Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Years of mechanism: 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Details for Mechanism ID: 14215
Country/Region: Ethiopia
Year: 2013
Main Partner: FHI 360
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: NGO
Funding Agency: USAID
Total Funding: $0

Building on the successes of FANTA-II, the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance III (FANTA-III) will continue to lead USAID's global nutrition programming excellence. FANTA-III will be a five year cooperative agreement that aims to provide technical assistance that contributes to strengthened food security and health policies, programs and systems for improved nutrition. Nutrition is an important component of USAID's food security and health programming and the critical nexus between the Global Health Initiative (GHI) and the Feed the Future Initiative (FtF). As such FANTA-III will achieve its objective by strengthening country-driven food security and health policies, programs and systems and by building up the global evidence and capacity for food security and health policies, programs and systems for improved nutrition. Given the multisectoral nature of nutrition, FANTA-III will be expected to leverage previous experience in health, infectious diseases, humanitarian assistance and food security programs in order to provide technical assistance that enables country programs to achieve impact in nutrition. In nutrition and HIV/AIDS, FANTA-III will be expected to improve the linkages between nutrition, HIV/AIDS and food security particularly in leading efforts to develop tools for program assessment, design, implementation and monitoring and evaluation as well as strengthening linkages with other health and humanitarian assistance programs.

Funding for Care: Adult Care and Support (HBHC): $0

The Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance III (FANTA-III) will build on the work of FANTA-II and will continue to focus on supporting the Government of Ethiopias national level nutrition and HIV/AIDS policies and guidelines. In COP 12, FANTA-III will provide technical assistance and strategic support to the Ministry of Health on the revisions and updating of nutrition and HIV/AIDS policies and guidelines as well as associated materials for the roll-out. In addition, the program will continue to sustain pre-service training by supporting the development and roll-out of national nutrition and HIV/AIDS curriculum in additional universities. FANTA-III will coordinate with other nutrition partners to introduce quality improvement aspects in nutrition and HIV/AIDS activities. More specifically, the program will identify actions and systems including the development of indicators, standards and approaches that can be put in place to improve the quality of HIV/AIDS programming. Lastly, FANTA-III will work to develop approaches that can be used to introduce nutrition and HIV/AIDS into services at the community level for HIV/AIDS infected and affected persons as part of nutrition support and care.

Key Issues Identified in Mechanism
Implement activities to change harmful gender norms & promote positive gender norms
Increase gender equity in HIV prevention, care, treatment and support
Child Survival Activities
Safe Motherhood