Briefing Papers Number 13, December 2011 | Page 11
Feed the Future
needs of individual countries through consultative processes and plans that are developed and led by country
governments
• Strengthen strategic coordination to mobilize and align the
resources of the diverse partners and stakeholders—
including the private sector and civil society—that are
needed to achieve common objectives
• Ensure a comprehensive approach that accelerates inclusive
agriculture-led growth and improves nutrition, while
also bridging humanitarian relief and sustainable development efforts
• Leverage the benefits of multilateral institutions so that priorities and approaches are aligned, investments are coordinated, and financial and technical assistance gaps
are filled
• Deliver on sustained and accountable commitments, phasing in investments responsibly to ensure returns, using
benchmarks and targets to measure progress toward
shared goals, and holding ourselves and other stakeholders publicly accountable for achieving results19
In September 2009, President Obama launched the U.S.
government’s global food security initiative, Feed the Future.
Its goals are: to boost food supplies through agricultural development; to increase access to food through more efficiently functioning markets, job growth, and higher incomes for
poor people; to improve nutrition, especially among mothers
and infants; and to build stronger food and agricultural systems and other institutions that can assure sustainable food
security for years to come. This heightened commitment to
agricultural development in 2009 was a welcome response to
the global food price crisis of early 2008.
The Feed the Future is an innovative program that aims
to put the aid effectiveness principles of Paris and Accra and
the Rome Principles for effective assistance for food security
that were endorsed at the World Food Summit in Rome in
2009 into action. The Rome principles include:
• Invest in country-owned plans that support results-based programs and partnerships, so that assistance is tailored to the
Figure 4 Feed the Future Results Framework
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