According to Anjor Obande, National Programme Manager of Renewed Hope National Home Grown School Feeding and End Hunger Programme (RH-NHGSFEHP), the implementation of the GAIN ENSAND Project is intended to enhance and extend program beneficiaries.
Obande made the announcement during the opening of the GAIN ENSAND Project on Thursday in Abuja.
According to her, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu, and the National Coordinator, NSIPA, Hajia Halima Shehu, have both stated their unwavering support for the collaboration with GAIN.
She went on to say that Edu and Shehu were looking forward to a successful collaboration with GAlN, particularly on the National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme.
“Home-Grown School Meals have the potential through coordinated, multi-sectoral, and consolidated efforts and partnership, to significantly contribute to enhancing food and nutrition security in households and communities all over the country.
“The administration of President Bola Tinubu is committed to restructuring the programme in line with the Renewed Hope Agenda, towards ending poverty, reducing the number of out-of-school children and eliminating malnutrition in school-age children.
Mrs Anjor Obande, National Programme Manager of Renewed Hope National Home Grown School Feeding and End Hunger Programme (RH-NHGSFEHP) [NAN]
“Recently at the School Meals Coalition Ministerial Meeting, we committed to expand the programme beneficiaries to include children in military schools, para-military schools, out-of-school children, and children in emergency settings, to reach universal coverage by 2025.
“In addition, we have also committed to introducing school kitchens and gardens through a Farm-to-Kitchen Initiative, to improve implementation and ensure food system transformation,” she said.
She further explained that the project had identified Small Holder Farmers (SHF) as a key linkage and s
trategy to encourage more straightforward and less expensive admittance to food created by the cooks/sellers.
“Having considered the goals and parts of GAIN’S ENSAND project, we are suggesting an organization of the NHGSFP SHF Linkage project with the ENSAND project, so the limit of the SHF will be reinforced.”
She made sense of that the RH-NHGSFEHP was laying out a School Feasts Crate Asset as per the NHGSFP strategy supported in May.
Obande approached homegrown and worldwide entertainers and accomplices to team up in guaranteeing that the school Feasts Crate Asset was effectively settled.
This, as per her, will be a huge interest in store for Nigerian kids, which will add to growing the recipients of the program and the fulfillment of Manageable Improvement Objectives (SDGs).
“With a reinforced organization with GAIN, this praiseworthy ENSAND project, enormous scope stronghold, further developing creation limits of nearby ranchers
also, institutional limit assembling, our objectives and targets can be accomplished.
“We at the RH-NHGSFEHP, under the sponsorship of NSIPA with the backing of the Government Service of Helpful Issues and Neediness Easing, will keep on pursuing accomplishing our different common targets.
“These targets incorporate enabling Nigerians through supported admittance to protected and nutritious eating regimens, in this manner contributing enormously to the public authority’s objective of finishing hunger and easing neediness,” Obande said.
