Global Food Security: USAID is Improving Coordination but Needs to Require Systematic Assessments of Country-Level Risks
Abstract
In fiscal years 2010 through 2013, the U.S. government allocated $7 billion to implement global food security programs implemented under the FTF initiative by USAID and its U.S. FTF partner agencies, which include the Departments of Agriculture, State, and the Treasury, and the Millennium Challenge Corporation. To enhance FTF efforts to increase agricultural productivity and reduce malnutrition in 19 chronically food insecure countries, USAID has outlined two approaches: an FTF whole-of-government approach, which aims to improve coordination and integrate expertise and resources of all FTF partner agencies, and a country-led approach to build country capacity to sustain U.S. efforts by including the host government and other stakeholders in planning and implementation. GAO was asked to study the FTF initiative. GAO examined (1) the extent to which USAID has implemented a whole-of-government approach and (2) how USAID has facilitated a country led approach. GAO analyzed FTF related agency documents, conducted a survey of all USAID and U.S. FTF partner agency representatives implementing FTF in 19 focus countries, and interviewed FTF agency officials in Washington, D.C.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 2013
- Accession Number
- AD1176849
Entities
People
- Anna Maria Ortiz
- Catherine Hurley
- Cheryl Goodman
- Cynthia Grant
- David Dayton
- David Dornisch
- David Hancock
- Farahnaaz Khakoo-mausel
- Grace Lui
- Jill Lacey
- Justin Fisher
- Mallory Bulman
- Mark Dowling
- Martin de Alteriis
- Michele Wong
- Paige Muegenburg
- Rachel Dunsmoor
- Sarah Veale
- Sushmita Srikanth
- Thomas Melito
Organizations
- United States Government Accountability Office