Compte rendu de la réunion du groupe régional Préparation

Réunion du groupe régional
Multisectoriel sur les Transferts Monétaires
« 11 Nov. 2014 à 9h
Prochaine Réunion: 10 décembre 2014 à 09 H (à confirmer)
Participants :
CALP
CALP
UNICEF
OCHA
USAID/FFP
USAID-BEST/FINTRAC
ACTED
AECID bureau huma.
AL FADAIL Int.
FAO
Regional
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Régional
Régional
Regional
Régional
Régional
Global
Régional
Régional
Régional
Régional
Tuzzolino
Cissokho
Fall
Gitau
Drapcho
Wilson
Thomas
Martin
Tine
Arnal
Yoann
Nathalie
Aissata
Rosalia
Robert
Shannon
Augustin
Olga
Mame Nor
Pablo
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected],
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
Solidarités Int.
Régional
Fioekou
Cédric
[email protected]
PAM
Régional
Sow
Amayel
Structure
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Prénom/ Surname
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Ordre du jour:
1.
Présentation de la nouvelle phase du CaLP 2014-2015 en Afrique de l’Ouest – CaLP
2.
Présentation de la stratégie de réponse (avec accent mis sur les cash transfers) à
l’impact d’Ebola sur la sécurité alimentaire de Food For Peace – USAID/FFP
3.
Update : discussions et activités du UNMEER non cluster cash group – OCHA
4.
Tour de table
Cette réunion s’étant tenue en anglais et en français, le compte rendu respecte la langue
dans laquelle a été effectuée l’intervention des acteurs et est donc présenté en deux langues.
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1) Présentation de la nouvelle phase CaLP par Yoann Tuzzolino, RFP CaLP
(Présentation PPT disponible sur le site du CaLP)
CaLP entame 3eme phase en AF depuis 2012, financée par OFDA et FFP
Depuis 2012 le CaLP a été présent dans 5 pays du Sahel, aujourd’hui ajout du Nigeria. Cela permettra
également de travailler en plus étroite collaboration avec la CoP anglophone.
A l’image des piliers globaux le projet régional comportera 4 piliers
SOUTIEN A LA COORDINATION
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CWG régional,
CWG pays (tous les pays soutenus par le CaLP ont un CWG plus ou moins actif), le soutien
passe aussi par la recherche de pérennité du groupe au travers des financements
Groupes les plus actifs : mauritanie, Mali, Tchad. Plus de difficultés au Niger, Burkina Faso. Au
Nigeria le groupe est naissant.
Question: Quel est le soutien du CaLP pour pérenniser CG nationaux ? Plaidoyer auprès des bailleurs
au niveau de la région ?
YT : Le CaLP privilégie l’approche nationale, le fundraising doit plutôt se faire par les CG eux-mêmes.
Mais les Cash Groups mènent de nombreuses activités et ce n’est pas évident qu’ils trouvent le
temps nécessaire à la recherche de fonds. Notre rôle est plus de s’assurer que c’est quelque chose
qui reste une priorité pour eux.
Question : Dans quels pays le Cash group est financé par des bailleurs ?
YT : Mauritanie et en cours pour Mali. RDC ce fut le cas, ces initiatives montrent que c’est possible.
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Participation à la réflexion globale sur la coordination cash
En 2012, le CaLP a produit 3 documents de recherches (Haiti, Pakistan, la Corne de l’Afrique)
sur la coordination des PTM + une étude comparative. Suite à cela, nous avons organisé un
Global Learning Event à Genève. Un autre Learning Event est prévu début 2015. Le but est de
définir un model efficace de coordination cash efficace (outil multi-sectoriel dans un système
sectoriels : clusters)
PLAIDOYER
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Renforcement des liens entre cash d’urgence et systèmes de protection sociale
Learning event régional en juillet. Possibilité de réplication d’atelier au niveau national ?
Ateliers de sensibilisation à la coordination dans les pays. CaLP délivrera des sessions de 1
jour visant les senior managers et autorités gouvernementale.
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RENFORCEMENT DE CAPACITES
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Formations : calendrier régional diffusé récemment, L1, L2, ToT, Marché
Première formation au Nigeria 1 ère semaine de Décembre
Nouveau module de e-learning : un sondage sera envoyé début 2015 pour identifier le thème
du module avec la Communauté de pratique (CoP)
Révision de la structure globale des formations : pour développer des modules « à la carte »
ciblés et techniques : ex. nouvelles technologies, ciblage, SSN, etc.
RECHERCHE, CAPITALISATION ET DISSEMINATION DE BONNES PRATIQUES
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Nouvelle étude de cas promouvant une bonne pratique, sujet non défini
Développement d’une note technique et d’un module de formation sur « liens entre cash
transferts d’urgence et transferts sociaux ». Outil pratique pour assurer l’identification,
évaluation et prise en compte les éventuels schémas de transferts sociaux dans les systèmes
de PS lors de programme cash urgence. Suite à cela, sera suivi d’un module de formation
Question : est-ce que dans son travail de coordination global le CaLP intègre la formation ? Comment
savoir ce qu’il y a comme formation, pas seulement en cash mais aussi Protection sociale (PS)?
YT : La formation est une thématique transversale du CaLP donc intégrée dans notre travail de
coordination. Bien que la PS sorte un peu de notre mandat, on insiste sur le fait que le cash est un
outil transversal qui peut aussi servir au développement et le CaLP est de plus en plus ouvert à cette
thématique. Aujourd’hui, pas de plateforme connue recensant formations urgence et protection
sociale.
Le CaLP envisage également 2 autres projets ayant une résonnance régionale :
- LRC GRANT en partenariat avec La Croix Rouge espagnole.
« Promoting a common understanding around livelihoods and improving humanitarian actors'
competencies and skills on livelihoods and cash transfers programming .”
- RECHERCHE DFID, en partenariat avec OPM (non confirmé)
“Whether and when social protection systems might be used to respond to shocks, how they might
link with disaster-risk management strategies and humanitarian interventions, and how best to
unlock their potential. “
Update globale du CaLP: Revue globale du CalP menée en début d’année, qui a préconisé un
changement de « modele de gouvernance » tout en gardant le modèle de consortium. Modèle en
cours de validation.
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2) Presentation of FfP strategy regarding Ebola Crisis by Robert Drapcho
Pour l’instant rien n’a été assez officialisé par l’agence pour le mettre en PPT donc l’idée est plutôt de
partager certaines considérations qu’a FFP par rapport à la crise.
USAID strategy regarding Ebola crisis is still giving the priority to medical response; concerns for
secondary impacts of Ebola (economics, FS…) are acknowledged but very limited capacity to do more
at this point. Working with key stakeholders to lead assessment (UN agencies, governments in
affected countries, NGOs…) to better understand impact on prices etc… and to develop information
systems.
Strategy still in the making but working on this as fast as possible to share with NGOs.
Providing food assistance to families affected of people in quarantine during 21 days. Due to
movement restriction, access to food is limited. Expect to carry on this work until January and then
offer a broader range of response including cash and vouchers through NGOs or UN system and LRP.
FFP”s priority is to understand the livelihoods and market dynamics and select the most appropriate
modality for people.
One of the most important challenge is the lack of info and data to improve programs immediately.
Continuous assessments need to be held. Hard to get credible info and design the most appropriate
response.
The number of NGOs in these countries is limited and most of them have been working on
development issues, hard for them to convert to emergency response. There is hope that this will
push the international community to send expertise there to answer the crisis.
Identified stumbling blocks are fear, lack of trade, impact on job availability and household’s
resources. Rural areas have more coping capacities but in urban areas people are more dependent
on cash and markets hence more prone to food insecurity.
In Liberia 2 separate WGs have been established: FS programming / early recovery and livelihoods
(urban issues); BAD, WB, UNDP are leading the working groups. In Liberia the WG was the origin of
the cluster. These groups existed prior to the crisis. Their objective is to coordinate, share info with
very limited capacity in terms of leadership. Need more support, but leadership is now clarified.
FFP is looking at both rural and urban issues. The groups try to unite same partners in order to avoid
working in silos. Concern about how to support commerce, job, governments… issues that cannot be
solely addressed through the FS lens.
Response need to be different depending on seasons / rural or urban areas and need to take into
account the various dimensions of the Ebola crisis: what is the response, the duration, what is it
hitting and how?… Support needed during the harvest season in rural areas / urban areas more
affected; how do you rebuild the private sector, people working in the informal economic sector…
Fear is omnipresent among the population. FFP’s programming would not only include how to
provide food to affected people but also how do you educate people, work on stigmatization of
affected people…
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Clusters in country should assist in the synthesis of the data and turn it into action plan. FFP doesn’t
want to develop a standalone plan but be part of a coordinated response. It is hence encouraging
staff and partners to promote and attend these clusters meetings.
Considerations:
Modality: What is the most appropriate modality? Considerations in terms of markets, financial
institution capacities, safety of the population…
Cost-efficiency: Considering financial resources, how can we target the most people at the lowest
cost? Cash is an opportunity but not always.
Targeting: look at different populations we want to support: survivors, families, stigma of
survivors…?
Agricultural livelihood: what are the immediate needs and longer term needs VS informal / private
sector heavily affected.
Assessments: Number of assessments conducted with very limited info; a lot of partners need much
more. To what extend have the households been impacted by the crisis? What needs should cash
cover?
There is a need to consolidate secondary data to have a more holistic picture of the crisis.
Urban and rural areas are differently affected. How do we, donors and partners work together to
give an appropriate responses to these different needs?
FFP is working traditionally in rural areas with FAO, WFP but pushing BAD, WB, UNDP to respond in
urban areas.
West Africa has been typically underfunded and Ebola crisis is moving funding to affected countries.
There is a need to ensure this crisis does not diverge funding from other countries/crises in the
region.
Shannon Wilson, USAID-BEST project: Team providing support to FFP to lead assessments. Informal
working group including WFP, FAO, FEWSNET… some of partners in the field are trying to identify
what the gaps are in terms of info and how to share.
Food Security impact: focus on secondary impact and indirectly affected households. Presently
conducting larger regional assessments to identify responses in terms of regional procurements
(contingency plans), feasibility to procure food within the region (Senegal, Mali, Cote d’Ivoire,
Burkina Faso) that would be relevant for food assistance if need be. These assessments aims to draw
local pictures on markets, institutional and financial capacity including in terms of C&V capacity. It is
an iterative process as things are evolving fast and contexts are different between countries
Question: OCHA is gathering more info, although there are a lot of challenges. Working on a by
monthly cross-sector analysis to identify impacts of Ebola crisis.
Liberia: to what extend are the two working groups linked with existing clusters?
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Robert Drapcho : It is just a question of terminology. They are not called clusters by government, so
they are called WG. In Liberia, these “WGs” are now the clusters.
Question: the WGs have been active before the clusters in Liberia, is it the case in SL and Guinea too?
Robert Drapcho: Not sure about Guinea but in Sierra Leone yes, including NGOs working on
agricultural support. There was a shift in thinking and leadership (development actors are struggling
to adapt their programs to this new emergency context). Very specific requirements for emergency
proposals, emergency and development do not require same skills.
Question: Clear lack of assessments and precise data and now everybody is doing assessments with
different methodologies.. any mechanism to gather these assessments and coordinate them?
Shannon Wilson: this is a question we have too. Not sure on which platform data should be shared
and at least a sheet to track assessments. What is the best way to share and coordinate?
Yoann Tuzzolino: It’s all about who is coordinating? OCHA’s mandate is to bring support to UNMEER
by providing IM and tools, although they are resource-stretched. What can be done to support? CaLP
has some tools to help on this (cash atlas) we are looking into it. This gap is definitely recognized.
Question: Why these assessments are not shared in this group? At least here we can share what we
already have.
Yoann Tuzzolino: Indeed it’s the purpose of the group but it will not be exhaustive. A thread on the
D-Group has been posted in order to call out to actors to share their assessments.
ACTION POINT FOR ALL: share planned/ongoing/completed assessments on the D-Group and with
CaLP ([email protected])
Shannon Wilson: We elaborated 3 tools funded by USAID. 1) inventory of all of the documents,
reports that are relevant (caseload projections, indicators to design assistance: markets, financial
infrastructures…) 2) excel spreadsheet to track all assessments we are aware of (planned, ongoing…)
3) tracker of listing of all organizations planning or currently having a programmatic response
(whether food, cash or voucher) who is the target population, how many, modality, amount.
ACTION POINT FOR USAID/BEST: Share findings (that can be shared widely) of the assessments on
the D-Group and with CaLP.
Rosalia Gitau, OCHA: Info is also available on website dedicated to Ebola, not exhaustive because of
the lack of coordination but still some info available there. Can give a list of key platforms to look at
to get info.
ACTION POINT FOR OCHA: Share a list of Ebola-related platforms
3) OCHA presentation of UNMEER activities
- Operational plan circulating with diagram on the way forward / Pillar called social services (cash
component) now considered as “key enabler”.
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- Last week CT workshop in Accra, UNICEF, WFP, Red Cross, USAID, UNFPA, Mercy corps… Cash
coordination is led by UNDP. Drafting of a proposal to be funded.
How to pay health workers?
UNMEER also looking at stability and security aspects; as human actors we often see CT as payments
to beneficiaries but here looking at payrolls of health workers working for the government.
UNMEER step-by-step approach: focus on the first two steps 1)Stop and treat 2) enabling
preparedness
UNMEER will hold cash transfer workshops in the 3 affected countries and meetings in Dakar with
NGOs.
Should we pay workers or support government? More transparency is needed but there is a need to
understand challenges in terms of capacities and infrastructures.
What could be the modality of Health workers payments? UNMEER is about to share more formal
documentation about the workshop, no decision made regarding payment mechanism.
UNMEER a bit overstretched and need more technical capacity building at government level.
Question: You mentioned that in country coordination is led by UNDP?
Rosalia Gitau: Solicitation of agencies to take leadership on CT. At country level a UNDP person who
has already been in place is adding Cash focal point to his / her responsibilities. SL needs more
support. Focus in on payment of Health workers but not at the exclusion of how CT could be used.
Just the most advanced option and at that point priority was to focus on HW payment as it’s very
critical at this time. Cash group gathers both humanitarian experienced with Cash for beneficiaries in
humanitarian assistance but also governments and actors involved in the crisis response and how to
use CT to pay HW as it’s very critical. As far as I am aware payments have not started yet.
4) Tour de table : pas d’autres points.
Yoann Tuzzolino: Clôture et présentation des docs parus cette semaine sur crise Ebola :
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FOOD SECURITY IMPACT OF 2014 EBOLA VIRUS EPIDEMIC. POPULATION EXPOSED TO
UNDERNOURISHMENT: FORECASTS IN GUINEA, LIBERIA AND SIERRA LEONE - UNIVERSITY
OF NAPLES FEDERICO II Department of Political Sciences and ACTION CONTRE LA FAIM
How can we estimate the impact of Ebola on food security in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra
Leone? – vam
ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE EBOLA CRISIS ON SELECT LIBERIAN MARKETS – Mercy Corps
These documents are available on CaLP’s website: http://www.cashlearning.org/west-africa/ctp-inthe-ebola-response
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Points d’action :
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ACTION POINT FOR ALL: share planned/ongoing/completed assessments on the D-Group
and with CaLP ([email protected])
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ACTION POINT FOR USAID/BEST: Share findings (that can be shared widely) of the
assessments on the D-Group and with CaLP.
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ACTION POINT FOR OCHA: Share a list of Ebola-related platforms
Le Partage d’autres documents/ressources sur les TM sont toujours les bienvenues.
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Prochaine réunion : Mercredi 10 décembre 2015. Pour toute proposition de
contribution, veuillez contacter Yoann Tuzzolino à [email protected]
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