The Intersection of CLA & HDP-Coherence through Joint Work Planning

The USAID-Resilience Learning Activity (RLA) is a program dedicated to facilitating collaboration among stakeholders to harmonize USAID resilience investments by acting as a secretariat for four USAID coordination platforms including: the Partnership for Resilience and Economic Growth (PREG in Northern Kenya), Southeastern Kenya Coordination Mechanism (SEK), Somalia Resilience Partnership (SRP) and the Horn of Africa Resilience Network (HoRN region). In Kenya, under the two USAID coordination platforms PREG and SEK, the Agency operates in nine counties through RLA as the secretariat and backbone support program responsible for coordinating stakeholders in resilience and economic growth initiatives.  

The joint work planning efforts highlight co-creation, co-facilitation, and co-monitoring based on USAID’s sequencing, layering, and integration principles. They incorporate over 100 Kenyan county officials, about 30 USAID implementing partners, and, where appropriate, the private sector stakeholders. Priority activities are identified based on the county government and USAID IPs' annual work plans, which are then integrated into a unified document dubbed as the Joint Work Plan (JWP), that uses both CLA and Humanitarian-Development-Peace Coherence (HDP) principles.

RLA has utilized the HDP coordination structure principles to optimize, support, monitor, and ensure the progress of these initiatives. Illustrative examples include: hiring local firms trained by RLA on CLA principles to manage the JWP process, utilizing over 169 community and national-level journalists trained by RLA to document and report about 20 success stories from the JWP/resilience activities, and sharing at least three best practices emanating from the media coverage into knowledge management (KM) repositories to promote learning and decision-making.