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TOPS: Creating Pathways from Learning to Practice in the Food Security and Nutrition Community

Authors:
The TOPS Program
Year Published:
2017
Resource Type:
Technical Guidance
Language:
English

The Technical and Operational Performance Support (TOPS) Program was launched in 2010 with a mission to strengthen the U.S. Government’s efforts to end global hunger by facilitating knowledge sharing and learning among USAID’s development food assistance partners. The TOPS Program worked to generate, capture, disseminate, and apply the highest-quality information and tools to strengthen capacity and establish best practices among practitioners in the multifaceted food security and nutrition community. By improving the performance of these programs, TOPS helped improve food security and nutrition at the community and household levels around the world.

Employing a multi-sectoral approach, The TOPS Program has focused its collaborative knowledge sharing and learning activities in both technical and cross-cutting areas, including agriculture and natural resource management, commodity management, nutrition and food technology, gender, knowledge management, social and behavioral change, and monitoring and evaluation. In implementing TOPS, Save the Children has led a strong consortium of experienced food security organizations, including CORE Group, Food for the Hungry, Mercy Corps, and TANGO International, each of which has brought specialized expertise to the program.