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USAID’s Office
of Food for Peace
Occasional Paper No. 3
Local Capacity Building in Title II Food Security Projects: A Framework (2004)
This paper establishes a conceptual framework for local capacity building within food security projects. It was designed to provide Title II policy makers and Awardees with a basic reference tool for the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of projects’ capacity building activities at the local level.
The framework builds on the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) food security framework, in which food availability, access, and utilization constitute the three pillars of food security. It accounts for all actors who work toward food security within a geographic community, such as a district, village, or neighborhood. These include individuals, households, and associations, as well as the local leadership. Emphasizing capacity building in community food security projects has some implications for project design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation. It affects the nature of beneficiaries, the time at which beneficiaries should be involved in the project, the choice of project activities, the sequence of their implementation, and the techniques used in the process.
