Ghana. Nsa Ghana part b full application form final by Plan Nederland

Contracting Authority: The European Union, represented by the European Commission Non-State Actors (NSA)-Actions in partner countriesGHANA Grant Application Form Budget line: 21.03.01 Reference: EuropeAid/133777/L/SV/GH Deadline for submission of concept notes: 28th March 2013 Deadline for submission of Full Proposal: 3rd July 2013

Title of the action:

Young voices: Enhancing transformative change, good governance and accountability in maternal health delivery.

Number and title of lot

NSA budget line 21.03.01; Actions in Partner Countries

Location(s) of the action:

Ghana, 6 districts: the Mfantseman and Abura Asebu Kwamankese (AAK) districts in the Central Region, the Yilo Krobo and Upper Manya Krobo districts in the Eastern Region and the Sissala West and Wa West districts in the Upper West region.

Name of the applicant

Stichting Plan Nederland

Nationality of the applicant1

Dutch

Dossier No (for official use only)

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EuropeAid ID

NL-2008-CPM-0901665251

Ongoing contract/Legal Entity File 3 Number (if available) Legal status

6000233319 Non-profit making, non-governmental Name: ISODEC EuropeAid ID: GH-2008-GBV-0506284006

Co-applicant 1

Nationality and date of establishment: Ghanaian, 1987 Legal status: Local Non-Governmental Organisation Relation with the applicant or co-applicant: Independent partner Name: Pro-link EuropeAid ID: GH-2010-FQA-2903325035

Co-applicant 2

Nationality and date of establishment: Ghanaian, 1993 Legal status: Local Non-Governmental Organisation Relation with the applicant or co-applicant: Independent partner Name: Youth Advocacy on Rights and Opportunities (YARO) EuropeAid ID: GH-2009/DJF-lS0636980S

Co-applicant 3

Nationality and date of establishment: Ghanaian, 2002 Legal status: Local Non-Governmental Organisation Relation with the applicant or co-applicant: Independent partner 6

Affiliated entity

N/A

Applicant’s contact details for the purpose of this action

Postal address:

Plan Nederland P.O. Box 75454 1070 AL Amsterdam The Netherlands

Telephone number: (fixed and mobile) Country code + city code + number

+31 20 549 5570

Fax number: Country code + city code + number

+31 20 644 4065

Contact person for this action:

Caroline van den Ende

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E.g. non-profit, governmental body, international organisation.

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Contact person’s email:

caroline.vanden.ende@plannederland.nl Stadhouderskade 60

Address:

1072 AC Amsterdam The Netherlands

Website of the Organisation:

www.plannederland.nl

Any change in the addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers or e-mail, must be notified in writing to the Contracting Authority. The Contracting Authority will not be held responsible in the event that it cannot contact an applicant.

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NOTICE

When processing your application, any personal data (e.g. names, addresses and CVs), will be recorded and processed if necessary in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data by the Community institutions and bodies and on the free movement of such data. Unless otherwise specified, your replies to the questions and any personal data are required only to evaluate your proposal in accordance with the Guidelines for the call for proposal and will be processed solely for that purpose by the data controller. Details concerning processing of your personal data are available in the privacy statement at http://ec.europa.eu/dataprotectionofficer/privacystatement_publicprocurement_en.pdf]

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Contents PART B. FULL APPLICATION FORM ...................................................................... 6 1

General information ................................................................................................................ 6

The action ................................................................................................................................. 7 Description of the Action ........................................................................................................................7 2.2. Affiliated entity(ies) experience: N/A .........................................................................................44

The applicant ......................................................................................................................... 45 3.1. 3.2. 3.3. 3.4.

Identity .........................................................................................................................................45 Profile ...........................................................................................................................................46 Capacity to manage and implement actions .................................................................................53 List of the management board/committee of your organisation...................................................56

The Co-applicant(s) ............................................................................................................... 57 PROFILE ...............................................................................................................................................58 PROFILE ...............................................................................................................................................59 PROFILE ...............................................................................................................................................61

AFFILIATED ENTITIY(ies) participating in the action .................................................. 63 N/A 63 Mandate (for co-applicant(s)) ...............................................................................................................64 Mandate (for co-applicant(s)) ...............................................................................................................65 Mandate (for co-applicant(s)) ...............................................................................................................66

Associates of the applicant participating in the action ...................................................... 67

Checklist for the full application form ................................................................................ 68

Declaration by the applicant ................................................................................................ 71

Assessment grid FOR the full application form ................................................................. 72

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PART B. FULL APPLICATION FORM only to be completed by applicants who receive an invitation to submit a full proposal (at the time of the invitation) To reduce expense and waste, we strongly recommend that you use only paper for your file (no plastic folders or dividers). Please also use double-sided printing if possible 1

G E N ER AL IN FO RM AT I O N

Reference of the Call for Proposals

EuropeAid/133777/L/SV/GH

Title of the Call for Proposals

Non-State Actors (NSA)-Actions in partner countries-GHANA

Name of the applicant

Stichting Plan Nederland

Number of the proposal

245

Title of the action

Young voices: Enhancing transformative change, good governance and accountability in maternal health delivery.

Location of the action

-specify country(ies) region(s) that will benefit from the action [Number of the Lot]

NSA budget line 21.03.01; Actions in Partner Countries

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T HE ACT IO N

Description of the Action

2.1.1. Description (max 13 pages) Provide a description of the proposed action, including all the information requested below, referring to the overall objective(s) and specific objective(s), outputs and results described in the concept note: Explain the specific results expected, stating how the action will improve the situation of the target groups and final beneficiaries and the technical and management capacities of target groups and/or any local co-applicants and affiliated entity(ies). Early/teenage pregnancies have proven to be the highest risk factor leading to maternal mortality in Ghana. Because of youth unfriendly SRH services, youth and adolescents resort to unorthodox and inappropriate practices in meeting their SRH needs and rights, resulting in teenage pregnancy, neonatal mortality and morbidity and sexually transmitted infections. Well-functioning accountability mechanisms, access to information on SRH services, and awareness of governance processes, will empower young men and women to hold district officials and health service provides accountable for effective SRH delivery. Effective accountability will stimulate local authorities to work more effectively and to respond better to SRH needs, which will contribute to a reduced MMR. Realizing better access to sexual and reproductive health services and improving adolescent friendliness of SRH services will also lead to better sexual education, reducing the proportion of teenage pregnancies and eventually, of MMR. In all, countries with more effective local authorities and stronger accountability tend to have 9 better progress on MDG goals, such as lower MMR . Result 1: Effective, youth-friendly social accountability mechanisms and tools are established at district level to monitor and evaluate the accessibility and quality of SRH services, including maternal health. More accessible and higher quality SRH services will have significant and tangible benefits for pregnant (young) women and mothers, reducing the maternal mortality rate and reducing pregnancy related health risks. For many young women and men of reproductive age, their only routine interaction with the state may be at the delivery point of health services, like the health clinic. This action aims to bridge this gap by creating structures and tools for meaningful dialogue between service providers and policy makers and the users. Existing monitoring and accountability tools for engagement are not youth friendly, gender sensitive or context specific. To improve the quality, gender-sensitivity and adolescent friendliness of SRH service delivery, youth-friendly tools and mechanisms for the monitoring of SRH services will be developed. Adolescent boys and girls and young men and women who are just entering or are in their reproductive cycles will be facilitated to demand accountability from duty bearers at the local government level to respond to their (gender specific) needs and provide the necessary services. Therefore implementation of these tools will enable an informed youth to hold SRH service providers, District Assemblies and other duty bearers accountable for effective Adolescent SRH (ASRH) delivery. Four social accountability tools will be applied, according to the respective phases of the public financial management of the government namely 1) Development planning, 2) Budgeting, 3) Expenditure tracking and 4) Performance monitoring and evaluation. Within this cycle, it is the formulation of the budget and public spending where social accountability mechanisms have been proven most effective in holding public officials to account. Therefore, in this action thorough attention will be given to implementing social accountability in the field of budgeting and budget tracking. Under this result, 60 adolescents between 15-24 years will benefit directly from training in adjusting and applying the monitoring tools (an additional 300 will benefit indirectly through cascaded training). These groups are trained by the local partners YARO and Pro-link, who will be trained as trainers on implementing social accountability tools. Pro-link and YARO will guide the targeted youth groups on the adoption of concepts and tools gained from the training. ISODEC will facilitate and monitor the 8

The evaluation committee will refer to information provided in the Concept Note as regards objectives and the relevance of the action.

Toward Transformative Accountability : Applying a rights-based approach to fulfill maternal health obligations, Alicia Ely Yamin SUR International journal on Human Rights nr 12 June 2010. Page 7 of 72 NSA Ghana Part B Full Application Form final.doc â&#x20AC;&#x201C; NSA Ghana â&#x20AC;&#x201C; EuropeAid/133777/L/SV/GH

findings and results through establishment of fora and networks. During biannual meetings, discussions and presentations will take place based on case studies from the various districts. Such learning brings together the theory and practice of social accountability, making the participants not just receivers of new knowledge but also active agents of learning, and facilitates a cycle of actionreflection-action. Exposure visits allow the participants to learn how social accountability is successfully applied in other districts, and will enable them to compare their realities with the situation of their neighbour districts and the sound practices that transpired from such experience in engaging constructively with local government. Youth groups and girls clubs (including girls panels) will benefit from the project through awareness raising and information sharing during the multi stakeholder meetings. Duty bearers will be invited to share feedback and facilitate discussions on the accessibility, quality and youth friendliness of the services. The targeted youth groups will present their findings from the monitoring and collect input from community youth. Under this result, the action will make use of the (experiences, findings and tools of the) girls panels 10 set up under the Girl Power project . Girl panels are expert panels that provide content to the concept of participation and ownership and as such are essential to a rights based development approach. The panels are instrumental to institutionalize active participation of the girls and young women themselves in planning, monitoring and evaluation. To keep track of the changes that occur in the lives of girls and young women involved in the Girl Power (GP) program, panels exchange opinions regularly on selected subject matters such as SRH rights and gender relations. Panel opinions are formed by standardized methods in order to obtain information that is reliable, valid and comparable. The information generated by the Expert Panels will be used to feed the monitoring and evaluation of results. Expert Panel information from different panels is used to compare similarities and differences between areas (districts). Duty bearers (such as District Assembly members, DHMTs and traditional authorities) will be involved through multi-stakeholder platforms, where they will be informed of the social accountability tools and made aware of their importance for improving the accessibility and quality of SRH services. Outcomes Result 1: 1. At least 70% of the 360 targeted youth apply tools to monitor and evaluate accountability and responsiveness of SRH services by the end of year 3. 2. 80% of targeted District Assembly members, DHMTs and traditional authorities are aware of the purpose and importance of social accountability tools. Multiplyer effects Result 1: - The action will build collaborative platforms to discuss and respond to key problems, working with public officials and children and youth in the same intervention. This is a more effective means of building consensus and encouraging behavior change than working with one side alone, and it can be more broadly adopted after the project has ended. - Through broad publicity on the results, local NGO’s, duty bearers, and civil society can make use of the developed mechanisms and tools for monitoring in other public service areas as well. - Press releases and reports from the multi-stakeholder fora and other media expressions will contribute to influencing policy change and shaping public opinion; - The action is complementary to Plan projects in the same region (Watch project and Girl Power Project), so the experiences can be upscaled to other youth and girls groups and replicate the monitoring, since SRHR issues are part of these projects. - Local partners will be trained as trainers in social accountability tools, enabling them to continue delivering this expertise on social accountability and its monitoring tools after the project. Result 2: Information on the quality of SRH services is available and accessible to the public, specifically youth. A number of health service delivery policies exist in Ghana that focus on increasing equitable and 11 accessible health care for all Ghanaians . However, youth and other stakeholders are not well informed of these policies nor do they know how to define their health needs in the field of SRH. This action seeks to make young citizens more knowledgeable of the applicable quality standards and regulations and the financial resources that are allocated to health service delivery at the district levels and to enable youth to engage with duty bearers to demand accountability and quality. Furthermore, 10

Please refer to ‘Applicant’s Experience’

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the action seeks to increase and facilitate the accessibility of District Assembly plans and budgets to citizens to enable effective accountability. The action is focused on health policy makers, administrators and service providers to build their awareness of the rights and needs of service users and of public transparency requirements, as well as to increase their ability to respond to the demands of service uses. Under this result, the targeted youth will be trained to interpret policies, analyse budgets and become familiar with the rights based approach (RBA) and existing gender discrimination. Consequently they will be able to apply the rights based approach (including gender) and have the capacity, knowledge and leadership skills to engage with public officials and accountability mechanisms. By training youth groups how to access and analyse public information (related to the CRC, CEDAW, quality of public services, policies, budgets and decision-making and political processes) they will become ‘information literate’. This will enable them to engage collectively as active citizens and participate in public accountability and evidence-based advocacy. Through this action, 6 trainings (one per district) will be carried out on these issues for 24 youth groups. This action will also support public officials to manage consultation and accountability processes and to develop the capacity to be transparent, consultative and responsive to questioning from young citizens. Public officials, SRH service providers and parliamentarians will be sensitized and informed on the importance of Public Transparency through annual roundtable meetings. This will result in better understanding of adolescent SRH needs with policy makers, and of their responsibility and accountability duties. In addition, civil society and community members will benefit, because they will be sensitized on SRHR issues, through a broad community sensitization campaign and public fora. Understanding will be built of the importance of developing young people’s leadership skills and the value of young citizen feedback. Through annual award schemes, health facilities will have an incentive to improve their performance. Finally, the health service users will benefit from this. Outcomes Result 2: 1. At least 80% of targeted youth groups (M/F) have access to information on the availability and quality of SRH and maternal health services in project area by end of year three and can repeat/demonstrate this information to others 2. At least 80% of targeted SRH and District officials are aware of the importance of public transparency and 50% make an effort to facilitate youth’s access to information on SRHR. Multiplier effects Result 2: - Through a broad sensitization campaign, information on SRH services will be available to youth and adolescents nationwide, inviting more citizens to become engaged. - Child and youth participation in governance and accountability processes is a crucial way of exercising citizenship and rights advocacy. Information sharing through the roundtable meetings (Activity 2.5) will permit scaling up to address also other programs combating poverty. Result 3: Youth groups have the capacity to engage in governance processes and structures at district level Under this result, the action will seek to provide youth groups with in-depth understanding of the local governance structures and its functionalities, to enable them to form entry strategies for effective engagement. In this action, child and youth organizations will be linked with adult governance structures as the implementing partners have found this approach most successful in earlier actions. Through the multi-stakeholder platforms established under Result 1, young citizens will be enabled to test their skills and understanding, putting the developed social accountability tools into practice and learning from each other’s best practice. Furthermore, youth groups will be trained on the necessary advocacy and lobbying skills to engage in governance processes. Based on field experience and consultations undertaken by Plan Ghana and ISODEC, it emerged that youth groups’ pursuits in the identified districts to engage with stakeholders on critical issues such as SRH has been largely uncoordinated and inconsistent. Thus in order to ensure effective stakeholder engagement by the youth groups in SRHR advocacy, trained youth groups in 6 project districts will be supported to develop advocacy action plans for implementation. In this action, targeted youth groups will be supported to understand, collect, analyze and use information (on their rights, quality of services, governance processes, policies and budgets) in order to influence the responsible public officials. They will benefit from rights based approach (RBA) and Page 9 of 72 NSA Ghana Part B Full Application Form final.doc – NSA Ghana – EuropeAid/133777/L/SV/GH

gender training and capacity building, gaining understanding on ways to build relations between them and those in power based on gender-sensitivity, openness, inclusion and accountability. This is important to engage meaningfully in public accountability mechanisms. For these relationships to develop, inclusive and collaborative spaces will be created and strengthened to promote dialogue, networking and interaction between children and youth and multiple stakeholders at different levels. As well as girls and young women, adolescent boys will be involved in sensitization on SRHR issues, as their attitude and behaviour are part of the (problem and) solution. In the trainings, understanding is built of the nature of decision-making spaces and the role gender plays in shaping the engagement of children and youth, contributing to promote inclusion of children and youth in these decision making spaces. Capacity building will address gender (in)equality, negotiation and problem solving between children, youth, community leaders and public officials. Lobby and advocacy plans will be developed on district level by the youth in the 6 project districts. By training on lobby and advocacy, targeted youth groups will acquire skills to monitor the progress and engage public officials. Understanding informal and formal political processes at different levels, and how to identify opportunities and risks within these processes will be part of the advocacy skills training for the youth groups accordingly. Jointly reviewing and monitoring developed action plans will contribute to building involvement of Public officials (DHMTs, District Assemblies and traditional authorities) that are willing to improve accountability and are open to feedback from young citizens. Outcomes Result 3: 1. 60% of trained youth groups apply advocacy skills to demand increased accountability and responsiveness of SRH services in the 6 targeted districts by year 3. 2. 50% of the targeted youth can at least mention and explain two of the tools and has used at least one of them at meetings with district Assemblies on SRH activities. 3. 30% increase above baseline of involvement of young men in SRH issues Multiplier effects Result 3: -

Networking will also enable other youth groups, from the targeted districts and beyond, to learn from the targeted youth groups to raise their voice for better SRH services.

Result 4: Improved gender sensitivity, accountability and responsiveness of local government, district health officials and SRH service providers at district level. Socio-cultural practices pose a barrier to access to SRH services, as youth, especially young women, are often discriminated and stigmatized in the realisation of their SRHR due to cultural and traditional beliefs. By combating gender discrimination and other forms of exclusion and power dynamics, the action will contribute to enhance the ability of young girls, boys, men and women in the target districts to claim equal SRHR for women and men from district and health officials. This will be achieved through training, lobbying and sensitization of local government, district health officials and SRH service providers in the selected districts. Not only local authorities but also traditional authorities are targeted, as they are seen as custodians of tradition and very influential in bringing about change among their peers. By sensitizing local and traditional authorities on the negative socio-cultural practices militating against access to SRH service delivery, they will be convinced to support the youthsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; action plans. Regular review meetings will be organized to enable traditional authorities to share their experiences, best practices and identify challenges. For these improvements to remain sustainable the project will strengthen the relationship between local government, health service providers and communities. This will be achieved by increasing interaction between adolescent groups and duty bearers, creating a two-way relationship. Firstly, local authorities will be sensitized and able to support the activities of the youth groups by jointly monitoring and reviewing progress (action plans). Secondly, by training youth to implement communication activities for behavior change, they will be enabled in a practical way to engage local authorities, Health Service Providers and other stakeholders at the 6 District Assemblies. Gender and Youth responsive Public Financial Management (PFM) is an emerging concept which must be well understood and owned by both communities and duty bearers (firstly the District Assemblies). By training district assemblies, district officials and SRH service providers on gender and youth sensitive Public Financial Management, they will be provided with skills to be able to target SRH in their planning and budgeting process. The trainings are geared to enhance their capacities to disaggregate data during their budgeting with a clear focus on the specific (gender-) Page 10 of 72 NSA Ghana Part B Full Application Form final.doc â&#x20AC;&#x201C; NSA Ghana â&#x20AC;&#x201C; EuropeAid/133777/L/SV/GH

needs of the youth, so they will be able to more appropriately allocate adequate resources where needed. Furthermore, by thorough practical training in responsive Public Financial Management of a selected group of youth, they will be provided with a set of practical skills and knowledge to bring their district assemblies and duty bearers to account on SRHR issues. Outcomes Result 4: 1. 30% of District assemblies and DHMT staff in 6 project districts demonstrate improved knowledge and skills on gender responsive planning, budgeting, budget tracking and performance monitoring for SRH services by year 3. 2. 30% increase in youth representation invited to district sector health budgeting and planning meetings on SRH. 3. 20% increase above baseline of targeted beneficiaries who report improvement in health workers’ responsiveness to (adolescent) citizen demands. 4. 50% of SRH facilities meet at least 3 of the 5 standards of youth friendly services (the five standards are: effective, safe and affordable, they meet the individual needs of young people who return when they need to and recommend these services to friends) Multiplier effects Result 4: - A number of traditional and religious leaders become champions to change traditional practices that prevent access to SRH services.

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Identify and describe in detail each activity (or work package) to be undertaken to produce results, justifying the choice of activities and specifying the role of each co-applicant(s) and affiliated entity(ies) (and associates or contractors or sub-grantees where applicable) in the activities. Do not repeat the action plan to be provided in Section 2.2.3, but demonstrate coherence and consistency of project design. In particular, list any publications proposed. Project management/preparation Activity 0.1: Recruit project staff Hire project staff as required. Some of the existing staff will be assigned to the project, but others will need to be hired. The first two months shall be used to orient project staff and perform a training needs assessment. Output: project staff is in place Activity 0.2: Conduct start-up workshop Plan will organize and facilitate a 3-day grant start-up workshop with project partners as well as key stakeholders from the target districts. The objective of the workshop is clarity of the contract and partnership details, preparation of the detailed planning of activities of year 1 and identifying critical steps of the project. Output: on 3-day workshop with 20 participants Activity 0.3: Conduct gender-sensitive baseline study At the start of the project, a baseline study will be conducted to develop comprehensive information of 12 the situation of SRH services and SRHR issues in the 6 districts. The baseline will collect gender disaggregate data, taking the needs and rights of (young) women and men into account when looking at the current status of SRH and adolescent friendliness of the services. It will assess female and male perception of gender barriers to accessing SRH health services. In other words, the communities’ knowledge, attitudes, practices and beliefs with regards to SRHR for adolescents as well as underlying gender causes of maternal mortality will be covered in the baseline. The baseline will include a study on gender and youth responsive budgeting in Ghana, since little research has been done in that area. The study will provide the base for monitoring and evaluation of the achievements of the project. It will also deliver evidence based information, establishing the basis for advocacy and pursuit of gender and youth responsive budgeting. The baseline study will be conducted by an external consultant in close cooperation with the project partners, and will last for three months at the most. The study will target the SRH service providers, the district assemblies, the traditional authorities and youth (15-24 years) in the 6 target districts. Plan will implement this activity together with ISODEC. Output: baseline completed Activity 0.4: National project launch to create awareness of the action The office of Plan in Ghana will facilitate the organisation of a national half-day project launch in Accra. The workshop will comprise up to 70 participants and include: 1. Members of Parliament (6) 2. National, Regional and district level officers representing the Ghana Health Service (including DHMT staff) (20) 3. District Assemblies Members (12) 4. Civil Society representatives (national, regional & district levels) (6) 5. Plan West African representatives (2) 6. International NGOs working on SRH rights (5) 7. Representatives from multilateral/bilateral organisations (local EC delegation, World Bank, UNICEF, UNDP etc.)- 5 8. Representatives of both print and electronic media (5) 9. Plan Ghana staff (5) The national level launch and district level start-up workshop, including the action’s objectives, will be publicised in local and national newspapers and/or television and radio networks. Output: project launched Activity 0.5: District level start-up workshop to create awareness regarding the action and its activities

The baseline research will build on earlier research, a.o. a gender scan which was supported under the CIDA funded PAGES project. Also, a desk study is proposed as part of the information gathering process which will require reference to the CSP.

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To ensure that stakeholders at the 6 participating districts embrace the project, a 1 day start-up workshop will be organised for each of the districts. This meeting will ensure the buy–in of key stakeholders in the 6 districts so that they play their roles effectively. In each of the districts it is expected that 30 participants each (30x6 = 180) will make themselves available for the meeting. Plan Ghana and Pro-link will coordinate these meetings at the 6 separate locations during the first month of the project inception and share reports to the stakeholders. Output: 6 district-level workshops completed Activity 0.6: Quarterly project steering committee meetings (Note: this is also under Methodology) Project steering committee meetings will be held quarterly. Plan will coordinate the committee’s meetings but its chairmanship and meeting location will rotate amongst partners. The committee’s quarterly meetings will last for two days: one day for a field visit and the other to review the project action plan, budget and progress towards project objectives and results. Annual meetings (the fourth quarterly meeting per year) will aim to review overall progress on the objectives and anticipated results of the action, and progress in view of Ghana’s national goals and strategy papers (MAF). Progress will be reviewed, problems identified and solutions will be suggested at these meetings. Output: quarterly steering committee meetings carried out Activity 0.7: Draft and sign Memoranda of Understanding Plan will enter into a legal agreement with official project partners based on the outcomes of the startup workshop, formalising roles and responsibilities of project partners. Output: MoUs drafted and signed Activity 0.8: Procure project equipment Plan in Ghana, ISODEC and Pro-link will procure equipment required for project staff to effectively implement project activities, such as laptops, office equipments and motor bikes. Plan will coordinate the procurement of vehicles. Standard procedures in line with the EC guidelines will be fully adhered to, and appropriate tender procedures will be used as required. Output: project equipment is in place Result 1: Effective, youth-friendly social accountability mechanisms and tools are established at district level to monitor and evaluate the accessibility and quality of SRH services, including maternal health. Activity 1.1.: Develop youth friendly monitoring tools ISODEC will work in a participatory manner with youth (selected from target youth groups) to develop four different monitoring and accountability tools to monitor quality, accessibility and financial accountability of SRH services: Annual citizen budgets (a participatory planning tool), budget analysis, a public expenditure tracking survey and community score cards. Information for the annual citizen budgets will be collated from the annual District Assembly budgets. This information will be abridged and simplified to enable young men and women to understand the district assembly plans. An annual analysis of the district health sector budget will be undertaken and be compared with analysis of the national budget. The public expenditure tracking survey will enable tracking of public/national expenditure in the area of SRHMH issues and financial flows to the district level. The community score card will be adapted and tested at the district level (in consultation with key stakeholders). Before implementation, ISODEC will test the tools in 1 district with a representative group of young men and women, girls and boys that will participate in these monitoring mechanisms. Development and testing together will take ten working days. Output of Activity: - 4 youth-friendly social accountability tools are available for use Foreseen publications: - Adjusted tool guidelines (for users: youth groups) Activity 1.2 Train local NGO partners as trainers on the application of monitoring tools 2 local NGOs (YARO and Pro-Link) will be trained by ISODEC as trainers to instruct the youth groups on the use of the respective monitoring tools. ISODEC will organize a 3-day training of trainers’ workshop for 10 staff (5 each) of YARO and Pro-link, after the development, pre-testing and acceptance of the tools. The training will enable the 2 LNGOs to train and support the 24 youth groups in the 6 districts in the application of the tools. The training will take the form of a one-off training and two follow-ups for the end of year 1 and beginning of year 2. The two LNGOs will then roll out the training for the youth in all the 6 districts. Output of Activity: -

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Foreseen publications: - Training manual for NGOs on implementation of social accountability tools Activity 1.3 Train youth groups to track and monitor youth friendliness, accessibility, quality and financial accountability of SRH services With the adapted tools, YARO and Pro-Link will organize 6 training workshops (1 per district) to equip youth groups with skills to use and apply these tools, and create synergy between youth groups and relevant stakeholders at the district level for effective monitoring of services. The training will benefit 60 members (10 per district). 1 training workshop will be organised for 36 District Assembly/SRH officials in the 6 project districts (6 per district), on the use of youth-friendly monitoring tools. Each training workshop will last for two days. Regular support will be provided to the youth groups and relevant stakeholders especially in year 1 & 2 to strengthen their capacity in the use and application of the tools such budget analysis, budget tracking, community score cards, gender and youth responsive budgeting, and citizen budgets to ensure transparent and accountable utilization of maternal and SRH funds in the 6 districts to help demand accountability from service providers. This support will be monthly for 6 months in year one and bi-monthly or quarterly in year 2. Output of Activity: - 4 youth-friendly accountability tools are available for use - 60 youth are equipped with knowledge and skills to use the developed social accountability tools - 36 District Assembly/SRH officials are trained Foreseen publications: - three citizen youth friendly budgets - Report with Public expenditure tracking survey findings Activity 1.4: Create multi-stakeholder fora and platforms at the district level Multi-stakeholder platforms will be established at district level in the 6 districts, for informed discussions and engagement between youth groups and identified stakeholders, using evidence based findings from monitoring SRH resource implementation. Pro-Link and YARO in collaboration with identified youth groups in 6 target districts will organize 24 fora, (4 fora per district) throughout the project implementation period. These biannual interface platforms, which will start from year 2, are aimed at bringing together youth groups and girls clubs in the districts and duty bearers (DAs, DHMTs, traditional authority) to activate the demand side of SRH service delivery by holding SRH service providers accountable and providing an opportunity for feedback for public information. Through these engagements, organized youth in rural areas will have deeper insight into SRH and district assembly planning, monitoring and budgeting issues. Output of Activity: - 24 multi-stakeholder sessions held Foreseen publications: - 24 press releases on multi-stakeholder fora - 2 aggregated reports on findings of multi-stakeholder fora Activity 1.5: networking and sharing of Best Practices Plan, ISODEC, YARO and Pro-Link will support youth groups in building a networking platform in 6 target districts. This network will serve as a learn-and-share platform of best practices on challenges and successes in engagement with SRH service providers and duty bearers. There will be 2 annual meetings of all 24 youth groups in the 6 implementing districts during the project implementation period, which will be attended by at least 5 representatives who hold key positions in the groups. 35 internal exchange visits (3 per district per year) will be promoted, beginning from year 2 of the project, to further enhance the practice of learn-and-share among the youth groups. The focus of this activity is, first to build synergy and promote mutual beneficial relationships among the youth groups. Secondly, it seeks to take collective action with the aim to have a meaningful impact on SRH service delivery at both the district and national levels. Such a combination will allow for a strengthened voice, constructive persuasion, negotiation and effective communication and, where necessary, facilitate principled non-violent confrontational advocacy on SRH issues the youth feel strongly about. The reports of such engagements will be widely shared with other youth groups through other various media, including social media. Output of Activity: - 2 annual networking meetings organized for all 24 youth groups Page 14 of 72 NSA Ghana Part B Full Application Form final.doc â&#x20AC;&#x201C; NSA Ghana â&#x20AC;&#x201C; EuropeAid/133777/L/SV/GH

- 54 annual internal exchange visits organized Foreseen publications: - Press releases from annual meetings - Informal reports on internal exchange visits (including social media) Result 2: Information on the quality of SRH services is available and accessible to the public, specifically youth. Activity 2.1: Training for SRH and District officials on ASRHR and public transparency 30 SRH staff, 5 from each of the 6 districts (DHMT -2, Sub-District- 3) and 30 district assembly officials, 5 from each of the 6 districts (Planning Officer, Budget Officer, District Coordinating Director and Presiding Member and Social Committee Representative) in 6 target districts will be trained to make information on the quality of SRH services available and transparent. First, the training will address gender issues, adolescent SRH rights and needs. Second, the training will address the relevant policies and regulations on SRH, to increase awareness on the importance of public transparency and of youth’s participation in district and sector specific quality monitoring, budgeting and planning. This 2-day workshop will be organized by ISODEC. Output of Activity: - 30 district assembly representatives from 6 districts trained - 30 SRH staff from 6 districts trained Foreseen publications: - Training manual for SRH staff and District officials Activity 2.2: Training of youth groups on ASRHR and public transparency. The aim of this activity is to capacitate youth to demand, access and interpret policy information on ASRH service delivery. 6 2-day training sessions will be given to 24 youth groups. First of all, the training will address gender issues, adolescent SRH rights and needs, making youth aware of their SHR rights and training them on how to define their SRH needs. Second, the training will address the importance of public transparency and focus on selected youth policies and health service delivery policies relevant to youth. Youth groups will be supported to collect data from the Ghana Health Service: on public performance and quality, on district budget allocations to the sector for the past five years, for trend analysis and expenditure patterns to be established. In the trainings, youth with the support of LNGOs will identify areas that require strengthening. Also the capacity of the youth will be enhanced to be able to analyse policy information to demand for changes in terms of allocations and transparent management. An abridged and youth friendly version of the health service delivery policies will be produced and made available to youth (2000 copies). Pro–Link and YARO will support youth to organize 1 annual public forum per district, starting from year 2, to create awareness on these policy issues and also solicit for more public support in holding district level administrators accountable. All gathered information is geared to increase the SRH knowledge levels of citizens in the 6 target districts. Output of Activity: - 6 training sessions to 24 youth groups on ASRHR service delivery and public transparency - 12 public fora in the districts, organized by youth Foreseen publications: - Youth friendly version of Health Service delivery policies (2000 copies) Activity 2.3: Community sensitization campaign on ASRHR The proliferation of electronic media like radio, (including the activities of Girls Making Media groups) especially at the rural level is a major source for citizen information, knowledge and participation in community and district level activities in Ghana. Through radio discussions, all citizens in the 6 districts will be targeted (and even citizens beyond the target districts can be reached) to sensitize the population on ASRHR issues and build awareness of the importance of and call for public transparency. Quarterly community radio discussions will be conducted with representatives of youth groups, SRH officials, District Assembly budgeting, planning officers and District Chief Executive and multi-stakeholder groups. This activity will be led by Pro-link. Also, 4 radio discussions (on local FM stations) will be done in 6 districts, 4 times in the year per district, to sensitize the target population on SRHR issues in the 6 districts. These will be led by youth groups, with support from local implementing partners. Plan in Ghana will develop a Facebook site dedicated to Adolescent SRH issues and challenges which will have information about evidence based findings from project monitoring and advocacy. Plan will promote 2 sets of promotional Page 15 of 72 NSA Ghana Part B Full Application Form final.doc – NSA Ghana – EuropeAid/133777/L/SV/GH

materials (6000 stickers, 6000 posters, 2000 wristband, 1000 t-shirts). Plan and ISODEC will lead annual television discussions on evidence based findings in the project area over the project period. Output of Activity: - Media campaign conducted in all districts - 4 radio discussions organized - promotional materials produced (6000 stickers, 6000 posters, 2000 wristband, 1000 t-shirts) Foreseen publications: - Facebook site developed and functional Activity 2.4 Constitute annual award for best responsive and youth friendly SRH facility. An annual award scheme will be instituted by 2 LNGO partners with support from Plan in each district, for Best Youth Friendly SRH facility. Facilities will thus be encouraged to undertake best practices that will entice the youth to access voluntarily all the services available at the facilities. 24 awards will be undertaken in years 2 and 3. The best youth group will also receive an award. The award scheme will be based on standards set by GHS and the youth groups. In the absence of any such criteria, GHS will be supported to create one to enhance the selection of the best facility. Publication will be sought through relevant network partners and platforms like the Network for Women’s rights. Output of Activity: (quantified) - 6 annual award schemes instituted Foreseen publications: - Press releases on (24) awards published Activity 2.5 Roundtable meetings ISODEC will organise 3 Roundtable meetings on health and poverty with 6 parliamentary committees’ members, the Health Ministry, the Ghana Health Service and SRH agencies at national level, informing them on the evidence based findings (from the baseline study and further research by ISODEC and youth groups) in 6 districts and of the progress realized in 1) improving accessibility of information on the quality of SRH service and 2) establishing and implementing monitoring tools. The meetings will be organized yearly from year 1. The objective is for these round table discussions to allow stakeholders to meet together on regular basis and to sensitise, orientate and advocate for the participants to commit themselves, and the organisations and institutions they represent, to achieve the set objectives. The local NGO partners and youth groups will constantly liaise with the service providers, so that this parliamentary Committee will be a proactive and supportive actor for addressing and monitoring implementation gaps. Youth groups will be encouraged to actively participate in all discussions and decisions in order to make sure SRH perspective and experiences are taken into consideration, heard and acted upon. Output of Activity: (quantified) - Three roundtable meetings at national level with national stakeholders Foreseen publications: - Booklet / leaflets on SRH and social accountability in Ghana Activity 2.6. Public National Forum on evidence based findings from 6 districts on SRH To inform the public on the results of the project and mobilize mass public support for youth friendly SRH policies, a Public National Forum will be organized. The objective of this activity is to spread information on the state of SRH in the country, for public support and demand for youth friendly SRH facilities. Led by ISODEC and supported by Plan Ghana, partners and network partners– including Girls Making Media, Network for Women’s rights, citizens and media at the national level, this Forum will be organised in the national capital, Accra. Output Activity: - 1 national forum organised Publications: - Press releases Result 3: Youth groups have the capacity to engage in governance processes and structures at district level Activity 3.1. conduct participatory risk analysis on adolescents demanding accountability in SRH Together with representatives of targeted youth, Plan and ISODEC will conduct a participatory risk analysis to assess the risks the young women and men may face when engaging in citizenship and governance work. This will include barriers and incentives associated with public officials’ (Service providers, District Assembly staff etc) response to demands by young women and men regarding SRH. Assessing these risks and barriers is critical for effective programming. The analysis will assess Page 16 of 72 NSA Ghana Part B Full Application Form final.doc – NSA Ghana – EuropeAid/133777/L/SV/GH

the potential negative outcomes but also aim to map risks the youth may wish to take. This activity will start before the training of youth to work with social accountability tools (Activity 1.3) and will partly overlap, so input from the training can be used in the analysis and vice versa. Conducting the analysis will take 1,5 month (1 week per district), including implementation in the training. Output Activity: - Participatory risk analysis conducted and results shared with youth groups, District Assembly members, service providers and Plan Ghana Publications: - None (because of vulnerability and confidentiality the results will not be shared externally) Activity 3.2 Build capacity of 2 local NGOs to train youth on advocacy skills A training of trainers workshop will be performed by ISODEC for 10 selected staff from local NGOs on SRH, local governance structures and advocacy skills. This 2 day training session (at national level) will be aimed at equipping the local NGO staff with knowledge and skills to improve their understanding of the advocacy strategy development process, local governance structures and its accountability mechanisms which can be used for effective engagement with duty bearers (DAs, DHMTs, local authorities and Service providers). The content of the training will be based on training needs assessment and the baseline survey outcomes on SRH. Output Activity: - 10 staff from YARO and Pro-link trained on advocacy strategies and local government structures. Publications: Youth advocacy training manual Activity 3.3. Organize 4 training workshops for Youth Groups on local SRH governance structures and advocacy skills A training will be organized for 120 selected youth drawn from 24 youth groups aged (15 – 24) in the six districts, on local SRH governance structures and advocacy skills. The 4 2-day training sessions (30 participants per session) will be organized by two local NGOs (YARO in the Northern Sector and Pro-Link in the Southern Sector). The training is aimed at equipping youth with knowledge and skills to improve their understanding of the local governance structures and their accountability mechanisms which can be used for effective SRH engagement with duty bearers (DAs, DHMTs, local authorities and Service providers). The content of the training will be based on training needs assessment and the baseline survey outcomes on SRH. Output Activity: - 4 training sessions for the youth groups on local SRH governance structures and advocacy skills organised - 120 youth trained on governance processes in SRH Activity 3.4 Develop advocacy Action plans for engagement with officials. In order to ensure effective engagement by the youth groups in SRH advocacy, trained youth groups will be supported by YARO and Pro-link to develop advocacy action plans for implementation. These will be developed as part of the Advocacy training. The plans will outline clearly an advocacy objective, target, strategies, activities, outputs and timelines towards the achievement of the desired results. Also, roles and responsibilities of youth and other stakeholders will be spelt out in these plans, which will jointly be accepted by both the youth groups and district stakeholders (DAs and DHMT). The advocacy Action plans will form an important vehicle for implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the SRH activities in the project districts by youth in practice of the monitoring tools. In all, the trained youth will develop action plans for each district. After plans have been agreed upon, youth groups will meet on a quarterly basis to share and document ideas and best practices, identify challenges, re-strategize and review their action plans (see under Activity 3.5). Output activity: - 24 Advocacy Action plans developed Publications: - 24 Advocacy Action plans (40 copies each) Activity 3.5. Monitor advocacy plans on implementation of SRH activities To ensure an effective project implementation, the youth groups themselves will serve as monitoring bodies of the activities outlined in their advocacy action plans in their respective communities and districts, by applying the skills and knowledge acquired through the capacity enhancement activities as Page 17 of 72 NSA Ghana Part B Full Application Form final.doc – NSA Ghana – EuropeAid/133777/L/SV/GH

well as using the accountability tools. LNGO’s and Plan staff will perform regular follow-up and supervision to ensure the effective implementation of the agreed plans. Participatory monitoring and evaluation of the project activities at the community/ district level will be strengthened. This will include review sessions to assess the level of progress being made and adjustment of activities based on recommendations from the review sessions and joint field/project monitoring visits. The monitoring plan will be shared with the SRH staff in the project districts for their inputs and buy in. This will enable them to create the space for the youth to assess their activities in the districts. Besides, the DA staff and traditional authorities with the project districts will be part of the development and usage of the monitoring plans in their respective districts. Output activity: - 24 Advocacy Action plans consequently monitored - 24 youth groups capacitated in progress monitoring and evaluation Publications: - Advocacy plans of the youth groups Result 4: Improved gender sensitivity, accountability and responsiveness of local government, district health officials and SRH service providers at district level. Activity 4.1 RBA and Gender training to adolescent groups, district health officials and SRH service providers. Pro-link and YARO will perform a 3 day training session involving 96 participants (made up of 60 youths 50% girls and 50% boys, 36 SRH and District Assembly Representatives) – this is linked to Result 2 for youth. The training activity seeks to create gender awareness around SRH among target groups to improve on attitudes and behaviours of service providers and local authorities and create the right environment to increase access to information and SRH services. Two sets of appropriate Behavior Change Communication (BCC) materials will be developed and adopted on the basis of stakeholder consultations facilitated by Plan Ghana, promoting key messages on gender responsiveness and sensitivity to create awareness and thereby improve attitudes and behaviours. Employing the rights based approach, trained and empowered youth groups by (YARO and Pro-Link) will on quarterly basis embark on behavior change communication activities to engage local authorities, Health Service Providers and other stakeholders at the 6 District Assemblies to create awareness on gender sensitivity and responsiveness. Activity 4.2 Develop action plans with local and traditional authorities to address negative sociocultural practices on SRH. A one day orientation will be organized by YARO and Pro-link for 10 Traditional Authorities selected from each of the 6 districts, to build their awareness on the negative socio-cultural practices militating against access to SRH delivery services. 18 District Officials and 18 District Assembly Members will be part of this activity. As part of these orientation meetings, traditional authorities will be supported to develop action plans to support the activities of the youth groups. Also, 5 review meetings will be organized on bi-annual basis for traditional authorities to share their experiences, best practices, identify challenges, re-strategize and review their action plans. Participants at these sessions will include local and traditional authorities: the district assembly representations, chiefs, queen mothers, religious and other opinion leaders. Output Activity: - 18 District Health Officials, 60 Traditional & Religious leaders and 18 District Assembly officials engaged by the youth groups in SRH issues Publications: - Action Plans of Traditional Authorities Activity 4.3 Build capacity of District Assemblies and DHMT officials on gender and youth sensitive Public Financial Management Gender and Youth responsive Public Financial Management (PFM) is an emerging concept which must be well understood and owned by the District Assemblies and DHMT officials. Moreover, District Assemblies and DHMT officials require these skills to be able to target SRH in their planning and budgeting process. This activity is intended to enhance their capacities to disaggregate data during their budgeting with a clear focus on the specific needs of the youth, and be able to allocate adequate resources to support the implementation of these needs. 36 representatives, 6 selected from each district (Deputy Co-ordinating Director, Gender Desk Officer, Planning Officer, Presiding member, Page 18 of 72 NSA Ghana Part B Full Application Form final.doc – NSA Ghana – EuropeAid/133777/L/SV/GH

Budget Officer, DHMT Director ) will be trained for 2 days in gender and youth sensitive Public Financial Management. ISODEC will execute this activity with support of YARO and Pro-link. Output activity: - 36 District Assembly members trained in gender and youth sensitive Public Financial Management Activity 4.4 Build capacity of youth in gender and youth responsive Public Financial Management. In this activity, 60 members of the 24 youth groups in the project districts are trained in gender and youth responsive Public Financial Management. The initial training of trainers’ workshop will be facilitated by ISODEC for 10 YARO and Pro-link staff. YARO and Pro-link will then organize 2 3-day training sessions on gender responsive PFM for the 60 members of the 24 youth groups in the 6 project districts. This activity will take place in year 1 and 2 sessions of refresher training in year 2 for the same number of participants in the same group. This will help the youth to acquire the necessary skills to engage their district assemblies and duty bearers on SRH issues. Output activity: - 10 LNGO staff trained as trainers on PFM - 60 youth trained on PFM 4.5 Develop satisfaction survey tool This activity aims at providing young women and girls with a tool to assess their satisfaction with SRH services at the various health facilities in the 6 districts, but will address adolescent boys as well as they also play their role in relations, sexuality and reproduction. A satisfaction survey tool will be developed through a participatory process by Plan Ghana to assess the changes in the level of satisfaction of services on SRH provided by Health Service Providers in the 6 project districts. This activity will take 1 month and will be completed by the end of year 1. Measuring satisfaction will be done annually by the youth with support from the LNGO, starting from year 2. This forms part of the regular internal monitoring activities of the project (see under Methodology). The outcome of this assessment will be shared with key stakeholders (Sector Ministry, Parliamentary select committee on Health, Sector donors) as part of the advocacy activities throughout the project. Output activity: - Satisfaction survey tool developed and ready to use for youth groups Publications: -

Results of the satisfaction survey

In the case that a redistribution of the grant is anticipated (sub-grants): Specify the objectives and results to be obtained and the types of entity that will be eligible for a sub-grant. N/A Describe/highlight eventual changes of the information provided in the concept note. In addition to the information provided in the Concept Note, one co-applicant is added, local NGO Youth Advocacy on Rights and Opportunities (YARO). The reasons for this are the following: -

For administrative reasons, this partner did not deliver the required information in time to be included in the Concept Note. However, YARO has been actively involved in designing the action from an early stage, contributing heavily to the Full Proposal, and is very committed to the project goals.

YARO’s involvement is key to achieving the expected project results. YARO has a strong operational presence in the Upper West, which gives it an essential added value. Reaching these Upper West districts without their involvement would jeopardise the grass roots support YARO has in these communities and increase overhead costs.

Alternative forms of contracting this partner therefore would not do justice to this partner’s involvement and would either be inefficient or create inequality between partners and/or put at risk the good partnership that has been built.

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2.1.2. Methodology (max 5 pages) Methods of implementation and rationale for the proposed methodology: The ultimate goal of this action is reduced maternal mortality rates, however in order to reach the crucial target group and final beneficiaries, it is essential to address the broader issues on Sexual and Reproductive Health. Children and Young people (10 – 24 yrs) are key users of public services, entering the adolescent phase of their life and being the future parents, yet their feedback on their SRH needs, service quality and delivery of their rights is seldom heard. Therefore, the action will work with young people as agents of change to lobby for adolescent friendly SRH services. Besides empowering youth groups through capacity and awareness building, the action will provide them with concrete methods and tools to monitor the quality of health services, ensuring their effective delivery. The project will have a strong gender component because real changes will only be achieved through addressing underlying root causes and power relations, intricately related to the causes of high Maternal Mortality. Therefore the involvement of men and boys will be an important approach. Working in partnership with various stakeholders: This permits the action a wide scope and depth of impact. Local partners already in the field are able to engage effectively with communities and youth groups. Buy-in of the chiefdom elders and queen mothers will create ownership and allow for successful implementation. The participation of youth groups ensures civil society participation at the grassroots level. And training of District Health committees and district assemblies will ensure that important local stakeholders are involved in the project. These aspects all lead to sustainability of the action. In this action, Plan Ghana will work with the District Assemblies and the District Health Management Team (DHMT) who are the local government structure at the district level. Knowledge and Skills Transfer will take place through round table discussions, panel discussions, workshops, seminars, focus group discussions, combined lecture presentations, thematic studies, and open forums and discussion. The action will consistently be implemented in line with Plan's ChildCentred Community Development (CCCD) rights-based approach in which the young people and their communities are at the heart of their own development to create sustainable changes in their lives. All activities will therefore use a participatory and gender sensitive approach where the needs of the young men and women, boys and girls are central to the project. This implies that young people are engaged in collective action from community to district level to hold government and other duty bearers accountable, to respect, protect and fulfil their rights. The proposed action will expand this approach by including the development of effective social accountability mechanisms and tools in the field of maternal health service delivery, creating democratic spaces for dialogue between adolescents on the one hand and district assemblies, public officials and health service providers on the other. Four different monitoring and accountability tools will be developed and implemented: gender/citizen budget tools, community score cards, budget 14 analysis, and a public expenditure tracking survey. The Citizen Budget is a budget tracking tool to enable citizens’ understanding of the budget. The community score cards, a World Bank developed tool for community tracking of public service delivery, will be adapted to suit the purpose of the project, specifically improve the quality and gender responsiveness of SRHMH services among the youth. where the action continues a previous action, describe how the action is intended to build on the results of the previous action (give the main conclusions and recommendations of any evaluations carried out) This action builds on several currently running and previous actions with a strong focus on civil society empowerment implemented by Plan in Ghana. Projects include the Girl Power Program (GPP, funded by the Dutch government); the Youth Village Savings and Loans Associations (VSLA) project (in partnership with Barclay’s Bank); WATCH (funded by CIDA) and Girls Making Media (GMM). GPP, a 10-country program, aims to strengthen and build capacity of civil society to ensure equal rights and opportunities for girls and young women and their full participation in the development of society. GPP in Ghana addresses girls’ and young women’s rights issues at different decision making forums, involving CSOs, media and parliament. Two target districts coincide with this action: Sissala West and Wa West. GPP has laid the basis of working with youth clubs and girl panels at community 14

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level; this action expands the activities to the district level. A mid-term evaluation of GPP is planned for September 2013. Young Voices will integrate relevant recommendations in the project design. WATCH seeks to reduce maternal, neonatal and child morbidity and mortality in 6 rural districts of the Volta and Eastern regions. It involves creating demand for MNCH (mother and child health) services by building the capacities of community structures such as the community health committees and VSLA groups (young women and men who have come together to set up self-managed revolving funds, where monies are loaned out among themselves). It strengthens the supply side of MNCH by building capacity of health staff to respond to maternal and child health issues and providing basic equipment support to handle MNCH issues. Young Voices will enhance the expected results of the WATCH project, working through youth VSLAs and the other youth groups to seek accountability from service providers and ensure that investments in maternal health services are justified. GMM aims to strengthen the capacity of adolescents to advocate against gender discrimination, by making efficient use of diverse forms of media. GMM has a membership of 75% girls and 25% boys and is currently running in the Volta and Eastern regions. In the Eastern region, several schools are beneficiaries and will participate in Young Voices as target groups. where the action is part of a larger programme, explain how it fits or is coordinated with this programme or any other possibly planned project Young Voices is not part of a larger programme; it builds upon current actions being implemented by Plan and its partners in Ghana. Strong synergies will be created with the EU MAF, as described in the 15 section below, as well as STAR-Ghana and the Women’s Manifesto , an innovative mobilizing campaign for women’s rights. At project inception and review meetings, the identified partners will be invited to share their experiences in implemented similar project. For lobby and visibility purposes, the action will connect to existing fora and channels like the Maternal Health Channel. specify potential synergies with other initiatives, in particular by the European Union The EU is supporting the Ghana government to roll out the Millennium Acceleration Framework (MAF), which aims at strengthening the supply side of maternal health delivery towards achieving MDG 5 by 2015. The proposed action complements MAF as it seeks to hold public officials accountable for the use of MAF funds to deliver effective, adolescent & women friendly healthcare services. Furthermore, a policy for free healthcare for pregnant women and children under 18, including attended deliveries, is implemented via the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). Challenges to the implementation of this policy at the point of service delivery are required payment for some services and lack of full coverage of all services across the country. procedures for follow up and internal/external evaluation Quarterly meetings of the project steering committee will be rotated among the 6 project districts. Plan will coordinate the committee’s meetings but its chairmanship will rotate amongst major project stakeholders that will sit on the committee. The committee’s quarterly meetings will last for two days: one day for a field visit and the other to review the project action plan, budget and progress towards project objectives and results. Annual review meetings of the action will take place to review progress under the overall strategic framework of maternal health and development in Ghana as well as the objectives and anticipated results of the action. Progress will be reviewed, problems identified and solutions will be suggested at these meetings. Monthly reviews will be organised to ensure effective reporting, co-ordination and monitoring of the project. The Project Manager (PM) with the support of the Health Specialist will visit project sites on a monthly basis, and submit quarterly narrative reports to the Programme Support Manager. During these site visits young people (males and females), women and men will be encouraged to participate and give their views on the implementation of the project. The PM will liaise with local partners and project associates including local communities to ensure effective implementation of the project. Dayto-day management and coordination of the action will be undertaken by the Project Manager who will report to the Plan Ghana Programme Support Manager. The PM will maintain regular and open dialogue with partners including youth groups, service providers, community members and other project partners. The project will be monitored through Plan’s internal monitoring system, the Program Accountability System (PALS). The monitoring component of PALS provides the framework to measure progress towards results and objectives. Monitoring will be carried out at all levels, from local district based project implementation level to the country programme level through established mechanisms. A 15

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baseline study, including a gender analysis, will be conducted at the start of the project. Plan and partners will conduct a mid term evaluation and external, independent consultants will undertake the final evaluation. Both evaluations will: (a) determine systematically and objectively the relevance, efficiency, effectiveness and impact of activities in the light of project objectives and indicators as presented in the logical framework. Particular attention will be paid to issues of sustainability and gender; (b) be done through a participatory approach, involving a representative sample of the target beneficiaries and (c) encompass qualitative and gender disaggregated quantitative data collected from random samples of beneficiary households and focus groups. the role and participation in the action of the various actors and stakeholders (co-applicant(s), affiliated entity(ies), target groups, local authorities, etc.), and the reasons why these roles have been assigned to them The District Health Management Teams (DHMTs) are the government health service delivery bodies at district level. The DHMT will ensure that youth friendly services for SRH/MH are provided for all health facilities in the district. The ISODEC institute is experienced in research and advocacy and will develop social accountability mechanisms and tools together with all partners. It will be responsible for training of trainers (TOT) for the two LNGOs and Plan Ghana staff to enhance their capacity on social accountability in SRH. ISODEC will liaise with Plan Ghana, Government stakeholders, Parliament members, Civil Society partners and the target groups for the effective coordination of interactive meetings, workshops, monitoring, and reporting on activities. Their Policy Officer will liaise with Plan Ghana’s Project Coordinator to mobilize other key players to play their parts effectively in project implementation by periodic briefing, provision of essential information, precise strategic direction and award of commensurate rewards. ISODEC will participate in a preparation and review meeting that will be organised by the 2 LNGOs. Pro-link has vast experience in community mobilization, health education and working with grassroots groups and decentralised government. Pro-link will be responsible for identification, mobilisation, training of youth groups in the Mfansteman, AAK , Yilo Krobo and Upper Manya Krobo districts, community awareness creation. In all they will be required to identify, form and strengthen the capacity of 16 youth groups out of the total of 24 youth groups expected to work on the project. Their project coordinator will be responsible for the implementation of components assigned to them. Their project accountant will ensure that funds are spent as per EC guidelines and compile monthly financial reports. Just like Pro-link, YARO will be responsible for identification, mobilisation, training of youth groups in the Sissala West and Wa West districts and community awareness creation. YARO has extensive experience in working with young people and other marginalised groups, including youth in hard to reach communities, fulanis (nomadic herdsmen), People Living with HIV/AIDS and women groups in the area of Governance, education and Health(especially in SRH/MH). YARO has experience in working with District Assemblies and District Health Management teams across Northern Ghana. They will be required to identify, form and strengthen the capacity of 8 youth groups with relevant skills to engage duty bearers and service providers. Their project coordinator would be responsible for the implementation of components assigned to them. Their project accountant will ensure that funds are spent as per EC guidelines and compile monthly financial reports. Plan in Ghana has been responsible for the planning and preparation of the action in collaboration with local partners and stakeholders and will be responsible for the overall coordination. Plan will conduct a start-up workshop, coordinate gender and RBA trainings, and take the lead in reproduction and dissemination of communication materials on integrating RBA and gender-sensitive approach in SRHR interventions. Plan Ghana, with the participation of all the project partners, will coordinate, monitor and supervise the project and report on project outcomes. Overall responsibility for project monitoring will be with the office of Plan in Ghana. Project monitoring and evaluation will be consistent with both EC’s and Plan’s formal requirements and global systems. Partners will submit quarterly narrative and financial reports to Plan Ghana. Plan in Ghana is responsible for the consolidation of reports, financial coordination and audit. Plan will ensure that the action is implemented as a coherent project that will fulfil the objectives and lead to sustainable improvements once the action ends. 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international NGOs. Through direct communications with Plan supporters in the Netherlands (+/110,000 people), the press, and the Dutch development community, the project’s experiences and lessons will be shared widely. The organisational structure and the team proposed for the implementation of the action Plan programme staff: Country level: Country Director (covered by Plan) –represents the project at national level with regards to relevant Ministries and the EU delegation. The Programme Support Manager (PSM) (10%) supervises the Project Manager and coordinates with the Grants Manager, the Health specialist and the Governance and Advocacy specialist and Gender Specialist. The Health specialist (20%) provides technical backstopping for the project. The Grants Manager (10%) is responsible for the grants corporate management systems and grants reporting at the Country Level. The Governance and Advocacy specialist (10%) will provide technical support for the advocacy component of the project. A Project Manager (100%) with full time responsibility for the project will oversee the project implementation and will be responsible for the direct coordination with partners and collate reports from partner. An M&E officer (15%) will put systems in place to track project results. The Finance Manager (10%) will provide support for the preparation of financial reports and ensure that funds are spent as per budget and schedule. The Communication Specialist (5%) will coordinate media relations, media training and the development of communication materials to enhance visibility of the project and make sure the donor visibility as well. The Gender Specialist (10%) will ensure that gender is mainstreamed in all aspects of the project and report on specific gender outcomes. requirements. A Driver (100%) is responsible for driving staff of Plan and partners safely to the project areas and other general services related to project implementation. Netherlands: A senior Health & Gender Specialist (10%) is responsible for technical support throughout the grant, high performance standards and linking and learning through Plan International. An EU Institutional Partnerships Officer (10%) – is responsible for compliance with EC requirements and EU contact. ISODEC Programme staff: One (1) project Coordinator (50%) will coordinate with other project partners for successful implementation, one (1) Training facilitator (50%) will support the training of the two local NGOs in social accountability, advocacy etc. Support staff: Finance officer (40%) will provide financial backstopping to the ISODEC project team, Administrative assistant (20%) will provide administrative support to the project team Pro-link Programme staff: Project Manager (50%) will be responsible for the day to day activities of the project in the four districts. He will network and coordinate with other project partners. He/She will monitor and supervise field staff. Four (4) Field staff (100%) will be responsible for all the community mobilization work and also for training the young people in the groups. Support all training programmes and support youth groups. Prepare and submit field reports. Accountant (20%) will ensure that all project funds are well disbursed according to project guidelines. Administrative assistant (15%) will provide administrative support YARO Programme staff: Project Manager (50%) will be responsible for the day to day activities of the project in the two districts. He will network and coordinate with other project partners. Three (3) Field staff (100%) will be responsible for all the community mobilization work and also for training the young people in the groups. Support staff: Accountant (15%) will ensure that all project funds are well disbursed according to project guidelines. DHMT: salaries will be covered by DHMT budget Page 23 of 72 NSA Ghana Part B Full Application Form final.doc – NSA Ghana – EuropeAid/133777/L/SV/GH

the main means proposed for the implementation of the action (equipment, materials, and supplies to be acquired or rented);  Fuel and maintenance costs for one 4x4 vehicle (Plan will allocate one of its own vehicles to the action)  4 motorbikes with helmet and spare parts (2 LNGO field coordinators, 2 LNGO project managers)  4 laptops (1 per partner)  3 printers (1 per LNGO)  3 UPS (1 per LNGO), toners to support project coordination and management at district level.  4 projectors and screens (1 - Plan, 3LNGO to facilitate learning within project implementation and sharing of project experiences  4 digital cameras (1 per organization) for project monitoring and supervision at field level and to facilitate communication and sharing of project activities and experiences the attitudes of all stakeholders towards the action in general and the activities in particular Youth groups - Girls panels, Girls Making Media and Youth VSLAs were consulted and they support the objectives and expressed their desire and willingness to participate. The GHS in the 6 districts have also expressed their support for this action. Consultative meetings were held with chiefs, queen mothers and elders on the action. There has been a lot of interest and cooperation from local government- District Assemblies and District Health Management Teams-DHMT at all levels of the process. The 6 district assembly representatives fully participated in the situation analysis and the development of this action. The Family Health Division of the Ghana Health Service provided technical and policy direction and priorities during regular consultations at national level. The government regards this action as complimentary to their overall national effort to improve maternal health services. ISODEC, Pro-link and YARO are currently part of similar on-going actions in Ghana. The partners are enthusiastic about the action and have thus fully participated in the development of the proposed action. The districts which are all districts where Plan Ghana operates, have been consulted during the designing of this action and the needs identified as part of Plan’s wider programme design in the district. Community representatives are very appreciative of the effort and hopeful that this action will be funded and successfully implemented with their full support. As such, the District Assembly M & E Officer will be part of the project monthly joint field monitoring and supportive supervision team for this action. the planned activities in order to ensure the visibility of the action and the EU funding. Visibility of the action will be achieved by putting in place a detailed visibility plan which will be drafted in the first quarter of the action and will be revised in the beginning of each new project year. All partners participating in the action will be involved in drafting the visibility plan and will take care that all possible sources of spreading information will be used. The role of Plan will be to strictly follow the Visibility Guidelines of the EC and ensure that all partners do as well. Main channels of information to be used: 1) Plan’s website (both international and in the Netherlands; 2) Social network services (twitter and Facebook) where Plan is present and has a large number of followers/friends; 3) Plan Ghana website/newsletter 4) other printed materials issued by Plan (annual reports, policy documents, etc.); 5) websites of partner organisations in this action- ISODEC, YARO and Pro-link websites 6) Materials printed by partner organisations; 7) GMM and GPP channels: describe 8) Maternal Health Channel on national Television. EC will be mentioned during the National launch, start-up workshop and trainings ( Activities). All training materials, manuals, guidelines and so forth will include EC logos and appropriate references. Special representative/visibility items will be produced (calendars, stickers, etc. with the project & EC logo). As mentioned above, while presenting the project in different media, the EC Visibility guidelines will be strictly followed at all times.

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2.1.3. Duration and indicative action plan for implementing the action (max 4 pages) The duration of the action will be 36 months. The action plan for the first 12 months of implementation should be sufficiently detailed to give an overview of the preparation and implementation of each activity. The action plan for each of the subsequent years may be more general and should only list the main activities proposed for those years. To this end, it must be divided into six-month periods (NB: A more detailed action plan for each subsequent year must be submitted before any new pre-financing payments are received under Article 2.1 of the General Conditions of the grant contract). The action plan will be drawn up using the following format: Year 1 Activities 0.1 Recruit project staff

Semester 1 Semester 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Implementing body Plan

0.2 Start-up workshop

Plan

0.3 Conduct gendersensitive baseline study

Plan, ISODEC

0.4 National project launch

Plan

0.5 District-level start-up workshop

Plan

0.6 Quarterly project steering committee meetings 0.7 Draft and sign MoUs

Plan

0.8 Procure project equipment

Plan

1.1 Develop youth friendly monitoring tools; Testing (T)

Plan

(T)

ISODEC, YARO & PROLINK

1.2 Train local NGO partners as trainers on the application of monitoring tools 1.3 Train youth groups to track and monitor youth friendliness, accessibility, quality and financial accountability of SRH services 1.4 Create multi-stakeholder fora and platforms at district level 1.5 Networking and sharing of Best Practices R2. 2.1 Training for SRH and District officials on SRHR and public transparency

ISODEC

2.2: Training of youth groups on ASRHR and public transparency 2.3 Community sensitization campaign on ASRHR

YARO & PRO-LINK

ISODEC and Plan Ghana

ISODEC & PRO-LINK

Plan, YARO & PRO-LINK

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2.4 Constitute annual award for best responsive and youth friendly SRH facility. 2.5 Roundtable meetings 2.6 Public National Forum on evidence based findings R3. 3.1. conduct participatory risk analysis on adolescents demanding accountability in SRH 3.2 Build capacity of 2 local NGOs to train youth on advocacy skills

ISODEC and Plan

ISODEC

YARO & PRO-LINK

3.3. Organize 4 training workshops for Youth Groups on local SRH governance structures and advocacy skills 3.4 Develop advocacy action plans for engagement with officials 3.5 Monitor advocacy action plans on implementation of SRH activities R4 : 4.1 RBA and Gender training to adolescent groups, district health officials and SRH service providers. 4.2 Develop action plans with local and traditional authorities to address negative socio-cultural practices on SRH (including orientation and review) 4.3 Build capacity of District Assemblies and DHMT officials on gender and youth sensitive Public Financial Management 4.4 Build capacity of youth in gender and youth responsive Public Financial Management 4.5 Develop satisfaction survey tool and use

YARO & PRO-LINK

ISODEC, YARO & PROLINK

YARO & PRO-LINK

ISODEC, YARO & PROLINK

YARO & PRO-LINK

ISODEC and Plan

For the following years: Half-year 3

Half-year 4

Half-year 5

Half-year 6

Activities R1 1.4 Create multi-stakeholder fora and platforms at the district level

Implementing body Plan, YARO & PRO-LINK

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1.5 networking and sharing of Best Practices R2 2.3 Community sensitization campaign on SRH 2.4 Constitute annual award for best responsive and youth friendly SRH facility. 2.5 Roundtable meetings 2.6. Public National Forum on evidence based findings from 6 districts on SRH R3. 3.5 Monitor advocacy plans on implementation of SRH activities R4 4.1 RBA and Gender training to adolescent groups, district health officials and SRH service providers. 4.2 Develop action plans with local and traditional authorities to address negative socio-cultural practices on SRH, and monitor them 4.3 Build capacity of District Assemblies and DHMT officials on gender and youth sensitive Public Financial Management 4.4 Build capacity of youth in gender and youth responsive Public Financial Management 4.5 Develop satisfaction survey tool and use

YARO & PROLINK Plan, YARO & PRO-LINK YARO LINK

PRO-

Plan, YARO & PRO-LINK Plan & ISODEC

Plan YARO LINK

Ghana, PRO-

Plan, YARO PRO-LINK

Plan Ghana, YARO & PROLINK

ISODEC, YARO & PRO-LINK

YARO & PROLINK

ISODEC and Plan

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2.1.4. Sustainability of the action (max 3 pages) Provide all the information requested below: Describe the expected impact of the action at technical, economic, social, and policy levels The proposed action will enhance the capacity of District Health service providers and officials to be transparent, consultative and responsive to the SRH needs and rights of the target population, particularly girls, boys, and young women and men, through sensitization trainings, participative multi-stakeholder meeting and jointly drafting and monitoring of action plans and quality of SRH services. The strong relationship between Plan and partners and the GHS and close cooperation with DHMTs and District Assemblies will provide for a strong voice in affecting further policy change at the national level to integrate gender and youth-friendliness in the curriculum for SRH service providers, to offer a more complete training turning out high-quality, responsive SRH Aides. Actively working directly with adolescent women and men will ensure that they capacitated to relay health messages and awareness about SRH rights to the local population and to hold health service providers accountable. Gender awareness raised among the target groups, health service providers and policy makers will have vast impact in a number of areas, most directly regarding access to SRH including maternal health care leading to decrease in teenage pregnancies and maternal mortality. In the short term, this will have social impact on e.g. the behaviour and involvement of young men in their role and responsiblity in sexuality and reproductivity, attitude towards pregnancy and contraceptives and the ability for youth and women to access sexual and reproductive health and rights services (i.e. family planning) leading to lower teenage pregnancy rates. The proposed action will contribute to a 10% reduction in teenage pregnancies and a 5-10% reduction in the maternal mortality rate by the end of the project.. Long term impact of such changes is increased economic capacity and empowerment of women and the community at large because their health and SR health will be improved. Describe a dissemination plan and the possibilities for replication/extension of the action outcomes (multiplier effects), clearly indicating any intended dissemination channel. Throughout the action, project partners will share experiences and lessons learned during implementation of interventions on a quarterly basis. These experiences and lessons will also be shared at district level during the multi-stakeholder fora, and at national level in the annual round table meetings. Further, information on the action will be spread through the production and dissemination of a project information booklet, newspaper and radio adverts (also providing EC visibility) and IEC materials. The diffusion of lessons learned through progress and evaluation reports is ensured through various means, i.e. project coordination events, awareness raising events at the community and district levels, the annual roundtables with local media, and Network for Women’s Rights, Women’s Manifesto Coalition etc. Within Plan, the lessons learned will be shared through various internal meetings. They will also circulate on Plan and partners’ websites and press releases from Plan in Ghana in various national and local newspapers. Further multiplier effects have been identified by result in the Description of the Action.

Physical/Environmental

Provide a detailed risk analysis and contingency plan. Risks Mitigation Measures/Contingency Plans Flooding or excessively heavy rains: This will Project/supply transport mainly by limit access to communities and limit their motorbikes, rather than 4x4 vehicles to ability to participate in the project. improve access. Community-based Likelihood: high; Impact: medium activities planned mainly outside wet season. Wild fires in dry season Involved LNGO’s cover these topics Likelihood: high; Impact: medium standard in sensitization/trainings Cholera/diarrhea epidemics (prevention of fires; sanitation and Likelihood: medium; Impact: medium hygiene). Community groups strengthened will create a forum through which communities are better able to respond to environmental emergencies. Plan has both Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and emergency plans in place to support relief phases if necessary and links with national level emergency preparedness efforts. Page 28 of 72 NSA Ghana Part B Full Application Form final.doc – NSA Ghana – EuropeAid/133777/L/SV/GH

Social

Economic

Political

Civil unrest, in particularly aftermath of 2012 elections petition: This could potentially lead to a (temporary) suspension of the project. Likelihood: medium; Impact: low

Change of political priorities: This could lead to a lack of support from government partners and agencies. Likelihood: low; Impact: medium

Households suffer from increased or endemic levels of food insecurity: This could undermine willingness and ability to participate in the project. It could also lead to increased levels of malnutrition and greater vulnerability to preventable disease. Likelihood: low; Impact: medium Operational costs increase due to global economic crisis: Higher costs of consumables and transportation. Likelihood: medium/high; Impact: medium/high

The lack of co-operation and interest on the part of service providers and decentralised institutions, for fear of being exposed to the public for promoting social accountability. Likelihood: Medium, impact: medium/high Participation by women and children is not accepted by communities: Traditional beliefs undermine womens’ status in society which could possibly prevent essential contribution by women and children. Likelihood: low; Impact: medium Local NGO's over-burdened with tasks: Low institutional capacity of 2 local NGOs to implement the project at the 6 districts could cause delays Incidence: low; Impact: high

Plan in Ghana is developing contingency plans for all its programming. Plan will also ensure that activities start as planned, whereby communities will be active before the elections and therefore able to continue functioning, even if not reachable from Accra. Long lasting working relationships between the local government and Plan ‘s programme units and civil society partners on the ground will ensure continuation of the action (i.e. even if national support should diminish) Community sensitization on food security during project meetings and promotion of backyard gardening and other locally appropriate activities.

Plan will monitor this closely and will source additional funds should this become necessary. Use of mobile phones for data collection and motorbikes for transfer, for example, also helps to reduce operational costs. Plan will ensure that building awareness of duty bearers on the importance of public transparency is integral part of the trainings. Plan will hold a regular dialogue with both male and female decision makers such as (religious) community leaders to ensure community acceptance of the action.

The project planning and delivery is designed together with all partners from the onset. Also a SWOT analysis will be conducted with each partner, that will be supported to overcome weaknesses. Plan will perform sensitization indicating benefits derived by each stakeholder.

Describe the main preconditions and assumptions during and after the implementation phase. The main preconditions and assumptions are that the government of Ghana will remain committed to the goals of improving SRH care and reducing mortality and will continue to support this agenda over the period of the project and beyond. Target groups and local stakeholders are willing to participate in the project, and take on their respective responsibilities. Good collaboration between partners is maintained and the government remains committed to working with NGO partners in the health sector. Explain how the action will be made sustainable after completion. To ensure sustainability of the activities and outcomes of the action, the project steering committee will discuss and develop an exit strategy during their quarterly meetings starting at the end of year 2, once the mid-term evaluation has been carried out and recommendations taken into account. Financial sustainability: Improving access to quality maternal and adolescent health services forms part of Ghana’s government Mid term and Long term priorities (Millennium Acceleration Framework, Health Sector Medium Term Development Plan). There is a national budgetary provision for SRH programs (under Page 29 of 72 NSA Ghana Part B Full Application Form final.doc – NSA Ghana – EuropeAid/133777/L/SV/GH

social services). This will enable the public institutions such as Ghana Health Service, District Assembly and other decentralised agencies to be effective in discharging their respective and collective mandates. Local initiatives and materials will be used for information education and communication tools to be produced. As such, although costs will be involved in the development of these tools and materials, they will be inexpensive and also help to stimulate the local economy. The DHMTs, District Assemblies and other relevant officials are expected to support the project during implementation as well as take over activities after the action has ended. Project activities will be included in annual work plans, ensuring that interventions will be included in the district budget in the future. The action will seek to create strong synergies with ongoing initiatives where possible, with the 16 EU MAF as well as STAR-Ghana and the Women’s Manifesto , an innovative mobilizing campaign for women’s rights. Institutional sustainability: Plan has built a good working relationship with the Ministry of Local government and Health over the years, collaborating on various interventions aimed at improving the conditions of children, youth and their families. Plan will build on this relationship for government support for this project. The project aims to strengthen the capacities of responsible government institutions and service providers within the existing structures, enhancing their capacity to efficiently perform their mandatory responsibilities. For these improvements to remain sustainable the project will strengthen the relationship between local government, health service providers and communities. This will be achieved by increasing interaction between adolescent groups and duty bearers, creating a two-way relationship. The lessons from this project will provide for organizational learning for better delivery. Mechanism and systems for monitoring and feedback will be in place in the targeted districts and can conveniently be replicated to other regions, through the dissemination of reports, fora, radio programs & round table discussions. Plan has been working closely with all the selected Districts and has enjoyed the support of all the decentralised departments in most of its (youth and health directed) interventions. Furthermore, the use of existing youth groups is a sustainable strategy, since these community based youth groups are already functioning in related domains. Another key factor for sustainability is Plan’s partnership with 3 NGOs ISODEC, YARO and Pro-link, that gives a greater voice and platform for sustained action, as well as their combined expertise in the fields of health, capacity building and social accountability mechanisms. The 2 LNGOs YARO and Pro-link will acquire important knowledge and skills on social accountability in the course of the project, that they will be able to employ in future actions. Policy level sustainability: The action is consistent with the country’s commitment to improve maternal health delivery as part of 17 the Millennium Acceleration Framework, and with the sector priorities and strategies of the government of Ghana. The proposed action complements MAF as it seeks to hold public officials accountable for the use of MAF funds to deliver effective, adolescent & women friendly healthcare 18 services. There is an enabling legal environment for promoting social accountability and transparency to bring development to the people. District assembly officials agree that for effective planning, there is a need to involve citizens in district budgeting and planning activities at all levels. By working with and through the government especially at community and district levels it is expected that the project will positively influence policy and practice, which could have benefits for children across Ghana. Political sustainability at district and community level is assured through the involvement of the District Assemblies and traditional leaders early on in the action, and the positive relationship of Plan and partners with these decision makers. Further, through civil society strengthening activities, community groups will be capacitated to hold service providers accountable. Environmental sustainability: The proposed action has minimal environmental impact. Offering trainings at community level and collecting data by mobile phone will help to minimize environmental impact. The action does not include any construction work.

Plan has active links with organizations in the Women’s Manifesto coalition, e.g. NETRIGHT

i.e. the High Impact Rapid Delivery (HIRD) strategy of the MoH, on maternal and child health, and the GHS Patient’s Rights Charter to reach regions with challenges in meeting MDG 5;

The 1992 Constitution and the 1993 Local Government Act of 462 requires the involvement of citizens in the development of local planning and budgeting issues for accountability towards sustainable development. The government of Ghana remains committed to the African Peer Review (APRM) and it is determined to improve its social accountability ratings in the eyes of donors and international community. Page 30 of 72

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2.1.5. Logical Framework Please fill in Annex C

to the Guidelines for Applicants.

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2.1.6. Budget, amount requested from the Contracting Authority and other expected sources of funding Fill in Annex B to the Guidelines for Applicants to provide information on: 

the budget of the action (worksheet 1), for the total duration of the action and for its first 12 Months;



justification of the budget (worksheet 2), for the total duration of the action, and



amount requested from the Contracting Authority and other expected sources of funding for the action for the total duration (worksheet 3).

For further information, see the Guidelines for Grant Applicants (Sections 1.3, 2.1.4 and 2.2.5). Please note that the cost of the action and the contribution requested from the Contracting Authority must be stated in EURO.

2.1.7. Applicant’s experience This information will be used to assess whether you have sufficient and stable experience of managing actions in the same sector and of a comparable scale to the one for which a grant is being requested. i) For similar actions. Please provide a detailed description of actions in the same sector and of a comparable scale to the one for which a grant is being requested managed by your organisation in the past three years. Maximum 1 page per action.

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Name of the applicant: Plan in the Netherlands Project title: Girl Power

Location of the action

Cost of the action (EUR)

€ 3.084.728

Ghana:Wa West, Upper West, Eastern Ashanti.

Sector (Section 3.2.2 of Section 3): Strengthening civil society (15150); Human rights (15162); Women’s equality organizations and institutions (15164); Secondary education (11320) ; Vocational training (11330) Role in the action: Coordinator, coapplicant, affiliated entity Coordinator

Donors to the 20 action (name)

Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Amount contributed (by donor) € 3.084.728

Dates (from dd/mm/yyyy to dd/mm/yyyy) 01/01/2011 to 31/12/2015

Objectives and results of the action The Girl Power program aims to strengthen civil society organizations in 10 countries with a specific focus on: 1) eliminating violence against girls and young women, 2) increasing enrolment of (post-) primary education of girls, 3) increasing the socioeconomic empowerment of girls and young women and 4) increasing the socio-political empowerment of girls and young women. The Girl Power program in Ghana is implemented by the Child Rights Alliance in Ghana comprised of Plan Ghana, SILDEP, Ark Foundation, CAPECS, CRRECENT, AMPCAN, DCI-Ghana and GNCRC and focuses on the regions Wa West, Upper West, Eastern and Ashanti Region. Objectives: 1. Reduction of gender based violence against girls and young women and better protection for girls and young women in targeted areas 2. to enhance the socio-political empowerment of girls and young women 3. To enhance socio-economic empowerment of girls and young women 4. increase the enrolment rate of girls and young women in post-primary education with 25%. Key results are: 1. Increased reported cases on Gender Based Violence of 20% 2. 15,840 girls and young women take part in awareness raising campaigns and activities, knowledge and skills building initiatives 3. 230 communities will be reached through capacity building measures on gender, equality and protection against GBV 4. 50% of community members living in targeted communities will have positive values on the protection of girls and young women against gender based violence, value girls and young women as actors of importance in (political) decision taking and encourage girls and young women to become economically and politically active and their opinions are taken into full account for decision taking. 5. A complete financial and business development services training package will be delivered to the 500 girls and young women 6. 24,000 girls and women who will be reached by media messages on GBV, education, economic empowerment and political participation 7. Local Civil Society Groups, community, traditional, religious leaders and duty bearers organized to address/respond to girl child educations issues

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Name of the applicant: Plan in the Netherlands Project title: Child survival

Location of the action

Sierra Leone: Port Loko (covering all 11 chiefdoms)

Cost of the action (EUR)

€ 1.162.499

Sector (see Section 3.2.2 of Section 3): health education (12261), reproductive health care (13020), personnel development in health care (13081); Human rights (15162) Role in the action: Coordinator, coapplicant, affiliated entity Applicant

Donors to the 21 action (name)

EC (Budget line(s): 21.03.01 and 21.03.02)

Amount contributed (by donor)

Dates (from dd/mm/yyyy to dd/mm/yyyy)

€ 835.982

01/07/2012 to 30/09/2015

€ 326.517

Private ( Plan Netherlands)

Objectives and results of the action Overall objectives: (1) to contribute to the reduction of maternal and under-five mortality within Port Loko district; and (2) to improve the health and cognitive, physical, mental, behavioural and social development of children under-five years of age in Port Loko district of Sierra Leone. Specific objective: to increase access to improved basic health and Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) services in 11 Chiefdoms of Port Loko district in Sierra Leone by 2015. Result 1: Public health care staff in Port Loko district provide improved ante-natal, child survival and ECCD services; Result 2: Increased geographic coverage of public health care services in Port Loko district; Result 3: Improved knowledge and use of ECCD practices by community groups in Port Loko District; Result 4: Improved gender-sensitivity, accountability and responsiveness of health service providers in Port Loko district.

ii) Other actions Please provide a detailed description of other actions managed by your organisation in the past three years. Maximum 1 page per action and maximum 10 actions.

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Name of the applicant: Plan in the Netherlands Project title: Sanitation in periurban areas in Africa

Location of the action

Cost of the action (EUR) € 7.100.000

Malawi, Benin, Ethiopia, Zambia

Sector (see Section 3.2.2 of Section 3): Basic drinking water supply & basic sanitation (14030); Waste management/Disposal (14050); Education & training in water supply and sanitation(14081); Government and Civil Society (151); Economic and development policy/planning (15110): Public sector financial management (15120); Government administration (15140); Human rights (15162)Formal Sector Financial Institutions (24030); Business support services and institutions (25010); Environmental Policy and Adm. Management (41010); Site Preservation (41040) Role in the action: Coordinator, coapplicant, affiliated entity Applicant

Donors to the 22 action (name)

Amount contributed (by donor)

Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Local government, Local banks

MoFA € 3.600.000 Local banks & government € 3.500.000

Dates (from dd/mm/yyyy to dd/mm/yyyy) 01-01-08 to 31-12-12

Objectives and results of the action Objectives: (1) To install sustainable sanitation services in peri-urban areas in 5 cities in different countries (Parakou in Benin, Arba Minch in Ethiopia, Kabwe in Zambia and Blantyre and Mzuzu in Malawi), (2) To show the financial sustainability of the sanitation services, which might attract local banks into financing new sanitation services with possibilities for scaling up to other cities. Through a result oriented and innovative approach, the sanitation situation of low income households living in peri-urban settlements without basic services, is improved. Local banks and MFI’s are providing loans to low income households to improve their household sanitation services. The services include toilet construction with emptying and safe disposal of the excreta. Depending on the local context, the toilet can be a household or public facility. The households/users will take a loan for the toilet construction and pay a fee to cover the costs for the collection and disposal. Plan is implementing this program together with a Dutch partner, the NGO called WASTE. Results of the action: - In all 5 cities a WASH consortium has been established that consists of the municipality, local entrepreneurs, local MFI’s, community representatives. - The municipality has written a policy plan in which the responsibilities, tasks, regulations and bi-laws are explained and the playing field for the stakeholders of the consortium is defined. - A cooperation plan is developed for the clusters (areas within the municipality). This plan is formed by community representatives, small-scale entrepreneurs - preferably from the same community - and local financial institutes. - In all 5 cities local financial institutes have started providing loans to local entrepreneurs to start up their businesses and also to low income households to improve their household sanitation. - Local sanitation entrepreneurs have been trained and are operating to construct latrines and empty and dispose excreta of household latrines. - City (market) waste is being collected and composted on a structural basis and used in several agriculture demonstration plots. - Public toilet bocks and household toilets are constructed.

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Name of the applicant: Plan in the Netherlands Project title: Project title: Sector (see Section 3.2.2 of Section 3): Vocational training (11330) ; Strengthening LABS project phase II civil society (15150); Human rights (15162) Location of the action

Cost of the action (EUR) € 1.948.113

Vietnam, Hanoi

Role in the action: Coordinator, coapplicant, affiliated entity Applicant

Donors to the 23 action (name)

Corporate, Legacies, Private (National Postcode Lottery), Accenture

Amount contributed (by donor) € 1.948.113

Dates (from dd/mm/yyyy to dd/mm/yyyy) 01/04/2009 to 30/04/2012

Objectives and results of the action General objective: Transform the lives of severely disadvantaged youths and their families” Specific Objectives:  4,020 Disadvantaged youth trained, with at least 80% reporting an increase in income and at least 60% reporting an increase in quality of life.  Strengthen the LABS model and make more effective, independent and appropriate in urban and rural areas. Results achieved so far (as monitored by external mid-term evaluation):  REACH supports not only youth from diverse backgrounds (Disability, CICL, HIV/AIDS, trafficking and abused …). This is thanks to REACH’s strong network with other INGOs, local NGOs or GOs.  A total of 3,324 DYs (male 49%, female 51%) in 8 cities were or are being trained. Of these, 28.9% (959) of students trained (male (53%), female (47%) in the North and 71.1% (2,356) of students trained in the Central Region (male (46.4%), female (53.7%)).  The training curriculum, periodically revised and updated, has continued to meet the market requirements.  The training courses were appreciated by the students. All different aspects of the program were rated at very good and excellent levels.  91.2% (male (43.3%), female (56.7%) of DYs (Hoi An got highest rate of 96.2%, Danang 93.5%, Hue 91% and Hanoi 89.9%.) were employed after graduation and 80.9% (male (43.1%), female (56.9%))were employed during the sixth month after graduation (Hanoi 85.5%, Hue and Hoi An 80.8%. Danang 77.5%).  The highest income was in Hanoi, 37.8% over 3million VND and 45.9% from 1,780,000VND to 3,000,000VND/month; and Hoi An with 91.7% from 1,780,000 to 3,000,000VND. The second was Danang with 15.2% over 3,000,000VND and 67.4% from 1,780,000VND to 3,000,000VND. The lower incomes were in Hue - 39.1% from 1,780,000VND to 3,000,000VND and 45.7% from 1,000,000VND to 1,780,000VND.  51.1 % (male (43.1%), female (56.9%)) of employed students had health/social insurance. Highest insurance was in Danang at 63% and Hue 54.3%; whilst in Hanoi the figures were only 37.8% and Hoi An 33.3%.

2.1.8. Co-applicant(s)'s experience (if applicable) This information will be used to assess whether you have sufficient and stable experience of managing actions in the same sector and of a comparable scale to the one for which a grant is being requested. i) For similar actions. Please provide a detailed description of actions in the same sector and of a comparable scale to the one for which a grant is being requested managed by your organisation in the past three years. Maximum 1 page per action.

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Name of the co-applicant: Pro-Link Project title: Addressing the gender related aspects of HIV

Location of the action

Ghana

Cost of the action (EUR)

400,000

Sector (see Section 3.2.2 of Section 3): reproductive health care (13020) ; STD control including HIV/AIDS (13040); Personnel development for population & reproductive health (13081); Human rights (15162); Women’s equality organizations and institutions (15164); Strengthening civil society (15150); Social mitigation of HIV/AIDS (16064) Role in the action: Coordinator, coapplicant, affiliated entity Principal recipient

Donors to the 24 action (name)

GAC/DANIDA

Amount contributed (by donor) GHC 750,000

Dates (from dd/mm/yyyy to dd/mm/yyyy) ST

1 May 2009 to 30 April 2012

Objectives and results of the action Overall Objective: The main aim of this project is to create demand and expand access to high quality services in order to reduce new HIV infections among women and girls especially as well as their male counterparts in the Greater Accra, Ashanti and Eastern regions of Ghana.

Results: 1. Advocated for development of guidelines on Post Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) by National AIDs Control Programme for use by health providers at STI/CT Health centersand Regional Health Directors to ensure access to PEP at District levels within 72 hours 2. Mobilized 18 Stakeholders 2 per districts and developed concepts for BCC materials and distributed 22,386 BCC materials distributed in all the districts to community members, partners, stakeholders, in and out of school youth among others. 3. Formed 45 Community Health Advocacy Teams (CHAT) in in the 9 Districts and 45 Opinion leaders trained in advocacy skills and as legal literacy volunteers (LLVs) who worked with CHATs reached over 279,193 community members with information on gender in the context of HIV.. 4. Formed 9 Inter-sectorial committees made up of key stakeholders meet address negative gender issues in the context of HIV/SRHR identified by CHATs, set bye-laws, lobbied and advocated for the enforcement of these 2 byelaws by the District Assemblies. 5. Formed STAR Clubs (Society Tackling AIDs through RIGHTS) in 5 schools per district and 180 STAR circles in 10 communities per district for out of school youth; 6. Trained 45 peer leaders (1) in each school and 90 out of school peer leaders who reached 286,789 out of school youth and 108,967 in-school youth 7. Set up 9 youth friendly Drop Centres in each district to promote access to information and HIV/SRHR services. 8. Screened and treated 2131 youth of STIs in all the nine districts as well as referred 208 survivors of sexual violence for PEP services of which 168 accessed the PEP package. 9. Organized 12 Advocacy Programmes on community radios on bi-monthly basis, community information centers and 4 TV programmes.

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Name of the co-applicant: Pro-link Project title: Promoting Sexual Reproductive Health Rights of Women and Girls Location of the action

Ghana

Cost of the action (EUR)

45,000

Objectives and results of the action

Sector (see Section 3.2.2 of Section 3): reproductive health care (13020) ; STD control including HIV/AIDS (13040); ); Personnel development for population & reproductive health (13081); strengthening civil society (15150); Human rights (15162); Women’s equality organizations and institutions (15164) Role in the action: Coordinator, coapplicant, affiliated entity Co-Applicant

Donors to the 25 action (name)

CENCOSAD/ARHR

Amount contributed (by donor) GHC75,000

Dates (from dd/mm/yyyy to dd/mm/yyyy) st

1 May 2008 – 30 June 2011

Overall Goal: Promote sexual reproductive health rights among women and girls to engage duty bearers to demand for services and create access to SRHR/MH services in the Hohoe municipality. Results:  Selected 15 representatives from local Government Agencies and Health Service providers in the Hohoe Municipality and educated them on the Sexual Reproductive Health Rights and the need for women and girls to have access to these rights.  Formed 20 Mummies, 20 daddies and 20 youth clubs in 20 communities, built capacities of 2 leaders per group per community (160) on advocacy skills and sexual reproductive health rights facilitated sessions in their clubs and engaged duty bearers on quarterly basis to hold them accountable and demand for their rights.  Facilitated 12 sessions of club leaders engagement with duty bearers and service providers on issues identified on SRHR. Over 1500 women and youth supported to access family planning services and 341 youth accessed STI services.

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Name of the co-applicant: YARO Project title: Improving Sector (see Section 3.2.2 of Section 3): health education (12261), reproductive Maternal and Child Health in health care (13020), personnel development in health care (13081); Human rights five selected Districts of (15162); Northern and Upper West regions. Location of the action

Sissala East, Sissala West, Sawla/Tuna Kalba,West Gonja

Cost of the action (EUR)

€205,000

Role in the action: Coordinator, coapplicant, affiliated entity coordinator

Donors to the 26 action (name)

Volunteer Group

Amount contributed (by donor)

Dates (from dd/mm/yyyy to dd/mm/yyyy)

€ 205,000

1/02/2010—1/01/12

Objectives and results of the action Objectives: -

To reach Women in Fertility Age (WIFA) with comprehensive knowledge on negative effects of the use of harmful traditional methods of managing maternal and child health issues

To increase the number of women and children who attend OPD

To increase the number of women who attend anti-natal visits and the number of anti-natal visits per pregnant woman

To increase the number of women who receive skilled/supervised delivery

Increase the number of pregnant women registered on the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS)

To re-orient health workers on the patient charter and to improve their service delivery to the public

Results: 1. Reduced incidence of pregnancy complications and childhood illnesses in the Northern and Upper west regions of Ghana. 2. Improved readiness of health personnel to meet clients’ health needs and rights in health delivery 3. Improved access to quality health services at the CHPS compounds.

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Name of the co-applicant: YARO Project title: Banking on Change

Location of the action

Ghana

Cost of the action (EUR)

80,000 EUR

Sector (see Section 3.2.2 of Section 3): Financial Policy & Admin. Management (24010); Monetary institutions (24020); Informal/Semi-Formal Financial intermediaries (24040); Formal Sector Financial Institutions (24030); Education/training in banking & fin. Services (24081); Business support services and institutions (25010) Role in the action: Coordinator, coapplicant, affiliated entity Coordinator

Donors to the 27 action (name)

Plan in Ghana

Amount contributed (by donor) 80,000 EUR

Dates (from dd/mm/yyyy to dd/mm/yyyy) 2009 - 2012

Objectives and results of the action The goal of the project: To improve the quality of life and well-being of 7,875 households in rural and urban communities in the WA Municipal area of the Upper West region of Ghana Specific objectives: -

To create 125 Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs)

To reach significant scale in VSLA creation through the use of Community Volunteers (CVs)

To promote linkages between mature VSLAs and Barclays bank WA branch for up to 15% of VSLA members through the testing of products and services that meet members’ needs

To facilitate the implementation of a combined VSL and Business Development Services (BDS) package tailored for the target beneficiaries

ii) Other actions Please provide a detailed description of other actions managed by your organisation in the past three years. Maximum 1 page per action and maximum 10 actions.

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Name of the co-applicant: ISODEC Project Tittle : Ambassador Girls’ Scholarship programme Location of the action

Cost of the action (EUR)

177,233

Upper East Region, Ghana

Sector (see Section 3.2.2 of Section 3): Secondary education (11320); Education policy and admin management (11110); Human rights (15162); ); Women’s equality organizations and institutions (15164); Strengthening civil society (15150) Role in the action: Coordinator, coapplicant, affiliated entity coordinator

Donors to the 28 action (name)

USAID

Amount contributed (by donor) 177,233

Dates (from dd/mm/yyyy to dd/mm/yyyy) 2009 -2011

Objectives and results of the action Objectives  To ensure an increase in the enrolment of girls, high retention ratios, and high transition ratios from the basic to secondary school levels.  To encourage active collaboration among stakeholders in the promotion of good quality education in general and the participation of girls in particular.  To promote attitudinal change in the target communities about the benefits of girl-child education.  To promote understanding of child rights, including the rights of children with disabilities.  To promote an enjoyable and democratic school environment for pupils, teachers and parents. Results - Assisted 137 needy girls who risked dropping out as a result of poverty, forced and early marriage, broken homes to complete basic education with some having the potential to progress to secondary level of education. - Retained 1185 girls and boys in basic schools across four districts in Northern Ghana - Over 7000 community members sensitized on the importance of girl-child education and the right of children to quality education as well as HIV/AIDS and reproductive health rights. - Increased awareness among education managers about the differential impacts of policies and the need to go beyond general policy pronouncements to target and address the specific needs of vulnerable groups - Increased involvement of communities in the management of schools in their communities. - Over 7000 community members and 1185 scholars mentored through intra and inter-school and inter-district debates, role model and reproductive health talks and community durbars. -

Contributed to getting government to agree to provide free school uniforms and exercise books to poor school children in deprived communities.

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Name of the co-applicant: ISODEC Project title: Empowering Civil Society to influence value creation in the national economy: using hydrocarbons and the mechanism of local content and local participation towards poverty reduction. Location of the action

Ghana

Cost of the action (EUR)

114,671.02

Sector (see Section 3.2.2 of Section 3): Strengthening civil society (15150); Energy Policy And Admin. Management (23010); Economic and development policy/planning (15110); Employment policy and admin. Mgmt. (16020) ; Oil and gas (32262); Environmental Policy And Admin. Mgmt (41010)

Role in the action: Coordinator, coapplicant, affiliated entity coordinator

Donors to the 29 action (name)

STAR GHANA

Amount contributed (by donor) 114,671.02

Dates (from dd/mm/yyyy to dd/mm/yyyy) 2013-2015

Objectives and results of the action Overall outcome Sixty percent (60%) or more of CSOs working in the Oil and Gas sector are equipped with monitoring and analytical tools and information to understand, appreciate and promote positive linkages between the oil and gas sector and the national economy towards sustainable development and structural transformation. Results Sixty percent (60%) or more of CSOs working in the Oil and Gas sector are well informed on the hydrocarbon linkages to the national economy and are actively engaged in related discussions to influence structural transformation of the national economy and poverty reduction in Ghana. There is enhanced advocacy capability of about 60% or more of CSOs working in the Oil and Gas sector through evidencedbased information to advocate for value creation and transmission in the national economy.

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Name of the co-applicant: Pro-link Project title: Addressing the gender related aspects of HIV

Location of the action

Ghana

Cost of the action (EUR)

360,000

Sector (see Section 3.2.2 of Section 3): ): Human rights (15162); ); Women’s equality organizations and institutions (15164); Strengthening civil society (15150); reproductive health care (13020) ; STD control including HIV/AIDS (13040); Social mitigation of HIV/AIDS (16064) Role in the action: Coordinator, coapplicant, affiliated entity Sub- recipient

Donors to the 30 action (name)

USAID/FHI 360

Amount contributed (by donor) GHC 900,000

Dates (from dd/mm/yyyy to dd/mm/yyyy) ST

1 Jan 2010 to 1 Jan 2014

Objectives and results of the action Overall Objective: To improve knowledge, attitudes and practices of key health behaviours as well as provide information on human rights/SRHR/ gender issues to female sex-workers, Non-pp and PLHIVs to promote access HIV/SRHR/GBV services and gender based violence services in 14 districts in central, Ashanti, Volta, Eastern and greater Accra regions of Ghana. Results:  Formed MARP technical working group(TWG) by representatives of key Implementing Partners and stakeholders; developed standard operating procedures for Health centers to ensure access to user friendly health services by MARPs at Health centers.  Selected 14 local Government authorities at district and community levels trained them as M-friends (M-MARPS) for female sex workers to report cases on gender based violence (GBV) and ensure access to health and legal services.  Enhanced Capacities of 14 Female sex workers, from 14 districts as M-Watchers to educate their peers in SRHR/GBV, and refer GBV cases to M-Friends  Draft Human rights law developed by TWG for MARPs and PLHIV  2 engagement meetings by TWG with CHRAJ, Human rights Lawyers, Minister for gender and Social Protection, Attorney General and other stakeholders to review the draft and advocate for specific human rights law for MARPs/PLHIV  Set up 7 Drop in centers for MARPs in 7 districts; Referred, screened and treated 1542 FSWs, 585 Non-pps, and 40 PLHIVs of STIs.  Distributed 2497 BCC materials (1165 leaflets & 1332 flyers )  6868 FSWs and Non-pp educated on GBV and coercion related to HIV/AIDS by M-Watchers  56 FSWs and 8 Non-pp survivors of GBV and coercion referred and have accessed health and legal services.

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2.2.

Affiliated entity(ies) experience: N/A

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T HE AP P LI C ANT

EuropeAid ID number

NL-2008-CPM-0901665251

Name of the organisation

3.1.

Stichting Plan Nederland

Identity

The applicant’s contact details for the purpose of this action

Plan Nederland P.O. Box 75454 1070 AL Amsterdam The Netherlands

Legal Entity File number

Abbreviation

6000233319 Plan

Registration number (or equivalent)

41.19.88.90 Chamber of Commerce Amsterdam

Date of registration 06-03-1975 Place of registration Official address of registration

Amsterdam Plan Nederland P.O. Box 75454 1070 AL Amsterdam The Netherlands

Country of registration / 34 Nationality

Netherlands, Dutch

Website and E-mail address of the organisation

www.plannederland.nl, info@plannederland.nl

Telephone number: Country code + city code + number

+31 20 5495520

Fax number: Country code + city code + number

This number is available to an organisation which registers its data in PADOR. For more information and to register, please visit http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/work/onlineservices/pador/index_en.htm. This information does not need to be provided in case of calls where the European Commission is not the Contracting Authority.

If the applicant has already signed a contract with the European Commission.

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The Contracting Authority must be notified of any change in addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers and e-mail, in particular. The Contracting Authority will not be held responsible in the event that it cannot contact an applicant. The applicant must enter the information in points 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4 when registering in PADOR, so they need not complete these in the paper application. See also Section 2.2 of the Guidelines for Applicants. 3.2.

Profile

Legal status Profit-Making NGO Value based

Is your organisation linked with another entity?

□ Yes □ No □ Yes □ No □ Political □ Religious □ Humanistic □ Neutral □ Yes, parent entity: (please specify its EuropeAid ID:…………………………) □ Yes, controlled entity(ies) 36 □ Yes, family organisation / network entity □ No, independent

3.2.1. Category Category

Public □ Public Administration □ Decentralised representatives of Sovereign States □ International Organisation □ Judicial Institution □ Local Authority □ Implementation Agency □ University/Education □ Research Institute □ Think Tank □ Foundation □ Association □ Media □ Network/Federation □ Professional and/or Industrial Organisation □ Trade Union □ Cultural Organisation □ Commercial Organisation

Private ⁭ Implementation Agency ⁭ University/Education ⁭ Research Institute ⁭ Think Tank ⁭ Foundation ⁭ Association ⁭ Media ⁭ Network/Federation ⁭ Professional and/or Industrial Organisation ⁭ Trade Union ⁭ Cultural Organisation ⁭ Commercial Organisation ⁭ Other Non-State Actor

Please choose only one set of values.

E.g. confederation / federation / alliance.

Please specify (1) the sector to which your organisation belongs, as defined in its statutes (or equivalent document): public (established and/or funded by a public body) OR private (established and/or funded by a private entity); (2) in the appropriate column, the category to which your organisation belongs (one choice only). Page 46 of 72

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Education Education, level unspecified Education Policy & Admin. Management Education Facilities And Training Teacher Training Educational Research Basic education Primary Education Basic life skills for youth and adults Early childhood education Secondary education Secondary education Vocational Training Post-secondary education Higher Education Advanced Tech. & Managerial Training Health Health, general Health Policy & Admin. Management Medical education/training Medical Research Medical Services Basic health Basic Health Care Basic Health Infrastructure Basic Nutrition Infectious Disease Control Health Education Health Personnel Development Population programmes Population polices/programmes and reproductive health Population Policy And Admin. Mgmt Reproductive Health Care Family planning Std Control Including HIV/Aids Personnel development for population & reproductive health Water Supply and Sanitation Water supply and sanitation Water Resources Policy/Admin. Mgmt Water Resources Protection Water supply & sanitation — Large systems Basic drinking water supply & basic sanitation River Development Waste Management/Disposal Education & training in water supply and sanitation Government and Civil Society Government and civil society, general Economic and development policy/planning Public sector financial management Legal and judicial development Government administration

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Strengthening civil society Elections Human Rights Free Flow Of Information Women’s equality organisations and institutions Conflict prevention an resolution, peace and security Security system management and reform Civilian peace-building, conflict prevention and resolution Post-conflict peace-building (UN) Reintegration and SALW control Land mine clearance Child soldiers (prevention and demobilisation) Other Social Infrastructure and Service Social/welfare services Employment policy and admin. mgmt. Housing policy and admin. Management Low-cost housing Multisector aid for basic social services Culture and recreation Statistical capacity building Narcotics control Social mitigation of HIV/AIDS Transport and Storage Transport and storage Transport Policy & Admin. Management Road Transport Rail Transport Water Transport Air Transport Storage Education & Training In Transport & Storage Communications Communications Communications Policy & Admin. Mgmt Telecommunications Radio/Television/Print Media Information and communication technology (ICT) Energy Energy generation and supply Energy Policy And Admin. Management Power Generation/Non-Renewable Sources Power Generation/Renewable Sources Electrical Transmission/Distribution Gas distribution Oil-Fired Power Plants Gas-Fired Power Plants Coal-Fired Power Plants Nuclear Power Plants Hydro-electric Power Plants Geothermal energy Solar energy Wind power Ocean power Biomass Energy education/training Energy research Banking and Financial Services Page 48 of 72

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Banking and financial services Financial Policy & Admin. Management Monetary institutions Formal Sector Financial Institutions Informal/Semi-Formal Financial intermediaries Education/training in banking & fin. Services Business and Other Services Business and other services Business support services and institutions Privatisation Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Agriculture Agricultural Policy And Admin. Mgmt Agricultural development Agricultural Land Resources Agricultural Water Resources Agricultural inputs Food Crop Production Industrial Crops/Export Crops Livestock Agrarian reform Agricultural alternative development Agricultural extension Agricultural Education/Training Agricultural Research Agricultural services Plant and post-harvest protection and pest control Agricultural financial services Agricultural cooperatives Livestock/Veterinary Services Forestry Forestry Policy & Admin. Management Forestry development Fuel wood/charcoal Forestry education/training Forestry research Forestry services Fishing Fishing Policy And Admin. Management Fishery development Fishery education/training Fishery research Fishery services Industry, Mining and Construction Industry Industrial Policy And Admin. Mgmt Industrial development Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) development Cottage industries and handicraft Agro-Industries Forest industries Textiles — leather & substitutes Chemicals Fertiliser plants Cement/lime/plaster Energy manufacturing Pharmaceutical production Page 49 of 72

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Basic metal industries Non-ferrous metal industries Engineering Transport equipment industry Technological research and development Mineral resources and mining Mineral/Mining Policy & Admin. Mgmt Mineral Prospection And Exploration Coal Oil and gas Ferrous metals Non-ferrous metals Precious metals/materials Industrial minerals Fertiliser minerals Offshore minerals Construction Construction Policy And Admin. Mgmt Trade and Tourism Trade policy and regulation Trade Policy And Admin. Management Trade facilitation Regional trade agreements (RTAs) Multilateral trade negotiation Trade education & training Tourism Tourism Policy And Admin. Management General Environment Protection General environmental protection Environmental Policy And Admin. Mgmt Biosphere protection Bio-diversity Site Preservation Flood Prevention/Control Environmental education/training Environmental research Other multisector Other multisector Multisector Aid Urban Development And Management Rural Development Non-agricultural alternative development Multisector education/training Research/scientific institutions General budget support General budget support General budget support Development food aid/food security Development food aid/food security assistance Food Aid / Food Security Programmes Other commodity assistance Other commodity assistance Import support (capital goods) Import support (commodities) Action relating to debt Action relating to debt Action relating to debt Debt forgiveness Page 50 of 72

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Relief of multilateral debt Rescheduling and refinancing Debt for development swap Other debt swap Debt buy-back Emergency and distress relief Emergency and distress relief Material relief assistance and services Emergency food aid Relief coordination; protection and support services Reconstruction relief and rehabilitation Reconstruction relief and rehabilitation Reconstruction relief and rehabilitation Disaster prevention and preparedness Disaster prevention and preparedness Disaster prevention and preparedness Administrative costs of donors Administrative costs of donors Administrative Costs Support to NGO Support to NGO Support to national NGOs Support to international NGOs Support to local and regional NGOs Refugees Refugees (in donor countries) Refugees (in donor countries) Unallocated/unspecified Unallocated/unspecified Sectors Not Specified Promotion of Development Awareness

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3.2.3. Target group(s) □ All □ Child soldiers □ Children (less than 18 years old) □ Community Based Organisation(s) □ Consumers □ Disabled □ Drug consumers □ Educational organisations (school, universities) □ Elderly people □ Illness affected people (Malaria, Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS) □ Indigenous peoples □ Local authorities □ Migrants □ Non Governmental Organisations □ Prisoners □ Professional category □ Refugees and displaced □ Research organisations/Researchers □ SME/SMI □ Students □ Urban slum dwellers □ Victims of conflicts/disasters □ Women □ Young people □ Other (please specify): ……………………………..

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3.3.

Capacity to manage and implement actions

3.3.1. Experience by sector Sector

Year(s) of Experience

Experience in the past 7 years

□ Less than 1 □ 1 to 3 years □ 4 to 7 years

□ Less than 1 year □ 1 to 3 years □ 4 to 7 years □ 7 years +

□ 7 years +

Number of Projects in the past 7 years □ 1 to 5 □ 6 to 10 □ 11 to 20 □ 21 to 50 □ 51 to 200 □ 200 to 500 □ 500+

□ Less than 1 □ 1 to 3 years □ 4 to 7 years □ 7 years +

□ Less than 1 year □ 1 to 3 years □ 4 to 7 years □ 7 years +

□ 1 to 5 □ 6 to 10 □ 11 to 20 □ 21 to 50 □ 51 to 200 □ 200 to 500 □ 500+

□ Less than 1 □ 1 to 3 years □ 4 to 7 years □ 7 years +

□ Less than 1 year □ 1 to 3 years □ 4 to 7 years □ 7 years +

□ 1 to 5 □ 6 to 10 □ 11 to 20 □ 21 to 50 □ 51 to 200 □ 200 to 500 □ 500+

Estimated amount (in thousand euros) in the past 7 years □ Less than 1 □ 1 to 5 □ 5 to 20 □ 20 to 50 □ 50 to 100 □ 100 to 300 □ 300 to 1.000 □ 1000+ □ Unknown □ Less than 1 □ 1 to 5 □ 5 to 20 □ 20 to 50 □ 50 to 100 □ 100 to 300 □ 300 to 1.000 □ 1000+ □ Unknown □ Less than 1 □ 1 to 5 □ 5 to 20 □ 20 to 50 □ 50 to 100 □ 100 to 300 □ 300 to 1.000 □ 1000+ □ Unknown

3.3.2. Experience by geographical area By geographical area (country or region)

Year(s) of experience

Number of projects in this geographical area in the past 7 years

□ Less than 1 year □ 1 to 3 years □ 4 to 7 years □ 7 years +

□ 1 to 5 □ 6 to 10 □ 11 to 20 □ 21 to 50 □ 51 to 200 □ 200 to 500 □ 500+

□ Less than 1 year □ 1 to 3 years □ 4 to 7 years □ 7 years +

□ 1 to 5 □ 6 to 10 □ 11 to 20 □ 21 to 50 □ 51 to 200 □ 200 to 500 □ 500+

Estimated amount (in thousand euros) invested in this geographical area in the past 7 years □ Less than 1 □ 1 to 5 □ 5 to 20 □ 20 to 50 □ 50 to 100 □ 100 to 300 □ 300 to 1.000 □ 1000+ □ Unknown □ Less than 1 □ 1 to 5 □ 5 to 20 □ 20 to 50 □ 50 to 100 □ 100 to 300 □ 300 to 1.000

Indicative list of regions                  

Europe EU Europe non-EU Eastern Europe Central America South America South-East Asia North-East Asia South Asia Central Asia Mediterranean Gulf Countries Eastern Africa Central Africa Western Africa Southern Africa Indian Ocean Caribbean Pacific

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□ Less than 1 year □ 1 to 3 years □ 4 to 7 years □ 7 years +

□ 1 to 5 □ 6 to 10 □ 11 to 20 □ 21 to 50 □ 51 to 200 □ 200 to 500 □ 500+

□ 1000+ □ Unknown □ Less than 1 □ 1 to 5 □ 5 to 20 □ 20 to 50 □ 50 to 100 □ 100 to 300 □ 300 to 1.000 □ 1000+ □ Unknown

Cross-reference of experience by sector and by geographical area: Sector(s) (as selected in 3.2.2)

Geographical area(s) (country or region, as identified previously)

3.3.3. Resources 

Financial data Please provide the following information, if applicable, on the basis of the profit and loss account and balance sheet of your organisation, amounts in thousands euros

Year

Turnover or equivalent

Net earnings or equivalent

Total balance sheet

Shareholders’ equity or equivalent

Medium and long-term debt

Short-term debt (<1 year)

N-1 N-2

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

Financing Source(s) Please tick the source(s) of the revenues of your organisation and specify the additional information requested

Year

Source

Percentage (total for a given year must be equal to 100 %)

N N N N N N N N N Year

N—1 N—1 N—1 N—1 N—1 N—1 N—1 N—1 N—1 N—2 N—2 N—2 N—2 N—2 N—2 N—2 N—2 N—2

N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

100 %

Source

Percentage (total for a given year must be equal to 100 %)

□ EU □ Member States’ Public Bodies □ Third Countries’ Public Bodies □ United Nations □ Other International Organisation(s) □ Private Sector □ Membership fees □ Other (please specify): ………… Total □ EU □ Member States’ Public Bodies □ Third Countries’ Public Bodies □ United Nations □ Other International Organisation(s) □ Private Sector □ Membership fees □ Other (please specify): ………… Total

Year

Number of feepaying members (only for source = Member’s fees)

Number of fee-paying members (only for source = Member’s fees) N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

100 %

N/A N/A

100 %

Name of approved auditor

Period of validity

From dd/mm/yyyy to dd/mm/yyyy

N—1

From dd/mm/yyyy to dd/mm/yyyy

N—2

From dd/mm/yyyy to dd/mm/yyyy



Number of staff (full-time equivalent) please tick one option for each type of staff Type of staff

Paid

Unpaid

HQ Staff: recruited and based in Headquarters (located in Developed

□ < 10

□ > 10 and < 50

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Country)

Expat Staff: recruited in Headquarters (located in Developed Country) and based in Developing Country

Local staff: recruited and based in Developing Country

3.4.

□ > 50 and < 100

□ > 100

□ N/A

□ < 10

□ > 10 and < 50

□ > 50 and < 100

□ > 100

□ N/A

□ < 10

□ > 10 and < 50

□ > 50 and < 100

□ > 100

□ N/A

List of the management board/committee of your organisation Name

Profession

Function

Country of Nationality

On the board since

Mr Ms

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T HE CO - AP P L I C ANT ( S)

This section must be completed for each co-applicant within the meaning of Section 2.1.1 of the Guidelines for Applicants. You must make as many copies of this table as necessary to create entries for each additional co-applicant. Co-applicant no.1 EuropeAid ID number

GH-2008-GBV-0506284006

Name of the organisation

Integrated Social Development Centre

All co-applicant(s) .must encode the information below under their PADOR registration. See also Section 2.2 of the Guidelines for Applicants. The co-applicant’s contact details for the purpose of this action Legal Entity File number

+ 233 152 254918/21, zayakubu@yahoo.com

Abbreviation

ISODEC

Registration number (or equivalent)

G414

Date of registration th

27 October 1995 Place of registration

Accra

Official address of registration

Registrar of Companies, Victoriaborg, Accra

Country of registration / 43 Nationality

Ghana, Ghanaian

Website and E-mail address of the organisation

www.isodec.org.gh; isodec@isodec.org.gh

Telephone number: Country code + city code + number

233 152 254918

Fax number: Country code + city code + number

233 152 251513

Number of employees

Other relevant resources

Owner/occupier of office building furnished with all necessary furniture fittings and accessories, laptops/computers/printers/

This number is available to an organisation which registers its data in PADOR. For more information and to register, please visit http://ec.europa.eu/work/europeaid/onlineservices/pador/index_en.htm. This information does not need to be provided in case of calls where the European Commission is not the Contracting Authority.

If the applicant has already signed a contract with the European Commission.

For organisations. [If not in one of the countries listed in Section 2.1.1 of the Guidelines, please justify its location].

For individuals. [If not in one of the countries listed in Section 2.1.1 of the Guidelines, please justify its location]. Page 57 of 72

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History of cooperation with the applicant

photocopy machine/fax, internet facilities with server, computerised accounting system, 3 Vehicles, library (resource centre) ISODEC worked with Plan Ghana and Plan West African Regional Office (WARO) in their Plan Advocacy project from 2010 – 2011, to build the capacity of children to enable them to actively engage in the budget process for the purpose of promoting their rights. Advocacy campaigns were on Violence Against Children (VAC) and the Right of Children (ROC). Levels of intervention were at the district level.

PROFILE Legal status Profit-Making NGO Value based

Is your organisation linked with another entity?

Not for profit □ Yes x No x Yes □ No □ Political □ Religious x Humanistic □ Neutral □ Yes, parent entity: (please specify its EuropeAid ID:…………………………) □ Yes, controlled entity(ies) 44 □ Yes, family organisation / network entity x No, independent

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Co-applicant no.2 EuropeAid ID number

GH-2010-SQA-2903325035

Name of the organisation

PRO-LINK ORGANIZATION

Pro-linkorganization@yahoo.com 233 289545339, 233 244814000

Abbreviation

PRO-LINK

Registration number (or equivalent)

C-48,921

Date of registration th

17 March, 1993 Place of registration

ACCRA, GHANA.

Official address of registration

DTD 22, SPINTEX HIGHWAY, ACCRA. TEL: 233 289545339, 233 244814000

Country of registration / 48 Nationality Website and E-mail address of the organisation

Ghana, Ghanaian Pro-linkorganization@yahoo.com www.Pro-linkghana.org

Telephone number: Country code + city code + number

TEL: 233 289545339, 233 244814000

Fax number: Country code + city code + number

N/A

Number of employees

Other relevant resources

Have office space , vehicles, motor bikes and office equipments

History of cooperation with the applicant

Have been partnering with applicant in community mobilization and project implementation for over a decade

PROFILE 45

If the applicant has already signed a contract with the European Commission.

For organisations. [If not in one of the countries listed in Section 2.1.1 of the Guidelines, please justify its location].

For individuals. [If not in one of the countries listed in Section 2.1.1 of the Guidelines, please justify its location]. Page 59 of 72

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Legal status Profit-Making NGO Value based

Is your organisation linked with another entity?

Registered NGO in Ghana □ Yes x No x Yes □ No □ Political □ Religious x Humanistic □ Neutral □ Yes, parent entity: (please specify its EuropeAid ID:…………………………) □ Yes, controlled entity(ies) 49 □ Yes, family organisation / network entity x No, independent

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Co-applicant no.3 EuropeAid ID number

GH-2009/DJF-lS0636980S

Name of the organisation

Youth Advocacy on Rights and Opportunities

yaroghoffice@gmail.corn

Abbreviation

YARO

Registration number (or equivalent)

G -9,449

Date of registration 2002 Place of registration

Official address of registration

P. O. BOX 118 QP ACCRA

Country of registration / 53 Nationality

Ghana, Ghanaian

Website and E-mail address of the organisation

www.yaroghana.net, yaroghoffice@gmail.corn

Telephone number: Country code + city code + number

+233 0244788662

Fax number: Country code + city code + number Number of employees

Other relevant resources History of cooperation with the applicant

Have been partnering with applicant in community mobilization and project implementation for over a decade, in the upper west of Ghana

PROFILE

If the applicant has already signed a contract with the European Commission.

For organisations. [If not in one of the countries listed in Section 2.1.1 of the Guidelines, please justify its location].

For individuals. [If not in one of the countries listed in Section 2.1.1 of the Guidelines, please justify its location]. Page 61 of 72

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Legal status Profit-Making NGO Value based

Is your organisation linked with another entity?

Legally registered as an NGO in Ghana □ Yes x No x Yes □ No □ Political □ Religious x Humanistic □ Neutral □ Yes, parent entity: (please specify its EuropeAid ID:…………………………) □ Yes, controlled entity(ies) 54 □ Yes, family organisation / network entity x No, independent

Important: This application form must be accompanied by a signed and dated Mandate from each co-applicant, in accordance with the template provided.

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AF FI LI AT ED ENT IT I Y ( IE S) P ART IC I P AT ING I N T H E ACT I O N

N/A

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Mandate (for co-applicant(s)) The co-applicant(s) authorise the Applicant Stichting Plan Nederland to submit on their behalf the present application form for applicant and to sign the standard grant contract (Annex A of the Guidelines for Applicants, "grant contract") with the European Union ("Contracting Authority"), as well as, to be represented by the Applicant in all matters concerning this grant contract. I have read and approved the contents of the proposal submitted to the Contracting Authority. I undertake to comply with the principles of good partnership practice.

Name:

Gertrude Nunoo

Organisation:

Pro-Link Organization

Position:

Acting Executive Director

Signature: Date and place:

2 July 2013, Accra

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Name:

BISHOP AKOLGO

Organisation:

ISODEC

Position:

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Signature:

Date and place:

ACCRA, 1 July 2013

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Name:

Douri Bennin Hajei

Organisation:

YARO

Position:

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Signature: Date and place:

Tamale, 1 July 2013

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AS S O C I AT E S O F T HE AP P L IC ANT P ART IC I P AT I N G IN T H E ACT I O N

N/A

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CH EC KL I ST FO R T HE FU L L AP P LI C AT I O N FO RM EUROPEAID/133777/L/SV/GH, NON STATE ACTORS-ACTIONS IN PARTNER COUNTRIES-GHANA, BUDGET LINE: 21.03.01

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA

To be filled in by the applicant

Name of the Applicant

Stichting Plan Nederland

EuropeAid ID number

NL-2008-CPM-0901665251

55/

Nationality Country 56 registration

and

Legal Entity File number

Legal status

Co-applicant 1

date

The Netherlands, 6 March 1975 6000233319 Non-profit making, non-governmental Name: ISODEC EuropeAid ID: GH-2008-GBV-0506284006 Nationality and date of establishment: Ghanaian, 1987 Legal status: Local Non-Governmental Organisation Relation with the applicant or co-applicant: Independent partner

Co-applicant 2

Name: Pro-link EuropeAid ID: GH-2010-FQA-2903325035 Nationality and date of establishment: Ghanaian, 1993 Legal status: Local Non-Governmental Organisation Relation with the applicant or co-applicant: Independent partner

For individuals.

For organisations.

If the applicant has already signed a contract with the European Commission.

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Co-applicant 3

Name: Youth Advocacy on Rights and Opportunities (YARO) EuropeAid ID: GH-2009/DJF-lS0636980S Nationality and date of establishment: Ghanaian, 2002 Legal status: Local Non-Governmental Organisation Relation with the applicant or co-applicant: Independent partner

Affiliated entity

N/A

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BEFORE SENDING YOUR PROPOSAL, PLEASE CHECK THAT EACH OF THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA HAVE BEEN MET IN FULL AND TICK THEM OFF

Tick the items off below

Title of the Proposal: Young voices: Enhancing transformative change, good governance and accountability in maternal health delivery. PART 1 (ADMINISTRATIVE) 1. The correct grant application form has been used. 2. The Declaration by the Applicant has been filled in and signed.

Yes X

The proposal is typed and is in English. Where more than one language is allowed, the proposal is drafted in the language most commonly used by the target population in the country in which the action takes place. One original and 2 copies are included

An electronic version of the proposal (CD-Rom) is enclosed

Each co-applicant has completed and signed the mandate and the mandate is included.

Each affiliated entity(ies) has completed and signed a affiliated entity(ies) 's statement and the statements are included. ‘Not applicable’

N/A

The budget is enclosed, presented in the format requested, and stated in EUR.

The logical framework has been completed and is enclosed.

PART 2 (ELIGIBILITY) 10. The duration of the action is between 24 months and 36 months (the minimum and maximum allowed). 11. The requested contribution is between 300,000 EURO and 500,000 EURO (the minimum and maximum allowed).

12. The requested contribution is between 50% and 90% of the estimated total eligible costs (minimum and maximum percentage allowed).

13. The total amount of financing requested on the basis of simplified cost options does not exceed EUR 60 000 /threshold in 2.1.4 of Guidelines> per each applicant.

[For restricted procedures: 14. The requested contribution has not been changed by more than 20 % compared to the amount requested at the concept note stage.]

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DE CL AR AT I O N BY T HE A P P L IC ANT

The applicant, represented by the undersigned, being the authorised signatory of the applicant, in the context of the present call for proposals, representing any any co-applicant(s), affiliated entity(ies) in the proposed action, hereby declares that  ⁭

 ⁭

the applicant has the sources of financing and professional competence and qualifications specified in Section 2 of the Guidelines for Applicants; the applicant undertakes to comply with the obligations foreseen in the affiliated entity(ies)'s statement of the grant application form and with the principles of good partnership practice; the applicant is directly responsible for the preparation, management and implementation of the action with the co-applicant(s) and affiliated entity(ies),, if any, and is not acting as an intermediary; the applicant and the co-applicant(s) and the affiliated entity(ies) are not in any of the situations excluding them from participating in contracts which are listed in Section 2.3.3 of the Practical Guide to contract procedures for EU external actions (available from the following Internet address: http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/work/procedures/implementation/index_en.htm. Furthermore, it is recognised and accepted that if we participate in spite of being in any of these situations, we may be excluded from other procedures in accordance with Section 2.3.5 of the Practical Guide; the applicant and each co-applicant and affiliated entity (if any) is in a position to deliver immediately, upon request, the supporting documents stipulated under Section 2.4 of the Guidelines for Applicants.; the applicant and each co-applicant and affiliated entity (if any) are eligible in accordance with the criteria set out under Sections 2.1.1 and 2.1.2 of the Guidelines for Applicants; if recommended to be awarded a grant, the applicant accepts the contractual conditions as laid down in the Standard Contract annexed to the Guidelines for Applicants (annex G); the applicant, the co-applicant(s) and the affiliated entity(ies) are aware that, for the purposes of safeguarding the financial interests of the EU, their personal data may be transferred to internal audit services, to the European Court of Auditors, to the Financial Irregularities Panel or to the European Anti-Fraud Office.

These are the sources and amounts of Union funding received or applied for the action or part of the action or for its functioning during the same financial year as well as any other funding received or applied for the same action: From the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs: EUR 4,728,000 funding for the Girl Power Program in Ghana (related action), for the period 2011 – 2015. Status: approved. The applicant is fully aware of the obligation to inform without delay the Contracting Authority to which this application is submitted if the same application for funding made to other European Commission departments or European Union institutions has been approved by them after the submission of this grant application. Signed on behalf of the applicant Name

Jos van Heijningen

Signature Position

Manager Programme Development

Date

03-07-2013

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AS S E S SM ENT G RI D F O R T H E FUL L AP P LI C AT IO N FO RM

(TO BE USED BY THE CONTRACTING AUTHORITY) YES OPENING &ADMINISTRATIVE CHECK

1. The submission deadline has been met. 2. The checklist for the application form has been duly completed. DECISION: The Committee has decided to evaluate the full application form, which passed the administrative checks. Administrative compliance has been checked by: Date:] EVALUATION OF THE FULL APPLICATION FORM DECISION:

A. The proposal has been provisionally selected as one of the top ranked proposals within the available financial envelope and the Committee has recommended eligibility checking. B. The proposal has been put on the reserve list as one of the top ranked proposals and the Committee has recommended eligibility checking The proposal has been evaluated by: Date: ELIGIBILITY VERIFICATION

3. The checklist for the application form has been duly completed. 4. The applicant satisfies the eligibility criteria in section 2.1.1 5. The co-applicant(s), if any, satisfy the eligibility criteria in section 2.1.1. 6. The affiliated entity(ies), if any, satisfy the eligibility criteria in section 2.1.3. 7. The supporting documents listed below were submitted in accordance with the Guidelines (Section 2.4) a. The applicants statutes b. The statutes or articles of association of the applicants and the affiliated entity(ies) c. The applicant’s external audit report (if applicable) d. The Legal Entity File (see Annex D to the Guidelines for Applicants) has been duly completed and signed by the applicants and the supporting documents requested have been enclosed. e. A Financial Identification Form (see Annex E of the Guidelines for Applicants). f. Copy of the applicant’s latest accounts. Eligibility has been assessed by: Date: DECISION:

The Committee has checked the proposal’s eligibility under the criteria laid down in the Guidelines for Applicants and has selected the proposal for funding.

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