Action - Feed the Future: The U.S. Government’s Global Hunger and Food Security Initiative - Taxation and price policies - All population groups

Programme: Feed the Future: The U.S. Government’s Global Hunger and Food Security Initiative

Programme description

Feed the Future, the U.S. Government’s global hunger and food security initiative, is establishing a lasting foundation for progress against global hunger. With a focus on smallholder farmers, particularly women, Feed the Future supports partner countries in developing their agriculture sectors to spur economic growth that increases incomes and reduces hunger, poverty, and undernutrition. Feed the Future efforts are driven by country-led priorities and rooted in partnership with donor organizations, the private sector, and civil society to enable long-term success. Feed the Future aims to assist millions of vulnerable women, children, and family members to escape hunger and poverty, while also reaching significant numbers of children with highly effective nutrition interventions to prevent stunting and child mortality.

Over the next five years in Mozambique, Feed the Future aims to help an estimated 207,000 vulnerable Mozambican women, children and family members—mostly smallholder farmers—escape hunger and poverty. More than 346,000 children will be reached with services to improve their nutrition and prevent stunting and child mortality. Significant numbers of additional rural populations will achieve improved income and nutritional status from strategic policy engagement and institutional investments.

Programme type

Multi-national

References

Status: 
On-going

Start date:

January
2011

End date:

December
2015
Area: 
Urban
Rural
Peri-urban
Place: 
Zambezia, Nampula, Sofala and Manica Provinces
Target group: 
All population groups
Delivery: 
Other
Other delivery: 
Mentoring, conferences, etc.
Implementation details : 

USG/Mozambique will support FTF objectives and program activities through cross-cutting investments in policy analysis and advocacy, as well as research and technology transfer.

Policy
Policy analysis and advocacy is targeted to support an accelerated CAADP process, business and trade policy reform (particularly in the fruit sector), an integrated policy agenda for agriculture and nutrition, and policy supporting growth monitoring and nutrition. Specific initiatives include:

  • CAADP process: Support the Government of Mozambique to develop a Country Investment Plan by:
  • Developing analytical and data base-building capacity through technical assistance and mentoring by MSU and IFPRI.
  • Informing policies by supporting targeted studies (e.g. on the nutrition-agriculture nexus and role of subsidies).
  • Convening dialogues by organizing CAADP expert and multi-stakeholder consultations/conferences.
  • Business and trade policy reform
  • Ease of business/trade: Promote ease of setting up, operating, and closing businesses, including the trade of fresh and manufactured foods.
  • Credit: Advocate for supportive policies to enable agriculture-specific loan instruments, with particular emphasis on providing affordable credit to women farmers. Labor: Advocate for more efficient and less costly wage regulation to enable output-based pay; promote more transparent and flexible hire-and-fire regulation.
  • Land: Advocate for freely transferable land titles, available for use as collateral, with particular emphasis on women‘s equal rights to land.
  • Fruit: Policy analysis and investment promotion, convening role to support export market development, prospecting exercises.
  • Nutrition policy:
  • FTF (nutrition) will co-invest with PEPFAR through the FANTA-2 program to provide technical support to the Ministry of Health at the national and provincial levels, primarily to develop guidelines and training materials to implement Nutritional Assessment, Counseling and Support.
  • FTF support will focus on strengthening the growth monitoring and promotion component at the national, provincial, district and community levels to ensure that prevention interventions are more effective to reduce chronic undernutrition.
  • FTF nutrition and agriculture funds will support MSU to conduct advocacy and analysis to encourage integration of the agriculture and nutrition policy agendas.
Target population size : 
Feed the Future aims to help an estimated 207,000 vulnerable Mozambican women, children and family members—mostly smallholder farmers—escape hunger and poverty. More than 346,000 children will be reached with services to improve their nutrition
Coverage level (%): 
.
Outcome indicator(s): 
  • Business-supportive legislation passed
  • CAADP investment plan developed by November 2011
  • Assess MOH growth monitoting and promotion policy

 

M&E system: 

Using guidance from the January 2011, USAID Evaluation Policy, USAID/Mozambique will employ monitoring and evaluation (M & E) personnel to gather evidence of how FTF Mozambique projects are sustainably reducing poverty and hunger. USAID/Mozambique‘s Agriculture, Trade and Business Office (ATB) staff will be responsible for supervising M & E work. USG/Mozambique will monitor and evaluate overall FTF investments to ensure that they are achieving objectives and maximizing returns. Program activities must be tracked through periodic field visits by Mission staff and through ongoing monitoring and learning by implementing partners. USG/Mozambique‘s approach to M&E will consist of three components:

  1. Project-level performance monitoring,
  2. Program and impact evaluations, and
  3. Assistance to strengthen Government of Mozambique‘s capacity to establish performance baselines and targets, and to collect, analyze, and utilize reliable data on the impact of policies and investments.

The integration of agriculture, nutrition, and health elements into a joint strategic plan provides a unique opportunity to innovate, document, and demonstrate best practices associated with a concurrent multi-sector investment model. Because the Mozambique FTF strategy will be supporting linkages among existing programs, USAID/Mozambique is well positioned to develop a model for harmonizing key agricultural and nutrition indicators relevant across areas of focus. Building on this collaboration, both the Health and Economic Growth teams will work together to integrate M & E systems and processes to track synergies and multiplier effects between the two sectors. The integration of the M & E function may take the form of harmonized M & E plans at the implementer level combined with joint monitoring by Mission, Economic Growth and Health team members.

Reliable and well-defined monitoring, reporting, and evaluation methods, roles, and communication channels result in:

  • Improved project and program management,
  • Promote ongoing learning,
  • Tests of development hypotheses, and
  • Ensure accountability

A fully functioning M & E team and system further help to illustrate the Mission‘s value added to overall development not only to key stakeholders in the USG, but also to the Government of Mozambique and other development partners.

Baseline: 
FTF/Mozambique will use the following lead indicators to track progress in implementing this strategy. Reduction in the poverty prevalence rate in Zambezia and Nampula, disaggregated by sex; Reduction in the underweight prevalence rate of children under five years of age in Zambezia and Nampula. Further indicators will be chosen as appropriate, but are expected to include: Value of incremental sales (collected at farm-level) attributed to FTF implementation, disaggregated by sex of household; Prevalence of stunted children under five years of age.
Post-intervention: 

FTF/Mozambique will use the following lead indicators to track progress in implementing this strategy.
Reduction in the poverty prevalence rate in Zambezia and Nampula, disaggregated by sex; Reduction in the underweight prevalence rate of children under five years of age in Zambezia and Nampula.
Further indicators will be chosen as appropriate, but are expected to include:
Value of incremental sales (collected at farm-level) attributed to FTF implementation, disaggregated by sex of household; Prevalence of stunted children under five years of age.

Outcome reported by social determinants: 
Vulnerable groups

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