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The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP)

This program provides food and administrative funds to States for emergency food assistance to needy people. States distribute the food to local agencies that either serve meals or give the food to households to eat at home. Some of the food distributed is purchased under Federal commodity support programs.

Rating

What This Rating Means

NOT PERFORMING
Results Not Demonstrated

A rating of Results Not Demonstrated (RND) indicates that a program has not been able to develop acceptable performance goals or collect data to determine whether it is performing.
  • Many people in the United States need emergency food assistance. The Department of Agriculture determined that 2.3 million low-income households experienced very low food security in 2004. These are households in which some members ate less because they did not have enough money for food.
  • The program has no standardized means to demonstrate that it is effective. The program has no annual or long-term performance or efficiency measures. Program evaluations are inadequate in scope and frequency to determine program effectiveness.
  • Department of Agriculture oversight activities do not provide sufficient knowledge of grantee activities, nor is a system in place to identify and correct management deficiencies.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Developing annual and long-term performance measures, and a plan for establishing baselines and targets.
  • Developing and implementing a plan for more comprehensive and periodic review of program management.

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