GPSA Moldova: Improving Access to Justice with a Focus on Families Affected by Domestic Violence and Gender-based Violence Project

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The project development objective is to contribute to improving transparency and public sector-civil society collaboration indomestic violence and gender-based violence (GBV) prevention services by applying collaborative social accountability mechanisms intarget sub-national areas and at the national level in Moldova. The project will focus on strengthening the capacity of CivilSociety Organizations (CSOs) and media to monitor budgets and procurement processes in the Gender Based Violence (GBV) includingDomestic Violence (DV)sector at the rayon level; Project activities will be grouped around 3 components as follows:Component 1:Capacity-building for collaborative social accountability (USD 51880): The objectives of this component are: (i) to develop acitizen feedback mechanism for the systematic collection of feedback on services, (ii) to discuss and validate this mechanism withrelevant institutions, and to agree on a collaborative framework for its implementation; and (iii) to build capacities of localCSOs, local administration, interest groups, journalists and activists to carry out the monitoring.The main component activitieswill consist of, inter alia:(a) Conducting a stakeholder analysis to map stakeholders’ s roles, positions and identify reformchampions. Based on this analysis, partnerships with collaboration partners will be established and local coalitionscreated.(b) Conducting a baseline study for activities planned to identify the main gaps in service provision and coordinatedactions in the response to cases of domestic violence.(c) Preparing a capacity development plan to identify social accountabilitytools and other needs at inception, such as the Independent Budget Analysis both at the central and local levels and StakeholderReport Cards.(d) Providing mentorship and trainings related to social accountability and gender-based budgeting for localcoalitions/Local Public Authorities, interest groups/journalists/activists and other stakeholders that can influence or aredirectly or indirectly affected by the project. Component 2: Implementing collaborative social accountability (CSA) mechanismsfor improved DV & GBV prevention and treatment service delivery (USD 102200): The objective of this component is to generatesystematic citizens’ feedback on service quality that may contribute to introducing improvements along the service delivery chainand increase accountability of the central and local governments. The specific services of focus for the CSA include: (a) victimhousing services (emergency housing, assisted and recuperation housing, and preferential renting for survivors of DV & GBV),(b) delivery of immediate basic needs in goods and supplies, (c) psycho-social and legal support services. (d) efforts toeconomically empower survivors of DV & GBV and those at-risk, (e) provision of vocational training services, (f) assistance inemployment searches for survivors. (g) conditional cash or in-kind support for income generation and economic independence ofvictims.(h) raising awareness about DV & GBV and available services for survivors of DV & GBV and their families, as well as forthose at-riskThe main activities will consist of, inter alia:(a) Implementing Independent Budget Analysis (IBA) at the centraland local levels, through the lens of gender-based budgeting, including DV and GBV: (i) inclusion of gender indicators into thenational-level citizen budgets; (ii) Independent Budget Analysis at the local level, identifying existing gaps in the budgetaryprocess (formation and distribution) that impede more efficient prevention and combating of DV and GBV, as well as development ofLocal Citizens Budgets.(b) Implementing Stakeholders’ Report Cards (SRCs) to gather feedback about the quality of services relatedto preventing and combating DV and GBV, specifically to evaluate how well the principles of “gender-based budgeting” areimplemented within the local budgets. The SRCs will be populated with feedback from relevant stakeholders, including victims of DVand GBV. Results will be integrated into a policy document, presenting the statistics and its interpretation, along withconclusions and policy recommendations.(c) Conducting public hearings as platforms of dialogue and consultations between localpublic authorities and non-state actors (e.g. CSOs, experts, community leaders etc.), based on the findings of the IndependentBudget Analyses and Stakeholders’ Report Cards, related to preventing and combating DV and GBV.Component 3: Improving knowledgeand learning on social accountability in the Moldovan DV & DBV prevention sector and project management (USD 345,920): Theobjective of this component is to establish an internal adaptive knowledge and learning process to regularly adjust projectimplementation based on experience and contextual circumstances, and to generate knowledge and learning for targeted externaldissemination amongst key stakeholders that may take up lessons from the project to apply, sustain or scale collaborative socialaccountability and/or inform substantive decisions. The main component activities will consist of:(a) Setting up the project’smonitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) system, including, but not limited to, contracting an independent evaluator (individualor firm) at the onset of the project. The independent evaluator will work with the East Europe Foundation (EEF) Director forEvaluation and Monitoring and with M&E specialists from Expert-Grup and other consortium members, to conduct the project’sevaluation (including baseline, midterm and final evaluation), inform quality bi-annual technical reports as well as providesupport to the project team to develop capacities to adaptively manage the project. (b) Conducting regular internal project MELsessions focused on adjusting the project’s social accountability strategy and operations, including, but not limited to, the civilsociety partnership, and “reality check” discussions with domestic violence and gender-based violence public sectorstakeholders.(c) Developing and implementing a plan for disseminating the project’s Knowledge and Learning products to key targetaudiences, with a focus on the uptake of relevant aspects and elements of the collaborative social accountability process andmechanism (implemented by the project) that may be sustained or scaled up and/or inform substantive decisions.(d) Contributing tothe mandate of the Global Partnership for Social Accountability(GPSA) to broker and promote knowledge and learning aboutcollaborative social accountability, the local adaptation of the GPSA’s theory of change and feeding back lessons that may informpractitioners who are part of the worldwide collaborative framework of partners of the GPSA. (e) Organizing a national-levelconference on social accountability and DV & GBV prevention, as well as organizing regional events, as needed, to disseminateresults, including events for promoting peer learning among municipalities. The Project’s activities will be closely coordinatedwith a complementary and integrated JSDF project component with the objective to improve livelihoods for approximately 595survivors of DV & GBV and facilitate safe and secure environments for families and children through targeted livelihoodinterventions in select rural and urban communities in the North, South and Central of Moldova; and change perceptions about DV &GBV through local and county-wide prevention programs. The JSDF project activities include 3 components as follows: a) Improvinglivelihoods for survivors and economic empowerment of survivors and those at-risk (USD 1,725,600). This component will focus ondesigning and testing pilot interventions that will address factors of vulnerability in select rural and urban communities acrossMoldova. This will be done through a combination of activities testing new ways to improve the livelihood of survivors which willbe accompanied by impact assessments to improve interventions over the projec

FY17 - Education,FY17 - Public Administration,FY17 - Social Protection

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