Nutritious Meal Plan Intervention for Vulnerable Teenage Mothers and Children(NUMEPLAN) is a one year (2019 -2020) project, that seeks to improve the nutrition of Teenage Pregnant Girls and infants affected by malnutrition. NUMEPLAN an initiative by the Lagos Food Bank seeking to improve nutrition which reinforces the mothers and children to be physically fit by having sufficient intake of required nutrients and food necessary for optimal growth, function, and health. The project will enable slums/communities as well as Primary Health Care Centers to adopt and implement effective nutritional education program, encourage access to affordable meal plans for beneficiaries.

NUMEPLAN is a wholesome approach to improved nutrition which reinforces the mothers and children to be physically fit by having sufficient intake of essential nutrients in food necessary for optimal growth, function, health and vitality. Specific tests are conducted at the start for reference purposes and they include: - Enable participating communities as well as Primary Health Care centres (PHCs) to adopt and implement effective nutritional education program and affordable meal plans that help pregnant teenagers understand how nutrition is essential to maintain health at every stage of their pregnancy and their babies after delivery. - Equip the PHCs with specific food vouchers for onward reference to the food bank for nutritious food collection needed for these teenagers to go through full term pregnancy in sound health and have healthy babies. - Utilize our volunteer network with over 800 active health volunteers on our database to effectively implement the project in the selected communities, and develop curricula that help our volunteers and community leaders effectively orientate young girls on sex education to reduce the number of teenage pregnancy. - Enroll more pregnant teenagers in the on-going job placement program of the Lagos food bank to enable them care for their offspring, helping them stay off the streets PROJECT TIME LINE January 2019 Launch of NUMEPLAN on social media and selected community. Meeting with Primary Health Care centre directors, heads and influencers of targeted community February 2019 Data collation through distribution of questionnaires and registration of beneficiaries. Scheduling of volunteer doctors/dietitians/nutritionists for project beneficiaries March 2019 Imputation of data collated on Mobile app for proper evaluation based on information on questionnaires to enable proper planning of project April 2019 Project begins with educating beneficiaries on details about NUMEPLAN, individual counselling, food voucher registration process. The beneficiaries undergo the basic tests as baseline for monitoring. May 2019 to January 2020: Continuation of execution of NUMEPLAN February 2020 Evaluation of Impact and audit of the progress of the project March 2020 Project Round Up /Evaluation/Report

- The Lagos Food Bank Initiative will utilize our volunteer network with over 800 active health volunteers on our database. We will also involve professionals from different fields outside our volunteer network to offer training needed to strengthen the capacity of PHCs within the slums to provide, manage and monitor affordable meal plans. - Slums community leaders, Primary health Care officers and other community representatives will be trained professionally on ways to have strong organizational bases to coordinate beneficiaries and work with the LFBI Medical Personnel to monitor implementation of activities. The will also be trained on how to access the NUMEPLAN computerized data base to follow up on beneficiaries in the communities. This is to ensure accountability and clarity of the whole process. -Through training in different skill-set acquisition from experts, entrepreneurship and work ethics , beneficiaries will have improved access to resources like jobs that match their existing skills to sustain themselves through the on-going job placement program of Lagos Food Bank Initiative

The project will be carried out by The Lagos Food Bank (LFBI), an NGO which has reached over 300 communities in the slums of Lagos State, Nigeria with food, relief materials and has empowered beneficiaries to be self-reliant. Lagos Food Bank has successfully carried out many nutrition driven initiatives and is actively involved in the zero hunger challenge, strategically partnering with stakeholders to advocate for sustainable food banking models across the local government areas of Lagos State and achieving a hunger free Lagos by 2030. The LFBI /NUMEPLAN team comprises of well trained and experienced personnel in the field of food nutrition, disaster relief, psychology and counselling, special care givers and health workers. The team comes with various skills and expertise that equips them with the ability to oversee and meet the needs of the vulnerable. The NUMEPLAN Team Members and volunteer dietitians/nutritionist will carry out a pre and post-test on the nutritional level of the selected beneficiaries and their infants in order to measure what progress has been made during the pregnancy cycle and after delivery. The NUMEPLAN project time-line shown above dedicates two months (July 2019 and March 2020) to evaluation of impact and audit of the progress made so far on the project. Another method we have put in place for evaluation is to ask each volunteer physician, dietitian/nutritionist assigned to selected beneficiaries to complete an evaluation questionnaire so we can continue to find ways to improve as we scale on the project. We are also looking at the possibility of inviting external professional evaluators who are not volunteers or team members of the project to draw up a more sophisticated and practical, evaluation process in order to measure the long-term impact of the project on Pregnant Teenage Girls and their infants.

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