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Monday, June 24 - Policy Day |
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7:00 - 9:00 | REGISTRATION (continued) |
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9:00 - 10:00 | OPENING PLENARY
Welcome/Opening Remarks
Lauren Landis, Director of Office of Food for Peace
The View From the Field
Carla Barbiero, USAID/India
FFP and Its Linkage to the American People
Garrett Grigsby, DAA/DCHA |
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10:00- 10:45 | KEYNOTE ADDRESS / Q&A
USAID and Humanitarian Assistance
Administrator Andrew S. Natsios |
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10:45- 11:00 | BREAK
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11:00 - 11:45 | Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance Pillar (DCHA) / Q&A
USAID Reorganization and the New DCHA Pillar and Bureau
Roger Winter, AA/DCHA
Q&A
Roger Winter, AA/DCHA
Garrett Grigsby, DAA/DCHA
Lauren Landis, FFP
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11:45 - 1:00 | LUNCH |
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1:00 - 2:30 | FARM BILL AND INTERAGENCY FOOD AID REVIEW/ Q&A
Objective:
To discuss two factors that will have significant impact on FFP policy and operations over the next five years: the Farm Bill and Interagency Food Aid Review.
Facilitator and Chair: Don Gressett, USAID Office of the General Counsel (GC)
Panelist:
- Mary Chambliss, USDA
- Michael Knipe, Senate Agriculture Committee
- Dan Heath, National Economics Committee
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2:30 - 4:00 | FOOD AID AND FOOD SECURITY IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM
Objective: To evoke partners' views and discussion on issues that USAID sees as central to future strategy, policy development, and operations under the new Farm Bill.
Process:
Each speaker will make an 8-minute presentation followed by 10 minutes of Q&A.
Moderator: FFP Director Lauren Landis
Facilitator: Elise Storck
Panelists:
- Role of Food Aid in Response to HIV/AIDS Pandemic
Debbie Herold, ADRA
- Role of Food Aid in Educational Systems
Anne Sellers, CRS
- Role of Food Aid in Urban Food Security
Allan Jury, WFP
- Role of Food Aid Monetization in Development Programs
Lee Thompson, Africare |
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4:00 - 4:15 | BREAK |
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4:15 - 5:15 | USDA FOOD AID REQUEST ENTRY SYSTEM (FARES) / Q&A
Nelson Randall, USDA Farm Services Agency, and FARES Team
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5:15 - 5:30 | FOOD AID CONSULTATIVE GROUP TRANSPORTATION WORKING GROUP
FACG Standardization of the Booking Notes Process
Keith Powell, Potomac Marine
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5:30 - 7:00 | RECEPTION
Cash Bar |
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Tuesday, June 25 - Strategy/Management Day |
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8:20 - 8:30 | GOOD MORNING/OVERVIEW OF THE DAY
Lauren Landis |
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8:30 - 9:00 | OVERVIEW OF FFP's STRATEGIC DIRECTIONS
Objective: To update FFP stakeholders on strategy and visioning work to date and the timeline for elaboration of the new FFP Strategic Plan over the next six months.
Panelists:
- David Garms, FFP Team Leader for Vision and Strategy Development
- Mara Russell, Director, Food Aid Management
- Tom Marchione, DCHA Office of Program, Policy and Management
Facilitator: Elise Stork |
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9:15 - 11:15 | STRATEGY CONSULTATION BREAKOUT GROUPS
Objective: To identify and understand key food security objectives, interventions, and indicators in different contexts, in order to inform the FFP strategy development process.
Process: Based on their specific context (below), each group will discuss and answer four questions. Groups will record their responses on four large sheets by the conclusion of the breakout session. Groups will post their work in the plenary room for the poster session and plenary after lunch. FFP will use this material, and the synthesis during the plenary, in ongoing work on the new Strategic Plan.
Conference participants will self-select for one of eight groups, based on four contextual situations for Title II programs.
1) Sudden-Onset Emergencies (Group A: room N3-246)
2) Sudden-Onset Emergencies (Group B: room N3-248)
3) Complex Situations with Conflict and Population Displacement, e.g., Sudan (Group A: room N3-293)
4) Complex Situations with Conflict and Population Displacement, e.g., Sudan (Group B: room N3-296)
5) Situations with Highly Vulnerable Populations Subject to Recurrent Shocks, e.g., Ethiopia (Group A: room N3-155)
6) Situations with Highly Vulnerable Populations Subject to Recurrent Shocks, e.g., Ethiopia (Group B: room N3-345)
7) Situations with Relatively Stable but Food-Insecure Populations Subject to Occasional Shocks, e.g., Ghana (Group A: Auditorium)
8) Situations with Relatively Stable but Food-Insecure Populations Subject to Occasional Shocks, e.g., Ghana (Group B: Auditorium) |
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11:30 - 12:30 | LUNCH |
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12:30 - 1:30 | POSTER SESSION AND SYNTHESIS PLENARY
Objective: To engage conference participants in reviewing the products of the eight working groups in order to stimulate further discussion and provide high quality inputs for the FFP strategic planning process.
Process: Participants will circulate around the plenary room and review the posters, developing questions and suggestions for the plenary discussion. Three commentators will review the posters and prepare brief (5-minute) synthesis presentations to initiate the plenary discussion at 1:00 pm.
Panelists:
- Jeanne Markunas, FFP
- Mary Lewellen, USAID/Ethiopia
- Thoric Cederstrom, Counterpart International
Facilitator: Elise Storck
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1:30 - 2:00 | MANAGEMENT STREAMLINING
Objective: To update participants on management streamlining and provide a timeline on work to be done over the coming year.
Panelists:
- Jeanne Markunas, FFP
- Bridget Ralyea, FFP/DP
Facilitator: Elise Storck
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2:00 - 3:15 | BREAKOUT GROUPS
Objective: To elicit information and actionable recommendations on management streamlining from FFP stakeholders.
Process: Based on their selected management issue, each group will discuss and prepare Reports on three questions.
Participants will break into eight groups on the issues that receive the most "votes" on the ballot in their conference folders. There will be at least one group on each of the management issues identified in the Farm Bill:
- Expedition of and greater consistency in the program review and approval process
- Streamlining information collection and reporting systems by identifying critical information that needs to be monitored and reported
- Provision of greater flexibility to make modifications in activities to achieve results, with streamlined procedures for reporting such modifications
- Improvements and upgrades in information management, procurement and financial management systems
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3:15 - 3:30 | BREAK |
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3:30 - 4:45 | PLENARY SESSION ON MANAGEMENT STREAMLINING
Discussants: Lauren Landis, Jeanne Markunas, and Bridget Ralyea
Facilitator: Elise Storck
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5:00 - 5:45 | COMMODITY QUALITY ISSUES AND SOLUTIONS / Q&A
Moderator: Jim Thompson
An Open Forum with Industry/ PVOs/ USDA /FFP
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6:30 - 7:30 | DINNER |
| 7:30 - 8:30 | STATUS REPORT: AGENCY RESPONSE TO SOUTH AFRICAN DROUGHT
Moderator: Dale Skoric, Team Leader, Southern Africa Action Team
Other Presenters TBD
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Wednesday, June 26 - Field Programming |
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8:30 - 9:15 | INTEGRATING TITLE II RESOURCES/ PROGRAMS WITH OTHER USAID ACTIVITIES: EXPERIENCES AND INNOVATION
Objective: To identify and discuss lessons learned in the integration of resources and programming, in order to inform the FFP strategic planning process and ongoing operations.
Introduction: Anne Swindale, FANta
Panelists:
- Enrique Urbana, USAID/Nicaragua
- Tim Shortley, USAID/Ethiopia
- Herbert Smith, USAID/Indonesia
Facilitator: Elise Storck |
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9:15 - 10:30 | BREAKOUT GROUPS: REGIONAL AND PROGRAMMATIC PERSPECTIVES
- Africa: Nancy McKay, USAID/AFR
- Latin America: Abdul Wahab, USAID/LAC
- Disaster Preparedness: Tim Anderson, USAID/Bangladesh
- Intra-USAID Integration: TBD
- HIV/AIDS Programming: Walter Welz, USAID/Uganda
- Integrating Private Funds with Title II: Carol Jenkins, World Vision
- Agriculture/Nutrition Linkages: Anne Swindale, FANta
Objective: To specify what we mean by integration, to discuss successful approaches to achieving programmatic and resource integration, and to identify the pitfalls and stumbling blocks to integration, as well as promising means of overcoming them.
Process: Each group will discuss these three objective topics, and report on them in plenary to help improve programming and to inform the FFP strategy. |
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10:30 - 10:45 | BREAK
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10:45 - 11:45 | PLENARY REPORTS
Facilitator: Elise Storck
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11:45 - 12:30 | CONFERENCE WRAP-UP
Synthesis and Next Steps
Lauren Landis, Director, FFP
Facilitator: Elise Storck
EVALUATION
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12:45 - 2:00 | LUNCH |
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AFTERNOON SESSIONS RESERVED FOR USAID STAFF ONLY |
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2:00 - 3:30 | LESSONS LEARNED, BEST PRACTICES, AND BROAD APPLICATIONS:FIELD PERSPECTIVES AND EXPERIENCES
Purpose: To elevate and examine best practices from the field, in order to identify innovations in program implementation and management that can be replicated in other Title II programs.
Moderator: Lauren Landis
Panelists:
- USAID/Bolivia impact evaluation: Abdul Wahab
- USAID/Addis managed DAP reviews: Ali Said
- RFFP-West Africa presentation on commodity management system: Nancy Estes
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3:30 - 4:00 | BREAK |
| 4:00 - 6:00 | OPEN FORUM WITH FFP SENIOR MANAGEMENT TEAM
Dialogue with FFP Senior Managers on management issues raised by participants.
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POST CONFERENCE TRAINING
(Sites Located in or near RRB/Washington)
Thursday and Friday, June 27 & 28 |
