Urban Sanitation for Nutrition
Description
The initiative started in 2017. We started with a one year pilot survey to identify urban gardening techniques that can be adapted bu the low income earners of Mozambique. The pilot survey was carried out in Maputo, in two high density urban settlements with one research center on a 40 square meter residential house with 15 urban community gardeners who were developed and supported throughout the initiative. <br />
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During this period data was collected from the community gardeners to develop market oriented products and services. We developed 9 products to include;<br />
1. Urban waste worm composting techniques.<br />
2. Scrap metal gardening tools.<br />
3. Polyester weaved grow bags and raised vegetable beds.<br />
4. Rainwater harvesting techniques and kits<br />
5. Simple hydroponic systems.<br />
6. Brick and Bag gardening manual, Volume 1.<br />
7. Urban gardening capacity building, training and landscaping services for improved nutrition.<br />
8. Grey water 'FUTURE SINK'.<br />
9. At the moment we are piloting on plastic recycling for gardening and hydroponic kits.<br />
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We have made our products accessible through an established Brick and Bag gardening hardware with a Fruit and Vegetable shop in the center of the four low to middle income earners settlements. Our retail outlets also sell a range of products to provide a wider consumer choice.
Our ambition is to upscale the innovation through Urban Contract Gardening. We wish to contract at least 500 households by the year end 2020. Through this contract, different low-middle income earners will be provided with Brick and Bag gardening capacity building and training platform that will equip them with the sufficient resources to produce enough for home consumption with an excess that we will buy and sell via our Fruit and Vegetable shop. The Brick and Bag gardening wholesale will provide the technical support to the community. The above contract will be based on a 'Try and Buy model' with a direct technical support and input loan collection system. The community gardeners will also serve as the plastic waste collection point for the up scaling of gardening and hydroponic kits production.<br />
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The success of these gardeners will be supported by our plan to build a Urban Gardening training center near Maputo City where at least 15 Gardening extension officers will be trained and graduated every year. At this training center we will also upscale the production of our products which will be done alongside extension officers modules.
In partnership with Via Water and Aqua for All, Global Industrial Marketing and Distribution Agency is running a project called Brick and Bag gardening. 'GIMDA' being the implementing partner. Our role is to develop and test ecologic techniques to cost effectively turn urban trash into an opportunity. We developed an Innovation called Brick and Bag gardening to promote Pro-poor vegetable gardening to enable us to test our techniques with those that are affected the most by sanitation and malnutrition problems.<br />
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Our partners are the funding partners are also are responsible for the reporting of our findings. They are also helpful in the implementation, monitoring and evaluation part of the project.<br />
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With a team -of five members Brick and Bag gardening has been initiated, controlled and supervised by the Founder and Director of GIMDA, Christopher Dodzo Armando who is the sole owner of a start-up called GIMDA.
SDGS & Targets
Goal 6
Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
6.1
By 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all
6.1.1
Proportion of population using safely managed drinking water services
6.2
By 2030, achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation, paying special attention to the needs of women and girls and those in vulnerable situations
6.2.1
Proportion of population using (a) safely managed sanitation services and (b) a hand-washing facility with soap and water
6.3
By 2030, improve water quality by reducing pollution, eliminating dumping and minimizing release of hazardous chemicals and materials, halving the proportion of untreated wastewater and substantially increasing recycling and safe reuse globally
6.3.1
Proportion of domestic and industrial wastewater flows safely treated
6.3.2
Proportion of bodies of water with good ambient water quality
6.4
6.4.1
Change in water-use efficiency over time
6.4.2
Level of water stress: freshwater withdrawal as a proportion of available freshwater resources
6.5
By 2030, implement integrated water resources management at all levels, including through transboundary cooperation as appropriate
6.5.1
Degree of integrated water resources management
6.5.2
Proportion of transboundary basin area with an operational arrangement for water cooperation
6.6
6.6.1
Change in the extent of water-related ecosystems over time
6.a
6.a.1
Amount of water- and sanitation-related official development assistance that is part of a government-coordinated spending plan
6.b
Support and strengthen the participation of local communities in improving water and sanitation management
6.b.1
Proportion of local administrative units with established and operational policies and procedures for participation of local communities in water and sanitation management
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
SDG 14 targets covered
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