Background

REST’s relationship with USAID began during the 1980s. USAID has been consistently supporting REST, both in the areas of emergency and development assistance, initially through the cross-border operation and then, after the downfall of the military regime, the Agency channeled Title II emergency resources through the Catholic Relief Services. In the FY 1994, a regular program for FFW activities were initiated under the name Multi Year Operational Program (MYOP) in cooperation with the CRS and continued to the end of FY 1995 under a recipient agreement. However, in FY 1995, the USAID Mission, CRS and REST have developed a joint proposal for strengthening the institutional capacity of REST and REST became a direct cooperative sponsor for Title II resources. Since 1996 REST with the financial and technical assistance of USAID has been accomplished a substantial amount of development and emergency work where almost all the project packages were implemented with almost 100% degree of target achievement.

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