Programming HFA interventions

This section gives an overview of the main elements which Partners must consider in the programming phase of a Humanitarian Food Assistance intervention and will direct you to the specific topics within the HFA e-learning covering these elements.

prioritisation

situation and response analysis

entry exit

targeting

M&E

DRR

capacity building

coordination and advocacy

Prioritisation

The Commission prioritises EU humanitarian food assistance activities and responses first and foremost to immediate lifesaving during emergencies and their aftermaths.
Do you want to know the criteria for prioritisation? Click here.

Situation and Response Analysis

The Commission considers food assistance in crisis contexts to avert:

  • excessive mortality;
  • emergency rates of acute malnutrition;
  • detrimental coping mechanisms.

Click here to know more on needs assessment and response analysis.

Entry and Exit Strategy

When can the Commission trigger a humanitarian food assistance response? On which criteria the decision to fund interventions will be based?
Click here to discover it!

Targeting

A variety of targeting mechanisms can be used.
Do you want to discover them? Click here.

Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting

In pursuit of transparency, accountability and effectiveness, the Commission will strive to ensure that all humanitarian food assistance actions that the EU finances are designed around targets and outcome indicators that are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound.
ECHO also developed its Indicators, both at specific objective and result level. Click here to know more.
Where available, nutritional information and data should be monitored and reviewed within all food assistance operations.
Result-oriented monitoring, evaluation and reporting exercises will be analysed by the Commission and its partners, alongside more qualitative narrative reporting.

Disaster Risk Reduction

When and how to incorporate DRR in food assistance interventions?
Discover it here.

Capacity Building

Having identifyed challenging capacity gaps in the humanitarian system, the Commission contributes to strengthening the capacity of its humanitarian partners to design, deliver and coordinate more varied, effective and appropriate forms of food assistance. Through what? Through building and strengthening Partners’ capacities to intervene in food crises. Click here to know more.

Coordination and Advocacy

The Commission focuses on a food aid orientation that implies a broader level of coordination with other actors.
The Commission will also contribute to the EU framing a global agenda, and advocating for action against hunger and under-nutrition in collaboration with other international partners.
Click here to know more about these activities.

EUROPEAN CIVIL PROTECTION AND HUMANITARIAN AID OPERATIONS

TOPIC 1\

Introduction to the HFA

TOPIC 2\

HFA - Definitions

TOPIC 3\

Trends

TOPIC 4\

HFA overview

TOPIC 5\

Entry and Exit principles

TOPIC 6\

Programming HFA interventions

TOPIC 7\

Needs assessment

TOPIC 8\

HFA toolbox

TOPIC 9\

Transfer modalities

TOPIC 10\

Targeting

TOPIC 11\

Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)

TOPIC 12\

Livelihood in HFA

TOPIC 13\

Nutrition and HFA

TOPIC 14\

Gender and HFA

TOPIC 15\

Protection and HFA

TOPIC 16\

Capacity building

TOPIC 17\

Coordination

TOPIC 18\

LEGS

TOPIC 19\

Household Economic Approach

TOPIC 20\

Food utilisation

TOPIC 21\

IPC

TOPIC 22\

Market Assesment

TOPIC 23\

HFA Indicators

TOPIC 24\

Cash learning partnership - CaLP

TOPIC 25\

Food Assistance Convention (FAC)

TOPIC 26\

Single Form and the HFA checklist

TOPIC 27\

Social Protection and ECHO