AFGHANISTAN PROGRAMME PLAN 2012
1. Introduction Concern’s programme areas in Afghanistan are in Takhar and Badakshan provinces. Overall the number of direct beneficiaries of the country programme will be approximately 450,000. Increased initiatives to develop partnerships with civil society organizations through the Badakshan Development Forum (BDF) and Takhar Development Forum (TDF) and Alliance 2015 will be explored and developed. Efforts to strengthen monitoring and evaluation, and to mainstream HAP, will continue in 2012.
An Accountability Framework and Commitments for Afghanistan was
developed in 2011; implementation will continue throughout 2012. Concern Afghanistan’s Country Strategic Plan (2009-2013) will be aligned to the organisational strategic plan and will continue to
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provide direction on the geographical spread of operation and programme sector.
2. Programmes
2.1. Food Income & Markets
2.1.1. Food Security & Natural Resource Management
FIM projects funded by the European Union, Irish Aid, WHH/BMZ and Oxfam are implemented in Takhar and Badakshan provinces. Three EU-funded projects (Social Water and Integrated Management Project; Sustainable Management for Improved Livelihoods and Environment Project;
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and Integrated Development Environment and Sustainability Project Phase II) are ongoing in Takhar. The WHH/BMZ and OXFAM/SDC funded FIM project (AIM) is implemented in Badakshan. The overall aim of the FIM programme is to contribute to poverty alleviation through improved food security. The programme involves capacity building of local community groups and strengthening community structures, implementing natural resource management, agriculture, and disaster risk reduction initiatives. Income generation initiatives (especially those targeted to women) are also a key component of the programme. The FIM programme also includes a water management component. This involves the construction and rehabilitation of water systems and the capacity building of community development councils and water user groups to effectively manage and maintain their water systems. Objectives: o
To promote community based natural resources management and agriculture through the establishment and capacity building of community based organisations and farmers cooperatives o To increase food security and reduce vulnerability of poor marginal, smallholder farmers and landless, through economic advancement, increased livelihood options and capacity in DRR To advocate for pro poor changes in food security, agricultural and natural resources management policies and practices NIGER PROGRAMME PLAN 2012
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1. Introduction
The operating environment in Rwanda remains conducive for programming. Stakeholders, particularly decentralised structures place greater emphasis on demonstrating results. There is also increasing demand for capacity building and responding to disasters.
The country programme strategic plan (2011-2015) has been completed in 2011. During the life time of the strategic plan, the country programme will focus on enhancing programme quality with coherent design based on contextual analysis and strong M&E to complete a refined results framework. The geographic areas of focus will be the Districts of Gisagara, Huye, Nyamagabe and Nyaruguru in the Southern Province.
New family health and FIM programmes are expected to start in 2012. The health programme will focus on maternal, neonatal and child health, reproductive health and community-based management of malnutrition. The FIM programme will integrate food production aimed at improving the nutritional status of target households. This will entail providing livelihood support to resource poor and most vulnerable families that otherwise will be affected by malnutrition. In education, Concern Worldwide Rwanda will implement the Language, Literacy and Learning Project (LLLP) funded by the USAID.
Additionally, 2012 will see increased emphasis on implementing the country accountability plan, mainstreaming HIV and AIDS, increased preparedness to respond to disasters through the national coordination mechanism and staff capacity building, particularly focussing on enhancing programme quality.
2. Programmes
Food, Income and Markets
The new Rwanda FIM programme will focus on integrating support to improve agricultural production and prevent malnutrition in four districts. More specifically, the programme will contribute to improve productive capacity, nutrition status and the state of empowerment. Key expected outcomes of the programme will be improved capacity of decentralised structures and civil society, and strengthened
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participation of communities in agricultural production and nutrition interventions, to be achieved through participatory planning, decision making and feedback mechanisms. The main activities include: providing agricultural inputs, training, promoting behaviour change in nutrition practices, mentoring local authorities, building the organisational capacity of local partners to improve planning, decision-making and policy engagement and awareness raising/sensitization of communities on national policies that are relevant to food production and reducing malnutrition. The programme will target at least 400 households mostly subsistence farmers lacking alternative livelihoods, with low coping mechanisms between harvests and limited levels of knowledge and opportunity to engage with various local government institutions.
The social protection programme, which is being implemented as a component of FIM, will continue with the cash transfer scheme through two local microfinance institutions Umurenge SACCOs; targeting 400 extreme poor households. Research will be undertaken in collaboration with the Future Agricultures Consortium to input to learning on the determination of a sustainable graduation model from social protection. Primary Education
The Rwanda programme will implement the USAID funded LLLP as a sub-grantee to the Education Development Centre (EDC). The main objective of this programme is to strengthen teaching and learning in Rwanda so that children leave primary school with strong literacy and numeracy skills.
The LLLP seeks the following results: improved quality of teaching, improved availability of teaching and learning materials, support for English, strengthened ministry capacity and improved equity in education. The Rwanda programme role will focus on improving equity in education by: a) mobilizing community support for literacy/numeracy and for teacher incentive programmes, and for girls’ success in school, primarily by supporting the Parent-Teacher Committees (PTCs); b) conduct household research (in year one) on gender and poverty-related barriers to classroom performance to identify key behavior change messages for national mentors and PTC trainings and a behaviour change media campaign; c) rolling out the School-based Mentoring Programmes, prioritizing disadvantaged (rural, low-income) communities and Teacher Training Centers that serve them.
Family Health
In Rwanda, there is a consensus that continued improvement in the quality of life of Rwanda’s citizens depends, to a large extent, on finding innovative and integrated solutions to complex population, health, and environmental problems. Under nutrition remains a significant public health problem contributing to high infant, child and maternal mortality. Rates of malnutrition remain consistently high in Rwanda. For example stunting is 52%, underweight 15.8% and wasting 4.6%. Malnutrition among
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women of reproductive age is 7%, (Ministry of Health, 2010: National Multi-Sector Strategy to Eliminate Malnutrition in Rwanda. Action Plan for Implementation 2010-2013). The Global Hunger Index (GHI) for Rwanda decreased from 28.9 in 1990 to 23.1 in 2010, but remains high. (IFPRI 2010. Global Hunger Index (GHI). The GHI incorporates three interlinked hunger-related indicators – the proportion of undernourished in the population, the prevalence of underweight in children, and the mortality rate of children).
Under the family health programme, CWR will continue to implement the community management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) approach to prevent and treat malnutrition in the Southern Province. In line with the the National Strategy for Elimination of Malnutrition, the programme will treat severely malnourished children at outpatient therapeutic centres (OTP), and will train community health workers (CHWs). Moderate cases of malnutrition will be managed through community-based nutrition activities using the PD hearth approach.
Based on a detailed design process at the end of 2011, programme interventions will focus on provision of support to maternal and new born community health workers (CHWs) to promote family planning, prenatal and ante natal care. Building on the recommendations of the Expanded Impact Child Survival programme (EIP) CWR will consider supporting gaps in C-IMCI in our target districts including supervision and performance management of CHWs; support to CHW co-operatives and further capacity building on M&E analysis and refining the C-IMCI Bulletin. The programme will be implemented in collaboration with communities, local authorities, local NGOs and the Ministry of Health at various levels.
Additionally, the programme will continue to build on the achievements of the Behaviour Change Communication component of EIP through community health promotion activities including appropriate hygiene practices and sensitisation about the benefits of health insurance enrolment. Finally, households will be supported, through the FIM programme, to improve their agricultural production with improved inputs and skills transfer including vegetable and mushroom production.
The new health programme to be implemented as of 2012 will: a) contribute to reducing the rate of malnutrition by 25% in target areas by 2015; b) promote the adoption of family health services. The expected outcomes of the programme will be: Reduced child, infant and maternal morbidity and mortality in targeted districts Reduced prevalence of stunting and acute malnutrition among children under 5 in targeted districts Increase use of family planning methods by women aged 15-29.
Emergency: Responding to disasters
In Rwanda, extreme poor people could be affected by drought, irregular rains, dry spells, floods, crop diseases, hailstones, heavy torrential rains and tremors. The GOR issued a Disaster Management RWANDA
Policy in 2009 and established the National Disaster Management Center (NDMC) for coordinating disaster management undertaken by various stakeholders. At national level, the GOR formed the Disaster Management Steering Committee (DMSC) composed of the following ministries: Interior, Defence, Local Government, Health and Rwanda Defence Force and National Police, and Disaster Management Taskforce (DMT). The latter is composed of UN agencies, local and international NGOs and the private sector.
In line with our organisational mandate and as member of the DMT, CWR in 2012 will allocate up to €50,000 in the health, FIM and social protection programmes for disaster response through the NDMC.
Equality, HIV and AIDS mainstreaming
CWR will mainstream gender equality at each stage of the programme cycle and will closely monitor progress made in achieving indicators, particularly in building internal capacity and the capacity of partners.
One of the key actions will be to work with partners to inform communities about the harmful effects of gender-based violence (GBV) and provide guidelines to local institutions for preventing violence against women. The primary education programme working with Parent-Teacher Committees will contribute to this effort.
The Rwanda programme will mainstream HIV and AIDS internally and externally with a focus on reducing risk, vulnerability and impact on extremely poor people living with HIV and AIDS and those affected by the pandemic. By 2012, all programmes will have clear indicators for measuring HIV and AIDS mainstreaming. The impact mainstreaming will have on the lives of those infected with and affected by HIV and AIDS will also be documented.
3. Monitoring and Evaluation
Programme
Contextual Analysis
Survey (Baseline)
MT Review/ Evaluation
Internal / External
Donor (if Applicable)
Timeframe
Yes/No Final Evaluation
Primary Education FIM
Done
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External
Irish Aid MAPS
First quarter of 2012
Health
Done
Q2
Education
USAID
EDC/USAID
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