OUR IMPACTFUL PROJECTS TO IMPROVE NUTRITION

KENYA

Increasing incomes of poor women in urban settlements of Nairobi through job creation in the food value chain

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WHY KENYA?

Urban informal settlements have high rates of chronic malnutrition
  • 1 in 5 children in Kenya suffers from chronic malnutrition
    • This number rises up to 1 in 3 in Nairobi’s informal settlements where we will intervene
  • Kenya loses 7% of its GDP every year because of malnutrition: These losses correspond to the cumulative impact of malnutrition on health, education and productivity
  • 60% of Nairobi’s 4.3 million live in slums (informal settlements) where opportunities for generating incomes are limited

Project Partners

Concern : project lead

Nairobi City County : implements Concern’s initiative on early warning system of food insecurity

SDGs supported by the project

PROJECT OVERVIEW

With a dense population in Nairobi's poor informal settlements and few opportunities, we will empower women to start their own small businesses to earn an income while producing nutritious snacks at an affordable price. We will train the women on business skills and supply them with grants and kits to kick start their businesses. We will also train families on urban farming techniques so they can produce nutritious food in their own households.

How will we improve nutrition?
  • Ensure diet diversity is met via urban agriculture and women-owned enterprises
    • Promote 5,000 families with land-saving, water harvesting, conservation technologies to produce food on their own land
  • Increase value chain efficiency and # of women vendors from 36 to 108
    • Provide conservation and storage equipment for the enterprises for nutritious food transformation
  • Expand health education & behaviour workshops
    • Execute door-to-door health education sessions by community health volunteers
  • Support the Nairobi Food System Strategy
    • ​​Identify and inject methodology and tools to collect data supporting the strategy and early-warning mechanisms
Where is our project?

Kenya, Nairobi settlements of Korogocho, Mathare, Mukuru, Soweto

Project Gallery
Mathare informal settlement: Identified woman vendor making OFSP chapati

Orange Flesh Sweet Potato (OFSP) chapatis are dough-based snacks packed with Vitamin A , and will be enriched with bio-fortified iron and zinc rich beans, for even more nutrition!

Orange Flesh Sweet Potato (OFSP) dough production

Euro Ingredients Limited develops technologies to use bio-fortified (more nutritious) crops as active ingredients in fortified products (product with micronutrients added during processing)

Panel of experts reviewing the chapatis

OFSP chapatis were revealed as a preferred snack after a sensory analysis conducted by trained experts who tested the snacks for acceptability in the target communities to make sure people would want to consume them

Monthly meetings of Community Health Volunteers

Community Health Volunteers conduct door-to-door visits to households in order to provide health and nutrition education

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Project Details
Project Statistic (e.g. received food) :

Partner: Concern Worldwide

Project Statistic Unit (e.g. 5.780) :
Project Area (e.g. Africa) :

Africa