Result reported under results area 1: Immediate Stabilisation
This refers to UNDP/RSF's support to specific geographic locations, under an integrated plan called Joint Action Plan (JAP) with three main components, namely 1. Community safety and security strengthened, 2. Essential infrastructure and basic services functioning, and 3. Livelihood opportunities available. Altogether during phase 1 and according to the 2021 report, the RSF has supported 21 JAPs in the four affected countries (cf. 16 JAP locations in the 2020 report, which means that 5 were added in 2021).
While reporting remains relatively output and activity based, there is gradually more data available to assess outcome, including community perception of security and other services provided by public authorities. This however varies significantly between the country with Nigeria being the best equipped country window in terms of monitoring and evaluation capacity. It is however clear from the 2021 report that people in general in the JAP locations note an improvement in security which they credit the state/public authorities with. This is also confirmed by the Third Party Monitoring applied to three locations in Nigeria. Hence, we can conclude that there are substantive results in terms of immediate stabilisation. The report further discusses the most significant reasons for perceived improved security, stating that the local stabilisation / security coordination committees play a crucial role, but also certain type of security related infrastructure, including trenches and walls.
Result reported under results area 2: Extended Stabilisation
Extended stabilisation likewise has 3 components/outputs, namely: 4. Enhanced capacity of the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) to implement the Regional Stabilisation Strategy (RSS), 5. Improved cross-border cooperation and coordination, and 6. State / Region Territorial Action Plans (TAPs) in place.
Compared to the results reported in 2020, the most significant result in 2021 is with regard to output 6, where the eight TAPs were finalised and adopted by the third Governors' Forum in Yaoundé, Cameroon, in October 2021 (postponed from 2020 due to Covid). The report further states that the 'mechanisms for regional cooperation and coordination that were put in place in 2020 were operationalised in 2021' via a number of meetings and trainings. Other activities in pipeline, such as the development and launch of the Knowledge Management Platform (KMP), or a plan for formally establishing the RSS secretariat under the LCBC organigram, has not materialised and is postponed to 2022.
