FY15 Feed the Future Monitoring System (FTFMS) Guidance Review
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This webinar is intended for USAID staff and implementers who are users of the Feed the Future Monitoring System (FTFMS). We will review the FY15 FTFMS guidance, discuss entering data for complex indicators, and take your questions.If you have not used FTFMS before, or need a refresher, we recommend that you also view the recording titled "FTFMS Training Exercise." This 30-minute session will walk you through the training exercise in the FY15 FTFMS Guidance Document. FTFMS will open on October 1 and will close on December 4, 2015. Please contact [email protected] for help with FTFMS or the FTFMS webinar. About FTFMS: The Feed the Future Monitoring System (FTFMS) is part of an interagency effort to consolidate USG reporting on Feed the Future activities. USAID, USDA, MCC, Peace Corps, Treasury, and the US-Africa Development Foundation contribute data to FTFMS. FTFMS indicator data are the official data for Feed the Future, provide the foundation for the Feed the Future Progress Report, and inform decisions on future programming and budget allocations.
Speakers
John Spears
USAID Bureau for Food Security
John Spears is a M&E Specialist in the Bureau of Food Security focusing on the FTFMS and knowledge management. He designed and managed economic growth projects in Colombia for the Clinton Foundation from 2007-2010 and coordinated bureau reporting for the Department of State Performance and Accountability Report from 2002-2006. He has master's degrees in international relations and public service from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the Clinton School of Public Service.
Anne Swindale
USAID Bureau for Food Security
Anne Swindale is Senior Program Advisor for Monitoring and Evaluation in USAID’s Bureau for Food Security. She is an economist with 25 years of experience in project management, research, and technical assistance in agriculture, food security, and nutrition strategy and program assessment, design, monitoring, and evaluation. For 13 years, she was Deputy, then Director, of the USAID-funded Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project (FANTA). She worked for the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) International Potato Center in Peru and the Dominican Republic. She has a Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University with a specialization in development economics and food, nutrition, and agricultural policies. She is fluent in Spanish.
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