WEST AFRICA BELLMON STUDIES
During its Regional Bellmon Meeting held in March 2002 in Dakar
Senegal, representatives from the US Department of Agriculture/Foreign
Agricultural Services (USDA/FAS)/Abidjan, the US Agency for International
Development/Regional Food For Peace (USAID/RFFP)/Bamako and Cooperating
Sponsors agreed that it is critical to coordinate food aid programming
due to the region’s fragile market conditions.
Coordination among food aid actors plays a key role in:
- Avoiding duplication of efforts in undertaking disincentive analyses;
- Ensuring that the timing of arrival and quantity of food aid will have a
positive rather than adverse effect on markets and
- Being aware of new food aid programs being considered.
A representative from the West Africa Regional World Food Program (WFP) Office
confirmed WFP’s interest in coordinating relevant information.
In order to harmonize the Bellmon process, participants decided to create a “
West African Bellmon Profiles Website”. The new website was shown to
participants at the FY 03 Usual Marketing Requirements meeting (Sept 9-11, 2002,
Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire) and at the Food Aid Management (FAM) meeting
(Sept 2002, Washington, D.C)
What is the purpose of this website?
- It is an accessible means to obtain:
- background information on existing food aid programs
- best available five-year production, consumption and import data on the most import food products
- storage/port information
What is a Bellmon Profile?
- It is an abbreviate, summary form of the full Bellmon Analysis.
Why is a Bellmon Profile useful?
- It can act as starting point for organizations interested in distributing or
monetizing food aid in a country in which they have no presence.
- It is an easy reference for other PVOs USDA and USAID.
What information is available on the Bellmon Profiles Website ?
- Background information on US Government food aid in West Africa
- Standard guidelines for performing a Bellmon Analysis in West Africa
- Bellmon Profiles guidelines
- Bellmon Profiles for each country in which a PVO is implementing a Title II program.
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For any questions on this website, please contact RFFP/Dakar Halima Ouattara-Ayanou.
Houattara@usaid.gov
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