Nourish International
Description
Nourish International accomplishes its mission by serving as a platform for students to make a global impact today. The Nourish International model has three components: 1) Student Leadership Development – students gain skills in social enterprise, responsible development, and leadership to create lasting change; 2) Ventures – students run these socially responsible businesses to raise money and help support people, planet, and profits; and 3) Projects – students and community-led, grassroots NGOs establish lasting relationships centered around addressing issues related to extreme poverty. Chapters invest the earnings from their ventures and also commit small volunteer intern teams for a 6-8 week project alongside the partner organization. Nourish students support small, community-led NGOs in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and South Asia in their sustainable development projects across multiple sectors, including health, sanitation, agriculture, education, and social enterprise.
Several layers of governance and monitoring are active in Nourish International’s structure. At its highest level, Nourish International is governed by a board of professionals, current students, alumni, and international partners. University chapters are led by their own executive boards of student leaders who work in tandem with staff at the National Office to develop their ventures and international projects, subject to guidelines and requirements set by the national board and staff. Each international project is ultimately governed by the local NGO initiating the activity in the community; the impetus for the project comes from the community, and Nourish students subsequently contribute funds and volunteer support that is in line with the community’s vision. Monitoring and evaluation is run as a collaboration between the local community’s NGO, Nourish students, and Nourish staff. Baseline data are collected and subsequent measurements are made at three-month, six-month, 12-month, and 24-month intervals to assess the impact of the project. Interviews of key personnel are conducted concurrent with data collection.
SDGS & Targets
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
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Simon Spire, Program Director