Prayer Before Study

Creator of all things, true source of light and wisdom, lofty

origin of all being, graciously let a ray of your brilliance
penetrate into the darkness of my understanding and take from
me the double darkness in which I have been born, an
obscurity of both sin and ignorance. Give me a sharp sense of
understanding, a retentive memory, and the ability to grasp
things correctly and fundamentally. Grant me the talent of
being exact in my explanations, and the ability to express
myself with thoroughness and charm. Point out the beginning,
direct the progress, and help in completion; through Christ our
Lord. Amen.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

 We are faced not with two separate crises, one
environmental and the other social, but rather with
one complex crisis which is both social and
environmental. Strategies for a solution demand an
integrated approach to combating poverty, restoring
dignity to the excluded, and at the same time
protecting nature.

- Pope Francis ‘Laudato Si’ 139

• In 2015, the world agreed a new set of global goals to
eradicate extreme poverty and achieve sustainable
development. Building on the Millennium Development
Goals, they are known as the Sustainable Development
Goals, or SDGs.
• The SDGs reflect an opportunity for us to come
together to advocate for positive change built on the
values of solidarity, human dignity, care for creation, and
inclusive participation.
• Actions to achieve these global goals should always
have those furthest behind – the poorest and most
marginalized people – at their heart, so that no goal or
target is considered met unless met for all people,
whoever and wherever they are.
The 17 United Nations
Sustainable
Development Goals
(SDGs)
The World’s To-Do List by 2030
Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms
everywhere
Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and
improved nutrition and promote sustainable
agriculture
Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and
promote well-being for all at all ages
Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and quality
education for all and promote lifelong learning
Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and
empower all women and girls
Goal 6: Ensure access to water and
sanitation for all
Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable,
sustainable and modern energy for all
Goal 8: Promote inclusive and sustainable
economic growth, employment and decent
work for all
Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote
sustainable industrialization and foster
innovation
Goal 10: Reduce inequality within
and among countries
Goal 11: Make cities inclusive, safe,
resilient and sustainable
Goal 12: Ensure sustainable
consumption and production patterns
Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat
climate change and its impacts
Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use
the oceans, seas and marine resources
Goal 15: Sustainably manage forests, combat
desertification, halt and reverse land degradation,
halt biodiversity loss
Goal 16: Promote just, peaceful and
inclusive societies
 #17:
Revitalize the
global
partnership
for
sustainable
development
17
• Global partnerships
• Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize
the global partnership for sustainable development, on
finance, technology, capacity-building, trade and systemic
issues
Arriving at the SDGs
• In 2000, the UN agreed eight Millennium Development
Goals with the aim of addressing some of the most
pressing issues of the time. The MDGs galvanised
unprecedented efforts to address global development
challenges and shaped the tone and direction of
development over the last decade. There is a lot to
celebrate, with fewer people now living in extreme
poverty, more girls and boys in primary school, and far
more people with access to clean water and essential
medicines.
• But progress across different goals and in different
countries has been mixed. Sub-Saharan Africa and
Southern Asia consistently lag behind. The MDGs focused
on national averages, obscuring what happens with
different groups within a country. The poorest and most
marginalised people often experience the least progress.
Factors such as gender, disability, ethnicity and location
determine who is excluded
• While the target to halve the proportion of people living on
less than $1 a day has been met, the spirit of MDG1 – to
eradicate extreme poverty and hunger – is far from being
achieved. 800 million people still live in extreme poverty.
People living in poverty are more vulnerable to the
impacts of climate change and environmental
degradation. Years of hard-won progress can be wiped
out by even small-scale conflicts or natural disasters
•The MDGs galvanised
unprecedented efforts to
address global
development challenges
•Lessons have been learned and
the SDGs attempt to address
the root causes of poverty
• Lessons have been learned and the SDGs attempt to
address the root causes of poverty, inequality within and
between countries, climate change and environmental
degradation, and peace and justice, as well as other
important issues. Since 2011 the international community
has been discussing what should follow on from the
MDGs in a process that included governments,
academics, the private sector and civil society. The SDGs
have more ability to respond to the experiences and
priorities of people on the ground. While the MDGs
focused mainly on poverty in developing countries, the
new goals are applicable to every country.
• This ambitious agenda moves beyond the MDGs by
addressing the root causes of poverty and calling for all to
take action for sustainable development. To understand
how people’s lives are changing, better information is
needed on progress towards the goals and targets. When
data is broken down along the lines of age, gender,
location and disability, it can give a more accurate picture
of who is benefiting and who is being excluded. New
technology can create exciting opportunities to improve
data but open, accessible data and data literacy for all will
be key for the success of the SDGs.
The big shifts from MDGs to SDGs
• Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the United
Nations global development goals. These are bold
universal agreements to end poverty in all its dimensions
and craft an equal, just and secure world. SDG has 17
goals and 169 targets and it covers multiple aspects of
growth and development. It was accepted by 193-member
states at the UN General Assembly Summit on September
2015. These goals are designed in a way which will help
us all end extreme poverty, fight inequality and justice and
act against climate change. It was adopted in 2015 and is
to be achieved by 2030.
• SDG are new set of universal goals, targets and
indicators which guides us towards a sustainable path of
holistic development. It is also considered as an
expanded version of Millennium Development Goals
(MDG) and is also supposed to be more holistic and
comprehensive for global development and advancement.
• The MANTRA of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
is to ‘leave no one behind’ and ‘to reach those furthest
behind first’.
• SDG has developed 5P & 1D for global development,
which are:
• Planet: Protect our planets natural resources and climate
for future generations
• People: End poverty and hunger in all forms and ensure
dignity and equality
• Prosperity: Ensure prosperous and fulfilling lives in
harmony with nature
• Peace: Foster peaceful, just and inclusive societies
• Partnership: Implement the agenda through a solid
global partnership
• Dignity: Maintain dignity and self-respect
Goals Direct Thematic Areas
1 End poverty in all forms everywhere Job security, livelihood, employment
opportunities
2 End hunger, achieve food security and
improved nutrition, and promote sustainable Food security, nutrition, agriculture, supply
agriculture chain
3 Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing
for all at all ages Health
4 Ensure inclusive and equitable quality
education and promote lifelong learning
opportunities for all
Education
5 Achieve gender equality and empower all Gender equality and Social inclusion (GESI),
women and girls empowerment
6 Ensure availability and sustainable
management of water and sanitation for all
Goals Direct Thematic Areas
7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable,
sustainable and modern energy for all Energy

8 Promote sustained, inclusive and

sustainable economic growth, full and
productive employment, and decent work Employment opportunities, economic
for all growth
9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote
inclusive and sustainable industrialization, Infrastructure, industrialization,
and foster innovation innovation, economic growth
10 Reduce inequality within and among
countries Inequality and inequity
Goals Direct Thematic Areas
11 Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe,
resilient and sustainable
Lifestyle and human settlements

12 Ensure sustainable consumption and production

patterns Agriculture, food supply chain, food management,
food security

13 Take urgent action to combat climate change and its

impacts Climate change, environment

14 Conserve and sustainably use the oceans,

seas and marine resources for sustainable Water resources, climate change, aquatic
development ecosystem
15 Protect, restore and promote Forests, terrestrial ecosystem, land quality,
sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems,
biodiversity, environment
sustainably manage forests, combat
diversification and halt and reverse land
degradation, and halt biodiversity loss

16 Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for

sustainable development, provide access to
justice for all and build effective, accountable
and inclusive institutions at all levels Conflict and peace, justice, social and
organizational inclusiveness

17 Strengthen the means of implementation and

revitalize the global partnership for sustainable
development Global partnership and development
Universality
• The MDGs focused on poverty in developing countries.
Most MDG targets were for action in low income
countries; only MDG 7 on environmental sustainability
and MDG 8 on the global partnership held rich countries
responsible for action. Learning from that experience, the
SDGs take a different approach. They are universal,
meaning they are equally applicable to all countries with
challenging targets for rich countries as well as poor. They
can be used to advocate for more equitable development
based on tackling the root causes of poverty and
unsustainable development
Integrating sustainable development
• Sustainable development includes social, economic and
environmental dimensions. The MDGs focused heavily on
important social development issues, such as poverty,
health and education, to the exclusion of economic and
environmental aspects. The SDGs attempt to balance the
three dimensions and they are the first attempt that has
been made to integrate this approach across such a
broad range of issues at the UN. The effort to move
beyond single issues is not perfect and there are
contradictions between some of the goals
• A stronger sense of ownership should make the SDGs a
more effective tool for change
Participation
• – whose voice is heard? Most governments had little input
when the MDGs were being created in 2000, let alone
people on the ground who were meant to benefit from
them. This delayed actions to implement them and
reduced their impact. The process to create the SDGs has
been much more open, with national dialogues and
thematic consultations involving many people around the
world. Every government at the UN has signed up to
implement them. This stronger sense of ownership should
make them a more effective tool for change over the next
15 years
SDG 3: ENSURE HEALTHY LIVES AND PROMOTE WELL-
BEING FOR ALL AT ALL AGES
TARGET 3.8: ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE, INCLUDING FINANCIAL RISK PROTECTION,
ACCESS TO QUALITY ESSENTIAL HEALTH-CARE SERVICES, MEDICINES AND VACCINES FOR ALL

• MDG UNFINISHED • SDG 3 MEANS OF

AND EXPANDED IMPLEMENTATION
AGENDA TARGETS
• 3.a: Strengthen
• 3.1: Reduce maternal implementation of
mortality framework convention on
• 3.2: End preventable tobacco control
newborn and child • 3.b: Provide access to
NEW SDG 3 TARGETS medicines and vaccines
deaths for all, support R&D of
3.4: Reduce mortality from
• 3.3: End the epidemics NCDs and promote mental vaccines and medicines
of AIDS, TB, malaria for all
health • 3.c: Increase health
and NTDs and combat 3.5: Strengthen prevention financing and health
hepatitis, waterborne and treatment of substance workforce in developing
and other abuse 3.6: Halve global countries
communicable diseases deaths and injuries from road • 3.d: Strengthen capacity
3.7: Ensure universal traffic accidents for early warning, risk
reduction and
access to sexual and 3.9: Reduce deaths and
management of health
reproductive healthcare illnesses from hazardous risks
services chemicals and air, water and
soil pollution and
contamination
Looking at the SDGs through Laudato Si’
• The SDGs are universal, meaning they are equally
applicable to all countries. They include challenging
targets for rich countries as well as poor.
• The SDGs were created through an open process,
reflecting the more equitable power balance between
nations called for by the encyclical.
• The dignity of the human person is at the heart of both the
SDGs and Laudato Si’. The SDGs commit to leaving no
one behind, reaching the furthest behind first and paying
particular attention to the voices of the poorest and most
vulnerable. If this is what happens over the next 15 years
it will be, as Laudato Si’ asks, hearing the cry of the poor.
• The SDGs were created through an open process,
reflecting the more equitable power balance between
nations called for by the encyclical. They are universally
applicable to all countries, breaking down the paradigm
where poor countries carry the burden for change, and
aligning them with a vision where ‘everything is
connected’ as articulated by Laudato Si’. Laudato Si’ calls
for us to understand ‘the mysterious network of relations
between things’ and the dangers of solving ‘one problem
only to create others’. The SDGs are interlinked and
indivisible, addressing the environmental, economic and
social together.
• However, the SDGs rely on economic growth to end
poverty. Laudato Si’ criticizes the concept of ‘infinite or
unlimited growth... It is based on the lie that there is an
infinite supply of the earth’s goods, and this leads to the
planet being squeezed dry beyond every limit.’ (LS 106).
The SDGs fail to recognize that the current global
economic model is incapable of addressing our shared
challenges and do not challenge the existing definition of
progress
How to get involved
• The SDGs are a voluntary framework, meaning that
governments are not legally required to implement
them, or report on progress towards them. Civil society
will need to hold governments’ feet to the fire to ensure
they are not forgotten.
• Action will need to take place at the national, regional and
global level to effect real change
• National governments will be responsible for
implementation of the global goals from 2015 through to
2030, with support from the international community. The
UN has set up a mechanism for global follow up and
review but action will be needed at the national, regional
and global level to effect real change.
. Principles for engaging
• In light of the encyclical ‘Laudato Si’ there is an
opportunity to use these global goals as a tool to
discuss human flourishing and care for our
common home, based on the values of solidarity,
inclusion, participation and environmental
consciousness. These principles are based on
participatory research with people on the ground.
• Make connections
• Find out who is interested in action towards
realizing the goals. See if national or local
platforms already exist, and how you can join.
With a wide range of goals, working
collaboratively with others will be essential.
• Build the power of people
• People know their own problems and the solutions that
will work best in their contexts. Their voices must be
heard. Processes to support implementation should
include citizens and civil society organizations, especially
those from marginalized and excluded groups, and
commit to the values of inclusivity and respect for all
people as a guiding principle.
• Strengthen participation
• Real dialogue on implementation of the goals is
needed, especially with marginalized and
excluded groups. One way of doing this is
through public dialogues and debates within
community, parliament and local government.
National conferences , public forums, and
meetings with decision-makers to discuss
implementation and share best practices can
strengthen impact.
Ask your national government to:
• 1. Develop a national sustainable development
strategy. This should be done with the
participation of people experiencing poverty and
marginalization, and the organisations which
represent them, and make meaningful,
measurable commitments on the realization of all
goals
• 2. Commit to implementation of all the global
goals and include this in national development
plans and priorities. Universality is one of the
keys for successful implementation at both global
and national level. It should address not only the
achievement of the goals within that country but
also each country’s fair contribution to global
achievement of the goals.
• 3. Set up cross-departmental committees
including ministries of finance, planning, the
environment, and foreign affairs, as well as
national statistical offices, on
implementation and monitoring.
• 4. Build on the experience of MDG Parliamentary
Committees by creating multi-party SDG
Parliamentary Committees, which will reinforce
and support executive efforts on implementation.
CSOs and local level institutions should be able
to actively participate
• 5. Call upon decentralised administrations
and local government to work closely with
civil society and other relevant actors to
ensure ownership of the goals at national
and sub-national levels.
• 6. Ensure that national and local
resources are allocated to the
implementation of the SDGs.
• 7. Establish public, participatory and inclusive
monitoring and reporting mechanisms for the
implementation of the goals, led by a national
review body which includes members of the
public - especially from the poorest and most
marginalised groups - and their legitimate
representatives.
• 8. Participate fully and actively in agreed
international follow up and review processes.

• Developed from the Beyond 2015 toolkit ‘From

Policy to Action’
MDGs Vs SDGs: 17 Differences
Differences based on Millennium Sustainable
Development Goals Development Goals
Successor or MDGs are predecessor SDGs are successor to
predecessor of SDGs. the MDGs
Number of Goals MDGs consists of 8 SDGs consist of 17
goals goals
Number of targets MDG has 21 targets SDG has 169 targets
Number of indicators MDG has 60 SDG has 232 indicators
Formulation of the goals It was produced by a It was produced by UN
small group of technical Open Working Group
experts (OWG) made up of 30
members representing
70 countries. SDG
drafting process also
included intense
consultation process
among:
– 193 UN member states
– Civil society
organizations
– Academicians
– Scientists
– Private sectors and
– Other stakeholders all
around the world
Zero goals – MDG targets for 2015 – The SDGs are
were set to get us designed to finish the job
“halfway” to the goal of to get to a statistical
ending hunger and “zero” on hunger,
poverty. poverty, preventable
– It had narrow focus on child deaths and other
poverty reduction. targets.
– It has wide focus on
poverty reduction and
tries to embed
environmental, economic
and social aspects
together.
Applicability – MDGs mainly targeted – SDGs targets and
developing/least applies uniformly to all
developed or poor the countries; rich,
countries. middle income and poor.
– It was designed in the – It appeals all countries
context of “rich donors to take action.
aiding poor recipients.”
Pillars for sustainable MDGs ignored the three SDGs have addressed
end of hunger crucial pillars for these three pillars more
sustainable end of strongly i.e. SDG have
hunger i.e. empowering
ensured stronger gender
women, mobilizing
everyone, and roles, people’s
collaborating with local participation and
government government participation
Focused areas It mainly focused on It focuses on social
social dimensions and inclusion, economic
better health growth, better health and
environmental
protection. SDGs also
strengthen equity,
human rights and non-
discrimination
Development agendas MDG could not focus
holistically on
development. It also
missed to address root SDG focuses holistically
causes of poverty. on development.
Scope of work MDG only emphasized SDG emphasizes on
on the prevalent present and upcoming
challenges challenges
Distinguishing Hunger Hunger and poverty are SDGs treat the issue of
and Poverty. combined together in poverty separately from
MDG hunger and, food and
nutrition security
Cost MDGs were less costly SDGs are much more
compared to SDG costly compared to
MDGs
Source of funding MDGs were largely SDGs put sustainable,
envisioned to be funded inclusive economic
by aid flows, which did development at the core
not materialize of the strategy
Peace Building MDGs did not include SDGs include peace
peace building in their building to the success
core agenda and goals of ending poverty and
hunger.
Data Revolution MDGs did not prioritize SDGs target by 2020 to
monitoring, evaluation “increase significantly
and accountability. the availability of high-
quality, timely and
reliable data
disaggregated by
income, gender, age,
race, ethnicity, migratory
status, disability,
geographic location and
other characteristics
relevant in national
contexts.”
Quality Education The MDGs focused on SDGs focus on the
quantity (e.g.: high quality of education and
enrollment rates) rather the role of education in
than quality. This might achieving a more
have declined quality of humane world:
education in many “education for
societies. sustainable development
and sustainable
lifestyles, human rights,
gender equality,
promotion of a culture of
peace and non-violence,
global citizenship, and
appreciation of cultural
diversity and of culture’s
contribution to
sustainable
Reflections
• What important issues that were missing from the MDGs
are included in the Sustainable Development Goals?
• What are the similarities and differences between the
SDGs and the Laudato Si?
• How do you think that these global goals can strengthen
your advocacy, whether at the local, national, regional or
global level?
• How can we best hold governments accountable at the
national level for commitments they have made at the
global level?
•
Reflections
• How can we ensure that the implementation of the global
goals puts the poorest people first?
• How can we avoid some people and groups being
ignored, forgotten or excluded?
• Who else is working on this at the national level that you
can join in with?
• Which issues are your government prioritizing initially?
• Which issues do you think they should prioritize, and
why?
• What proposals do you already have for SDG
implementation at the local and national level?
In the absence of justice, what is
sovereignty but organized robbery?

St. Augustine
• To the family physician, the five star physician, take the
CHALLENGE of promoting the 17 SDG!!!
References:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_hLuEui6wwTransitioning from the MDGs to the SDGs
•
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•
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6B-DbE8FYE What are the 17 goals
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89tInECFdQ4 The United Nations Sustainable Development Summit: 17 Goals
to Transform Our World
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZzBbO6Y0uc The Road to the SDGs: A discussion with students
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Globe
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4FAiI2mdaI Transitioning from the Millennium Development Goals to the
Sustainable Development Goals
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/MDGs-SDGs2015_chapter1.pdf
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• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA9z5Jx-H5k ***
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHKooH8Mrx4
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Goals.pdf
Goal 2- Zero Hunger: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and
promote sustainable agriculture
• Targets:
• 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
• 2.2 By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, the
internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age,
and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women
and older persons
• 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
• 2.5 By 2020, maintain the genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated plants and farmed and
domesticated animals and their related wild species, including through soundly
managed and diversified seed and plant banks at the national, regional and
international levels, and promote access to and fair and equitable sharing of benefits
arising from the utilization of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge,
as internationally agreed
• 2 a Increase investment, including through enhanced international cooperation, in rural
infrastructure, agricultural research and extension services, technology development
and plant and livestock gene banks in order to enhance agricultural productive capacity
in developing countries, in particular least developed countries
• 2 b Correct and prevent trade restrictions and distortions in world agricultural markets,
including through the parallel elimination of all forms of agricultural export subsidies
and all export measures with equivalent effect, in accordance with the mandate of the
Doha Development Round
• 2 c Adopt measures to ensure the proper functioning of food commodity markets and
their derivatives and facilitate timely access to market information, including on food
reserves, in order to help limit extreme food price volatility
Zero Hunger Project- WFP
• Put the furthest behind first
• Pave the road from farm to market
• Reduce food waste
• Encourage a sustainable variety of crops
• Make nutrition a priority, starting with a child’s first
1000 days
•
World Food Programme- SDG2
• With a tap on your smartphone you can share your meal
with a child in need. It costs only US $0.50 to feed one
child for a day.
• Access to affordable, nutritious food for everyone — all 7
billion of us — is vital. We must innovate and invest in
making our supply chains more efficient by developing
sustainable durable markets. To support these markets,
we must also improve rural infrastructure, particularly
roads, storage and electrification, ensuring farmers ability
to reach a wider consumer base.
• Step inside the kitchen
• A glimpse at typical rooms of Syrian refugee families in
Lebanon
• During four years in Lebanon, I’ve visited the homes of
around 500 families. All are Syrian refugees who receive
cash from the World Food Programme (WFP) to buy food.
During most of these visits, I’ve poked my head around a
corner and had a peer into the kitchen — the final
destination of food bought with WFP cash. Five-hundred
kitchens later, here are a few of the trends I’ve found and
how these spaces reflect the journeys and lives of those
inside.
•
• The damp-to-sodden floors are a sign that kitchens are
not solely spaces for food storage and preparation. Many
families, especially those in rural areas, live in dwellings
built by hand. They often have just one water inlet and
outlet, meaning that kitchens frequently double up as wet
rooms.
• Each family member receives US$27 each month plus
US$175 for the family. This kitchen wet room is where she
cooks for her six children each day. Lentils and
carbohydrates are frequently on the menu as they’re filling
and cheap.
INNOVATIVE IDEAS TO FIGHT
HUNGER
• Augmented reality, shared economy and a multimedia
information app: Welthungerhilfe is increasingly
developing and using digital services to get closer to
achieving the "zero hunger" goal.
Child Growth Monitor: augmented
reality saves children's lives
• Child Growth Monitor is an app that uses augmented
reality to detect malnutrition in children. A 3D scan checks
height and weight, so the app can immediately determine
whether the child is malnourished.
• This app allows aid organisations to save valuable time
during assessment. It allows them to detect in time where
actin is needed, and in many cases, this can save lives.
Digital data is vollected directly, facilitating monitoring of
entire regions or countries and making it possible to react
faster and more effectively.
Kurima Mari: Market Access And
Knowledge for Smallscale Farmers
• Many small farmers in Africa do not have sufficient access to market
information – which often results in them charging for their products
that are too low. The lack of access to information makes it difficult for
small farmers to respond to price fluctuations or weather changes,
apply new farming techniques and increase their yields.
• Kurima Mari is trying to address this issues. It is a mobile app
designed to enable small-scale farmers to earn more income from
farming by providing information on how to grow for the market,
market linkages, video tutorials, podcasts and a library of literature.
The aim is to fight hunger and poverty by enabling smallscale farmers
to participate in agricultural marketing and also to provide a self-help
extension tool for all issues relating to agriculture. Kurima Mari has
been on the market in Zimbabwe since July 2016.
AgriShare: a shared economy app for
small farmers
• AgriShare is a smartphone app intended to link African small farmers
with other small farmers, organisations and companies, to enable
cooperation based on the shared economy. It allows them to share
resources and offer services. For example, a farmer who has no
tractor can use the app to display and rent tractors in a certain area,
or with certain specifications. People can use the app to find a
mechanic and make a direct booking.
• AgriShare has been on the market in Zimbabwe since March 2019.
From the beginning, the app was designed in close collaboration with
its potential users. With the help of user testing, AgriShare is
being continuously optimised and developed further. The idea has
also received recognition outside Welthungerhilfe: AgriShare won the
Jury Award at the WFP Innovation Pitch Night.
•
FAST FACTS: How Philippines' first food bank works
Housed in Taguig, the Good Food Grocer feeds families in
informal settlements and children in day care centers
• MANILA, Philippines – The fight against hunger and food insecurity
has been brought to the streets.
• Last May, Good Food Grocer opened its doors in Taguig, making
history as the first operating food bank social franchise in the
Philippines.
• While there have been several plans about building the food bank
industry in the country, the Good Food Grocer was the first to officially
break ground. (READ: Lessons from South Korea's food banks)
• This initiative is run by Rise Against Hunger-Philippines (RAH-PH),
and is directed towards informal settlers of the city in cooperation with
their local government.
• The food bank aims to deliver “good food for all”, especially to those
who are nutritionally at risk.
• We believe that there’s enough food, actually, for
everyone, but we need to make sure that the food is able
to be distributed properly. So that food bank is one system
wherein we’re able to collect excess food that can be fed
to people,” RAH-PH executive director Jomar Fleras said.
• According to the Food and Nutrition Research Institute,
every Filipino wastes 3.9 kilos of rice per year, amounting
to $60 million or about P3.2 billion lost per year.
(READ: PH food wastage: Think twice before wasting
your meal)
PAN DE SAL. NutriPan, or Nutritious
Pandesal, is one of many picks in the food
bank. Photo from Rise Against Hunger
International Food Banking
• As the world addresses hunger, it is important for
commercial and charitable organizations, like GFN, to
work together to capture surplus fruits and vegetables and
grocery products to our hungry neighbors. These types
private-public partnerships can be efficient and
sustainable. The IFIC Foundation is pleased to offer our
knowledge and resources to GFN as it pursues its
mission of alleviating world hunger by supporting food
banks and food bank networks that provide food that is
good in terms of safety, taste and nutritional value. For
more information on the Global FoodBanking Network,
please visit www.foodbanking.org.
•
• Food banks acquire donated food and grocery products,
much of which would otherwise be wasted, from farms,
manufacturers, distributors, retail stores, consumers, and
other sources, and make it available to those in need
through a network of community agencies. These
agencies include school feeding programs, food pantries,
soup kitchens, AIDS and TB hospices, substance abuse
clinics, after-school programs, and other nonprofit
programs that provide food to the hungry. Food banking
has broad and instinctive appeal. It feeds people while
reducing waste. It empowers through school feeding
programs, job training and skills development, and
nutrition education.
•Thank you for listening!