Somalia Solicitation Briefing Presentation 2-27-24.pdf

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

February 12, 2024 Solicitation Number:

720BHA23APS0002-01-SOM

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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● Overview of USAID/Somalia Programming

● Somalia Background and Country Context

● Overview of the Somalia RFSA

● Overview of the MY APS Round

● Break

● Q&A

Agenda

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● Comment period: Closes February 16, 2024 @ 4:00pm

● Email Questions to: BHA.720BHA23APS00002-01.Som@usaid.gov

● Revised Final APS Round is TBD

● Anticipated Award Date: FY 2024

Overview for Somalia MY APS Round

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Country Development Cooperation Strategy CDCS Goal: Somalia and its people more effectively withstand disruptions and increasingly drive their own development

● Development Objective 1: Targeted local institutions govern in a more legitimate manner, diminishing influence of VEOs

● Development Objective 2: Enable marginalized Somalis to more effectively withstand shocks and stresses

● Longer term – reduce overall humanitarian caseload

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Background and Context

● Somalia remains one of the poorest countries in Africa, with nearly 70 percent of

Somalis living in poverty

● Somalia's geography and reliance on rain-fed agriculture make the nation vulnerable to severe climatic events, such as cycles of drought and flooding.

● An increasing number of rural Somalis are migrating or becoming displaced to urban areas.

● At the end of 2022, there were 3.9 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Somalia.

● In 2022, the food security situation in Somalia deteriorated further, prompting a surge in humanitarian interventions

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Background and Context central role of social capital

● Critical for resilience and food security, leveraging resources through social networks is vital for immediate survival and long-term recovery during crises

● Facilitate risk sharing, enabling communities to withstand recurrent shocks

● Provides tangible resources such as cash, credit, and labor but also offer intangible resources

● For internally displaced persons (IDPs), social connections determine access to crucial resources

● While clan ties are influential, the broader spectrum of connections, built on trust through different types of associations are also important

Photo Credit: Shafici Badri

Overview of Somalia RFSA

Total Funding Type of Funds Programmatic Approach

Solicitation Type

$109 million Community Development Funds

(CDF)

Graduation Approach

Multi-year Annual Program Statement$35 million Title II (202e)

Overview of the Graduation Approach

● Consumption support

● Savings

● Asset Transfer

● Livelihood training

● Coaching

● Linkages and referrals

Adapting the Graduation Approach Component Typical Design Example Operationalization

Viable livelihoods On-farm, Off-farm, and Non-farm livelihoods ● Livestock, crop or fish production

● Value addition or marketing

● Small business creation

Consumption support

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

● Variations based on local purchasing power, household size, availability of other sources of income, and presence of other high frequency cash transfer programs

Encouragement to save

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

● Village-level savings groups or self-help groups

● Linkages to microfinance organizations, banks, or other local relevant formal financial sector options

Productive asset Asset transfer worth $100- $300 per household ● Cash grant

● In-kind asset, selected from menu

Skills training 20-40 hours of content, typically delivered immediately before, or shortly after, asset transfer

● Delivered in 4~5-day period

● Delivered in 10-16 weekly sessions

Coaching Weekly household visits for 12-24 months, though possible to deliver at lower intensity/cost

● Less frequent (e.g., every 6 weeks) visits, provide visits for a shorter time (e.g., 6-9 months), or deliver coaching to groups.

Per-participant cost $800 - $2000

Geographic Targeting

Kismayo

Mogadishu Afgoye

Hudur

Baidoa

Jowhar

Participant Targeting

● Focus of the graduation approach is at the household level

● Target population includes extremely poor, socially marginalized populations in IDP settlements and surrounding host communities.

● Applicants should focus on economically active, female household members as primary participants.

● Applicants may also target young men and young women who, in general, have limited opportunities

● Applicants must propose the number of households per cohort and how many cohorts they plan to reach throughout the life of the activity.

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Theory of Change

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

○ A private voluntary organization (PVO)

○ An intergovernmental organization, such as the World Food Program

(Please refer to Section C of the Round)

● USAID encourages applications that include local organizations.

Eligibility

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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 leadership structures, the lines of transparency and accountability between these structures

● Demonstrate how the consortium will adapt to contextual changes and how local partners will facilitate those pivots.

● 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 Lead

● Resilience and Livelihoods Technical Advisor

● Monitoring and Evaluation Lead

● Strategic Learning Advisor

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Contextualization Period

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

● Six-month post-award period to:

○ Meaningfully target participants

○ Contextualize the 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

● Applicants will need to understand what other actors are doing and meaningfully engage with those actors to best provide the full package of support to households.

● Identify potential opportunities for SLI with USAID and other donor programs.

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

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Sustainability Plan

● Applicants should design their proposed intervention with the goal of achieving positive, lasting impacts of program activities 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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Theory of Change

● The applicant must develop an abridged TOC

● The abridged TOC should display the incremental, causal linkages from the

Intermediate Outcomes, Purpose, Sub-purpose, to the Goal

● Build on, NOT CHANGE, TOC provide in Round-1

● The complementary documentation

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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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LogFrame

● All applicants must submit a brief 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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Timeline

● Comment period: Closes February 16, 2024

● Email Questions to: BHA.720BHA23APS00002-01.Som@usaid.gov

● Revised Final RFA is TBD

● Anticipated Award Date: FY 2024

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Q&A Ground Rules

● Please raise your hand

● 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 February 16, 2024 @ 4:00pm

● Email Questions to: BHA.720BHA23APS00002-01.Som@usaid.gov

● Revised Final RFA is TBD

● Anticipated Award Date: FY 2024

Q&A

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