Stakeholder Consultations

Stakeholder Consultations create structured opportunities for implementing partners and USAID to engage with each other on critical issues affecting food security programming and identify solutions

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Originally launched under the Technical and Operational Performance Support (TOPS) Program, Stakeholder Consultations create structured opportunities for implementing partners and USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) to engage with each other on critical issues affecting food security programming and identify solutions. Now organized by IDEAL, these events are highly participatory, interactive exchanges between BHA and implementing partners that provide:  

  • An opportunity for BHA and IP peer-to-peer dialogue and mutual problem-solving. 
  • A venue for partners and BHA representatives to articulate challenges in a safe learning space and hear challenges faced by others with an open mind.
  • An opportunity for myth-busting (clarifying partner misconceptions about BHA expectations and preferences and vice versa).
  • Space for BHA and IP staff to work together in crafting or refining new, improved approaches to resilience and emergency food security activities.

Stakeholder Consultation: Refine & Implement | August 30 – 31, 2022 | Online

The Refine & Implement (R&I) stakeholder consultation, hosted by IDEAL and Program Cycle Support (PCS), provided a forum for BHA and implementing partner staff to collaboratively seek solutions to R&I challenges, agree on recommendations and preliminary action plans, and bust myths in a safe learning space where all could share diverse ideas. Learn more here.

Stakeholder Consultation: Theories of Change in Resilience Food Security Activities | March 23 – 24, 2022 | Online

IDEAL's second stakeholder consultation aimed to provide space for BHA and IPs to engage with each other on the strengths and challenges of using Theories of Change (TOCs) in implementation and work together toward recommendations that may improve the overall effectiveness of using the TOC as an adaptive management tool throughout the RFSA program cycle. Learn more here.

Stakeholder Consultation: RFSA RFA Design and Process | April 7 – 8, 2021 | Online

IDEAL's first stakeholder consultation provided partners the opportunity to help shape and provide input into the RFSA solicitation process and content in order to improve the clarity of the Request For Applications (RFAs), improve the quality of RFSA designs, and lower barriers for non-traditional applicants. This was a highly participatory, solutions-oriented event and will include both small group discussions and plenary discussions. The content was informed by implementing partners' input during a qualitative outreach process held prior to the event. Learn more here.

Stakeholder Consultations held under The TOPS Program