector and the academic community). The ISED-BMK vision is driven by its commitment to address these challenges collaboratively so that the region, by 2025, will have achieved faster, more inclusive and sustainable growth where vulnerable and marginalized populations benefit disproportionately and begin to close the gap with the general population in terms of incomes, skills, access to information, employment opportunities, levels of participation in governance and share of resources accessible to them. ISED-BMK envisions the project Steering Committee, which will be established in May 2021, as a venue for reflecting on the ISED-BMK vision, refining it and helping to disseminate it through an effective five-year cascading communications strategy. That strategy will articulate ways that the BMK Region can use ISED-BMK resources and activities systemically and strategically to address constraining cultural and social norms and behaviors that have traditionally disadvantaged groups identified by BMK stakeholders and targeted by the project. The ISED-BMK vision also includes a strong emphasis on innovation and piloting to demonstrate new ways of programming, creative ways to build synergies between governance and economic growth and to experiment with approaches that may serve as a model for other regions as they also seek to generate more inclusive socio-economic development. By 2025, as its exit strategy, ISED-BMK expects to leave the BMK region with more energized sub-national government institutions and civil society organizations that are better able to interact with women, youth, people with disabilities and other vulnerable groups in rural and urban areas, thereby creating a self-sustaining virtuous circle of accelerating inclusive growth and development. 6 1. INTRODUCTION The first Annual Work Plan (AWP) of the Inclusive Socio-Economic Development project for the Beni Mellal-Khénifra Region (ISED-BMK) covers the initial three-month start-up phase and first nine months of full program implementation from December 8, 2020 to December 7, 2021. The purpose of the AWP is to provide a strategic framework and implementation strategy, assess the strategic context and its potential impact on project objectives, describe the work to be done for each planned activity and expected Year 1 results, assess risks and indicate risk mitigation initiatives, and identify potential synergies with other projects funded by development partners and/or the Government of Morocco (GOM). The AWP demonstrates how project components are integrated