USAID/Peru Food for Development program review

The first part presents an overview of the program covering FY 1982-1987, followed by a description of each implementing agency and its FY 1988 program plans. The magnitude and nature of the food and financial resources provided to Peru during this seven-year period under the regular P.L. 480 Title II food assistance programs and the Section 416 supplementary feeding program, as well as disaster-related programs, are explained in detail. The second part presents various program design options and possibilities which the Mission plans to explore during FY 1988 and also discusses the principal problems and issues which the FFD Division will face in FY 1988. The FFD program brings together food, counterpart from other food programs, other GOP and PVO contributions, and U.S. financial grants. The value of FFD commodities over the period FY 1982-1987, together with U.S., Government of Peru (GOP), and PVO financial contributions, totals almost a quarter of a billion dollars - thus, a major component of U.S. assistance to Peru during these years. (Assistance related to the El Nino disaster came to 12% of the total program.) Several major PVO"s are involved as well as a number of GOP agencies. The program is national in scope, and millions of Peruvians have benefited. This food assistance effort is revealed to be an integrated and critical component of USAID/P"s development strategy, as the activities contribute to and complement objectives and programs in health (child survival and nutrition), agriculture, natural resources management, and private sector development and to the Mission"s focus on therural poor. (Author abstract, modified)