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Africare Field Manual on the Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation of Food Security Activities

by Suzanne Gervais, Judy C. Bryson, and Karen Schoonmaker Freudenberger, for Africare
December 2003

If you would like to download the entire manual in a single Adobe pdf file, please click here (Caution! The file size is large - 4 MB).  The manual may be downloaded by chapter in Adobe pdf from this page, using the links below: 

Cover, Index, Table of Contents, and Acknowledgements (Adobe pdf, 437 KB)

Introduction (Adobe pdf, 81 KB)

Module 1: Africare's Approach to Food Security Programs (Adobe pdf, 123 KB)

Module 2: Time Line of the Steps in Development Assistance Program (DAP) Design and Implementation (Adobe pdf, 230 KB)

Module 3: Food and Nutrition Security Concepts (Adobe pdf, 227 KB)

Module 4: Participation (Adobe pdf, 99 KB)

Module 5: An Introduction to the Development of Information Systems and Their Use in the Management in Africare's DAPs
(Adobe pdf, 927 KB)

Module 6: How to Develop A Food Security Framework and a Strategic Framework for your DAP (Adobe pdf, 389 KB)

Module 7: Rapid and Participatory Rural Appraisal (RRA and PRA) and Their Application to Africare's Food Security DAPs
(Adobe pdf, 344 KB)

Module 8: Practical Guidance for Implementing a DAP Information System (Adobe pdf, 308 KB)

Appendix: Local Capacity Building in Title II Food Security Projects: A Framework (Adobe pdf, 725 KB