NARRI Consortium Scaling up Inclusive Resilience Amongst Water Logged Communities in South Western Bangladesh Final Narrative Report CARE Bangladesh December 2017 Period: 01-04-2016 to 30-09-2017 with NCE 30-11-2017 I. Status of the Key Performance Indicators: Overall Overall List of available Remarks SL Indicator Sub-group achievem target MOV* (If any) ent 01 District 01 Consolidated Risk Number of District, Upazilla 02 Upazilla 02 Reduction Action and Municipalities 1 02 Municipality 02 Plan Report implemented CBDP Baseline Report Institutionalization model 26 Union 26 End line Report 252 Ward 252 School Safety Plan Number of Upazilla's and 0 Upazilla 0 Report 2 Municipalities developed 0 Municipality 0 School Safety Plans Baseline Report 06 Schools 06 End line Report Training/Event Number of Upazilla's 01 Upazilla 01 Report 3 practicing Resilient Livelihood Baseline Report Analysis and Planning 150 Household 150 End line Report Platform and Establishment of South Water membership report 4 Western Water Logging 01 logging 01 Media coverage Platform platform Monitoring Report * MOV= Means of Verification (available supporting documents that can prove the reported figure) II. Performed Activities: (A) Performed Preparatory Activities: (Office Renting, Partner Selection, Procurement, Staff recruitment, Preparatory meeting, Inception meeting, Foundation training for staffs etc.) Narrative Description (Explain how the activity has been done please limited in 250words) Project Office Renting and set-up: CARE Bangladesh set-up a field level Project Office at Satkhira district just after awarding the project. Though there was a Team Office functioning at Satkhira with two small projects, required space for the new project was not available. So CARE set up the new office building with space for all projects at Satkhira Town from 1st June 2016. Project Staff Recruitment: The Project Coordinator initiated recruitment of ‘Water Logging Project staff’ via the HR department of CARE Bangladesh Dhaka Office following the set benchmarks and organizational policy. Both written and oral tests were held for all the positions. 1 Monitoring & Evaluation Officer, 6 Field Facilitators, 1 Project Officer and Project Manager were on board by July 2017. One ‘Finance & Admin Officer’ and one ‘Administrative Support Officer’ were partially deployed (25%) for this project effective from June 2016. Out of the 9 full time project staff, 3 were female and 6 male. Staff Foundation Training (FT): NARRI Consortium Secretariat organized a 4 day long Foundation Training with the effective participation of Water Logging Project staff, Consortium Manger, Finance Coordinator during the period of 19-22 June 2016. The Consortium Manager (CM) of NARRI, Focal persons of Partner Organizations, DIPECHO VIII CM, Deputy Director – Department of Disaster Management, Representatives of local advocacy platform, Consortium Finance Coordinator, Program Quality & Learning of Islamic Relief Bangladesh etc. facilitated the total FT. The main contents of the FT were project’s basic concept, especially project’s goals, objectives, expected results, basics concept of DRR & climate change, water logging situation & its effects, monitoring & evaluation, logical framework and expected results, agreed activities & implementation strategies, local platform of advocacy initiatives etc. The training discussions were very interactive, lively and useful for the participants to implement project activities smoothly. (B) Assessment, Study, Consultation meeting: (like: Need Assessment, Consultation Meeting, Baseline survey, Special study/ research) Narrative Description (Explain how the activity has been done limited in 250words) With the leadership of Islamic Relief, CARE Bangladesh and Uttaran facilitated the Need Assessment at Satkhira Sadar and Kalaroa Upazila respectively and conducted different FGD, KII with different occupational and relevant stakeholder (Fisheries, Agriculture, Livestock, BRDB, Social Welfare, Statistics, Women Affairs department) at community level before starting of project. After starting the project, the baseline study was conducted following a mixed approach combining qualitative and quantitative method for data collection and analysis. Qualitative information was collected using participatory tools (i.e., FGD, KII, case study and observation) involving communities, local leader, Disaster Management Committees, government officials, School Management Committee, Project Implementation Officers and manager. For the secondary information collection and analysis, literature review method was applied. Consortium Lead, PQLR-IRB facilitated this study while the Focal Persons are part of the team for finalizing the design of the assessment. Data inputted in the FoxPro and MS access and editing, cleaning, query have been done by using the MS access and MS-excel. In addition, SPSS-19 used to process the data, produce descriptive table, and cross table to finalize report. Description analysis (frequency, average, ration, percentage, classification etc.) and cross tabulation analysis was taken for data analysis. Attaining feedback and input from the Focal Persons, the final Baseline Assessment Report was submitted to Islamic Relief, Bangladesh and NARRI. i. Performed Activities: Result-1.0.0: CBDP model scaled up across water logged communities, unions and Upazilla's to support inclusive risk-informed planning and budgeting A. Brief status of the Result 1: Achievement Achieved in Cumulative Total Target Sl # Indicators up to last this Achievement of the project quarter quarter* till this quarter 1 2 3 4 5 6 (4+5) Number of Master Trainers 01 25 26 0 26 Developed 02 Number of functional DMCs 283 283 0 283 03 Number of WDMCs formed 252 252 0 252 Number of Unions and Municipalities 04 with updated/validated inclusive CRA, 28 28 0 28 RRAPs and DM Plan Number of RRAP schemes 05 implemented through ADP 53 29 24 53 budget/external funds B. Detail status of the result 1 1.1.0: Replication of CBDP approved model through the activation/reactivation of DMCs at all level (DDMC, UzDMC, PDMC, UDMC & WDMC) 1.1.1: Formation/Re-/activation of DMCs (DDMC, UzDMC, PDMC, UDMC and WDMC) Table on DMC Activation or Reactivation Status.xlsx Inclusion status of participants Achievemen Reason Title of activity/Sub- Target Children Old (>60 t of PWD activity Event M F (<18yrs) yrs.) Event deviation M F M F M F Re-Activation of District Disaster 1 1 N/A 79 4 Management Committees (DDMC) Re-Activation of Upazila Disaster 2 2 N/A 82 13 Management Committee (UzDMC) Re-Activation of Pourashava Disaster 2 2 N/A 39 7 Management Committee(PDMC) Formation of Pourashava Ward 18 18 N/A 223 63 Disaster Management Committee (PWDMC) Re-Activation of Union Disaster Management 26 26 N/A 778 143 Committee (UDMC) Formation of Union Ward Disaster 234 234 N/A 4319 858 Management Committee (WDMC) Narrative Description (Explain how the activity has been done and causes of deviation, if any limited in 200 words) Given the non-functioning status of existing DMCs, CARE-Bangladesh re-activated 21 UDMCs out of 26, 02 PDMCs and 02 UzDMCs under Satkhira Sadar and Kalaroa Upazila including 01 DDMC of Satkhira district. The rest 05 UDMCs were previously reformed with the support of DeSHARI through another relevant project. During re-activation process, project emphasized to include newly elected UP members, female, PWD in the light of inclusion. Project faced challenges up to 3rd quarter for functioning the Alipur UDMC of Satkhira Sadar Upazila due to 'stay order' of High Court due to political reason. Besides, the project piloted WDMC idea to test how the structure bring benefits to the populations at risk and formed 252 WDMC's. This is a completely new innovation regulated by UDMC’s to form union level Ward Disaster Management Committee in respective unions. In WDMC, the respective ward member is designated as Chairperson, female member (Reserve seat) as Co-Chairperson and others are member. UDMC Chairperson (UP Chairman) approves the WDMC accordingly. Newly formed WDMCs are being linked with communities and local government bodies. Resulting that the DMCs were functioning according to SOD and the DMC are also working for risk reduction action plan and mitigating their upcoming risks specially water logged situation through mobilizing local resource. 1.1.2: Support Regular Meeting of DDMC, UzDMC, PDMC, UDMC, and WDMC Title of Achie Reason Inclusion status of participants Target activity/Sub- veme of Children Old (>60 Event M F PWD activity nt deviation/ (<18yrs) yrs) Event additional M F M F M F (if any) DDMC Meeting 6 4 *1 208 12 (Quarterly) UzDMC Meeting 10 8 *2 260 28 (By-Monthly) PDMC Meeting 8 7 *1 98 18 (Quarterly) PWDMC Meeting 36 36 * 326 92 (Need based) UDMC Meeting 422 377 *33 6267 1148 (Monthly) WDMC Meeting 468 468 * 6220 1236 (Need based) Narrative Description (Explain how the activity has been done and causes of deviation, if any limited in 200 words) However, CARE Bangladesh extended non-financial support to all level DMCs in conduction of regular meeting following SOD. In absence of Govt. guidelines for WDMC, the project assisted to hold meetings based on situations including formation process. The major objectives of the meeting were to clarify the roles and responsibilities of the committee members before, during and after any types of disaster and engaged the committee members to implement of CBDP and SBDP approaches through the active participation of local community. They focused on how to implement