Four Pillar Approach— Child-focused Community Development Program

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Key Information

Feed the Children’s four-pillar approach to community development teaches and empowers children, parents, and care-providers and their communities to reverse malnutrition and defeat hunger. The four pillars of the child-focused community development program are 1) Food and Nutrition, 2) Health and Water, 3) Education, and 4) Livelihoods.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Kenya

Activity URL

Not applicable or unknown

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2001 - 2025

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Kenya Ministry of Health, Kenyan Ministry of Labor, Kenya police, Nairobi City County (formerly Nairobi City Council)

Funder(s)

Private donors

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Post-secondary
  • Primary completion
  • Primary enrollment
  • Primary to secondary transition
  • Secondary completion
  • Secondary Enrollment

Other skills

  • Vocational training

Cross-cutting areas

  • Community sensitization
  • Nutrition
  • WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene)

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys (both in school and out of school), Girls (both in school and out of school), Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Pre-school
  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary
  • Tertiary

Other populations reached

  • Other family members
  • Parent-teacher associations/school management committees

Participants include

  • Homeless/street children
  • People with disabilities

Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Community mobilization
  • General awareness-raising/community engagement

Food/nutrition

  • Community food production
  • School feeding

Learning while working

  • Vocational training

Mentoring/psychosocial support

  • School-based counselors

Social/gender norms change

  • Engaging parents/caregivers of students or school-age children/adolescents

Tutoring/strengthening academic skills

  • Literacy - in the classroom
  • Numeracy - in the classroom

Water and sanitation

  • Improved water access

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased school enrolment (general)

Cross-cutting goals

  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • Increased employment/job-related skills