AID PROGRAM PERFORMANCE REPORT 2016-17Sub-Saharan Africa September 2017

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KEY MESSAGESThis report summarises the performance of Australia’s aid program in Sub-Saharan Africa from July 2016 to June 2017 against the Sub-Saharan Africa Aid Investment Plan 2015-2019. The Sub-Saharan African Aid Program made good progress against its objectives in 2016-17. Australia Awards - Africa supported 480 awards including 140 Masters Scholar-

ships, 249 Short Course Awards and 91 Fellowships – 48 percent received by wo-men

Australia delivered improved agricultural productivity by conducting research into food security and farming techniques that benefited the livelihoods of farmers.

Australia provided humanitarian assistance in response to protracted crises in Somalia and South Sudan, emergency drought relief to Ethiopia and southern Africa, and food security assistance in the Lake Chad Basin, reaching 758,000 people with life-saving assistance.

Australia contributed $1 million to the African Union for its Gender Observatory to collect data on the progress of gender equality across the region in January 2017.

CONTEXT Sub-Saharan Africa is an incredibly diverse region with multiple development challenges across 49 countries and a population of 1.033 billion.1 Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is estimated to have decelerated to 1.5 percent in 2016, the lowest level in over two decades, as commodity exporters adjust to low commodity prices. South Africa and oil exporters account for most of the slowdown, while activity in non-resource intensive countries – agricultural exporters and commodity importers – generally remained robust.2 By 2030 Sub-Saharan Africa is set to make considerable progress against the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in economic growth and strengthening domestic-resource mobilisation. However, the majority of goals – including ending extreme poverty, reducing maternal mortality and access to energy – will need to increase the speed of progress by several multiples of current rates in order to reach SDG targets.3

The development context and challenges differ dramatically between countries. Many of the key constraints to economic growth, however, are shared across the continent, including skills shortages; poor enabling environments for business and governance; food insecurity and low agricultural productivities; humanitarian crises; gender and other inequalities. Australian aid expenditure in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2016-17 totalled $136.6 million through bilateral, global and regional programs including humanitarian assistance, volunteers, the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) and the Australian NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP). The bulk of Australia’s investment is directed to countries in eastern and southern Africa where we have historical program ties and presence, long-term Australian NGO experience, economic and security interests and diaspora links. 4

1 http://data.worldbank.org/region/sub-saharan-africa 20162 Global Economic Prospect, World Bank, January 2017: 1653 Projecting Progress: the SDGs in sub-Saharan Africa, April 2016 Overseas Development Institute4 DFAT Sub-Saharan Aid Investment Plan 2015-19 Country targeting will be based the Australian aid program’s ‘4 tests’: national interest, ability to impact, ability to measure results, and our value-add and leverage. Other factors included level of poverty and need; Indian Ocean orientation; experience and successful partnerships; positive government reforms and development commitment; potential for strong economic growth; ongoing regional instability and insecurity concerns; humanitarian need.

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The goal of the Australian aid program in Sub-Saharan Africa is to help people achieve more equitable access to the benefits of economic growth and to save lives through appropriate and effective humanitarian action. Australia’s aid to Sub-Saharan Africa is making a difference by focusing on sectors where Australian experience adds value – extractives, agricultural productivity and public policy. Our posts across Africa consult partner governments regularly to ensure the relevance of our program and to identify emerging priorities. There are four primary objectives for Australia’s aid program in Sub-Saharan Africa.Objective 1: Contribute to African leadership and human capacity development in areas of critical skills shortages, specifically in the areas of extractives, agricultural and public policy, where Australia has extensive experience and expertise. In recognition of the direct relationship between economic growth and human capital development, the Australian government’s flagship is the Australia Awards - Africa program. Over four years (2015-19), Australia is committing approximately $100 million to develop the skills and knowledge of 1,200 African professionals in priority areas for their countries. African countries experience skill shortages in the professions and many tertiary education systems are not capable of meeting immediate needs to support productivity-led growth. Public sector skills deficits hinder the capacity of governments to deliver services, support sustained growth and address development challenges.Objective 2: Enhance agriculture’s contribution to sustainable and inclusive economic growth and food security. The scope of this objective is changing as we transition out of major bilateral food security and agricultural investments. Australia’s support for the agriculture sector continues largely through the programs delivered by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) along with global and regional programs. We are developing new agricultural benchmarks to reflect the future direction of the program. The new benchmarks will be included in the 2017-18 APPR and the Sub-Saharan Africa Aid Investment Plan (AIP) will be updated at the same time. Our continuing investments in agriculture will reflect its importance to Africa. It accounts for 32 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in Africa and is the sector that offers the greatest potential for poverty reduction and job creation, particularly among vulnerable rural populations and urban dwellers with limited job opportunities. Growth generated by agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa is estimated to be 11 times more effective in reducing poverty than GDP growth in other sectors – a vital multiplier given that 65 percent of the continent’s labour force is engaged in agriculture.1

Objective 3: Respond appropriately to humanitarian crises in Africa through working with effective humanitarian partners and supporting advocacy efforts for effective international humanitarian action.2 The broad goal of the Sub-Saharan Africa Program’s humanitarian assistance is to save lives, alleviate suffering and enhance the dignity of people faced with violent conflict, disasters and other humanitarian crises in Africa. Ongoing conflict and drought across the continent saw an upsurge in the number of people forced to flee their homes in 2016. Large numbers of internally displaced people and refugees, particularly from South Sudan, saw a continued rise in the number of people requiring humanitarian assistance. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) lists some 18 million displaced people in the 1 Ibrahim Mayaki CEO, New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) 11 May 2016 World Economic Forum https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/05/3-ways-to-transform-agriculture-in-africa/2 The programs funded by our humanitarian allocations are annual appeals and this APPR reports on the 2016 calendar year.

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region as people of concern. Sub-Saharan Africa now hosts over a quarter of the world’s refugee population. El Niño-related drought also led to extremely poor rainfall in eastern and southern Africa, resulting in multiple seasons of failed crops and widespread food insecurity. Over the course of 2016, Australia responded when the UN called special appeals to address acute food insecurity in Ethiopia and southern Africa.Objective 4: Empower women and girls and improve gender equality outcomes. Gender equality is both an important right and a powerful tool for development, economic growth and stability. Some research suggests that if women played an identical role in labour markets to that of men, as much as USD$28 trillion, or 26 percent, could be added to global annual GDP by 2025.1 Sub-Saharan Africa has great potential to close the gender equality gap and is ahead of all other regions except Western Europe. The region has closed nearly 68 percent of its gender gap and data suggests economic parity can be achieved in 60 years.2 While high female labour force participation rates are a factor in closing the region’s gender gap, women still tend to be concentrated in low-skilled roles. The focus of our programs, particularly Australia Awards, aims to support women’s access to higher skilled jobs so that gender parity leads to economic growth and inclusion. Contributions of global funding to the Sub-Saharan Africa program Australia made significant contributions to Africa through the global aid programs in 2016-17. The Australian NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP) funded accredited Australian non-government organisations (NGOs) to deliver over 80 projects in Sub-Saharan Africa worth more than $20 million. Australia’s Volunteers program provided over $2.2 million to support 42 volunteer placements in South Africa, one volunteer placement in Swaziland and 25 volunteer placements in Tanzania in 2016-17. The Direct Aid Program (DAP) is a flexible small grants program to advance development outcomes for vulnerable communities. It provided $6 million to support over 170 projects in all Sub-Saharan Africa countries of accreditation in 2016-17. These programs are usually delivered in partnership with local implementing partners, responding to priority areas such as agriculture, gender equality, disability support, education, water sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and health. Australia demonstrated its ongoing commitment to regional peace and security by contributing $219 million to UN Peacekeeping Missions in Mali, Liberia, Cote d’Ivoire, the Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, South Sudan and the Darfur region in Sudan in 2016-17.Australia is a modest donor to Africa, ranking 19 out of 29 OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) donor countries in terms of amount of contribution, based on 2015 data. Table 1: OECD top five donor country contributions to Africa3

Top five OECD donors to Africa USD million* percent of DAC coun-tries

United States 9 320 34%

1 The Power of Parity Report http://www.mckinsey.com/global-themes/employment-and-growth/how-advancing-womens-equality-can-add-12-trillion-to-global-growth2 The Global Gender Gap Index ranks 144 countries on the gap between women and men on health, education, economic and political indicators. It aims to understand whether countries are distributing their resources and opportunities equitably between women and men, irrespective of their overall income levels http://reports.weforum.org/global-gender-gap-report-2016/3 Development aid at a glance (2017), statistics by region – Africa includes ODA to north African countries,

https://data.oecd.org/oda/distribution-of-net-oda.htm

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United Kingdom 4 203 16%Germany 3 036 11%France 2 292 8%Japan 1 765 7%Other DAC countries 6 447 24%Total 27 063 100%*2015 figures are the latest available from the OECD

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In Table 2 below, no bilateral funds are allocated for the agriculture and humanitarian objectives (2 and 3). DFAT global programs or other government departments now provide all funds for investments under these objectives. For the agriculture objective, three legacy bilateral programs delivered by CSIRO, the Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) and Department of Environment and Energy (DOEE) continue but with no new funding in 2016-17. The remaining agriculture programs include approximately $12 million for ACIAR programs and $3.8 million for 20 ANCP projects. The reporting for the humanitarian objective is for the 2016 calendar year, not the financial year, as humanitarian funding aligns with annual appeals. Of the $64.07 million in humanit-arian funding in 2016, $17.35 million was disbursed from the Africa Humanitarian Fund and $46.72 million was disbursed through central funding to multilateral agencies.

EXPENDITURETable 2 Total Australian ODA Expenditure in Sub-Saharan Africa FY 2016-17Objective A$ million % of ODA to Africa

Objective 1: Contribute to African leadership and human capacity development in areas of critical skills shortages, specifically in the areas of extractives, agricultural productivity and public policy, where Australia has extensive experience and expertise.

31.6 23%

Objective 2: Enhance agriculture’s contribution to sustainable and inclusive economic food security. a

$0 0%

Objective 3: Respond appropriately to humanitarian crises in Africa through working with effective humanitarian partners and supporting advocacy efforts for effective international humanitarian action.

$0 0%

Objective 4: Empower women and girls and improve gender equality outcomes.

$1.9 1.4%

Sub-Total Bilateral: 33.5 25%

Regional and Globalb: 88.2 64%

Other Government Departments c: 15.0 11%

Total ODA Expenditure Sub-Saharan Africa : 136.6 d 3.6%e

a) Agriculture programs are funded from non-bilateral programs (regional, global and other govern-ment departments).

b) Global funds include the ANCP, volunteers, humanitarian and agricultural funding. c) Other government funding is largely from the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Re-

search (ACIAR).d) Due to rounding, there is a difference of 0.1 between the sum of the component items and the

total. e) The percentage of total Australian ODA to Sub-Saharan Africa.

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PROGRESS TOWARDS AIP OBJECTIVESTable 3 Rating of the Program’s Progress towards Australia’s Aid Objectives

Objective Previous Rating

Current Rating

Objective 1: Contribute to African leadership and human capacity development in areas of critical skills shortages, specifically in the areas of extractives, agricultural productivity and public policy, where Australia has extensive experience and expertise.

Green Green

Objective 2: Enhance agriculture’s contribution to sustainable and inclusive economic food security. Amber Green

Objective 3: Respond appropriately to humanitarian crises in Africa through working with effective humanitarian partners and supporting advocacy efforts for effective international humanitarian action.

Green Green

Objective 4: Empower women and girls and improve gender equality outcomes. Amber Amber

  Green. Progress is as expected at this stage of implementation and it is likely that the objective will be achieved. Standard program management practices are sufficient.

  Amber. Progress is somewhat less than expected at this stage of implementation and restorative action will be necessary if the objective is to be achieved. Close performance monitoring is recommended.

  Red. Progress is significantly less than expected at this stage of implementation and the objective is not likely to be met given available resources and priorities. Recasting the objective may be required.

Objective 1: Contribute to African leadership and human capacity development in areas of critical skills shortages, specifically in the areas of extractives, agricultural productivity and public policy, where Australia has extensive experience and expertise.

Australia Awards - Africa is meeting its performance benchmarks and program objectives. Progress against this objective is rated green. The first awards benchmark aims to achieve gender parity in the awarding of scholarships. Forty eight percent of awardees were women in 2016-17. The second benchmark aims for 90 percent of alumni to report they are using their awards skills to contribute to development outcomes. This was 99 percent in 2016-17.1

The program aligns with partner government priorities by engaging with government agencies and coordinating authorities in each country through the award promotion and selection process. Posts consult partner governments and other local institutions

1 Six-Monthly Report (produced by Managing Contractor, Palladium), based on survey of alumni. 6

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to develop country profiles each year, which inform our awarding of scholarships and align the short course program with country priorities. Australia Awards - Africa focuses on improving skills in the priority areas of extrac-tives, agricultural and public policy. The program delivered in the key priority areas, agriculture awards included 39 percent of short courses and 28 percent of Masters; ex-tractives awards included 30 percent of short courses and 12 percent of Masters; and public policy awards included 31 percent of short courses and 19 percent of Masters. The Masters program contributes to national development by equipping awardees with the skills and knowledge needed to drive change and achieve sustainable economic growth and social development. Scholarships are offered to emerging leaders from eligible countries in Sub-Saharan Africa in a variety of fields aligned with national development priorities. Masters scholarships are awarded in sectors of importance to partner governments, including health (23 percent) and environment (10 percent). The short course program offered 10 courses co-delivered in Africa and Australia by African and Australian institutions in 2016-17. Short courses included Agribusiness, Increasing the development impact of agricultural research, Managing mine closures, Mineral and energy economics, Ocean governance and sustainable fisheries, Public-private infrastructure partnerships, and Trade policy and negotiations. We are revising the short course program for future years (2017 to 2020) to align with partner government priorities and to incorporate lessons learned from the Infrastructure Skills for Development Program evaluation completed in 2017. Australia has almost 6,000 Australia awards alumni in Africa. Maintaining a relationship with the alumni is key to tracking and achieving program outcomes, including that awardees contribute to development in their countries and retain strong links with Australia. There are currently 23 alumni associations across Africa. Since January 2016, we have offered over 360 further development and networking opportunities to our alumni, including participation in 16 regional alumni events. Alumni contribute to awardee pre-departure briefings, are members of award selection panels and mentor awardees. The Australia Awards - Africa Women in Leadership Network (WILN) has 235 members across 39 countries. Australia supported six alumni to attend the 8th South African AIDS Conference in Durban in June 2017 and three alumni to attend the Africa Down Under mining conference in Perth in September 2016. In 2017, DFAT began a two-year pilot Post-Doctoral Fellowships program for African researchers through the Australia Africa Universities Network (AAUN). The program is developing on-going educational, research and professional links between individuals and universities in Australia and Africa. Fields of research include science and technology, agricultural productivity and/or health. Eight research fellows from South African universities have begun the program and Kenya and Ghana will join the pilot in 2018.In addition to the bilateral program, DFAT offers Australia Awards Fellowships to Africans under its global Fellowships program. Ninety-one Africans received fellowships in 2016-17 and over 50 percent were women. Fellowships offer Australian organisations, from all sectors, the opportunity to deepen and broaden their links with leaders and professionals in developing countries by providing opportunities for Fellows to undertake short-term study and professional development in Australia.African Performance Assessment Framework (PAF) data illustrates achievements throughout the award-cycle:1

1 In March 2017, the Sub-Saharan Africa program completed a fit-for-purpose PAF to strengthen program reporting. The PAF data is gathered from the Awards-Africa 2016-17 Annual Plan, 2016 Baseline Perception Study, 2016 AQC and FAQC, Program Management Group meetings, and the February 2017 Planning Meeting including representation from all African Posts.

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98% of outgoing awardees attended pre-departure briefings and reported this as positively helping to support their arrival in Australia and on-award experience

98% of awardees were satisfied or very satisfied with the extent to which their course developed their knowledge and skills

89% of awardees who attended reintegration workshops were satisfied that the workshops supported their positive return home and into their workplace; and

99% of alumni surveyed in an alumni outcomes study reported they are applying their Award-acquired learning in their job.

The 2016 Australia Awards – Africa Baseline Perception Study found that DFAT Posts consistently receive positive feedback and requests for information about Australia Awards from partner governments. DFAT’s Awards Branch (AWB) is currently conducting a global tracer study to understand the long-term impact of the awards program. Consultants visited Kenya in March 2017, interviewing alumni from rural and urban locations, including some who studied as far back as the 1960s. The Kenyan alumni commented positively on the Australia Awards – Africa program’s influence on their career paths and their ability to influence change and development. Efforts to improve low application rates from women and people with a disability continue. The managing contractor is conducting a review of the gender and social inclusion approach to assess issues and implications at each stage of the awards program. Application rates for women remained at around 30 percent for the 2016 for short and long courses. Concerted effort and promotion is required to achieve 3-5 percent target of offers to applicants with a disability. In 2016, 2.8 percent of awards were offered to people with a disability and 5.5 percent in 2015.1 Of the 116 awardees participating in reintegration workshops, 68 percent reported receiving Gender and Social Inclusion (GESI) training. Australia’s investment in the African Minerals Development Centre (AMDC) also supports human and institutional capacity building. Australia contributed $5 million (2013-2017) with the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and Canada to establish the AMDC. Despite initial delays, the AMDC has assisted more than half of Africa’s countries to reform their mining policies and laws. It delivered around 17 workshops with 395 participants (25 percent women) to build institutional capacities through short course training. The AMDC has assisted 39 member states in Africa to mainstream the African Mining Vision into their national laws, policies and strategies through institutional partnerships, research and advice to governments.Objective 2: Enhance agriculture’s contribution to sustainable and inclusive economic food security

The green rating reflects the good performance of the remaining bilateral and global programs, improved engagement between partners and Australia’s overall contribution to the agricultural sector in Africa. Engaging more closely with partners such as ACIAR will be the focus of this objective moving forward, with new performance benchmarks to be agreed and reflected in the APPR 2017-18 and an updated AIP.Enhanced agricultural productivity remains an important part of Australia’s investment in Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2016-17, Australia provided support to the agriculture industry through global and bilateral programs including those managed by CSIRO, 1 The 2015-16 APPR incorrectly reported 8% awards offered to people with a disability.

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DoEE and ACIAR. Partnerships with the Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF), the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) also allowed us to make a direct and significant difference to the lives of the poor and promote long-term dialogue. Australia supported three bilateral programs in 2016-17, including the Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF), a private sector financing mechanism that provides grants and interest free loans to innovative and financially viable companies predominantly in agribusiness. Australia funds two AECF ‘windows’: The Zimbabwe Window (ZW) and the Research into Business (RiB) Window in Kenya. Results for both windows were strong in 2016-17, highlighted by a UK Department for International Development review that found the ZW improved market systems and delivered a leveraging ratio of 3.65 (for every £1 of donor funding the private sector invests £3.65). 1 This is greater than the overall AECF ratio benchmark of 2.27. In 2016, the RiB and ZW contributed to more than 1,800,000 poor women and men increasing their incomes, which significantly exceeded the benchmark of 744,000 people. Performance benchmarks for AECF were not updated following new funding rounds and as such do not accurately reflect program performance. Project failure rates are perhaps a better indicator of performance given the high-risk nature of the AECF projects. The ZW for example, has delivered a low failure rate (23 percent based on 22 contracted projects out of an original 31) well below the overall 30 percent failure rate of AECF projects. Australia’s two other bilateral programs also achieved good results in 2016-17. The System for Land Based Emissions Estimation in Kenya (SLEEK) managed by the Department of the Environment and Energy (DoEE), is a carbon accounting measurement, reporting and verification system (MRV). Ownership of the SLEEK program transitioned to the Kenyan Government in 2016-17 and the program received a budget line in the Kenyan Treasury’s Environment Ministry allocation for 2017-18. This budget allocation was an unintended consequence of SLEEK but demonstrates the importance the Government of Kenya places on the program. In the longer term, Australia will continue to support 22 scholars (11 Masters and 11 PhDs) ensuring the investment endures beyond our support. The Biosciences Eastern and Central Africa (BECA) hub, a capacity-strengthening program for African scientists working in food and nutritional research, concluded in 2016-17. CSIRO and its partner ILRI, continued to provide policy support to the BECA hub to catalyse and transition to new partnerships and funding platforms, which delivered approximately US$5.5 million in new funding (2015-17).ACIAR, the Australian Government’s specialist agricultural research for development agency, delivered significant support for agricultural development in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2016-17, including 20 major projects valued at approximately $12 million. ACIAR worked closely with a range of international multilateral institutions and pan-African associations, national agricultural research institutes and NGOs through research partnerships in four focus areas including sustainable intensification; livestock and fisheries; natural resources and agroforestry; nutrition and gender policy. Projects include Cultivate Africa’s Future (CultiAF), which supported eight research projects implemented by African scientists and the private sector in areas critical to transforming African agriculture, including post-harvest management, food processing, as well as business opportunities. A new phase of the Trees for Food Security project delivered strong early results in 2017, including higher crop yields, healthier landscapes and improved livelihoods for farmers. Rural Resource Centres (RRCs) were also established in the project areas for use as innovation hubs.ACIAR’s largest program, the Sustainable Intensification of Maize-Legume Cropping Systems for Food Security in Eastern and Southern Africa (SIMLESA) achieved strong

1 DFID Annual Review, August 20169

results in 2016-17. ACIAR, in conjunction with national and international partners, developed sustainable intensification and conservation agriculture techniques that have improved crop yields by 30-60 percent, increased resilience to climate variability, reduced soil erosion and increased household incomes and food security.1 SIMLESA brought benefits to a cumulative 235,000 households in 2016-17 and is on track to reach 650,000 households in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania and to a lesser extent, Botswana, Rwanda and Uganda by 2023. A total of 265 farming communities (compared to a target of 188) were selected in the maize/legumes farming systems in different agro-ecologies, accounting for an overall program achievement of 130 percent. Support for global agricultural programs continued in 2016-17, with new funding to stimulate the G20-initatied Global Agriculture and Food Security Program. Australia contributed $20.5 million (in 2011-13) to the US$120 million AgResults Multi Donor Trust Fund an ongoing initiative, which is using pull-mechanisms to incentivise the private sector to overcome market barriers and develop innovative solutions to food security and agricultural challenges affecting people in poverty.2 AgResults is currently implementing four projects in four African countries, which are all on track or exceeding expectations based on the work-plan timeframes. One project, the On-Farm Grain Storage Pilot in Kenya has incentivised businesses to develop and sell pest-proof grain storage devices to smallholder farmers. Nine companies are now competing and more than 704,000 devices have been sold to over 70,000 smallholder farmers. Australia also supported up to 20 agricultural productivity and food security projects in Sub-Saharan Africa as part of the ANCP in 2016-17. These projects were delivered in up to seven countries, with Australia contributing approximately $3.8 million. The ANCP results will not be available until October 2017, however these projects are expected to support 85,000 beneficiaries. In 2016-17, Australia also provided global funding for a one-off program supporting ethical cotton production in Kenya. In partnership with Base Titanium, the global fashion retailer Cotton-On and the Business Partnership Platform (BPP), more than 300 farmers have joined the project adding to the small business opportunities available in the agriculture sector in Kwale County.3 Women are also encouraged to access the program, as landowners or by assuming responsibility for their family’s smallholding. Australia has invested $313,000 with the private sector providing an additional $1,411,500 over two years (2016-2018).Australia will consult with partners to develop new agricultural performance benchmarks and PAF performance indicators in 2017-18 to better align with the changing nature of the program. Although this objective was rated amber last year there were no management responses identified.

1 Partners were the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre national research agencies.2 Pull mechanisms reward achievement of pre-defined results without preference to strategies and technologies involved in achieving these results.3 For further information go to http://dfat.gov.au/aid/who-we-work-with/private-sector-partnerships/bpp/Pages/ethical-

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Objective 3: Respond appropriately to humanitarian crises in Africa through working with effective humanitarian partners and supporting advocacy efforts for effective international humanitarian action.

Australia’s humanitarian assistance to Sub-Saharan Africa provides lifesaving assistance in emergency and conflict situations. It contributes to the achievement of the first six SDGs. This APPR reports on the Africa humanitarian program in 2016, which focused on South Sudan and Somalia. In addition to addressing protracted crises in these countries, it also responded to drought-related food insecurity in Ethiopia, the Lake Chad Basin and southern Africa. The humanitarian performance benchmark for 2016 was exceeded, with life-saving assistance provided to over 758,000 vulnerable people. Performance against this objective is therefore rated as green. The Africa humanitarian program allocated $64 million in 2016. All this funding was allocated to pooled funds, and attempts were made to allocate funds in a more predictable way, improving our performance as a good humanitarian donor. Australia’s humanitarian support to South Sudan in 2016 reached over 75,000 people. It included $3 million to the South Sudan Humanitarian Fund (SHF), $5 million to the South Sudan Regional Refugee Response Plan (SSRRRP) and $400,000 to the International Committee of the Red Cross. In Somalia, $4.5 million of Australian support reached over 23,500 people and was delivered via the Somalia Humanitarian Fund (SHF) and the Somalia Resilience Program (SomReP).Late 2015 and early 2016 saw the emergence of El Niño-related drought across Africa, and Australia provided assistance to address food security concerns in Ethiopia ($10 million) and southern Africa ($10 million). We also provided food assistance for conflict-displaced people in the Lake Chad Basin ($5 million). This assistance was provided via the Ethiopia Humanitarian Fund and the World Food Programme (WFP), and reached over 385,000 people. Other humanitarian Official Development Assistance to Africa included WFP core funding of $25.9 million, which provided emergency food assistance to over 273,500 people in eight countries.A new range of humanitarian indicators was introduced to the Performance Assessment Framework (PAF) in 2016. Several new indicators reflected Australia’s commitments to the World Humanitarian Summit’s Grand Bargain. The program performed well against several of the new indicators. For example, targets were exceeded for the percentage of funds allocated to pooled funds, percentage of partners specifically addressing protection issues, and gender equality. Timeliness of allocations can be improved, and this will happen with the move to multi-year funding of protracted crises proposed for 2017-18. Next year we will actively monitor progress against the PAF indictor on partners with disability-inclusive policies.Notable monitoring and evaluation challenges include limited staff resources and annual partner reporting that occurs after DFAT Investment Quality Reporting deadlines. Partners’ monitoring is hampered by access, security and bureaucratic barriers. We will explore better staff resourcing for monitoring and evaluation in Addis Ababa to improve our overall monitoring on PAF indicators.

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Generally, our humanitarian investments are not specifically linked to national development goals. However, the Somalia Resilience Program (SomReP) contributed significantly to drafting the resilience pillar of the Somalia National Development Plan, the first attempt at a federal planning process since 1986.The African humanitarian aid quality checks for 2016 rated gender equality as ‘satisfactory’. Gender mainstreaming is employed by all our partners in policy and operational planning. Our UN partners in South Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia have in place country or global policies on gender equality, sexual and gender-based violence and the prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse. They also implement a range of projects specifically addressing these issues, use the gender marker (a tool that indicates whether a humanitarian project is designed well enough to ensure gender equality) in project selection and set targets for women’s participation in representative groups. From the gender-disaggregated data available, female beneficiaries outnumber males across the Africa Humanitarian program. Next year the program will advocate for improved outcomes flowing from the gender mainstreaming set by the gender markers.While private sector growth was not a specific objective of our humanitarian investments, some of the resilience building elements of SomReP—such as business management training and strengthening of village microfinance associations—have enhanced the expansion and diversification of businesses and livelihoods. Similarly, some notable progress has been made on innovation. For example, WFP Somalia recently rolled out a digital cash transfer platform – the SCOPE card – that is advancing the use of cash in emergencies.The Humanitarian program has advocated on DFAT priority policy issues in a variety of forums, including in donor groups and meetings with implementing partners and host governments. In 2017-18, Australia will be a co-chair of the Somalia Informal Humanitarian Donor Group and sits on the SHF Advisory Board, enhancing our capacity to influence through policy dialogue.We will continue working towards the introduction of multi-year funding for protracted crises in our focus countries in 2017-18, enabling greater predictability and reliability of support for key implementing partners. We will explore approaches for building DFAT capacity to monitor and evaluate our investments. Objective 4: Empower women and girls and improve gender equality outcomes.

The performance against this objective is rated amber. The first benchmark for this objective is for 82.5 percent of investments to have an aid quality check (AQC) rating of satisfactory or above for gender. In 2016-17, the AQC rating was 77 percent, slightly below our target. The second benchmark is for all Sub-Saharan African aid investments to collect, analyse, report sex-disaggregated data, and have a strategy, informed by gender analysis, to improve gender equality outcomes. This second benchmark was only partly met (see the section on Aid Quality Checks for more detailed discussion). This objective aligns with the Africa Union’s Agenda 2063 10-year implementation plan of working towards full gender equality and the empowerment of women in all spheres

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of life.1 To further support this aspiration Australia provided $1 million to the African Union for its Gender Observatory to collect data on the progress of gender equality across the region, in January 2017. This funding will assist the AU to monitor and report on the Agenda 2063 gender component of the implementation plan. Our funding will also support the redesign of the Fund for African Women that promotes women’s economic empowerment. Two additional gender equity and women’s empowerment grants provided funding to Sonke Gender Justice for the What’s Violence Got to Do With It program, in South Africa and Tanzania, and to the UN for the Women’s Situation Room supporting electoral processes in Kenya. The Sub-Saharan Africa Gender Action Plan (GAP), established in 2015-16, supports implementation of the Australian Government’s Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Strategy in the region. All Posts are implementing GAP plans to embed gender equity in their corporate practices and in delivery of development, foreign policy and trade objectives. Posts support gender issues across the aid program and their GAP progress reports demonstrate a high level of policy dialogue to promote gender equality and empowerment across the region. For example, under its Direct Aid Program (DAP), Harare post supported the Musasa Project assisting victims of organised violence and torture (40 percent are women and children) and gender-based violence; the Zimbabwe Development Democracy Trust assisting widows to improve livelihoods and learn conflict management; and the Sandra Jones Centre that provides shelter and education to underprivileged and abused girls. The agriculture objective had a number of investments with low aid quality ratings for gender. In part, this is due to the technical nature of these programs, a period of budget uncertainty which disrupted program implementation and inadequate attention to gender issues at the design phase. The African humanitarian aid quality checks for 2016 rated gender equality as ‘satisfactory’. All partners have gender policies, the disaggregated data provided to date suggests that women are the majority of beneficiaries and the UN agencies set targets for women’s participation in representative groups. The Australia Awards - Africa program aims to have parity in the number of men and women offered scholarships. In 2016, women made up 48 percent of awardees, a two percent improvement on 2015. The program supports mentoring and networking opportunities for female alumni. The program’s Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Strategy guides each phase of the awards cycle to enhance equality of access for women and people with a disability. The awards monitoring and evaluation framework is revised regularly to introduce strategies to improve gender outcomes and address constraints to women’s participation. For example, grants are available for awardee applicants with caring responsibilities to support their participation in the selection process. Due for completion in August 2017, an evaluation of the Gender and Social Inclusion Strategy will assess and report on progress and identify areas for improvement. The Australian NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP) in 2016-17 aims for 80 percent of activities to address gender equality and women’s empowerment. In 2015-16, globally 87 percent of ANCP projects addressed gender issues (data for 2016-17 is not yet available). ANCP supported six ANCP projects in Sub-Saharan Africa where gender equality is a principle objective. These projects were in areas relating to health, gender-based violence, land rights and improving livelihoods in eastern and southern Africa. The Direct Aid Program (DAP) supports projects in all our countries of accreditation across Sub-Saharan Africa. A recent survey of global DAP projects found that 48

1 International Development Law Organisation, Equality and empowerment through access to justice: gender background paper: June 2016

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percent noted gender was considered in their implementation and five percent were solely focused on gender. Gender is also a priority sector for the Volunteers program in Sub-Saharan Africa. Volunteers work with organisations to build capacity to support women’s voices in decision-making, leadership, peace building, enhancing economic empowerment, and ending violence against women and girls. Australia contributes to a number of global gender equality programs which have substantial activities in Sub-Saharan Africa, including core funding to UN Women, the Global Trust Fund to End Violence against Women and the Joint United Nations Programme on Essential Services for Women and Girls Subject to Violence (Mozambique is a pilot country). In 2017-18, we will review the Sub-Saharan Africa Performance Assessment Framework to develop new agricultural performance indicators aligned to the changed benchmarks and composition of the agricultural program. This will include discussions with key partners to understand how gender issues and reporting can be strengthened for agricultural investments.

MUTUAL OBLIGATIONSThe African aid program is a multi-country program with regional investments and, in many countries, our funds are modest relative to their GDP and other donor support. While we align our work with the priorities of partner governments and Australia’s national interest and expertise, we do not necessarily have formalised mutual obligations or shared priorities in the same way as a large single-country bilateral program. Instead, Australia is ensuring we deliver aid in line with the objectives of its Aid Investment Plan and its performance benchmarks.Australia has a small number of bilateral Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with some governments with aid agendas, including South Africa and Ethiopia, as well as regional bodies such as the Southern African Development Community (SADC). The Australia Awards – Africa program works closely with relevant African government ministries and associated coordinating authorities to ensure maximum effectiveness. Engagement with these stakeholders helps to ensure awareness and support for program objectives including promotion, engagement in post-award and alumni activities and the use of skills and knowledge within workplaces upon the completion of studies. Australia aligns its agricultural programs with the objectives set out in the African-led Comprehensive African Agriculture Development Program (CAADP) endorsed by African leaders across the continent. Australia also works to advance the interests of the region through its active engagement in the African Union. Further, Australia’s relationships with partner governments such as Kenya through programs such as SLEEK have remained strong in 2016-17, reinforcing Australia’s reputation as a credible and highly sought after partner in agriculture and innovation. Australia works closely with key donors in the region, including the United Kingdom, European Union, the United States, UN agencies, Canada and other European donors to oversee implementation, monitoring and evaluation of jointly funded investments in the region. These include our contributions to AECF, the Zimbabwe Multi-Donor Trust Fund (ZimFund), and the UNICEF Small Towns Water and Sanitation Program in Zimbabwe.

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PROGRAM QUALITY AND PARTNER PERFORMANCE OverviewThe Sub-Saharan Africa program has a comprehensive Performance Assessment Framework (PAF) to track the results in key areas of strategic interest outlined in the Sub-Saharan African AIP 2015-19. The PAF was finalised in early 2017, rather than the last quarter of 2016 as originally intended. However, the PAF has contributed data to the 2016-17 APPR. We will revise the agricultural benchmarks and the PAF to reflect its changed composition. Information about the efficacy of PAF data collection and use will be clearer after a full year of implementation and will be reported in the 2017-18 APPR. An independent mid-term review of the Australia Awards – Africa program will begin in June 2018. This program is our major bilateral aid investment in the region. The primary purpose of the evaluation is to inform the design for the next phase of the program (2020-2024). The evaluation is also an opportunity to verify performance and examine value for money, as well as assess a pilot post-doctoral fellowships program. Aid Quality Checks (AQCs)The Sub-Saharan Africa bilateral aid program continues to achieve consolidation and redirection of investments to support the key priorities outlined in the AIP (2015-2019). In 2016-17, six investments were finalised and were assessed as Final Aid Quality Checks and eight were continuing investments and assessed as AQCs. No investments in 2016-17 were identified as Investments Requiring Improvement. Of the eight significant ongoing investments, Australia Awards – Africa and four humanitarian investments performed well across all criteria, largely due to significant resources available for program quality and design. Other investments largely improved ratings across most criteria. The Zimbabwe Multi-Donor Trust Fund sustainability rating dropped due to economic instability. The Zimbabwe window of the AECF investment had improved ratings for effectiveness, sustainability and gender equality due to program improvements and stabilisation of budget. The SLEEK investment improved across most categories, largely due to improved data provided in the Aid Quality Check. The gender rating continues to be poor as the program was designed with limited mechanisms to support and monitor gender equality. The programs with lower ratings for gender tend to be those with inadequate attention to gender analysis and development of a gender strategy at the inception or design stage of the project. While most of these programs have subsequently introduced measures to improve gender-sensitive programming, the results will not be apparent for some time. Australia supported two Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) programs in 2016-17 as part of a wider donor response following the 2008-09 cholera outbreaks in Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwe Multi-Donor Trust Fund, mentioned above, was an early response and focused on rehabilitation of water and sanitation infrastructure. Australia contributed $20.2 million over nine years (2010-19). The independent completion review conducted by the African Development Bank indicated successful completion of technical targets but noted the need for greater investment in social programs to achieve enduring behaviour change that would reduce disease transfer. The Small Towns WASH program had a more holistic approach focusing on infrastructure rehabilitation and institutional capacity building to improve financial sustainability, address equity issues and provide sustainable service delivery. Australia contributed $28.9 million over four years (2013-17). The final AQC indicated achievement of the infrastructure and most of the social objectives. The exception being the sustainability of the service delivery, largely due to likely poor revenue streams for local councils given the country’s dire economic circumstances.

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Performance of key delivery partnersThe program completed eight Partner Performance Assessments (PPAs) – five PPAs were with multilateral organisations (three UN agencies and the African Development Bank), one with an NGO and two with managing contractors. There were no significant concerns raised about any of the providers assessed though the PPA process. Approval for four PPA exemptions were agreed covering NGOs working in the community and humanitarian sectors. The exemptions rationale related to the practicality of completing PPAs given the numbers of small organisations involved in delivery. The managing contractor for the Australia Awards - Africa program performed well in 2016-17 and has addressed challenges and implemented innovations to achieve pro-gram outcomes. Well-evidenced research guides program improvement and ratings for the managing contractor were very good, satisfying in all areas for most PPA cri-teria. Only the value for money criteria received a lower rating of adequate due to con-cerns with the timeliness and accuracy of financial reporting. DFAT and the managing contractor have agreed an approach to improve financial reporting and oversight. The Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) for the AECF program was the only bilateral agriculture PPA. The ratings were satisfactory or above for all criteria. Across the humanitarian programs, Australia continued to work closely with key UN agencies such as OCHA, the World Food Programme, UNHCR, as well as the ICRC and international NGOs during 2016 to provide life-saving emergency assistance to South Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, the Lake Chad Basin and southern Africa. Progress against objectives has been strong, especially considering the various chal-lenges faced by humanitarian agencies working in these countries. In response to Aus-tralia’s requests, partners have made some progress in improving the collection of outcomes-related data to validate the effectiveness of programs. We will continue to encourage further progress in this area. Following a DFAT request at the 2016 High-level Consultations with ICRC, the ICRC Somalia Office responded quickly to report more fully to donors. DFAT will continue to use annual high-level consultations with key partners to emphasise priorities such as gender equality, protection, accountabil-ity and disability inclusion as outlined in the Africa Program Humanitarian Strategy.

RISKSTable 3: Management of Key Risks to Achieving ObjectivesKey risks What actions were

taken to manage risks over the past year?

What further actions will be taken to manage risks in the coming year?

Risk Rating Risks in in Post’s Risk Register?*

Political instability in a number of fragile states continues.

Ongoing monitoring of country political and economic contexts as well as development activities through our posts and partners.

Ongoing monitoring through our posts and partners.

High n/a

Australia is unable to provide awards and engage effectively with those countries that are not eligible for student visas.

Deliver a program of in-country short courses for those countries unable to access student visas.

The Awards program manager will oversee an increase in the number and variety of in-country short courses available for countries unable to access student visas by

Medium n/a

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2019-20.

Humanitarian partners unable to deliver and monitor assistance due to reduced access resulting from increasing insecurity and adverse weather.

Selection of humanitarian partners is based on capacity to access people in need and experience operating in focus countries.

Risks will be managed in accordance with the Africa Humanitarian Risk Register

High n/a

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Reputational risk due to reliance on a small number of implementing partners and other government departments to deliver program objectives.

Regular communication with partners and other donors on progress of investments.

Africa branch to engage with global programs and other government departments to facilitate information sharing with posts about funding in their countries of accreditation in 2017.

Low n/a

A small funding footprint in Africa may make it difficult to implement a credible aid program and maintain Australia’s credibility and strategic input with partners.

Posts to engage in partnerships and key forums to maintain presence and reputation and complement Desk’s overarching management of the Australia Awards.

In 2017-18, Africa posts will continue strategic engagement to identify arising country priorities. Our programs aim to build a reputation for responding flexibly to regional and national priorities, particularly through the Australia Awards and humanitarian assistance.

Medium n/a

*If no, consider updating the Risk Register

There are no major changes to the overall risk profile in 2016-17. The number of bilateral investments has declined further because of the reduction and rephasing of the Australian aid budget in 2013-14. DFAT global programs and other Australian Government Departments continue to deliver an increasing proportion of the agriculture program. DFAT Africa Branch maintains engagement with whole-of-government partners, CSIRO, ACIAR and the Department of Energy and Environment to emphasise the importance of capturing development results. DFAT is revising the agriculture objective and benchmarks under the Sub-Saharan Africa program to reflect changes to the program delivery.

MANAGEMENT ACTIONSThe Sub-Saharan Africa program includes significant funding flows from global programs and other government departments. In 2017-18 the Pan Africa and Effectiveness Section will liaise with the relevant areas to promote information sharing with Africa posts and ensure consistent results reporting. A Sub-Saharan Performance Assessment Framework (PAF) was finalised in early 2017 and over the coming year it will inform results and benchmark reporting. The PAF is pitched to balance ambition with reality of budget and staffing constraints. It is also an opportunity to increase the integration of a gender dimension across the Sub-Saharan Africa program. Australia Awards - Africa Program: The Australia Awards - Africa monitoring and evaluation framework has been reviewed and now includes performance indicators to track outcomes reporting against development, economic and public diplomacy objectives. The Australia Awards - Africa investment deviated from the budget and planned expenditure in 2016-17. The Pan Africa and Effectiveness team has an agreement with the managing contractor to provide monthly financial updates and detailed quarterly financial reviews from 30 June 2017 to ensure timely notice of changes to the budget. The Australia Awards - Africa managing contractor will continue to promote the social inclusion aspects of the program, using alumni networks (especially the Women in

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Leadership group) to develop context specific activities to improve low application rates from women and people with a disability in time for the September to December 2018 promotions round. Agriculture program: The agriculture program manager will review Australia’s support for agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa in consultation with partners to develop new performance benchmarks to reflect changes in program delivery and strengthening gender strategies and reporting. This will be completed in time for inclusion in the 2017-18 APPR. The Kenyan Government is taking over management of the SLEEK program and the responsible ministry is recruiting staff with the required technical skills to deliver it. Nairobi Post will monitor the outcomes of staff recruitment as part of the transition of the program to the Kenyan Government.Humanitarian program: The humanitarian program manager will continue working towards the introduction of multi-year funding for protracted crises in our focus countries in 2017-18 and explore approaches for building DFAT capacity to monitor and evaluate our investments, including the creation of a locally engaged humanitarian officer at Addis Ababa Post in 2018.Monitoring, Evaluation, Gender and Disability Inclusion: The monitoring and evaluation program manager (Pan Africa and Effectiveness Section) will work with desk and post officers to develop systems to support publication of future evaluations in line with the requirements of DFAT’s monitoring and evaluation standards.In 2017-18, the monitoring and evaluation program manager will work with the agriculture program manager to review the Sub-Saharan PAF to develop new agricultural performance indicators aligned to the changed benchmarks and composition of the agricultural program. The monitoring and evaluation program manager will work with posts to revise and streamline the Sub-Saharan Gender Action Plan to ensure it captures the considerable support for gender equity posts are able to achieve.The ODE assessment of the 2015-16 APPR recommended developing a specific approach for overall consideration of disability. A number of programs do consider and address disability issues including Australia Awards - Africa, DAP, ANCP, Volunteers and Humanitarian programs. The monitoring and evaluation program manager will assess aid activities in 2017-18 to determine the extent of disability inclusive practices across the program. The assessment will inform the development of a disability approach, to be included in the 2017-18 APPR.

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ANNEX A - PROGRESS IN ADDRESSING MANAGEMENT ACTIONSDescribe progress made against management actions in 2015-16 reportManagement actions identified in 2015-16 APPR Rating Progress made in 2016-17We will continue to review the Australia Awards - Africa program monitoring and evaluation framework to strengthen outcomes reporting against development, economic and public diplomacy objectives.

Achieved

The awards monitoring and evaluation framework has been reviewed and now includes performance indicators to track outcomes reporting against development, economic and public diplomacy objectives.

The Sub-Saharan Africa bilateral aid program will make concerted efforts to ensure timely publication of its evaluations; quarterly meetings will report progress to management.

Not achieved

There were two evaluations and they will not meet timeframe requirements for publication on the DFAT website. In part, due to limited central oversight in Canberra to track evaluation progress and pressure of competing priorities for staff at Posts.

The program will continue to ensure all programs have a gender equality strategy informed by sound gender analysis, particularly in relation to the Awards program.

Partly Achieve

d

The awards program continues to review and revise its approach to gender. A Gender and Social Inclusion evaluation report for the awards program will be completed in 24 August 2017. The majority of investments include gender strategies, collect sex-disaggregated data and use this data to inform program improvement.

We will continue to engage with humanitarian partners, including through monitoring visits to advocate for quality outcomes-focused reporting. Review performance benchmarks to assess the value of adding qualitative data.

Achieved

In April 2016, DFAT conducted a monitoring visit in South Su-dan of OCHA and the operations of the South Sudan Humanit-arian Fund. In a range of fora with donor groups, implementing partners and host governments, Australia advocated for, among other things, better outcomes-focused reporting. In 2016, the humanitarian program expanded the range of indic-ators in the PAF.

Improve consideration of disability across investments, collect disability disaggregated data and increase participation of people with a disability in the Australia Awards.

Partly Achieve

d

More investments are improving consideration of disability but collection of disability-disaggregated data remains limited. The awards program does collect and use disability data and is currently conducting a review of Gender and Social Inclusion. The percentage of awardees with a disability varies - 3% in 2014, 4.2% in 2015 and 1.3% in 2016.

Complete and use a fit-for-purpose Performance Assessment Framework to better track and report the outcomes of investments.

Achieved

The program has a comprehensive Performance Assessment Framework (PAF) to track results in key areas of strategic interest outlined in the AIP 2015-19.

Note:   Achieved. Significant progress has been made in addressing the issue

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  Partly achieved. Some progress has been made in addressing the issue, but the issue has not been resolved   Not achieved. Progress in addressing the issue has been significantly below expectations

ANNEX B – PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKSProgress towards Performance Benchmarks in 2016-17

Aid objective Performance Benchmark Rating Progress in 2016-17

Overall program objective

90% allocation of funding across Sub-Saharan Africa will be focused on countries in Eastern and Southern Africa.

Achieved

Over 90% of ODA was allocated in countries in Eastern and Southern Africa, not including humanitarian, which had 81 percent delivered in East and Southern Africa because Australia chose to respond to food insecurity outside the target area. DAP and ANCP funding data is not yet available to assess geographic focus.

AIP Strategic Objective 1

Australia Awards - Africa will work towards achieving gender parity in its allocation of scholarships – 50% of scholarships allocated to women.

Achieved

48% of awardees were women in 2016-17.

Proportion of alumni using awards-acquired skills and knowledge to contribute to development outcomes – 90%.

Achieved99% of alumni reported that they were using their awards acquired skills to contribute to development outcomes.

AIP Strategic Objective 2

Number of poor women and men who increase their incomes 744,000 (under review). Achieved

The RiB and ZW contributed to more than 1,800,000 poor women and men increasing their incomes, which exceeded the benchmark of 744,000 people. The performance benchmark was not updated following new funding rounds which significantly expanded the program. A new performance benchmark will be negotiated with partners to accurately reflect program performance.

Number of poor women and men who increase their access to financial services 744,000 (under review).

n/aThe data for this benchmark was not collected and a new performance benchmark will be negotiated with partners to accurately reflect program performance.

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Aid objective Performance Benchmark Rating Progress in 2016-17

AIP Strategic Objective 3

Number of vulnerable people provided with lifesaving assistance in conflict and crisis situations – 670,000.

AchievedThe program exceeded its benchmark supporting 758,294 vulnerable people in 2016-17.

80% of partners reporting gender disaggregated data.

Achieved

Five out of six humanitarian investments provided sex-disaggregated data. Disaggregated data is available for 206,917 beneficiaries (Female 114,613/male: 92,304). It covers all but two investments under the Africa Humanitarian Strategy. UNHCR does not yet provide disaggregated data and the Somalia Humanitarian Fund will provide disaggregated data but they have not yet provided their annual report. The WFP is a non-HAF investment and disaggregated data has not been provided.

AIP Strategic Objective 4

82.5% of investments have a satisfactory or above score for gender equality

Partly achieved

77% of Sub-Saharan African aid investments received a satisfactory rating or above for gender equality through the AQC process, an im-provement on 73% in 2015-16. A number of programs improved their approach to gender but this has not yet translated into results.

All investments collect, analyse and report sex-disaggregated data and have a strategy, informed by gender analysis, to improve gender equality outcomes.

Partly achieved

While all investments collect, analyse and report sex disaggregated data, a few investments did not develop a gender equality strategy at the design phase informed by gender analysis. Despite remedial ac-tions undertaken for most of the relevant investments, one will not have implemented a gender strategy until it is at the application of the new technology stage.

Note:   Achieved. Significant progress has been made and the performance benchmark was achieved   Partly achieved. Some progress has been made towards achieving the performance benchmark, but progress was less than anticipated.   Not achieved. Progress towards the performance benchmark has been significantly below expectations

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Performance Benchmarks for remainder of Aid Investment Plan (2015-2019)

Aid objective Performance Benchmark 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20

All AIP Objectives

Allocation of funding across Sub-Saharan Africa will be focused in countries in Eastern and Southern Africa.

90% 90% n/a

AIP Strategic Objective 1:

Australia Awards – Africa investment work towards achieving gender parity in its allocation of scholarships.

50% 50% n/a

Proportion of alumni using award-acquired skills and knowledge to contribute to development outcomes.

90% 90% n/a

AIP Strategic Objective 2:

Number of poor women and men who increase their incomes (under review).

TBA TBA n/a

Number of poor women and men who increase their access to financial services (under review).

TBA TBA n/a

AIP Strategic Objective 3:

Number of vulnerable people provided with lifesaving assistance in conflict and crisis situations.

670,000 670,000 n/a

% of partners reporting gender and disability disaggregated data.

80% 80% n/a

AIP Strategic Objective 4:

An increasing % of investments have a satisfactory or above score for gender equality.

85% 90% n/a

All investments collect, analyse and report sex-disaggregated data and have a strategy, informed by gender analysis, to improve gender equality outcomes.

100% 100% n/a

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ANNEX C - EVALUATION PLANNINGList of evaluations completed in the reporting period Investment number and name (if applicable)

Name of evaluation Date completed

Date Evaluation report Uploaded into AidWorks

Date Management response uploaded into AidWorks

Published on website

INL420 Australia Awards - Africa

Baseline Perceptions Study 28 October 2016

7 April 2017 7 April 2017

April 2017

INJ018 Australia Africa Partnership Facility

Final Report of the Independent Review of the Infrastructure Skills for Development (IS4D) Program

December 2016

26 June 2017 25 August 2017

September 2017

INJ532 Zimbabwe Multi-Donor Trust Fund (WASH)

Independent completion review led by Africa Development Bank

February 2017

25 July 2017 25 August 2017

September 2017

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List of program prioritised evaluations planned for the next 12 months Evaluation title Investment

number and name (if applicable)

Date – planned commencement (month/year)

Date – planned completion (month/year)

Purpose of evaluation Evaluation type

Independent Mid-term Review

INL420 Australia Awards - Africa

June 2018 December 2018

The primary purpose of the independent mid-term evaluation of the Awards – Africa program is to inform the design for the next phase of the program (2020-2024). The evaluation will also verify performance, improve existing investments, examine value for money and analyse the pilot post-doctoral fellowships project

DFAT led (includes consultants engaged by DFAT)

Gender and Social Inclusion Review

INL420 Australia Awards - Africa

April 2017 August 2017 - demonstrate results- verify performance- improve existing investment

Managing contractor led

Outcomes Study INL420 Australia Awards - Africa

August 2017 October 2017

The study to measure program results by alumni at 12 and 24 months following completion- considers both intended and unintended results that can be directly or indirectly linked to Australia Awards – Africa

Managing contractor led

Employer Engagement Assessment

INL420 Australia Awards - Africa

August 2017 February 2018

Identify enabling characteristics of a work environment to support effective reintegration of

Managing contractor led

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alumni- determine modifications to program to enhance alumni reintegration

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ANNEX D - AID QUALITY CHECK RATINGSAQC RATINGSAQC investment performance over the previous 12 months and where available last year’s AQC ratings are included.Investment name Ap-

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INL420 Australia Awards - Africa $81.7m 2017

AQC 6 5 4 6 4 4 n/a

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INI899 Zimbabwe Food Security – AECF Zimbabwe Window

$30m 2017 AQC 5 4 4 4 4 4 n/a

  2009-19

2016 AQC 4 3 4 4 3 3 5

INJ532 Zimbabwe Multi-Donor Trust Fund

$20.2m 2017 AQC 4 4 4 4 3 3 n/a

  2010-19

2016 AQC 5 4 3 4 4 4 4

INK531 Clinton Cli-mate Change Initiat-ive

$13m 2017 AQC 5 5 4 4 5 3 n/a

  2012-18

2016 AQC 5 4 3 3 3 3 4

Definitions of rating scale:Satisfactory (4, 5 and 6) 6 = Very good; satisfies criteria in all areas. 5 = Good; satisfies criteria in almost all areas. 4 = Adequate; on balance, satisfies criteria; does not fail in any major area.Less than satisfactory (1, 2 and 3) 3 = Less than adequate; on balance does not satisfy criteria and/or fails in at least one major area. 2 = Poor; does not satisfy criteria in major areas. 1 = Very poor; does not satisfy criteria in many major area.

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HAQC RATINGS (include if relevant)Humanitarian response AQCs assess performance over the previous 12 months (ratings are not compared to previous years). Investment name

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INL378 Somalia Resilience Program (SomReP)

$7m 2014-17

5 5 4 5 5 4 4n/a

INL888 Somalia Humanitarian Assistance

$7m2015-17 5 5 4 5 5 4 4 n/a

INL843 South Sudan Humanitarian Assistance

$10m2015-17 6 4 5 4 4 4 4 n/a

INM011 South Sudan Regional Humanitarian Assistance UNHCR

$5m2016-17 6 4 5 4 4 4 4 n/a

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INI978 Australia Awards in Africa

$96.5m 2009-16

5 5 5 5 5 5 5 n/a

INJ540 Scholarships Africa ADS – 2011 Intake

$25m2010-17

5 5 5 5 5 5 5 n/a

INL016 M4D Africa Minerals Development Centre

$5m2013-17

4 5 3 4 3 3 3 n/a

INJ177 Support for democratic reform in Zimbabwe

$4.3m2010-16

5 5 5 3 4 4 5 n/a

INK922 Small towns water sanitation and hygiene program

$28.9m2013-17

5 5 5 5 5 4 5 n/a

INJ211 Improving agricultural productivity in Africa

$43.4m2010-19

4 5 5 4 3 4 3 n/a

Definitions of rating scale:Satisfactory (4, 5 and 6) 6 = Very good; satisfies criteria in all areas. 5 = Good; satisfies criteria in almost all areas. 4 = Adequate; on balance, satisfies criteria; does not fail in any major area.Less than satisfactory (1, 2 and 3) 3 = Less than adequate; on balance does not satisfy criteria and/or fails in at least one major area. 2 = Poor; does not satisfy criteria in major areas. 1 = Very poor; does not satisfy criteria in many major area.

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ANNEX E – PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK

Sub-Saharan Africa Performance Assessment Framework - Program Logic  

End of program

goal To assist African people to achieve more equitable access to the benefits of economic growth and to save lives through ap-

propriate and effective humanitarian action  

Pillar 1: Awards  Pillar 1 Awards  Pillar 1 Awards Pillar 2: Agri-culture 

Pillar 3 Hu-manitarian

Pillar 4: Em-power women and girls

Long Term

Outcome

Australia Awards enhance develop-ment of targeted African countries and build positive relations with Aus-tralia.

Targeted coun-tries in Africa view Australia as a valued partner.

Alumni have positive ongo-ing links with Australia.

DFAT’s support improves liveli-hoods and in-creases resili-ence of the poor.

African people in hu-manitarian need receive the most ef-fective and efficient lifesaving support.

Key partners adopt im-proved ap-proaches to gender equal-ity.

Intermedi-ate out-

come

Alumni use their knowledge, skills and networks in sectors relevant to their training to contribute to sus-tainable develop-ment.

Alumni contrib-ute to Aus-tralia’s influ-ence and standing in Africa.

Alumni use their networks to inform devel-opment prac-tices in key sec-tors.

DFAT’s support for key pro-grams helps to improve agri-cultural capa-cities and ac-cess to key services.

Partners de-liver appro-priate hu-manitarian assistance.

Improved ap-proaches to gender equal-ity lead to im-proved pro-gram out-comes.

Activity output

Program parti-cipants receive good quality, rel-evant education, training, profes-sional develop-ment (including gender equality,

Program com-municates Aus-tralia Awards Alumni suc-cesses and contributions in international education, ex-

Links estab-lished between Alumni and Australian indi-viduals, govern-ments, busi-nesses, com-munities and

DFAT funds programs, which aim to enhance agri-cultural pro-ductivity and food security for the poor in

Australia provides hu-manitarian support to African people for relief and re-covery.

Australia ad-vocates for and provides technical as-sistance to programs it funds to strengthen

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inclusiveness and good governance) and research.

pertise and in-vestments.

higher educa-tion institutions.

select African countries (and regions).

gender equal-ity.

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High Level Summary Sub-Saharan Africa Performance Assessment Framework

Pillar 1 Australia Awards – Africa: The development of targeted African countries is enhanced by Australia Awards and the program contributes to positive relations with Australia

Indicator Baseline 2015-16

Target 2016/17

Target 2017/18

Target 2018/19 Method M&E System responsible for

collecting

Long-term Outcome 1:

Australia Awards - Africa investment works towards achieving gender parity in its allocation of scholarships

45% 50% 50% 50%Alumni surveys, Program evaluations, Baseline Perception survey

Managing contractor Palladium’sM&E system, PAN awards program manager, AWB

Proportion of alumni using award acquired skills contribute to development outcomes

90% 90% 90% 90%Tracer Studies, Alumni surveys, Program evaluations, Baseline Perception survey

Managing contractor Palladium’sM&E system, PAN awards program manager, AWB

Targeted countries in Africa view Australia as a valued partner

- Quantitative Quantitative QuantitativeBaseline Perception survey as above

Alumni have positive ongoing links with Australia

- Quantitative Quantitative QuantitativeBaseline Perception survey as above

Pillar 2 Agriculture: DFAT’s support leads to improved livelihoods for the poor (Note the agriculture performance indicators and benchmarks are under review due to changes in the structure of our program)

Indicator Baseline 2015-16

Target 2016/17

Target 2017/18

Target2018/19 Method M&E System responsible for

collecting

Number and % of poor women and men who increase their incomes through agriculture programs. (under review)

744,000 TBC TBC TBCQuantitative data M&E service provider, M&E

consultant, Project Manager

Number and % of people accessing financial services. (under review)

744,000 TBC TBC TBCSales data - Takaful (and other insurance providers)

ILRI team

Number and % of poor women and men who increase their resilience through access to

- TBC TBC TBCBaseline surveys, mid-term, end term reviews; progress reports; site visits; company

M&E service provider, M&E consultant, Project manager

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