UNDP 2019-2021 Lake Chad Stabilization phase 1

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. Update in 2024: No new activites or results since the last CoP was written. The contribution should be closed but due to some administrative errors by UNDP final financial reporting is delayed. Final summary can be found in the completion memo.

Quote from the final draft prodoc (June 2019): The nexus of security-humanitarian-development issues around Lake Chad consequent upon an intractable extremist insurgency has left tens of thousands of people dead, approximately 2.5 million displaced, and more than 10 million people in the region affected and in need. While robust national and multi-national military operations have re-taken territory previously controlled by Boko Haram, a new approach is required to consolidate these gains and establish the conditions necessary to transition from military to civilian responsibility for security, and from the provision of humanitarian assistance to the resumption of stalled development processes. The Facility herein has two result areas: 1. Immediate stabilisation of specific areas, cleared of Boko Haram control, but where communities remain vulnerable to continued infiltration and attack; and 2. Initiation of extended stabilisation activities across the Boko Haram-affected States and Regions, through support to implementation of the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) Regional Stabilisation Strategy. UNDP will deliver on scale, speed and coverage by optimising the interplay of civil-military coordination; efficient and fast operations following special UNDP procedures; and autonomous decision-making for the national teams. The expected results will be met through the achievement of six outputs in the target areas: 1. Security and the Rule of Law improved; 2. Essential infrastructure and basic services functioning; 3. Livelihood opportunities available for all households; 4. Enhanced capacities of the LCBC to implement the Regional Stabilisation Strategy; 5. Improved Regional Stabilisation Strategy coordination and cooperation; and 6. State/Region Territorial Action Plans in place.