USAID Office of Food for Peace 2016 – 2025 Food Assistance and Food Security Strategy

The USAID’s Office of Food for Peace strategy builds on the FFP 2006–2010 strategic plan, draws on lessons learned during its implementation, and embraces new approaches and tools that have emerged in recent years to increase the impact of U.S. Government food assistance as a critical tool in global efforts to end hunger and poverty. The Strategy presents a revised conceptual framework for food and nutrition security and examines food security’s linkages to other sectors, including family planning, agriculture and governance.

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Agriculture, Food Security & Nutrition, Democracy, Rights & Governance, Family Planning & Reproductive Health

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Frameworks & Models

Thinking and Working Politically Through Applied Political Economy Analysis: A Guide for Practitioners

This guide provides information on how USAID can think and work in ways that are more politically aware, an approach known as “thinking and working politically” (TWP), through the use of Political Economy Analysis (PEA). PEA is a structured approach to examining power dynamics and economic and social forces that influence development. PEA can help to operationalize the process of thinking politically, while USAID’s initiative on Collaborating, Learning and Adapting (CLA), supports the operationalization of working politically. Together, they can add significant value to a mission’s strategy, projects and activities.

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Democracy, Rights & Governance

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Project Design

Social Norms Exploration Guide & Toolkit (SNET)

The Social Norms Exploration Guide & Toolkit (SNET) is a participatory guide and set of tools to translate theory into practical guidance. Step-by-step guidance, exercises, and templates in the toolkit can help program implementers: understand social norms theory and concepts; prepare staff to identify and investigate social norms; engage community members using participatory learning exercises to identify reference groups, and explore social norms influencing behaviors; analyze information with project team and communities; and, use findings to inform the design of norms-shifting activities and develop good evaluation tools.

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SBC Tools & Resources

Social and Behaviour Change Insights and Practice

This guide was prepared primarily for practitioners who participate in the implementation of GIZ’s food and nutrition security programs. This document provides information on: what is social and behavior change (SBC); what drives human behavior; step-by-step, how to integrate SBC into the various stages of an intervention; and, where to find the most helpful tools, guidance, examples and other resources.

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Agriculture, Food Security & Nutrition

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Monitoring & Evaluation, Project Design

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SBC Tools & Resources

A Practical Guide to Conducting a Barrier Analysis

The guide is a training curriculum that builds skills to plan and carry out a Barrier Analysis survey. The hands-on learning exercises help learners answer the most common and frequently perplexing questions that arise during implementation. Topics including sampling, interviewing techniques, coding, tabulation and data use are discussed throughout the training. The manual uses a step-by-step approach starting with the definition of the behavior to be studied and development of the Barrier Analysis questionnaire.

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Population, Health and Environment Integration Programming Manual

The purpose of the manual is to provide basic, easy to use, and quick information across the range of topics that organizations need to be familiar with at different stages of a PHE program cycle. This manual drew on member experience with designing and implementing Population, Health and Environment (PHE) projects/programs. The manual was established in response to member and partner demands for information to help PHE practitioners implement project activities.

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Population, Health & Environment

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Cross-cutting, Implementation, Monitoring & Evaluation, Project Design

People In Need (PIN) Resource Library

This resource library offers a curated list of practical tools helping relief and development practitioners understand and tackle the barriers that prevent people from following the desired behaviors.

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Implementation, Project Design

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SBC Tools & Resources

Maternal Infant and Young Child Nutrition and Family Planning (MIYCN-FP) Integration Toolkit

This toolkit is a strategic package of resources to guide program managers at implementing organizations, advocates, and decision makers through the processes of piloting, implementing, and scaling up integrated programs and advocating for policy change. These resources include: up-to-date global and country-specific background and reference materials to inform advocacy and assist with the design of evidence-based, state-of-the-art programs; job aids, curricula, and other tools to increase the effectiveness and quality of program activities and services; and, publications that detail key implementation processes and lessons learned.

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Agriculture, Food Security & Nutrition, Family Planning & Reproductive Health, General Health (non FP/RH)

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Cross-cutting, Implementation, Monitoring & Evaluation, Project Design

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Community of Practice, SBC Tools & Resources

List of How-to-Guides

SBC How-to Guides are short guides that provide step-by-step instructions on how to perform core social and behavior change tasks. From formative research through monitoring and evaluation, these guides cover each step of the SBC process, offer useful hints, and include important resources and references.

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Cross-cutting, Implementation, Monitoring & Evaluation, Project Design

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SBC Tools & Resources

Integrating Family Planning into Other Development Sectors

The FHI 360 PROGRESS project (2008-13) added to the evidence base on multi-sector integration, providing guidance on how development organizations can successfully expand their program model to include family planning services. Working closely with partners, PROGRESS developed, implemented, and evaluated three interventions. This report synthesizes lessons learned for use in replication and scale up.

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Agriculture, Food Security & Nutrition, Conservation, Family Planning & Reproductive Health

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Monitoring & Evaluation, Project Design

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Evidence, SBC Tools & Resources

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Thinking and Working Politically Through Applied Political Economy Analysis: A Guide for Practitioners

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Social Norms Exploration Guide & Toolkit (SNET)

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Social and Behaviour Change Insights and Practice

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A Practical Guide to Conducting a Barrier Analysis

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Population, Health and Environment Integration Programming Manual

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People In Need (PIN) Resource Library

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Maternal Infant and Young Child Nutrition and Family Planning (MIYCN-FP) Integration Toolkit

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List of How-to-Guides

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Integrating Family Planning into Other Development Sectors

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