The Lagos Food Bank Initiative
Description
NUMEPLAN is a wholesome approach to improved nutrition which reinforces the mothers and children to be physically fit by having sufficient intake of essential nutrients in food necessary for optimal growth, function, health and vitality. Specific tests are conducted at the start for reference purposes and they include:<br />
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- Enable participating communities as well as Primary Health Care centres (PHCs) to adopt and implement effective nutritional education program and affordable meal plans that help pregnant teenagers understand how nutrition is essential to maintain health at every stage of their pregnancy and their babies after delivery.<br />
- Equip the PHCs with specific food vouchers for onward reference to the food bank for nutritious food collection needed for these teenagers to go through full term pregnancy in sound health and have healthy babies. - Utilize our volunteer network with over 800 active health volunteers on our database to effectively implement the project in the selected communities, and develop curricula that help our volunteers and community leaders effectively orientate young girls on sex education to reduce the number of teenage pregnancy.<br />
- Enroll more pregnant teenagers in the on-going job placement program of the Lagos food bank to enable them care for their offspring, helping them stay off the streets<br />
PROJECT TIME LINE<br />
January 2019 Launch of NUMEPLAN on social media and selected community. Meeting with Primary Health Care centre directors, heads and influencers of targeted community <br />
February 2019 Data collation through distribution of questionnaires and registration of beneficiaries. Scheduling of volunteer doctors/dietitians/nutritionists for project beneficiaries<br />
March 2019 Imputation of data collated on Mobile app for proper evaluation based on information on questionnaires to enable proper planning of project<br />
April 2019 Project begins with educating beneficiaries on details about NUMEPLAN, individual counselling, food voucher registration process. The beneficiaries undergo the basic tests as baseline for monitoring.<br />
May 2019 to January 2020: Continuation of execution of NUMEPLAN<br />
February 2020 Evaluation of Impact and audit of the progress of the project <br />
March 2020 Project Round Up /Evaluation/Report
- The Lagos Food Bank Initiative will utilize our volunteer network with over 800 active health volunteers on our database. We will also involve professionals from different fields outside our volunteer network to offer training needed to strengthen the capacity of PHCs within the slums to provide, manage and monitor affordable meal plans.<br />
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- Slums community leaders, Primary health Care officers and other community representatives will be trained professionally on ways to have strong organizational bases to coordinate beneficiaries and work with the LFBI Medical Personnel to monitor implementation of activities. The will also be trained on how to access the NUMEPLAN computerized data base to follow up on beneficiaries in the communities. This is to ensure accountability and clarity of the whole process.<br />
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-Through training in different skill-set acquisition from experts, entrepreneurship and work ethics , beneficiaries will have improved access to resources like jobs that match their existing skills to sustain themselves through the on-going job placement program of Lagos Food Bank Initiative
The project will be carried out by The Lagos Food Bank (LFBI), an NGO which has reached over 300 communities in the slums of Lagos State, Nigeria with food, relief materials and has empowered beneficiaries to be self-reliant. Lagos Food Bank has successfully carried out many nutrition driven initiatives and is actively involved in the zero hunger challenge, strategically partnering with stakeholders to advocate for sustainable food banking models across the local government areas of Lagos State and achieving a hunger free Lagos by 2030. The LFBI /NUMEPLAN team comprises of well trained and experienced personnel in the field of food nutrition, disaster relief, psychology and counselling, special care givers and health workers. The team comes with various skills and expertise that equips them with the ability to oversee and meet the needs of the vulnerable. The NUMEPLAN Team Members and volunteer dietitians/nutritionist will carry out a pre and post-test on the nutritional level of the selected beneficiaries and their infants in order to measure what progress has been made during the pregnancy cycle and after delivery. The NUMEPLAN project time-line shown above dedicates two months (July 2019 and March 2020) to evaluation of impact and audit of the progress made so far on the project. Another method we have put in place for evaluation is to ask each volunteer physician, dietitian/nutritionist assigned to selected beneficiaries to complete an evaluation questionnaire so we can continue to find ways to improve as we scale on the project. We are also looking at the possibility of inviting external professional evaluators who are not volunteers or team members of the project to draw up a more sophisticated and practical, evaluation process in order to measure the long-term impact of the project on Pregnant Teenage Girls and their infants.
SDGS & Targets
Goal 2
End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
2.1
By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round
2.1.1
Prevalence of undernourishment
2.1.2
Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity in the population, based on the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES)
2.2
By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons
2.2.1
Prevalence of stunting (height for age <-2 standard deviation from the median of the World Health Organization (WHO) Child Growth Standards) among children under 5 years of age
2.2.2
Prevalence of malnutrition (weight for height >+2 or <-2 standard deviation from the median of the WHO Child Growth Standards) among children under 5 years of age, by type (wasting and overweight)
2.2.3
Prevalence of anaemia in women aged 15 to 49 years, by pregnancy status (percentage)
2.3
2.3.1
Volume of production per labour unit by classes of farming/pastoral/forestry enterprise size
2.3.2
Average income of small-scale food producers, by sex and indigenous status
2.4
By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality
2.4.1
Proportion of agricultural area under productive and sustainable agriculture
2.5
By 2020, maintain the genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated plants and farmed and domesticated animals and their related wild species, including through soundly managed and diversified seed and plant banks at the national, regional and international levels, and promote access to and fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge, as internationally agreed
2.5.1
Number of (a) plant and (b) animal genetic resources for food and agriculture secured in either medium- or long-term conservation facilities
2.5.2
Proportion of local breeds classified as being at risk of extinction
2.a
2.a.1
The agriculture orientation index for government expenditures
2.a.2
Total official flows (official development assistance plus other official flows) to the agriculture sector
2.b
Correct and prevent trade restrictions and distortions in world agricultural markets, including through the parallel elimination of all forms of agricultural export subsidies and all export measures with equivalent effect, in accordance with the mandate of the Doha Development Round
2.b.1
Agricultural export subsidies
2.c
Adopt measures to ensure the proper functioning of food commodity markets and their derivatives and facilitate timely access to market information, including on food reserves, in order to help limit extreme food price volatility
2.c.1
Indicator of food price anomalies
Goal 1
End poverty in all its forms everywhere
1.1
By 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured as people living on less than $1.25 a day
1.1.1
Proportion of the population living below the international poverty line by sex, age, employment status and geographical location (urban/rural)
1.2
By 2030, reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions
1.2.1
Proportion of population living below the national poverty line, by sex and age
1.2.2
Proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions
1.3
Implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all, including floors, and by 2030 achieve substantial coverage of the poor and the vulnerable
1.3.1
Proportion of population covered by social protection floors/systems, by sex, distinguishing children, unemployed persons, older persons, persons with disabilities, pregnant women, newborns, work-injury victims and the poor and the vulnerable
1.4
By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial services, including microfinance
1.4.1
Proportion of population living in households with access to basic services
1.4.2
Proportion of total adult population with secure tenure rights to land, (a) with legally recognized documentation, and (b) who perceive their rights to land as secure, by sex and by type of tenure
1.5
By 2030, build the resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events and other economic, social and environmental shocks and disasters
1.5.1
Number of deaths, missing persons and directly affected persons attributed to disasters per 100,000 population
1.5.2
Direct economic loss attributed to disasters in relation to global gross domestic product (GDP)
1.5.3
Number of countries that adopt and implement national disaster risk reduction strategies in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030
1.5.4
Proportion of local governments that adopt and implement local disaster risk reduction strategies in line with national disaster risk reduction strategies
1.a
Ensure significant mobilization of resources from a variety of sources, including through enhanced development cooperation, in order to provide adequate and predictable means for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, to implement programmes and policies to end poverty in all its dimensions
1.a.1
Total official development assistance grants from all donors that focus on poverty reduction as a share of the recipient country's gross national income
1.a.2
Proportion of total government spending on essential services (education, health and social protection)
1.b
Create sound policy frameworks at the national, regional and international levels, based on pro-poor and gender-sensitive development strategies, to support accelerated investment in poverty eradication actions
1.b.1
Pro-poor public social spending
SDG 14 targets covered
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Michael Sunbola, President