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Rapid Gender Analysis Policy Brief: Sudan Conflict Response, May 2023
As of 6 May, 334,000 civilians are estimated have been displaced internally (a majority of whom are women and children), fleeing to safer areas within Sudan while 120,0000 have left Sudan with the majority seeking refuge in
Central African Republic, Chad, Ethiopia, Egypt, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and South Sudan. Vulnerable populations such as female-headed households, persons with disabilities, urban poor, pregnant and lactating
women, children, and internally displaced persons (IDPs) before this conflict are at a heightened risk.
Frontline organizations have begun providing initial reports that residential buildings, water, and energy infrastructure are damaged, some banks have closed while communications and internet connectivity have also been breached. Basic services are down, and civilians risk their lives to travel to more secure areas. Families are prioritising women and children for evacuations to safer places, leading to family separations, and exposing them
to higher risks of gender-based violence and trafficking en -route to safety. For persons with physical disability, this is particularly difficult is possible as there is limited support to help their mobility. Public and private
facilities have been looted including health centres and aid organizations as the situation gets dire. Read More...
Building Resilience of the Urban Poor Baseline Report
RAPPORT D’EVALUATION FINALE PROJET PEREN Programme de Poursuite des Engagements pour la Résilience à l’Extrême Nord
Porté par le consortium : ACF-CRF-CARE, le projet PEREN a pris effet sur un peu plus de 2 ans avec la volonté de pérenniser, sur 6 communes de l’Extrême Nord, une partie des actions du projet RESILIANT qui l’avait précédé pendant 4 ans. Il vise à renforcer la gestion des crises alimentaires et nutritionnelles par les institutions, tout en améliorant les conditions de vie des ménages. Le présent rapport est le résultat de l’évaluation finale réalisée en mai 2023 à partir
d’une revue bibliographique, de rencontres et de visites de terrain, ainsi que de 2 restitutions en présence des acteurs et des partenaires du projet.
PRESENTATION EN QUELQUES CHIFFRES CLEFS
PEREN est intervenu via un package d’activités comprenant : l’appui à l’élaboration du Plan National de Réponse alimentaire et nutritionnelle (PNR), le soutien à la coordination de ce secteur dans l’Extrême Nord, l’accompagnement à la gouvernance des 6 communes, l’appui aux systèmes de productions agricoles à travers notamment l’accompagnement de 10 coopératives, 200 AVEC et 41 CEP. Il est intervenu dans 145 localités, auprès de plus de 9900 bénéficiaires pour le soutien à l’économie des ménages dont 75% sont des anciens bénéficiaires du RESILIANT. Avec le volet accès à l’eau potable, le nombre de bénéficiaires passe à plus de 20 000 ménages et plus de 170 000 personnes.
LA GESTION DES CRISES ALIMENTAIRES ET NUTRITIONNELLES PAR LES INSTITUTIONS
Planifier la réponse au niveau national et coordonner l’action dans l’Extrême Nord Le PNR a été élaboré, de façon participative et consensuelle. Avec la version révisée en 2023 (PNR2), le MINADER dispose d’un outil essentiel pour structurer la réponse et mobiliser les moyens nécessaires car actuellement le plan est financé à hauteur de 50% seulement.
Parallèlement, le GTSA de Maroua a été réactivé, il permet des échanges réguliers entre les acteurs du secteur et des perspectives plus ambitieuses sont tracés pour la suite : mener des actions conjointes, éditer un bulletin trimestriel d’information… Appropriations, pérennisation des bonnes pratiques par les institutions La collaboration du PEREN avec les communes a été positive et constructive. De nombreux volets d’actions ont été activés : réunions CCODES, révision des PCD, activation des FDE/MAE, renforcement des équipes avec du personnel qualifié (ACDES), élaboration de plans Genre… Des MOU ont été signés pour mener des actions conjointes mais leur durée a été compressée à +/-1 an. Cela n’a pas permis de tout accomplir comme prévu et de sécuriser toutes les actions souhaitées comme : envisager une meilleure utilisation du 1% nutrition, consolider les FDE/MAE qui restent embryonnaires, appuyer les partenariat OSC qui débutent, soutenir la dynamique CCODES qui est fragile et inscrire les plans « genre » dans les budgets des communes. Read More...
Chomoka Savings Group Member Insights
* 35% said their quality of life was "very much improved"
* 30% spoke of investing in an existing business, and 16% investing in a new business.
* 36% said crop revenue very much increased, and 35% said crop production very much increased. Read More...
Farmer Field Business Schools and Village Savings and Loan Associations for promoting climate-smart agriculture practices: Evidence from rural Tanzania
RAPID GENDER ANALYS ON POWER AND PARTICIPATION Wau, CARE South Sudan
This Rapid Gender Analysis on Power and Participation is part of the Women Lead in Emergencies project in Wau, Wau County, Western Bahr el-Ghazal State. This project is funded by Global Affairs Canada. It aims to support crisis-affected women to participate more and in more meaningful ways in community and public life and in humanitarian response in South Sudan.
This is the first Rapid Gender Analysis on Power and Participation (RGA-P) conducted in Wau. It has three main objectives: (1) analysis of crisis-affected women’s access to, and influence within, decision-making of different kinds; (2) provide practical programming and operational recommendations to support crisis-affected women to participate more in decision-making, and in more meaningful ways; and (3) identify gaps for further assessment and analysis to build a more comprehensive understanding of women’s participation and leadership in Wau over time.
The RGA-P is composed of primary qualitative data collection and a secondary data review. Primary data collection took place between Dec 2nd and Dec 6th, 2022, in four locations across Wau. It included 20 focus group discussions, 14 key informant interviews, and 4 community mappings. A total of 249 people participated, including 133 women and 116 men. This data was supplemented a validation workshop with several women’s associations and leaders.
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Technologically Enhanced Agricultural Livelihoods (TEAL)
sections 2.9 and sections 2.10 discusses how the Project contributes to preventing gender-based violence (GBV)); and Chapter 3: Conclusion and recommendation. The findings in the final evaluation report (are presented in Chapter 2) are summarized here:
● Project Outreach: The TEAL project has realized the plan in reaching out to the intended beneficiaries, in terms of numbers. At the endline, the number of direct beneficiaries is significantly higher than the target. The same goes for the number of indirect beneficiaries.
● Relevance: (i) The TEAL project complies fully with the approaches of CARE's WEE Framework; (ii) The approaches of the TEAL Project are consistent with the long-term orientations of Son La and Dien Bien and are considered a leverage to achieve the provincial economic development objectives; (iii) The Project is suitable for the needs of ethnic minorities and the needs of people with disabilities in many respects; and (iv) The TEAL project has found every creative solution to meet the needs of people with disabilities in the project.
● Coherence is assessed high when the project's intervention is not overlapped/duplicated with other similar interventions that takes place in the same location, target the same beneficiaries and aims for the same impacts. Project coherence is also considered high when it is implemented as a complemented to other interventions in terms of resources and approaches
● Effectiveness: Almost indicators are achieved, even some of them have exceeded the plan. However, there are still a few limitations, such as: the design of VSLA has not significantly contributed to the achievement of expected outcome 3 - EM women in the Arabica coffee value chain are financially included
● Impacts: The changes in women's agency are generated by contribution from TEAL intervention. The project also builds women's relationships with other actors in the specialty arabica coffee value chain by supporting a lead processing actor who is committed to inclusive business. An unexpected positive impact of the Project is to build a culture of enjoying local specialty coffee among the coffee-growers community. Another unexpected positive effect was noted. The TEAL Project has contributed to building a sustainable relationship between processing groups and leading coffee experts in Vietnam.
● Sustainability: (i) Both male and female project beneficiaries are highly available and committed to continue project's activities; (ii) At the end of project evaluation, two women-led processing groups (Ara-Tay Cooperative and CFCE) were able to understand the concept of fixed asset depreciation and formulate a plan on using profits estimated from business operations to replace existing equipment by purchasing new machinery at the end of the depreciation period; (iii) The large investment of the Project for Ara-Tay Cooperative and CFCE while the number of their satellites remains low indicates a risk of distribution of the project benefits in the long run if these two processors are not proactive in extending links to new satellite farmers; and (iv) The project has done a good job when introducing processing solutions that have less impact on the environment .
● Engagement of PwD: The stories shared by the participants in the final evaluation strongly illustrate PwD's engagement in the TEAL Project.
● Gender-based Violence: In recent times, it has been observed that the number of quarrels between husband and wife has been a lot decreased. Men are more aware that forbidding their wives to engage in social activities is also a type of violence. The Pearson's Chi-squared test shows that the correlation between participation in discussions about gender and gender inequality held by the TEAL Project and the change in social norm about domestic violence was statistically significant. Read More...
ANCP WASH Endline Evaluation: Putting Women and Girls at the Center of Improving WASH and Health Chivi District, Zimbabwe
Strategic Evaluation Report Education for Ethnic Minorities Program: Cambodia
The MLE model aims to increase ethnolinguistic minority children’s access to, and the quality of, primary and secondary education. Ethnolinguistic minorities (hereafter referred to as ethnic minorities) are groups of people who share a culture and/or ethnicity and/or language that distinguishes them from other groups of people and are either fewer in terms of number or less prestigious in terms of power than the dominant groups in the state. In Cambodia, ethnic minority groups are generally located in the five highland provinces of north-eastern Cambodia – Kratie, Mondul Kiri, Preah Vihear, Ratanak Kiri, and Stung Treng. There are 20 ethnic minority spoken languages across these five provinces. Brao, Bunong, Kavet, Kreung and Tampeun2 are used as the L1 of the MLE program in the relevant provinces, with Jarai and Kuy in the process of being adopted (Ball and Smith, 2018).
CARE’s mother tongue MLE model using ethnic minority languages and Khmer was piloted in Ratanak Kiri beginning in 2003 after a year’s preparations and has been expanded to four additional north-eastern provinces (Mondul Kiri, Stung Treng, Kratie, and Preah Vihear) under the government’s Multilingual Education National Action Plan (MENAP 2015-2018). In recent years, CARE shifted from its original role as direct implementer to that of a technical advisor to the Royal Government of Cambodia. The program is unprecedented internationally as having gone from a successful community-based initiative run by community school management committees and using community-selected teachers, to being institutionalized as part of government policy for improving access to and quality of education for ethnic minority learners. Read More...
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