FHI 360 Information Technology Applications Center

FACET - Fostering Agricultural Competitiveness Employing Information Communications Technologies

The Fostering Agriculture Competitiveness Employing Information Communication Technologies project (FACET) is funded by USAID/AFR/SD/EGEA -- the team that oversees the design and implementation of USAID’s Global Hunger and Food Security Initiative (now named FTF) for sub-Saharan Africa. FACET works closely with USAID’s Economic Growth and Trade unit (USAID/EGAT) and several USAID/Field Missions, as well as implementing partners, governments, and the private sector to provide technical assistance to better enhance the competitiveness and trade in the agriculture sector across Sub-Saharan Africa.

To achieve its objectives, FACET has two components:

Knowledge sharing across missions regarding sustainable and scalable approaches to using ICT to increase the success of FTF activities; and
Short term technical assistance to projects to help them improve their uses of ICT, especially in ways that may be helpful to other projects as well.