[Key informants assessment on the action plan of food security policy in Colombia]

A descriptive study by a cross-sectional structured survey to137 IC: 17 policy-makers, 32 civil servants and 88 communities-beneficiaries (41 vulnerable-groups(VG) and 47 rural-homes-groups(RHG)) to assess the 1996-2005 Colombian Food and Nutrition National Plan (FNNP) using key informants (KI) of the security food programme directed to VG and RHG has been done.

food security (FS) operation, coverage and benefits programme. An Index of Position (IP) to quantify the assessment of the KI (0 = positive valuation at 1 = negative) opinions was built. The KI know the programmes directed to VG (IP = 0 at 0,44) better than the directed to RHG (IP = 0,43 at 0,73). The FS programmes for GV improve the nutritional status (IP = 0,07) and health (IP = 0,13) and that contributes to create self-companies (IP = 0,23). The HRG programmes increase the food production (IP = 0,30) and improve the technical consultantship (IP = 0,30). The operation of the programmes of community-child-care-homes are valued as excellent by the users (IP = 0,16). It concludes that the productive programmes to rural groups are less well-known than the supplemental food programmes for vulnerable groups. There is no consensus of the assessment of the operation and benefits among the key informants, being the users who better value them, especially of their development participation. That is also perceived as more covers the poor and vulnerable target population.