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Danida Framework Application Annex 1

October 2009

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Danida Framework Application Annex 1

October 2009

1.Introduction: Setting and Methodology for Global Thematic Reporting

2.Global Thematic Report: Building Local Democracy

3.Global Thematic Report: Anti Corruption

4.Global Thematic Report: Land Rights

5.Global Thematic Report: Trade Justice

6.Global Thematic Report: Conflict Management / Peace Building

Annex 1 Building Local Democracy Central America

Annex 2 Building Local Democracy Kenya

Annex 3 Building Local Democracy Mozambique

Annex 4 Building Local Democracy Nepal

Annex 5 Building Local Democracy Tanzania

Annex 6 Building Local Democracy Uganda

Annex 7 Building Local Democracy Zambia

Annex 8 Building Local Democracy Zimbabwe

Annex 9 Anti Corruption Kenya

Annex 10 Anti Corruption Mozambique

Annex 11 Anti Corruption Uganda

Annex 12 Land Rights Nepal

Annex 13 Land Rights Tanzania

Annex 14 Land Rights Zambia

Annex 15 Trade Justice Central America

Annex 16 Trade Justice Uganda

Annex 17 Trade Justice Zimbabwe

Annex 18 Conflict Management & Peace Building Kenya

Annex 19 Conflict Management & Peace Building Zimbabwe

Annex 20 Conflict Management & Peace Building Nepal

1.Introduction: Setting and Methodology for Global Thematic Reporting

The purpose of MS Action Aid Denmark Global Thematic Reporting is three fold:

(1) to assess thematic performance against MS global policy and strategy

(2) to learn and share learning (achievements and failures) within the organization and our partners in order to adjust MS concept papers and global policy on the themes.

(3) To improve downward and upward accountability - to inform external and internal stakeholders and provide them with a picture of the state of affairs and the impact or non-impact of our work on the lives of poor and excluded people. (If we make ourselves accountable, we would have the moral courage to hold others accountable.)

In terms of process, the Thematic Coordinatorswere responsible for leading the process in consultation with the Country Office and the International Director. Finance staffwas involved in developing the financial aspects of the report.

Virtual discussions and exchange of experience took place within a fixed period of time based on findings from the Thematic Countrywide Review Reports (see annexes) submitted by each country. The Thematic coordinator’s analysis will rely heavily on the relevant information gathered from the country specific M&E systems as required by the MS Guidelines for Thematic Programming.

The Global Thematic Report serves as an MS mechanism to encourage and promote consistent and focussed monitoring and learning from all parts of the organisation.

The Global thematic reports (Chapters 2 to 6) have the following sections:

0 Introductions

1 Who did we work with?

2.0 Overall Development Objective: In pursuit of which rights?

3.0 What did the Programme do? Progress at the output level

4.0 What changes resulted from our work? Progress at the Immediate Objective Level

5.0For whom and to what extent did change occur?

6.0 Change happened with what impact on the level of conflict and power relations?

7.0 How much did we invest in each thematic program?

Individual Thematic Countrywide Review Reports submitted by each country can be found at the back of this report in the annexes and have the following sections:

Assessment of overall progress in the theme in relation to objectives and outputs as defined in the Country Program Strategy:

Objectives / outputs
(as defined in the Country Program Strategy) / Indicators
(as defined in the Country Program Strategy / List of partner organisations contributing to the achievement of the objective / output / In what way have the partner organisations contributed to achieving objective/output? List main contributions / Assess change effect in words / Score overall results
(H / M / L)

The Thematic Coordinators in Copenhagen responsible for presenting achievements, coordinating the findings on learning and the sharing of results: Building Local Democracy, Karen Jørgensen & Robin Griggs; Land Rights & Anti Corruption, Marie Justiniano; Trade Justice, Helle Løvstø Severinsen; and Conflict Management & Peace Building, Susanne Adehardt Jensen.

2.Global Thematic Report: Building Local Democracy

0 Introduction
This is the first MS ActionAid Denmark Annual Building Local Democracy (BLD) Global Thematic Report. It is a synthesis report of eight individual BLD Annual Country Reports which together amount of 103 pages. MS ActionAid Denmark has BLD Programmes in Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Nepal and a regional programme in Central America (Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala). The Annual Global Thematic Report therefore presents BLD from an overall programme perspective and focuses on the shared commonalities inherent in a programme covering 7 countries and a region. The reporting format is new and mirrors to a large extent a similar Action Aid format. The report looks back on 2008 and focuses the BLD Programme and thus current issues relating to the merger of the Programme into Action Aid International are beyond the scope of this report.
1 Who did we work with?
The majority of BLD programmes focus on selected political administrative units, for example a district or sub-district. On average this is between 4 and 6 districts per country. An important criterion for district selection is poverty.
Poor excluded people
The primary target groups for BLD programmes are poor and marginalised people at district or sub-district level. Women and youth are also specific target groups. In addition to working with specific marginalised groups, BLD programmes also consider the needs of citizens in general in the districts where the programme operates as democracy is a citizen based concept.
Civil Society
BLD Programmes primarily work with district level national NGOs, CSOs and CBOs, and support them with budgets ranging from DKK 100,000 to 200,000 per annum on average. The programme also supports national organisations and here budgets range from DKK 200,000 to 500,000 for larger strategic organisations. Support is organised through a partnership approach and funding is deployed on internal capacity building, recurrent costs and activities directed at primary beneficiaries. In addition, many partners benefit from personnel support (development workers) who may work full time or part time with the organisation. Funding for personnel assistance is in addition to budgets mentioned above. The global BLD programme supports a total of 117 national civil society organisations (an average of 15 per country). Many partner organisations, both at national and district levels, operate in networks or alliances, some of which have an international link-up.
Duty Bearers
The BLD programme works with local government duty bearers to a limited extent. This work usually consists of training and awareness building in the roles and responsibilities of local government secretariat staff and elected officials. This work is usually only undertaken when state/donor support for it is completely absent.
2.0) Overall Development Objective: Right to Just and Democratic Governance
The BLD programme contributes to establishing just and democratic governance. This is manifested in terms of enhanced capabilities for poor and marginalised women and men in the following areas (prioritised in order of programme impact. Contributions during 2008 have mainly focused on bullets 1 and 2)
  • Political capabilities - human rights, political freedom, degree of influence over public policies and political priorities
  • Socio-cultural capabilities to participate as valued members of a community - social status, dignity and other cultural conditions for belonging to a society.
  • Human capabilities - health, education, food, clean water and shelter.
  • Economic capabilities – the ability to earn an income, to consume and to have assets.
  • Protective capabilities to withstand economic and external shocks - insecurity and vulnerability due to seasonal variations, natural disasters, economic crises and violent conflicts.

3.0) What did the BLD Programme do? Progress at the output level
Globally the BLD programme has 86 individually formulated outputs which contribute towards achieving the immediate objectives. Programme outputs can be grouped into four clusters as indicated below and the degree of global programme focus in each cluster area is indicated in percent.
Overall output Clusters / Countries focusing on these outputs and types of outputs / Overall self assessment of progress
1) Capacity building of NGOs/CSOs
45% of Programme Focus / (Central America, Mozambique, Nepal, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Zambia)
  • CSOs trained to problem analyse and do proposal writing from a gender and equity perspective
  • Increased civic/youth participation
  • CSOs capacitated to do lobby and advocacy
  • CSO capacity built to intervene in budget monitoring
  • NGOs capable to do Network building and alliances
  • Democratic rules internalised in community organisations and small farmer associations
  • COs able to document election irregularities in VDCs
  • Effective internal MS monitoring system
  • Effective internal MS monitoring system
  • Monitoring system installed for partners to track gender responsiveness in various service provisions
/ L=Low
M= Medium
H= High
M to M-L
2) Citizens Politically empowered
31 %
of Programme Focus / (Central America, Mozambique, Nepal, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Zambia)
  • Citizens have been made aware of and claim their rights
  • Citizens were trained in leadership training
  • Citizens capacity built to do budget monitoring/holding
  • Civic education materials on decentralisation and governance produced/voter education materials produced/social audit materials developed/IEC Materials
  • Citizens/traditional leaders sensitised on gender issues
/ M-H
3) Improved accountability and transparency achieved
17 %
of Programme Focus / (Kenya, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Mozambique and Nepal, Zambia)
  • Platforms established, forums for marginalised groups; Representation improved
  • Democracy houses established (for sharing research etc)
  • Community radio programmes on rights disseminated
  • Public hearings
  • Public engagement in anticorruption
  • Media strategy developed
/ M-L
LG capacity building
7 %
of Programme Focus / (Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Uganda, Tanzania)
  • LG staff sensitised/understand their roles and responsibilities
  • LG staff understand citizen rights
/ M
Lessons learned: How should future plans be adjusted from lessons emerging from our work?
The programme needs to focus more on:
  • Building alliances and strengthening efforts to coordinate and harmonise with other stakeholders and actors, particularly to ensure better link-ups between the local and the national levels.
  • Forming alliances, at both the district, national and international level, to lobby for and promote decentralisation, in particular to ensure that supply side issues are brought to the forefront at the national level (political, fiscal and administrative decentralisation).
  • Considering how and when it is appropriate for MS to support CSOs to assist in capacitating local government staff to carry out their functions.
  • Improving documentation, knowledge building and information sharing especially in relation to linking-up with AAI.
  • Improving baselines, monitoring and reporting procedures and systems
  • Consolidating its empowerment and accountability strategy and ensuring that partner staff are capacitated in this field. In particular, better understanding of how empowerment is translated into civic action.
  • Promoting transparency and integrity in civil society organisations (especially in partner organisations).
  • Developing and integrated approach to gendered governance and youth.
(See also learning points in Section 4 for reflection on Immediate Objectives)
4.0) What changes resulted from our work? Progress at the Immediate Objective Level
Immediate objectives
The BLD programme operates in seven countries and one region and has 24 immediate objectives (an average of three immediate objectives per county programme) Immediate objectives can be grouped into seven clusters The degree of global programme focus in each cluster area is indicated in percent.
4.1 Increased citizen participation and influence in local government and governance -lobal Prog Focus 25%
4.2 Improved and more pro-poor responsive LG service delivery - Global Prog Focus 22%
4.3 Increased levels of representation men and women in LGs and LG committees - Global Prog Focus 17%
4.4 Greater gender equity in LG resource allocation - Global Prog Focus 17%
4.5 Women and Youth empowered - Global Prog Focus 8%
4.6 Increased LG accountability - Global Prog Focus 8%
4.7 More democratic CSOs - Global Prog Focus 3%
Progress on immediate objectives
The immediate objectives in each cluster have been assessed as a whole and a global progress statement has been formulated for each cluster below.
Cluster 4.1
Increased citizen participation and influence in LGs
25% of Programme Focus / Global progress statement for countries focusing on this objective
(Central America, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Zambia, KenyaMozambique)
Citizen Empowerment: Programme work to empower citizens and communities is having success. The numbers of empowered citizens are increasing, however the extent of partners work needs to be documented more thoroughly.
Citizen activism and organisation: Increased citizen activism and organisation is reported.
Citizen/partner initiated action: Increasing levels of CS participation and citizen influence particularly engaging with local government and councillors have been documented. There are also individual reports of successful accountability work which are encouraging, a number of which could be considered as best practices.
Qualifier/learning point: Participation and influence are increasing, but generally it is still at a formative level – need to continue to empower citizens as well as paying particular attention to linking empowerment to civic action. Participation as an objective assumes that increased participation/influence can itself lead to meaningful change. This may not necessarily be so. A greater focus on outcomes of participation (e.g. focusing on holding local government accountable) would be beneficial. / Overall self
assessment
Average rating of medium success
Cluster 4.2
Improved and more pro-poor responsive LG service delivery
22% of Programme Focus / Global progress statement for countries focusing on this objective
(Kenya, Uganda, NepalTanzania)
Improvements in service delivery: There are no reports of improvements in pro-poor services which can be attributed to programme activities; however it is too early to conclude anything final here. Changes in the quantity and quality of services can first be expected towards the end of the programme.
Empowerment of citizens and organising of CSOs in relation to LG service provision: General success is reported in increasing levels of empowerment in terms of citizen knowledge about rights and responsibilities in relation to services and increasing skill and ability in monitoring and dialoguing with LGs about service delivery.
Holding LGs Accountable for service delivery: Increasing use of tools (e.g. PETS/score cards) is reported in connection with increasing dialogue with LGs and citizen monitoring of local level services. Notable instances of holding LGs/authorities accountable are emerging.
Qualifier/leaning point:Holding LGs Accountable for service delivery: A good basis appears to have been established for launching this work more systematically over the coming years. Attention will have to be paid to ensuring that increased rights based knowledge about services and service monitoring is transformed into campaigns with successful outcomes. The current focus of the immediate objectives on improved service delivery may be over ambitious as CSOs have little influence or control over many aspects of service delivery. Instead, a greater focus on holding LGs accountable for service delivery maybe more appropriate – this is in fact an area that many partners are already now beginning to focus more systematically on. / Overall self
assessment
Average rating of medium success bearing in mind that implement-ation is still at an early stage.
Cluster 4.3
Increased representation and participation of men, women and youth in LGs and LG committees
17%
of Programme Focus / Global progress statement for countries focusing on this objective
(Central America, Nepal, Zambia)
Representation and participation: In general there has been success on this front, particularly in focusing on improvements in women’s representation and participation in CS and LGs/LG committees (especially in Central America), although it is noted this does not necessarily lead to a greater prioritisation of women’s needs and demands.
Gender Sensitisation: Considerable effort has been directed towards changing attitudes about gender in relation to women’s representation and progress has been recorded on this front, however, the challenge of converting this into tangible results and greater representation for women remains.
Youth: Various initiatives have been taken towards working with youth representation. This is a new area which is in a start up phase
Qualifier/learning point - Women’s representation and participation: The observation that increased women’s participation does not automatically lead to improved outcomes for women should be monitored closely in order to understand the dynamics at work here. Reports, in general, do not systematically document numbers in relation to increased representation and representation in what. / Overall self
assessment
Average rating of medium success
Working towards improved representation of the poor and marginalised, especially women’s representation is a long term process requiring changes in attitude and perception
Cluster 4.4
Greater gender equity in LG resource allocation
17%
of Programme Focus / Global progress statement for countries focusing on this objective
(Central America & Kenya)
Increased participation and involvement of women: Programmes have focused on women’s empowerment in relation to understanding gender inequity. Increased involvement of women in women’s commission/forums/planning committees is also recorded.
Gender equity in LG resource allocation: Progress on this front appears limited in spite of the fact that women’s organisation, representation and participation in CS and LGs/LG Committees is improving. This is the first year of implementation and it may be too early to expect improvement
Qualifier/learning point: Women’s voice is being heard and included in planning to a greater extent, but appears to often fail to follow through to implementation. Understanding the dynamics here would be important. / Overall self
assessment
Average rating of medium success
Cluster 4.5
Empowerment of women and youth
8%
of Programme Focus / Global progress statement for countries focusing on this objective
(Zimbabwe x 2)
Youth empowerment: A major focus has been on youth leadership training and advocacy skills as an end in-itself.