Where does the project work? Who are the team members?

About the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance III Project (FANTA)

Cooperative Agreement Number: AID-OAA-A-12-00005
Geographic Scope: Worldwide

FANTA works to improve and strengthen nutrition and food security policies, strategies, programs and systems through technical support to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and its partners, including host country governments, international organizations, and nongovernmental organization implementing partners. FANTA aims to improve the health and well-being of vulnerable groups through technical support in the areas of maternal and child health and nutrition in development and emergency contexts, HIV and other infectious diseases, food security and livelihood strengthening, agriculture and nutrition linkages, and emergency assistance in nutrition crises. FANTA develops and adapts approaches to support the design and implementation of country-level programs, while building on field experience to improve and expand the evidence base, methods, and global standards for nutrition and food security programming. The project, managed by FHI 360 and funded by USAID, is a 5-year cooperative agreement.

PARTNERS

Partners include the Centre for Counseling, Nutrition and Health Care (COUNSENUTH); Development Alternatives Inc. (DAI); Helen Keller International (HKI); Instituto de Nutrición de Centro América y Panamá (INCAP); the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); Media for Development International (MFDI); Michigan State University (MSU); Micronutrient Initiative (MI); Social Sectors Development Strategies (SSDS); Technical Assistance for NGOs International (TANGO International); Tufts University; University of California, Davis (UC Davis); and Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL).

2013 FOCUS COUNTRIES

ACTIVITIES OVERVIEW

FANTA works collaboratively with national governments, nongovernmental organizations, implementing partners, and academic institutions to:

• Build the evidence base for effective food and nutrition program approaches, as well as global standards and policies in nutrition and food security.

• Strengthen monitoring and evaluation capacity by providing improved approaches and tools for data collection and analysis to better target program resources and to monitor and evaluate the outcomes.

• Integrate Community-Based Management of Acute Malnutrition to scale through national health systems.

• Help host country governments better respond to chronic food insecurity and food security crises by strengthening national capacity to address food security priorities.

• Strengthen national capacity to maximize the impact of nutrition in the fight against HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, and other infectious diseases.

• Expand access to nutrition care services for people living with HIV and other infectious diseases by strengthening national capacity to implement and scale up the community-based nutrition assessment, counseling, and support (NACS) approach.

• Strengthen the capacity of host country governments and implementing partners to provide MCHN program assessment, design, implementation, and M&E through evidence-based action and expanded coverage.

• Strengthen agriculture-nutrition linkages to reduce chronic malnutrition by supporting the interventions of U.S. government health and nutrition initiatives.

• Support host country governments’ and implementing partners’ capacity for maternal and child health and nutrition program assessment, design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation through evidence-based action and expanded coverage.