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Information sharing and consultation among major food aid donors : an IFPRI report to the Canadian International Development Agency, the Development Directorate-General of the European Commission, and the United States Agency for International Development
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Information sharing and consultation among major food aid donors : an IFPRI report to the Canadian International Development Agency, the Development Directorate-General of the European Commission, and the United States Agency for International Development
Cooperation among food aid donors, according to this report, can be enhanced by a four-step strategy: (1) charging a working group in each important recipient country with responsibility for preparing a common monthly report; (2) establishing and using a uniform reporting format; (3) regularizing consultations among senior donor officials; and (4) promoting joint conferences and staff training, using, where appropriate, the services of existing resources such as the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex.
Hopkins, Raymond F. · 1984
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Abstract
These steps, it is argued, will make donor food aid more productive by reducing the costs of obtaining timely and corroborated information, increasing the availability of information, and reducing ineffective food aid programming, e.g., the provision of aid in unmanageable fashion or to unrewarding projects. Appendices discuss food aid administration in the European Community, the United States, and Canada; present phone listings for key donor food aid administrators; discuss the preparation of monthly country reports and the design of a food needs assessment; and present a uniform reporting format and a proposal for joint donor establishment of a training consortium. (Author abstract, modified)
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