Quarterly Results Report Emergency Food Security Program - EFSP Food for the Hungry DRC Reporting Period FY 2020, Q2 (January – March, 2020) Awardee Name and Host Country Food for the Hungry DRC Host/ Implementation Country Democratic Republic of Congo Award Number 72DFFP19GR00073 Activity Name Emergency Food Security Program (EFSP) “Tanganyika Emergency Food Assistance (TEFA) Project” Activity Start Date 08/23/2019 Activity End Date 02/22/2021 Submission Date (mm/dd/yyyy) 04/30/2020 Awardee HQ Contact Name Anthony E. Koomson Senior Director, Public Resources 1001 Connecticut Ave NW Suite 1115, Washington, DC 20036 Tel: 202-480-2540 Email: [email protected] Host Country Office Contact Name Pascal R. BIMENYIMANA Emergency Response Manager Food for the Hungry RD Congo No 69 Av.Tanganyika/Nyalukemba/Bukavu Téléphone: +243 978 290 020 Email: [email protected] 1 Tanganyika Emergency Food Assistance (TEFA) Project, April 30, Food for the Hungry DRC TABLE OF CONTENTS OVERVIEW & CONTEXT 5 Background 5 1) Activity Summary 7 2) Activity Outputs 7 Purpose 1: Households have food and income security 8 Purpose 2: Improved consumption of high-quality nutritious foods by WRA, CU5 10 Purpose 3: Reduced incidence of SGBV 11 Collaboration 11 3) Programming Performance 11 4) Some Challenges 11 5) Market Analysis 12 The collected data is currently being processed and analyzed. 12 6) Planned Activities 12 7) Protection Concerns 12 8) Success Stories (as relevant) 12 9) Local and Regional Purchase Commodity (LRP) 12 10) Annex: Loss Reporting 12 11) Annex: Commodity Quality and Safety 13 2 Tanganyika Emergency Food Assistance (TEFA) Project, April 30, Food for the Hungry DRC LIST OF ACRONYMS CG: Care Group CTS/LMMS: Commodity Tracking System/ Last Mobile Millennium Solution DRC: Democratic Republic of Congo EVI: Extremely vulnerable individuals FDP: Food Distribution Point FGD: Focus Group Discussions FH: Food for the Hungry FSL: Food Security and Livelihoods HH: Household IDP: Internally displaced persons MOFI: Moderately Food Insecure MOU: Memorandum of understanding NFI: Non Food Items NGO: Non-Governmental Organisation OCC: Office Congolais de Contrôle OCHA: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs SGBV: Sexual and gender Based Violence TEFA: Tanganyika Emergency Food Assistance Project WPF: Word Food Programme 3 Tanganyika Emergency Food Assistance (TEFA) Project, April 30, Food for the Hungry DRC TABLES & FIGURES Figure 1: TEFA staff orientation on activities in Kalemie, Tanganyika Province ................................................... 7 Figure 2: Orientation session for local leaders of the Kashege village on the mechanisms of management of complaints and the signing of partnership agreement .............................................................................................. 8 Figure 3: Handover of NFI Kit to a beneficiary in Tundwa ....................................................................................... 10 Figure 4: Training of members of CG on preparation of seed beds ...................................................................... 10 Table 1: Challenges Table ..................................................................................................................................................... 11 4 Tanganyika Emergency Food Assistance (TEFA) Project, April 30, Food for the Hungry DRC OVERVIEW & CONTEXT Overall objective: The overall goal of the program is to support 19,727 households (HHs) affected by the prolonged insecurity in Tanganyika Province by rebuilding food security and self- resiliency through provision of tools and seeds for agricultural production as well as facilitating transition to traditional livelihoods activities. The program will also include conflict mitigation and protection (sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) theme because HHs that have been affected by displacement have high possibility of gender imbalances Specifically, the current interventions intend to: ● Support at least 17,273 vulnerable HHs (IDP, returnee and host community) with monthly unconditional food assistance for the initial four months, and 1,727 most vulnerable HHs with food to improve HH level food insecurity for six months besides of unconditional food transfer. ● Support 9,000 vulnerable HHs including returnees to relaunch agricultural production through provision of agricultural inputs (seeds and tools) and training; ● Promote renovation of community assets through food assistance for productive assets or Food for Work/Asset (FFW/A) programming that will target the 18,000 most vulnerable HHs in the communities; ● All HHs targeted receive health and nutrition training on improved HH and community case-management of maternal and child health conditions of diseases. ● All HHs are sensitized on conflict as well as SGBV mitigation in communities Background A) Security context During the reporting period, in Tanganyika province, the territories of Kalemie and Moba, was characterized by the resurgence of inter-ethnic conflicts; incursions and confrontations, particularly in the territory of Moba in the locality of Murilo. With the second week of March, there was an incursion of the Zambian army on Congolese soil which led to clashes and caused a movement of the population from the localities of Kibanga, Muliro, Kalubamba, Kileba towards the localities of Fube, Kajazo, Mwange and Lawi. Since then diplomatic talks between the two countries (DRC-Zambia) are going on, a calm is gradually returning, nevertheless a military deployment can be observed in this area, which shows that there is a potential risk of clashes outbreak at any time. This condition is creating mental health problems among the population, which remains displaced until now in the host villages. In Kalemie territory, the situation was characterized by several cases of road blockers. However, during the reporting period, the security situation remained volatile and 5 Tanganyika Emergency Food Assistance (TEFA) Project, April 30, Food for the Hungry DRC unpredictable throughout the area of intervention where Mai-Mai Mundusi, Apa na Pale and some Twa fighters carried out attacks against civilian road users; mainly motorcyclists but also vehicles. In addition, in February, the inter-ethnic conflict between the Bantu and Twa ethnic groups in Tanganyika continues; in Muyombo one of the health areas covered by the project; there are two chiefs (Pygmy and Bantu) competing for leadership. Currently local population movements have been reported from Nyunzu territory to Kalemie territory mainly in the areas of intervention of the TEFA project. B. Humanitarian context Since March 10, 2020; DRC has registered its first case of COVID-19 related patient in Kinshasa Capital. Measures to reduce the spread of the disease were taken at the national level suspending any gatherings of more than 20 people and movements between the provinces and the capital city Kinshasa. As a result, humanitarian activities were discontinued, while humanitarian actors are still working with communities and most interventions are mass community-based activities. Humanitarian coordination meetings are currently suspended and information is only shared through emails. Despite the current difficulties, considering the precariousness humanitarian situation and the fact that Tanganyika province has not registered COVID 19 cases yet, the Ministry of humanitarian affairs officially requested through UNOCHA all humanitarian actors to continue with their activities making sure they respect WHO COVID 19 guidelines such as social distancing, working with a smaller group of less than 10 beneficiaries and strengthening awareness on hygiene measures and prevention by washing hands frequently. With those facts, TEFA project continues its activities including food distribution and community sensitization to prevent the pandemic. It should be noted that to date the case of coronavirus in the DRC has only increased. In less than 30 days, the DRC has already passed the 109 coronavirus cases mark with 8 deaths1. This situation worries the population and risks creating the worst for the coming quarter in a country without appropriate medical facilities. This could have an impact on socio-economic life and risks heightening the humanitarian crisis in a country that lives on more than 60% of imports2. Currently five provinces are already affected, namely Kinshasa, which is the epicenter, Ituri, North Kivu, South Kivu and Kwilu. C. Physical access: Since January 2020, the rains which fell on several localities of Tanganyika province, precisely in Moba and Kalemie territories led to a strong degradation of certain road axis but also damaging certain bridges of which the access became very difficult for certain paths axis of the project intervention which significantly impact activities implementation. 1 This information was collected on March 31, 2020. 2 WFP- Rapport Campagne agricole 2017-2018 6 Tanganyika Emergency Food Assistance (TEFA) Project, April 30, Food for the Hungry DRC 1) Activity Summary During the course of the second quarter, the project made progress in finalizing the staff recruitment, the training of community leaders on gender-based, conflict sensitivity, SGBV facilitating project staff orientation sessions. In addition; during the same period; efforts were undertaken to receive some vegetable seeds, food commodities and non-food items. TEFA project had to also validate beneficiary lists and take their pictures into the monitoring system; the