Annexes

Annex - I: Terms of Reference

Under the overall supervision of the Regional Rural Development Officer, the consultant will undertake the following tasks:

· RAPS Survey on FAO-NGO Collaboration Initiative on Food Security, Nutrition and Rural Development

- Prepare a Progress report on the outcome of the survey with FAO offices including assessment of their needs in terms of technical assistance and inputs, information exchange networking and advocacy.

· RAPS - FAO HQ collaboration in World Food Summit follow up

- Assistance in preparation of RAPS inputs to FAO 2015 strategy.

- Assistance in preparation of RAPS technical inputs in Special Programme on Food Security (SPFS) activities at country level and assessment of guidelines for SPFS.

- Preparation of comments and RAPS inputs on Regional Development Partnership Programme (RDPP) for Food Security and Sustainable Development (SDA) and on the agenda for ACC Task Force on Food Security and Rural Development.

- Assistance in the preparation of inputs on food security aspects in relevant regional and national projects.

· Follow up to the Joint ANGOC-FAO/RAP workshop on World Food Summit follow up and participation in the 23rd Regional Conference in Myanmar, April 1998.

· Assistance to collaboration of FAO-RAP with UN agencies regarding:

- Follow up of the 5th Ministerial Conference held at Manila in 1997.
- ESCAP - 54th session in April 1998.
- UN Coordinated follow up on UN Conferences and Summits
- ACC task force on Rural Development on Rural Development and Food Security.

· Database on NGOs

- Prepare and update a database of NGOs involved in food security and rural development activities in the Asia Pacific region.

The Consultant will submit at the end of the contractual period:

1) A Progress report on the FAO-NGO collaboration with ideas for further action.
2) A Database of NGOs in the Asia Pacific region.

Number of working days: 30 days
Duration: 9 February - 9 March 1998

Annex - II: List of NGOs Collaborating with FAO Representative Offices in the Asia Pacific Region

* NGOs with a Nutrition and Food Security interest

Bangladesh

* Association of Development Agencies in Bangladesh(ADAB)
* Association for Land Reform and Development (ALRD)
Bangladesh Disaster Preparedness Centre (BDPC)
Campaign for Popular Education (CAMPE)
* Credit Development Forum (CDF)
* Enterprise Development Network (EDN)
Institute for Law and Development (ILD)
* Women for Women (WFW)
Bangladesh Shishu Adhikar Forum(BSAF)
* Gender Development Forum (GDF)
Legal Aid Forum
Community Development Association (CDA)
Voluntary Health Services Society(VHSS)
* Friends in Village Development in Bangladesh(FIVDB)
* Centre for Development Services(CDS)

Cambodia

International Development Enterprises Programme in Cambodia (IDE)
Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA)
Agisud
Cambodia Development Resource Institute (CDRI)
International Development Research Center(IDRC)
Concern Worldwide(CONCERN)
Veterinaires Sans Frontiers (VSF)
Socio Economic Development Organisation of Cambodia (SEDOC)
* Hellen Keller International

China

All China Womens Federation
* Ford Foundation

India

* Center for Indian Knowledge Systems
* Dharamitra
* Center for Science for villages
* Agriculture Man Ecology Programme
* Deccan Development Society
* Center for World Solidarity
* Navdanya Samiti
* Gramin Vikas Vigyan
* Academy of Development Sciences
* Gorakhow Environmental Action Group
* Sambhav
* Bharatiya Kisan Union
* Networks: Agricultural Renewal in India for a Sustainable Environment (ARISE)

Indonesia

Bina Swadhaya
Himpunan Kerukunan Tani Indonesia (HKTI)
World Food Day Farmers and Fishers Movement of Indonesia (WFDF & FMI)

Pakistan

* Bokhari Social Welfare Association
* Jinnah Welfare Society
* Social Welfare Society
* NGOs Coordination Council
Tanzeem Khidmat Awam Gobral Kalan
* Social Development Foundation
* The Welfare Society
Islahi Traquiti Committee Bandi Sarya
Anjuman javanan Falah-o-Behbood
SAFWCO Resource Development Centre(SRDC)
National Church of Pakistan
* Christian Welfare Society
* Peoples Welfare Society
* Social Welfare Council
Idara Tameer-e-Millat
Anjuman--Behbood-e-Khawateen
Dr. M. Mohsan Sandhum Memorial Trust
Mustafabad Welfare Society
* APNA SEHAT
Youth Welfare Association
Fight Against Drug Organisation
Agriculture Welfare Association
Trich Mir Council for Social Welfare
National Rural Support Programme(NRSP)

Philippines

Asian NGO Coalition for Agarian Reform and Rural Development (ANGOC)
Philippine Peasant Institute
National Federation of Peasant Organisations
* Integrated Systems for Information Services fro Women (ISIS)
Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement
International Institute for Rural Reconstruction (IIRR)
* Southeast Asian Regional Institute for Community Education
PAKISAMA
Philippine Partnership for the Development of Human Resources in Rural Areas (PHILDHRA)
Philippine Agrarian Reform Foundation for National Development
Philippine Development Assistance Programme
Federation of Free Farmers (FFF)
Management and Organisation Development for Empowerment Inc.(MODE)

Sri Lanka

* CARE International
SARVODAYA
Movement for National Land and Agricultural Reforms
* Networks: National NGO Council
* Mothers Movement to Combat Malnutrition
* Vocational Training for Women

Vietnam

NGO Resource Center
* Save the Children Fund (UK)
* Oxfam (UK and Ireland)
* CARE International
* Oxfam (Belgium)
CIDSE
ActionAid

Annex- III a: FAO-NGO Collaboration on Food Security: A Status Report

As part of the recommendations of the Joint ANGOC-NGO Cooperation Meeting held in August 1997 to support follow up of the World Food Summit plan of action, a networking initiative has been jointly undertaken by the Nutrition Unit and the Rural Development Unit of FAO-RAP to support FAO-NGO Collaboration in the fields of food security, nutrition and rural development. This initiative falls in line with FAO’s commitment to promote and ensure food security using a sustainable, participatory approach. This information will be utilised to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses in the existing FAO-NGO collaborative mechanism so that it can be further developed.

Please fill up the status report format below and return to Mr. Wim Polman, RRDO, FAO-RAP latest by 20 January 1998.

A. Country/Sub Region:.................................................................................

B. What are the broad areas of collaboration?: (please tick)

a) Information exchange and data collection

b) Dialogue

c) Technical Collaboration

C. What are the major constraints experienced?: (please tick)

a) Lack of clear policy framework and guidelines for collaboration

at the FAO level
at the national level
at the NGO level

b) Lack of human resource capacities

c) Lack of technical resources

d) Lack of financial resources

e) Lack of appropriate communication channels and platforms

f) any others, please specify.

D. When was the first NGO collaboration in the country initiated: 19... (year)

E. Existing NGO/NGO Network collaborations in the country (attach additional pages if needed)

S.no	Name of NGO	Network affiliations (name)	Theme N = Nutrition RD = Rural Development	Area N = National R = Regional	FAO Project Code

F. On a scale of 1 to 5, please encircle your response to indicate the break up of collaborations with NGOs in the areas of:

a). Information exchange