Tools
Explore these Feed the Future and Agency-wide resources to learn how to empower youth in an agricultural development context. These resources will help development practitioners identify strategies to foster youth-inclusive agri-food systems.
This technical guidance provides a shared understanding of key concepts and best practices for designing/implementing Feed the Future programs under the Global Food Security Strategy.
Check out important tools and resources on this page to learn about the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) and the Gender Integration Framework (GIF).
Value Chain Development Wiki provides an opportunity to codify good practice in value chain development and emerging learning in inclusive market systems development.
Training
Online Resilience Training: Measurement, Livelihood Diversification and Sustainable Poverty Escapes
Building on the learning of "Introduction to Resilience at USAID," these modules were prioritized based on users request for more learning on Resilience.
An Introduction to Resilience at USAID and Beyond
Chronic poverty and recurrent shocks—like droughts, floods, and conflict—are driving many of the same communities into crisis year after year.
Food Security and Agriculture Core Course
This course incorportates USAID's focus for food security and agriculture development under the Global Food Security Strategy and expanding work in nutrition and resilience.
Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture (WEAI) 101
This in-person course is designed to provide participants with a foundational knowledge of the WEAI and its results to better understand its role in gender-responsive programming.
Gender Integration Framework (GIF) 101
This course is designed to provide participants with a foundational knowledge of the Gender Integration Framework (GIF) and offer initial practice in using it in their specific context.
Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index & Gender Integration Framework (WEAI & GIF) Training-of-Trainers
This course is designed to equip USAID with basic facilitation skills and knowledge of Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) and Gender Integration Framework (GIF) content.
Overview of Feed the Future
This module provides an overview of Feed the Future, the U.S. Government’s global hunger and food security initiative.
Introduction to Food Security
Food availability, access, utilization and stability are the four pillars of food security.
Trends in Global Grain and Food Retail Markets - Impact on Small Farmers
This course focuses on development in global food grain and food retail markets, and how these developments affect small farmer opportunities in urban and middle-income domestic markets.
SPS Plant Health Distance Learning Modules
These courses provide an overview of Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) topics related to plant health and international trade of agricultural goods.
Climate-Smart Agriculture
Feed the Future employs a climate-smart approach that draws on state-of-the-art science and policy.
Nutrition-Sensitive Agricultural Programming
This three-hour course is explicitly designed to support the Feed the Future nutrition-sensitive agricultural programming guidance.
Feed The Future Performance Monitoring - Skills Development Course
Performance monitoring is critical for planning, managing and documenting Feed the Future project success.
Logical Framework Analysis for USAID Projects
The Logical Framework has proven extremely valuable for project design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.
Cost-Benefit Analysis Training
A cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is an effective way to evaluate a project and quantify the relationships among a project’s inputs, outputs and purpose.
Growing Entrepreneurs in Agriculture
This course explores Entrepreneurship education to improve local economies globally and as a pathway to engaging youth in agriculture and keeping them in rural areas.
Teaching Gender to Secondary and Tertiary Students
This course helps facilitators engage youth in gender-based topics of agriculture and to analyze whether they are forming judgments of skill and responsibility based on gender norms.