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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Transform/PHARE Project Resources List

A list of tools and resources from Transform/PHARE, a USAID project that used innovative practices from marketing, advertising, human-centered design and behavioral economics to strengthen health-related behavior change programming. Tools are in English and French.

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Family Planning & Reproductive Health

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Implementation

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

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

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

Healthy People, Healthy Ecosystems: A Manual on Integrating Health and Family Planning into Conservation Projects

This manual provides guidance for field-based conservation practitioners in developing countries on integrating health and family planning into community conservation projects. It is designed for those who are starting work in a new area as well as those who might be adding on a health or population component to an existing conservation project. In addition, some sections are likely to be of interest to health partners, development organizations and donors.

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Conservation, Family Planning & Reproductive Health, General Health (non FP/RH), Population, Health & Environment

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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

Family Planning SBC Evidence Database

The Social and Behavior Change/Family Planning (SBC/FP) Evidence Database is a unique resource that compiles and highlights key SBC successes. This database presents a collection of 249 articles describing interventions or studies that address family planning challenges through SBC approaches.

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Family Planning & Reproductive Health

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Evidence

Desk Review of Programs Integrating Family Planning with Food Security and Nutrition (FANTA)

This report synthesizes learnings from 102 health and multisectoral programs, including a rich set of program examples and three case studies, to illustrate the various ways programs are integrating family planning with nutrition and food security interventions. Lessons learned, promising practices for programming, and recommendations for USAID are also provided in the report and brief.

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

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SBC Tools & Resources

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

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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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Healthy People, Healthy Ecosystems: A Manual on Integrating Health and Family Planning into Conservation Projects

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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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Family Planning SBC Evidence Database

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Desk Review of Programs Integrating Family Planning with Food Security and Nutrition (FANTA)

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