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Focus Areas
Assessments, Monitoring & Evaluation
Emergency Nutrition
Food Aid
Food Security
HIV
Household Food Consumption
Infant & Child Nutrition
Women's & Adolescents' Nutrition

Focus Areas
Ethiopia
Guatemala
Haiti
Honduras
India
Kenya
Madagascar
Malawi
Nicaragua
Rwanda
Sudan
Zambia
 

 

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The FANTA project is funded by USAID and managed by the Academy for Educational Development.
Our partners include PVOs, research institutes and United Nations agencies.


US Agency for International Development

US Agency for International Development (USAID) is the US federal government agency that implements America’s foreign economic assistance programs.

Office of Health, Infectious Disease and Nutrition (HIDN) of the Bureau for Global Health
The USAID Bureau for Global Health focuses on global leadership, technical suport to the field and research and evaluation.

Office of Food for Peace of the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance
USAID’s Food for Peace Programs (Public Law 480) supports both humanitarian and sustainable development assistance in the form of US agricultural commodities. Title II is managed by the Food for Peace office.

The Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) works with US Embassies and USAID Missions to assess the need for US assistance in responding to foreign disasters.


Academy for Educational Development

The Academy for Educational Development (AED)
The FANTA project is managed by the Academy for Educational Development. AED is an independent non-profit organization committed to solving critical social problems in the US and throughout the world.

AED’s major areas of focus include health, education, enterprise and economic development, environment and energy, and youth development.


Cornell University

The Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University is a center for research in food security and nutrition and a subcontractor on the project. The focus of their work with FANTA is on specific policy and technical issues and operations research.


Tufts University

Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy is a center for research in food security and nutrition and a subcontractor on the project. The focus of their work with FANTA is on specific policy and technical issues and operations research.


The International Food Policy Research Institute works to identify and analyze policies for sustainably meeting the food needs of the developing world. Research at IFPRI concentrates on economic growth and poverty alleviation in low-income countries, improvement of the well-being of poor people, and sound management of the natural resource base that supports agriculture. IFPRI seeks to make its research results available to all those in a position to use them and to strengthen institutions in developing countries that conduct research relevant to its mandate.


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Regional Centre for Quality of Health Care (RCQHC)
The Regional Centre for Qualtiy of Health Care (RCQHC), a non-profit organization based in Uganda, works to build regional capacity in health care by promoting better practices through education, networking, and strategic partnerships. RCQHC serves as the base for the Quality of Health Care Network, a group of over 1,000 health care professionals from governments, private sector, and NGOs in 20 nations in Eastern and Southern Africa.

With the growth of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the region and increasing recognition of the disease's nutritional implications, RCQHC has taken a leading role in supporting improved knowledge and increased adoption of state-of-the-art practices in nutrition and HIV/AIDS.


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Technical Assistance to NGOS (TANGO) International
TANGO (Technical Assistance to Non-Governmental Organizations) provides technical assistance in the form of institutional capacity building to organizations involved in development and food security. TANGO's key focus areas include health and education, development relief, urban livelihoods, food and livelihood security, and HIV/AIDS.


Freedom from Hunger

Freedom From Hunger (FFH)
Freedom from Hunger brings innovative and sustainable self-help solutions to the fight against chronic hunger and poverty. FFH’s Credit with Education strategy focuses on women in rural areas in developing countries and addresses the root causes of poverty and hunger through a combination of financial services and education for better health and nutrition.


UN's World Health Organization

World Health Organization is the United Nations specialized agency for health. WHO's objective, as set out in its Constitution, is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. Health is defined in WHO's Constitution as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.


UN's SCN

Standing Commission on Nutrition (SCN) is the focal point for harmonizing the policies and activities on nutrition of the United Nation system. The SCN publishes the Refugee Nutrition Information System (RNIS) reports quarterly. RNIS provides information on the nutrition situation of refugee and displaced populations. The reports focus on Sub-Saharan Africa but also include some information on the situation in Asia.


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World Food Programme is the United Nations frontline agency in the fight against global hunger. WFP aims to save lives in refugee crises and other emergencies, improve nutrition and quality of life of the world's most vulnerable people at critical times in their lives, and enable development by (a) helping people build assets that benefit them directly; (b) promoting the self-reliance of poor people and communities.


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Valid International is a United Kingdom-based consulting firm focusing on operational research in emergency situations. The Community Therapeutic Care (CTC) program is managed by Valid International with support from FANTA.


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NicaSalud is a federation of 24 international and national PVOs that work in community-based health in Nicaragua. Beginning in 1998 as a consortium of PVOs working in response to damage caused by Hurricane Mitch with support from USAID/Managua, NicaSalud's mission is to enhance the health of vulnerable groups by improving health indicators, promoting primary healthcare, establishing a standardized monitoring and evaluation system, and supporting coordination and collaboration among its members.


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The Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), in Nairobi, conducts biomedical research and serves as a centre of excellence for health research in Africa. It also works closely with the Kenyan Ministry of Health and various national councils and committees on issues of research policy and priorities.


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The Treatment and Research AIDS Center (TRAC) was created to conduct national HIV/AIDS surveillance and provide technical assistance to the public and private sectors in the prevention, testing and clinical treatment of HIV/AIDS in Rwanda. TRAC is responsible for national planning, policy development, training of trainers and curriculum development for clinical programs. TRAC provides technical assistance and guidance in the effective organization and management of HIV/AIDS programs.