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Public Briefing Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Madagascar Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA)

February 22, 2024 Solicitation Number:

720BHA23APS0002-02-MG

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Public Briefing Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Madagascar Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA)

February 22, 2024 Solicitation Number:

720BHA23APS0002-02-MG

Solicitation Briefing Ground Rules

● Please…

○ Remain muted for the entire call

○ Do not turn on your camera to preserve bandwidth

● Submit questions using the Chat Box feature, and USAID will respond to as many as possible at the end of the presentation

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● Opening

● Alignment with USAID Strategies and Policies

● Madagascar Background and Country Context

● Overview of the Madagascar RFSA

● Multi-Year Annual Program Statement (MY APS) Round

Requirements

● Break

● Q&A

Agenda

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● BHA will use the Multi-Year Annual Program Statement (MY APS) for this solicitation. This includes the Base document and the Round

● Comment period: Closes March 1, 2024 at 4:00pm ET

● Email Questions to: BHA.720BHA23APS00002-02.MG@usaid.gov

● Revised Final APS Round is TBD

● Anticipated Award Date: FY 2024 7

Overview for Madagascar MY APS Round

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Alignment with USAID Strategies and Policies

Madagascar Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS) Results Framework

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Global Food Security Strategy Results Framework

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Resilience Focus Country

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Madagascar Background and Context

Background and Context

● 80 percent of Malagasy live below the extreme poverty line of $2.15 per day

● Poverty is concentrated in rural areas, with poverty rates double from those in urban areas.

● Madagascar ranks within the top five of countries experiencing the most hunger.

● Drivers and consequences of poverty and food insecurity

○ Vulnerability to multivariate shocks and stresses, including natural and climate hazards

○ Economic instability

○ Limited infrastructure and public services

○ Early marriage and sexual exploitation of girls

○ Increasing conflict

Poverty & Food Insecurity

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Background and Context

● Primary livelihoods are pastoralism or small subsistence farming

● Multiple crises in recent years is exhausting traditional coping mechanisms, and now households are resorting to harmful coping strategies

● Degrading natural resource assets that are historically a source of protection and resilience

Livelihoods & Coping Mechanisms

Livelihood Zones in the Target Area. Source: Byrne, Karri Goeldner, Sarah Carson, Keya Jacoby, Betsy Ness-Edelstein, Victorien Randriamahonina, Jackaroy Jonathan Randrianja, Sarahena Rojas, and Peter Simpson. 2023. Madagascar Desk Review and Market Study. West Lafayette, IN: Long-term Assistance and Services for Research - Partners for University-Led Solutions Engine (LASER PULSE Consortium)

Overview of the Madagascar RFSA

Overview of Madagascar RFSA

Total Funding Type of Funds Programmatic Approach

Solicitation Type

$85 million

Community Development Funds (CDF = agriculture funds)

Graduation Approach

Multi-year Annual Program Statement

$15 million Title II (commodities, freight and ITSH)

Overview of the Graduation Approach

● Coaching

● Consumption support

● Savings

● Livelihood training

● Asset Transfer

● Linkages and referrals

Adapting the Graduation Approach Component Typical Design Guidance in Solicitation

Viable livelihoods

On-farm, Off-farm, and Non-farm

Short list of enterprise options to be identified during Contextualization Period, based on criteria specified in proposal

Consumption support

Cash transfers of $10 to $30 per household per month, typically delivered for 10-24 months

Alignment with existing transfer values set by Ministry of Population, Social Protection, and Promotion of Women (MPPSPF), Social Protection Technical Working Group, and/or Cash Working Group

Encouragement to save

Facilitation of community savings groups or linkages to formal financial service providers

Informal savings groups (e.g., village savings and loan associations), mobile money as appropriate and accessible, or formal savings accounts (as appropriate and accessible)

Adapting the Graduation Approach Component Typical Design Guidance in Solicitation

Productive asset transfer

Cash or in-kind transfer worth $100- $300 per household

Cash transfer, unless local market conditions render in-kind asset more efficient and appropriate

Skills training 20-40 hours of content, sequenced to align with asset transfer

Training on technical and interpersonal skills required to start or expand a viable livelihood

Coaching Weekly visits for 12-24 months, but possible to deliver at lower intensity

Build on findings indicating that group coaching model is more cost-effective

Linkages Information and support provided during coaching sessions

Linkages to necessary services and livelihood-related technical assistance

Geographic Targeting

Table 1: RFSA Geographic Areas Region District

Androy Ambovombe-Androy Beloha Tsihombe

Anosy Amboasary-Atsimo Atsimo Andrefana Ampanihy Ouest

Atsimo Atsinanana

Farafangana Vangaindrano

Participant Targeting

● Focus of the graduation approach is at the household level

● The target population includes extremely poor and marginalized households in rural and peri-urban areas of South and Southeast Madagascar.

● Reach approximately 100,000 households (across award(s)), and ideally more, across multiple unique cohorts

● Coordination and harmonization with Madagascar’s National Social Protection programs led by the Ministry of Population, Social Protection, and Promotion of Women (MPPSPF), and co-financed by the World Bank (WB) and UNICEF.

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MY APS Round Requirements

● According to the 2018 FFP Act, eligible organizations shall be—

○ A private voluntary organization (PVO)

○ An intergovernmental organization

● USAID encourages applications that include local organizations.

Eligibility

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● Applicants must request Title II commodities. All Title II commodities should be used for consumption purposes.

Applicants should not request commodities for prevention or treatment of acute malnutrition.

● Applicants are expected to provide detailed information on their plans for the use of Title II resources and commodities

● Applicants are expected to indicate how Title II commodities will contribute to the stated purposes, sub-purposes, and cross-cutting themes as appropriate

Use of Title II Resources

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Contextualization Period

● The Madagascar RFSA will deviate from BHA’s Refine and Implement (R&I) approach

● Six-month post-award period to work with local communities to:

○ Meaningfully target participants

○ Validate and adapt the five components of the graduation approach

○ Identify and confirm opportunities for linkages.

○ Identify, anticipate and plan for anticipated shocks

● Work with participating communities to validate and adapt graduation approach components

● Applicants will propose locally-appropriate graduation programs in response to this MY APS Round

● Successful applicants will work with BHA to validate and adapt to achieve the appropriate design for each component of the model.

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Sequencing, Layering and Integrating

● SLI allows for increased access to services, stronger linkages and referrals, and can improve overall cost effectiveness of the graduation approach

● Applicants must coordinate with social protection stakeholders, including the Social Protection Technical Committee, to ensure alignment with existing payment systems, policies, and grievance redress mechanisms

● Identify potential opportunities for SLI with USAID and other donor programs in areas such as nutrition, health, water and more

● Applicants should engage with the Humanitarian Development Peace (HDP) Coordination Group in the Grand South, which is co-chaired by the Office of the Prime Minister, USAID Madagascar, and the European Union

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Shock Responsive Programming

● Demonstrate capacity to manage a program that will function in an environment that is subject to multiple shocks

● Plan for changing circumstances and unanticipated events that impact the achievement of the RFSA TOC

● Use of crisis modifiers and other tools to address localized crises and stabilize activity participants during times of shock to preserve resilience gains

● Align with and follow the guidance of the Cash Working Group and the Social Protection Technical Committee, to ensure that all cash programming aligns with existing shock-responsive systems and Government of Madagascar policies

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Management

● Reflect efficient use of resources, as well as effective and adaptive management, strong technical implementation, and administrative support

● Include an organizational chart and staffing plan

● Outline how it will ensure diversity of staff at all organizational levels

● Detail the activity’s leadership structures, the lines of transparency and accountability between these structures

● Partnerships with local organizations will be essential to the success of the activity.

Applicants are required to partner with at least one local organization

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Key Personnel

● Chief of Party

● Graduation Approach and Social Protection Advisor

● Commodities Manager

● Resource Transfer Manager

● Monitoring and Evaluation Manager

● Strategic Learning Advisor

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Theory of Change

● The applicant must develop an abridged TOC

● The abridged TOC should display the incremental, causal linkages from the Goal, Purpose, Sub-purpose, and Intermediate Outcomes.

The abridged ToC must be developed based on evidence, independently confirmed

● Build on, NOT CHANGE, TOC provide in Round-2

● The complementary documentation

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LogFrame

● All applicants must submit a Logical Framework (LogFrame) in their application and a detailed LogFrame matrix as an annex.

● The LogFrame should include at least one indicator for each result and may include qualitative inquiries (i.e., qualitative monitoring or qualitative studies), if relevant at the application stage.

● For the application, the LogFrame should include outcome indicators only

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Monitoring Strategy

● The overall monitoring strategy should focus on ensuring high-quality delivery of the graduation program.

● Performance and output monitoring

● Outcomes

● Graduation Criteria

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Sustainability

● The proposed intervention design should look to achieve positive, lasting impacts of program activities on people’s lives beyond the life of the award

● Consider sustainability throughout all aspects of the design including the four factors for sustainability:

○ Resources

○ Capacities

○ Motivation

○ Linkages

● Integrate the sustainability strategy within the graduation approach

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Timeline

● Comment period: Closes March 1, 2024 at 4:00pm ET

● Email Questions to: BHA.720BHA23APS00002-02.MG@usaid.gov

● Revised Final APS Round is TBD

● Anticipated Award Date: FY 2024

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Q&A Ground Rules

● Start with questions from those raising their hands

● If all raised hand questions are addressed we will move to the chat

● All questions will be saved and taken into consideration as the APS is revised.

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● Comment period: Closes March 1, 2024 at 4:00pm ET

● Email Questions to: BHA.720BHA23APS00002-02.MG@usaid.gov

● Revised Final APS Round is TBD

● Anticipated Award Date: FY 2024

Closing

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