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Famine Forum
Office of Food for Peace/Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance
Washington, DC
March 24-25, 2004


The USAID/DCHA Office of Food for Peace (FFP) and U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) would like to invite you to participate in a practitioner “Famine Forum” on March 24th, 2004 to be held in the Macfadden Associates Office (1201 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, 4th floor) from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm. 

The objective of the Forum is for the participants to summarize the strengths and weaknesses of USAID's response to specific recent famine situations and more broadly to identify how USAID can be more successful in the future. The discussion will highlight alternative responses necessary for success beyond the “nuts and bolts” food and non-food programming including livelihood and market interventions, responses to health system inadequacies, as well as short- and longer-term policy and governance constraints.

These USAID lessons learned and alternative responses will be discussed the following day with USAID Senior Management and a smaller executive group with the intention of answering the question “What should USAID and its partners in the International Community be doing differently to break the cycle of famine in countries, such as Malawi, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia and North Korea, and to respond more appropriately?”

Participation will include a broad representation of USAID practitioners, senior-level USAID management and representatives from FEWSNet, IFPRI and FANTA. International famine experts Sue Lautze, Tufts University – Feinstein International Famine Center (FIFC) and Stephen Devereux and Paul Howe, Institute of Development Studies (IDS) will contribute to the discussion with some of the “state-of-the-art” thinking on the challenges of addressing famine in the 21st century.

Please contact Tim Shortley (phone: 202-712-1008) and Angelique Crumbly at DCHA/FFP, or Peter Morris at DCHA/OFDA. Carbon Copy Jahmal Sands at AMEX International, the FFP Institutional Support Contractor coordinating the responses (Phone 202-962-0048 extension 236).

"Food can be a powerful instrument for all the free world in building a durable peace."
--President Dwight D. Eisenhower

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