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Food For The Poor/Sustainable Development Goals
Description/achievement of initiative

Food For The Poor is committed to achieving Sustainable Development Goals in at least 11 of the 17 goals. The target goals are 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 14, 15, and 17. Food For The Poor, one of the largest international relief and development organizations in the nation, does much more than feed millions of the hungry poor primarily in 17 countries of the Caribbean and Latin America. This interdenominational Christian ministry provides emergency relief assistance, clean water, medicine, educational materials, homes, support for orphaned or abandoned children, care for the aged, skills training and micro-enterprise development assistance.

Implementation methodologies

Food For The Poor is using a household survey to collect quantitative data on these communities. This survey is implemented using SurveyCTO. The three domains surveyed are Fundamental Needs, Economic Resources, and Human Development. In addition, through participatory exercises with the communities, we are collecting qualitative data. The next step is to process the information to be able to track progress in a dashboard.

Arrangements for Capacity-Building and Technology Transfer

In collaboration with country partners, Food For The Poor is building capacity on data collection using the above-mentioned survey.

Coordination mechanisms/governance structure

Food For The Poor has established an Outcomes Department that houses a Measurement and Evaluations area specifically to assess fundamental needs, provide baselines, collaborate with country managers to develop components to meet the needs, and measure activities, outcomes and impact. Food For The Poor is collecting data now on different communities in Haiti, Honduras and Nicaragua. This will establish baselines for program interventions and create a road map to track the progress on activities, outcomes and impact.

Partner(s)

Advocates for World Health, Americares, Asset 360, CMMB, Department of Central/South American Affairs, DOT Foods, Feed My Starving Children, Free Wheelchair Mission, Gleaning For The World, GRRO, Harvest Time International, Health Partners International, Heart to Heart, HopeGel, Hormel Foods, IHP-UK, IRN, Jezreel, Kellogg USA, LDS, LEPP, LRP Recycling, MAP, Matter, Matthew 25:Ministries Inc., Medshare, Midwest Mission, Operation Compassion, Restoring Vision, Samaritan’s Feet, Seeds to the World, The Brothers Brother Foundation, World Vision. Minuto de Dios, Order of Malta, Reach, Fundaction Solidaria Del Divino Nino Jesus, Fundacion Cruz Jiminian, Caritas, Fusal, Cepudo, ANF, Living Water, U.S. SOUTHCOMM, USAID.
Progress reports
Goal 1
1.1 - By 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured as people living on less than $1.25 a day
1.2 - By 2030, reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions
1.4 - By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial services, including microfinance
Goal 2
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
2.3 - By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment
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
Goal 3
3.8 - Achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all
Goal 4
4.1 - By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes
4.a - Build and upgrade education facilities that are child, disability and gender sensitive and provide safe, non-violent, inclusive and effective learning environments for all
Goal 6
6.1 - By 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all
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
6.3 - 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
Goal 7
7.1 - By 2030, ensure universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services
Goal 8
8.3 - Promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage the formalization and growth of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises, including through access to financial services
8.5 - By 2030, achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value
Goal 10
10.2 - By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status
Goal 14
14.b - Provide access for small-scale artisanal fishers to marine resources and markets
Goal 15
15.2 - By 2020, promote the implementation of sustainable management of all types of forests, halt deforestation, restore degraded forests and substantially increase afforestation and reforestation globally
Goal 17
17.9 - Enhance international support for implementing effective and targeted capacity-building in developing countries to support national plans to implement all the sustainable development goals, including through North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation
2018
Design and validation of community survey
January 2019
Implementation of community survey in three countries
January 2019
Implementation of participatory methodology to assess communities
Financing (in USD)
3,823,185 USD
In-kind contribution
Essential goods donated by corporate and charity partners
Staff / Technical expertise
Project Managers in U.S. and in-country, Measurement & Evaluation staff

Basic information
Time-frame: January 2018 - Ongoing
Website
Partners
Advocates for World Health, Americares, Asset 360, CMMB, Department of Central/South American Affairs, DOT Foods, Feed My Starving Children, Free Wheelchair Mission, Gleaning For The World, GRRO, Harvest Time International, Health Partners International, Heart to Heart, HopeGel, Hormel Foods, IHP-UK, IRN, Jezreel, Kellogg USA, LDS, LEPP, LRP Recycling, MAP, Matter, Matthew 25:Ministries Inc., Medshare, Midwest Mission, Operation Compassion, Restoring Vision, Samaritan’s Feet, Seeds to the World, The Brothers Brother Foundation, World Vision. Minuto de Dios, Order of Malta, Reach, Fundaction Solidaria Del Divino Nino Jesus, Fundacion Cruz Jiminian, Caritas, Fusal, Cepudo, ANF, Living Water, U.S. SOUTHCOMM, USAID.
Countries
Contact information
Kathy Skipper, Director of Public Relations, kathys@foodforthepoor.org
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