Building Industry for Nutrition

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Building Industry for Nutrition

• Alliance for Food Aid Forum
• December 5, 2007

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Support for Food Industries

• Build nutritional value
• Build demand for local agricultural products
• Build productive capacity
• Build local capacity to address food insecurity
• Build sustainability

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School Nutrition Programs

• Deliver fortified UHT milk wheat biscuit
  products
• Receive 5 days/week in school
• Bangladesh, Pakistan, Philippines
• Create sustainable partnerships
• Donors, host government, food industry, local
  NGOs, teachers parents
• Impacts
• Education (girls), health nutrition, food
  safety, economic market devt, sustainability,
  partner contributions, environmental
  responsibility, institutional development

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Bangladesh SNP Products
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HACCP Inspection
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We are so happy to come to school now, as we get
milk and cookies. I hope they never stop giving
us these.
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SCHOOL NUTRITION PROGRAMS are more than just a
milk distribution programs!!!!

The milk is our vehicle enabling stakeholders
access to schools and communities to expand
program activities and impact
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RECYCLING and ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS

• Recycling Initiative collecting and recycling
  packs from schools with help from Tetrapak
• Collected packs are recycled
• Students, teachers and parents learn value of
  recycling thus adding to environmental awareness

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SUSTAINABILITY ADVOCACY

• 1 to 1 matching funding for LGU own feeding
  program
• 4 LGU and Governor pledged Php1.1 million
  which LOL will match
• 1 LGU in Albay pledged Php80,000 which LOL
  will also match
• LOLs dairy processing partner URC and
  First Choice donated milk and biscuits
• PTA willing to fund own feeding program
  which LOL will match
• Conducted advocacy meetings with the
  Governor and 14 town mayors of Camarines Sur

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Dairy Initiative Linkage to SNP
To link Dairy Development to the School Nutrition
Program to ensure sustainable source of milk to
support continuation of project after USDA funds
and LOL leave
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GO-POWER Enriched Nutrition Sandwich
Biscuits - The FULL PLATE Biscuit from Sunrise
Another Quality Food from Sunrise Biscuits
Company Ltd. a Zambian food business since
1966 Lukasu Road, Light Industrial Sites
P.O.Bbox 70506, Ndola Zambia Phone 260-2-
650637/8 Fax [phone] Cell
260-95-434846 E-mail sunrisebc_at_zamnet.zm
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Zambia Development of FBF

• Met with humanitarian agency stakeholders to set
  product criteria
• Worked with established local companies to
  develop variants of existing products
• Companies invested their own resources took
  their own risks

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Results

• Sunrise Biscuits
• Go-Power Biscuits 30,000 order from
  PCI/Zambia, local endorsements
• Trade Kings Fortified Maheu
• Local Parmalat Symbiotic yogurt product
  development underway

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Important Lessons

• Build local production capacity
• Build sustainability into the program
• Build in product quality
• Build in versatility
• Understand the risks
• Make sure humanitarian stakeholders understand
  industry risks