Over the past 20 years, with support from the United States Agency for International Development's Office of Food for Peace (USAID FFP) and Title II. of U.S. Public Law 480, Africare has gained extensive experience carrying out food security programs in Africa. Drawing on that experience, Africare has launched the Africare Food Security Review series of technical papers. The papers' titles are listed below. Click here to view summaries and read the full-length papers.

 

1. "Guidance: How to Measure the Number of Months of Adequate Household Food Provisioning (MAHFP) Based on Participatory Rural Appraisals in Food Security Interventions." Summary and full-length paper here.

2.  "Guidance: How to Measure the Food Security Community Capacity Index (FSCCI)." Summary and full-length paper here.

3.  "Draft Guidance: How to Measure the Food Security Program Capacity Index (FSPCI)." Summary and full-length paper here.

4.  "Guidance: How to Compile a Success Story." Summary and full-length paper here.

5.  "Brief: Two Methods for Measuring Household Food Security and Vulnerability — Evidence From the Zondoma Food Security Initiative, Burkina Faso."Summary and full-length paper here.

6.  "Brief: Community Based Use of the FSCCI to Identify and Manage Risk in Uganda."Summary and full-length paper here.

7.  "Use of a Revised Version of the FSCCI to Identify and Manage Health and Nutrition Risks and Vulnerability in Guinea."Summary and full-length paper here.

8.  "Identifying and Managing a Major Shock: Case Study of the Title II Funded Guinea Food Security Initiative."Summary and full-length paper here.

9.  "The Link between Health/Nutrition and Household Vulnerability for Phase II of the Zondoma Food Security Initiative in Burkina Faso: MAHFP as a Tool for Targeting Project Interventions."Summary and full-length paper here.

 

"Innovations in Education: The Role of the Education Sector in Combating HIV/AIDS" (11 pp., 231 KB, PDF).
Since 2002, Africare has been implementing its model care and support program for orphans and vulnerable children. This model, known under the acronym COPE (Community-based Orphan care, Protection and Empowerment) seeks to provide a comprehensive level of programming for orphans and vulnerable children affected by HIV/AIDS and their caregivers.

"Youth Empowerment and Support (YES!) Project: A Southern Africa Experience" (9 pp., 199 KB, PDF). The Youth Empowerment and Support (YES!) Project was designed to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and expand risk reduction choices among the most vulnerable youth from 15 to 24 years in Malawi, Zambia and South Africa.

"Man Enough to Care: Involving Men in Home-Based Services for People Living With HIV/AIDS in Rural Zimbabwe" (9 pp., 203 KB, PDF). This study explores the challenges of involving men in HIV/AIDS-related home-based care and the impact of male involvement on the quality of home-based care services in a rural Zimbabwe.