TOPS Capacity Strengthening Workshop

Maputo, Mozambique
September 19-20, 2011

The USAID/Office of Food for Peace (FFP)-funded TOPS Program held two days of capacity strengthening workshops in Maputo in September 2012. Sessions were led by TOPS technical specialists in agriculture, nutrition and food technology, monitoring and evaluation, and social and behavioral change. The agenda and training materials for the TOPS training are available for download below.

TOPS also held its second FSN Network Technical Meeting that same week to bring together food security and nutrition grantees, donors, and researchers for peer learning, knowledge sharing, and networking around improved food aid implementation.For information and materials from the Food Security and Nutrition Network meeting please click here.

Agenda

Training Agenda

Session Booklet

Training Agenda

Monitoring and Evaluation Track

• TOPS Overview
• Monitoring and Evaluating Overview
• Theory of Change
• Content of the Monitoring and Evaluating Matrix
• Gender Integration into Monitoring and Evaluating
• Data Quality Considerations

Nutrition Track

• Designing Programming to Improve Feeding Practices for Infants Young Children and Women
• Using Care Groups for Behavior Change in Nutrition and Health
• Handouts:Using Care Groups for Behavior Change in Nutrition and Health

Agriculture Track

• Community Led Agricultural Financing
• Increasing African Homestead Farming
• Marketing
• Gender and Agriculture
• Designing for Behavior Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management
• Handouts:Designing for Behavior Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management

This training was made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The contents are the responsibility of the TOPS Program, managed by Save the Children, and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government.