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Working Collectively Mitigates Hunger

and Malnutrition in the Philippines

InterActions Best

Practices and

Innovations (BPI)

Initiative

May 4, 2011


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Save the Children in the Philippines

Country Program established in 1984

1,164,493 children and adults directly reached in 2010

Thematic Programming on Child Protection, ChildRights Governance, Education, Health & Nutrition,Livelihoods and Emergencies

Partners: National government agencies, Localgovernment units, Community-basedorganizations / Local communities, Privatesector / Academic and Learning Institutions /

Schools, Civil society organizations / UN agencies


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Intervention Background

A. Sites

Three distinct settings and

environments (urban poor, rural

farming community which was

affected by a typhoon, and an

indigenous peoples

community)

B. Challenges

Rising food prices so less food

intakeIncrease in the cases of

underweight children

Increasing incidence of self-

rated hunger

Urban

area

Rural

area

Indigenous

Peoples area


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Goal of the intervention

Objectives of the intervention

Mitigate hunger and malnutrition among targetfamilies and children

1. Increase access to and availability of food

among children and their families

2. Increase local readiness and capacity to

address child hunger and malnutrition


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Key Strategies and Activities

1. Small-scale, diversified organic food production in

schools, homes and communities

- Hands-on training

- Sessions on health &

nutrition- Integrated food

gardening competition

- Formation of

gardening mobilizers- Recycling for food

gardening

-Regular valuation activities


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Key Strategies and Activities

2. Rehabilitating malnourished children through

Positive Deviance (PD) Hearth Sessions- Mobilizing parents with

malnourished children

- Positive Deviance session

- Identification of malnourished- Practicing effective cooking,

feeding, and proper hygiene and

child caring behaviors

- Food production to supportfeeding of underweight children

- Regular valuation activities

- Rehabilitation of malnourish

children at different venues


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Effectiveness / Evidence of Success

1. 116 underweight children out of the 120 had

achieved normal weight (by MUAC system)

after completing two PD-Hearth sessions.

2. Parents involved in urban vegetableproduction were able to secure their daily

food needs.

3. Increased dietary diversity for families through

household gardening.


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Effectiveness / Evidence of Success

4. Pupils are served freshly

cooked nutritious food

prepared on-site by their

mothers. The vegetablesare picked from plots in the

school or home gardens.

5. Kraft Foods, the projects donor was awarded theAsian Corporate Social Responsibility Award for

Poverty Alleviation.


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Equitable Outcomes

1. Opened different venues for food production such

as food gardening in the schools, homes, andcommunity.

2. Introduced opportunities for both men and

women to participate in areas where they have

capacity.3. Enabled equal opportunity for participation

between and among men and women.

4. 70% of the total 876 families engaged in schools,

households and community food production arewomen. In the school feeding program, all the 98

volunteers in the three different sites are

mothers.


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Efficiency / Cost-Effectiveness

1. Cost per family including children is $26.

2. The direct cost in food production is $12, which

is 44% of the total cost per beneficiary.


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Sustainability

1. Integrated school, household and community

food production system

2. Implement support project that ensures food forchildren is always available

3. School, household, and group seed banking and

production of organic fertilizer, organic

pesticides, and indigenous microorganisms

4. Involving the different agencies of local

government units in all the interventions stages

and activities5. Local government allocation

6. Local ordinances on food security passed and

integrated in the local annual development plan


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Lessons Learned

1. Setting up a Project Management Team withrepresentation from different sectors strengthened

project ownership and stimulated collective action in

addressing hunger and malnutrition issues.

2. Activities such as food gardening competitions served as

venues for demonstrating the complementation of

different initiatives at various levels (i.e. households,

communities, schools, municipalities). These enabled

the stakeholders to see how their efforts are contributing

to the larger objective of mitigating hunger and

malnutrition among children.


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Lessons Learned

3. The benefits of food gardening strengthened thefamilies participation in the program and motivatedothers to join and be actively involved. Thiscontributed to fostering community spirit and

cooperation in the project sites.

4. The combined strategy of food gardening, PD Hearth,community mobilization and their resulting impact onchildren served as evidence for the local government

units and government agencies to support and takesteps in institutionalizing the program.


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Enabling Factors and Recommendations

1. Collective engagement and commitment of

school, families and community, local

government units, NGOs, and private sector

2. Peoples ownership and participation3. Integrated food production systems and PD

Hearth sessions

4. Project staff commitment

5. Project staff skills in community mobilization6. Good reputation of Save the Children in the area


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Replicability / Adaptability

1. Implemented in three different settings

2. Replication done in urban community and school


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