Title: Local capacity building in Title II food security projects: a framework.

POPLINE Document Number: 276709

Author(s):

Gervais S

Source citation:

Washington, D.C., Academy for Educational Development [AED], Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project [FANTA], 2004 Feb. 31 p. (USAID Office of Food for Peace Occasional Paper No. 3)

Abstract:

Although food security projects have always included capacity building activities, there is not enough monitoring, evaluation, and documentation of these activities to generate lessons learned and best practices. The USAID Office of Food for Peace's new strategic plan for 2004-08 will give a higher priority to capacity building activities within projects, providing an incentive for cooperating sponsors to more systematically conduct, monitor and evaluate capacity building activities within their projects. This paper establishes a conceptual framework for local capacity building within food security projects. It is designed to provide Title II policy-makers and cooperating sponsors with a basic reference tool for the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of projects’ capacity building activities at the local level. This framework builds on the USAID food security framework, in which food availability, access and utilization constitute the three pillars of food security. It focuses on the local level and, therefore, accounts for all actors who work toward food security within a geographic community, such as a district, village or neighborhood. These actors include individuals, households and associations, as well as the local leadership. Each plays a different and useful role in producing community food security. Community food security is the result of their combined activities and efforts. (excerpt)

Keywords:

Influentials
Nongovernmental Organizations
Food Supply
Capacity Building
Nutrition Programs
Monitoring
Program Evaluation
Community Participation
Knowledge Sources
Communication
Organizations
Natural Resources
Environment
Program Sustainability
Programs
Organization and Administration
Primary Health Care
Health Services
Delivery of Health Care
Health
Evaluation