The Office of Food for Peace provides the following tools to assist partners in design and implementation of their food assistance programs.

Food Aid Commodity Procurement and Implementation Tools:

• Fiscal Year 2021 Commodity Calculator
• Fiscal Year 2021 Commodity and Ocean Freight Price Estimates
• Fiscal Year 2020 Food for Peace Call Forward Schedule
• Food Aid Product Information Guide - The Food Aid Product Information Guide provides information to implementing partners on U.S. food aid products, programming and procurement.
• Commodity Management Toolkit 2017 - The Commodity Management Toolkit is a one-step operational guide for anyone working on programs using food commodity. It provides staff quick access to the specific information they need on minimum requirements, whenever and wherever they need it. 
• Web-Based Supply Chain Management (WBSCM) - WBSCM is an integrated Internet-based food aid commodity acquisition, distribution, and tracking system used by USAID and USDA to harmonize the USDA procurement process for international and domestic food assistance programs.

Emergency Food Security Program Implementation Tools:

• Modality Decision Tool for Humanitarian Assistance
• Food for Peace Emergency Monitoring & Evaluation Templates
• Policy and Guidance for Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting for Emergency Food Security Activities

Development Food Assistance Implementation Tools:

• Feed the Future Population-Based Survey Sampling Guide
  • Population-Based Survey Sample Size Calculator: Companion to the 'Feed the Future' Population-Based Sampling Guide
  • Ensuring Attainment of Required Survey Sample Size of Children under 5 Years of Age through the Projection of the Appropriate Number of Households to Randomly Sample
• Technical References for Development Food Assistance Programs - February 2018
• Market Assistance Program - Field Manual
• Monetization Field Manual 
• Feed the Future Sampling Guide for Participant-Based Surveys

  • Participant-based Surveys Sample Size Calculator
• Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting Policy & Guidance for Development Food Security Activities - May 2020
  • Template for Indicator Performance Tracking Table 

Related Resources

• Food for Peace Resources
• Food Aid Product Information
• Food for Peace Food Assistance and Food Security Strategy
• Food for Peace Food Assistance and Food Security Programmatic Learning Agenda
• Partner with Food for Peace
• USAID's Office of Food for Peace