organization,interaction_intervention_id,org_intervention_id,project_tags,project_name,project_description,activities,additional_information,start_date,end_date,sectors,cross_cutting_issues,budget_numeric,budget_currency,budget_value_date,international_partners,local_partners,prime_awardee,target_project_reach,actual_project_reach,project_reach_unit,target_groups,geographic_scope,location,project_contact_person,project_contact_position,project_contact_email,project_contact_phone_number,project_website,date_provided,date_updated,status,donors,humanitarian The Hunger Project,THP-BJ-09-1058,"",foodsecurity_site,Klouékanme Epicenter,"Throughout Africa, The Hunger Project’s Epicenter Strategy mobilizes the population of a cluster of villages within a 10km radius to create an “epicenter,” or a center from which community-led development emanates to the surrounding areas. Through this fully integrated development strategy, community members establish and manage their own programs to address food security, nutrition, health, education, microfinance, water and sanitation. Epicenters follow four distinct phases over a period of about five to eight years on a path toward to sustainable self-reliance. Klouékanme Epicenter is currently in Phase 3, during which the epicenter community shores up the progress that it has made since its inception, while beginning to plan for a transition to self-reliance. Trainings are led by community-based animators, and epicenter committees manage each program, including budget oversight and leadership transitions. The epicenter strengthens its partnerships, including solidifying and creating an even more powerful partnership with local government. Klouékanme epicenter serves 5 villages with a total population of 11690 women, men and children in the Klouékanme commune of Benin."," The Hunger Project promotes a holistic approach to food security, and many of its activities contribute to increased access to sufficient food but also improved diets, greater nutritional variety and stronger ties to local resources. For example, epicenter preschools provide hot, nutritious meals to students and epicenter rural banks offer loans and savings products that often increase the amount and quality of food at the household level. Most importantly, THP trains animators, who, with support from existing local and government institutions (farmers’ cooperatives, agricultural extension workers) hold trainings in farming technologies (row planting, field rotation), seed and soil types, and low-input yield-improving techniques (organic compost, microdose fertilizer application). The trainings take place at the epicenter demonstration farm, where crops are grown for consumption by the community and distribution to local school meal programs. "," Additionally, THP implements an Agriculture Revolving Loan Fund. Through this fund, participating local farmers access seed and fertilizer loans at the start of the planting season. These loans are repaid post-harvest through in-kind reimbursement of bags of grain. This grain can then be sold at a fair price to the community over the lean season, not only improving food security but also re-capitalizing the loan fund for future lending. Lastly, THP works with each community to construct a secure and treated community food bank, which can store the harvest from the demonstration farm, reimbursements from the Agriculture Revolving Loan Fund, and even individual harvests for safe-keeping. The food bank is managed by a local Food Security Committee, which oversees the operations of the entire program; each committee is made up of equal numbers of men and women and is democratically elected by the epicenter populations. ",2009-01-01,2020-12-31,Agriculture|Economic Recovery and Development|Education|Health|Water Sanitation and Hygiene,"Economic Recovery & Development, Education, Environment, Gender, Health, HIV/AIDS Nutrition, Water Sanitation & Hygiene",,USD,2016-12-31,Youth Service Africa|ICCO Cooperation|Right to Play International,Agence Béninoise de Promotion des Echanges Commerciaux|Ambassade du Pays-Bas au Bénin (Embassy of the Netherlands in Benin)| Plateforme des Acteurs de la Société Civile au Bénin (PASCiB)|Association Beninoise pour la Promotion de la Famille (ABPF)|Conseil National de l’Alimentation et de la Nutrition (CAN) |Fonds National de Promotion de l'Entreprise et de l'Emploi des Jeunes (FNPEEJ)|Plan Bénin,The Hunger Project,8335.0,11690.0,Individuals,Adult Women & Men; Children Under 5; Women of reproductive age; Small farmers; Elected officials; Youth (girls and boys of 15-35); Iliterate women & men; Children of pre-school age,specific_locations,Benin>Kouffo,Tory Watts,"Senior Director, Program Strategy & Operations",,212-251-9121,,2010-10-19,2018-05-17,active,Katakle|Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs,false