CPFs should be managed within an appropriate, usually on-budget public expenditure framework and used in ways that directly contribute to clearly defined food security objectives. For emergency support, CPFs should be used to support the crisis management programme or replenish an emergency reserve. The CPF aspect of the donor-recipient agreement should include practicable, transparent procedures that take account of the recipient's own budgetary practice. The agreement will be either part of a common CPF agreement or consistent with parallel agreements by other donors. The European Commission should continue to facilitate the adoption of common procedures.
Technical support is often appropriate.
Ideally, the donors should liaise jointly with the recipient government to produce a country-specific strategy for the provision, monetisation and distribution of food aid, which is, in turn, integrated into a national economic strategy. Where liberalisation of the food economy is proceeding, this strategy may also include a flexible provision for shifting from commodity aid to programme finance for import support. Brussels, November, 1995.