Guidance Documents

Research

FAM Workshops

Monetization
 Working Group

• ACDI-VOCA's Monetization Best Practices Manual: First Edition
  by the Food for Development Unit at ACDI-VOCA, December 2003. (in Adobe pdf, 805 KB)

• Background Paper and Guide to Addressing Bellmon Amendment Concerns on Potential Food Aid Disincentives and Storage
  USAID/Office of Food for Peace, July 1985

• Bellmon Certification Requirements for P.L. 480 Title II Activities
  (Cable: STATE 086386)
  USAID/Office of Food for Peace, 1998 (in Adobe pdf, 608 KB)

• Commodities Reference Guide (CRG)
  USAID, Office of Food for Peace, 2000 with updates in December 2003

• Freight Forwarding Quotes in Monetization: A Report from the Food Aid Consultative Group (FACG) Meeting
  by Lee Thompson, Africare (Adobe pdf, 13 KB), published in Food Forum,
  2nd Quarter 2002

• P.L. 480 Title II Cooperating Sponsor
  Monetization Manual
  FAM Monetization Working Group, 1999
  Click the upper right link for sections in English --->
  
  
  
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  Spanish version, Chapters 1-18 only (no
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• P.L. 480 Title II Monetization Field Manual
  USAID, Office of Food for Peace, 1998 (Adobe pdf, 92 KB)

• Supplemental Information on Bellmon Disincentives
  MS Word, 32 KB

• USDA Program Implementation Reporting Links

• 1999 Bellmon Analysis for Uganda
  by John K. Beijuka, June 2000, submitted by ACDI-VOCA (Adobe pdf, 141 KB)

• Bibliography of FSRC Resources on Monetization
  Adobe pdf, 44 KB

• Food Aid Monetization in West Africa: How to Make it More Effective
  1999, by John M. Staatz, Pat Diskin, and Nancy Estes.
  Food Security II Policy Synthesis #49, Michigan State University (MSU)

• Report to Congress on Food Aid Monetization
  USDA/FAS, 2001 (Adobe pdf)

• Title II Food Aid and Agricultural Development: Towards a Principled Argument for When, and When Not, to Monetize
  2003, by David Tschirley and Julie Howard, MSU International Development Working Paper #81 (Adobe pdf, 416 KB)

• "USAID and GOG [Government of Guinea] Jointly Resolve Tax Issue"
  by Laura Lartique, Technical Writing Specialist, USAID/Guinea, 2001

• West Africa Bellmon Profiles
  A joint effort of the USDA/FAS Regional Office, USAID West Africa Regional FFP Office, and West African Title II Cooperating Sponsors, 2002

• "What is Monetization?"
  (A special feature related to the article "USAID and GOG Jointly Resolve Tax Issue") by Laura Lartique, Technical Writing Specialist, USAID/Guinea, 2001

• FAM Title II Advanced Monetization Workshop Report
  Presentations & Materials coming soon!
  December 9-13, 2002, Durban, South Africa (MS Word, 200 KB)

• FAM Headquarters Monetization Workshop Report
  October 22-26, 2001, Washington, DC (MS Word, 429 KB)

• Notes from the Latin America Regional Monetization Workshop
  January 28 - February 2, 2001, Lima, Peru (MS Word, 123 KB)

• Summary of FAM Monetization Workshop
  Johannesburg, South Africa, November 1999 (MS Word, 100 KB)

• Summary of West and Central Africa Monetization Workshop
  Accra, Ghana, July 1999 (Adobe pdf, 53 KB)