eat what you grow - innovation plan sierra leone
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Eat What You Grow
Eat What You Grow1. Problem to be addressed: High malnutrition rates in Koinadugu District2. Innovation: Farmers, and other key community networks facilitate the behaviour change in
traditional and cultural practises in nutrition by championing the production and consumption of locally available nutritious foods in their community. This project will put into action the promotion of food diversity in line with Sierra Leone’s newly launched Food Based Dietary Guidelines.
3. Objective: Increase awareness among vulnerable groups (lactating mothers, mothers with children under 5, pregnant women and families) and farmers and other community networks in a selected chiefdom on the benefits of consuming nutritious locally available foods to improve their nutritional status.
4. Targeted direct beneficiaries: Lactating mothers, mothers with children under 5,pregnant women. Approximately 2,000 beneficiaries
5. Geographical coverage: Koinadugu, Northern District of Sierra Leone6. Duration: 6 months 7. Initial budget: $ 5,000
SUN Civil Society Post Learning Route in Rwanda Webinar: “Fostering Learning and Innovation in Nutrition”, 31st January 2017
The Added Value
Relevance: Sierra Leone still has one of the worst health indicators in the world. Despite gains in nutrition there is still a need for action to achieve better outcomes for women and children. Eat what you grow offers opportunities for other programmes to use results of improved nutrition behaviors to incorporate into programmes being designed. Eat what you grow is simple and realistic. It will use a mix of BCC and agriculture and nutrition focused activities to illustrate the benefits of eating locally available foods. It will exploit some of the principles of positive deviance and as a result facilitate change through the evidence communities see results and become champions for nutrition.
Benefits: Communities gain knowledge and take action to improve nutrition. Communities take ownership of good nutrition behaviors and become change agents. Communities advocate to government and partners to raise the profile of nutrition based on results and better outcomes.
Scalability and replicabiiity: Eat what you grow is scalable. It can be adopted as best practice by the Ministry of Agriculture and partners in vulnerable districts and Ministry of Health can use results to improve BCC and strengthen mother support group initiatives particularly in the promotion of backyard gardens, community gardens and increased community focused and community-led food demonstrations.Expected impact: Nutrition rates among vulnerable groups improve and as a result reduce infant and maternal mortality rates.
SUN Civil Society Post Learning Route in Rwanda Webinar: “Fostering Learning and Innovation in Nutrition”, 31st January 2017
Thank you
• Victoria Squire and Ramatu Jalloh• [email protected]• [email protected]/ramatu [email protected]• Other links:
www.han-sl.org/.wwwfocus1000.org
SUN Civil Society Post Learning Route in Rwanda Webinar: “Fostering Learning and Innovation in Nutrition”, 31st January 2017