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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Project Design

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Frameworks & Models

SPRING Project Tools

SPRING publications curate evidence, best practices, and policies to help improve nutrition through health, agriculture, and economic development programs.

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

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Evidence, 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

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 Integrated Development Tools

A list of publications and tools demonstrating the value and best practices of integrated design, delivery and evaluation of programs.

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Agriculture, Food Security & Nutrition, Conservation, Democracy, Rights & Governance, General Health (non FP/RH)

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Evidence, Frameworks & Models, 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

Integrating Family Planning into Development Food Security Activities: Formative Research with the Njira Project in Malawi (FANTA)

This study investigated the demand and supply side barriers to accessing family planning that women with young children, adolescent girls and young women face. Employing a user-centered design, the research explored how the Njira project can create acceptable and feasible linkages—tailored to the needs of these priority target groups—from its project platforms to government family planning services. The study also explored community perspectives on connections between population growth, family planning, health, and food security to leverage the project’s health and non-health platforms in promoting social acceptability of family planning use.

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

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Evidence

Indicator list for Development Food Security Activities (DFSA)

List of relevant indicators for Development Food Security Activities (DFSAs).

Sectors

Agriculture, Food Security & Nutrition

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Monitoring & Evaluation

Global Health Learning Center: SBC for Nutrition Course

Interventions to foster changes in behaviors and social norms are an important aspect of efforts to reduce malnutrition around the world. This course aims to demystify Social and Behavior Change (SBC) design as well as share useful SBC-related resources. The course assists practitioners in understanding some SBC models that explain why people behave in certain ways, how behaviors change, and how SBC strategies apply these models in designing behavior-centered programs.

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Agriculture, Food Security & Nutrition

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SBC Tools & Resources

Focus on Families and Culture: A guide for conducting a participatory assessment on maternal and child nutrition

This guide is for program managers and planners conducting a Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition (MCHN) assessment to investigate intra-household roles and influence. The Focus Families and Culture (FFC) guide introduces a holistic framework that can assist program staff to more effectively identify key priority groups for interventions. After learning about the development and key concepts and the methodology. The guide also includes a step-by-step review of the assessment process, complete with case examples, sample tools and diagrams.

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

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Project Design

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

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Social and Behaviour Change Insights and Practice

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

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List of Integrated Development Tools

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Integrating Family Planning into Other Development Sectors

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Integrating Family Planning into Development Food Security Activities: Formative Research with the Njira Project in Malawi (FANTA)

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Indicator list for Development Food Security Activities (DFSA)

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Global Health Learning Center: SBC for Nutrition Course

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Classifications

Links

Organizations

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Focus on Families and Culture: A guide for conducting a participatory assessment on maternal and child nutrition

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