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Strengthening Capacity for Participatory Development
"Capacity development is essential to participatory initiatives, especially given the recent trend toward decentralized governance in many developing countries.
Renegotiating the food aid convention
Public food distribution system in Bangladesh
""The current global agreement governing food aid—the Food Aid Convention (FAC)—will expire in 2007.
IFPRI Forum: Insuring the World’s Poor
Is there persistence in the impact of emergency food aid?
The primary goal of emergency food aid after an economic shock is often to bolster short-term food and nutrition security.
Comparing cash and food transfers
The key objective of the study described here was to compare the impact of cash and food transfers on beneficiary households’ food and livelihood security and on the local economy.
Recommendations
Food aid
Renegotiating the Food Aid Convention
The current global agreement governing food aid—the Food Aid Convention (FAC)—will expire in 2007. It has come under heavy criticism as has the diffuse set of broader food aid governance institutions that has emerged in the last 50 years.
Is there persistence in the impact of emergency food aid?
"The primary goal of emergency food aid after an economic shock is often to bolster short-term food and nutrition security.
Poverty mapping applies models of household welfare developed from detailed household consumption and expenditure surveys to the extensive but less detailed data from national censuses.
This study aims to assess the value of poverty mapping to public-works projects undertaken by the World Food Programme (WFP) with the government of Malawi in its Food for Assets and Development (FFASD) program....Poverty mapping is a useful decisi
Do crowded classrooms crowd out learning?
"Bangladesh’s Food for Education Program (FFE), which provided free food to poor families if their children attended primary school, was successful in increasing children’s school enrollment, especially for girls.