97-12712. Request for Comments on the Next Round of Public Law 480, Title II Institutional Support Grants

[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 94 (Thursday, May 15, 1997)]
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[FR Doc No: 97-12712]


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INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION AGENCY

Agency for International Development


Request for Comments on the Next Round of Public Law 480, Title 
II Institutional Support Grants

AGENCY: U.S. Agency for International Development.

ACTION: Notice of request for comments.

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SUMMARY: The Office of Food for Peace (FFP), within the Bureau for 
Humanitarian Response (BHR), U.S. Agency for International Development 
(USAID) intends to proceed with a new five-year Public Law 480, Title 
II Institutional Support Grant (ISG) program with new awards to be made 
in or around August 1998. The current ISG program (to end August 1998) 
is focused on providing private voluntary organization (PVO) 
headquarters support to maintain current Title II activities and to 
improve the capacity of the PVOs to carry out Title II programs. More 
specifically, the stated purpose of the current ISG program is to 
support the efforts of the PVO to:

    (1) Strengthen/maintain its central and headquarters-level 
institutional capacity to manage and account for Title II 
commodities;
    (2) Improve/maintain central and headquarters-level management 
practices and build organizational expertise in the use of Title II 
food aid as an instrument for effective emergency relief and/or for 
achieving food security; or
    (3) Carry out feasibility studies aimed at initiating Title II 
activities in new countries, especially those addressing food 
security.

    FEP's goal is to achieve

sustained improvement in household nutrition and agricultural 
productivity for vulnerable groups served by USAID food aid 
programs.

    FFP intends that the new ISG program will continue to support this 
goal by enabling FFP to meet its two strategic objectives:

    (1) Increasing FFP's partners' capabilities to effect and 
sustain access to food, improvements in household nutrition and 
agricultural productivity for vulnerable groups participating in 
food aid activities, and
    (2) Meeting critical needs of targeted vulnerable groups in 
emergency situations and contributing to the stabilization of post-
emergency societies.

    FFP is in the early stages of drafting new ISG guidelines and would 
like to receive comments from the PVO community and others on how the 
grant program should be structured so as to support FFP's strategic 
objectives.

DATES: All comments are due on or before June 16, 1997.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be directed to: FFP Grants Committee, BHR/
FFP, 1515 Wilson Blvd., Room 315, Arlington, VA 22209. Comments can 
also be faxed to [phone].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT VIA FAX: FEP Grants Committee at (703) 
841-2709.

    Dated: April 28, 1997.
William T. Oliver,
Director, Office of Food for Peace, Bureau for Humanitarian Response, 
U.S. Agency for International Development.
[FR Doc. 97-12712 Filed 5-14-97; 8:45 am]
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