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About FAM |
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Food Aid Management (FAM) was created in 1989 by five U.S. private
voluntary organizations (PVOs) to "promote the efficient and effective
use of food aid resources to help alleviate hunger and contribute to
food security".
During its 16 years of existence, the FAM membership
grew to 16 U.S. PVOs and FAM enjoyed
observer status with the
World Food Programme and
EuronAid. FAM pursued
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Facilitate and promote the development of food aid standards
FAM was involved with PVOs in the
development of a wide range of food aid and food security management
standards in the areas of monetization, monitoring and evaluation,
and local capacity building.
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- Promote
the food aid and food security knowledge base of PVOs, USAID staff,
and other collaborators through information exchange and
coordination
Food Security Resource Center...
now managed by FAM Member Counterpart
International, the FSRC
provides information for the food aid community through an extensive
library of books, journals, training materials, policy and concept
papers, and other food aid and food security documents.
Workshops...
FAM worked with its members to design
workshops that built
and strengthened the capacities of the
Title II Cooperating Sponsors in improving food aid and food
security outcomes.
FAM
Publications... FAM produced
food aid reference materials
(many of which can be downloaded from this website),
including guidebooks, briefing books, surveys, reports, and a
lexicon of food aid and food security related terms.
Food Forum...
FAM published a quarterly newsletter
providing food aid and food security professionals with a forum for
the exchange of technical information, field experience, and recent
happenings. Back issues are available
online from 1999 - 2004.
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Facilitate collaboration between PVOs, USAID, and appropriate
development and humanitarian professionals by organizing fora of
discussion.
Linking Agencies... FAM encouraged
PVO collaboration in the development of training programs and
manuals; coordinated PVO responses to
draft documents;
and communicated
with international agencies.
Dialogue between PVOs and Donors... By
arranging meetings and coordinating other opportunities for
consultation between PVOs and donors agencies, FAM enhanced
communication between the providers and the practitioners of food
aid.
To
learn more about the nature and success of FAM's efforts to promote
collaboration, Hank Green conducted a
Constituency Building Study,
available for download here.
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