Jersey Overseas Aid Annual Report 2022.

2022

Contents

Foreword  01 Introduction to Jersey Overseas Aid  03  Our Mission  05  Principles  07  Approach  09 Performance and Highlights  11  Map of JOA Projects  13  International Development Grants Overview  15  Project Selection Process  17  Conservation Livelihoods  19  Dairy for Development  23  Financial Inclusion  27  Legacy Development Projects  32  Monitoring and Impact  33  Humanitarian Overview  37  Pooled Funds  41  Ukraine  43  Horn of Africa  47  United Nations (UN) Placements  49  Jersey Charities  51  Volunteering and Outreach  53  JOA Opportunities  55 Organisational Performance Overview 2022  59 List of 2022 Grants  68 2022 Accounts  72

Alom Ayom using nets provided by WHH to catch fish in Wathmuok, South Sudan Credit: Welthungerhilfe/Peter Caton

Foreword His Excellency Makozo Chikote, Zambia s

Minister of Fisheries and Livestock with Jersey s Minister for International Development, Deputy Carolyn Labey , signing the memorandum of understanding which will enable the roll out

of Jersey s renowned dairy aid programme

to a fourth African country.

2022 was also important for our expanding international development programme, which focuses on three themes where Jersey adds particular value. A key milestone was rolling out our successful dairy programme to Zambia, where Jersey cows and Jersey expertise are now beginning to increase milk yields for thousands of smallholder farmers. In February I was in Lusaka to sign an agreement paving the way for this with Zambia s Minister for Fisheries and Livestock. Sustainable development is not done to countries but WITH them, and the close relationships Jersey is developing across the world form a valuable network of exchange and friendship for the Island.

Our humanitarian donorship also developed

significantly in 2022. In addition to our support for I tend to begin my forewords to JOA s annual  First, 2022 saw us restart our overseas volunteering  serious long-term crises such as the wars in Yemen reports with some variation on the following  programme, suspended for three years because  and Syria, and the drought in the Horn of Africa, sentence: This year witnessed several more  of COVID-19. The year also marked half a century  we had to implement a rapid and wide-ranging exciting developments and milestones for Jersey s  of these Community Work Projects , in which  response to Russia s brutal invasion of Ukraine. Overseas Aid programme . You will have to excuse  over a thousand Islanders have participated  With an extra £1m provided by the Government my lack of originality, but the problem is that it  since 1972. JOA actively tries to give people and  of Jersey, and another £1m raised from the Jersey is always true. Jersey s Overseas Aid programme  organisations in Jersey a chance to get involved in  public by the Bailiff s Ukraine Appeal, JOA made continues to advance in leaps and bounds, and it  overseas aid, and our success in doing so perhaps  24 emergency grants worth more than £3m to

is a privilege for me to be the Minister responsible  partly accounts for the Jersey public s high level  Ukraine and neighbouring countries this year.

for one of the Island s great success stories. of understanding and support of international  We repurposed our grant management system,

development. We are taking advantage of this by  accelerated our due diligence processes, and

So in another year packed with achievements, let  introducing clear pathways for Islanders to develop  (simply put) worked our small team really hard me pick out four which I think illustrate the progress  careers in this rewarding field: 2022 saw us double  to ensure that Jersey s response was one of the we are making, both in serving those around the  the size of our internship programme and deploy  quickest and best targeted in the world.

world who need us most, and in benefitting the  our third young professional on a paid two-year

compassionate and generous population of Jersey. placement with the United Nations (UN).

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I saw first hand the results of some of this effort when I visited recipient organisations in Eastern Poland in April, as did JOA s Executive Director and Head of Programme when they met partners in Kyiv in August. I am so proud of what our team has achieved here, in Europe s worst humanitarian crisis since the War, and so proud also of the Jersey public s staunch support for it. This

sense of solidarity and the warm welcome we have provided displaced Ukrainian families is demonstrated by the multitude of blue and yellow flags still fluttering over the Island, not to mention the many concerts, markets, vigils, film nights and even surf-competitions held over the year to show our support. Jersey knows what it s like to be invaded and occupied, and we re proud to pay forward the assistance we received in 1945.

Finally, 2022 saw the release of JOA s first five- year strategic plan. JOA continues to develop and mature in its role as a respected and effective international donor (and its budget continues to inch closer to international norms, while tracking the size of the economy). Our strategic plan sets out what we want to achieve for Jersey as well as internationally and how we propose to go about it. It outlines how we choose our target countries and themes, how we approach selecting and managing projects, and how we plan to involve as many Islanders as possible along the way. Do have a read and do join us!

Deputy Carolyn Labey

Minister for International Development & Chair of Jersey Overseas Aid Commission

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Sifa, a refugee based in the

Mahama refugee camp

Credit: Comic Relief Jersey Overseas Aid in the Kirehe District  

JOA is an international aid agency funded by the states of Jersey that has been providing life-changing assistance to people in developing countries since 1968. JOA reaches more people every year than live on the Island.

JOA budget Gross Value Added

Since 2021, JOA s budget has been formally tied Percentage of GVA JOA received / will receive. to Jersey s Gross Value Added (GVA), meaning

funding is automatic and proportionate to the 2019 0.21%

Island s economy. The OECD country average

is 0.32%. The UN target is for countries to spend 2020 0.25%

0.7% in official development assistance (ODA).

2021 0.26%

UN  2022 0.27%

JERSEY: AVOEERCADGE TARGET: 2023 0.28%

0.27% 0.32% 0.70% 2024 0.29%

2025 0.30%

GVA is the measure Jersey uses to account for the value of annual economic activity

Introduction to Jersey Overseas Aid JOA has four main funding channels:

International Development Grants Jersey Overseas Charities

Jersey is a 45-square-mile island, close to the French coast, with a population of about

107,000. As a Crown Dependency it is not part of the United Kingdom or the European  These are multi-year projects awarded to registered  Jersey-based charities actively implement projects Union, but is a self-governing jurisdiction with its own history and traditions, its own  UK and international charities. Jersey concentrates  all over the developing world, receiving funds from laws, and its own government and institutions. It is, technically speaking, a nation,  its major development grants on three carefully  JOA. In addition to the financial support, JOA with its own UN Country Code, although it still looks to the UK for defence.  chosen themes Dairy for Development, Financial  provides capacity building and training.

Inclusion and Conservation Livelihoods - selected

Jersey Overseas Aid (JOA) is the Island s official, publicly-funded relief and development  for their effectiveness in bringing lasting change to  Volunteering and Bursaries

agency. It is managed by a small team of professional staff and governed by  the lives of the poor and because they are areas in

a Commission, which is appointed by the States of Jersey (the Island s elected  which Jersey has skills and knowledge that can be  Since 1972 Jersey has sent Islanders to volunteer parliament) and which consists of three States members and three non-States  shared to add particular value. for a few weeks on projects abroad. They bring a members. Since 2018 the Chair of the Commission has served as Jersey s Minister  personal message that Jersey cares, and in many for International Development, but the organisation is accountable to the parliament  Humanitarian and Emergency Aid cases create enduring links between communities as a whole rather than the government of the day. This independence enshrined  in Jersey and developing countries.

in the Overseas Aid Commission (Jersey) Law (2005) helps JOA pursue its long-term  Jersey has been present at nearly every major

objectives unencumbered by short-term political considerations. global emergency since JOA s establishment,

responding to hurricanes, droughts, famine,

earthquakes, and outbreaks of disease. The Island

also supports civilians affected by conflict. Having

received humanitarian aid ourselves, we re proud

to be in a position to save innocent lives abroad.

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Our Mission Objectives

JOA will pursue four related general objectives, which will be achieved by realising eleven more-specific goals.

1. To promote sustainable economic and human development in some of the poorest countries in the world

1. Jersey-funded projects make a measurable and lasting contribution towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals
2. Jersey-funded projects build the capacities of other actors to reduce poverty and suffering

2. To provide timely humanitarian assistance to victims of natural

We will translate the

and manmade disasters

generosity, skills and  3.  Jreeliresef ay sgeupncpioers ts the emergency programming of the best international compassion of the people  4. Jinetresreny satiuponpaol hrtums thae enitaffreiac n stive cystoemordination and efficient operation of the

of Jersey into effective  C. Tto po farocivlii tade ate tsshie estaffnoce trts oo tf ihe wndivoirdl ud a s pls aoond or  rganisations in Jersey assistance for the world s  5.  J(pOaA pid orrovvoidleus ontapryp)o irnt unintietirens fatoior Insalladnedveerls topo pmeurntsue projects and work

most vulnerable people. 6.  JionOrtgeA parnnaisrotaiomtinooantl res ts unehlireof aduegh cnrsd dtalneodivs ee cnlog aopmonrd disedinntastieomn ainnad ptes krivniolewgeled pdgae irtn Jneresrhsiepy as bout

7. JOA builds the capacity and reputation of Jersey-based development-oriented
8. JOA engages with Jersey Charities, regulators and donors to ensure charities follow high standards of good practice

D. To enhance Jersey s international personality as a responsible global citizen and force for good in the world

9. JOA actively and positively engages with developing country governments, UN Agencies, charities and other donors
10. Jersey s aid programme is widely known and highly reputed
11. JOA is engaged with public and private sectors, charities and individuals to develop and coordinate philanthropy on the Island

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Principles

JOA is guided by the Principles of Aid Effectiveness, as developed in the 2005 Paris  Results

Declaration, the 2008 Accra Agenda for Action, the 2011 Busan Outcome Document

and the 2014 Mexico Communique.  We will focus on results, ensuring our projects are properly evaluated and their outcomes

and impact measured.

In addition, JOA is guided by the principles of Good Humanitarian Donorship in the  

financing of humanitarian assistance, including the core values of Humanity, Impartiality,  Exclusions Neutrality and Independence.

We will not support projects, whether humanitarian or developmental, which Thirdly, JOA is guided by Jersey s staunch commitment to environmental protection  intentionally or otherwise exclude people on the grounds of race or religion, and taking action to halt climate change, including the Government s 2019 declaration  and nor will we support activities which seek to proselytise or convert.

of a Climate Emergency and its commitment to the Aichi Biodiversity Targets.  

Accountability

This has the following practical implications for our work: We will uphold our accountability to our beneficiaries and the people of Jersey by conducting due diligence on grantees, selecting projects empirically, monitoring

Inclusion activities and expenditure diligently, and transparently reporting what we do.

We will prioritise interventions which are demonstrably sensitive to the inclusion of marginalised groups, including those which promote gender equality and the empowerment  of Women, Girls and People with Disabilities, with the aim of leaving no one behind .

Local Ownership

We will support projects which promote local ownership through the direct participation  in project design, implementation and review of beneficiaries, target communities, civil  society organisations, and local and national authorities.  

Partnership and Coordination

We will promote partnership and coordination by working closely with other donors,  governments and development-oriented organisations to share information, harmonise  activities, reduce inefficiencies and increase impact.

Environment and Natural Resources

We will acknowledge the urgency of addressing environmental degradation and climate  change by supporting projects which promote the protection of the environment and  the sustainable management of natural resources.

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Credit: Comic Relief

Approach

JOA approaches its mission guided by the following ways of working.

Playing to Jersey s Strengths

As a relatively small national development donor, Jersey must work hard to ensure that  its aid is effective. It also needs to maintain the consent and goodwill of the Islanders  who pay for it. JOA believes that one of the best ways of ensuring that its programming  delivers the best value for money in a way that resonates with the people of Jersey  

is to specialise in areas of development programming where the Island already has  

a comparative advantage. This brings the additional benefit of bolstering the Island s  expertise and reputation in fields that are of particular interest to it. In the context  

of this strategy, as explained in more detail below, this will involve a focus on Dairy,  Conservation, and Financial Services for the Poor.

Sharing Knowledge

The sharing of knowledge and learning within and between organisations is a key driver of improving the success and sustainability of overseas aid. Donors have a key role to play in ensuring that they encourage (and fund) grantees to gather and disseminate knowledge which will assist others in pursuit of similar goals. Jersey will ensure that partners are adequately resourced to learn from their activities and where relevant conduct research which can improve their effectiveness. It will try to foster a culture of openness and curiosity, and encourage grantees to admit and learn from mistakes. JOA will also promote opportunities for grantees to exchange information, and itself participate in forums and events which bring together other development actors.

Political Independence

JOA will always pursue the good of the Island and cooperate with other bodies which also promote Jersey s international personality and reputation. It works in close partnership with Jersey s government, including its External Relations Department, but will maintain the operational independence safeguarded in its founding legislation and embodied in the appointment by the States Assembly of its six Commissioners. Although some other countries have taken this path, Jersey believes that amalgamating the delivery of its humanitarian and foreign policy goals is likely to hamper the delivery

of both, and presents a number of risks to the quality and effectiveness of our aid.

Partnerships

JOA is delighted to partner with other donors in support of mutual development and humanitarian goals. Co-funding provides an opportunity to increase the scope and

impact of projects, improve coordination in target countries or emergencies, and to share information and good practice between funders. In 2018 JOA began a four-year £8m partnership with Comic Relief, focusing on financial inclusion in three African countries. We are happy to hear from other donors which can see an alignment of priorities and outlook.

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Credit: HelpAge International

JOA is also keen to promote and facilitate philanthropy in Jersey. In addition to helping to coordinate the many aspects of giving on the Island individuals, trusts, foundations, companies it can provide advice to Jersey-based donors and impact-oriented investors on a range of key functions (due diligence, impact measurement, risk mitigation etc.).

Finally, JOA will actively pursue partnerships with Jersey-based organisations including Durrell and the Royal Jersey Agricultural and Horticultural Society to draw on their expertise and help build their capacity and to project Jersey s assistance and reputation ever further.

Types of Funding

In order to achieve its objectives and fulfil its mission, JOA provides funding in the following main ways:

   Grants for multi-year development projects, usually implemented through

pre-selected charities and other specialist organisations;

   Humanitarian and emergency aid, through internationally-recognised relief agencies;    Supporting Jersey Charities in their work overseas, frequently on a matched-funding basis;    Community Work Projects, whereby teams of Jersey volunteers undertake

development projects overseas organised by JOA s partners;

   Providing sponsorship, bursaries and internships to Jersey citizens engaged in charity

work abroad.

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2022 Performance  and Highlights  

This annual report reviews progress and  achievements in all JOA s main funding areas  

in 2022: Long-term development grants (with a  particular focus on the three core themes of Dairy,  Financial Inclusion and Conservation Livelihoods);  Emergency Humanitarian Funding (with special  sections on Ukraine, the Horn of Africa and Pooled  Funds); Jersey Charities; and Volunteering and  Outreach (with a close look at the opportunities  we now provide Jersey citizens to get involved  

in overseas aid, including our Internships, work  projects and two-year UN Placements).  

Additionally, for the first time this report provides  an overview of how JOA selects and monitors its  projects, how it manages risk, how it communicates  with the public, and how it is governed, structured  and administered. Readers are encouraged to  consider how all of JOA s actions contribute to its  mission and objectives, which are articulated for  the first time in our Five-Year Strategic Plan and  reproduced some pages back.  

Also, for the first time, this annual report presents  a range of figures relating to JOA s work. These are  not intended to be targets, or even performance  indicators, as in many cases there is no correlation  between a higher number and better performance.  However, they serve as an illustration of the  workload and achievements of 2022, which was  JOA s busiest and most productive year yet.  

Simon Boas  Executive Director

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Syrian refugee, Huda, works harvesting tomatoes with her daughter in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon. Credit: UNCHR

JOA Funded Projects 2022

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Emergencies Development Projects Jersey Charities

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Chantal working in her garden, Inka Nziza project in Rwanda. Credit: Ripple Effect

International Development Grants Overview

Having effectively navigated the COVID-19  A major highlight of the year was the roll out of

pandemic in the previous years, 2022 presented  Jersey s Monitoring and Impact Strategy. There

a new set of challenges for JOA s development  is no substitute for the ability to visit project

portfolio. Although some readjustment was  locations, engage with organisational staff and

required, projects and partners proved resilient  target communities and appreciate the contexts

and robust, serving hundreds of thousands  and nuances of project implementation. Having

of vulnerable communities through the three  been held back in previous years due to the

themes of Dairy for Development, Conservation  pandemic JOA was able to conduct rigorous

Livelihoods and Financial Inclusion.  monitoring trips of six projects spanning five

countries, significantly enhancing JOA s ability

Ethiopia proved a particularly challenging  to measure impact. (see pages 33-36 for a more

environment with the widespread civil unrest and  detailed explanation of the process).

violence in Tigray extending to Addis Ababa and

other cities. Though local disruption to day-to-day  The seven new projects selected in the year

project implementation was relatively minimal,  provided exciting opportunities, particularly in  

a nationwide internet shutdown and intermittent  the theme of Conservation Livelihoods where  

mobile signal made communicating within  two grants in Sierra Leone were awarded our  Number of new direct beneficiaries reached through Ethiopia very challenging for significant periods.  first Conservation Livelihoods project in that  JOA s development funding round in 2022:

country since the theme was introduced in 2018.

In the south of the country, two consecutive rain  Our dairy footprint extended beyond Africa

failures caused the death of more than 70,000  with a new dairy project started with Adventist  

115,054 livestock and caused significant challenges to  Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) in Nepal  

dairy projects in the region particularly the  and three new Financial Inclusion projects started  

Scott ish Catholic International Aid Fund (SCIAF)  in Rwanda, Ethiopia and Nepal. JOA s ability to  

Developing Inclusive and Profitable Dairy Market  select the best Financial Inclusion projects was  

Systems for Pastoralist Communities in Borena  significantly boosted by the appointment of a  

enabled staff to quickly readjust activities,  3 1 3 Zone project. JOA s flexibility and nimbleness  Senior Programme Officer.

securing gains already made and providing  Another notable achievement was the introduction  New Conservation  New Dairy  New Financial future opportunities for the project beneficiaries  of a Conservation Livelihoods Strategy. This has  Livelihoods Projects Projects 1 Inclusion Projects (see pages 23-26 to learn more). allowed JOA to articulate what it would like

to achieve in this space and provide detailed

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Across all of JOA s target countries, partner  guidance to project partners on the kind  New Project   New Projects  organisations reported the pressures of rising  of interventions JOA aims to support. The

cost of living and inflation the war in Ukraine  Conservation Livelihoods Strategy follows the  funded in Ethiopia funded in Sierra Leone being felt far beyond Eastern Europe. Price s  previously published Dairy for Development

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for basic commodities such as fuel rocketed  Strategy with the Financial Inclusion Strategy  New Project   New Project funded  causing many to readjust project activities and  due in 2023.

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Through regular correspondence and an in- funded in Nepal

country visit towards the end of the year, JOA

project staff were able to see the impact first

hand and provide support where possible.  1 This does not include two new RJA&HS projects, which are listed under Jersey Charities

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June

Prospective partners deadline for submitting Project Selection Process  a new partner application form to JOA.

International Development Grants

July

Multi-year International Development Grants (IDGs) remain at the centre of Jersey  JOA review of new partner applications and recommendations Overseas Aid s work, reflected in 2022 s expenditure which saw IDGs represent half  given to Board of Commissioners for approval.

of total funding. We continue to refine and improve the way JOA selects and manages

such projects to ensure they are achieving long-term impacts in our six focus countries

- Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Zambia, Malawi, Ethiopia and Nepal.

In line with our Five-Year Strategic Plan we undertake a rigorous selection process in order  August - September

to fund new International Development projects. Each year around 50 trusted partners are  Closed list of partners are invited to submit invited to submit an Expression of Interest for a project which contributes to at least one  an Expression of Interest (EOI).

of JOA s three thematic areas Financial Inclusion, Conservation Livelihoods and Dairy for

Development. This focused approach in areas which Jersey already specialises in enables

us to deploy our expertise as well as our capital, and thus become a more effective donor.

Submitted Expressions of Interest are reviewed by multiple members of the team,  October

assessing them against areas such as relevance, plausibility of change and value for money.  EOI s are assessed by a review panel and Assessor scores are tallied into an overall average score which indicates whether the  successful/unsuccessful applicants notified. proposed project is highly recommended, recommended or not recommended. These

recommendations are then reviewed by JOA s Board of Commissioners who deliberate

and agree a list of around 15 projects that will move onto the next stage.

Shortlisted applicants are then invited to submit detailed project proposals, which include  January

logical frameworks, theories of change, risk analyses, implementation plans and detailed  Deadline for submission of full project proposals budgets. These alone can run to 100 pages, and they are supplemented by numerous  and self-assessment form.

supporting documents to enable JOA to conduct due diligence on the governance,

management and operations of potential partners.

Following receipt of the full proposals, each organisation will take part in an in-country  January - March

assessment with the project team, partners, and stakeholders. These are extremely

valuable to JOA as they provide an opportunity to review the proposed project in  JOA team carry out in-country assessments considerable depth with the people who will be undertaking it if it is funded. They also  with all full proposal applicants. allow a first-hand look at policies and procedures, and how an organisation deals with

critical issues such as payments, procurement, safeguarding and fraud.

Each proposal is marked against 10 criteria, which include the organisation s governance,

finances and capabilities, and an assessment of how the proposed project is targeted,  April

implemented, coordinated, monitored and funded. A report summarising all of

this information, together with JOA staff s recommendations, is presented to JOA  Successful development grants awarded. Commissioners for their final decision on what to fund, which additionally takes into

consideration budget and phasing issues and the current portfolio of funded projects.

May

Grant agreement terms are drafted and agreed. Projects commence June onwards.

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13 Conservation  Ongoing projects

(includes three new Livelihoods projects funded in 2022)

JOA s Conservation Livelihoods (CL) vision is a future in which biodiversity  544,201  and ecosystem security and services are conserved through enabling  Core beneficiaries across

people to live well and effectively manage the natural resources which  the portfolio

sustain them.

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a huge success, attracting 200+ participants from more than 20 countries.  Climate Smart

A wide range of projects and research was presented by our partners,  Technologies installed prompting discussions which meaningfully shaped JOA s new CL Strategy.

The strategy guides future grantmaking to move beyond a do no harm  27

approach. JOA s CL projects will work to actively restore degraded land and

waterscapes, reconnect fragmented ecosystems, and promote the prosperity  Ecosystems under

and wellbeing of people as a tool for the recovery of shared lands. active restoration

by project teams

2022 saw the continuation of eight projects in Malawi, Rwanda, Madagascar,

Nepal and Ethiopia. which work to strengthen community-led conservation

and governance of natural resources, increase regenerative agricultural  17,128 productivity and nutritional diversity, diversify sustainable livelihoods

opportunities, improve human health, and improve women s participation  Community members in conservation and natural resource management. trained in climate

smart activities and/or This year JOA funded three new CL projects in Sierra Leone and Malawi  conservation measures

- with a fourth chosen to commence in 2023. The projects will work across

wetland, forest and coastal mangrove ecosystems, supporting community  12

governance structures to increase income from sustainably-managed natural

resources like coastal fisheries, and to work with nature to protect lives and  National Parks,  livelihoods from climate change risks. Wildlife Reserves and

Conservation Areas in Durrell s JOA-funded Enabling Change project in Madagascar came to an  which projects are active end in 2022, having transformed lives in 20 communities across three regions

and contributed to the conservation of three critically-endangered, endemic

species. JOA will continue its partnership with Durrell in 2023 with the

commencement of the five-year VALIHA project, which builds on the success

of Enabling Change and rolls it out to thousands more people.

Cocoa sweet spot Maximising livelihood biodiversity and carbon benefits from cocoa agroforestry in the Gola landscape

Credit: Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

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Project in Focus Case Study

Improving Access To Eco-Cookstoves and  Ganga Shahi

Establishing Green Zones at Schools and Health  Kalikot, Nepal: On a cold December morning  Ganga has also noted positive effects on her Facilities in Nepal to Address Deforestation  ionf tKhhea knidtcahcehna korfahMeruhnoicmipea lii tn y  t ih ne K h ai ll il ky o e t n Dv ii sro trn ics t   htoeoa lltohn. gBwefhoerne, cwohoeknin Ig s, tmayye edy iens t wheo ku iltdc hgeent sore, and Air Pollution (Eco-Zone Project) ihne Nr leitptlael gs irrel,mYaost oe dwheas. t F,  rGoman gtiam Seh taoh ti implaey, sGwanitgha   Iwwoouuldld s tsatrrut gtog lheu trot bberecaatuhsee p orfoaplel rtlhyeasnmd omkye ,h ead

turns to check on the rotis she is making on the  she says. A few times, the burning in her eyes COUNTRY: Nepal stove next to them, flipping and tossing them  and respiratory issues had compelled her to seek PARTNER: The United Kingdom   into a waiting basket when ready.  medical help at hospitals in the cities of Nepalgunj Committee for UNICEF and Surkhet, journeys that took hours and cost DURATION: 2020-2023 The stove is a relatively new addition to Ganga s  money. Since using the new stove, I haven t

kitchen - this is an improved eco-cookstove ,  had these issues, she says.

SUMMARY: Nepal has a unique but beautiful  This four-year project is working to establish a  a device that is far more efficient, clean and

topography with 86% of its lands composed  positive cycle of human development to enable  time-saving than traditional stoves, and one  Ganga s family is among 9,844 households

of high mountains and the remainder formed  local communities to conserve forests, reduce  that the 45-year-old says has made her life  that have so far received such improved eco-

of plains in the south. The makeup of Nepal s  indoor air pollution and enhance local livelihood  a lot easier on different fronts. cookstoves as part of the Eco-Zone programme landscape means forests are the greatest natural  opportunities for 14,000 rural households  launched by UNICEF with generous funding resource alongside water. The Karnali and Sudur  across five municipalities in Karnali and Sudur  When we were using the traditional stove,  support from Jersey Overseas Aid in partnership Pachhim Provinces are home to some of the  Pachhim provinces. Through the provision  we needed much more firewood, Ganga says,  with six municipalities in the Sudurpaschim and most important areas of biodiversity, such as Shey  of eco-cookstoves, the project aims to move  describing the seven-hour walk it used to take  Karnali Provinces.

Phoksundo National Park, Khaptad National Park,  away from traditional cooking stoves, which are  to fetch just one load or bhari of firewood

Api Nampa Conservation Area, Rara National  inefficient and unsafe, to clean cooking, reducing  weighing between 50-60 kilograms from the  The benefits of this project for families in the area, Park, and Shukla Phanta Wildlife Reserve. deforestation and mitigating the harmful impacts  nearby Khadikhola jungle, a gruelling process that  particularly women and children, are clear, says

of indoor air pollution. The programme also  would have to be repeated seven or eight times  Jaisi Prasad Chaulagain, Acting Chief Administrative contributes towards increased disaster resilience at  before the month ended. It was difficult carrying  Officer at the Khandachakra Municipality. We feel

 High reliance on the  schools and health facilities through green zones. all that weight home on our backs, but if we didn t  that this has been a very effective venture. Ganga, forests natural resources is  do it, we couldn t cook.  for one, is in full agreement with this sentiment.

Over the course of the past year the project has  I have so much more time now to care for my

resulting in unsustainable  progressed towards achieving the overarching  Now, however, those trips have been cut down  children, make sure they get ready for school practices leading to  objectives as well as harnessing and bolstering the  substantially. We can manage with just around  on time, and to do other things, like tend to the

capacity of sub-national government systems in  three loads per month because the new stove  vegetables in our garden, she says. I wish we d

forest degradation  Nepal. As of December 2022, the project deployed  doesn t need so much wood, she says. Indeed,  had the stove sooner.

stoves to 9,844 households, benefiting 29,532  according to local social mobiliser Sharmila Shahi,

children by reducing indoor air pollution. This  while households needed around 13 kilograms  

Poor energy efficiency of cookstoves has steadily  activity has resulted in multiple cascading benefits  of firewood per day on average, the consumption  increased demand and use of fuelwood leading  as the reduction in use of firewood has lowered  with the eco-cookstove is significantly low,  

to accelerated deforestation, especially in Karnali  carbon emissions, and further harmful toxins within  at an average of 2.5 kilograms per day.

and Sudur Pachhim Provinces. High reliance  the household and into the atmosphere as well  

on the forests natural resources is resulting  as ensuring better natural resource management,  

in unsustainable practices leading to forest  benefiting the wider community and ecosystem.  

degradation, decreased biodiversity and increased  Additionally, the planting of 7,000 saplings at 60  

soil erosion, which contribute significantly to low  schools and 30 heath facilities have been coupled  

levels of agricultural output and reduced resilience  with a series of awareness workshops on forest  

to climate-related events such as landslides and  conservation and disaster risk reduction training.  

floods. Nepal is particularly susceptible to climate- The project is building capacities of 16 social-

induced disasters and this vulnerability has been  mobilisers, who are responsible for facilitating  

further exacerbated in Karnali and Sudur Pachhim  and coordinating programme activities. These  

Provinces. Additionally, the use of fuelwood in  social mobilisers are monitoring the use of stoves,  

traditional cookstoves also has a detrimental  educating the local community and women s  Ganga Shahi with her daughter Yasodha  impact on health, especially women and children  groups on the importance of their use and  in their home in Kalikot District in western Nepal.  who are exposed to air pollution. ensuring the long-term impact of project activities. Credit: UNICEF Nepal/2022/SShrestha

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Ongoing projects Dairy for  project funded in 2022)

(includes one new IDG Development

80,231

As a centre of dairy expertise and home of the Jersey breed JOA  Core beneficiaries

is uniquely placed to support projects to boost milk yields and quality,  across the portfolio improve animal health and genetics, strengthen value chains and support

small-scale producers.  20,426

2022 saw a continuation of dairy projects in Rwanda (Ripple Effect) and  People received training Ethiopia (Ripple Effect and SCIAF) with the exciting development of expanding

our footprint to Zambia and Nepal.  443

Community groups

In Zpartanmerbsiahi, tp whe Rith AoyDal JRA Zers ae my Abiagr, is wiculturorakl aing tnd Howoarrtdics sulttrurenagl Sthoecnieintyg t, in he  supported / established dairy sector by increasing the use of improved genetics, increasing farmer

capacity in climate smart agriculture supporting, extension workers, and

supporting development of a sustainable genetic resource management

system. This project is in close collaboration with Zambia s Ministry of

Fisheries and Livestock and follows an MoU signed by Jersey and Zambia

early in the year.

In Nepal, ADRA-UK s new project Enhanced Rural AI (TERAI) project for Smallholder Dairy Farmers , aims to transform the lives of 3,600 smallholder dairy farmers and significantly strengthen the existing dairy market, extension services and infrastructure by providing capacity building (of both farmers and technicians), breeding support, organisational management support and appropriate genetics. The ultimate project impact targeted is reduced poverty and improved livelihoods of Nepalese smallholder farmers through increased income and resilience a key objective of JOA s Dairy for Development Strategy.

These new opportunities in 2022 were counterbalanced by significant challenges experienced by project partners particularly around climate. The prolonged drought in Ethiopia caused by the successive failure of rains caused widespread distress and death to cattle, reduced milk production to minimal levels and undermined gains made in the dairy value chain. The Scott ish Catholic International Aid Fund (SCIAF) dairy project Developing Inclusive and Profitable Dairy Market Systems for Pastoralist Communities in Ethiopia was particularly affected.

Therese and her son Walter, Inka Nziza project in Rwanda. Credit: Ripple Effect

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Project in Focus Case Study

Developing Inclusive and Profitable Dairy Market  Overcoming Challenges Systems for Pastoralist Communities in Borena Zone Tuku Golicha is a member of one of the women s  

groups in Tuka Kebele, near Moyale. Along  

COUNTRY: Ethiopia with 25 other women she is part of a group  

PARTNER: SCIAF established to develop their milk production and  DURATION: 2020-2023 marketing, as well as to create a joint saving and  

loans association, and develop their business and  SUMMARY: Ethiopia has seen significant  2022 proved to be a very challenging year for  entrepreneurial skills.  

economic growth over the last 15 years,  the people of Borena, facing the fifth successive  

but poverty, food insecurity, vulnerability to  drought in three years. This caused the degradation  Tuku says that she has gained a lot from the  

climate change and conflict remain major  of grasslands, the loss of hundreds of thousands of  project, including financial literacy and a saving  problems. Ethiopia has one of the lowest Human  cattle and significant stress for surviving livestock.  habit. She has been trained on how to maintain the  

Development scores in the world. This innovative  With support from JOA the project was adapted  quality of her milk and manage her dairy business.  project seeks to develop livestock market systems  to continue using a market systems approach but  She says that as a result she has been able to save  

and value chains so that women and men living  switching focus to livestock that are more resilient  even during the dry season. However, the biggest  

in poverty can increase their incomes and food  to the drought (goats, camels and poultry) and the  challenge she faces is the drought.  

security, and their resilience to climate change.  petty trading value chain. The project s support for  

rangeland management, feed preservation, and  

In 2020 JOA launched the Developing Inclusive  use of market-based livestock insurance has proven  

and Profitable Dairy Market Systems for Pastoralist  important in helping households to maintain their  

Communities in Borena Zone with SCIAF and three  livestock and livelihoods.

national organisations: CIFA, F&S and OPA. The  

project aims to enhance the livelihoods of dairy  A mid-term review in 2022 concluded the project  Tuku Golicha.   producing pastoralist and agro-pastoralist women  has made significant progress in supporting  Credit: SCIAF and their households (as well as unemployed  women s empowerment, encouraging more

youth) in the district of Moyale in Borena Zone  equitable gender relations, and developing  Managing Environment through an integrated approach that facilitates  business skills and networks, as well as  

private sector links in dairy value chains, while  encouraging more equitable and inclusive value  and Resources

at the same time addressing gender inequalities,  chains. The drought has proven a major challenge

and promoting community-level savings and  to the ability to promote commercial dairy in this

business skills, resilience to climate change and  stressed part of Ethiopia. However, the integrated  Kebele Sefu is the representative of the women s conservation of the eco-system. By the end of the  approach, strong partners and partnerships, and an  group in Tuka Kebele. She says that the project intervention over 32,000 people should benefit.  innovative market systems development approach  has taught the women a lot, especially about the

have supported households to cope with the  gender imbalance between women and men. drought, develop their livelihoods, and encourage  It has done this in a way that has produced an integrated and more sustainable humanitarian  important change in men s thinking, and they

assistance. JOA s flexibility has been important  have begun to assist women at a household level. in supporting this adaptation and success. The project has also helped women to begin

to save, and to take part in projects to manage the environment and its resources. Kebele says

a major challenge she faces to diversify her business is a lack of finance, and she hopes the project can help her overcome this challenge.

Borena, Ethiopia   Credit: SCIAF  

Kebele Sefu. Credit: SCIAF

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Ongoing projects Financial projects funded in 2022)

(includes three new Inclusion

440,284

2022 saw numerous global shocks, including  Our Financial Inclusion programmes have  Core beneficiaries

the COVID-19 pandemic, escalating energy  continued to confront the widening gender gap.  across the portfolio

and food prices, and supply chain disruptions  Projects empower women through establishing  (Excluding CGAP)

fuelled by the war in Ukraine and other conflicts.  group savings and building on women s financial

These have reversed progress towards the  literacy; create income generation opportunities  30,918 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) such  through establishing sustainable and profitable

that the World Bank now projects that 7% of the  agricultural value chains; provide income  Women given financial world s population (around 574 million people)  smoothing through access to savings and credit;  literacy / business skills will remain in extreme poverty in 2030. JOA s  and protect women against climate-related  training and support Financial Inclusion programming plays a critical  disasters like flooding and drought by supporting  in 2022

role in helping people who are most vulnerable  financial services providers to develop appropriate

to these shocks to build resilience and capture  insurance and loan products. 33

opportunities through the increased availability

and use of appropriate financial services.  With Comic Relief s Branching Out programme  Financial Institutions

drawing to a close, JOA now has its own  strengthened

Across all of JOA s target countries, cost of living  established portfolio of 12 Financial Inclusion

increases and fluctuating exchange rates have  projects with a value of over £13 million spanning  59,330

stretched project budgets, requiring partners to  all six of our target countries and supporting almost

tightly and creatively manage their resources. In  500,000 direct beneficiaries. Newly-added projects  Loans disbursed

Sierra Leone for example, fuel costs increased by  in 2022 include Practical Action s Empowering

300% which had the potential to severely impact  Women Farmers with Digital Finance, Nepal , Mercy  1,524

on rural project activities. Fortunately, JOA s open  Corps Resilience And Incomes for Smallholders

dialogue with our partners meant that we could  in Ethiopia through Digital Financial Services and  Village savings groups collaborate early and mitigate the potential effects  Energy for Impact s Financial inclusion for clean  established / strengthened

through flexibility with workplans and budgets.  cooking access in Rwanda and Sierra Leone . These

projects will advance access and usage of financial

JOA continues our partnership with Toronto Centre  services to vulnerable, hard to reach communities.

to strengthen upstream regulatory and supervisory  The projects also address supply-side barriers

institutions. As a result of introductions made  by creating and diversifying financial products

between Toronto Centre and another JOA partner,  and services that are tailored to the needs and

Habitat for Humanity, a roundtable event was  behaviours of the poor, especially women.

convened at Nepal Rastra Bank. This gave Habitat  Through ongoing partnerships with CGAP and

for Humanity a platform to share the challenges  the FSD Network, JOA continues to build Jersey s

experienced by the micro finance sector as a result  reputation and influence on the world stage,

of the regulatory environment in Nepal; thereby  establishing Jersey as a financial services centre

reinforcing their objectives to achieve poverty  that s committed to serving the needs of the poor.

alleviation through policy change.

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 Florence is a refugee based in the Mahama refugee camp in the Kirehe District,

Rwanda, and is a recipient of UNCDF financial services. Credit: Comic Relief / Serrah Galos

Project in Focus Case Study

Improving Financial Inclusion for  Financial Literacy and Inclusion Women Living in informal Settlements for Forcibly Displaced Persons

COUNTRY: Sierra Leone Fanta Jalloh is a 23-year-old young, passionate  Through her exceptional skills, she was able PARTNER: Restless Development and hopeful woman. She lives In Freetown and  to mobilise 30 women in the community and DURATION: 2021 2024 had to drop out of University due to a lack of  provide them with training on financial literacy and

funding. Because of her lack of qualifications,  numeracy skills. Through her support, the women SUMMARY: 87% of Sierra Leone s population  she was not able to get a job. In her community,  who couldn t determine profit or loss nor talk about still faces financial exclusion, limiting their  she saw how women are discriminated against  savings, can now boast of being able to take stock ability to thrive economically. Women living  KEY SUCCESSES SO FAR: A survey was conducted  resulting in women failing to reach their potential  of their businesses and how to determine profit or in Freetown s Informal Settlements (WLIIS) are  to identify barriers preventing women from  educationally, socially and financially. She dreamt  loss. They now know how to negotiate to buy at disproportionately affected by exclusion from  accessing financial services, and to clearly  of leading women empowerment efforts in her  low cost from suppliers and how to sell at a higher formal financial services, even though this group is  understand community perspectives. Findings  community and when she came across an advert  cost to make a profit from their petty trading.

a crucial enabler for reducing poverty, increasing  from the survey have been used as evidence  from Restless Development, looking for young

financial resilience, and achieving economic  during deliberations for the development of  females to be trained as Community Volunteers  Within nine months, Fanta s savings group has growth. The objective of the project is to create  key Government policies and bills. 74 female  to lead the implementation of the project funded  become the most outstanding group among the an enabling environment for the WLIIS and their  volunteers were trained to support the WLIIS. They  by Jersey Overseas Aid, she applied immediately.  74 savings groups set up by Restless Development existing enterprises to access appropriate financial  provide training on savings and loan schemes,  and its partners as part of this project. The group products and services, resulting in increased  gender, basic literacy and numeracy, budgeting,  Fanta was successful in her application and was  now has savings of SLL10,000 (NL). Fanta has also financial sustainability, independence, and  money and well-being, life skills, advocacy,  trained in community mobilisation, financial  benefited - by saving up her stipend she can now resilience to economic shocks. facilitation, and community engagement. The  literacy, numeracy skills and digital skills. The  complete her University course in Gender Studies

project worked with 74 Women s Savings Groups,  training also included sessions on leadership  and feels strong enough to embark on her dream A SERIES OF STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS HAVE  through 285 sessions in the first year and mapped  advocacy, communication, and life skills. She was  of becoming an advocate for women and girls. BEEN ESTABLISHED: Restless Development  an additional 87 for the second year. The women  trained on informal education methods and the  She feels fulfilled that she has positively impacted was able to work with the Ministry of Gender  reported enhanced knowledge and skills, and  reflect methodology of learning. Armed with this  the lives of 30 women who have never been to & Children s Affairs, informing the newly signed  increased confidence to interact with formal  knowledge, she was deployed back to the Crab  school, to a point that they can now perform Gender Equality and Women Empowerment Act.  Financial Service Providers (FSPs). Town community in Lumley, Freetown and set about  basic literacy and numeracy functions. They now In addition, Restless Development was enlisted  recruiting women for her groups and arranging  understand the essence of bank savings and are as a member of the Community of Practice  The project works with financial service providers  sessions with them. Together with her partner,  willing to open accounts. focused on sharing learning on women  such as Afrimoney, Orange Money, Sierra Leone  they began to deliver sessions in the community.

empowerment programmes. Findings from  Commercial Bank, and EcoBank. Through the  

the project were used to inform the National  interface between these FSPs and informal  Initially, this was challenging, because the  

Strategy for Financial Inclusion (2022-2026) with  settlements, banking products such as woman  community were reluctant to accept the savings  

the Bank of Sierra Leone. The project team also  banking have been introduced. Banks are also  concept. In addition, most of them had never  

coordinates with Freetown City Council to ensure  raising awareness of their general services and less  been to school, and considered the literacy and  

the project is aligned with the city s priorities  rigid banking products such as me yone teller ,  numeracy training very difficult. The women  

and that there is no duplication of interventions. keke banking and recently woman banking . insisted that the time spent in sessions could be  

better used to make more money in the market.  

They considered bank savings a waste of time due  

to lengthy queues, preferring to keep their cash at  

home. Fanta was able to enlighten the community  

about the relevance of literacy and numeracy skills  

in petty trading, as well as bank savings for financial  security. Fanta, who lacked confidence and could  

barely look anyone in the eyes, or speak in public  

Savings Group meeting  before her two-week induction, has become an  

in Kaningo with the   excellent community mobiliser.

Deputy Director of the  

Ministry of Gender and  

Children s Affairs.  Fanta Jalloh.  Credit: Restless Development Credit: Restless Development

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Legacy Development Projects

In 2022, JOA s final six Specialist Health and WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) projects were completed. These legacy projects, which began before JOA streamlined funding into its three priority themes, were: Inclusive WASH for Sustainable Schools in Sierra Leone (Street Child), Healthy life for people with deafblindness in Nepal (Sense), Comprehensive leprosy and Rehabilitation Services Programme (The Leprosy Mission England & Wales), Improved health and wellbeing for older women and men in Tanzania (HelpAge International UK), Clean Futures for Rural Children in Nepal (ChildHope UK) and Combatting harmful traditional practices in Ethiopia to improve women and girls health and wellbeing (Disability and Development Partners).

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Inclusive WASH for schoolchildren, Sierra Leone. Credit: Chris Parkes, StreetChild UK

Monitoring and Impact

To ensure JOA is best placed to manage and oversee our projects, hold partners  

to account, learn from successes and failures, and measure the impact of our work,  we have developed a comprehensive Monitoring and Evaluation Policy. This is in line  with OECD principles and is led by JOA s dedicated Monitoring and Impact Officer.  

International Development Projects

Approval: Before approval, JOA ensures each project has a comprehensive M+E and  reporting plan. Once agreed, JOA s staff work collaboratively with the new partner s M+E  experts to review the logical framework and results matrix to ensure that indicators are well  chosen to match objectives, that sources of verification are objective and available, and  that the risks identified in the project design phase will be appropriately mitigated.

Six months: Upon completion of the first six months of the project, partners are required  to complete a baseline study, gathering data which can be used to refine the project goals,  and compared with data gathered later on to ascertain the impact of the activities. Partners  are required to submit reports to JOA on a six-monthly basis (alternating between Informal  Reports and Interim Reports).

12 months: Partners must submit Annual Interim Reports (which include a Narrative  Report; Updated Financial Report and up-to-date Results Matrix) for review, prior to the  release of their next payment tranche.  

Half-way point: If a project has a JOA grant value of more than £450,000, the partner  organisation is required to conduct a formal mid-term evaluation. It is also around this time  that projects will undergo a JOA-conducted Monitoring Visit.

Endline: At the end of all of our IDG projects, partners are required to conduct a final  evaluation. If a project has a JOA grant value of more than £450,000 this evaluation  

must be conducted by an independent consultant. An independent financial audit is also  requited to verify expenditure and ensure our conditions of funding have been adhered to.

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JOA Monitoring trip with partner Send a Cow (Ripple Effect) in Rwanda

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JOA-conducted Monitoring and Impact

cont. Monitoring Visits in 2022:

2 Nepal

JOA Monitoring Visits 1 Rwanda

1 Malawi

Pre-visit: Before conducting our monitoring visits, we provide  1 Ethiopia

a Terms of Reference (TOR) document which outlines the  1 Sierra Leone expectations and requirements for the visit. From this point

onwards, we work collaboratively to devise a trip itinerary which  2 Financial Inclusion incorporates a broad geographical range of project locations,  1 Dairy for Development interviews and focus group discussions, and key project  3 Conservation Livelihoods

stakeholders (including local staff, community members

and Government officials).  32

Our Monitoring and Impact Officer also works in collaboration  Interim Reports  

with our specialised thematic advisors to develop Lines of  received and reviewed Enquiry which are used to guide discussions during the visit.

We know that partners will always want to show us the best  39

examples of their activities, but we ask also to see examples of

where things have not gone so well, as this allows much more  Informal Reports  valuable learning for us and our grantees. received and reviewed

Tashsee svsismite: n Ot  uo rf   mth oe n p ita or rt in ne gr   vo isr ig tsa n inis va ot li vo en a,  w oh ni ec -h d i an yv o ol ffive cs e s pot- 24

checks of financial records and discussions with core project  Final Reports  

staff members. We then spend several days engaging with  received and reviewed project stakeholders across various project sites in focus group

discussions, interviews and observation. At the end of the visit,  16

our Monitoring and Impact Officer conducts a wash-up debrief

session with project staff to reflect on the visit and discuss key  No-Cost Extensions learnings to take forward.

Post-visit: Following each visit, our Monitoring and Impact Officer writes up a Monitoring Report and Executive Summary, which include key findings, lessons learned and any concerns. JOA will provide feedback to the partner. In the event a field monitoring visit raises concerns, JOA will initiate appropriate further action in accordance with our relevant policies.

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Monitoring trip in Nepal, September 2022 with Habitat for Humanity

Humanitarian  Overview

For most, 2022 will be remembered for Russia s invasion of Ukraine and humanitarian crises that rapidly unfolded on Europe s doorstep. Within weeks of the war, millions of people had been displaced, families torn apart and vital medical, food and energy supply chains and infrastructure damaged.

Given the scale of the emergency, it was always going to be a challenge for Jersey to meaningfully contribute to Ukraine s needs, yet JOA s size was

in many ways its advantage and through its agility and flexibility was able to identify and support humanitarian interventions that had significant impact on many thousands of lives. In total 24 grants were made (JOA funding and Bailiff s Ukraine Appeal including Government contributions and public donations), ranging from mental health

and psycho-social support for those fleeing their homes to the provision of Explosive and Ordinance Disposal training for Ukrainian civilians. A full description of JOA s Ukraine response is included

in pages 43-46.

Although headlines were dominated by the activity in Eastern Europe, millions more vulnerable people around the globe continued to need life-saving assistance. JOA maintained its commitment to protracted emergencies, proving targeted response to some of the world s worst humanitarian

crises including Syria, Yemen, the Central African Republic and South Sudan (see the section on Pooled Funding to learn more).

Predictably, climate disasters were another feature of 2022. The failed rains for a fifth consecutive season in the Horn Africa significantly impacted livelihoods and led to acute food insecurity for millions of people and a sharp rise in malnutrition, a situation compounded by the Russian invasion of Ukraine - both countries being major sources of wheat for the drought-affected countries.

The disruption to food supply chains and sharp increase in food and fuel prices has placed millions in danger of not having access to enough food. (see pages 47-48 for more on JOA s response to the Horn of Africa drought).

Away from Africa, in August devastating floods hit Pakistan affecting over 33 million people. The country received 60% of total normal monsoon rainfall in just three weeks, causing widespread flash floods and landslides, loss of lives and extensive damage to property, livelihoods, and infrastructure. The floods wiped out 1.7 million hectares of agricultural land and 800 000 heads

of livestock, pushing millions of rural households into poverty and food insecurity. JOA responded to the crisis by allocating £100,00 to two humanitarian partners (UNHCR and HelpAge) prioritising the provision of food, shelter and health for two groups often overlooked in emergency response refugees and older persons.

In line with JOA s strategy, funds were also used to address under-the-radar emergencies crises that don t make the headlines despite chronic needs. In Mozambique, JOA partnered with Street Child to provide essential mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) for 17,000 children as well as 8,200 adolescents and 3,200 parents affected by the ongoing insecurity and violence. Furthermore, JOA s funds were used as match funding and allowed Street Child to access a further £230,000 from UNICEF.

In Haiti, one of the poorest countries in the

world whose economic and social development continues to be hindered by political instability, increasing violence and an unprecedented level of insecurity, JOA supported International Health Partners (IHP) to provide lifesaving and life- changing medicines (free at the point of use) for vulnerable communities in Haiti. Due to IHP s ability to source low-cost medicines, the £40,000 awarded to IHP was the equivalent to £1,488,000.

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Lebanon. Credit: UNHCR

An aerial view of a flooded residential area of Nowshera Kalan in Nowshera

district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. Credit: UNICEF/Zaidi

In Gaza, JOA supported Medical Aid for  For the fifth consecutive year JOA supported Palestinians (MAP) with £120,000 to support the  UNHCR s Rohingya response in Cox s Bazar, most marginalised and vulnerable women in  Bangladesh, providing much needed funding Gaza, providing essential health care services,  to address the critical needs of nearly a million psychosocial and legal support for women dealing  refugees crammed in sprawling camps with no with domestic violence. Longstanding access  right to work and limited access to basic services restrictions imposed by the Israeli authorities  including shelter, food and water, education,

have undermined Gaza s economy low-income  healthcare, and basic sanitation.

households rely on humanitarian assistance and

there are high levels of unemployment (46.6%),  Other highlights in 2022 saw Jersey s first Junior poverty and food insecurity. Confinement,  Professional Officers (JPO) with the UN s refugee forced coexistence, restrictions in access  agency, UNHCR, properly begin their postings and movement, and the associated fear and  Faye Coggins to Bangladesh and Johnny Rebours uncertainty of pandemics has contributed to an  to Lebanon. Towards the end of 2022 Jersey enabling environment that exacerbates protection  appointed its third JPO, Rebecca Curtis , who will vulnerabilities. These multiple pressures have  be posted to Egypt early 2023. The international contributed to an escalation in gender-based  programme provides a unique opportunity for violence (GBV) in Gaza with cases of intimate  Islanders to start an international aid career with the partner violence, sexual abuse, and forced marriage  UN, and to contribute at the frontline of an ongoing particularly high.  humanitarian emergency (see p49-50 to learn more).

 Although headlines were dominated by the activity in Eastern

Europe, millions more vulnerable people around the globe continued to need life-saving assistance. JOA maintained its commitment to protracted emergencies, proving targeted response to some of the world s worst humanitarian crises.

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JOA s role in the humanitarian space goes beyond grant making. In 2022, six monitoring trips took place that provided oversight of programmes

and enabled staff to see first-hand the impact Jersey funds are having in emergency contexts.

In June, JOA s Head of Programme visited Somaliland in Ethiopia with UN OCHA to learn more about drought response and humanitarian coordination. JOA s Executive Director and JOA Commissioner Alistair Calvert spent a week with MAP in the occupied Palestinian territories to observe JOA funded programmes on gender-

based violence and health. In July and August, visits were conducted to Moldova and Ukraine and in October a delegation from JOA visited UNHCR operations in Cox s Bazar, Bangladesh. A few weeks ahead of Christmas, the JOA Executive Director visited a training camp in Kosovo where JOA has been supporting Ukrainian civilians in Explosive Ordinance Disposal through Guernsey-based Charity Friends of Ukraine EOD.

Such visits not only provide accountability and reassurance to both politicians and the public, they significantly enhance JOA s understanding of the complexities, mechanisms and best practice in humanitarian response, building

JOA s inhouse expertise and ensuring JOA is able to identify and support the most effective and efficient interventions.

Beyond its physical presence, JOA maintains

a degree of oversight and governance through

its roles on various working groups and advisory boards including the START Fund donor council and the UN s Country Based Pooled Fund Working Group. For the seventh year, JOA were Observers on the UN Syria Humanitarian Fund, dialling in every quarter to Damascus to be briefed on the ongoing humanitarian response in Syria.

Overall, in 2022 JOA allocated more in humanitarian funding than in any previous year. A total of £4,379,858* was awarded spread across 31 grants* with a total of 17 humanitarian partners.

*excluding grants made from funds raised through the Bailiff s Ukraine Appeal

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Pooled Funds

United Nations Country-Based Pooled Funds (CBPFs)

Ever-growing humanitarian needs require innovative ways to get funds effectively to

frontline responders - pooled funds are becoming an ever more popular mechanism  Pooled funds are a  Since the first fund was established in 1997, CBPFs

in the humanitarian landscape and now form a key pledge in JOA s Five-Year Strategy.  valuable mechanism  have provided an urgent lifeline to vulnerable

Pooled funds are a valuable mechanism in countries affected by natural disasters and  people in 28 of the world s most severe and

armed conflict, to deliver quick and effective assistance to the people who need it  in countries affected  complex humanitarian crises.

most. They allow Governments and private donors to pool contributions into single,  by natural disasters

unearmarked funds that strengthen local humanitarian efforts and directly support  JOA has been a strong supporter of CBPFs since its relief partners at the front lines of emergencies.  and armed conflict,  first contribution to the Syria Humanitarian Fund in

to deliver quick and  2016. In 2022 JOA supported six CBPFs with a total Praopoidlelyd afulloncdast aerde troe -reshspaopnindgetrhs ed ehluivmerainn gita ar siasnis  tfiannacnec oinng t lhaen dgsrocaupned .bFyu enndasb alinndg afluloncdast tioon b e  effective assistance  allocation of £970,000:

decisions are transferred to those closest to humanitarian needs and prioritised at the local  to the people who  Central African Republic (CAR) £200,000 laenvde lJ. OThAe bleonwe-fictos sftr oamdmthineis htriagthio-qnuoafl itthye v ifsuibnidlisty m aankde cs othme mm u annic eaffitioc nie mnt a aten rdia l losw. -risk option  need it most.  SSyoruiathHSuumdaanni tHaurimana nFuit nardian Fund ££220000,,000000

Yemen Humanitarian Fund £100,000

JOA currently supports two primary pooled fund mechanisms; the UN OCHA s Country- Ethiopia Humanitarian Fund £150,000 Based Pooled Funds and the Start Fund. Ukraine Humanitarian Fund £120,000

Start Fund

The Start Fund is a global pooled fund managed entirely by Non-Governmental Organisations the members of the Start Network. It is an innovative, rapid financing mechanism that enables NGOs to exploit their comparative advantage in responding to natural and man-made crises. Start Fund s rapid response pooled fund direct financial assistance towards locally led action.

The Start Fund is an extremely effective way of addressing significant funding gaps in the current humanitarian space - especially small/medium crises. One of its benefits is the speed at which funds are distributed 72 hrs from when an alert is raised.

As a donor to the Start Fund, JOA has strategic oversight through its seat on the Start Fund Council, which meets every six months along with other government donors including the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), Netherlands, Irish Aid and Germany.

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Displaced children at the Elevage IDP site in Bambari, Ouaka Prefecture. Credit: OCHA/S. Modola.

Ukraine

Throughout the year, millions of Ukrainians  A Ukraine humanitarian dashboard was set-up on  endured intense hostilities, which killed and  JOA s website allowing members of the public to  injured thousands, forced millions from their  see in real time where and how funds were being  homes, destroyed jobs and livelihoods, and left  spent. In the early days of the Russian invasion as  many struggling to access food, water, health  needs were being assessed and prioritised, JOA  care, education, a safe place to live and other  made initial allocations of £360,000 to OCHA, the essential services.  Red Cross and UNHCR and their respective appeals.  

From the very outset Jersey showed an incredible outpouring of support and solidarity with the people of Ukraine. In early March hundreds filed into the Royal Square for a candlelit vigil where, to the backdrop of a blue-and-yellow-lit States building, the Bailiff called on Islanders to do what they could. The distinctive Ukraine flag flew from every corner of the Island, and within days parish halls were overwhelmed with items generously donated. This support continued throughout

2022 and culminated in Ukraine Week in August, a week-long celebration of Ukrainian culture (and fundraising) organised by Islanders keen to help.

This sentiment was reflected in the Island s official humanitarian response, overseen by

JOA. Recognising the scale of the crisis, the Government of Jersey made a grant of £1million which was complemented by the launch of the Bailiff s public Appeal. Established in partnership with local charity Side by Side, this allowed Islanders to claim the tax back on donations, making funding go 25% further.

Internally, a streamlined, robust, approval mechanism was established between JOA, Commissioners and the Bailiff s Office that enabled decisions on funding applications within 24hrs and ensured adequate oversight.

Islanders gathered on St Ouen s beach to recreate the Ukrainian flag as part of Ukraine Week

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But as the offensive unfolded, it was clear that this

was unlike other emergencies. JOA had to assess

its approach and question where, as a small donor,

it could add value. It pushed the organisation to

identify gaps that larger donors couldn t fill and

ultimately led JOA to funding smaller, more agile

organisations that were providing highly-targeted  The destruction in Ukraine. interventions. Not only did this mean Jersey  Credit: Maciek Zygmunt, Crown Agents

was at the forefront of the response, it allowed

greater accountability JOA was able to report on

exactly what funds had achieved rather than being  Other areas of intervention included:

absorbed by large appeals.  Civil Society and

Mobile Health Equipment Faith-Based Organisations

JOA s decision on what to fund was also guided by

needs on the ground, often communicated to the  As health facilities became targets of Russian  Many at the centre of the Ukrainian humanitarian oganisation by the relevant Ukrainian Ministry. At  artillery, the provision of neo-natal care  response have no or little humanitarian

the request of the Ministry of Health, and through  was prioritised resulting in JOA funding the  background, and suddenly faced complex

Crown Agents, JOA supplied over 4,000 trauma  procurement and distribution of 26 innovative  operational and protection issues without

kits to front line medics, complemented by a  and highly mobile mOm incubators . The mOm  any relevant training or experience. Providing further allocation to procure and distribute Kevlar  incubator is designed to work in challenging  basic training to local actors - including local jackets and helmets to medics facing sniper fire on  environments and can run off alternative power  municipalities, community-based and faith-based the frontline.  sources, including car batteries. Importantly, these  organisations - is a highly effective and efficient

units allow critical health support to be transported  way to ensure minimum humanitarian standards

to the mother and baby as opposed to the other  are understood. Through a grant of £98,084, RedR way round. Jersey was the first donor to supply  designed five short, bite-size online facilitated these to hospitals in Ukraine, where they were each  modules that were free and accessible to those reportedly saving two babies lives every week. at the forefront of the response. By the end of

June 2022, RedR had delivered 93 online courses,

This support for Ukrainian mothers and new- reaching over 1,500 responders.

borns was complemented by an allocation

of £100,000 to Baby Lifeline to procure and  Faith-based organisations are often well placed in distribute 88 out-of-hospital birth bags to address  emergency contexts, their reach and relationship the risk posed to expectant mothers unable to  with communities can be invaluable when trying access maternity wards or medical facilities.  to deliver humanitarian assistance. Through a local A conservative estimate of a bag being used  connection JOA was able to provide funding to

on average every two weeks would mean that  Caritas Kosice, Caritas Sis and Caritas Slovakia, 88 bags would be able to assist in almost 2,300  to procure and distribute essential medicines deliveries per year.  and supplies. The intervention also included

procurement, warehousing and distribution

of foodstuffs and non-food items to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and provided much needed psycho-social care to Ukrainian refugees.

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Monitoring

JOA maintained a good level of oversight, despite the obvious difficulties. In April, a JOA delegation visited Poland and were hosted by UNHCR s Representative and included a tour of an active Blue Dot Hub in Warsaw. JOA also attended a briefing hosted by the US 82nd Airborne Division and were able to visit warehouses on the Polish/Ukraine border that were housing JOA funded trauma kits and oxygen concentrators.

In August JOA staff members undertook a four-day visit to Kyiv, which allowed officers to be briefed by humanitarian agencies and government departments at the forefront of the response including OCHA, UNHCR and the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. JOA was able to visit a paediatric clinic that had received some of the JOA-funded mOm incubators where doctors explained how they had been able to move entire wards to the bomb shelter whilst providing critical care for new-borns and mothers.

Other trips included Moldova where JOA s support of Humanity & Inclusion was monitored and included visits to Refugee Accommodation Centres, a Blue Dot Hub at the Ukraine/Moldova border and briefings by UN agencies including UNHCR and UNICEF. In December, JOA s Executive Director travelled to Kosovo to observe training in EOD for Ukrainian nationals.

Bomb disposal training.  

Credit: FOU-EOD

Minister for International Development, Deputy Carolyn Labey , Refugees and IDPs Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EoD) with CEO of Crown Agents, Fergus Drake, inspecting trauma kits

in Poland. Credit: Crown Agents

Russia s invasion of Ukraine caused a  Already before 24 February 2022, Ukraine was displacement crisis not seen since the Second  one of the world s most explosive-contaminated World War. In March an allocation of £300,000  countries in the world. The situation now is even was made to UNHCR and UNICEF to support their  more serious. The impact on civilian safety is

Blue Dot Hub initiative. These hubs, established  significant, hampering their ability to flee or return along anticipated routes of major refugee flows  home, making agriculture difficult (sometimes provide critical support and protection services  impossible), and impacting humanitarian assistance. for children and families fleeing the conflict. In  With an estimated failure rate of Russian munitions April JOA staff and Jersey s Chief Minister visited  at up to 60%, the threat from unexploded ordnance a Blue Dot Hub in Warsaw, Poland, seeing first- and other explosive remnants of war (ERW) is hand the scale and needs.  significant and will remain for many years to come.

In Moldova, JOA funded Humanity & Inclusion  For JOA, the ability to address this was not

(formally Handicap International) to establish an  too far away through Guernsey-based charity,

office in the capital and address the health needs  Friends of Ukraine EOD. FoU EOD had the

of conflict-affected refugee populations with  relevant facilities, expertise and contacts to

a specific attention to persons with disabilities/ quickly provide much-needed and highly cost-

injuries and/or with signs of psychological distress.  effective training to Ukrainian civilians through

their centres in Kosovo and Montenegro. The

vast majority of the students were female, many

of whom had changed careers, some leaving

family in neighbouring countries to attend. By

the end of the year, JOA had funded a total of 29

individuals. Furthermore, JOA funding procured

and delivered a vehicle and accompanying trailer

to Ukraine to be utilised by the EOD operatives.

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Ladies collecting  

water in Dadaab, Kenya.  Credit: CARE International

Horn of Africa

In 2022 the ongoing drought in the Horn of Africa was exacerbated following four consecutive failed rainy seasons and compounded by the Russian invasion of Ukraine - both countries being major sources of wheat for the drought- affected countries.

The disruption to food supply chains and sharp increase in

food and fuel prices has placed millions in danger of not having

access to enough food. Furthermore, the drought follows other

recent humanitarian shocks in the region including conflict,

mass displacement, COVID-19, locust infestations and extreme  

weather events. Catastrophic consequences of the multi-year  

drought will continue into 2023, leaving communities in urgent  

need of assistance. These numbers provide a snapshot

of the humanitarian crisis:

In 2022 JOA committed a total £595,000 directly to

humanitarian agencies addressing food insecurity in the region

36 million the number of people

whilst a portion of funds awarded to Country Based Pooled

who will be affected by the most prolonged Funds in South Sudan and Ethiopia were used to address the

and severe drought in recent history

rising needs.

24.1 million in Ethiopia

In its first round of emergency allocations in mid-July, JOA

7.8 million in Somalia

awarded International Health Partners £70,000 to ensure

4.5 million in Kenya

lifesaving and life-changing medicines are available for free to

families in the Horn of Africa during a period of severe drought.

11.9 million the number of people

The British Red Cross received £150,000 for their Africa Food

in Ethiopia who are severely food insecure Crises Appeal and an additional £150,000 was allocated to  

due to the drought

OCHA s Ethiopian Humanitarian Fund.

5.1 million Children who are acutely malnourished

Later in the year, JOA awarded £200,000 to Care International,

targeting Dadaab refugee host communities in the Garissa

1.77 million People who have been forced

hinterlands, Kenya. Funds addressed the needs of approximately

from their homes in search of water, food,

36,000 people with cash transfers, the rehabilitation of key water

pasture, and basic services

systems, distribution of therapeutic supplements to combat

malnutrition and the distribution of menstrual hygiene kits. This is a crucial time for Kenya. They have

endured four consecutive failed harvests, An additional allocation of £87,500 to the British Red Cross  with predictions that unless immediate

aided Kenya s National Society in improving access to food  action is taken, a fifth will follow. With and nutrition through cash and voucher assistance, health and  support from Jersey Overseas Aid, this nutrition screening and outreach to support basic health services. project will respond to the immediate

humanitarian need, providing families Funds (£87,500) from Jersey allowed UNICEF to contribute  with food and essential services, and

towards the organisation s Humanitarian Action for Children  strengthen community resilience to

Appeal in Somalia. The response focused on five priority areas  drought, providing clean water and

and includes the distribution of treatments to children facing  helping farmers adapt to the changing severe acute malnutrition, ongoing health interventions, access  weather to improve crop production.

to safe drinking water, mental and psychosocial support, and  - Care International s Assistant Country provision of essential educational services. Director- Program, Mwende Kusewa

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Displaced Somali women and children wait at a water disbursement area, Doolow. Credit: OCHA

Johnny Rebours,  

Associate Protection Officer, Lebanon

United Nations Junior  

Professional Officer Programme taeWRaomerck etihnpagtito iwnn otChueeldnR ti ernegv iietsevtre1ar3tyi5o s nifnaUgmlneili itde, saI ys(s  tt aoo rm  tbeeed  4i tnh0t ee0 r-yv5eie0awr0 m eindadnsivoaig dwiuneag lc sta)hnteo    

assess their needs and make sure UNHCR is providing the best  

assistance. It was a steep learning curve, managing a large team  Jersey Overseas Aid joined the United Nations Junior Professional Officer (UN JPO) scheme in  with an important remit, whilst navigating this new UN system,  2021. The international programme provides young professionals, sponsored by their respective  a culture that is very different to what I had been used to before.  governments, an extraordinary opportunity to embark on a career within the UN system and to  

contribute at the frontline of an ongoing humanitarian emergency. The worst parts have been getting to grips with the scale  

and complexity of the issues: trying to support hundreds  

2021 saw Jersey support the recruitment of two young Islanders, Faye Coggins and Johnny Rebours, into  of thousands of people all the while dealing with increased  

the scheme, both of whom had their funding from JOA continued and their contracts renewed by UNHCR  animosity towards refugees, budget cuts that affect the amount  in 2022. Faye is based in Cox s Bazar, Bangladesh, as an Associate Programme Officer and Johnny is based  of assistance we can provide, an outbreak of cholera, and all  

in Lebanon where he joined the UNHCR field office in Tyre as Associate Protection Officer.  during one of the worst economic crises in modern times.  

Today, shockingly, the Lebanese currency is worth less than half  what it was when I arrived one year ago.  

2022 saw a third Islander recruited into the  

UN JPO scheme. Rebecca Curtis is due to  The best bits have been working to positively impact the team  

begin her position as Junior Programme  I am a part of, 28 individuals who deal with some of the most

Officer in Cairo, Egypt early 2023.  vulnerable people day in, day out. They have a really tough job,  Johnny and the Tyre Registration

hearing the trauma that people who have fled Syria have had to  Team celebrating a colleague s  Being able to contribute toward international efforts to support  endure. Being a part of the team and supporting them to do their  birthday in the Reception Centre. refugees and displaced persons has been my dream ever  jobs better, and to see their satisfaction and productivity grow,

since university, where I first began to volunteer with refugee  has been the most rewarding part for me.

communities. I am thrilled to have this opportunity to work with

UNHCR in Egypt for the next two years and to be supporting  

their efforts to ensure that refugees and asylum seekers receive  Faye Coggins, Associate Programme Officer.

the protection they deserve.  Cox s Bazar, Bangladesh

UNHCR has a long history in Egypt, with communities from  During my year with UNHCR I have had the opportunity to Russia, Armenia, Palestine, Sudan, Syria, and Eritrea amongst  work on a variety of different projects. The role of the UNHCR many others seeking protection in the country over the  Programme Team focuses on overseeing the delivery of essential past seventy years. I look forward to dedicating the skills and  services via UNHCR s local partner charities and conducting experience I have gained to the ongoing efforts of the operation  monitoring and evaluation of our projects in the camps to ensure and to developing my skills further, through this role, so that  that the services UNHCR and its partners provide are being

I can continue to facilitate the protection of refugees and  delivered to refugees in an effective and impactful manner. displaced persons, worldwide, for years to come.  2022 was an interesting year to be a part of the Programme

Team. Some key areas of work included improving access to certified education, and scaling-up opportunities for livelihood

and skill development of adolescents in the camps, to prepare

 Being able to contribute toward international efforts  them for their return to Myanmar.

to support refugees and displaced persons has been

my dream ever since university  Wsoomrkeitnimg eins   aa   fic eh ladl l leoncgai tniog n e hxpase rbieenecne a, gvievreyn r  ethwe a crdo imngp , leifx ity and

enormity of the refugee context in Bangladesh. The Rohingya refugees live in overcrowded settlements, exposed yearly

to a monsoon season with high risks of floods and landslides, two cyclone seasons and a dry season with high numbers

of fire incidents. Delivering humanitarian services in such a context is a complex task for UNHCR

and its partners. The opportunity to work and learn from colleagues with specialist expertise,

and who have experience of responding to crises across the globe, has enabled me to strengthen

my skills and understanding of how a humanitarian organisation operates on the ground.

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Teachers accommodation being constructed in Gambia Credit: Jersey Gambia Schools Trust

Project in Focus

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Projects  Promoting Development 79,537  of Good Schools in Bugarama

Direct beneficiaries

13  CPDAOURRUTANNTTEIORRY:N:H:RaJwnuadlyns dAa  rDoeucnedm Tbhe er   W20 o2 rl2 d Jersey  Different countries

SUMMARY: Volunteers from Jersey have been  In 2022 an independent impact assessment study 7 visiting Bugarama in southwest Rwanda since  was carried out by Lifetime Consulting focused

2012 helping to improve teaching and learning  on the previous three years of JOA grants. They

New projects funded  conditions in schools. Rwandans regard  concluded: The project s primary focus to reduce with a value of   education as the gateway to a new future but  overcrowding in targeted schools and facilitate £1.42million with a high population of young people, they face  more conducive school environments has been

Jersey Charities old buildings with more modern infrastructure.  relevant; practical and positive impacts have

overcrowded classrooms and the need to replace  remarkably achieved The project was highly

From small beginnings HATW with the help of grant  emerged from the concerted efforts of HATWJ funding from JOA, has developed a partnership  in collaboration with the local schools and with

with six schools and seen a real transformation. the outstanding support received from the

During 2022, JOA supported a total of 19 Jersey  A number of exciting projects were initiated in 2022  funder, Jersey Overseas Aid.

Charity projects, with a combined total of  with Jersey Charities. These include supporting  In 2022 a grant of £62,000 enabled us to

79,537 core beneficiaries. Over the course of the  a new neonatal unit in Zambia (CRY Jersey), the  complete the second phase of a two-storey  In December 2022 two of our trustees, Mike

year, five were completed, leaving 14 projects  construction of teachers accommodation in the  building at Nyakagoma. In 2015 there was only  and Dennis, were at last able to visit Bugarama valuing £5.7million and supporting 66,000 core  Gambia (Jersey Gambia Schools Trust), a youth- a broken barn housing a nursery section. Older  again to review progress achieved over the past beneficiaries continuing beyond the end of the  led sustainable enterprise programme in Indonesia  children had to walk 10km to the nearest school  three years and plan our strategy of ongoing

year. Jersey Charities have responded well to the  (Bukit Lawang Trust) and a special-needs school  on a busy, dangerous road. The school now has  improvements for the next three years and our ongoing global challenges, in all cases achieving  in Palestine (Friends of the Holy Land Jersey). In  13 classrooms and takes 567 pupils from nursery  next funding application. The warm welcome

the intended outcomes and outputs through  addition, a new flagship Jersey Dairy programme  to O-level. received proves the appreciation of JOA

good financial monitoring and close engagement  was launched in Zambia by the Royal Jersey  investment. And we are recruiting volunteers

with their downstream partners.  Agricultural and Horticultural Society (RJA&HS).  A second grant of £9,668 contributed towards the  again for July 2023!

This builds on their past success in transforming  renovation of six degraded primary classrooms

JOA has continued to encourage monitoring  milk yields for tens of thousands of smallholder  at Muko with newly plastered walls and good  and learning best practice with funded Jersey  farmers in Rwanda, Malawi and Ethiopia, and is  flooring. New plastic ceilings which reduce  Charities. This was demonstrated in 2022  supported by the Zambian Government who  noise from adjoining classrooms and rain on tin  through the final evaluation commissioned by  signed of a Memorandum of Understanding  roofs had a proven impact on learning and exam  Hands Around the World Jersey following the  with Jersey in February 2022.  results. Usually, our volunteers play their part in  completion of their three-year project in Rwanda  painting classrooms alongside local teams thereby  to improve access to education in the Bugarama  The charities that are supported by JOA have  contributing to the overall strategy of renewal  region. JOA supported the charity through the  to respond to a wide range of challenges and  and partnership with local people. COVID-19 has  procurement process to find a suitable evaluator  needs, sometimes with very limited resources.  prevented our visits for the past three years but  who, through a participatory process, evaluated  This is why, throughout 2022, JOA continued to  with our local project coordinator we have been  the relevance, coherence and effectiveness of  build the capacity of Jersey Charities by hosting  able to continue several construction projects.

the project s intervention. This valuable evaluation  a number of networking and learning events,  

has provided Hands Around the World Jersey  including delivering two training workshops  

with clear recommendations, such as  on how to measure and monitor the impact of  

strengthening the results framework and  their projects. JOA is committed to developing

monitoring systems, capacity building of  the capacity of our local partners so that they  School children in Nyakagoma key stakeholders to ensure continuity and  can continue to respond to the needs of the  Credit: Hands Around the World Jersey sustainability of interventions and promoting  economically vulnerable communities in which

and facilitating a volunteer programme. they are embedded overseas.

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Volunteering  and Outreach  

Volunteering

Jersey residents are passionate about changing the lives of people across the  globe and this was highlighted in 2022 through an event celebrating the 50th  anniversary of Jersey s overseas volunteering programme. The event looked  back at the last 50 years of community work project trips and discussed the  future of volunteering through an engaging panel-led discussion.

Taking part in JOA s overseas volunteer programme is a unique and rewarding  opportunity enabling Islanders to work alongside local communities and  organisations, building resilience in often excluded locations. 2022 saw  

a group of 12 Islanders travel to Kenya, in association with Sand Dams  Worldwide, to begin the construction of a sustainable water harvesting  mechanism which empowers communities to transform their own lives  through water and soil conservation in dry lands.  

Towards the end of the year, we hosted an event launching JOA s 2023  

volunteering opportunities. The success of the event was highlighted by the  

room capacity being completely filled as Islanders flooded in to learn about  

the three opportunities available to them in 2023: Kenya with Sand Dams  

Worldwide, a teacher learning exchange initiative in Rwanda through local  Celebration of 50 years of JOA volunteering event, April 2022 charity, Hands Around the World Jersey, and The Gurkha Welfare Trust s

volunteering project in Nepal.

Outreach  

We are passionate about providing Islanders with opportunities to engage  with International Development and Humanitarian materials and discussion  opportunities. In celebration of Financial Inclusion Week our Senior  Programme Officer, delivered two talks, one specifically for sixth formers,  school leavers and graduates, on the need to focus on the provision of  formal financial services to those who are excluded.  

At JOA we place great importance on educating young Islanders. One way  

in which we have extended our reach to young Islanders in 2022 was through  our careers focused workshops. Through these interactive workshops  

we hope to open students eyes not only to who JOA is but the field of  International Development and Humanitarian Aid, and the variety of career  opportunities available within the sector.

In addition, JOA s team spoke at multiple events, addressing audiences  from Chamber of Commerce to running workshops in schools.

Volunteers building a sand dam in Kenya in June 2022

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2022-2024 Programme Associate

JOA Opportunities

Programme Associates

The JOA Programme Associate role was designed to provide Jersey graduates and career-changers with a unique opportunity to gain the necessary skills and practical experience to launch them into a career in the International Development sector. The internship has traditionally been a 12-month placement, but in 2022, this was updated to 18 months, ensuring that all future Programme Associates benefit from six months in the JOA office in St Helier, followed by six months at one of our partner offices in the UK

 to be followed by six months working overseas. In addition to increasing the length of each placement, JOA has committed to recruiting two Programme Associates per year.

2022-2023 Programme Associate

Sam Houiellebecq, Ripple Effect (formerly Send a Cow)

 It has been an incredibly rewarding 10-months with JOA and Ripple Effect.

I was fortunate to experience working with JOA at a particularly busy time, coinciding with the start

of the devastating Ukraine crisis. I supported with event preparations towards the Community Work Projects (CWP) 50th Anniversary. Alongside this, I gained an understanding of the donor perspective

in the development sector and supported local Jersey charities in their applications for funding. I have now been eight months directly with Ripple Effect in Bath, Rwanda and recently, Kenya. I have benefitted from experiencing a breadth of departments and roles within an NGO s UK operations ranging from Programme Funding to Communications, Finance to Partnerships. I represented Ripple Effect at Tynwald Day, Isle of Man, and Big Church Festival, West Sussex.

In Rwanda, I supported with a proposal application alongside two partner NGOs, undertaking due diligence reviews and attending external stakeholder meetings. I visited various projects including the JOA funded, Inka Nziza Zikamwa project, taking part in farmer trainings, case study collection visits and training technicians in the national cattle monitoring database. I am looking forward to the final two months with Ripple Effect and what this role will lead onto next. I d like to thank both JOA and Ripple Effect for this amazing opportunity and the incredible learning and experiences I ve had over the last 10 months.

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Zoe Pannenborg, Street Child

Zoe Pannenborg is JOA s seventh Programme Associate.

She joined the team in October 2022 and will be working with JOA s partner, Street Child, for the remainder of her placement.

 Although my time as a Programme Associate only began

in October 2022, I have already gained so much from this incredible opportunity. Following recent renovations to the role I am lucky enough to get to spend six months in the JOA office. Extending the period of time that interns - such as myself - get to spend working with the team here at JOA has amplified my knowledge of the inner workings of a donor organisation. I have already got to experience first hand the diversity of roles and activities within the Development and Humanitarian sector and definitely don t have time to twiddle my thumbs it s never a quiet day in the JOA office.

Since starting at JOA I have been involved in various communications and engagement tasks, schools outreach workshops, reviewing humanitarian proposals, the selection process of prospective projects and the ongoing monitoring of current projects funded by JOA. Alongside this, the scheme has also supported me to widen my knowledge on the fundamentals of project management through the Bond DPro Project Management Certification. Despite loving my time in the JOA office I am extremely excited for the next stage of my placement with Street Child.

2021-2022 Programme Associate

Harriet Hall , HelpAge International

 The JOA Programme Associate scheme has been a great experience and allowed me to gain knowledge across the different layers of the international development sector by working with a donor, UK NGO and country-based team.

At HelpAge International I was involved in various tasks including the delivery of Gender Equality Training and developing case-studies for a practitioners guide on Intergenerational Approaches. My time with the HelpAge Jordan team gave

me insight into the realities of project implementation and an opportunity to develop my programmatic skills.

The technical skillset I have strengthened as a Programme Associate has enabled me to launch a career in the sector and

I m pleased to re-join the JOA team as Monitoring and Impact Officer. In an increasingly competitive sector, this scheme offers a unique opportunity for Jersey residents to gain valuable work experience and I would encourage anyone who is considering a career in the international development sector to apply.

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JOA Opportunities

Bursaries Sarah Keirle Nature recordings, Madagascar

Jersey Overseas Aid actively encourages Islanders to get involved in overseas projects. JOA s two bursary  JOA kindly funded my fieldwork trip to programmes seek to financially support professionals, young people or career changers to exchange and  Madagascar which enabled me to take audio share knowledge while learning new skills and experiencing new cultures. In 2022 JOA raised its bursary  recordings for a composition exploring

limits, to £1,000 for personal bursaries and £10,000 for professional bursaries.  conservation work in Madagascar - in particular

the theme of human development and

conservation programmes. The final audio will

be used to raise awareness of conservation Ellen Baker ThinkPacific Youth  livelihoods both in Madagascar and Jersey

Empowerment Programme, Fiji  through a series of performances aimed

at local communities, potential funders

 Needless to say, it has been an experience  and members of the public.

that I will never forget. As partially expected,

the cultural exchange aspect of the trip was,  Our first fieldwork location was Ankarafantsika National Park; there is a Durrell compound here where for me, the most enriching aspect. Undergoing  ploughshare tortoises are bred and protected. Our guide in Ankarafantsika took us into the forest for the privilege of living with a Fijian family was  four walks of audio recording; through lemur habitat, around the local lake, near the canyon, and exciting, immersive and daunting.  through the forest at night.

In the mornings we facilitated workshops on  Two long days of driving later and we arrived at the second fieldwork location, Lake Alaotra. We topics such as leadership, mental health, public  interviewed several people in Andrebagare, at the Ambatondrazaka Durrell office, and across the lake health and enterprise. These workshops ran for a  in the village of Andilana some patrol officers that protect the lake, Durrell workers, and community couple of hours, and aimed to start conversations  leaders. I was also invited to attend a Field Farmer School meeting in Andrebagare. Our guide took us

within the village community. For instance, mental health is a topic which many of the youths had  on walks around the lake, in the rice fields, and up in the hills. The highlight of this location were the never been introduced to. Our role was merely to introduce conversation, key words and ideas. In  two boat roads we took on Lake Alaotra, one from Andrebagare and the other from Andilana, where many aspects, I feel as though we made a positive change within the village community.  I recorded many fantastic sounds.

Abbie Thompson Coaching netball in St Lucia  Lucy Chambers Jeune sse et  

DØveloppement, Senegal

 Throughout my trip, I was able to work on a number  

of projects within the community helping to develop  In the summer of 2022, I spent three weeks  

fundamental skills within the sport. This was varied and  in Senegal with the Breton association Jeune sse  

ranged across all ages and abilities. One programme was  et DØveloppement and I can say with no hint  based in a preschool working with children with a range of  of hyperbole that it was the best three weeks  

disabilities both physical and mental. For this, I was pushed  of my life. I found out about this opportunity  outside of my comfort zone as I have little experience in  through JOA s visit to my school s careers fair.  working with children in this capacity. However, by the end  

of the six weeks I was able to comfortably run sessions in  We spent the first part of the trip in Pikine-Ouest,  both a one-to-one capacity as well as group sessions. a suburb of the capital city Dakar. Our time here  

was split between three projects. The first was  By working in the community, you quickly get to discover first-hand the problems and issues people face.  the regeneration of boko-jeff football field. The

For me, I was surprised by the levels of poverty and violence within the Island as the Caribbean had always  second project was improving conditions for the disabled community of Pikine-Ouest and Guinaw been presented to me as a paradise destination. Many of the programmes were based around supporting  rails, in conjunction with the local disabled association, and our third was centered around a shipping the poorest in the community and attempting to decrease the number of young people involved in gang  container sent from France by the association containing two ambulances amongst other items. violence by getting them involved in after school programmes.

For the second part of the trip we travelled to Faoye, where we ran another series of football

The Jersey Overseas Aid Bursary was a great help in actually allowing me to feasibly go on the trip  tournaments. Working with the wider local community, we established a boutique solidaire which as travel costs are extremely expensive and for young people such as myself a key deterrent in getting  translates to solidarity shop . The third project in Pikine was the replanting of a mangrove forest two young people to volunteer.  hours downstream from the village.

The entire trip was an incredible experience and I am sure I have made friends for life. Thanks to the

help and generosity of the JOA I was able to experience an entirely different culture, improve my

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Organisational Performance Overview 2022

This final section of the Annual Report provides a summary of JOA s achievements and performance in a range of fields in 2022 beyond the grants made and projects funded. It also gives the reader a fair idea of how JOA is administered and governed.

1. Accountability, Decision Making and Oversight

JOA has a unique, hybrid but effective governance structure, whose three principal components

Minister (Chair), independent States-appointed Commission, and Executive Director each ensure

the good performance of the other, while also being anchored to their own outside channels of accountability. In addition, this combination of political, independent and subject-matter expertise now boosted by JOA s expanded human resources enables informed decisions to be made about grants, policies and strategic direction with considerable opportunity for internal challenge and scrutiny.

  The Minister for International Development is the Government s representative on Jersey Overseas

Aid s governing Commission, which she chairs. She is accountable to the Chief Minister, the Council of Ministers, the States Assembly, the Economic and International Affairs Scrutiny Panel, and the public for the performance of Jersey Overseas Aid.

  In addition to the Ministerial Chair, the five JOA Commissioners are appointed by the States Assembly

for terms of three years, which may be renewed by the States Assembly only if it is satisfied with their performance.

  The JOA Commission appoints an Executive Director to manage the operations of the organisation.

A schedule of powers officially delegated by the Commission to the Executive Director is lodged with the States Assembly.

  The Commission holds the Executive Director accountable for the effective operation of JOA, including

the appointment and management of its staff, and the implementation of the strategies and policies established by the Commission.

  The Executive Director of Jersey Overseas Aid is also its Accountable Officer. He is required to provide

assurance to the Principal Accountable Officer and Treasury about propriety, regularity, value for money and feasibility, and ensuring compliance with applicable chapters of the Public Finances Manual. He is also accountable to the Public Accounts Committee of the States.

All new grants require both recommendation by the Executive Director and approval by the Commission.

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South Sudan Credit: OCHA

Organisational Performance Overview 2022 cont.

Assurance is provided through a variety of mechanisms, all of which were demonstrably effective  3) Programme Management in 2022.

In 2022 JOA s nine staff (seven Full-time Equivalents) were responsible for administering annual These include: expenditure of £14.6m. In terms of core business (ensuring the highest standards of project delivery

and impact) this represents:

  JOA produces a strategic plan setting out its priorities and direction of travel every five years. An updated

Strategy for 2022-26 was lodged with the States Assembly and released to the public in Q1 2022.   Overseeing the delivery and finances of c. 35 multi-year development projects worth an average

of £1m each.

  JOA s budget is agreed as a separate Head of Expenditure by the Council of Ministers and the States

Assembly through the rolling four-year Government Planning process. JOA s bids for funding are agreed   Managing ongoing (Emergency and Jersey Charity) and annual (Development) project selection

by the Commission and submitted by the Minister. Approval of its bid for increasing funding from 2023  processes, reviewing approximately 80 shorter proposals and 20 detailed ones, and contracting reflects States Members confidence in the efficacy and good governance of Jersey s aid programme. c.10 new multi-year development projects1, 10 smaller Jersey Charity projects and 152 new Emergency

projects every year.

  The Minister appears before the States of Jersey to answer Questions without Notice on the

performance and future plans of Jersey Overseas Aid. In 2022 she appeared twice, in addition to her   Recruiting and deploying c.25 volunteers on overseas Community Work Projects . speech and questioning by States Members on her re-election to the Ministerial role in June 2022.

These core activities are complemented and supported by a range of other functions which contribute

  The Minister appears before the Economic and International Affairs Scrutiny Panel, accompanied by the  to JOA fulfilling its mission to translate the generosity, skills and compassion of the people of Jersey into

Executive Director. This Scrutiny Panel may also make recommendations to the States Assembly about  effective assistance for the world s most vulnerable people .

JOA funding. In 2022 the panel questioned the Minister three times.

These include:

  The Executive Director is responsible for timely provision of accurate financial information and evidence

to the Public Accounts Committee and the Controller and Auditor General. He is also responsible for liaison with Internal Audit. In September 2020 Internal Audit s latest review of JOA s compliance and performance rated JOA s control arrangements and direction of travel 4 / 4, making it one of the only publicly-funded bodies in Jersey to achieve a perfect score.

  The Minister presents to the States a report of the activities of JOA and the audited accounts for the

previous year. The 2021 report was presented in August 2022, a month earlier than last year.

   JOA Commissioners meet formally several times a year and minutes of these proceedings are taken

and kept by the States Greffier, along with copies of the Executive Director s report and any relevant documentation. In 2022 they held nine such minuted meetings, plus about a dozen email meetings.

2. Planning

In 2022 JOA published its first-ever five-year strategy, with four high-level and 11 more-specific goals, together with the methods and principles it will adopt to pursue them. The plan also sets out three priority themes and six target countries, defining much more narrowly and measurably the benefits Jersey will bring in terms of overseas aid. In 2022 JOA also launched its detailed strategy for Conservation Livelihoods, joining its 2021 strategy for Dairy. A strategy is under development for JOA s third theme (Financial Inclusion), and will be launched in 2023.

JOA s active participation in the government planning process ensures Government and JOA goals are harmonised. Additionally, with JOA s Chair also (by definition) Jersey s Minister for International Development, many of JOA s objectives are formalised as Ministerial Priorities , and the Government s annual Delivery Plan also includes several specific goals agreed by JOA Commissioners. Following her re-election in Q2 2022, JOA contributed seven detailed actions to the Ministerial and Government Delivery Plans.

 Liaising with Jersey government (Ministerial support; accountability; External Relations; Treasury, planning

and budgeting; JFSC; terrorist financing; policy compliance (finance, data protection etc); Comms).

  Assuring and improving quality of donorship (internal systems; policies; sector- and country-knowledge;

strategy development; Monitoring and Evaluation; skills development).

   Representing Jersey internationally, developing relationships with aid and development stakeholders

in beneficiary and donor countries and among NGOs and international organisations.

Developing opportunities for Islanders and Island businesses to participate in overseas aid. Communicating activities with the public through media, outreach and education.

   Conducting a range of accounting, recording, compliance, due diligence, HR, IT, administration

and finance functions ( Back Office ).

With the outbreak of the Ukraine war in February 2022 JOA found itself undertaking significant additional workload (24 new emergency projects) and funding (an additional £1m directly from the Government and £1m given by the public to the Bailiff s Ukraine Appeal). Adaptation of the grant management system, due diligence of new partners, proposal selection and grant management, were all carried our rapidly and efficiently alongside the selection and management of numerous other business as usual projects. This demonstrated the high degree of motivation and professionalism of JOA s small team.

1 Including the larger Jersey Charity ones

2 This year will be over 30 with JOA managing the Ukraine Appeal.

Organisational Performance Overview 2022 cont.

Some key figures for 2022 are presented below. It is important to reiterate that these are not targets

or performance indicators in most cases, a higher number is not necessarily better but they serve as an illustration of the workload in 2022.

Programme Management

Outreach, Community, Training

4. People, Remuneration and Diversity

JOA Commissioners are empowered in law to appoint and remunerate JOA officers as they see fit, and the Executive Director and other JOA staff are not employees of the States Employment Board but of JOA directly. However, they are appointed and managed in accordance with Jersey s employment legislation, and paid through States Payroll. Staff and Commissioners are selected following a competitive Jersey- wide or international recruitment process, in the case of Commissioners and Director one overseen by the Appointments Commission.

2021 and 2022 saw JOA address one of the final remaining concerns raised at internal audit, that we were understaffed to manage our portfolio of projects (now worth around £40m). The organogram below shows how JOA is staffed at the end of 2022. A three-year staffing plan was developed in Q4 2022 (though is yet to be approved) and Commissioners will continue to review staffing levels with the 20% increase to JOA s budget in 2023. A Compliance and Due Diligence Officer is due to be recruited in Q1 2023.

JOA Organogram end 2022

Executive Director

Simon Boas

Operations Officer Head of Programme Head of Finance (0.2)

Rachel Carlotti Edward Lewis Drolia Arinaitwe

Admin  Senior  Communications  Monitoring   Programme  Assistant (0.67) Programme  & Engagement  & Impact Associate Doreen Cauvain Officer (FI) Officer (0.4) Harriet Hall Sam Houiellebecq

Gilly Challinor Lisa Downes / Zoe Pannenborg

Job Descriptions are reviewed regularly and aligned with JOA s organisational goals. Performance is reviewed regularly. Remuneration is benchmarked against comparable roles in the States, plus Arm s- Length Bodies, Jersey Charities and UK aid organisations. An independent review of JOA s reward policy was commissioned in 2022, which found all salaries to be mid-range. JOA employees also benefit from a private pension contribution of 10% of their salary. Staff participate in various professional development programmes, including specialist development courses, language tuition, management training and university qualifications.

Partly in order to address the lack of Jersey-qualified people with relevant skills, JOA instituted a paid internship in 2018 in partnership with UK development charities. In 2022 we employed our sixth and seventh interns (renaming the job as Programme Associate ) and extended the placement to 18 months (which includes six months in a developing country). Additionally, the first two Jersey citizens to be selected to participate in the UN s Junior Professional Officer programme took up their paid two-year placements with the UN s Refugee Agency (UNHCR) at the end of 2021 and beginning of 2022, and

a third joins them in January 2023.

A staff survey will be undertaken in 2023 to shed more light on JOA s diversity and inclusion. However, at this stage we can say that ages range from 22-60 and that seven out of JOA s nine employees at the end of 2022 are women.

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Organisational Performance Overview 2022 cont.

5. Partnerships

Partnership arrangements with Central Government are formalised in an MOU. This sets out how JOA interacts with different departments and entities, including Treasury, External Relations, the Office of the Chief Executive , the Law Officers, States IT, and States HR. This has provided a framework for cooperation while preserving Jersey Overseas Aid s strategic and operational independence from government.

All funding partnerships are governed by a comprehensive Grant Agreement, setting out the conditions for reporting, payment and termination (among others). JOA has continued to improve and refine its due diligence processes for new grantees, which includes field visits to country offices as well as direct relationships with HQs in the global north. Partners are kept informed of developments within JOA, including through industry members organisations like BOND, and several have been involved in the organisation s ongoing sectoral strategic planning process. Partnerships have also been agreed with the Royal Jersey Agricultural and Horticultural Society and Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, beyond the projects they are implementing, to formally establish these Jersey organisations as JOA s strategic and operational partners in Dairy and Conservation respectively.

6. Ethics and Integrity

JOA Commissioners and staff declare any conflicts of interest before every formal meeting. No

financial conflicts were identified, and where personal relationships existed with any potential grantee

(as is occasionally the case with Jersey Charities) these were recorded and the person(s) in question recused themselves from decision-making. There were no instances of staff or Commissioners

behaving unacceptably. JOA Staff are not formally bound by States of Jersey codes of conduct, but their employment contracts specify certain standards of behaviour and internal policies bind them (among others) to the Nolan Principles of standards in public life. Volunteers are also required to sign agreements governing their behaviour when abroad. Development grantees must submit copies of their safeguarding and fraud policies. JOA keeps a register of gifts and hospitality, and two instances (attendance at fund- raising dinners by partners) were declared in 2022. New or updated policies covering Fraud, Safeguarding, Complaints and Whistleblowing, and Staff Conduct came into effect at the beginning of 2022.

7. Finance

Since 2020 JOA s budget has been linked to the size of Jersey s economy, reaching 0.27% of Gross Value Added in 2022. JOA Budgets are drawn up the Executive and approved by JOA Commissioners, who review progress about 10 times a year. JOA grantees budgets and their capacity to manage them

- are reviewed against various criteria before projects are started.

JOA adheres to the Public Finances Manual, and JOA has complied fully with applicable provisions. JOA worked closely with its Finance Business Partner throughout 2022 in an increasingly close relationship whose parameters are now specified in JOA s MOU with central government.

Aided by a part-time Head of Finance, JOA reviews budgets monthly with Treasury and reconciles payments recorded on the JD Edwards system. This has helped identify the occasional clerical error by Accounts Payable. Attempts to profile expenditure in advance are complicated by the unpredictable

nature of humanitarian emergencies and the fact that grants are paid in tranches against agreed operational and expenditure milestones, which may be subject to unforeseen delays in the complicated environments in which JOA s partners work. In 2022 several multi-year development projects and therefore payments were delayed beyond the timeframes envisaged in the original grant agreements, with COVID-19 still affecting delivery in many cases, and projects in Ethiopia suffering from the civil war and the worst drought in living memory.

JOA s electronic grant management system has continued to be developed by JOA staff, systematising many workflows and improving our ability to access and analyse project data. A comprehensive project monitoring system is in place, linking tranche payments to the achievement of milestones. Where charities have fallen short of their obligations we have withheld payments or demanded that money

be returned. There have been no complaints about JOA.

8. Communication and Engagement

2022 saw JOA s communications improve substantially, with the team able to draw on the skills of a professional Communications and Engagement Officer (appointed in August 2021). As well as informing and educating the public about what we do, we want to encourage people to get involved and to publicise Jersey s overseas aid programme internationally.

There were several areas of focus in 2022 including Ministerial visits, the redevelopment of JOA s website, the war in Ukraine, the Five-Year Strategic Plan and the relaunch of JOA s volunteering programme. We also improved our reach on social media, engaging more with the communications teams of JOA s key partners to facilitate improved content sharing. We are currently developing our first-ever communications strategy, as part of which we have commissioned our first-ever survey about public attitudes towards aid and development.

Numerous positive local news articles covered JOA s work in 2022, and our Dairy programmes were featured several times in the UK and Zambian media. JOA was also instrumental in August s Ukraine Week a series of events that celebrated Ukrainian culture while raising money for the Bailiff s Ukraine Appeal. Media coverage of Jersey s Ukraine response was extensive, and included pieces in The Times and The Telegraph newspapers.

JOA was able to relaunch public outreach and volunteering events in 2022 following a two-year hiatus for COVID-19. These included an event marking fifty years of overseas volunteering and 14 engagements in schools and community groups. In October JOA relaunched its volunteering programme, which hadn t recruited new volunteers since 2019. Around 80 Islanders attended the event, which resulted in a record number of volunteer applications being received.

9. Information Governance

JOA is compliant with GDPR and has a nominated Information and Data focal point. There was one data breach in 2022 when an email to supporters was sent with all recipients addresses visible, for which JOA reported itself to the Information Commissioner. JOA is not a scheduled public authority in terms

of the Freedom of Information (2011) law.

Organisational Performance  JOA Risk Matrix (summary)

Overview 2022 cont. Risk Consequences Rating  Controls (summary)

Strategic

10. Risk Management

JOA s mission to is to provide life-changing or life-saving assistance to the world s most vulnerable people. As our results detailed elsewhere show, we are able every year to make a significant difference

to the lives of many more people than live in Jersey. However, many of the same factors that make JOA s projects necessary also make them risky. We operate in difficult and sometimes dangerous environments, where if we were to be too cautious or averse to risk we would likely jeopardise our ability to help others. Given the importance of our work we have to be open to things sometimes not going to plan.

On the other hand, knowing that risks in many areas are probably higher than for most Jersey organisations, we have to take a particularly robust approach to risk management. Although we may need to have a higher tolerance of risk, the consequences may be just as severe for us. We therefore make every effort we can to reduce the likelihood of serious risks occurring, and to mitigate their impact should they do so.

Some of the most serious risks for JOA include fraud, the total failure of a project, and serious harm coming to a staff member or volunteer. There would also be very grave consequences if we were unable to run (or forced to shut down) some or all of our donor programming. This could come about in

a variety of ways, including sudden funding cuts precipitated by reputational harm.

As an organisation, we have taken numerous measures to reduce and mitigate risk. Previous annual reports detail some of the improvements we have made to grant management and due diligence, while behind the scenes we have introduced a range of policies and procedures designed to keep employees and volunteers safe. As a team we work closely together to identify and analyse risks, reviewing our risk register every quarter, assigning ownership but also ensuring that all staff understand all the major threats we face.

In 2022 we continued to refine our approach. We JOA adopted a risk rating system for ongoing grants, and commissioned an additional mid-term expenditure audit for the only development project to be rated red . We reinforced employees training for operating in hostile environments, and strengthened our operations and programme teams to mitigate the (still present) key person risk. We continued to play a part in Jersey s development of Terrorist Financing guidelines for Non-Profit Organisations. Additionally, clarifying JOA s objectives by publishing our five-year strategy could also be viewed through the lens of risk management. On the negative side, though, we still have more work to do on our business continuity plan, and to improve our understanding of information security.

Abrupt deterioration in  Disruption to programmes;  Medium Horizon scanning, reporting and portfolio conditions in a target country Committed funds jeopardised;  review. Development projects assess political Reputational damage  risk, and development work focused on

relatively less corrupt countries. Close contacts on ground.

Significant budget cut for JOA Reputational damage  Medium Outreach and education. JOA work resonates

to Jersey; Impairment in  with and ultimately benefits Jersey public. ability to conduct projects JOA budget formally tied to GVA

Programme & Grant Management

Significant project failure Money wasted;  Medium Rigorous DD and monitoring. Significant risks Reputational damage discussed with partners. Projects where zero

benefits arise if project fails given additional scrutiny. Payments in tranches against milestones. Watertight Grant agreements.

Major disaster needs  Pressure to reduce expenditure  Medium Sufficient JOA staff capacity and un-budgeted funding on existing projects; Pressure  interoperability. Flexibility in Grant

on JOA human resources agreements. Agreement with Bailiff s

Chambers and Side by Side to raise funds

Operational

Abrupt departure  Impairment of operational  Medium  Formalising procedures and recording

of key JOA staff capability for several months High knowledge; interoperability and risk analysis.

Staff adequately remunerated and motivated with sufficient staffing to increase capacity.

Significant loss of  Project operations (payments,  Low  Project documents backed up. Participation electronic project data  reporting) temporarily delayed Medium in States-wide contingency planning and

cyber-security initiatives.

Financial

Terrorist Financing, Money  Reputational damage to Jersey;  Medium  Participation in Island-wide AML and CTF Laundering, sanctions breach  Severe reputational damage  High initiatives. Rigorous DD conducted on

to JOA; Island-wide drop  grantees and volunteers. Grant Agreements in support for overseas aid;  impose obligations on partners.

Criminal proceedings

A significant sum is stolen  Reputational damage to JOA,  Medium Grant agreements control spending and

from JOA, a project or partner Loss of public support, potential  procurement, and active oversight of

impact on programme delivery subgrants. Segregation of duties. Independent

financial audits. Detailed Annual and Final financial reports required and scrutinised. Public Finance Manual and JOA Fraud policy.

Health & Safety

A staff member  Impairment of operational  Medium  Travel advice followed. Relevant trainings or volunteer is killed,  capability; Inability to recruit  High undertaken. Vaccinations and COVID-19 seriously hurt or abducted volunteers; Reputational damage;  advice taken Adequate insurance and special

Potential civil proceedings risks policies. Crisis communication training.

A partner, staff member or  Reputational damage to JOA  Medium  DD conducted on grantees safeguarding volunteer abuses beneficiary   Island-wide drop in support  High and whistleblowing. DBS checks on

for overseas aid volunteers. Safeguarding training.

Humanitarian - Including additional £1million grant from the Government of Jersey for Ukraine support

List of 2022 Grants

International Development Grants

Financial inclusion for clean cooking

Rwanda;Sierra  Financial

Mercy Corps Europe access in Rwanda and Sierra Leone  £1,200,000.00

Leone Inclusion

(FICCARS) - Energy 4 Impact

Sustainable Livelihoods and

Save the Children Community-Led Conservation  Sierra Leone Conservation  £1,000,000.00

for the Protection of Mangrove  Livelihoods

Ecosystems in Sierra Leone

Jersey Charities

Humanitarian cont.

2022 Accounts

All JOA transactions are made through the States Treasury, and the figures below come from the States Accounting System (J D Edwards). JOA is subject to internal and external audits like other departments, though is exempt from adhering to States Financial Directions. JOA s accounts are also found in a slightly different format in the 2022 Government of Jersey Annual Report.

2022 Income and Expenditure

These accounts exclude funds raised by the Bailiff s Ukraine Appeal

Year ended 31 December 2022

Funding Stream  % of Spending  Total Funds

£ Incoming Resources

Bailiff s Ukraine Appeal   JOA oversaw the allocation of the money raised by the people of Jersey

States Grant  £14,632,730 Total Incoming resources  £14,632,730