| Sector: | Democracy and Governance | |
| Period: | - In Progress | |
| Services: | Capacity Building | |
| Country: | CWA States | |
| Client: | USAID West Africa | |
| Capacity Building: | Yes |
Objective:
The purpose of the USAID PELA II is to enhance USAID’s effectiveness in preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE), peacebuilding, and strengthening democracy, human rights, and good governance (DRG) in West Africa, in line with the 2020-2025 Regional Development and Cooperation Strategy (RDCS) Development Objective 1: “Democracy, Peace and Stability Enhanced.”
USAID PELA II incorporates two sub-purposes.
Sub-Purpose 1: To enhance the acquisition of knowledge and information in order to improve the quality of decision-making on strategic and programmatic issues.
Sub-Purpose 2: To support USAID/West Africa to effectively utilize the knowledge gained through the project, which further supports the first sub-purpose of improving the quality of decision-making on strategic and programmatic issues.
Approach:
USAID PELA II supports USAID/West Africa’s role as thought leader through assessments, monitoring, and evaluation (M&E), analytical research, learning cycles, knowledge management, visual storytelling, and convenings. Recognizing the interrelationship between the USAID PELA II objectives and outputs, our implementation approach is based on a robust integrated learning solution to accomplish USAID/WA Regional Peace and Governance Office’s (RPGO) objectives on Regional Development Objective 1 (RDO-1).
Our iterative and continuous learning platform will integrate cross-cutting elements including Gender Integration and Social Inclusion (GESI), environmental and social impacts, conflict sensitivity and political awareness, climate change and resilience mainstreaming. These areas will help stakeholders identify knowledge gaps that impede effective and responsive programming in areas such as gender integration, youth involvement, community resilience, threats to stability, and drivers of violent extremism, as well as how these components are linked to each other, both incidentally and causatively.
USAID PELA II will also provide M&E, Collaborating, Learning and Adaptation (CLA) and communications support to USG Interagency Coastal West Africa programs under the U.S. Strategy to Prevent Conflict and Promote Stability (SPCPS) of the Global Fragility Act (GFA). Specifically, USAID PELA II will support regional and country convening, M&E, learning, adapting research and impactful storytelling to a broad range of stakeholders.
Team Khulisa brings extensive experience in WA alongside the thought leadership USAID PELA II requires to support the Mission’s appeal to achieve RDO-1.
Impact:
USAID PELA II will help stakeholders identify knowledge gaps that impede effective and responsive programming in areas such as gender integration, youth involvement, community resilience, threats to stability, and drivers of violent extremism, as well as how these components are linked. The provision of verifiable and credible information and analysis will boost stakeholders’ efforts to manage impediments to good governance, make decisions based on valid information, and respond more readily to citizens’ expressed needs and priorities. It will further enhance existing stakeholder relationships (bi-lateral, transnational, regional, local) through frequent engagement to inform decision-making.
Key Staff:
Accra team
Dr. Randal Thompson- Chief of Party (CoP)
Francis Ansong- Deputy CoP
Approximately eight technical and operational project staff
Home Office Team
Dr. Martha Muco, Project Director
Elizabeth Dwyer, Program Coordinator
