Food Security Program Lifecycle Toolkit Manual Draft
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Food Security Program Lifecycle Toolkit FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY, INC. Washington, DC Office 236 Massachusetts Ave., Suite 305 Washington, DC 20002 Telephone: 202-547-0560 www.fh.org June 2006 ICB Lifecycle Toolkit Food for the Hungry, Inc. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Food for the Hungry would like to acknowledge and thank several people and organizations for their contribution to this program lifecycle toolkit. Buck Deines was the lead editor of this toolkit document and several sections were also written by him. The overall framework for the toolkit, the various thematic areas that are covered in the toolkit, and some of the individual tools in this toolkit were conceptualized, developed, and written by Thomas Davis and David Evans under the USAID ISG and ISA grants. Buck Deines, Keith Wright and Maria McCulley contributed toward the development of some of the tools included within the toolkit. Several of the tools cited in this kit were either taken in their entirety or adapted from the work of copyrighted or on-line publications produced by others. In that regard and most notably, we would like to acknowledge the following authors and/or organizations: GTZ and Catholic Relief Services, whose publications were utilized in the section on participatory rural appraisals; World Vision International, whose publication was utilized in the section on holistic appraisals; CARE/USA, whose publication was utilized in the sections on pre-program assessments and program design; Johns Hopkins University, the Child Survival Technical Support Project, and CORE, whose documents were utilized in the section on baseline surveying; AED/LINKAGES, whose publication was utilized in the section on adult education; World Relief, who originally formulated the Care Group methodology that has been adapted and used by Food for the Hungry; Save the Children Federation, whose publication was utilized in the section on Positive Deviance; Marcia Griffiths of the Manoff Group, whose publication was utilized in the section on trials of improved practices; International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), whose publication was utilized in the section on program monitoring and evaluation; and AED/FANTA, whose publications were drawn upon for various sections in the toolkit. This document was made possible in part through support provided by the Office of Food for Peace, US Agency for International Development, under the terms of Food for the Hungry, Inc.’s Institutional Capacity Building Program Award AFP-A-00-03-00008-00. The opinions expressed herein are those of Food for the Hungry, Inc. and do not necessarily reflect the views of the US Agency for International Development. 2 ICB Lifecycle Toolkit Food for the Hungry, Inc. TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ......................................................................................................................... 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................................................................................................. 3 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................................ 7 CHAPTER 1: PRE-PROGRAM ASSESSMENT TOOLS ......................................................................10 INTRODUCTION TO CHAPTER 1 ..................................................................................................................10 1.1 DESIGNING FH FOOD SECURITY PROGRAMS .......................................................................................12 Applying FH’s Vision and Mandate to Food Security Programs ........................................................13 1.2 A FOUR-STEP METHOD FOR MACRO-TARGETING ...............................................................................16 Description...........................................................................................................................................16 Introduction .........................................................................................................................................16 Criteria for Targeting ..........................................................................................................................17 Steps .....................................................................................................................................................17 Step One – Selection of Targeting Indicators .................................................................................................. 17 Step Two – Identification of Secondary Data Sources .................................................................................... 21 Step Three – Secondary Data Collection and Analysis ................................................................................... 21 Step Four – Macro-level Food Security Mapping ........................................................................................... 26 1.3 HOLISTIC FOOD SECURITY ASSESSMENT (HFSA) ...............................................................................27 Description...........................................................................................................................................27 Introduction .........................................................................................................................................27 Pre-field Assessment Stakeholder Analysis ..........................................................................................27 Sequence of HFSA Activities ................................................................................................................27 HFSA Diagnostic Tools .......................................................................................................................29 Stakeholder Analysis ....................................................................................................................................... 29 Field Assessments ........................................................................................................................................... 29 The HFSA Report .................................................................................................................................34 Suggested Outline for HFSA Reports ............................................................................................................. 34 Associated Tools ..................................................................................................................................36 Stakeholder Analysis Tools ............................................................................................................................. 36 Rapid and Participatory Rural Appraisal Tools ............................................................................................... 36 Holistic Community Appraisal (HCA) ............................................................................................................ 36 Acknowledgements & Resources..........................................................................................................36 1.4 RAPID & PARTICIPATORY RURAL APPRAISAL METHODS ....................................................................37 Description...........................................................................................................................................37 Introduction .........................................................................................................................................37 Rapid Rural Appraisal ..................................................................................................................................... 37 History of Rapid Rural Appraisal .................................................................................................................... 38 The Emergence of Participatory Rural Appraisal ............................................................................................ 38 Key Concepts shared by RRA and PRA ...............................................................................................39 The RRA/PRA Tool Kit .........................................................................................................................40 Acknowledgements & Resources..........................................................................................................43 1.5 HOLISTIC COMMUNITY APPRAISAL.....................................................................................................45 Description...........................................................................................................................................45 Introduction .........................................................................................................................................45 Transformational Development and the Importance of Understanding the Spiritual Realm ...............47 A Case for Holistic Community Appraisal ...........................................................................................48 Secondary Data Review .......................................................................................................................49 Direct Observation (and/or Observation Indicator Checklists) ...........................................................50 Semi-Structured Interviewing & Focus Groups ...................................................................................51 Words of caution