Title: Community Resiliency and Community Capacity Indicators: The FSCCI Food Security Community Capacity I
1Community Resiliency and Community Capacity
IndicatorsThe FSCCI (Food Security Community
Capacity Index)
USAID Office of Food for Peace ME WorkshopAug
20-23/Aug 27-30, 2007
Harold V. TarverDirector, Africare Food Security
Unit Africare House 440 R. Street,
NWWashington, D.C. 20001Email
HTarver_at_Africare.org
2Centrality of Capacity Building
Availability
Access
Access
Capacity Building
Resiliency (Risk, Shocks)
3- Centrality of Capacity Building
- Any planned capacity building activity should be
subsumed within specific food security
objectives. - Source PL480 Title II. FY05. Development
Assistance Program, Proposal Application Format.
4ICB-Local Capacity Building Front and Center (IR
2 Output Indicator 3 And Sub-IR 2.4)
ISACapacity Building Subsumed
5Relevance of the FSCCI to PMP Indicators
- IR 2, Indicator 3 of communities with enhanced
capacity - Sub-IR 2.3 Community Resiliency protected and
enhanced - Sub-IR 2.4 Community capacity to influence
factors (decisions) that affect food security
6Version 1 FSCCI (1998)Core Organizational
Capacity RRA Tool
- 7 Variables with indicators ranked 0-5
- RRA Tool
- Not in Indicator Performance Tracking Table
(IPTT) of Africare Projects
7Version 2 FSCCI (FY02)Core Organizational
Capacity IPTT
- 8 Variables with indicators ranked 1-5
- Core Organizational Capacities Needed to Reduce
Food Insecurity - Community Organization
- Participation
- Transparency of Management
- Good Internal Functioning of the Community or
Organization
8Version 2 FSCCI (FY02)Core Organizational
Capacity IPTT (Contd)
- 8 Variables with indicators ranked 1-5
- Core Organizational Capacities Needed to Reduce
Food Insecurity Contd - Capacity to Analyze and Plan
- Capacity to Take action
- Communication and Exchanges with Outsiders
- Individual Capacity
- Included in the IPTT of All of Africares Title
II Projects
9Version 3 FSCCI (FY04)Core Organizational
Capacity Resiliency
- Better Harmonized between Programs (format
methodology) - 10 Variable Format
- Core Organizational Capacities Needed to Reduce
Food Insecurity (see previous slide) - 2 New FSCCI Variables that measure risk
management - Ability to analyze and manage risk and
vulnerability and - Capacity to manage risk associated with HIV/AIDS
- Included in all Africare IPTTS
10Version 4 FSCCI (FY07)Core Organizational
Capacity Resliency Additional Tools to Build
Resiliency
- 10 Variable Format
- Core Organizational Capacities Needed to Reduce
Food Insecurity (see previous slide) - 2 New FSCCI Variables that measure risk
management - Ability to analyze and manage risk and
vulnerability and - Capacity to manage risk associated with HIV/AIDS
11Version 4 FSCCI (FY07)Core Organizational
Capacity Resliency Additional Tools to Build
Resiliency (Contd)
- Included in all Africare IPTTS
- New RRA Tools and Better FSCCI Guidance (being
pilot tested in 07)
12Lessons Learned
- Demonstrated Utility for Showing Project Impact
on Core Organizational Capacity (IR 2, Output
Indicator 3 and Sub-IR 1.4)
13Lessons Learned
- 1 Demonstrated Utility for Showing Project
Impact on Core Organizational Capacity (IR 2,
Output Indicator 3 and Sub-IR 2.4) - 2 Early Evidence that the Tool is also useful
for protecting and enhancing community Resiliency
to Risk and Shocks (Sub-IR 2.3)
14Lessons Learned (contd)
- 3 Need for Simple Summary Tables to Help
Programs Better Analyze Risk and Shocks (not
added to the core guidance but distributed to
staff) - 4 Build community capacity for networking with
other organizations (non-Title II) working in
HIV/AIDS Programming
15Africare ICB Resources on the FSCCI
- New Africare Food Security Web page
- Food Security Review Briefing Papers
- Country experiences with tool
- Comparative country experiences with tool
- Food Security Review Guidance Papers
16TELL THE STORY..
- PMP IR2, Indicator 3
- PMP Sub-IR 2.3
- PMP Sub-IR 2.4