Attachment J.2 - USAID and Donor Activities.docx

Relationship to other USAID and other Donor activities USAID/Uganda is committed to greater coordination and efficiency among its interventions. The contractor should identify to what extent the activity will overlap and coordinate with existing USAID and DFID activities operating in the same sector and location as well as how the activity will link to and leverage results of these and other activities without duplicating them. Assistance to communities in these districts will be integrated across sectors, with other parts of the USAID/Uganda portfolio, and with the Government of Uganda, private sector, and other donor initiatives and activities. SSPA will be expected to work closely with other USAID activities at USAID’s direction, including through joint work planning. Below is an illustrative list of some of the activities which SSPA should coordinate with.

USAID Activities

Biodiversity: Biodiversity activities that increase the risk and decrease the benefits of wildlife crime, illegal trade in wildlife and the illegal harvesting of wildlife products for subsistence and commercial uses will be directly linked to the SSPA activity. These activities seek to improve the conservation status of trafficked species (in Uganda and in countries along the Albertine Rift), increase security along border regions, and reduce the presence of organized crime syndicates in Uganda.

Domestic Resource Mobilization: DRM seeks to help Uganda strengthen the tax culture, increase voluntary compliance, and sustainably increase domestic revenue mobilization (DRM), thereby creating the fiscal space for public spending and investments in service delivery in priority sectors such as health, education, and agriculture. SSPA will complement DRM goals by ensuring that resources are utilized for their intended purpose, by strengthening planning, budgeting and accountability systems.

Education: Education activities address USAID/Uganda’s development objectives relating to child wellbeing, education, and youth development. Activities contribute to the goal of Ugandan children and youth, especially the most vulnerable, receiving the support and services necessary to lead resilient, healthy, and productive lives. SSPA will make a direct contribution to strengthening accountability and anti-corruption in the education sector and strong coordination with all Education activities is critical.

Feed the Future: Feed the Future includes activities that enhance livelihood security among targeted vulnerable Ugandan households. These activities target the resilience capacities of both households and communities, strengthening livelihood security. Feed the Future institutional capacity building initiatives need to be closely coordinated with SSPA to ensure complementarity.

Health Programs: Health systems strengthening activities seek to improve the functionality of the Ugandan health systems by focusing on key public and private sector institutions and community structures at national, district, facility, and community levels. This is achieved by improving leadership and accountability for results, increased availability and improved management of key health systems resources including health financing; and strengthening community systems for service delivery. Health systems strengthening efforts will also need to be closely coordinated with SSPA.

Other Donor Activities

Civil Society in Uganda Support Programme” (CUSP): Launched in May 2018, CUSP is co-financed by the European Union and the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development. CUSP targets lower level sub-national CSOs operating across infrastructure, the “green economy,” rural development, and good governance. Its overall objective is to contribute to reduced-poverty through better governance. CUSP seeks to (i) enable the NGO Bureau and relevant government departments to fulfill their legislative and regulatory responsibilities towards the sector; (ii) build the capacity of CSO platforms to fulfill their strategic mandate for their members, and represent them to local and central authorities; and (iii) enhance the capacity of selected CSOs to effectively contribute to national development. USAID/Uganda is a member of the steering committee of the CUSP and will use her membership to coordinate interventions of the two activities.

Democratic Governance Facility (DGF): The DGF was established in July 2011, and is in its second five-year phase of implementation (January 2018 – December 2022) with support from the governments of Austria, Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the European Union. DGF programming falls under three broad and interconnected spheres: (1) democratic processes that build citizen-state relationships, (2) citizen empowerment, engagement, and accountability, and (3) protection of human rights, access to justice, and gender equality. DGF focuses primarily on supporting CSOs working on democracy, rights, and governance.

Domestic Resource Mobilization, Public Investment Management (DRUM): United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) has designed a new program, ‘Domestic Resource Mobilization, Public Investment Management, and Transparency’ (DRUM) to support Uganda’s sustainable exit from aid. DRUM will be delivered through a combination of partnerships with a DFID-contracted Management Agent, Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC), and selected civil society organizations to support the implementation of the GOU’s DRM Strategy and improve the efficiency of public investment management.

SUGAR-TAF: This is a DFID and EU funded Activity. It focuses on providing technical support to anti-corruption institutions to strengthen their ability to deter and disrupt corruption. Technical assistance support builds capacity and trains officials in institutions. It also uses “problem driven iterative approaches” (PDIA) with local staff to identify problems, design solutions, test them and evaluate effectiveness, leading to change or scaling-up or down of interventions. The activity also supports institutions where there is a combination of political will, national importance and leadership aimed at increasing integrity, accountability and tackling corruption effectively.

DFID Health and Education activities: The UK government is focused on strengthening health and education systems nationally. They have scaled up work to deliver on education, family planning, malaria and nutrition, primarily by strengthening systems – both Government and non-Government led and with a focus on refugee hosting districts. They are supporting efforts to bring positive shifts in gender and social norms, increasing choices for women and girls, tackling violence against women and decreasing high fertility rates. The poorest and most vulnerable-particularly young people, the disabled, women and girls, often marginalized because of cultural and structural barriers, are at the core of their strategy. They are also working with the Government and partners to strengthen the preparedness and response to disease outbreaks including Ebola.

European Union: The European Union is developing its own program to support reforms to increase revenue mobilization, improve planning and public investment management, and strengthen accountability for quality, effective and efficient service delivery. The European Union supports Justice and Accountability Reform in Uganda (EUR 66 million). The specific objective of the JAR Program is to improve the governance of public funds, including the mobilization, strategic allocation and efficient use of public resources, for improved service delivery. It is implemented through the Justice, Law and Order (JLOS) and Accountability sectors and is expected to enhance their synergies. Its five result areas are domestic revenue mobilization and management for sustainable development, strategic planning and budgeting for enhanced service delivery, public investment management, service delivery in the JLOS sector and institutional capacity to reduce public sector corruption.

Development Initiative for Northern Uganda (DINU) is an EU funded program with a budget of around € 26 million euros. The activity is designed to consolidate stability in Northern Uganda, eradicate poverty and under-nutrition and strengthen the foundations for sustainable and inclusive socio-economic development. The program focuses on three areas: Nutrition and Food Security, Road Infrastructure, and Good Governance. The program works to improve local public financial management systems and accountability, provide discretionary finance for local economic development activities for women and youth, and provide technical assistance and finance for Local Revenue Mobilization Action plans.

The Uganda Programme for Governance, Rights, Accountability and Democracy (UPGRADE) activity is a governance programme supported by Denmark with the objective to enhance accountability and stability and to deepen democracy and respect for human rights. The total budget for 2018-2022 EUR 44 million supported by Denmark.

Resource Enhancement and Accountability (REAP) Program- The REAP program is managed by the Ministry of Finance and is aimed at increasing resource mobilisation, improving planning and public investment management, and strengthening accountability for quality, effective and efficient service delivery.