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