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The pilot project is designed to guide From Seed to Shelter's broader strategy for localising food production in refugee camps. At the moment, three possible pathways exist:
aim for institutional adoption by humanitarian actors;
aim for replication by grassroots and philanthropic organisations;
end project and share learnings.
Ideals to strive for:
Refugee communities have access to nutritious, diverse, and fresh foods
Food provision to refugee camps is less vulnerable to external shocks
Camp residents have a stake in food production and have agency in the process
Hypothesis:
The reliance on recurring humanitarian food assistance must be broken
Localised, intensive food production may help refugee camps to be more food secure, and residents to have healthier diets
This could take the shape of microgreen farming through a 'split-growing model'
Theory of Change
Aspirations for project
From Seed to Shelter's mission is to make nutritious diets reliably accessible for forcibly displaced individuals.
To this end, it does not envision its role as being a primary implementer of these programs - there are more established and more local organisations that are better placed for this.
Instead, From Seed to Shelter aspires to:
build evidence demonstrating that the undernutrition challenge can be addressed;
provide technical know-how that will enable better-placed organisations to utilise the solutions tested.
If these goals have been accomplished, or if From Seed to Shelter is no longer well-suited to achieve its mission, the organisation should cease to exist.
Endgame decision junctures
Key indicators - pilot
Continued advocacy for the adoption of microgreen farms in humanitarian contexts will be determined based on the pilot's ability to demonstrate that these farms are:
technically possible in terms of construction and operation in camp contexts;
a less expensive way of providing nutrition to communities than existing alternatives;
well-received by the camp community and other stakeholders;
a proven means of improving nutritional health amongst a camp community (through increased diet diversity).
Early thinking on endgame possibilities
Adoption
Goal:
For humanitarian agencies and governments to have microgreen farming techniques as an option in the 'toolkit' to utilise where the need arises
Replication
Goal:
For grassroots organisations and philanthropic bodies to have the resources available to build microgreen farms if they deem them a necessary intervention
End
If the concept does not have potential to address the challenge, it would be wrong to take resources away from other initiatives.
The project should end, and learnings should be made public.
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