BURKINA FASO VICTORY AGAINST MALNUTRITION PLUS VIMPLUS FISCAL YEAR 2019 QUARTER 3 REPORT: APRIL -JUNE 2019 DEVELOPMENT FOOD SECURITY ACTIVITY NO. 72DFFP18CA00008 JULY 30, 2019 URKIN! F!SO VITORY !G!INST M!LNUTRITION PLUS (VIMPLUS) DEVELOPMENT FOOD SECURITY ACTIVITY NO. 72DFFP18CA00008 Fiscal Year 2019 Quarter 3 Report Submitted to United States Agency for International Development Bureau of Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance Office of Food for Peace Original Submission Date: July 30, 2019 Headquarters Contact Name —Senior Director, Resilience & Growth Headquarters Contact Address ACDI/VOCA 50 F Street NW, Suite 1000, Washington, DC 20001 Headquarters Contact Phone Number Headquarters Contact Fax Number Headquarters Contact Email Address Host Country Office Contact Name Chief of Party Host Country Office Contact Address ACDI/VOCA—Burkina Faso , Ouagadougou 05, Burkina Faso Host Country Office Contact Phone Number Host Country Office Contact Fax Number N/A Host Country Office Contact Email Address DISCLAIMER This report is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The contents are the responsibility of ACDI/VOCA and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government. ViMPlus is part of US!ID’s Resilience in the Sahel Enhanced (RISE II) program, which supports vulnerable communities in Burkina Faso and Niger to effectively prepare for and manage recurrent crises and pursue sustainable pathways out of poverty. Burkina Faso Victory against Malnutrition Plus 72DFFP18CA00008 Quarterly Progress Report: April-June 2019 !RONYM LIST CEDAR Communities Empowered for Disaster and Adaptive Resilience CONASUR Conseil National de Secours d'Urgence et de Réhabilitation CVD Conseil Villageois de Développement DRM Disaster Risk Management DRMC Disaster Risk Management Committee FY Fiscal Year IDP Internally Displaced Persons IPTT Indicator Performance Tracking Table M&E Monitoring and Evaluation MERL Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting, and Learning NSMS Nutrition-sensitive Market Systems (Formative Study) OCADES Organisation Catholique pour le Développement et la Solidarité PIRS Performance Indicator Reference Sheet REGIS-AG Resilience and Economic Growth in the Sahel – Accelerated Growth REGIS-ER Resilience and Economic Growth in Sahel – Enhanced Resilience SBC Social and Behavior Change SILC Savings and Internal Lending Community VVV Village Volunteer Extensionist WASH Water, Sanitation & Hygiene ZOI Zone Of Influence i Burkina Faso Victory against Malnutrition Plus 72DFFP18CA00008 Quarterly Program Progress Report: April-June 2019 ACTIVITY SUMMARY Activities in the quarter focused on strengthening ViMPlus’ operations base through recruiting staff, addressing logistical and administrative issues and, most importantly, revising the Refinement Year work plan, the detailed implementation plan and preparing a contingency plan in response to the current security environment in the zone of intervention (ZOI). The overall security situation remained volatile in the ZOI despite the military operation launched in the Centre Nord. The terrorist attacks and inter-community violence have impacted many villages in the communes covered by the project, leading to a rampant population movement towards larger cities. During this quarter alone, over 50,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) have been registered, increasing thereby the overall vulnerability to food insecurity in host communities. In response to this crisis, governmental (CONASUR) and humanitarian agencies have mobilized resources (food, shelter and non-food items [NFI]) to address the needs of affected populations, including IDPs and hosting families. The situation remains unpredictable and has not allowed ViMPlus teams to freely and safely access the field to move forward with the Refinement year planned activities in the communities. ViMPlus team worked to develop a contingency plan that has recently been approved by FFP. This Contingency plan is one of the major deliverables of this quarter. The contingency planning exercise helped the team revisit the overall program delivery strategy, considering the security context. While remaining fully informed and sensitive to the emergency context, ViMPlus’ strategy does not lose sight of the developmental nature of the project and the need to be agile and adapt quickly to the situation to pursue the initial development agenda when and where possible. Efforts in the last month of this quarter were focused on the adjustment of Refinement year activities, adapting approaches and strategies to the security context, completing the household census data cleaning and first results analysis, properly preparing the launch of the formative research studies, pursuing the local implementing partners’ recruitment process as well as preparing the resource transfers for the extremely poor and chronically vulnerable, including households hosting IDPs. During this quarter, ViMPlus also started the development of its monitoring and evaluation (M&E) plan, Initial Environmental Examination (IEE) and Environmental Management and Mitigation Plan (EMMP), following the recommendations provided during the M&E workshop organized by USAID in Niger in May. ACTIVITY OUTPUTS During this quarter, various activities have been carried out towards a delivery of project outputs in line with the Refinement year work plan: 1. Governance/DRM: The Governance and Disaster Risk Management (DRM) team has been fully recruited including the Governance Lead, the DRM Lead, the DRM Specialist and the Social Inclusion Specialist. As per the Refinement year work plan, the team focused on designing Conseil Villageois de Développement (CVD) assessment tools. ViMPlus staff worked with a consultant to adapt !DI/VO!’s DRM tool, Communities Empowered for Disaster and Adaptive Resilience (CEDAR) to the Centre Nord context. The consultant trained staff in DRM and the CEDAR tool. The team will pilot the approach in three communities and review literature on DRM by communes and communities next quarter. A contingency plan to address the challenging security situation has been prepared and approved by FFP. ACDI/VOC!’s ommodity and Resource Transfer Specialist travelled 1 Burkina Faso Victory against Malnutrition Plus 72DFFP18CA00008 Quarterly Program Progress Report: April-June 2019 to Burkina Faso to speak with stakeholders and identify the resource transfer modality, target groups and logistics for launching an early transfer process. In preparation for resource transfer, ViMPlus has been active during the quarter in the food security cluster headed by World Food Program for the coordination of humanitarian assistance to IDPs and host families. 2. MCHN & WASH: The main activities conducted under the MCHN & WASH in FY19 Q3 are presented below: • Completed an exercise to map out actors, approaches, strategic documentation published, tools developed in the project’s zone of implementation. The project team consulted partners such as the Ministry of Health, Regional Direction of Health and Regional Direction of Water and Sanitation, etc. All the information gathered through this exercise is being currently analyzed and will be used to refine tools, modules and approaches. • Designed tools to gather information on current feeding, hygiene and sanitation practices and identify gaps with recommended practices. The data collection will start in July and be rolled out first in three communes and then progressively in other ViMPlus communes depending on the security situation. • Designed a form to identify the capacity needs of health providers, in collaboration with the Health Ministry. • Conducted a literature review in preparation of the launch of the formative studies on SBC, WASH markets and the cost of the diet. • Recruited 21 staff: health and nutrition coordinator, SBC coordinator, WASH coordinator, Youth Coordinator, MEAL officer, Logistics officer, health and nutrition supervisors. • Planned the roll out of formative studies (SBC study, WASH markets and Cost of the Diet). For the Cost of the Diet the program team is considering the possibility of conducting a joint training with the Niger WADATA program. The training will allow the team to become familiar with the methodology, share lessons learned from previous program and build connections before the program starts implementing. 3. Diversified Livelihoods: During Q3 of FY 2019, the main activities implemented by ViMPlus under the Livelihoods purpose, are among others: The launch of the Nutrition-Sensitive Market Systems (NSMS) study. This process includes a training for ViMPlus staff in the Market Systems Approach to be completed next , and a participatory selection of agriculture and livestock value chains. A selection workshop was held on 25 and 26 June 2019 in Kaya and brought together about 30 participants composed of representatives of the central and decentralized directorates of the Ministry of Agriculture and Hydro-Agricultural Development, Ministry of Animal and Fisheries Resources, Ministry of health, REGIS-ER and REGIS-AG and the ViMPlus staff. This workshop proposed 13 value chains to be further prioritized and considered by ViMPlus in the Nutrition-Sensitive Market systems Study, namely cowpea, sesame, peanut, rice, white sorghum, red sorghum, onion, tomato and green bean for agricultural value chains and traditional poultry, small ruminants, pigs and milk for animal value chains. The preparation for an inventory