Kaizen led capacity strengthening and peer-to-peer learning and provided thought leadership to support the USAID activity’s effort to enhance food and nutrition security among Food for Peace-targeted populations.
The Implementer-led Design, Evidence, Analysis, and Learning (IDEAL) activity, funded by USAID’s Office of Food for Peace (FFP), addressed the gap between the ambitions and the capacities of organizations to design and implement effective development and emergency activities that improve food and nutrition security for vulnerable populations. The activity was designed to strengthen food and nutrition security among FFP-targeted populations through systems-level approaches to improve the design, implementation, and overall effectiveness of emergency and development food assistance.
Highlights
- Adapted OSTP to FFP implementing partner context
- Collected and analyzed data to improved program design and impact
- Strengthened quality and impact of emergency programming
Kaizen was subcontractor to the Save the Children-led consortium. Kaizen was focused on how IDEAL would achieve its ambitious goals and led the capacity-strengthening pathway by adapting the Organizational Self-Assessment and Transformation Program (OSTP) model to fit the FFP context. Kaizen also targeted the peer-to-peer learning pathway, strengthening existing networks and identifying new opportunities for collaboration and informational exchange. Kaizen’s scope, like that of the overall activity, covered both development and emergency contexts and sought sustainable solutions that could be easily adapted to different operating environments and unique challenges.
Kaizen supported the IDEAL activity across a range of activities, such as assisting the team in pivoting programing to address the COVID-19 pandemic. Kaizen provided technical leadership on strategic learning and capacity development as well as peer-to-peer learning, fielding short-term experts and providing home office expertise.
At a glance
Client
Status
Past
Location
USA
Services
Organizational development, knowledge sharing networks, agriculture and food security
