Community Resiliency and Community Capacity Indicators: The FSCCI Food Security Community Capacity I

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Community 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
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Centrality of Capacity Building
Availability
Access
Access
Capacity Building
Resiliency (Risk, Shocks)
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• 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.

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ICB-Local Capacity Building Front and Center (IR
2 Output Indicator 3 And Sub-IR 2.4)
ISACapacity Building Subsumed
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Relevance 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

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Version 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

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Version 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

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Version 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

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Version 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

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Version 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

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Version 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)

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Lessons Learned

• Demonstrated Utility for Showing Project Impact
  on Core Organizational Capacity (IR 2, Output
  Indicator 3 and Sub-IR 1.4)

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Lessons 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)

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Lessons 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

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Africare 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

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TELL THE STORY..

• PMP IR2, Indicator 3
• PMP Sub-IR 2.3
• PMP Sub-IR 2.4