Institute of Development Studies

Partnering for Better Food

Innovative Approaches to Partnering with the Private Sector to Link Agriculture and Nutrition in USAID Priority Countries 

This project aims to identify and support scalable public-private innovative partnerships in developing countries that bridge the gaps between agriculture and nutrition programmes to improve nutrition for the poor and undernourished.

Within the context of existing activities of the Feed the Future (FTF) Initiative in Bangladesh, Uganda and Kenya, the work will have three stages:

1. To develop a rapid assessment framework for identifying programmatic opportunities that link agriculture and nutrition policies, programmes and/or policies in FTF target countries.
2. To determine the 'state of play' in the three countries with respect to opportunities to integrate agriculture and nutrition policies, programmes and/or projects through public-private partnerships and the obstacles that need to be overcome to ensure the success of these policies, programmes and/or projects. The rapid assessment framework will be used for this purpose.
3. To validate the usefulness of the rapid assessment framework by consulting with key stakeholders globally and in the three countries.

There will be four substantive outputs from this project:

• a written report on the scope for collaboration with the private sector in the context of policies, programmes and projects directed at agriculture and health in Bangladesh, Uganda and Kenya;
  
• in-country workshops in Bangladesh, Uganda and Kenya;
  
• a working paper on the use of a rapid assessment framework for identifying value chain opportunities to integrate agriculture and nutrition with case studies from Bangladesh, Uganda and Kenya; and
  
• a policy brief that provides a short summary of the rapid assessment framework directed at a wider stakeholder audience.
  

• IDS key contact: John Humphrey
• Project dates: April 2011 - Ongoing
• Project status: Open
• Funder: Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)
• Total project value:$ 332,992

Researchers

• John Humphrey
• Spencer Henson