Cooperative Agreement # AID-294-A-13-00009

PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT PLAN (PMP)

"Entering the Arena:

Women, Politics and Peace-building"

(WPP)

An Israel/West Bank Program

September 23, 2013 – September 22, 2015

Submitted to: USAID/West Bank and Gaza

AOR: Ma'ali Shawish

Date: January6, 2014

Adam Institute Point of Contact:

Ms. Miriam Jacobs

USAID Program Compliance Officer

The Adam Institute for Democracy and Peace

P.O. Box 3536

Jerusalem Forest, Jerusalem 91033

Email:

Phone: 972-2-644-8956

Mobile: 972-54-687-6495

Fax: 972-2-675-2932

Authorized Organizational Negotiator and Signatory:

Leah Tobias

Executive Director

The Adam Institute for Democracy and Peace

Email:

Phone: 972-2-644-0201

Mobile: 972-54-447-9893

Table of Contents

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Program Briefer ……………………………………………………………………………. 3-4

(Program Background) ……………………………………………………………………. 3

(Program Goal) ……………………………………………………………………………….. 4

Project Deliverables ………………………………………………………………………. 4-6

(Major Outputs) ……………………………………………………………………………… 4-5

(Development Hypothesis)……………………………………………………………… 5-6

(Gender Considerations) …………………………………………………………………… 6

Results Framework ……………………………………………………………………...... 7

Targets and Performance Indicators Framework …………………………….. 8

Simplified Logical Framework …………………………………………………………. 9-11

Evaluation Plan ………………………………………………………...... ………. 12

DQA (Data Quality Assessment) Plan and Procedures…………………….. 12

PIRS (Performance Indicator Reference Sheets …………………………….. 13-19

(PIRS for PI1 – knowledge - M)………………………………………………………... 13

(PIRS for PI2 – skills - M) ………………………………………………………………….. 14

(PIRS for PI3 – understanding and empathy - M) …………………………….. 15

(PIRS for PI4 – belief - M) …………………………………………………………………. 16

(PIRS for PI5 – motivation - M) …………………………………………………………. 17

(PIRS for PI6 – activities - OP) …………………………………………………………… 18

(PIRS for PI7 – participants – OP and M) ………………………………………….. 19

Project Briefer:

Program Background

A survey of the peace process between Israeli and Palestinian politicians in the last twenty years would reveal a glaring absence of active women's leadership throughout the negotiations. Although women's presence in the Israeli government has increased as of late, in the discussions taking place between Israel and Palestine, the lack of representation of women across all strata of policy-making is evident. Most women present at the negotiating table have not been active spokespersons on the conflict and its resolution Accordingly, while the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) implemented a commendable women's quota of close to 30 percent for each political list since their 2006 elections, women politicians often gear their platform towards social welfare issues, such as in the instance of Palestinian former MP Zahira Kamal, a past activist in advancing dialogues. A parallel case in Israel would be that of Prof. Yuli Tamir, one of the original founders of "Peace Now." As an MK she served as the minister of immigration and education affairs, rather than as a key actor in peace talks. A recent exception to the above trend that stands alone in the above context is Israel's Minister of Justice, MK Tzipi Livni, who insisted on taking a leading role in Israel-P.A. peace negotiations as a precondition for her joining the coalition.

While women-based grassroots movements promoting peace and conflict transformation in the region have led to successful initiatives before and since the Oslo Agreement, women's exclusion from the formal political arena and peace negotiations within it--whether systemic or incidental-- is the current state of affairs.

This situation is in contrast to the measures delineated in the UN Security Council Resolution 1325, released in 2000,which calls upon the Security Council's "Reaffirming the important role of women in the prevention and resolution of conflicts and in peace-building, and stressing the importance of their equal participation and full involvement in all efforts for the maintenance and promotion of peace and security, and the need to increase their role in decision-making with regard to conflict prevention and resolution,"[1] In the wake of this resolution, strides have been made in areas of conflict to ensure that these directives are upheld, and that women's representation and involvement in politics and conflict-transformation is prioritized. However, 12 years since Resolution 1325, women do not rank in as a significant faction of this region's influential political players.

Program Goal:

The goal of this two-year program is to generate a large cadre of young, peace-committed Palestinian and Israeli women leaders, who will become the next generation of influential political leaders in the region. WPP aims to make strides ina) bridging the gaps between the two opposing sides by addressing the common concern of women's involvement in politics and peace-negotiations, b) identifying the factors influencing the halts in peace talks to date and finding alternative solutions, and c) providing the participants with the training and skills required for promoting women's increased visibility, participation and influence in politics.

Program Deliverables

Major Outputs:

Recruitment

WPP will pursue the above goals by selecting only women, Palestinian and Israeli,aged 25-35, from across diverse demographic sectors in Israel and the PA, who aspire toward a career in political work in some capacity, whether within the formal legislative system or civil-society activism. Participants will have relevant educational background or two years equivalent experience in community work. Knowledge of English or second language (Arabic-Hebrew) will be considered an advantage. Only participants who are committed to full attendance of all seminars will be considered.

Out of components A-H presented in the work plan, the WPP program incorporates threecore measurable components: -

  1. Unilateral Seminars (Component F): The focus is on consolidation of a national group identity and preparation for bi-national encounters. Content will incorporate interactive lectures, discussions, networking opportunities and additional informal group activities. Israeli and Palestinian unilateral seminars will both address gender studies, the Conflict, women's shared concerns and the Peace Process in national and bi-national contexts. They will both incorporate learning through voices/narratives of the national group and of "the other".
  1. Bi-national Seminars (Component G): The focus is on consolidation of a bi-national group identity, trust-building and on learning together about the Conflict, women's shared concerns and the Peace Process through various conflicting voices and narratives. Furthermore, these seminars will provide participants with practical skills/tools for effective political leadership. Methodology will combine interactive lectures with discussions, networking opportunities, practical workshops and additional informal group activities. All sessions will include simultaneous translation and discussions/activities will be conducted by professional Israeli and Palestinian facilitators.
  1. Individual Work (Component H): This component will include individual/group participant work, including uniform assignments and relevant independent initiatives. Methodology may incorporate interviews, analyses, written work such as op-eds and additional project fieldwork.

Development Hypothesis

In order to effect the necessary meaningful and sustainable changes in this region in regard to women's active participation in its political life, and particularly, in its peace-making discussions, young women leaders must be equipped with the resources and skills required to combat and transform the status quo. As has been demonstrated, policies in favor of women's equal participation in conflict-resolution, while a critical step, have been insufficient in changing the reality of women's role in this region's political arena. What is now essential is to bolster the capacity of potential leaders to contend with the structural constraints inherent in the political system.

In our 2-year program, 3 interrelated goals, encompassing 3 successively wider populations, will be worked towards:

  1. To have 160 Palestinian and Israeli women meet and work together around the common goal of building a new generation of women politicians to enter into all levels of decision-making, and specifically in relation to the Conflict's resolution. Through their engagement in a shared concern, boundaries and hostilities are broken down, trust is built, and points of commonality can be focused upon. This work will be done both through parallel unilateral meetings.
  2. To have 160 Palestinian and Israeli womencooperate towards advancing peace in the region by implementing initiatives which address and promote conflict-transformation, and to seek out creative and original methods for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. New initiatives may include local and joint civil-society ventures, a women’s political lobby, political advocacy activities, reaching out to disenfranchised women in their communities through social media channels, etc. For instance, an aim of an initiative could be to seek culturally-attuned methods of recruiting women from underrepresented sectors, for various political activities. This would bolster the presence of women who have historically remained outside of the public realm, and advocate for a diversity of women's voices in present political discourses. A "new media" skills workshop would provide participants with an opportunity to explore severalways of increasing visibility of relevant issues among a broad public.
  3. Through equipping a significant number of young women leaders with the skills to enter into the political arena and affect the status quo vis-à-vis women's participation in politics generally, and specifically in regard to the peace negotiations, the positive benefits of these advances will influence their larger communities. Along with action in the realm of civil society which include efforts to empower politically uninvolved women to date, participants will be encouraged to plan how to pursue leadership positions on local councils and national lists, impacting women's long-term representation as well as stimulating legislative change on differing levels of political activity. While some participants’ activities will promote change from within the established government, others’ will advocate from outside of it, with efforts that include educating and empowering heretofore politically inactive women, outreach to counter dwindling numbers of women activists, lobbying for women party members and/or new parties. The outcome of their achievements will be a lasting systemic transformation of these issues on the civil society level and upward.

Gender Considerations

The WPP program seeks to promote the measures delineated in the UNSC 1325, which calls for equal representation of women in all levels of decision-making in regard to conflict resolution. Therefore, recruitment of participants has been limited to women. In addition, only women have been recruited as staff members, including program directors, administrators and all facilitators. The program content will be largely focused on women's past and potential achievements in the regional conflict resolution and the Peace Process in particular. An effort will be made to invite mainly female guest speakers/workshop facilitators to the seminars. With regards monitoring and evaluation, a woman is intentionally being contracted as the external evaluator for the program. When counting number of participants, OP indicator 1.6.2-14b should confirm that only women will participate in the program.

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Simplified Logical Framework

Standard Objective/ Program Area / Element:

  1. - Peace and Security/ 1.6 – Conflict Mitigation and Reconciliation /1.6.2 – Peace and Reconciliation Processes

Indicator Description / GIS Code / Type (OP/M) / Output/ Outcome / Targets / Specific Results-Related Assumptions
FY14 Planned / FY14 Actual / FY15 Planned / FY15 Actual
Project Goal / A large cadre of young, peace-committed Palestinian and Israeli women leaders (who will form part of an influential force for change in the region)
PMP Indicators (Adam Institute Indicators)
Intermediate Result 1 / Participants will demonstrate enhanced knowledge and understanding of the Conflict, women's shared concerns and the Peace Process.
Performance Indicator 1 (PI1) / Percentage of participants that will demonstrate enhanced knowledge and understanding of the Conflict, the Peace Processandwomen's historical and potential role and impact therein. / N/A / M / Output / 70%(of 80) / 70%(of 80) / The relevant Knowledge imparted at seminarswill incorporate information that will be new for participants.
Participants will attend a considerable agreed no. of seminar days and will obtain any missed material/information.
Intermediate Result 2 / Participants will present their planned use of taught/acquired illustrative practical political activism skills.
Performance Indicator 2
(PI2) / Percentage of participants that will present theirplanned use of taught/acquired seminar-related illustrativepractical political activismskills. / N/A / M / Output / 67%(of 80) / 67%(of 80) / The relevant skills taught at seminars will incorporate skills that were not previously held by participants.
Intermediate Result 3 / Participants will demonstrate an enhanced understanding of the "other" as a result of the program.
Performance Indicator 3
(PI3) / Percentage of participants that will demonstrate an enhanced understanding of and empathy for the "other" as a result of the program. / N/A / M / Outcome / 65%(of 80) / 65%(of 80) / 1.Prior to/at the start of the program, participants feel that they do not already have a comprehensive positive understanding of the other.
2. Participants don't encounter negative experiences with/of the other during the program that impact negatively upon their perceptions.
Intermediate Result 4 / Participants will demonstrate an increased belief in the importance of and the ability of women as political agents in the Peace Process.
Performance Indicator 4
(PI4) / Percentage of participants that will demonstrate a strengthened or reinforcedbelief in the importance of and the ability of women as political agents in the Peace Process. / N/A / M / Outcome / 65%(of 80) / 65%(of 80) / Sufficient time during seminars is devoted to imparting knowledge/discussing ramifications of less egalitarian regional political systems, the need for increased involvement of women and the achievements made by female political agents in the region.
Intermediate Result 5 / Empowered participants will demonstrate an increased motivation to act and contribute to peacebuilding.
Performance Indicator 5
(PI5) / Percentage of participants that will demonstrate an increased motivation to act and contribute to peacebuilding. / N/A / M / Outcome / 65%(of 80) / 65%(of 80) / 1.Staff sufficiently support and mentor participants during the program.2. Seminars invest sufficient time and material on developing participants' feeling of personal empowerment to affect change.3. IR4 is achieved.
Standard Indicators (PPR from standard F list)
Output / Approx. 160 young Israel and Palestinian women (aged approx. 25-35 and recruited in line with specific delineated criteria) attend 2 uni-lateral and 2 bi-national seminars(incorporating social as well as theoretical and practical training components) and complete several associated written and other assignments.
Performance Indicator 6
(PI6) / Number of USG-funded events, trainings, or activities designed to build support for peace or reconciliation on a mass scale. / 1.6.2-12 / OP / Output / 12.5 (90% of 14) / 12.5 (90% of 14) / 1.The regional climate remains stable enough to allow the implementation of all seminars and the attendance of an agreed minimum number of participants.2.Neither CDCD nor any of its key individuals withdraw from the program due to the anti-normalization issue or major conflict between Adam and CDCD.3. No key individuals withdraw from the program or are unable to work on the program for unexpected reasons.
Output / Approx. 160 young Israel and Palestinian women (aged approx. 25-35 and recruited in line with specific delineated criteria) attend 2 uni-lateral and 2 bi-national seminars(incorporating social as well as theoretical and practical training components) and complete several associated written and other assignments.
Performance Indicator 7
(PI7) / Number of people participating in USG-supported events, trainings, or activities designed to build mass support for peace and reconciliation. / 1.6.2-14 / OP / Output / 64 (80% of 80) / 64 (80% of 80) / 1. A large number of participants drop out of the program mid-way through or are asked to leave for various unexpected reasons.
2. Refer to PI6 assumptions.
Performance Indicator 7 (PI7) Disaggregate a / Number of women / 1.6.2-14b / OP / Output / 64 (80% of 80) / 64 (80% of 80) / Refer to PI7 assumptions.
Performance Indicator 7 (PI7) Disaggregate b / Number of men / 1.6.2-14a / OP / Output / N/A / N/A / Refer to PI7 assumptions.
General Cross-Indicator Assumptions / 1.Participants are recruited and accepted on the program in accordance with the criteria written in the program description. 2.The regional political climate remains sufficiently stable to allow continued implementation of the program. 3.There are no unexpected international/regional/local events/circumstances during the program timeframe that disallow the continuation of the program.

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Evaluation Plan

The annual budget for external evaluation is USD 5,000. A professional external evaluator, Dr. Lihi Ben Shitrit, has been hired to produce questionnaires that will be distributed at the first and final seminars. The questionnaires will measure indicators PI1-PI5 inclusive (see below) and the collected data will be analyzed. In addition, quantitative attendance and activity data (indicators PI6-PI12) will be considered for analyses and reports. The final consolidated questionnaires will be attached to the PMP prior to their distribution. Dr. Ben Shitrit will consolidate baselines annually and send a summary report to the Adam Institute soon after the preliminary unilateral seminars. This data will be entered into the PMP and GeoMIS by the Adam Institute USAID Compliance Officer when obtained. Dr. Ben Shitrit will submit a mid-term evaluation at the end of the first program year (end of program for first cohort). She will submit a final reportat the end of the second program year (end of second cohort). Submission deadlines TBD (during August/September) subsequent to the respective program year.

DQA (Data Quality Assessment) Plan and Procedures

With regard to performance indicators PI1-PI5, preparation of appropriate questionnaires will be the responsibility of the contracted external evaluator, Dr. Ben Shitrit. Expectations concerning extent, frequency and quality of work will be discussed between the parties and written into the contract. In accordance with the contract, the midterm and final reports submitted by Dr. Ben Shitrit to the Adam Institute will be reviewed for quality and accuracy etc. by the steering committee. Payment will be made upon condition of the approval of the Adam Institute.

With regard to performance indicators PI6 and PI7, attendance sheets will be signed by participants. Their signatures will be verified by the relevant (present) program Directors and then double verified by the Adam Institute Compliance Officer, Miriam Jacobs, who will also be present on all bi-national and unilateral Israeli seminar days. Attendance sheets at Palestinian unilateral seminars will be double verified by the CDCD Administrative assistant. This will then be verified by the Adam Institute USAID Compliance Officer. The final layer of verification of attendance sheets will be the Adam Institute Director or the CDCD Director.Once verification has been established at all aforementioned levels, the Adam Institute USAID Compliance Officer will enter the data onto an excel master that will accumulatively track number of activities and number of participants, including disaggregates.The GeoMIS system will be updated with the relevant data at leaston a quarterly basis.The Adam Institute USAID Compliance Officer will have sole access to the excel file and to the GeoMIS system (unless her authorization is given to a different staff member in necessary circumstances).