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Catholic Relief Services and the Global Food Crisis

Catholic Relief Services and the Global Food Crisis. Reuters photo of a protest in Dakar, Senegal, April 26, 2008. Overview. Who we are and what we do The global food crisis and CRS Initial response The forming of a strategy How this changed our approach Final thoughts. What We Do.

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Catholic Relief Services and the Global Food Crisis

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  1. Catholic Relief Servicesand the Global Food Crisis Reuters photo of a protest in Dakar, Senegal, April 26, 2008

  2. Overview • Who we are and what we do • The global food crisis and CRS • Initial response • The forming of a strategy • How this changed our approach • Final thoughts

  3. What We Do • Emergency Response • Integral Human Development • Peacebuilding • Agriculture/markets/water • Health/hygiene/sanitation/water • Education (basic, especially girls) • Microfinance/Small enterprise • HIV & AIDS • Advocacy • With USG, • With local governments, • With multilaterals (UN, WB) & other governments

  4. What We Do

  5. Where We Do It • Overseas, in 101 countries • Regions: • Africa (42) • Asia (20) • Latin America & Caribbean (19) • E. Europe & Middle East (20) • Primarily rural focus, now expanding to urban areas

  6. How We Do It

  7. CRS’ First ResponseGetting Input from the field • Over 30 country programs responded • We estimated that millions were affected (Over 3 million people in Haiti and Afghanistan alone). • 14 countries have responded with an estimated funding need. This partial response totals over $20 million.

  8. CRS’ First ResponseGetting Input from the field • Food is available, however priced too highly for most and getting higher. Those most visibly affected in urban areas, however for many countries this vs. rural impact breakdown is still not yet known. • CRS partner MoC in Ethiopia are seeing an increase in the people coming for help, but there is not enough food to give out; for many countries government food stocks are being depleted rapidly, or are non-existent.

  9. What is CRS doing? • Hired a Food crisis advisor in East Africa • Looking into urban and rural programming • Began a 15 country Rice Initiative to boost production in countries that are major importers • Working on finding ways to improve Local and Regional Procurement of food in collaboration with WFP P4P • Strengthen value chains in agriculture programming • Seeking to strengthen market information services • Advocating for increased food and cash in FY 09 and greater flexibility in how funds can be used

  10. CRS’ First ResponseGetting Input from the field • CRS’ immediate responses were urban feeding programs (Haiti and Ethiopia) and • agro-enterprise activities: funds committed by country programs for immediate response ranged from $50,000 to $800,000 USD, over $1.3 million in total; seed fairs, food vouchers, cash for work.

  11. Our Response So Far • CRS obligated over $2.3 million dollars in private funds of our own in 2008 in response to the crisis, and acquired over $5.5 million more from other sources. • We funded projects beginning in June 2008, in 25 countries, of which 16 were in Africa, 2 in Europe, 3 in Asia, and four in Latin America and the Caribbean.

  12. CRS Strategy • Short-term programs to protect the poor and vulnerable • Medium-term social protection instruments • Longer-term: Boosting production and rural/urban incomes

  13. Protect the Poor Immediate: • Safety Nets • Unconditional for most vulnerable • Vouchers/cash for work – disaster risk reduction projects for able bodied

  14. CRS’ Immediate Feeding Private funds to Missionaries of Charity urban centers in Ethiopia Soup kitchen in Moldova Food baskets to vulnerable in Jakarta

  15. Protect the Poor Medium and Longer Term: • Agro-Enterprise • Post-Harvest Storage/Loss Reduction • Adding local value – Food Transformation for Peri Urban and Urban Livelihoods Options • Credit for Farmers • Ag market information systems • Ag market infrastructure

  16. Protect the Poor Longer-Term: • Learn from programs that work • Scale them up to create national impact • Collaborate to integrate and institutionalize

  17. Protect the Poor • Vouchers/Fairs for Ag production – staple crops: • Fertilizers, Seeds Rice Farming - Burundi Seed Fair - Burundi

  18. Countries Served by FFP Development Programs

  19. GIEWS Countries by Vulnerability and NOT covered by FFP development programs

  20. The Roadmap to End Hunger • CRS, Mercy Corps, Save the Children, CARE, Congressional Hunger Center, Bread for the World, Alliance to End Hunger, Friends of the World Food Program, Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa • The Mission: To come up with a reasonable “gold standard” on how to fight hunger in a comprehensive way.

  21. A Comprehensive Strategy • Food Aid • Social Safety Nets • Nutrition initiatives • Agriculture programs • Government to government policy -TA • Diplomatic strategies (State and USTR) • Leadership and coordination from the White House

  22. Questions?

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