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

About Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance II Project (FANTA-2)

Cooperative Agreement Number: AID-OAA-A-00014
Geographic Scope: Worldwide

PURPOSE

FANTA-2 works to improve nutrition and food security policies, strategies, and programs 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. Focus areas for technical assistance include maternal and child health and nutrition in development and emergency contexts, HIV and other infectious diseases, and food security and livelihood strengthening. FANTA-2 develops and adapts approaches to support the design and implementation of field 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 is managed by FHI 360 and funded by USAID.

PRIORITY AREAS

FANTA-2 Field Support Activities

• Provide targeted, specialized technical assistance and training activities to support nutrition and food security programming strategies, early warning and response systems, and monitoring and evaluation (M&E) for Title II and other USG programs.

• Integrate Community-Based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) into national health systems and strengthen community-based growth promotion (CBGP) and behavior change programs.

• Improve CMAM programming in emergency, reconstruction and stabilization contexts.

• Support national nutrition and HIV policies and guidelines, integrate food and nutrition into PEPFAR HIV services, and strengthen nutrition assessment, counseling, and support (NACS) programming.

• Support quality assurance/quality improvement of CMAM, CBGP and nutrition/HIV programs.

• Support improved nutrition and food security programs in other priority areas as needed.

FANTA-2 Global Leadership Activities

• Support advances in methods and tools that promote program quality.

• Increase capacity to deliver effective services at scale.

• Strengthen international, USG, country government and implementing partner capacity to design, deliver, monitor, improve and demonstrate effectiveness and impact of USAID-assisted nutrition and food security programs.

• Develop and refine indicators measuring household and individual food security and diet quality.

• Build the evidence-base on the impact of lipid-based nutrient supplements (LNS) on prevention of 1) chronic malnutrition, 2) seasonal increases in acute malnutrition and 3) acute malnutrition in vulnerable, disaster-affected populations, through effectiveness trials in multiple countries.

• Adapt Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (LQAS) approaches for cost-effective M&E.

• Develop methods and tools for quality assurance/quality improvement, beneficiary screening and targeting, and cost analysis for program planning and implementation.

PARTNERS

• Centro de Investigaciones en Nutrición y Salud (Guatemala)

• International Food Policy Research Institute (United States)

• National Institute of Nutrition (Vietnam)

• Nutriset (France)

• Population and Environment Services (Madagascar)

• Regional Centre for Quality of Health Care (Uganda)

• Save the Children (United States)

• Social Sectors Development Strategies (United States)

• Tanzania Food and Nutrition Centre (Tanzania)

• Technical Assistance to NGOs International (United States)

• Tufts University (United States)

• University of California at Davis (United States)

• University Research Corporation (United States)

• Valid International (United Kingdom)

• Washington University in St. Louis (United States)